Sunday, March 16, 2008

lights out and ice cream....

yesterday the electricity in the 'hood went out in the afternoon and was seemingly all good at other buildings around 10 pm, but for some reason, a blown transformer i think, our building was without power until noon today. with that comes many trips up and down the stairwells to get to and from the apartment, no phone, no internet, no heat, no nothin'....good times.


yesterday was a weird day. a long lazy morning here, then a nice walk around crab park with stella, lunch at urban fare - doesn't everyone go there for lunch? and then it went south...shauna had wanted to go to work for a few hours so i dropped her off there...then i was going to head to the shop and drop off some stuff and maybe work on my mowers...right after i left her, she called to say her power was off at her building. ok...we'll go to the gym now then, i just had to go home and get my gear. then i discovered the power was off in our building as well. so up the stairs i went to get my gear. then back down. i went and got shauna and we went to go to the gym, but discovered once we got there, that i had forgotten our gym passes. nice. we went up to see if they'd let us workout without them and then discovered that they close at 7 pm on saturdays. what the fuck? so we whipped down to the gym on davie. tyey too close at 7 pm as does the gym on cambie? 7 fuckin' pm?....really?...ok. so we headed home. shauna decided to go out with ang to a new wine bar where the dufferin bar used to be at seymour and smithe and i called mishi and garbs and we decided on ice cream at dairy queen. (i know, this is electrifying...)


this morning still no power and shauna had to pick a friend up from the airport so i thought i'd go and work on the mowers and wash my car at the shop. trouble was, when i got to the shop that shauna had all my keys for the lawn order room and to the shop - i had forgotten to take them off the key ring.... so home i came, walked back up the stairs for the sixth or seventh time and decided to give in and just stay home and read the paper and maybe my new richard ford book.
then the power came back on. im still staying home - safer bet at this point.
megan is coming over tonight with dinner in hand for us...nice. i'll be ok until then....

g. xo

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