Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

I remembered to take my camera to work with me today.  Every day is getting a slight bit easier, as I slowly start to grasp what's going on.  Maybe my 40 year old brain just doesn't have the capacity to retain information and learn quickly anymore.  Either way, this will be a great learning experience for me.  I suppose a good challenge is never a bad thing.
After work, I made Tristan, Talia and Dave some perogies and meatballs.  It's a little tragic that none of us have much inclination to make good dinners when we get home.  Lurline hasn't been home for supper, so we just make whatever is quick and easy from the freezer.  Is that pathetic?
After dinner, we watched some more episodes of Dexter.  We've seen them all, but it was interesting the second time, too!
Anyway, here's a view from my office window.  We actually got a sprinkling of rain for about an hour today - the first time I've seen rain out my window since I started, and it looked kind of pretty, so here it is:

Saturday, August 6th, 2011

Not sure how we wasted most of the day today, but we did.  We went to the garden centre and Canadian Tire.  Lurline and Dave bought a few plants and some mulch for the front of their house.  Then we went to a show home furniture sale, with a lot of very high quality, but expensive, furniture.  Obviously nobody bought anything.  Then we went to Liquidation World and found out that they've been bought by Big Lots from the U.S.  That should be good because we really like shopping at Big Lots when we go to the States. After that, we went to XS Cargo in the north, then finally headed to Costco.  Nobody escapes Costco without spending money ... we all bought stuff.
After dinner, Lurline and I were going to head to a movie, but I had to get a photo first.  We went for a drive towards Chestermere, but I didn't get a shot.  We had to rush back to make it to the show, but the ones we wanted to see were either started already or sold out, so we drove around looking for a place to take a good photo.  I drove us to Lakeview to the park there, and it was beautiful.  Here's one of the views:

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Last day of unemployment.  I was back on Kijiji in the morning looking for another good buy.  I got very lucky again.  A guy posted an ad for a black, leather sofa for $40.  I called it within 1 minute of the posting.  I told him I'd come to look at in right away.  It's a good thing I did... Dave and I arrived and two other people were there who wanted it.  One of them was very rude and pushy ... I think he might've been a used furniture dealer or something because he arrived with a cube van ready to go.  Anyway, the guy was great, and said it was spoken for, and he helped Dave carry and load it into the Toureg.  He was a very nice guy... I think Dave wanted to be his new best friend - also because he was a chef.  Anyway, long story short, I got this amazing full size, black leather sofa for a mere $40.  It's in great shape, too!  I bought a few more smaller items today - got a mirror and a wall picture from Goodwill, too.  I will have to post a photo of my new place if and when I ever find one.  That way you can see all my newish items in their new home.

This evening, Lurline and Dave went to see the final Harry Potter, so I went to wash my car of all the dead insects and dirt, then took a drive into the Mission district where I'll be working.  I thought I'd see if I could once again find an apartment I could look at.  Unfortunately, I didn't come up with anything.  Regardless, I did drive up this road that led me to this great view of the city... very near to where I'd like to live actually.

Thursday, June 9th, 2011

Once again, it was overcast, but I did manage to go outside and do a little yard work.  Shoveled and spread some bark mulch into some of the rose garden.  Monica and Jack came over for dinner, and we all ate some delicious pasta and meat sauce.  Then, went for a drive with Lurline up to Promontory, so she could see the urban sprawl up there, and she wanted to take a look at her old house that they used to live in.  Afterwards, we went downstairs and joined my dad's guitar night sing along for a few hours.  We definitely needed the practice, since Lurline, dad and I don't get a lot of time to play together anymore.  Here's the picture of some of the development up on Promontory:

Thursday, June 2nd, 2011

Will somebody please tell me why our weather has been so insufferable?  I think it hit a high of 13 degrees today - rainy, cloudy and windy.  Is it Fall?
Talked to my sis on Skype this morning, then went out to do some grocery shopping and mail off my broken video camera to Canon.  Other than that, it's been a low key day.  Not much to do when the weather won't cooperate.  Mom and I took a drive up to Promontory to see all the new developments, and took this shot from the top.  You can see our yard in the distance.