IT'S A NEW DAY, A NEW WAY AND I'M FEEEEEELING GOOOD!!!

 I didn't get out today.  Had important things to do!  But it almost feels like I did.  Now that my old friend THE CHAIR, is in the window, I feel like I get out!  I can see the glistening gorgeous mountain more easily.  I can see the forest just over there past a couple rows of houses.  I see an amazing array of people walking by.  The neighbour goes in and out of her driveway like a yoyo.  Where does she go?  And she has to strap a wee one into a car seat each time.  Sigh.  Happy.

Another reason or two that makes me happy is our new dishwasher was installed yesterday.  Its a real beauty too! The guy that installed it was a simple good hearted fellow, who talked to himself non stop.  I finally left him in the kitchen to do his thing and at first I thought he was still talking to me in the living room.  I would Pardon?  and he wouldn't answer or repeat anything.  Finally I stopped answering and just listened to him.  "I gotta put this one in here...ahchah...grunt grunt there! I win....now lets see this one goes back over there and I can't reach it grunt grunt and ahahah...got it, I win...." and that went on the whole hour and half he was here.  

Somewhere in there I took a screen shot of something.  The lap top makes a noise like a pretend camera.  He, in the kitchen, goes "What? What?  What was that?  Are you taking pictures? What are you taking pictures of?"  Seriously!!!  And he wasn't worried that it was him I was taking pics of.  He was just a wee tad odd.

  He got a phone call that lasted a while.  I wasn't paying any attention.  But after he hung up he seemed distressed in his self talk.  I asked him if everything was alright.  I guess it was the principal of his 14 year old daughter, who was caught at school that morning with alcohol.  Oh boy!  He was NOT happy.  Said he was going to take 'the wife' out for dinner that night and discuss what to do with her.

 And then he did the most amazing thing.  He punched his one fist into the palm of his other hand and said with force, "To the moon Alice, to the moon."  I couldn't believe my ears!  Thats what Jackie Gleason always said when he was mad at Alice, his wife.  I said as much and Jeff, the plumber, said yes, they named their daughter Alice, after that show..his favourite!  Hahahaha!!!!  I love it!!!

We also got a new TV delivered from Amazon.  The old one had had it and it was quite small.  The new one is 42 inches, bigger but not embarrassingly huge.

You know how the powers that be say to learn something new to keep your brain in shape.  Well just go buy a new upgraded tv.  It came with a thing called a magic remote.  Magic.  No. Not magic.  Effing insane.  And now I need two remotes to run that machine.  Monte and I almost had a fight last night over it.  

He was downstairs doing his music and I could not figure out how to turn it down.  It had zoomed up to 100, and it should be around 19 and I could not get it to come down.  I phoned him and wah wah wahed to him and he finally stomped up and showed me where the down button was, kind of angrily and scathingly.  I won't ask him again about any of it.  I will just poke stupid buttons til it works.

Anyway thats it for exciting things Port Alberni.  I shall report more should anything happen on Friday. Stay safe and noodle.  TTYL

SHARRI AND ARYN

1.  Final suggestion in the book:  Don't be a martyr.  Think the right way about healthy living habits, don't fight them.  Make it a way of life and keep it positive and as easy as possible.  Good luck!!!