David's Exciting Adventures

The building inspection is done, the papers are signed, and we have handed over the fat deposit cheque. Yes, we are officially homeowners. It feels rather anti-climactic as we went through the upheavals of “what the heck did we just get ourselves into?” LAST week. We’ve already scoured the local home improvement shops for fun stuff like faux wood flooring and tiles printed with “real” tile finish. It boggles the mind how many questionable and ugly patterns of lino exist in public! I think I need to change professions and become a lino-pattern-designer. Or, better yet, I should become a bathtub designer because who ever invented rectangular, shallow tubs obviously prefers the shower.

Yes, the condo has these glorified holes in the ground. There is nothing more aggravating than sinking into a freshly-drawn bath and having half of it immediately slosh out through the overflow drain — the latter placed conveniently halfway up the already ridiculously-shallow tub. I much prefer the angled-back and arm rest variety. Swimming capacity would be nice, too. I think I need a pool …

David took a hockey stick to the face last night.

He called me from the hospital and told me there was nothing to worry about. Of course I had to go down there because I started to pace. He was stitched up by a very nice Doctor-in-residence who was at least half of David’s age. We had a surreal conversation while he demonstrated his handiwork on David who lay sprawled on a stretcher in a hospital corridor. I watched a few bashed-in faces stumble past but, all in all, not too traumatic a visit to Chilliwack General. Poor boy can’t make facial expressions and/or raise his eyebrows without wincing. Ick.

Welcome to my very, very first blog posting EVER! I am pacing our apartment awaiting the call from the mortgage broker telling us that, yes, we will be in debt at a locked in rate for the next 4 years. He was supposed to call this morning, and it’s now 1:00 pm. He’s waiting for the okay from CMHC that the condo we agreed to buy earlier this week is a safe investment for all. I feel as anxious as the weather outside: rain whipping down at a 45 degree angle. How can I concentrate on the thesis today? Okay, do I ever concentrate on the thesis??

Great news, we have allowed the bank to give us lots of money to purchase a condo.
Once all the paperwork is processed we will take possession Jan 14/06.
We are very happy with our purchase and can’t wait to paint and remodel.

It has been a while since we played a B division team. Thursday night we played hard and won 7-3.
Not too exciting a game as we dominated. Hope we play the same way in our next game. It is an A division team though so trying to not get hammered too badly.
Next game, Thursday, Nov 10, 9:00pm.