An Idea Is Bulletproof

Power is back on at my apartment! *yay* I get to move back home tonight which is always a plus. Downside is that the landlord came by on the weekend and saw that we and the people on the main floor all had air conditioning units which is not allowed as per our lease so all units must be removed immediately. Crappy. At least we're past the worst of the summer heat I think and Nicole picked up an extra window fan for me. Plus he's going to charge us extra rent for the months we had air conditioning in. It sure would have been nice if he'd actually gone into the basement apartment and flicked the breaker so we could have had power this weekend when he came by to scope out the house though. I think living in a building definitely has its' advantages as compared to living in a house. New life lesson for me :S

On the up side now that he's asking for extra money he'll be sending someone in to fix the wall in the stairway leading up to my room. It has a hole from when one of Miguel's friends was moving furniture out of the apartment but apparently the wall was damaged before, and looking at it it's not too well made... anyways, it's going to be fixed asap.

The power blew at my apartment on Saturday morning as I was getting ready for my first summer wedding. Not the most fun ever. I had the directions for meeting up on the computer, glad that I had read them once earlier in the morning so I remembered them alright. The wedding itself was lovely, just the sort of small casual thing I'd want to do were I to get married.

Still no power by Saturday night (the apartment is in a house, breaker is in the basement apartment, that tenant rarely is in the city on weekends) so I split and came to crash at my parents house. They're on vacation 'til tomorrow so I took their room and watched some Farscape with my brother (who is now 1/3 of the way through the first season and is hooked *yay*)

Today there is still no power in the apartment. I dropped by briefly to pick up my pass for work and am crashing at my parent's house again today. The problem for me with no power in the summer means I can't even run a fan and I get heatstroke. My room is on the third floor, heat rises yadda yadda yadda and I'd be too sick by Monday to fathom going to work. Ergo I'm chilling out here. Going to grab a slushie and then I think watch some Babylon 5 :)

I love spring. So far I've lost 7 pounds *yay* for coming out of hibernation! Of course tonight Nomi decided that since it was the series finale of Gilmore Girls we needed candy (and let's be honest I wasn't going to argue that) so we set out to walk and get candy. I'm so sugared up right now! On the way back we got caught in an awesome storm. I was soaked through on my front but completely dry on my back because we were walking against the wind. So much fun, I've not been out in a storm in forever!

Gilmore Girls was a fantastic finale, I won't spoil at all, it was just great. Even if you've been avoiding watching the past few seasons because they werne't so great the finale has made up for it.

In other TV news the reports are starting to come out that Veronica Mars has been cancelled.... it's still too soon to tell for sure for sure but It's looking good for cancellation which, since I saw the commercial for tonights episode and it had both my roommate and I absolutely appaled, cannot come soon enough. Honestly, with what they've done this season I can't even buy the DVDs for the few decent storylines. The rest is just offensive.

Oh and other great news, I think I have my apartment stuff figured out! Such a happy day :)

I'm starting my search for apartments soon so if anyone in the TO area hears about a good place let me know please :) Oh, and I'm potentially having Jo stay with me for a couple of months so especially if you hear of a really affordable 1 bedrooom apartment that is not a crack house do let me know. Otherwise I'm pretty much in the market for a batchelor which works fine for me, not so fine for having anyone live with me for a few months.

I don't know what the hell happened in the apartment above mine but it sounded like they dropped a pipe, or their radiator or something at 5:30 in the morning, I almost fell out of bed! I have no idea what it was but I didn't hear any noise from up there which is odd because I think the kids who live there have the room above me. No clue, but it was loud.

And due to crazy interrupted sleep I managed some crazy interrupted dreams. Until the noise I was dreaming that I was on that show Boston Public (which really should be released on DVD) and then after I had some whacked out dream that the cast of House, Dell, her friend Sarah from school, and I (and like 1000 other people) were trapped on this Titanic sized ship that was slowly being attacked and sunk from the bottom level but everytime one level filled everyone just moved up. And Dell, Sarah and I kept taking care of this poor little kitten who had no kitty food to eat so we left the ship to buy food (and I bought some crazy Buffy soda, pear and lemon flavoured) and then we went BACK on the ship to try to work out what was happening with House and his team.

