Kaylee and the Horrible, Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Does anyone know where my blog post name comes from??...(Check this out if you don't)

Anyway today wasn't that bad, but it certainly had a ring to it.
I woke up late, my work is flexible about start time but I had wanted to go in early. Anyway, then I went to the kitchen to open the slow cooker to get my lunch that was cooking over night (CBC's Easy Curry Chicken..featured in this blog post)...and it was cold. I hadn't turned on the slow cooker. Ooopsy. So I quickly made a substitute lunch, and got ready for work. While I was getting ready I kept opening the wrong drawers for stuff, and the wrong cupboards..etc.

Work was challenging today, but that is totally a good thing just hard on the brain! The computer program I was using froze as I was saving 2 hours of work, and I spilled stuff on myself like 3 times, AND I got stuck in traffic both ways (ok that last one is a normal occurance).

HOWEVER, I came home and had a delicious dinner thanks to the turned on slow cooker, cleaned the apartment, chatted with a friend, and then made a pasta salad for a potluck at work tomorrow. I have also started to cook with out measuring cups...Canada's Top Chef, here I come! And I have a long weekend so tomorrow is Friday for me! Yippee.

So even after my horrible, terrible, no good, very bad day I am going to bed pretty happy!

Best Appliance ever...

So.. I have this thing for appliances. I walk into futureshop and Mike goes straight to tvs and computers, and I go to look at all the pretty fridges and stoves and laundry machines. Super housewify of me I know. Anyway, by moving into this apartment meant a significant upgrade from my Halifax appliances. Lets just say that we had significant issues with the appliances mostly because they were old. So we arrived to this place with tape still on the oven door...never been used! Huzzah! We also found this guy...

It is a front load..wait for it..washer and dryer in one. WHOOAA. So that means that it makes life oh so easy if you put a load of laundry in, and just leave it in there to dry. Huge improvement over the 3 cycles needed to dry a load in Halifax....so we thought.

Turns out this washer/dryer is super small, and takes FOREVER to do one load of laundry. When I really grow up I am going to have a super deluxe washer and dryer..in a snazzy color it has been decided.

So as you probably figured out that is not the best appliance ever...
This is:

It is a toaster, that cooks an egg in the round thing and can warm up meat. When we bought it (from amazon.ca) I thought it would only poach eggs, but oh no...it hard boils them too. I simply add water from a specially marked cup to cook the egg to my favorite level of done (level of done.. that sounds like something from a video game!).  So for the past 3 days I have been eating a variety of eggs, and it amazes me how quickly it cooks it, how perfectly it cooks, and how little there is to clean up. Nom nom eggies.

My super from tonight...the toaster is making me eat healthy. Check out my other blog for the deats!

In other news, Moseby got into the royal tour spirit and modeled the latest trend..the fascinator:

Human look (from globalnews.ca)

Super good look for a male cat...I am sure he is impressed.

oooo awww

Moseby has a habit of getting things on his head (the thing above is actually a cat toy)..No I am not one of those people who dress up their cat. Just sometimes he ends up in funny poses...like this from back in January:

Such a photogenic beasty

Ok enough of me rambling about my cat! It is friday!!! No idea what my plans are for this weekend..but I am in desperate needs of some groceries..or I could just keep cooking eggs!

Mi Casa-600 sq ft of livin the dream

So as I mentioned in the last post (almost 2 weeks ago..whoa!) we were looking at apartments downtown. Well we got one! It is brand spanking new (the ice cube tray in the freezer was still taped down) and is literally down the street from the CN tower. It is super convenient for me to get to work, and not that bad of a commute for Mike.

Here are some pictures! It is still a work in progress, but at least we have furniture!

View from the bedroom..WATER!!!

The bedroom, Moseby loves his new digs

Looking from the living room into the kitchen, nice and open

Kitchen to living room, woo Ikea furniture

Mike's office/den for when he is doing homework (sucka!)

Decorated bathroom

We have a patio too, but it is really warm out there right now, and I am comfortably air conditioned indoors.

In other Toronto news, today was the first day I drove on the big scary highways all by my one-sy.

This was taken last week when Mike was driving, not today when I was driving

Cars everywheres!!! I commute against traffic so it isn't too bad, and I am not on the dreaded 401 so that is a good thing!

Other than that TO has been keeping me (us) busy. We went up to the cottage for the long weekend, and enjoyed getting out of the city and into a lake!

Hopefully now that I am settled I am going to be able to blog more! I have a growing list of things I want to write about just waiting to be typed!

New Post in a New City

Hiya from Toronto!

We (Mike, Mr. Moseby Wiskers, and the U-Haul) arrived in Toronto late Saturday evening. After a 16 hour drive, for the second time in less than 2 months, we made it here in one piece. I started my new job on Monday. It is a pretty sweet job, but it is really specific, and not easy to explain. Basically I work for the secret service. Jokes! What I am actually doing is cool to me, but probably boring to everyone else!

Toronto on the other hand is super cool but I haven't had that much time to enjoy the city. Sunday was a sleep in day, and hanging out with my family, since we are staying at my Uncle's house until we find an apartment. We had a nice BBQ outside on Sunday evening and there wasn't even SMOG! The weather has been fantab!

Then on Monday I started working, and Monday night we went to view some apartments in North York (by Mike's school) with our Realtor, yes I said Realtor. In TO the real estate market is so crazy fast you need a Realtor to handle making the arrangements to view apartments and whatnot. It is also free or almost free for the renters, the landlord pays the fees.

