Its been quite an unusual, for me, few days. Last week, around Wednesday, I woke up early in the morning as usual. I am always hoping it's after five, that way I can put the tv morning news on. So this Wed. morning, as soon as it was five, I rolled over and switched on the tv. Nothing. Silence. I grabbed my glasses and put them on and the only thing showing on the tv were the dreaded words, "No Signal". In a slight panic I grabbed my lappy to check to see if there was no wifi as well. Fortunately the wifi was fine, it was just the tv.
But if y'all know me...I don't do well without tv. I need that background noise. That tv renders my need to have a man about the house completely unnecessary. It staves off any hint of loneliness. It stops swirling constant horrible thinking. I NEED that useless white noise going on in the background. I need the neighbours cat meowing, or dog barking, or thumping and banging to be somewhat muted. So I lumbered over and unplugged, disconnected, plugged in again, connected again...everything possible...to no avail. CRAP!!!!
Long sad story short, I eventually called Shaw. Aryn had texted me all the necessary info and it was found I needed a tech visit....next Monday!!!! Six days!!! Jeez!!! (shovel list big time)
So, Netflix to the rescue sort of. They never have anything I really want to watch. Fortunately I have two laptops. So I put Riverdale (shovel list) on one lappy and a book on the other. Today the tv was fixed. Since last Wednesday I have read four books and watched about four hundred hours of that stupid show.
I have had two visits from Emily!!! One evening she came over, brought two poke bowls with her, and we had a lovely chatty evening. I love Kathy's girls!! Then on Friday night she came over with James, her boyfriend, and we had a great time. I love her boyfriend. He is quirky and funny and a seriously good guy. We walked down Broadway a bit to Peaceful Restaurant and had a fantastic asian dinner. It was a lovely evening.
Saturday, April and Myles came over!!! Its always a hoot with them. We went to an early dinner at Peaceful, (so damn good!!) then shopped at Whole Foods and Winners. I haven't gone shopping like that with other humans for a long time! Loved it!
One day last week the fire department tested the system...all day long. It was sooooo loud! So, last night, at three fifteen in the morning, the fire alarm went off....and didn't go off. It was so loud and scary. So I went out into the hallway to see what was what...into a crowd of neighbours in various states of undress. (excuse me for a minute here, Fred keeps laying down on the keyboard, I need to do a removal of both cat and extra letters).
Its funny, there is a special kind of camaraderie being with a group of undressed strangers. One guy finally said he would go check it out then come and let us know if we should evacuate. So we all went back into our lofts and made some decisions. I grabbed my back pack and packed both my laptops and my meds...just in case. But then I had to decide...Molly or Fred? I couldn't do both. I won't go into what kind of thinking I went through til I decided and I am not going to say who I chose. Fortunately it wasn't necessary to in the end. We got the all clear, after the damned thing rang for thirty minutes.
Aryn has a housekeeper. She is a pretty strong character. She is very funny and VERY sure of herself. The last thing Aryn said about her was she wasn't to do the upstairs or the kitchen. So when she came the first time she did the bathroom and the floors and straightened the blankets on the couches etc...did a great job. But this time, she said she was going to do the kitchen. I said no, Aryn didn't want her doing the kitchen. But she said she was doing it...it really needed it (well I didn't really think so, in a housekeeper's mind I guess). There was no stopping her.
So three hours later.....there was an extremely clean kitchen. She took all the recycling and garbage with her and scrubbed out the garbage cans. She actually did do an amazing job and she pretty much put everything back where she found it. She completely scrubbed down the stove. So I hope Aryn won't be mad at me. It seems I am a wimp with housekeepers.
Well this is long enough. It seems I said a lot when really almost nothing happens. I just read and watch tv all day long. And take Molly out, over and over and over. And clean cat puke. What is it with cats and puking? TTYL
WORK: Well I don't work so I am not grateful. I AM retired and that I AM grateful for. And work did make that possible so I guess in a backward way I am grateful for work of past, if you know what I mean.
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