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 Dec 31 2023 can be written 123123!

Woke up at 4am and got some work done. Had a good time at Rustle during the day. Pizza meatloaves for dinner. Lots of fireworks going off now but I am going to sleep!

2 days left in 2023

 

I went to Food Basics. It wasn't too busy for Sat morning. The Knights Inn still smelled like fire.

Cleaned the bathrooms and some of the basement.

Dinner was tex mex turkey pasta!

Compost

 I've never had to clean the road of Fall materials before- I thought the street cleaner took care of that in the past but this year I think everyone on our street did their own. I have noticed that other streets have not cleaned the leaves and things at the edge of the road but our street has a high responsibility quotient so I thought that since it is so mild that I would catch up to the rest of the street. I thought it wouldn't be a large amount but it filled the green bin!

I put it out anyway in hopes that it would be below the 66lb limit. But no, the green bin people didn't touch it. So I drug the green bin down to the compost heap and shoveled it all out. I normally don't like to put food stuffs on the heap for attracting critters but there was a bit combined in but I wanted everything out before it froze. So happy feast of pizza crusts for critters.

Finalizing

 

Today I worked on finalizing all the marks so that Brian can approve them.

Then Sarah and I went out to see Darlene. She lives in a very busy house and really needs some space to rest. 

Made open faced pork meatball sandwiches for dinner thanks to Chef's plate. It was good but the tomato they sent was underride so I picked one I had bought recently but it was a bit overripe. One extreme to the other!

Christmas

 Had a lovely Christmas with my parents.

Today was lovely outside. I picked up some things from Shoppers and James and I went to Canadian Tire to get a new power bar. He is happy with his new fridge but we had to reorganize the outlets.

There was a fire at the Knights Inn tonight a few blocks away. There seems to be a fire there once a year. There are still a few fire vehicles there but most have left so they much have managed it easily. 

James has to drive to Belleville tomorrow for a tournament, hopefully the fog lifts in time for a safe trip.

Christmas tradition

 Yesterday James told me that it was Christmas tradition to order pizza on Christmas eve. I did not recall this tradition and had made him a nice chicken dinner. He said he could eat both. He ate the chicken dinner and then later went out and got the pizza. But he didn't eat very much, claiming it wasn't very good. Will the tradition sustain until next year?

Merry Christmas!

survey

James was so pleased to be called to complete a survey as it made him feel like an adult. The survey was about fluoride in the water. I myself am not sure of his feelings on this and if I asked I am sure he would not answer. But if a stranger asked, apparently that made him feel important!

He only went to bed around 5am, which was when I was getting up.

I went to food basics in the morning but they did not have the kind of chicken that I needed for the slow cooker. So I opted for turkey. Mistake. He doesn't like turkey in the slow cooker. He only likes turkey the way that Oma makes it. I am not sure when this change happened as I used to be able to interchange turkey and chicken with no objections.

I also went to Loblaws and it was pretty busy. I went to the self checkout. They have 6 self-checkouts. There was one person taking a really long time at one of the self checkouts and it was really agitating the clerk. I was in the station beside her and she maybe scanned one thing while I scanned all my groceries. She was busy rearranging all her groceries in a pile as maybe she didn't have bags?

Food Basics opens at 7am tomorrow. We'll see if they have the right kind of chicken!

 

Bathroom redecoration a la James

 BEFORE

AFTER

Note the matching footmat to go with the shower curtain. Maybe nice for people who like the snow and maybe ice hockey but I would prefer something sunnier!

Reason to wake your mother in the middle of the night #574

 To find out when the next plane leaves Montreal for Morocco.

Apparently his best friend was at the airport in Montreal and his flight to Morocco was cancelled. So to be helpful, he asked me to look up when the next plane was, which I did while grumbling that if the friend was at the airport, they would be the best people to help him. James countered with - have you ever BEEN to an airport? Implying that they are not helpful. At any rate, James' friend now is booked on a flight out Monday night when he was supposed to fly out Saturday night. We'll see if he gets there before he needs to head home. An adventure anyway.

last test

 Today was James' last test so he is relatively free. He still has a class tomorrow. We stayed up late last night studying. James took some sleepeze as the test was at 8:30am and he had been staying up until 3am. So he went to bed around 1:30. At 2:30am he was calling for me so I ran downstairs and explained that it was 2:30am and he agreed to go back to sleep. Apparently he was still asleep as he couldn't remember this in the morning.

He took the test in the morning and spent the afternoon cleaning his room. He even vacuumed!

He had hockey at 6pm at the Leon's center and today was the first day without his boot so he was learning to walk and skate again. He even went for a walk tonight. He is working towards having normal feet again.