Category Archives: Day to Day

And the pictures on Flikr have been updated.  But as of Saturday – no cabinet doors!  Monday they promise.  I wonder ???

Today the countertops went on my cupboards. 

Tomorrow the doors and drawers.  (I hope)

It is funny how I make all these plans, go and pick out colours, plan out what I think is the time line it will all occur on and then things just happen on some other schedule, someone else’s plans.  but it is all good in the end.

The countertop colour is not what I planned.  Well, actually, it is what we had originally planned.  In fact it is the very colour that attracted me to the idea of concrete in the first place.  Then we went to Saskatoon and with the floor wood colour in hand, decided on a dark ebony colour for the countertop. 

The best laid plans…

I am not about to change the colour now.  I will call them and let them know that this is not what we picked out when we were down to see them.  But, considering that  I really like the result, I am keeping them!

Pictures will be added to my Flikr set but I have just run out of time.  I should be in bed already but am not.

Most of my evening was spent with Sara and her boyfriend’s mom planning the grad day supper for both our kids.  It was what Sara lovingly calls "a meet the future in-laws event."  If that is what it is, I am OK with that so far.  Both her boyfriend and his family are wonderful people.

Tonight was about sending off a good staff person to a whole new life – becoming a student again.  She will do well.  There is no doubt of that in my mind even if it is tough and a bit scary to go back to school.  So we had a staff barbeque in her honor.  We ate and drank well. 

Then we sat around the firepit and talked. Stories and jokes and talk.  Good times.  Really good times together.  There is something special about sitting around a fire on a cool evening.

And we got to know our newest staff member and her man.  I think it will be good having her as part of the group.

I am sitting here going over the days events.  Lots of stuff happened.  Some fairly significant things, size wise, grad present sort of things. 

Sara has her car.  She took Leo shopping and from there it all sort of happened fast.  She is getting to the point of needing a car, if need is the right word, to get from school to work to soccer,etc.  Now she will need to work to pay for the car, at least the upkeep and the gas and licence.  I think she will find out that cars make you a slave to work.  So, one sort of golden Cavalier is out there somewhere and will come home tonight to sleep here.

I get my vehicle back.  A vehicle for myself that I can use any time I want – or need.  But I think I will keep riding to work at least three days a week.  I can use the exercise and it is only a few minutes away.  I will supplement my riding to work exercise by other regular rides, hopefully another three times a week.  So, tonight I rode up to the church again to practice.

When I got home, Rachelle was here.  She and a friend are taking off to some lake north of here for a couple days of camping.  She is looking fairly pregnant but well.  She says she gets tired so fast.  I think that is to be expected.

Earlier tonight I had a meeting with one of my business partners.  We own property and needed to discuss plans for the future.  So for the second time in one week I had supper at Amy’s.  The Tilapia was superbe but I still did not get my cheesecake.  I think maybe I need to just go for the cheesecake – no other food to kill my appetite beforehand.  The cheesecake needs its own place – it is so good that to tack it onto the end of an already filling meal is just not right.

I think that getting the extra sleep last night really paid off.  I felt a lot better today.  So here it is 10:30 pm already and I was going to get lots of sleep tonight too – but time has flown and so there go my good plans to be in bed by 9:30. 

Tonight I did manage to get in a bike ride.  Rode up the bit of hill to the church where I spent about an hour practicing my bass – still stored there till our house renovation is finished. 

And good news on our kitchen – the cupboards should be in on Friday and the countertops then can be installed early next week.  David is up this weekend to work some more on the baseboards and stuff.  So i am thinking that by next weekend I may be moving back in.  I am so ready for things to get back to normal around here. 

And I am heading off to bed trying to get some more of that healing sleep.

For the past two months I seem to have had a new cold just about every two weeks.  I will get over one – just – and there is another one beginning.

This morning when I woke up I thought I was fine.  
A bit tired maybe, but otherwise no sign of a cold.

Then I got to work and had a scratchy throat; had a coughing fit that I had to leave a patient for and tonight I feel fairy lousy. 

I think I need to go to bed and get some rest.

At least since I had supper at Amy’s tonight – with Leo since he had a free supper as sort of an afterparty for the accreditation the group from the health district did this afternoon  – I do not have to haul a tub of dirty dishes up to our bathroom to wash them.

And my new countertops are ready to be installed.  Now I need the cabinets to install them on.  Always waiting for something it seems.  Everything is being held up by the cabinet doors.  But surely it can’t take too much longer.  Please. 

I am getting tired of this sort of pseudocamping.

I do need some sleep.  Goodnight.

I checked out Randall’s blog for some deep spiritual inspiration – as usual.

What did I find but a guy making games out of his name.  So I thought, if he can do it so can I!!  I typed in my name and yeah they could spell it backwards to me.  Aenil Eional  A fairly anal sounding name if you ask me.  Which is maybe right if this is the backwards side of me. 

They had no idea what my name meant.  So I am one up on them – of course spelling it like a Swede might change that.  I’ll have to try that spelling and see what it does. 

Another astonishing fact they came up with –  listen to this:  "People with this first name are probably: Male or female… We don’t know yet. We’re working on it!"

Ha ha.  Should I let them in on the secret?

This seems pretty right. "Your ‘Numerology’ number is 7. If it wasn’t bulls**t, it would mean that you are spiritual, eccentric, and a bit of a loner. Introspective and analytical, you think deeply and preferseclusion."  But how did they come up with that when they don’t even know if I am male or female or what my name means?

And I found out that I am pretty unique.  "According to the US Census Bureau°, fewer than 0.001% of US residents have the first name ‘Linea’ and fewer than 0.001% have the surname ‘Lanoie’. The US has around 300 million residents, so we guesstimate there are 0 ‘Linea Lanoie’s."

Really there is one.  But only one and not in the US.

That was fun.  Thanks Lladnar.

For the past month, I have been living in the middle of a kitchen/main floor renovation of our house.  It has been a pain – having to eat off paper plates, cook on the barbeque or order in, hauling up the dishes that have to be washed to our bedroom bathroom in a big tub to wash them, hunting for things to cook with and not remembering where I packed them away.  But, it is becoming more clear that the trouble will be worth it.  And after more than ten years in the old kitchen without so much as a coat of paint, it was high time.

I have taken pictures of the process to date and they are in aset at Flikr if you want to see some of the process.

Yesterday morning, very bright and early, I got up and drove to Saskatoon to visit the Passport office.

I arrived in good time, found a parking spot, plugged the meter for an hour and a half and trundled off in the rain for the government building. 

When I got to the office my papers were checked by an official looking woman at the desk and I was given a number.  The waiting room was almost full.  I was wondering how long it would be ’cause it looked as if I was in for a long wait.

I didn’t even have time to get out the book I’d brought along.  I was called within minutes of sitting down and was out of the office within 15 minutes. 

It really is true, as Randall said, it pays to apply for passports on line.  And they say it should only take 3 weeks to get them doing it that way as well. 

And then since I had already paid a couple dollars for my parking, I went in to the coffee shop that I parked in front of and had lots of time to sit with my book over a good cup of coffee.