Anticipation Day

The day started early and angry. Some complete idiot wailed on his car horn at 5am. One long, extended honk. I was pretty pissed off. Then just as I was nipping back to sleep the thunder started rolling in. Long, loud bursts shaking the house. During that the fools next door decided to watch something with super loud bass. I couldn’t win. I guess the universe needed me up at 5am. That was not ideal. In my waking stupor I apparently did a whack of French lessons and reviewed all of Twitter. I got my day going after that, around seven. Breakfast featured the usual suspects with a special guest appearance by raspberry lemonade. It was a positive. Work started at eight and I got busy right away. I had hour meetings stacked up at 9, 10, 11am and 1pm. I scheduled a lunch for myself a couple weeks ago or I might have had something else. I ate the last of the Gutfill Gumbo before my one o’clock. The fridge is getting emptied out nicely before I leave. After my afternoon meeting I ducked out to grab some Picard’s Peanuts for my family. I had nearly forgotten that I was supposed to do that. I hustled home and prepared for my two hour meeting to close out the day. At five I again ducked out, this time to get my hair cut. It was interesting. I was able to walk right in. I didn’t recognize the girl that was going to cut my hair, which isn’t surprising since I move had limited cuts in the last two years. Turns out it was the girl who I’d had a great run of good haircuts from. Someone else said her name and I realized it was her. She looked rough. Poor girl must have made some serious lifestyle changes since last we did business. And she started talking and sounded bad. She was saying stupid things and laughing strangely. I hope she is okay. The haircut was average. She did mention she couldn’t tell that I’d been getting COVID cuts and thought my last cut must have been there. So good job Mother! I got home and started packing, not long after word came through. STL Sister had gotten through the border and is in the country. They left this morning and after a quick stop here they are heading North, and so am I. They are going to arrive hours ahead of when I expected them so we decided to have a late dinner. That meant I should have a snack. I had some chocolate and this stunningly appetizing morsel.

I watched some YouTube and packed while I waited. All my leisure stuff is packed up and most of the clothes I’ll need. At about twenty to eight my STL sister and BIL arrived! They’d made it through the border smoothly. Being their first visit to the Harbour I gave them a tour and then we went to Boston Pizza since she has some kind of obsession with that place. They went with the namesake and ordered pizza whilst I had the other half of a dinner with a Cactus Cut appetizer. There had been some thai bites as their appetizer. The meal was tasty and it was fun to eat on a patio and have some laughs.

We returned to the Harbour and they got their stuff in the house. Part of that stuff was my birthday present. They elected to present it to me here rather than make me haul it all back from the Northlands. I had provided a list of things via an Amazon to Mother and siblings. These items are from the list. There is a ratcheting wire crimper, a wire stripper/crimper combo, and the real prize, a device to allow me to run my boat motor in the driveway. It attaches to the hose and pumps water into the intakes to simulate in water operation. I’m excited to try that and see if my motor runs.

There wasn’t much left to the day. I had shown them the big screen in the basement already and they knew where they’d be sleeping. We set our plans for the morning and got to bed. It was nearly eleven when I passed out.