saturday mornings

For a large portion of my married life with Dan we have not had Saturday mornings together. When we were in Edmonton and he was working at the computer store that shall not be named, he always had to work Saturday mornings since it was the major sales day. Not only that but he had to catch the bus at 6:30 in the morning to get there by 8:00. When I was finishing my Master’s degree I ended up going into the lab on Saturdays on quite a few occasions. When Dan started going to Vanier college last winter he had 6 hour French classes on Saturdays from 9 until 3:30 (half an hour break for lunch). So we have probably had Saturdays off together for less than half our time together and when we do, I enjoy it very much. Today we made crepes and coffee for breakfast. Dan made us some cheese crepes like the ones we had in Paris. We used to make waffles more in Edmonton, but our kitchen here is not very condusive to making waffles and as it turns out, crepes are easier!

Our neighbours below us are a bit strange. They got a dog a few weeks ago and it hasn’t really been barking too much since the first weekend but today it was barking from about 6 AM until 7 or so. We heard it, so we kind of wonder why they didn’t. Then the installed a wall unit at about 9:30 (lots of drilling sounds) and then just now it sounded like they were having a skateboarding competition in their living room. Sometimes I wonder just what they DO in their apartment. But, they are still better than the people who lived there before – the single mother of two children who were CONSTANTLY running and screaming. She would put them in the hallway to play (a good safe choice as there was a large concrete stairway leading to each floor) and they would throw their toys down the stairs and cry and yell.

The heat wasn’t working in 2 of the 3 radiators in our apartment and the concierge for our building came in and got one of them working while we were out yesterday. However when we did the dishes we noticed the tips of one of the knives from our brand new cultery set (incredibly nice birthday gift from my mom) was chipped off. So we are not certain if this was like that when we got it, if we bumped it against something, or if she ended up using it as a screwdriver on the radiator (it looks like it took quite a bit of force to break it, it is stainless stell after all). I don’t really know what to do about it because I don’t know how it happened. But she or someone else will be coming back to work on the radiatior that isn’t working again (probably when we will be at work/school) and I would really don’t want them to use and chip another knife. It makes me a bit angry, really, especially since we just got it.