Update

Man, I wish one of my friends watched Ugly Betty because I SO need to speak to someone about last nights episode. I felt like I got sucker punched and it upset me so much! - My fun night last night consisted of watching Ugly Betty, Greys’ Anatomy, and CSI, for someone who doesn’t watch a lot of TV shows, that is a lot of TV. Thursday night is my TV night.

So yeah, there was lots of crying last night.

I cried watching Ugly Betty. I cried watching Greys (why, oh why, is Meredith so STUPID), and I cried watching CSI. Lots of tears were shed. I blame my cold.

So yeah, I have a cold this week. I probably would have considered staying home to nurse my cold on Wednesday or Thursday, but I was scheduled for field work and people were counting on me being there (one day the client was meeting me at 9:30 coming from Toronto – it was rainy and cold and I had to wear nomex and my rain jacket doesn’t really fit under the coveralls, the other day I was surveying and water samplings in Chatham with one of the other girls from the office. Somehow surveying doesn’t really work if you don’t have someone to hold the rod for you ;) luckily the weather was a little nicer yesterday.)

The house is starting to come together a little more. After tonight we should be done painting the kitchen. Our goal for this weekend is to get the base boards in. We are learning not to se ourselves lofty goals since everything is seeming to take way longer than we think it will. Also this weekend I’m doing the Run for the Cure with some people from work. It will be the first time I am socializing with people from work outside of working hours. Its nice to be closer to London so that events after work or on the weekend are easier to manage.

Niki Asked for a post

so here you go!

So it has been a few weeks since I last wrote. I have been pretty busy as I’m sure you can all imagine. On Wednesday August 29, I got my new car! A 2008 stick shift Toyota corolla in phantom grey (dark grey). It has alloy wheels and a moon roof – collective ooooooo from the audience. I normally wouldn’t have gotten them but with everything else I wanted (mainly cruise control and power windows) it was only an extra $200. A good thing about the stick shift (other than being fun and $1000 cheaper) is that my car qualifies for the $1000 fuel efficiency rebate – the automatic corolla does not. Actually, for automatic non-hybrid cars, only the Yaris qualifies.

I took the last day of august off work to move. Made for an extra long 4-day weekend. We were up super late on Thursday night trying to finish up packing. We almost got there, but we ran out of boxes. On Thursday U-haul was supposed to call us by 5 pm to let us know where we pick up our truck. We don’t pick it up where we book it for out of town moves. 5 pm… no word – I call them. After being on hold for a good 10 minutes, they say that they don’t know yet, call back at 6:50. I call at 6:50 (place closes at 7), it’s busy. And busy for another 10 minutes. Finally get a ring at 7 pm, but it rang for over 4 minutes before someone finally picks it up. They say I can pick it up at 8 at the fairway road location. Great.

Fast forward, next morning at 7:50, I am picking up A’s friend before going to pick up the truck (he is helping us move and driving). Get a call – from U-haul – “Sorry, the truck isn’t available, we hope to have something to you by this afternoon. We will call before 11am”. Um… so not going to work. We have to be completely moved out of the apartment and cleaned up by 12. We only have the elevator from 8 am to 11 am. I got bitchy and told the person on the phone that this is absolutely not acceptable, and I don’t care what she does, but she is going to find me a u-haul much before then. I got a call 15 minutes later. I can pick it up at 8:30 at Victoria Ave. Lesson learned – Don’t be a push-over!

Moving went pretty smoothly after that with the exception of getting our couches inside. It was a bit of a feat getting them in. we had to take off storm doors and the main doors, and after much grunting managed to get in 3 out of 4 couches inside. The last just isn’t going to fit. It is currently sitting in our garage with all our other construction waste (carpet, subflooring, cuttings from laminate and hardwood, etc).

Funny how you can go go go, until you crash. Well, we certainly crashed by the end of the weekend. Every day we got progressively less productive until Monday night where we sat on the couch doing nothing from approximately 5 pm to 10 pm. They don’t call it a lay-z boy for nothing!

Last week I was busy getting little stuff done before Christine’s wedding. I went up on Thursday night in time for bridesmaid duties on Friday. Saturday was a fun day. A drove up separately from me and has discovered that driving long distances are not fun. Sunday morning we were going to hang around Burleigh (awesome wedding venue!) for a while, but it was cold out and not all that nice so we packed it in, and went to visit my Dad and Nora for the afternoon. It was nice to get the last minute chance to see them since we haven’t seen them since the wedding! My Dad has lost a tonne of weight (well, not really a tonne ;)) He has ulcer surgery scheduled for next Monday, and the doctor told him he had to be down to 193 for the surgery. He was at 192 last Friday. At 6 feet, that is pretty trim!

Hopefully this weekend we will be able to get a chance to get some of the things done around the house that still need doing – like painting doors. But it looks like there is a good chance that we will be having visitors this weekend (in the form of sisters! K is in TO for a conference and A’s sister is back from Iran and wants to see our new digs).

Oh yes, almost forgot to mention – We have picked a day for the wedding – October 4, 2008 :) Hope to see you all there!!!