Ugh.

[the_siobhan]

Beeg coffee and a yummy bagel. My world is complete.

Coffee is the saviour of my sanity. I swear I made it through years of self-abuse without any addictions except for the coffee monkey.

the_axel is on his way home, and then we head over to the new place for the house inspection. This is the deal-breaker, folks. Wish us luck.

This is also the point where we find out what walls are load-bearing, in preparation for our much-anticipated house-warming and sledgehammer party.

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Due to lack of sleep issues, my crap is still scattered all over the damn house. the_axel and zero_gravity are remarkably tolerant about it, but it's making me feel guilty.

Maybe next week. And sorting out the camping gear for the Vegas trip. And getting the mortgage finalized. And, and, and...

Ugh.

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One of the big things that drives me nuts about the midnight shifts is that I can never get to the gym. How the hell am I supposed to get my middle-aged ass back into a pair of jeans -- not to mention resist the urge to strangle large numbers of people -- if I can't go lift heavy things on a regular basis, dammit?

I have an LJ that I've set up specifically to record my outings to the gym. I've been vaguely toying with the idea of creating a friends list strictly for people who want to post their workouts and/or progress. Friends-only, because it would be boring as snot for other people to read, but it would be moral support for each other. (peculiaire, I'm looking at you. I know you mentioned something similar.)

Comments

House prices in TO

[inulro.livejournal.com]

Weird. When I was last looking at property in TO (just after C8), there wasn't much that I could see under 300 even out in the outer burbs (burbs=out of the question. I'm desperate to return to Toronto, not to sell my soul). My main problem being, my friends mostly live in Parkdale/High Park and I would want to be close to them.

As to tiny, I've been living in England for 12 years, so tiny might be relative. I also don't care about a lot of the things that apparently make a house desirable in North America. I'm probably more open to "bad" neighbourhoods than the other half is, but close to transit is essential.

One of my friends is looking into buying a townhouse in King West Village -relatively cheap, she's single and has little rotator cuff muscle left so can neither mow the lawn nor shovel snow, but she doesn't want an apartment. Even though I really want an old house, she nearly talked me into it.

Re: House prices in TO

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Well our place is in Parkdale, and we saw a few others either in or near the neighbourhood.

The trick seems to be whether or not you are willing to take a place that needs a lot of work. Ours is structurally sound, but suffering from many years of neglect, so it's going to need some time and energy thrown at it. Most people seem to want something that they can just move into and not worry about it.