merely talk

I've rediscovered my love of coffee. It happened the morning after the tarts and vicars party. I wasn't hung over (shockingly) but I was exhausted and the prospect of facing my kids with 4 hours of sleep was just too much to bear without a strong infusion of caffeine. So now I'm sitting here on my lovely morning off, enjoying a cup of that fabulous brew.

I had a pretty busy, but awesome, day yesterday. It started with church, which was kind of fun. Except that it was the kick off day for their annual fundraising project and instead of a homily, we got a video presentation about where all our money would be going. That kind of annoyed me, because I don't really go to church that often, but when I do, I've always enjoyed the homily, and I was looking forward to it. It also made church approximately 15 minutes longer than usual. Sigh.

Anyway after that I met up with Anna at Janice's work and enjoyed a lovely blueberry muffin and a few cups of coffee. We had timed our visit well, and Janice was able to hang out with us over her break, which was awesome. After brunch we headed down to the beach. We even viewed this idiotic couple try to get their dog to leave the beach. Their method: stand in the parking lot, and yell at him. They did this for about 20 min. Then the man went down halfway to the beach, and tried to yell at him from there. That, amazingly, didn't work. Finally he went all the way to the beach, took the dog by the collar and led him to the car. Why he didn't do that in the first place, I'm still a little unclear on. But whatever. He was kind of cute, but had super bad fashion sense. He was wearing a white T-shirt and brown cords, with this black tux jacket, which had a bright blue skull, or something, painted on it underneath the arms. Very strange, and fugly.

Anna had to head to work, and I headed downtown to meet up with my friend Shirley who had taken a train trip to Vancouver as a grad present to herself. I did manage to slip into Off the Wall and buy a really pretty zip up sweatshirt, before meeting her though. We ended up going to lunch at Moxies. It was good to hear what's going down in E-town. After that I met up with former roommate Steve, and we went to Starbucks for some coffee. I had a really great time with him as well. I love when people come out here, especially when the weather is as gorgeous as it's been. I love showing off this city.

My brother returned from UVic last night. My little apartment now has three people living here. It's a little crowded, but I think it'll work out. We all seem to have slightly different schedules. So we'll see what happens.