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so, what about jeremy?
i’ve written about him before. about how he’s one of the very best, supportive, intelligent, witty, caring, sarcastic, generous and easy people i know. how i’d met him on a talker some eight years ago and how, even though i wanted to, it was okay that we’d never met in person. well, we’ve done that now. that was the primary reason for my recent visit to corn-land. to finally spend some of that hanging-out time we talked about with one of my very favourite people.
so, how’d it go?
it’s funny how the mind works. for years and years i pictured him as about 5’7″ with really short, blond hair. when i first saw a photo of him i remember feeling quite off-balance. he’s nowhere near that short and nowhere near that blond. over the years, with some conscious mental restructuring, i’d constructed an almost 100% accurate mental image of him, so there was very little to surprise me when i first laid my eyes on him. although, he really didn’t seem thirteen inches taller than me.
just like the lack of surprise with his physical self, there wasn’t much which surprised me about his personality. sitting across or beside him and talking was pretty much exactly the same as typing our conversations via icq. other than it was fun to see his face move, have eye contact and find out he actually has teeth! he’s just as smart, funny, caring, et cetera in meatspace as he is online. i’ve met a lot of net.people over the last ten years and this was probably the best experience of them all.
so, what about his wife?
well, i was understandably nervous about meeting her. i was paranoid that she’d hate me and demand that jeremy never speak to me ever again and then i’d just have to go jump off a bridge or something. or, at the very least, enter rehab to work through the withdrawls. luckily, that didn’t happen (well, i hope it didn’t happen. she didn’t seem to hate me too much.). his wife is a perfectly wonderful person. she’s so smart, personable, funny, quick-witted, beautiful and nice. not to mention she and jeremy are completely perfect for each other. watching them together is like… yeah, i don’t even have an adjective for that. it’s amazing and what i assume everyone aspires their relationships to be.
i came away from minnesota hoping that i could develop a friendship with her just as i have with jeremy, which is more than i could ever have wished for.
so, what now?
well, i’d really like them to come to vancouver so that i can return the tour guide/entertainment-director favour and, really, just to have the chance to spend more time with them; because, that’s what you want to do when you find people you like very much, right?

see why i miss chipotle? look at the size of that burrito! you could seriously wound someone with one of those if you were to be met by thugs in an alley after stopping for your weekly chicken fajita burrito. hey, now there’s an advertising campaign! i should email them again and tell them about that, and beg for a vancouver location.
so, minnesota. it was really nice. it’s very pretty, especially the twin cities of minneapolis and st. paul. somehow i totally lucked out with the weather because it was a blissful 25°C (that’s 76°F) with a steady breeze almost the entire time i was there, which is exactly right for summer.
i made a big deal of the fact that if you drive five minutes in any direction, you find endless fields of corn. they made fun of me, but it really was quite astounding. considering i’m a city girl and the geography hereabouts doesn’t lend itself to agriculture (unless you take an hour’s drive east to chilliwack), i’m not accustomed to that much corn so close to where people live and work. that being said, i feel a sudden urge to go run around a corn maze or five to prolong the minnesotan sensation.

just a quicky to prove that i’m alive and all that. i spent sunday doing laundry and reminding myself that it wasn’t all a dream and i actually do live in a huge (relatively speaking, of course) new apartment. now i’m faced with the daunting task of decorating!

yesterday found me and m&m at the race track for equestrian gambling fun! i’m totally doing that again, with or without them.
anyway, i’ll try to sum up the minnesotan adventure when i get a chance to catch up with work and life and all that. i hope to get out to see a movie with karen tonight. photos of the trip will be appearing over the next few days. i didn’t take the camera out very much at all. i was too busy staring at the corn.
p.s. i already miss chipotle. *sniff*
p.p.s. i want to have an amazing race/apartment-warming party some time between now and september 11th. please either email or comment if you’re interested in attending and we’ll go from there. merci!

i got in at 4:21 this morning. more after i’ve slept some and conquered Mount Laundry.

gone to minnesota, back in a week. yeah, sure. you betcha.

the cute, nice cable guy came over and gave me access to the world again last night. after that, the evening was a blur. i ate my first meal in my new home (beefaroni and wine gums), watched some tv, made my lunch and went to bed at a reasonable-ish hour. i actually had a decent sleep, waking only every couple of hours instead of a couple of times every hour.
please take note of my white trash curtain. yes, that is a bed sheet nailed to the wall in front of my balcony doors. i made the super take down the broken and crappy vertical blinds which were there. i thought i could live with the wide open window until i got back, but i like to run around in my underwear way too much and there are way too many more windows facing mine now to do that, so this is my temporary solution. ain’t i just a classy bitch?
i really can’t wait until i get my new shelves & tv stand and paint my old shelves so i can start really settling in. i’m really not sure what the hell i’m going to put on all the blank walls. they’re really intimidating. i need a debbie travis facelift. someone should nominate me! *hint*
tonight is Project: Chesterfield Clean-up. i’m going to attempt to get the old apartment all cleaned up so the very last thing i have to do is let the carpet guy in and out on thursday morning. the landlords are anxious to get in and reno the bathroom, so this will please us all. i really hope it doesn’t get too hot tonight.

don’t even fucking ask.

i spent two and a half hours inhaling bleach fumes while cleaning the cupboards at my new apartment last night. maybe i really am turning into my mother and grandmother. or maybe i just have higher standards for cleanliness than most people (at least for the starting point of a new residence). regardless, i’m practically obsessed with having ensured that this new place will be as clean as i can get it before i start hanging my hat there.
tonight i’m going back to line all the shelves and drawers and then wash down the insides of the closets, which i was just way too fucking exhausted to do last night. i was absolutely dripping with sweat. by the end of these two weeks of cleaning and moving, i should hopefully have made up for not exercising for the last two months. especially considering how FUCKING STEEP the stairs in my building are. oh, boy. are my friends gonna hate me on sunday.
i’m sorry, friends!
in other news, there is no other news. i’ve a union day tomorrow, then a baby shower and a night out with strangers on thursday, then a friday lunch out with the co-worker i don’t really like but can’t seem to get rid of (but she’s paying, so i’ll go fake it for an hour), then it’s moving days!
i’m sorry, readers. i know you’re all sick and tired of me talking about the cleaning and the moving and the packing, but i really am this boring.

so, it’s finally friday. i managed to survive the object oriented analysis and design final exam last night and i think we might be finished our assignment enough for me to submit it today, a whole day early. with that, i’ll be rid of school for a whole two months! hurrah!
no more pencils, no more books! no more teacher’s dirty looks!
today at work we have a temp in to cover the vacationing trish. jodi chromey would be in heaven. he’s a very cute redhead. think prince harry with a few fewer freckles, or one of the sedin twins with slightly a subdued hue. his name is james, which immediately puts him out of the running, even if he were to be single and amenable. dammit.

big plans tonight! gotta go clean some cupboards, i do! yeah, my life is exciting. but, hey, i also get to go to ikea on sunday. i bet you can’t say that!
i still need to call hydro about switching my account. i really have to get packing again, which means i have to take over the boxes i have packed so i have room for more packed boxes. i bought a swiffer last night! yippee!
wow. random. it’s official. i need to get out more.
lately, i’ve also been suffering serious lack-of-special-boy-ness. i really want someone to hug and squeeze and call george. someone with whom i can hang out, go out, let it all out. someone who calls me just to say goodnight. ugh. i can’t think about it anymore or i’ll get all schloopy.