little bit of humble, little bit of cautious.

10/23/2013

i am really starting to feel like i'm settling in, and this house is truly starting to feel like "home".
i spent about a million hours on saturday painting the basement with my dad. it's a big room to start with, then on top of the walls we also had to paint 2 bulkheads and a set of stairs (with a landing) so it was all angles and egding and bullshit. mom came up on sunday to help me do the second coat, and despite the annoyance of painting for something like 10 hours this weekend, now that it's done and i can relax, i LOVE it. the rec room was yellow when we moved in, and the stairway brown, so nearly anything would have been an improvement in my eyes, but as we were painting, i went back and forth about 80 times as to whether i really liked the colour we'd chosen. thank god it dried perfectly and i'm as happy with it in the whole space as i was with the swatch we'd been looking at taped to the wall for weeks. i still can't get over how blue it looks in some places, and grey in others, but that's the joy of lighting, i suppose. i don't dislike the effect, i'm just in awe of it. i can't wait to get things hung on the walls and such, so the space is truly done.
i went for dinner last night with a childhood friend i haven't seen since i was about 18. we were neighbours from the time we were born, but her family moved by the time we'd started school. our parents remained friends for years, and we would visit sometimes but eventually our parents drifted, and our families didn't see each other anymore. like i said, the last time i saw her, i was 17 or 18 - i was in high school and could drive, so i came up and we went snowboard shopping. that's about the last i remember her. her parents still live here, and i thought i saw her dad the other day, which made me think i should look her up. i had no idea where life had taken her, but i found her on facebook, and it turns out she's back in town. like me, she left small town life for school, then spent a few years working in toronto, but moved back here about a year ago. i messaged her, and she responded almost immediately, asking to meet up. we went out for a drink and some food last night and it was wonderful. i haven't seen the girl in 12ish years, but we were just like children again, no weirdness, just catching up over a lot of years. i'm not sure we'll be bffs, but it's nice to know someone in town, at the very least.
we're having a housewarming on saturday with friends from our toronto gang. it should be fun. we were afraid for a bit that people were going to flake out, but it seems like all the key players (plus some) are in for sure, so that will be awesome. nothing fancy, just snacks, board games (note to self: find cribbage board), dranks, chit chat. i think everyone is staying the night, so i got some things for breakfast in the morning. hopefully all goes smoothly, and whatever doesn't will be fixed for our next housewarming in 2 weeks. yes, 2 housewarmings. trust me, saturday's group is best kept contained to itself.