It hurts!

Short short update! Christmas was great, and even though we managed to miss our flight out of Toronto by five minutes, we caught our connecting flight in Calgary (well we took it from Toronto instead) and made it to Abbotsford on time.

We're now in New Westminster, east of Vancouver, where we are temporarily staying until we get to North Vancouver for a few days. I am sick, so sick - well I have a very damn sore and hurting throat that I thought was tonsillitis and wasted 80 dollars to check up on - so I'm walking around in pain and can't really sleep.

Feels very odd to go back "home" for three weeks only to then go "home" again for a few months and then come here again to a new "home" for god knows how long.

Happy New Year to everyone!

Merry X-mas

How fitting my Christmas post would be my 24:th post on this blog!

So we are taking off for Vancouver tomorrow morning, bright and early. We will be getting up around 5 am and hoping the public transit system won't leave us stranded. You never know. I've packed and I'm excited about some holiday cheer, it hasn't felt like Christmas here in Toronto at all.

Yesterday Chris and I saw Sweeney Todd, which was good. That's about it for this week. Now we're just waiting for the hours to pass before taking off.

We'll be back on January 2nd, so I will hopefully write something about the trip that week. Until then, happy holidays and God Jul!

Photos

I didn't manage to get very good pictures of the actual snowstorm, but believe me, it was madness. I did take a few when it calmed down though, and they can be found at the end of this post. Dominion (a supermarket) lost power and we made a snowman (and a snowdog, sitting on some bleachers, watching the snowflakes play).

Lately Chris and I have mostly been playing scrabble. We bought the game for 14 dollars on discount, and have played it every day since. And eaten corn muffins and soup. Man we make good corn muffins and soup.

I'm finally getting rid of my hair extensions tomorrow. Perhaps I should have taken better care of them so they wouldn't have gotten so tangled, and I could have had them longer. But I guess they served their purpose. Thanks whoever you were who cut off your hair so I could wear it! At the moment I have cut them to pretty much my real length so they're just hanging around glueing up my hair.

In other news: our toaster broke, and we went to see the Kirov Orchestra (read this review!) at Roy Thomson Hall on Monday.



Photos:

Whiteout

Okay.... I have mentioned snowstorms previously in this blog... But nothing has come close to what we are seeing today. This storm originated in Texas, killed 17 on the way north, covered branches in Oklahoma with 2,5 cm of ice, and hit Toronto last night. It's a complete whiteout, and there is also lightning! I was awoken by the sound of thunder this morning. It's amazing. From the inside. We're heading out in a bit, to test how long it's bearable, and if it is at all possible to walk around in the wind...

Last night we went out for food, and as we were walking home, the storm hit, and we had trouble getting to our door. We were planning on going out to a cd-release, but we changed our minds due to the weather (and general fatigue), so we spent the night inside and made corn muffins and soup instead. That turned out to be a great idea, cause the food was more than excellent.

I hope to get some good pictures of the storm when we go out, but it's just so white, it might be impossible.

London calling

Another snowstorm!

But also great news. The internet tells me my application is in London, and they started processing it on December 3rd. Now we can only hope I included everything they need, and this will be over in one to three months! I'm rooting for two months, since that's when I'll be able to send them my passport.

So it's Tuesday, Chris had his weekend Sun-Mon, we went for walks, saw No country for old men, and ate pizza. Saturday we went to a christmas party organized by people from his work, and that's pretty much it, really. I should be booking a flight home soon, but that all seems so far away still, what with the holidays in between. I'm looking forward to leaving this city, I'm tired of always seeing the same old skyscrapers.

It's December!

So another weekend passed, with the first real snowfall of the year during the night between Saturday and Sunday. Chris and I went out to a bar called "not my dog" on Friday to see a band I was kind of curious about. It turned out to be the smallest bar ever witnessed in the history of bars, the band was ok, but there was a very strange character in the room who started talking to us and creeped us out enough for us to leave. We headed to the Gladstone hotel to watch some awful karaoke instead..

On Saturday we rented two movies, Futurama and Yellow Submarine (I really wanted to see it again), so we saw the first one on Saturday, and the second ended our Sunday. Sunday was otherwise spent walking west to Chris' old neighbourhood, where we ate lunch at an old familiar restaurant, picked up Nolan, and walked back home. It took about four hours. We were lucky enough to just make it back home before the start of a very wet rainstorm, which destroyed all the snow that had been left on the ground, so it's pretty bare now again, except for the enormous piles of snow surrounding the sidewalks, making it pretty hard to cross the street.

Also, it is now very slippery, and I took a fall today, landing on the eggs I had just bought and was carrying in my shoulder bag. Luckily, only one broke. The eggs were 20 cents cheaper in the store further away from home, and I crushed that 20 cents right away.

Sorry this post is not very coherent, it is late and I just got the hickups. I drank water too fast or something. Or perhaps it is the fault of the vegetable stew I made earlier.