Nusraat

Spent the first entire weekend in the house.  Do you have any idea how much is left to be done?  This weekend I attempted to do the kitchen.  Didn’t make it.  I also battled with the lawn.  Some progress.  Our neighbour is an elderly woman.  I think she’s significantly elderly.  While I was working out in the lawn today her daughter came by to say hello.  Her daughter looked into her 60s which means the mother’s atleast in her 70s if not 80s.  I haven’t seen my new neighbour.  I think I should offer to take care of her lawn though.  I’d really like to.  What’s the etiquette in meeting neighbours?  Do I need to bake something and walk over?  I don’t have time to bake.  Flowers.  I like flowers.  Who doesn’t like flowers?  I’ll buy some flowers and do the rounds.  When?  Grief.

I missed two community events this weekend.  One was a dinner celebrating Muslim businesses.  The other was a camp fundraiser.  It’s been a really long time since I’ve missed stuff but I think that it’s just a symptom of home ownership.  There is simply less time.  I hope and pray I will learn how to become more efficient.  I’m sort of slow with domestic tasks.  I hope to learn how to grit my teeth and just get through them.  I now have to write a report for school.  Fun.

update: someone came and did the neighbour’s lawn.  i guess our services are not required.

It’s week three/four into my move.  The first week I packed stuff, the second week I moved stuff, last I cleaned stuff.  I am trying to unpack now.  I did not take a day off work.  I couldn’t because I’ve been saving up time to go to the lab and get some Muslim Girls Camp stuff done.  I am so disoriented.  I haven’t cooked in like three weeks.  I’m surrounded by boxes and for some reason I can’t find one particular box.  I think I’m going to donate a whole lot of stuff.  There’s no reason for me to have that many serving dishes.  Ack!!  Whatever, I have to get back to work.

I was really really embarrassed today.  I took fish today for lunch at the office.  My floor has very few walls.  The whole floor is cubicles.  As I warm up the fish in the microwave and bring it to my cubby I realize I’ve done a great faux pas.  I personally couldn’t smell it.  I can’t smell so well.  I heard two co-workers confirm to each other… “fish” from their cubbies without stepping out.  They were just calling out to one another like Marco Polo or something.  I was mortified.  Then the fellow intern who’s amazing to work with, so glad I like her as much as I do, comes over and warns me I have potent fish issues.  I was so embarrassed and she tried to comfort me.  A few minutes later though she gracefully walked over to my cubby and fell apart laughing in the privacy of my cubby.  “People at the window can smell it now”, she says in between gasps of air she’s struggling to take because she’s laughing so hard.  Grief.

I started a summer job recently.  It’s been quite an adjustment.  I don’t think I’m over the hump yet.  My biggest concern has been sleep.  I am not a morning person.  It’s quite easy for me to stay up until… 5am.  However I’d rather slit my wrists than wake up at 5am.  But alas, I had to enter the working world schedule at some point.  I’ve joined a large company.  I will not name the comany and I would appreciate it if you didn’t name the company on my website either.  I’m still waiting for all of the different resource/tools clearances so I can start my work.  This morning there was a breakfast in which the entire corporate structure of the company was explained to me and other summer students.  I found it difficult to sit through. 

We’ve also bought a house.  I will not post the address and I expect that no one will post it either.  It’s a starter home.  It’s really quite charming.  I’ve got a few little projects in mind already.  The big projects including updating the kitchen and building a detached garage.  I don’t think that’s going to happen any time in the near future though.  The housing market in Winnipeg is still fairly strong.  We had to bid against three other families to get the house.  The day before we lost the bid for another house.  Some houses are being sold the first day on the market.  It’s really important to be educated about the real estate market so you can make quick decisions you’re comfortable with.