And It’s Not Even Noon!

And here are the things I have learned today:

1. We live in a snow belt! Everywhere else in the lower mainland, I am led to believe, has reasonable amounts of slush. But in our corner of the Mizzle, we are afflicted with snowy snowy days. I am ever so glad, then, that as of this morning, we will have snow tires on our car, if only to get out of our neighbourhood.

2. Not just because of the snow, it is going to be a big pain in the ass to have our carpets cleaned by a carpet cleaning company. Most of them don’t travel with 200 feet of hose in their trucks (even if they are warned in advance that we a) are located far from the street and b) have 3 flights of townhouse carpet to clean.) So no clean carpets for us. Again. Some more.

3. Because I had to send the nice, slightly wall-eyed carpet cleaning man away and then spent a good hour vacuuming our bedroom, because, well, everything was off the floor anyway, I realized that there had, indeed been a reason I loaded “J-to-the-Lo: The Remixes” (that’s Jennifer Lopez and do Not Even Think about mocking me, I will sit on your head so fast) on to my music player last week. All week, I’ve been on transit, giving the psychic hairy-eyeball to the music player every time it chooses “Waiting for Tonight – Murder Remix” or whatever but this morning, scrubbing at the cat hair and dust to the thumping beat, I will grant that the Great Music God did have a plan for me. Sure, it involved cleaning, but so it goes. And hey, my love don’t cost a thing.

4. Pancakes are good hot and I think we all knew this, but they are also surprisingly delicious cold, washed down with pineapple juice.