Anyhoo, we didn't really see any nice ones Monday, so our Realtor convinced us that we should live downtown, because the apartments are so new, and there is so much to do, and the commute would be about the same for Mike and less for me! So last night we went and saw a billion units, and we made an offer on one of them! (More on that later).

It hasn't really hit me that we have moved to Toronto, but I don't think it really will. I think I am just going to get used to my new life here! I am super pumped to get an apartment, and get all settled. The past 2 months have been super chaotic and has involved a lot of packing and living out of suitcases. It will be nice to just get into normal life mode again!

Wrong Side of the Bed

Today I woke up and immediately felt grumpy. I have no idea why, but I am going to blame the weather. It is raining and dark and stormy. Gross. It is so weird how weather effects people's moods. On days like this I always just want to cuddle up and read a book or watch a movie. But I have to run errands this afternoon, then tutor, and then go to a Mary Kay thing (which should be fun, it is a fashion show where a local store is showing how to take 9 basic items and make a whole bunch of outfits with them..how this has to do with Mary Kay I am not sure).

I think to I am starting to get a wee bit stressed with all the loose ends I have to tie up before I leave. I sent a lot of e-mails in the past 2 days, so hopefully everything will get straightened out before I go! I really don't have that much to do, but when you wake up grumpy, everything seems like a BFD.

On a happier note, I put my schedule for next week into google calender (side bar..google everything rocks my world, just discovered google reader and now I am adding many blogs to it!). It is great to be able to have a schedule again! My typical day includes getting up at 6:30 (not too bad) and going to work, then going to the gym then coming home around 8:00. I am going to have to be organized to pack my lunch and snacks but I am super excited just to have some routine in my life!

Ok, time to get up on the right side of the bed, and try to stay happy today :D!

Moving, Packing, Listing

I threw out a pair of shoes today. A pair of flipflops to be exact. They literally fell apart. I also went through all my stuff on the weekend, and donated 2.5 garbage bags and threw out another 3. I also got to throw out some of my old notes for example my humanities requirement from 2nd year where I took History: Early Modern England...pretty sure I won`t need those some day soon. I figured since now I have actually got my degree I can probably throw out some of the "good memories."  I keep thinking that every bag I get rid of now is one that I don't have to A: Pack and B: Unpack when I get to Toronto.

Speaking of which, I have started making a list of fun things I can do once I move to TO. 

1. Going to Canada's Wonderland...like every day, I am seriously considering buying a season pass

2. Enjoying the Corso Italia Festival as it is my 2nd weekend in the City (and is around the block from my Uncle and Aunt's house, where I will be crashing until I find an apartment)

3. Finding an apartment and moving in, and buying things for the apartment! Yay IKEA and Homesense

4. Going up to my family's cottage (2hr North of TO) to enjoy the lake! 

5. Hanging out with Toronto Family and Friends

6. Exploring the city as a non-tourist.(Kensington Market is up on my list, I will need to replace the Halifax Market!)

7. Not tutoring. 

8. Enjoying my new job!

9. Blogging about new things

10. Cooking and exercising in a new city (see my other bloggity blog for all that business). 

At the same time I am trying not to be sad about leaving the East Coast. 90% of the time I am ready for this new adventure (BF and Cat in tow) and about 10% of the time it hits me that this isn't just a fun short term trip. It is for realz. 

Things I will miss about Halifax and the Maritimes

1. My Bathurst famjam and my Halifax famjam

2. My friends!

3. The kids I tutor

4. The Halifax nightlife, specifically trivia nights

5. The beach/salt air

6. Not being 40+ all summer

7. No 401

8. General east coast lifestyle (ie not rushing to catch a subway that comes every 2 mins)

9. Donairs, not that I eat them a lot, but they are delicious. Along the same line I am going to miss Alexandria's and Darrell's for noms as well. 

10. No smog

I am starting the trek in a week. In between now and then I have a bunch of people to hang out with, a trip to Moncton, 12 hours of tutoring, some family dinners, and packing. Time is going to fly by!

Good Smaritans

I have been wanting to write about this for a while now, but got distracted by life.

The other week I was at Starbucks on the corner of Spring Garden and Queen. A girl came running in and fled to the bathroom. I thought she seemed pretty frazzled. Then she came out in a panic and asked the cashier (barista?) if he had seen someone leave with a wallet and a cellphone from the bathroom. Being the keen overhearer as I am I pieced together that she had forgotten her wallet and cellphone in the bathroom about 3 minutes earlier and then left Starbucks. The cashier calmly looked at her and said "Oh someone turned them in, we have them in our safe." The girl then exclaimed to her boyfriend that she couldn't believe that someone returned them, and then she even checked her wallet and all the money was in there.

Obviously the girl wasn't from the Maritimes. I think for the most part Haligonians are pretty honest people. I think that if most people I know found a wallet and cellphone in a semi public bathroom they would try to return it. I read somewhere once that a study was done to prove which country and cities are the most honest. The study peeps placed 100 wallets per city and monitored how many were returned. Apparently my memory is super good because it was in a 2001 Reader's Digest article as I just googled. At the bottom of the page shows the Canadian cities. Moncton was the best (100%), with charlottetown in 2nd (80%). Halifax was lower than I expected (50%).

Regardless, I was touched at how happy this girl was that she found her wallet because of an act of kindness from a stranger.

Another act of kindness...
Later last week, the Mike was driving around my new car (ooo I got a new car!) he didn't realize the lights had to be turned on. We are both used to driving cars with automatic lights. A car started following us, and as we pulled over to let out one of our friends, the driver of the car stopped, came over to our car and warned us that the lights weren't on! Thank you stranger!