Day 136...........out of puff.

Day 136...........out of puff.

3 Girls and 4 Suitcases.

Well, I am out of puff. Ali and I left home at 0850 to get her to her drama class for 10am, which should have been plenty of time seeing as it's only supposed to take 45 mins. I knew that there was an accident on the streetcar route before 7am but had my fingers crossed that it would be cleared by the time we needed it. NOT and the shuttle bus took forever to come and then we had to run 6 or 7 minutes, from the closest drop-off stop, to get here with 2 minutes to spare. There is a $25 charge if you are late to class thus the plan to arrive very early. Ah well, exercise done for the day because I also had exercise in the subway station. Reason? At Royal York, the guard waved us through because he didn't have access to his Daily-pass drawer. Plan was to buy it at Broadview station, before getting on the streetcar. Well, we forgot till Ali remembered just as the bus pulled in. GROAN. We had been sitting waiting for 20 mins. I sprinted downstairs to discover that 2 flights down was just the subway tracks and realised that the ticket office was on ground level. EEk, sprinted back upstairs and managed to buy the day-pass and get on he bus with Ali. Luckily Ali went on to google maps and when we got off the bus, at the directions of a well-meaning fellow passenger, Ali was sure that we could have stayed on longer so she went to the front of he bus and asked the driver. He said he went closer than that stop and we jumped back on, thank goodness we did or I would be $25 less well-off. Phew.
Now I am sitting outside Alis class, recovering from the run down and then I will be going to Tim Hortons for my coffee. I didn't bring my laptop-no point with the no wifi. Typing this on my phone is just as effective and so much lighter.
I also have a couple of books with me and so the two hours will pass quickly.
I have a wee Skype consult this afternoon which I am looking forward to as it's with a young-person who I know I can help.
That's today and now I won't be able to use what's happened in tomorrows blog but that's okay.
Yesterday was a lovely day except that my washing-machine wouldn't work and is still not working. I suspect that the subzero temp has perhaps frozen the pipes, which will hopefully sort itself when things warm up. I may have to purchase extra knickers for us, if the cold weather continues as we don't have an extensive supply of those.....or towels.
Andrew came for lunch, which was lovely but his phone was not working so he spent a large chunk of time on my phone and laptop, trying to get it fixed. No joy but an appointment at the Apple store, just before his shift at work started and he sent me a text to say he had a new iphone. Great but I suppose he now has to reload all his information onto it.
I made the banana bread, with the over-ripe bananas and Andrew went off with half of them.....they must have been okay. Ali loves them also and so there are only a couple left.
She went to watch a school-pal compete in synchronised ice-skating last night and had a great time. The team got into the world finals in Croatia and it was great to hear all the skating info from Ali on the journey here this morning.
Jen and I snuggled up under blankets and watched 'Day after Tomorrow' a movie we both love. Considering our weather, we were stunned when a documentary about exactly the cause of 'Day after tomorrow' came on the tv, before we switched it off. I think she and I are all keyed up to how to survive the eye of a storm, now.
By the time Ali got home at 9pm, we decided it was too late to play the next twilight movie due to our early start so Ali watched one episode of 4400 and Jen and I did an extra one before I headed to bed.
And that was my yesterday, folks.
Happy Sunday,
Lxxx