Four exciting things happened today:
1.) I went to John’s to watch the premier of Lost. I think I’m a little bit disappointed (by what they didn’t show), but I won’t really know until next week. I don’t want to talk about it on here and be a ruiner. Someone start a blog with me where we can discuss Lost. I didn’t know which canadian channel it’s on until we got there, and found out that it’s one of the handful of channels broadcasted from the city that we get totally clearly on our telly… so I don’t have to use my friends for their cable every Wednesday night. Yay. Also on this channel was a preview for the new episode of ER……. how long has Uncle Jesse been a doctor on ER??? I might need to start watching it again.
2.) I went to the post office to mail some things, and while I was in the Manulife Centre I decided to look for a toy store that I knew was down there somewhere in the underground layer. I never knew this detail because I don’t often go wandering around in retail places just to look at things, but I can go through there – underground – all the way to two different subway stops. This means that when it’s blizzarding and I want to cry, I walk out my front door, across the street, in another door, and I’m out of the cold until I’ve gotten where I’m going (or have to go aboveground to get a streetcar or bus, and some stations have streetcar transfers underground). I might not be a frozen, miserable little canadian after all.
3.) I found the toy store and my quest for dice came to an end. I’ve looked all around for six dice with which to play farkel, and have come up with nothing. This was one of those fun, smart toy stores with lots of science toys and games and things for adults like binoculars and knives and giant microbes and magnetic poetry for any human being that exists. And with ten or so containers of random windup toys, keychains, and odds & ends, there was a tub of multicolored dice. I got six black ones. Does that make me seem morose?
4.) We have no control over the heat in this apartment, and our bedroom has been sweltering even with the window open and a fan sucking the cold air into the room. Today I couldn’t stand it anymore and removed the child guard that only lets you slide it open four or so inches – Breaking The Rules – so that we can open the window all the way and not die from the heat. There’s a screen, for those of you worried about the cats, and if they go psycho and tear through that and fling themselves out, they’ll land on our safely-enclosed-balcony. It’s highly unlikely that they’ll even care. Aside from the occasional attempt to dart into the hallway, they have no desire to try to get outside. They care more about chewing on the plant that hangs in that window than they do about anything going on outside.
5.) Oh, five things. I got some canadian vanilla maple tea, and it is superb.
The new decemberists album is really good.
