Has it already been over a week since my last post? Sheesh, well here’s a quick update.
Last Friday and Saturday I was lucky enough to get to see two Red Sox vs. Blue Jays games, and my cousin Erin with her boyfriend Scott were there as well, up from Massachusetts! It was great to see them again. The games were great, too – the Sox won Friday’s game but lost Saturday’s.
Sunday, Nadia and I finished putting together our spare bedroom (i.e. assembling the bed, and moving around the furniture), so it’s ready for guests! THAT’S NOT AN INVITATION, KAREN! Haha…
Well that’s about it. In the evenings we’re watching the remaining seasons of The West Wing (me for the third time, Nadia for the first.. I know, I’m pathetic), and I’m spending my spare time either doing contract work or doing random things like reading or trying to teach myself 4 different computer and actual languages at the same time. Okay see ya bye!
And the weekend is gone not as quick as it arrived, but quicker. Saturday was spent helping our beloved cousin Karen (*cough*sarcasm*cough*).. ahem… pardon me. As I was saying, we spent Saturday helping Karen and her parents move boxes and small items (i.e. anything that wasn’t a table, shelf, or large item) into their new home. It was a great time, and we even got a free lunch at All-Star Wings, a great wings place that’s right around the corner from our house and that I didn’t even know existed. They have more flavors than you can fit in a barrel and of course, it was delicious.
Today was finally finishing the painting in our house. We touched up a lot of white spots showing through, finished the first floor hallway, and painted the front entrance. Then we got rid of the painter’s tape that was still littering our home, and wow, it’s all finally done. It’s really quite unbelievable. Anyway, afterwards we watched some great Red Sox Baseball vs. the Toronto Blue Jays, and cheered (at least I did) as they won. We watched as much of the Patriots game as we could, but around 5:30 it was time to head to Nadia’s grandparents house for a big family dinner. We had a great time, and are stuffed with food! Luckily I was able to watch the remainder of the Patriots game, and saw them finish off the Jets. Brett who?
And now, it’s Sunday night, and we’re both beat. I think I’ll sleep in an extra hour tomorrow morning.
Alright, this is getting a bit absurd. I realize a lot of friends from Canada visit this page, but 50% of the votes in my Presidential Election poll is “I’m Canadian!” C’mon, people from the United States need to represent!!! And I just used three exclamation points there too, so now you have to.
I think that’s a record for the number of acronyms in a post title. Anyway, this presentation is absolutely incredible in its ability to make sense of what they’re doing over at CERN with the Large Hadron Collider. Here it is.
Here’s the first round of “finalized room” pictures. The red room is our living room for reading and your basic sit down and relax, the blue room is our family room for, you know, watching TV and stuff.
Since the last time I posted, we’ve moved all of our possessions from our condo at North York to our new house in Markham, we’ve (almost) finished painting everything, and have just been a barrel full of busy.
Sometime during the hectic week, I got the very sad news that our family friend Barbara Peterson passed away exactly one week after we had seen her in South Hadley, seemingly as healthy as ever. It was very sudden and unexpected, and the world as a whole will be a lesser place without her in it. My deepest sympathies go out to her family. She was one of those kind women who would not only never hurt a fly, she’d help it fly away if it were injured.
Today, my father-in-law and I exchanged a broken chandelier with a new one from Canadian Tire. We brought it back to the house and installed it, and the living room is actually now the second completely finished room. It looks fantastic, and pictures will come soon. The first room completely finished was the family room. Bathrooms are done too. Really the only rooms remaining to be finished are the two spare bedrooms (one being the computer room I’m currently sitting in right now), and the master bedroom. Awesome.
Last but certainly not least, I want to extend a huge “Thank You!” to all of the family that helped out during our move. Nadia’s mother and father have been a critical component to helping us move during the entire week, bringing in their expertise and muscles wherever required. Karen was a huge help in cleaning out our old condo and setting things up in the new place, Kin helped us out big time with organizing our kitchen and moving boxes filled with our “stuff” to the right rooms, and Miranda spent her afternoon helping yours truly follow the seemingly arbitrary IKEA instructions on putting together our new sofa, and did a lot of the work installing our electronics in the family room. Terence made perhaps the biggest sacrifice of all, in that his will to help us move terribly large items was stronger than his back muscles, and ended up having a painful afternoon and evening (followed by an even more painful following day, I’m sure).
Thanks so much to everyone!!! We couldn’t have done it without you.
More to come.
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