Clearly my brain has a. had too much tv and b. not enough sleep lol.

We have moved :) (my roommate and I, not the royal "we")

The apartment is still a mess of boxes but slowly it's looking more and more as though people live here. And today the cable and internet were set up... there's a little more problem with the phone but we're working on it ;) MSN will be my main source of communication for the next little while.

I also put together an ikea shelf unit without quitting. Most often with Ikea furniture I have to quit half way through as it all falls apart and then try again many hours later, but I did this shelf in maybe 20 minutes AND with the wrong set of instructions lol perhaps that's why it worked easier ;)

I wont ramble on much about moving since it's not really interesting if you're not the one doing it BUT I will say, movers are totally worth paying for! I'm SO glad we had them, it made the day that much less stressful.

Thanks for all of the kind words from the people who commented on my last entry, there will be pictures as soon as we have less boxes everywhere :)

I got myself a digital camera today :) Oh how much fun are these! Firstly www.factorydirect.ca WONDERFUL store. Great employees and if you know your products you can order online.

I am now the proud owner of a Kodak Easyshare Z760, 6.1MP :) This one here actually :)

I am thus far quite pleased. I bought a memory card for it as well (1GB) and now I'm good to go :) I also read the entire instruction booklet while the battery charged (which is probably the best way to package these things, make people have to wait to use them) so I think I've got the basics and now I'm just learning to fiddle with the rest :)

In other news it's disgustingly hot and humid out and between going out camera shopping in the morning and then buying some odds and ends for the apartment this afternoon I feel like I just might melt. I was actually going to go for sushi with my brother tonight but I'm not particularly hungry and I'm feeling a little heatstroky so I decided to pass on the dinner out tonight. Instead I shall rest and then when it gets dark outside and perhaps a little cooler, I shall pack like a madwoman as I've not really started doing too much of that yet.... eep. I would like to move a good bunch of clothes over this weekend along with the new bedding I've bought and a drying rack.... and some nice floormats to go under my computer chair so it's not loud on the floors for the little baby downstairs :)

Oh Nomi I now have cutlery :) and a drying rack for dishes :)


Ooooooooh and while it's not really clouded over yet I just heard some really loud rumblings of thunder, always a good sign.

*yay* I got a futon yesterday :) I'll be setting it up on Sunday so I'll know how comfy it is then or if I'll be wanting another matress. So far it looks great!

There's a new little kitty in our neighbourhood who came to visit our house yesterday. As we were having dinner he just came right up onto our deck... of course we have a dog who was there as well, kitty is not so good at assessing situations. BUT he didn't run too far away and I went and played with him. His name (according to his collar) is Leo and he's so friendly! I cannot wait until Nomi and her kitty move in, I want a cat to play with!

Okay time for work.

Can I just say how much I freaking dislike the fact that Toronto Hydro is not available during non buisness hours!!!!!!!!!!! I am at work while they're open and their customer service line is fully automated so I can't even get an operator there to ask about how I can go about setting up my account if I'm not available to call during their buisness hours. I emailed their customer service contact thinger but even that wasn't easy to find. Hullo, I want to give you money, please make that a little easier. The cable and internet people are next on my list and I've heard they're even more confusing and prefer you to set up everything online... and they've still not answered my online question that I send in a couple of weeks ago, ergo they're going to have to deal with me on the phone. Nobody wins :S

If I don't hear back by Wed. I'll have to either get to work super early to make a the call or just spend my break from being on the phone, being on the phone with Hydro. Also not cool but necessary if you know, I'd like to have power, and I do believe that's a necessity for me lol.

hee it's Pirates this weekend! I have my ticket already for Saturday night :D Now I just have to stay unspoiled until then. And then in just a couple of weeks Clerks 2 comes out :D Clearly this is a fun movie month.

August shall be an entertaining month as well I think, Slean concert and SFX :) I have my tickets to both of those stuck to my walls (a trick from residence) so I wont lose them. I already thought I'd lost the Slean ticket once. That would have sucked.

I REALLY need to clean/pack. I am planning to move some stuff on Sunday so Saturday I'm going to pack up as much as I can to trek over... not forgetting that we paint the following weekend so I can't put a lot in my room because then I'll just have to move it out and back in.

I should go and get ready for work, yay Friday!