Dire Days.....May 22..... Chantal visits....tables gone ... exhausted but still happy

A no-school night in Vancouver:

2:00

Eda went to bed..... I still can't believe she came here even though her period is troubling her so much.... I am so grateful to have such a good friend...... she is keeping me SANE ....

2:30

I'm still SO WIRED because of the Phap video call and the great time with Eda...this is what LIFE is about.....but it's time to sleep !

7:45

OMG.....now this is a REAL HANGOVER.....

coffee doesn't help.....wine doesn't help......OUCH.....

8:15

Eda is awake..... 

10:30

back home from the bottle depot....I panicked when I realized that I forgot my mask and 2 homeless guys were scanning the incoming electro trash....

Oh....when I flicked all the fuses last night, I also killed the pilot lights of the two fireplaces..... something else to fix :-(

10:45

I go out to check the solar wattage being produced.....ZERO..... back inside....oh...I missed to pop one of the fuses back in.... the one for the outside outlet..... now it works....22.8W....

11:00

I email Chantal......

pressure relief...MUCH needed !

11:15

Chantal replied.... she'll be here in about 1 hour.....

11:45

of course, now is when I feel like a nap :-(

Instead I go to work in the front yard.....

12:15

Chantal has arrived ....

we chat, we eat, then she wants to disrupt my rest day by using Facebook Marketplace to get rid of the ugly gold & glass coffee tables....

Finally, I agree, clean the tables and Chantal takes pictures....

Some man with an Arab or Persian name replies and wants to take them both.... he says it will take 45 minutes.....

40 minutes later....Chantal missed a phone call... we go check...and a woman (wearing a hijab) and an Arab looking man are loading the tables into a minivan...... I thank them for taking the tables...they are very polite and respectful....and I have a vision:

A room with carpets on the walls...those golden tables in the middle with a teapot and lots of small glasses on top....and people sitting on pillows around the table drinking tea .....

These tables have finally found their true home ;-)

Then Chantal wants to head back to the big creek..... first we try to snap the padlock.... only to discover it wasn't even locked..... and it's gorgeous down there by the creek..... I'm grateful to Chantal to have pushed me to go there.....

16:45

Chantal leaves....taking the lard pots and the succulent plant and the Cuisinart coffee maker with her.....

17:15

I email Carlos ... and he replies promptly.... I KNEW that Carlos is one of the most sincere and least phony people I know !

17:45

I feel I NEED a nap....

nap

18;45

I'm killing the hunger feeling with toast, turkey breast, pickles, Kampot pepper... not too bad... should finish that turkey breast soon...

19:20

After a lot of FRUSTRATING button pushing, I've finally managed to turn the pilot light in the downstairs fireplace on again.....the controls are NOT intuitive !!!!

19:45

I carry the orange-flowering tree to the front...... I envision it growing next to the stairs in the front.....much prettier than it growing behind the creek in the back..... I've dug the hole already.... it will be planted just before it starts raining .....

20:00

I start stripping Grandma's bed.....sheets into garbage bags and the down pillows will follow when I have room in the garbage can.....

20:15

a bit of calisthenics....more organizing/cleaning/trashing stuff

An idea....Why put goose-down duvets in the trash....might as well bury the feathers in the garden !

21:00

I email Phap..... "I am still heart-happy because I saw you"

21:15

I'm tired....No Netflix for 2 days.....this is The Life ;-)

21:45

Can't sleep....eat some vanilla yogurt with mandarins..... MISSING Phap....just hoping he didn't meet anyone to fall in love with.....

22:30

checking out male Asian escorts on LeoList....yeah....I know..... but when Chantal asked me whether I thought I felt that I had to be monogamous, I instantly reply: ....Hell NO....I'm not the one who lied, cheated, made a baby, and fucking got MARRIED !  

23:30

try to read (Erich Maria Remarque) and sleep

but NO....I'm moving furniture

....because I'm encouraged by Chantal's action today....the TV stands and crap will go for free and I will have the TV with porn in front of my bed (blush ;-)