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You are viewing the most recent 10 entries December 31st, 2013January 31st, 2013July 13th, 2012: Yes, I am still here Yes, I do fail at posting. Maybe someday I'll start again. In the meantime I'm reading lots of books so I'm playing memes. ( memeCollapse ) February 19th, 2012: Nothing to say Life is dull, I haven't done anything worth reporting. So, instead, you get to read some of my re-written song lyrics. (Friday at work was really boring!) Transit City (sung to the tune of Kansas City from Oklahoma) Got to Union Station on a Friday, By Saturday I reached Richmond Hill. Up to then I didn't have an idee Of how the TTC was fallin' ill. I counted 20 streetcars going the wrong way, almost every time I had to ride. And then I turned my ear to an odd subway squack, Saying signal failure’d now preside. (Whut Next? Yeah whut!) Whut next? Everything's out of date in Transit City They've gone about as low as they c'n go. They've went and built a subway only 5 stations long. Hardly as far as a subway oughta grow. Everything's just a mess in Transit City. It's worse than a real’ty tv show. Y ‘ stand at signs for hours with no bus appearing there. With no kind of comfort, every trip is just a bear. You can take all day to go a mile and they never even care! They've gone about as low as they c'n go. (Yes Sir) They've gone about as low as they c'n go. Everything's just a mess in Transit City. They've gone about as low as they c'n go. They got a great big mayor there, they call him Robbie Ford. Fer drivers he will strike new transit blows. Both of the Fords are fat and pink and petty. And subways are the only word they know. I could swear their brains were addled from their bald patch to their heels. And then they started speaking and their speaking made me feel That everything inside their heads was just a bit surreal. They’ve gone about as low as they can go. (Yes sir) They’ve gone about as low as they can go. December 30th, 2011December 25th, 2011: Yay no snow! I'm the only person who prefers my Christmas without snow except on television. Actually I prefer my winter with no snow, but I'm not holding out hope. I'm currently sitting in my pyjamas, eating Christmas cookies and candy canes for breakfast, and watching Love Actually. That's as Christmas as I get. I'm sure it's a balanced breakfast Last night I went to a friend's for Xmas dinner. Pierogies and cheese and tortiere. So much awesomer than silly turkey. And we watched Roger Rabbit and then Buffy and Xfiles Christmas episodes. Tomorrow I may head to Fairview to check out sales. And maybe fabricland is having a nice sale, I hope. The rest of today is non-specified. Happy whatever-you-celebrate everyone. October 24th, 2011: Movedin. I'm moved in. I'm slowly unpacking far too much stuff. I'm still considering switching the tv and bookshelf, but everything else is pretty much where I want it. I still have about 20 boxes to go, plus 2. large duffle bags of clothes and random other stuff. I have an extra dishwasher living in my kitchen until I can get someone to come help me move it to my storage locker (long story) . But I'm definitely getting there. I want to be done by Nov 13. It seems like a good goal. Kith was nice enough to meet me at Future Shop yesterday to get my new birthday microwave home. And then the two lightbulbs in my bedroom both burned out (they were nearly a week old) so I gave up doing anything and watched 3 episodes of Big Bang Theory instead. Tonight I have to run by the old place and take some stuff out for garbage night, like the old microwave. And then I have to buy lightbulbs. Hopefully I'm home in time to replace them while it's still light out. Today's goal is the duffle bags. I'm going to make it. Who believes me? Much of me is sore. Clearly I spend far too much time not lifting things, because actually lifting and moving hurts. But I'll probably live. October 13th, 2011: I really am bad at this I keep intending to post more. And yet I fail. I've been fairly busy lately with condo things. I close tomorrow, so today was about paying off the lawyer and signing about a million papers. It's distinctly possible he threw the deed to my soul in there and I signed it away, but I'll never miss it. This weekend I paint the bedroom, and test all the appliances to make sure they work. Then I have cleaners coming next Friday morning, and Friday evening I will go through and do anything they missed. Then Saturday I move. So much fun. And I'm ever so good at carrying heavy things. Didn't do much else this summer except a quick visit to DC to see friends and the Maryland Renaissance Festival. I'm not going to NY for my birthday this year because I have no more money. So I'm around for that for a change. Maybe I'll even do something. I think that something should involve cake. And my doctor's solution for my habitual dizziness is still "eat more salt". Really, unless I buy shares in a sushi restaurant I'm not sure how much more salt I can eat. Somehow this seems rather unlike a solution, but oh well. Sometime soon I will need a trip to Ikea. Need more lighting. And that is the most involved plan I have for the near future. Boy, did I get boring. Someone find me something to do (that costs no money!) August 7th, 2011: Here I am again So, I've sort of been condo-hunting, but there isn't much in my price range with my (admittedly picky) requirements so it was taking ages. I bid on one last May that I failed to get (by $2k because my realtor knows nothing). I put an offer on another one on Friday, but again I was against someone else for the unit and the asking price was only $1K short of my full limit so I figured that I'd never get it when the offers came back to do better. I made the closing date a month later and threw in that extra $1000, just in case. Last night my realtor called to say I'd won it. He suggested that the owners (who I'd met when I viewed it, which rarely happens) liked me better and might have been willing to give me a bit of a break if the offers were similar. Who knows. So, I now need to go through all the paperwork, and lawyer stuff and bank stuff in the next week, transfer money to make it more accessible (and rescue what's left before the market drops anymore). I have no idea what all needs doing at this point. I'm waiting for realtor to turn phone on so I can ask him about the details. Given that it's Sunday I really can't do anything until tomorrow anyway. The unit is still downtown, not terribly far from where I am. A little south and slightly east. It's a bit further from the subway and the supermarket (at least until they finish the bloody loblaws they've been talking about putting into Maple Leaf Gardens for the last ever). I can still walk to work in about the same time. The building has a bunch of amenities that my current one doesn't. Okay, other than no cockroaches my current one has no amenities. My father likes the 24 hour security guard. I like the indoor pool. Clearly we have different priorities. Assuming there's nothing funny that my lawyer picks out, or that the building is about to have a huge repair that'll cost all the tenants a fortune (in which case I'm not buying), I will have possession on November 11 and will have about 3 weeks to move stuff as I won't be able to leave here until Dec 1. It'll give me a chance to clean, maybe paint something, have a better look at the floor plan and determine what stuff can go where. It's bigger than my current unit, which is good because I couldn't really go smaller. My mind is already making a lit of the things I need to buy, none of which I can currently afford, but someday. There are a few things I'm a bit worried about, like the age of the appliances, but as long as they don't all break at the same time I should be okay. If I'm lucky one or two of them will break before November because the contract is for 5 working appliances so they would have to be replaced at the current owner's cost. Best case scenario. Anyone got any useful suggestions about property ownership? |
