Corner of Bourbon & Division

Signing for the new house in early October. Moving-in date is tentatively set for October 15th, barring complications.

\o/


I don't suppose anyone out there would be willing to help out in exchange for copious amounts of beer and pizza? ;)

I'm also going to set the housewarming for as soon as possible after I move, so that it will motivate me to unpack everything rather than just stop when the house gets to be "livable."

Great party.

Many many thanks to those who came. :)

I'm not hungover in spite of a great deal of lychee punch (there was a lot of gin involved) and two large glasses of t!'s excellent sangria. I did drink a fair bit of water and other stuff, though, and I had a headache around 10pm and took some Tylenol then, so that might explain it.

That being said, I'm a freaking zombie this morning. I'm amazed that I'm even slightly coherent, let alone able to type. Well, given the number of typos I'm correcting as I go, maybe I'm not as coherent as I thought.

I have a fair bit of post-party cleaning to do, but it shouldn't be too big a problem. Compared to the cleaning I did all week, this should be a cake-walk.

I have so. much. food. left over. It's the sign of a good party: you end up with more food than you started with.

I think I hit on a good mix of people, all told. I spent most of my time running around and so didn't get a chance to speak with anyone for any length of time, but everyone seemed to be having a good time as far as I could tell.

My throat still hurts from last night. I really hope it's just the result of talking too much and running around. I don't waant to get sick right now.

In other cleaning news, I still need to finish cleaning my bedroom, and then I'm going to start on smaller cleaning projects. The closets in the dining room need decluttering, and I have a backlog of laundry to take care of.

I got a slow cooker from toughlovemuse and chibipunkdemon. They are teh awesome. I lurve my new slow cooker. I shall be making some kind of slow cooker thing this week, just because I can. Whee!

I think I'll have a small nap first. I can't really see straight right now. :)

Okay, after consulting my poll, my own schedule, and my landlady, I have come up with an official date and time for my housewarming shindig:

Saturday, August 12th 2006, starting at 4:00pm. That's late enough to drink, early enough for people with babies (I hope!).

I will try to provide a decent selection of booze, but I will be officially strapped for cash until September, so if you have something in particular you really like, you may want to bring it yourself. I shall provide snack-type foods and hopefully a decent amount of meat for the barbecue. Pray for nice weather! Again, your own contributions are welcome, though if you don't bring anything it's not the end of the world.

For those of you who know where t! and ai731 live, well, I live upstairs. For the rest of you, I will be happy to provide an address and directions by email. I can be reached at brunelle_d at sympatico dot ca, or at mousme at livejournal dot com.

If you're from out of town but think you might be in Montreal then, of course you're welcome to drop by. :)

If you won't be in town, or just can't make it for some reason, we'll tell silly stories about you behind your back consider you to be there in spirit. :)

Questions? Comments? Issues?

Band practice went well yesterday. No massive high like last week, when we kicked the butt of the intro to "Enter Sandman," but we got a lot of work done anyway. Re-visited songs we hadn't played in well over a month, and they went pretty well, all things told. ai731's new guitar sounds very very sweet on certain songs, and definitely gives a new feel to the music.

We are teh awesome.

I want to get myself some new drumsticks. The ones I have are okay, but after trying some of gmarc's, I have been converted. :)

Canada Day went by in a blur, between miseri's housewarming and owldaughter's concert. The housewarming was quite a success: food and good people, and much shouting about well-loved topics (books, movies, gaming, politics, and weird pet antics). The concert went really well, though the crown prince got sick halfway through, which sucked both for him and HRH, and we got seated behind the Loud And Bouncy Family Of Doom, which made it very difficult to enjoy the music in full.

I discovered last year at luvenditti's birthday that I can no longer watch fireworks directly anymore. I keep having to look down every thirty seconds, or my eyes start streaming. I think it's definitely time to have my eyes checked for strain and to see if I need a new prescription.

I also had a very nice time with grrscary yesterday. Just about all our friends know each other, but she and I managed never to have a conversation in three years or so that we've been navigating the same social circle. I'm not sure how that happened, but we fixed it yesterday. We went to "Cha Noir" on Wellington, which is a nice little tea place I wish I'd known about when I lived two blocks away, then skedaddled downtown to watch Superman Returns. I think I loved the score of the movie more than anything else. I kept singing "Su-per-man!" in my head whenever the trumpets sounded. I love the new Superman. I am not going into squeeing fangirl mode over it the way I have over some movies, but I enjoyed it tremendously. They did a very good job with it.

We went for coffee again after and spent the next three and a half hours talking, mostly about gaming. 'Twas a very good time. I'm only sorry we didn't do this earlier.

Today, food shopping.