3 Apr 2000 dria   » (Master)

Sunday eve. Missed Xfiles and don't care. It's time they gave up and moved on, anyhow.

My weekend in Montreal was phenomenal. I found a fantastic apartment on my first day of searching, and have secured it as mine (thanks to the help of Ron the Real Estate guy and my dear friends shaver and Tyla). It really is a great apartment...big, clean, very close to work (5-7 min walk), in a nice area of town, close to a park, yet also close to the really cool shopping/commercial streets in the area. I'm about a 5 min walk from zab's place, too, which is also fun. I'm so happy. I also have very cool, extremely nice landlords (they live upstairs).

The only complicated bit is that I have to buy my own appliances. It's making me feel very Grown Up for some reason :) I'm going to own things that I cannot lift and move by myself, which is new for me. Fridge, stove, washer, and dryer. God have mercy on my credit card. (On the other hand, having my very own laundry facilities is more than worth the cost. I hate laundry mostly because it's a pain in the ass...having a laundry room off the kitchen is going to seriously rock my world.)

I get possession of my new ultra-hip Montreal digs on May 1. I think I'll arrange to move on May 2 (to avoid clashing moving schedules with the current tenant).

Did I mention that the apt I found is big? It's only got one bedroom, but it has a very large living room/sitting room, a big dining room (which I think I'll convert to a library), a very nice kitchen, and the aforementioned laundry room. The bathroom is unfortunately microscopic, but the rest of the place makes up for it many times over. I'm really quite pleased. I even have a little private courtyard off the kitchen so I can have a barbeque and a place to sit to have a quiet cup of tea on summer evenings. My mom (the gardener's gardener) is going to help me find plants that do well in shade so I can convert it to a little garden paradise. I'm considering getting one of those little Zen Rock Fountains for it, even, but that might be a little cheesier than I'm willing to deal with.

So, since I'm moving at the beginning of May, I'm going to have 3 weeks of just sitting on my butt doing domesticky things in Ottawa. Packing (which will take about 3 days when I get around to it), arranging utility hookups and stuff, etc. I'll probably also just sit around and just be entirely slack for a few days here and there, as well. I have a lot of reading to catch up on, etc.

One week to go, then basically 3 weeks vacation. My god. It's been a long long time since I had a proper vacation. Long time. Years, in fact.

In other news: I had a fantastic birthday. Dinner at The Globe (an astoundingly yummy restaurant in Montreal) with shaver, tyla, phil, and Ryan. I ate so much that I could barely move at the end of it all (we were all in similar shape, actually). No one subjected me to embarrassing birthday shenanigans during the meal, but I was seranaded with a less-than-energetic rendition of "Happy Birthday" whilst we all inched our way back to our respective hotels. Did I mention that we ate too much? Oof. And the wine probably didn't help much, either :)

So, that's my life, thus far. I have to go learn how to buy major household appliances now. What an odd thing.

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