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We hates* the "span" tag, precious. Oh yes, we do.

Why am I spending my afternoons up to my elbows in crappy eWebEdit-generated HTML code, again?

*Except on the very rare occasions when we needs it, that is.

argh.

Is it just that I order really obscure stuff?

This Is Wonderland Season 1 DVDs now listed for July 19. As opposed to May 3, which is what it was listed as before. Dammit.

Will attempt to compose my soul in patience, like I have a choice. But argh. At least I ordered it when it was $4 cheaper than it is now.

(Mind you, the Kirsty box set was shipped to me well before the delayed release date Amazon.ca had it at. So who knows.)

(Edit: Also, the library finally got The Grand Tour into their system, so that's on its way to me. Patience pays off. Eventually. Now if only they'd buy all the other stuff I was eyeing in Bakka the other day...)

weekend

Belated Happy Birthday to gurudata!

Weekend was good. I got stuff done for a change, which makes me feel more in control and less panicky and avoidy. (I know, who'd'a thunk it?) To wit:

• Went to the gym


• Made a pilgrimage to Queen West with crankygrrl and bought:
  
  • work boots at the Australian Boot Company -- brown steel-toed Blundstones, to be precise. Not the CSA ones with the steel shank, which my feet didn't like at all, but the Australian ones. They are purty, and they were on sale, so there you go. I will try to avoid stepping on any nails.
  
  
  • East, by Edith Pattou
  
  
  • Tehanu, by Ursula K. Le Guin (both at Bakka's new location, hurray)
  
  
  • Theoden (not in armour) at the Snail -- he has something weird the matter with his hair, but I'm not bothered
  
  
  • Thelma and Louise
  
  
  • Pirates of the Caribbean (there was some mutual enabling -- Cranky wanted to know if there wasn't something, anything, that I wanted in the 2 for $30 section, and I said well, yes, and somehow there we were)
  Did not buy anything at Come As You Are, but have marked its location for next time.


• Went to the house and admired the wide open spaces and the yards of lath where the plaster's been ripped off (also took pictures) -- sadly the dumpster wasn't there, but the big chute snout through which dead plaster makes its way from the third floor to the first was, so I got pictures


• Met J for coffee and discussed decorating -- so far this is merely a distant mirage, but it gives us hope in the long parched desert that is renovation


• Mostly tidied up the pit of hell that is my living room


• Got rid of the pile of incoming mail by the front door


• Wrote a letter to S in Ottawa in reply to hers, which I haven't actually found yet


• Alphabetized my CDs (when I moved in I put them in the CD stand any old how in the mistaken belief that I was going to get a new one any day now; this still hasn't happened, so I decided enough was enough)


• As a result, listened to a lot of CDs I haven't heard in a while


• Cleaned the scary dead food out of the fridge, and took it down to the garbage


• Did a lot of dishes


• Bought groceries -- admittedly not very many, but I did get a bag of apples, so at least I'll have fruit in the house


• Made a long list of Things I Will Need Homes For In My New Place, which was good, and tried to figure out the layout of my new living room without marked success, which was less good


• Read Teckla and East

Hey, that's not bad at all!

Did not do anything for Mother's Day, since my mother was out of town (and we don't believe in it anyway). Did talk to my parents by phone when they got back.

Hey, Montrealers!

I almost forgot -- I'm going to be in Montreal this weekend. I don't know how much free time I'll have, or when, but does anyone want to get together? I miss you!