The ceilings in two rooms are now fully painted, two coats, and they don't look half bad.
I may actually be able to do this.
We've had to stop painting for a bit to start moving furniture.
2. It is near impossible to find a rental vehicle or moving van, but we managed to find a flatbed truck... However, we only have it until 5 p.m. today. I'd say we have about two more full loads, but we'll have to take the bed apart to get it downstairs.
That'll be a big job.
3. Fortunately, we still have until noon on the 31st to clean up the old place, and rent a carshare for the few things that can still be packed in boxes, so we don't have to be 100% moved by 5 p.m.
4. Tonight may be the first night we sleep in the new house.
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1. The person taking over our apartment had asked us to leave our air conditioner and that she would buy it from us for $200.
She has confirmed several times.
Today, she let us know that she had found one at a better price and would not be taking it after all.
2. Of course, during the nearly TWO MONTHS we set it aside for her, she didn't tell us she was looking for a better deal.
Now she says she looked for another one when she didn't hear back from us for a week, but yesterday she confirmed she'd be sending us they money for it.
3. Of course, we've only been involved in a heat wave for most of the past two months and would have had NO PROBLEM selling it.
Now, with 7 hours left to move, we find out we must uninstall an AC.
EOT: Trust me, I'll lead a moderate government, just like Trudeau's, (although my MPs will rarely vote with me) that will promise you everything and balance the books
2. JS: Trust me, I would have done more of everything Trudeau and the Liberals did, but only faster and better. Besides you can't trust Trudeau to do anything at all he promises he'll do. He never follows through.
3. YFB: Although Legault is already the leader of a jurisdiction and can represent Québec himself, I promise to be redundant by taking every decision made at the Assemblée National and treating it as if I am the Ambassador of Québec to Canada.
1. I think I have come to the conclusion/realization that we had a pretty much move-in ready house and we've pretty much spent the week vandalizing it in an effort to personalize it and make it perfect.
2. Painting a whole house is too big a job for a relative newbie like me. And yesterday, we got samples of the paint colour upon which we agreed (after no fewer than 6 days debating them)... and ALL of them are awful!!
3. NONE of them look like that which we selected from the swatches. They're ALL darker and way more vibrant.
Had we used them, our place would have looked like Disney vomited Technicolor cotton candy all over the place.
1. A group of self-selected ultra-militant francophones have decided the first ever appointed GG (a position about which they've never cared because it represents the English Queen) of Indigenous heritage in our history is an insult to them because she doesn't (yet) speak French.
2. Since 1959, Canada has adopted a convention of alternating nominations from our 2 main linguistic groups.
BTW, when Georges Vanier became the 1st francophone GG, similar determined to be unhappy ultra-militants labelled him « Vanier vendu »/«Vanier fou de la Reine »
3. We've recently had GGs of German-Australian (Schreyer), Ukrainian (Hnatyshyn), Haïtian (Jean), and Chinese (Clarkson) heritage, but the FIRST time in 154 years we name someone of Indigenous background, they lose their minds!!
1. Got my second shot of moderna. Was starting to feel the side effects. Decided to get a pizza rather than go to bed without food. Locked myself out. Then it started to rain. Got caught in it, when all I wanted to do was go to bed.
2. Called, texted, emailed, my landlord, but he wasn't checking for messages this evening oh, so I sat slightly sheltered from the rain storm for 3 hours, before resolving myself to book a hotel.
3. I've been going through all the side effects, sitting outside, shivering, wet, hungry, tired, and finally this evening is going to cost me over $140.