sunday glory

we watched two movies last night, chasing one awful one with one great one. the awful one was horrible bosses, a pathetically unfunny film about three idiots too stupid to be identified with. right? the great one was zack and miri make a porno, which is absolutely brilliant and very funny in addition to being quite heartwarming.

we bookended the movies with episodes of ao no exorcist and tiger and bunny; it was a tough night ;)

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i started the day with a slow sunday breakfast reading wired, had a long chat with my mother and then skipped across to my aunt's for delicious soup to see my uncle off. they donated a lamp to our cause, and red curtains, and filled the bag with a hammer, a screwdriver and assorted nails.

it was the most beautiful day outside: the weather was warm-ish and sunny and the colours were all crisp and nothing short of delightful; the kind of day that makes you want to go out and *do* something.

our something wasn't that interesting, but the walks between the dollarama and the vegan store*, the store and the metro, the metro and the supermarket and the starbucks were all gorgeous and spiritually refreshing, even as i became progressively bogged down by the bags that seemed to multiply each time we entered someplace new.

* black bean tortilla chips are delicious, and there's a dairy-free mint chocolate protein bar called nugo that's two thirds the price of the other bars, has plenty of protein, and actually tastes like decent mint chocolate.

i didn't make friends when i sat at the starbucks with my netbook, but there wasn't any space because the shop was overrun by other laptops; at least the party of four i'd infiltrated was kind enough to ignore me as i tried not to listen in too much from the side.

pg called to say she was almost done shopping, so i stopped removing non-friend entities from my facebook news feed (what a timesink facebook pages are!) to hurry next door. i'm not certain i've ever seen pg fill a trolley before, and it was all heavy stuff. and that wasn't all the heavy lifting i'd be doing for the day: when we got home i called the janitor, who not only loaned me his drill and a few other pieces of hardware but made damn sure that i knew how to use it.

i don't know much about being handy, but a drill is something i'm pretty good with. i put up the curtain rails with a minimum of fuss and only a couple of handfuls of dust in my eyes (i was drilling straight up, and didn't close my eyes the first two times i withdrew), and didn't repeat yesterday's cursing of ikea. i'm quite proud of how neat my work is, too.

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speaking of cursing, there was a large man with tourette's on the bus this afternoon, and it's quite intimidating even when you realize that it's not directed at anyone. some of the outbursts were all too clear, some of them just raving mumbo-jumbo; can't be too easy to live with :(

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pg made a very tasty and very much complete dinner, and now that i've posted i think i'm ready for an early night.

as i told my mum earlier:
between the weather and the city and our apartment and everything, i'm really, really happy to be right here, right now. life is, even if only for a moment, fantastic.