A quick story

Okay, I have to tell you this story now.

My sister, my brother-in-law and I were watching tv the other day. A show of clips from 70s from game shows. Like, the dating game and the newlyweds game and things like that. And one of the questions went like this:

host: How do you spell relief?
guy: F.A.R.T.

So the next day my nephew Max was sitting on my sister's knee and suddenly let out this outrageous burp. He's three months old now, btw, and really good at bodily functions. Go Max!

me: Wow, go you, Max! *thinks* Hey, Max! How do you spell relief?

Just then, a loud, squelchy noise emanates from his diaper. The timing was impeccable. My nephew. Comedian at age 3 months. We laughed so hard I think we all popped blood vessels.

Good clean Christians times.

Apartment hunting

I will try to be calm about this.

But I just saw the world's most beautiful apartment. Well, for me, at least. OH MY GOD. I'm so excited I can't sit still here. My parents and my sister went with me to see it and my father wouldn't let us leave without saying we'll take it.

The stats: I don't know the square footage, but the wall in the living room is 20 feet long. It's got a balcony, it's a walk up (first floor, which, on the building from the outside, is about 6 feet off the ground, really), has a HUGE eat in kitchen with all brand new appliances and a full sized fridge, the bathroom is bigger than my sister's in her new house, and the bedroom, as we saw it, has a double *and* a single bed in it (the people there at the time were waiting for their house to built, so they were staying in a one bedroom, three people) to give you a sense of the size of the thing. OH MY GOD.

I'm totally bogggled. It's slightly out of my price range (but only slightly, and, well, I could manage it still) but my parents are totally, like, no, take it, will help. My mother loves it. My father loves it. And since he has been like, having a hate on for me the last two years, this is a big deal.

draw backs: it's not downtown. I love downtown Guelph, but this is out a bit. It's about a block from my sister's new house, though, and about a 20 minute walk from my parents place. I can't really walk home from work or downtown, well, I could, but it would take an hour, but it is on two bus routes. It's not near any grocery stores, really, but my parents and my sister have cars, and they've both offered to help me pick up stuff like, you know, toilet paper and milk and the essentials. The stuff I eat I'm less worried about, because I can walk from work to downtown, where all the really nice and even cheap food is to be bought. Bakeries, asian groceries, vegetables, that sort of thing. So I could, like, walk there from work, pick up what I want, and then take the bus home. No so bad, eh? I would have preferted to be downtown, but, mother of GOD this is a great apartment.

Aunt Beast. If this apartment works out (they still need to approve me, but the landlady seems to really like me), we SO have a place to crash, baby.

I gotta go get on a bus. Will be online from Toronto in about 2 hours. Love you all. OY!!!