Spring.
March 23rd 2005
Chris told me last night that he saw his first robin of the year yesterday. I guess that means that spring is truly on its way now. I am a bit cynical, however, and I am fully expecting at least one more snowfall before it really warms up.
I want to get my bicycle out of storage so I can start riding to work again. Since I haven’t been to fencing in a long time, I am getting almost no exercise, and I don’t like that. I haven’t been lifting weights like I resolved to do, so I obviously need to find something else to do for exercise. Chris says it is still too cold in the morning to ride, but I don’t think it will be so bad. I did buy some transitional pants, and I have a hat and full gloves, so maybe next week I will start.
I had a good, if busy time on the weekend. Friday night, Chris, S. and I played World of Warcraft for a few hours, and got a lot accomplished. We decided to try the Scarlet Monastery, which seems to be rather a large map. We had a high level dwarf paladin with us for a while, but then he left, and we really couldn’t finish on our own. I kept pulling aggro by accident, when I would try and get around behind the mobs to backstab. We were doing ok, but at the end, we touched off about 15 guys and they mowed us down. So that was the end of that. Kind of frustrating, as we were right at the end, but I guess when I am up a little more, I can go again. Good loot there, at least.
Saturday, S. and Chris left around noon to go to Whitby for a tuxedo fitting and then games extravaganza (no girls allowed). So I did about 5 loads of laundry, cleaned the house, and put up the spring curtains. I called A. in the afternoon, and we made a date to get some food and watch a movie. She picked me up, and we went to a curry place downtown that for some reason I have never been to. We had butter chicken, and lamb korma, and naan, and pulao rice. It was really good, and we had enough left over to make a meal for each of us! After that we went back to her house and watched Love Actually. It was a pretty funny movie, with actually a lot of sad parts in there too. I enjoyed it. A’s new kittens glommed on to me, so I am still a cat person I think. Darwin and Noelle are so cute. These are the kittens that were found in a snow bank around Christmas. Darwin had to have his tail amputated due to frostbite, and Noelle was basically dead with hypothermia. But they seem to have bounced back.
I had two large mugs of Queen Victoria tea, so by the time I got home I was wide awake. So, I puttered around for a while, and read more, and finally took myself to bed.
Sunday, I got up early because Chris’s parents came over to pick up two ladders as they are painting their entryway this weekend. Chris and S. arrived home before Chris’s parents had left, and S. just said hi and then picked up his car and went home to bed. I think he went to bed at 6 that morning. Chris went to bed at 3, so he was in slightly better shape.
So Chris sacked out on the couch, and I got a call to go out with A., and M. and L. to Bailieboro to see a little cafe and craft shop thing. When we got there, we discovered the craft shop was closed, but we had tea and butter tarts at the cafe and then a little poke around in a little antique room at the back.
I found a little tin tea box with “Thee” on it, which means someone must have come over from Holland with it at some point. M. bought some fabulous long white evening gloves in perfect condition, she felt they were frivolous, but they fit her perfectly, and everyone needs a frivolous thing to have around, I think.
After that we went to Winners/Homesense, and I found some more white Rosenthal bowls. They aren’t the same pattern as my other dishes, so the shape is different, but they will work, and the main thing is that they are the same colour and are also porcelain, so they match. I think I will just have to suck it up and buy the cereal bowl size at full price though, because I have never seen them come into Homesense.
Just got back from teaching a lab now. I only have 6 more to go for the year. Then a whole lot of marking and exam prep, but the year is almost over. I have 8 weeks left of work.