good busy

highlight of the morning: a skinny-black bear, fresh from hibernation, hanging out in my neighbour’s yard – i slowed my car up to have a good look on my way out the drive.

lowlight of the morning: adriane carr and the green party campaigning on the ferry – yuck! we may be a captive audience but that doesn’t give you the right to torture us.

as for the weekend, i spent it working nonstop on my house with my dad who came over armed with ladder, leaf-blower and carpet-cleaner. he’s still there today finishing up while i’m working in the city. he managed to get the carpets cleaned, the trim painted and the moss cleaned off the roof along with the gunk out of the eaves. he also cleaned up a pile of uncut log rounds littering the grass on the side of my place…. which it turned out there was a lot of. i regrouted my bathtub, and cleaned up the deck, potted a bunch of plants, and i got almost all the books unpacked, and the furniture in the book-room (yes, i have a room just for books) arranged. we also took all my cardboard to the recycling station.

i still have to figure out exactly what i am going to do with all my boxes marked “office” since i don’t really intend to have an office space in my house, and i have a few other boxes that need to be unpacked besides those. i’m almost at the stage where i can take pictures of my place to post here, just needs a few more finishing touches and i’ll be mostly there.

after so much home-time since moving at the beginning of the month, this week i will only be on the sunshine coast tonight and wednesday, as the rest of it will be spent either in the city, or on vancouver island. tomorrow night i am staying in to go to election night at the WISE (i advance-polled on saturday so i wouldn’t have to juggle voting and commuting), and thursday i will be speaking at a community assembly on police violence in east vancouver, then friday it’s to victoria after work until monday night (when i return to the city and have band practice before going home). busy week! but good busy, yes.

i have a bunch of union work i should be getting to but for some reason i just can’t motivate myself this morning – huh – maybe i’ll actually get to the paid work instead…..