This internet-less thing is torturous, but I think I am going to lose QUITE a bit of weight in the process.
Why, you ask?
Because the Starbucks with a half-decent connection downtown, is a walk down a very long, steep hill, and up that said steep hill when I am done.
We won’t be driving much this summer, as our cars are parked at the end of this steep hill, and everything we need to buy is within walking distance. At least, that’s what’s we’re telling ourselves as we’re huffing and puffing up and down the hill.
BF says that Portugal is known for their hills, so this little excursion in Montreal is nothing compared to what I am going to go through in August.
And we’re near Mont Royal, so I’m telling you.. we’re hiking down and up the hill at least once a day to check the internet, and then we’re walking around Mont Royal and going to be biking there soon?
Plus, we’re eating a lot more sushi now. Why you ask?
Well the story begins with the fact that the stove is filthy from the friends who haven’t cleaned it in the 5 years they’ve lived there.. EWWWWWW. SO GROSS.
The top of the stove is also super gross (hasn’t been cleaned and the grills haven’t been soaked in 5 years to get the grime and oil off).
So we’re sticking to LIMITED cooking on stove top and with the microwave.
Hence.. the sushi. At least our rice pot is super clean by our standards, and the microwave is clean as well, so we’re learning some mad microwave recipes.
Plus, we’re always being ogled at by passerbys (we’re on ground level facing the back of a road), and once I forgot we weren’t alone and I went out of the room without my glasses on, in my not-see-through nightie to fix a cup of morning tea.. and had this gross old man staring at me before I squinted and realized it was a person out there.
*shiver*
Now, I wake up, wrap a blanket around myself and head to the kitchen to start my tea.
I can also hear ALL of the neighbours partying, peeing, talking, and the pipes are really loud here. This is so annoying to be in such a crappy apartment.
I cannot wait to get into our next apartment in JULY 2009, even if it’s smaller, at least the stove tops and the oven will be clean and we KNOW those buildings are properly insulated and fairly sound proof with solid doors that don’t creak and bang every time someone comes in and out of their apartment.
Funny story, the building manager thought that since the couple had already moved out into their home for June, she could waltz in there with clients and show the place without 48 hours of notice by law because she had assumed it was empty the last time she checked.
She was rattling the door once, then twice, before I told BF to go check on the door because it sounded louder than the other door rattlings of the building that we had been hearing on a regular basis.
He opened it in his underwear and shirt to a surprised management lady an a possible tenant.
LOL!!
Then the guy comes in and sees me half awake, blurry-eyed going “HUH?” at him, and he was so scared that I was sleeping and he woke me up (I was fully clothed, mind you), that he was too polite to walk in and check out the walk-in closet even though I invited him to.
Funny stuff. Always call before you check in on tenants.. or at least, drop a 48 hour notice on them instead of assuming things 
Now, she has our number and she’s going to call for all of the month of June.
Winner of DermaScyne Wrinkle Arrest Cream
Oh! And the winner of that DermaScyne Wrinkle Arrest that only like.. 20 of you entered? (Seriously? Only 20 entries!? Out of all of you that read and subscribe? That is incredible…) anyway, the person was…
K. D _ _ n (k _ _ _ nd _ _ _ _ t _@gmail.com)
Congratulations!! I already emailed you and your cream should be in the mail soon.
Da
