Bad Week

I lost a friend this week.

We met ten years ago.  Hung out every day.  I considered her one of my best friends.  She moved away four years ago, to another city, but I followed her two years later.  Life got busy, and we didn't see each other as often as we had before.  But we were still friends.

This week she got sick.  I visited her a lot this week.  Tuesday she seemed to be getting better, but then Wednesday evening she got worse.

She died on Thursday.  I miss my friend.

Refresher

Wow.  It's been a while.

I'm still working at WalMart.  Let me tell you, it's twenty times better than working at any local coffee shop (name, of course, changed to protect the guilty).

My current beef is actually with where I live.  I like it here, on the edge of the mountain, but it's really cold.  Inside.  Yeah, our stupid superintendent decided that the beginning of May in Ontario was a good time to turn off the heat.  Hey, just because we got one somewhat nice day doesn't mean summer's here!  My room is freezing.  Sure it doesn't help that there's a crack in it (on the non-opening side).  How do I know there's a crack in my window?  Remember our big storm on February 2nd?

Yeah.  In case it's hard to tell, that's snow inside my window.

So now we're moving.  We're giving about 15 days notice, and I know we'll get our last month's rent deposit back, because turning the heat on late and off early is against the rules.

And I'm still in a knitting funk, but that's only because I have a priority knit on the needles.

Jump In, The Water's Perfect

Out with the old ...

... and in with the new:

(This is the first picture taken with the new camera.)

Pretty Fruit

Last night I made smoothies with my boyfriend.  I couldn't resist borrowing his camera though:

Okay, there were also raspberries, strawberries, and banana in our smoothies.  Yummeh.

And I'm in a knitting slump, not made any better by forcing myself to knit.

Food Fail!

Apparently there's a huge difference between black bean sauce and paste.  Well, at least I now know what not to buy.  The sauce isn't that nice sweet stuff at the Vietnamese restaurants at which I'm always eating.

Now excuse me while I eat my plain sticky white rice.

Why This Weekend Feels Like Work

Yesterday (Saturday) we had band rehearsal from 9:30am to 5:00pm.  Two oratorio practices and one regular practice.

The oratorio is today.  We have yet another rehearsal at 1:00pm and the actual concert thing is this evening.

On Wednesday I've agreed to play in a competition with the concert band.

Then next Saturday is another mid-day rehearsal and then the concert that evening.

And that is why I actually took sick days this week to get rid of my cough.

Kool-Aid!

I was bored ... being snowed in makes me destructively constructive.  I'll probably wish I'd left the natural alpaca alone.

But I really like how that blue turned out.  That was a fluke.