Semi Success....or Semi Failure?

Tonight, 文生 went out for dinner with his friend, making my night an EYT (eat-yourself-tonight, 食自己) kind of a night, so I decided to make something neat while making dinner for myself. Well, I was going to make mushroom risotto for dinner but unfortunately, I'm out of white wine. :( I ended up skipping the dinner part all together and just made my "neat" thing:

Green Tea Macaron - first try! Hoot!

Kwaaakakakakaka!! In my first attempt at making macarons, they turned out quite good!! Mind you, the entire batch looked like crap but at least this one turned out good looking! At the very least they taste like macarons: crunchy on the outside and soft & chewy on the inside with a nice green tea flavour. I'm surprised they're edible LOL~ Hence I'm going to look on the bright side of things and say that the attempt was a semi-success!

Now.....for dinner.....

Finally!

The washer/dryer is finally installed! Hoot! I am finally able to do laundry after 19 days of laundry-less-sock-piling.

SMELL MY SOCKS!!

Anticipation

I heard my washer/dryer will be installed today, whoot! After 4 days of going home to see the dryer still sitting in the foyer (and obviously not able to do laundry for a week), I've been pretty disappointed. This morning, I decided to be a pest again and bug my supers and they told me today will be the day! I can't wait!!

後記: They lied to me!!! Just came home to see the dryer still in the foyer....dammit!!

Almost Settled In - Exhausted!!

After 11 days of Richmond Hill, I'm finally seeing the suite come together nicely. Very excited to see my new fridge and washer/dryer come in yesterday! As soon as the small little deficiencies are fixed, I'll be able to plan my house-warming party!!! In case you're wondering why I didn't stick with the standard appliances, this fridge's build quality is so cheap the handles feel like they want to fall off and this washer/dryer needed service (didn't work) when it's brand new!!

Whirlpool Duet 9450 set - can't remember when the last time I was so excited about doing laundry

my cute little LG french door fridge - yay!

For the first time in a looong time, I was so cold that I kept waking up last night. Finally got up to grab an extra blanket to throw on top of us so I could sleep! Funny how I remember spreading the entire blanket on 文生 and I, but the extra blanket ended up on top of me only this morning!! LOL~

I'm sooo tired! Getting up at ~7:00am every day, even on weekends, is not fun! I'm hoping all the deficiencies get fixed soon and carpet installed in hallways so I don't have to get up so early every day anticipating trades coming in and constantly sweeping to keep the dust to a bearable state!

Cloudy with Chance of Sunshine

What a nice weekend for the move! I must say, despite all the little problems that came up, the move was quite successful. Stressful for sure, but somewhat smooth. For the record, a recap of the last 4 days:

• April 1st - 9am movers show up and load about 90% of my stuff into their truck. What happened to the last 10%? Well, I didn't have enough boxes so...
• 1pm - finally done unloading things into my new suite, which was clean. Now it's all dusty again.
• Running on only 2 hours of sleep, quickly grabbed some junk for lunch known as McD's and went back to to Northtown for more packing. Multiply and repeat about 1273153 times over the next 3 days.
  
• April 2nd - Mui's birthday - Happy Birthday Mui!
• Rogers came to hook up internet. Found that one outlet was 裝假狗 and obviously doesn't work...somewhat pissed.
• Realized towel bar that I bought is too long... need to return :( pissed^2
  
• Pulled out fridge to plug in and noticed it's dented... pissed^3
• Dishwasher sucks and drips water...pissed^4
• Washer doesn't work so can't do laundry...pissed^5
• Showered in the dark since I have no lights in the bathroom
  
• Unpacked some more until 5:30am...slept til 8am
  
• April 3rd - Blinds installed at 9am...yay, blinds! Boo 'cause there goes $2K+
• Replacement stove came since original stove was scratched. They noticed the new stove door was SHATTERED after they took out the old one and had the nerve to ask me if I wanted to keep the "new" one. Pissed^283746 now...
• Went to Kitchen Stuff Plus to exchange the towel bar. After what seem like forever, they finally told me I have to pay full price for the shorter one, and return the longer one at a discount...WTF?!?! THEN with my luck, the shorter one is out of stock. I stormed out.
• Finally moved the last of the things out of Northtown (stuff in the fridge)
• April 4th - finally got more sleep...6 hours
• Upset that nothing was open on Easter Sunday
  
• Went back to Northtown to do laundry
• April 5th - finalized paperwork at lawyer's office only to find out RBC screwed up my mortgage renewal and stuck me in a 6.15% rate instead of my renewal rate of 2.95%!!! After 5 phone calls and a visit to a branch, they basically told me I'm SOL. What's with my luck?!?!?!

Hmmmm....is that it? I'm sure the list goes on... let's not even go there with the deficiencies in the suite...sigh...

Well, this is it! Bye bye Northtown....sobs..... If my eyes aren't so dry from the lack of sleep, I'd be crying seeing my first condo go, but you gotta do what you gotta do I guess. Hopefully things will only look better from here.... not to mention I gotta get all that crap sorted out with appliances/fixtures. Now that I've been under the storm clouds for a few days, where's my sunshine??