this is not the Sunday I had in mind...

[electricland]

...but it's been pretty good, if different.

Drove moonlightjoy downtown for Day 2 of her conference, then stopped by the Queen's Quay Loblaws to pick up groceries. I am ashamed to say that someone else had to point out to me that my tire was completely flat. Called my parents, who called CAA, and then sat in the van and sewed partridges while I waited for everyone to show up. (I've been getting quite a lot of sewing done in cars -- yesterday my mother and I tried to go to the Royal Winter Fair horse show, but the traffic was horrendous and all the parking lots were full and eventually we just said to hell with it and went to Lee Valley and MEC, stopping on the way for coffee and butter tarts. Exchanged my hot pink thermal hoodie, which was adorable but unlikely to see much use, for a merino pullover in the same colour scheme. I'm wearing it now. I love it. Also exchanged a pair of socks for one that fit. The totals came to exactly the same amount, so we thought that was quite clever.)

Anyway. CAA put the spare on, and then we went for brunch and my dad told stories of other car disasters. Then they brought me home and I've been puttering. I have a flock of partridges lying on my floor; I still have to make them beaks and finish their pears and finish painting their plinths, but the bulk of the work is done. What on earth will I do on the subway now?

Comments

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

ack, sorry about the flat tire and the horse show. but mmmm.....the tarts sound delicious.

as for subway activities....you could always start on the rygels? and then move on to the tardises. *veg*

[raithen.livejournal.com]

see my comment below -- I watched the horse show on TV.And MEEP!

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

holy. bat. dren. meep indeed.

i'm glad that wasn't me.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

did you watch the CN Grand Prix on TV? OMG the CRASHES! It was death defying stuff. And there was this Danish Girl Riding. Last week, at another big show, she was going over a jump, her horse went wonky, conked her in the face, knocking her out. She FLEW off the horse in spectacularly horrid fashion as he finished the jump. And was just laying there, cold-cocked. SHe was out cold for 15 mins, spent a night in hospital and was RIDING in a grandprix 1 week later!! (a grand prix in which two canadians AND their horses fell in the middle of jumps, and in which Nick Skelton flew over his horse's head as horsey said "me no THINK so" and he landed kind of in/against the jump). She is DEFINITELY made of sterner stuff than I.