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This week is definitely going better
Nov. 11th, 2008 05:18 pmI haven't found the mysterious Micheline Poirier. I'm a little frustrated, but once all my active leads didn't pan out, I didn't hold out much hope.
I saw my parents yesterday and had dinner with them. I actually had tea with my mother beforehand, and we had a productive if short conversation concerning our catastrophic phone conversation last Friday. To my great surprise, she brought it up first. I was expecting to have to be the bad guy, since that's usually how these things work: my mother conveniently "forgets" all our arguments as a rule, but this time she obviously realized that she'd hit on something that she couldn't make go away by wishing.
She apologized.
Yeah, I was pretty surprised too. Anyway, she apologized, listened to what I had to say, and promised to try harder in the future. I'm paraphrasing here. I think we probably would have gotten a lot further in the conversation, except that we were interrupted by my father coming home early from work with the flu, and thus my mother understandably stopped the conversation in order to fuss over him.
I had a great lunch today with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
toughlovemuse, fearsclave and his lovely wife, whom I hadn't seen in a dog's age. We went to a really nice sandwich place, had a decadent carrot cake for dessert, and toddled next door after lunch to a thrift shop where I fell in LOVE with a beautiful antique table. Eight chairs and two leaves to extend the table appropriately. It's gorgeous. Unfortunately, it's also really expensive. Less expensive than anything I can get new, obviously, but still a pretty decent chunk of money. So I am sleeping on it. If I still want it on Friday I will go back, and if it's still there I will buy it.
I stopped by Canadian Tire on my way back, and got some stuff for the bathroom, some silicon tape to fix the leaking spigot that connects to the washing machine, and a new cat tree to replace the one that the cats finally destroyed after six years. The new cat tree is a bit weird: I didn't realize when I purchased it that it was much taller than the average cat tree, and actually braces against the ceiling in order to prevent it from falling over. It's a big hit with George so far, but Gretzky and Pan-Pan seem dubious about their own ability to climb it.
I also can haz a Swiss Army Knife. It has twelve parts to it, and I am very pleased. I lost mine years ago, and have been meaning to replace it ever since. MacGyver would be so proud. :)
In other news, I appear to still be on my night shift schedule body-clock-wise, and I have been extremely tired and borderline sleepy since about 14:00 today. Bleah. I am going to go to bed early-ish, but not too early so that I can maintain my day schedule this week. Of course, I'm going on night shift again next week, and then going back on day shift the week after that, so I expect I will be a little bit all over the place in terms of my sleep patterns by then. Yeesh.
See you on the flip side!
I saw my parents yesterday and had dinner with them. I actually had tea with my mother beforehand, and we had a productive if short conversation concerning our catastrophic phone conversation last Friday. To my great surprise, she brought it up first. I was expecting to have to be the bad guy, since that's usually how these things work: my mother conveniently "forgets" all our arguments as a rule, but this time she obviously realized that she'd hit on something that she couldn't make go away by wishing.
She apologized.
Yeah, I was pretty surprised too. Anyway, she apologized, listened to what I had to say, and promised to try harder in the future. I'm paraphrasing here. I think we probably would have gotten a lot further in the conversation, except that we were interrupted by my father coming home early from work with the flu, and thus my mother understandably stopped the conversation in order to fuss over him.
I had a great lunch today with
toughlovemuse, fearsclave and his lovely wife, whom I hadn't seen in a dog's age. We went to a really nice sandwich place, had a decadent carrot cake for dessert, and toddled next door after lunch to a thrift shop where I fell in LOVE with a beautiful antique table. Eight chairs and two leaves to extend the table appropriately. It's gorgeous. Unfortunately, it's also really expensive. Less expensive than anything I can get new, obviously, but still a pretty decent chunk of money. So I am sleeping on it. If I still want it on Friday I will go back, and if it's still there I will buy it.I stopped by Canadian Tire on my way back, and got some stuff for the bathroom, some silicon tape to fix the leaking spigot that connects to the washing machine, and a new cat tree to replace the one that the cats finally destroyed after six years. The new cat tree is a bit weird: I didn't realize when I purchased it that it was much taller than the average cat tree, and actually braces against the ceiling in order to prevent it from falling over. It's a big hit with George so far, but Gretzky and Pan-Pan seem dubious about their own ability to climb it.
I also can haz a Swiss Army Knife. It has twelve parts to it, and I am very pleased. I lost mine years ago, and have been meaning to replace it ever since. MacGyver would be so proud. :)
In other news, I appear to still be on my night shift schedule body-clock-wise, and I have been extremely tired and borderline sleepy since about 14:00 today. Bleah. I am going to go to bed early-ish, but not too early so that I can maintain my day schedule this week. Of course, I'm going on night shift again next week, and then going back on day shift the week after that, so I expect I will be a little bit all over the place in terms of my sleep patterns by then. Yeesh.
See you on the flip side!
