I'm back Baby!

Hello Blogsville! I’m back! Finally, after 23 loooong days!
I felt so disconnected. It’s one thing to be off the net by choice, but to be cut off like this wasn’t our choice, trust me! To be without a phone nor an internet connection wasn’t our idea, especially that we so needed both. We busted our minutes on both our cells just making calls re. my MIL’s funeral. But that’s all (almost) in the past now. Things are getting back to normal, somewhat… We still don’t have cable, thus no TV, but at least we own a lot of movies. I knew these would become handy someday.

So, I’ve been busy even though I wasn’t blogging. We moved to our new condo. The move itself went well; only 2 plates broken and a good floor scratch (5-6 boards need to be changed).

We are still “camping”. Our new furniture should be delivered next Thursday. Can’t wait to get rid of some more boxes. I’m getting tired of seeing boxes around. We haven’t unpacked everything because; well… the builder did some booboos.

You see despite having said very specifically what and how we wanted things and even supplying the specs for our fridge, the cabinetmaker made the hole the size of the fridge, not bigger, but the exact measurement of it. So, the fridge is right smack in the middle of our little kitchen, leaving us a little passage way... Fun!The cabinets are not what we ordered either. We are still missing doors and there are a bunch of things like that, that make this whole experience such a fun one! The week my MIL passed away, they had to redo our shower, because it was leaking, and not just a little. So the morning of her passing the plumber, the tile guy and the glass guy were in and out of our place one after the other. Did I say I was having fun while I was away? Well, I wasn’t!Besides being woken up at 5:30 every morning, and spending the day surrounded by the lovely sounds of hammering, drilling and swearing (‘cause those construction guys, man, do they swear!) while I was unpacking boxes, things were going belly up. We both felt like we were living in a pinball machine or something, and we were stuck on top, bouncing around, waiting for that shove that would tilt the machine. You know the one?

We are managing to enjoy life and discovering our new neighbourhood even if we haven’t found a grocery store yet. We walked to Chinatown for dinner and made our way to Old Montreal as well. It’s fun, it does feel like we are tourists in our own town. We are discovering new things and it almost feel like we’re on vacation. I think we’ll like this, once we are truly settled in and that everything is done to our liking – that might take a while, I know!

Between the Fireworks every Wednesday and Saturday nights, and the Comedy Fest there is so much to see and do. Last night, we walked (Yes Sir! We can walk to shows now! Woohoo!) to a gala hosted by John Pinette, he’s hilarious. It felt good to laugh. Some stand-ups were really good, like the Aussie Adam Hills or our fellow Canadian Jeremy Hotz. Overall it was a great evening and both Hubby and I needed that.

Shall be closing for now, but rest assure I’m back for good this time!