This is my last weekend in my little bachelorette suite. Starting tomorrow after work, I'm going to start boxing my things. I get possession of my new apartment on Friday evening. This is only going to make the week super long for me. Packing and waiting. Patience is not a strong point of mine. Maybe I'll be so busy that it will go by quickly. I'm moving to the other side of the river in my favourite neighbourhood in Saskatoon i.e. City Park. It's the same distance from my work too.
Since I'm still so excited about it, I'm going to first go over the cons of moving: I can't take Lucy with me, my movie store is now not a quick jaunt from here. In fact I know that there is no video store chain downtown or in City Park. Rogers Plus, please hear my cry and move in downtown please! My favourite Starbucks is now way too far to go to for a coffee. Not to mention that Indigo, my love of my life bookstore is now nowhere near me. Goodbye Superstore... although this would be a stop I would make after work or after leaving my Mom's which means it really isn't out of the way. Although I will miss the closeness of Sobey's which is a hop, skip and a jump away.
The pros: no super annoying loud 20 year old screaming couple next to me. In fact at this moment at noon they're playing music too loudly with too much bass. A-holes. I have once gotten the chance to look into their place last week. I was trying to figure out where they keep their TV. They have their stereo in the corner on a shelf with a huge sub which the volume to their TV is connected. Which is why their shit is so loud all the time. They also have an ugly fish tank. I think the girlfriend works part-time at the pet store here at the mall. I swear she doesn't work. I also am saying adios to the smell of ethnic food, cabbies, and children running in the hallways. And since my new place is on the top floor and the only suite, I no longer have noisy people beside me and I don't have to listen to squeaky floor guy. I think losing my favourite places and Lucy, is worth the move. Don't get me wrong. I won't be living in my new place forever. It's my next stop before maybe buying property. The housing market in Saskatoon is overpriced, inflated and what people are selling is not worth what they're selling. So I think I'll spend my time waiting for when it is a buyer's market. At that point, I'll have the money saved. I also like the Starbucks on 2nd avenue, so no complaints there. I'm also 8 short blocks away from the river, and 3 blocks away from downtown. More like 12 walking blocks from the movie theatre and all the pubs and bars I usually frequent. I google street viewed it. Google should have taken photos in spring, summer or fall when there were still leaves on the trees. I also like that I can see the back of my place. It's pretty exciting. I'm also 5 blocks away from Pacific which means I'll most likely drop by more often since it's in the neighbourhood. Earl's may be my new watering hole. I prefer it to Whiskey Jack's and JT's.
The pros of living near downtown are all the summer festivals. This is going to be a great summer. I'm going to make this one memorable. I'm going to maximize my new location to its fullest.
In the middle of blogging I started checking into ratings of movies. It all started with The Roommate which I made plans to see it tonight with D. It has a low rating, but all kinds of movies that I liked had low ratings too. I don't know what this says about me. I'm not sure what these ratings are based on. Writing, dialogue, originality, acting, story... I can watch a movie I don't think is very good and still enjoy it. I still want a gig as a movie reviewer. Any reason for someone to pay for me to go to movies is good enough for me. I would write for free if I got to see a movie for free. Although I wouldn't just watch anything. I'd have to have some kind of interest in wanting to see it. I just went back and forth between RottenTomatoes.com and IMDb.com and a movie I liked will have a higher rating on IMDb then on RottenTomatoes. Why is this? Are the people who are reviewing on RottenTomatoes the people who only see blockbuster movies whom have no discerning tastes? If that's the case, I will only be looking at IMDb's ratings. The moronic mass of people's opinions have less value to me than actual movie critics. I checked the raitngs of this cute adorable movie titled Flipped. IMDb rated it 7.4/10. RottenTomatoes gave it a 57 and a rotten tomato. WTF?!!? This was a great movie. It had a great story and dialogue and the acting wasn't bad. I may have to start a new movie blog that meets the standards of RottenTomatoes. Now to get 500,000 different viewers monthly. I think that's a bit ambitous. Even D has some 162 followers which I think is brilliant. I would be stoked to have 162 followers. This may be yet another project to take on after I'm settled in the new place.
I've also taken on the project of organizing Candy Grams at the office. I completed the poster and request form. Now all I need to do is buy some supplies and look up card templates to affix to the candy grams and I'll be set. I just had to spotaneously move into a new place, didn't I? It really was spontaneous. I decided it when I got home on Monday evening, made an appointment to view it for Tuesday and it was mine Wednesday morning. It was about a 36 hour process. Life is good. Just like the perfect set out couches I purchased yesterday. I thought I had found the perfect couch at Palliser's and then bam, right when I was leaving another furniture store, the set I purchased appeared and I instantly bought it. The easier something is when you're looking, the more perfect it is. Don't get me wrong, hardwork isn't easy, but if done right it looks easy. When things move smoothly, it's like it was meant to be. I can expect some snags, but really, it's all about luck and being ready for luck. The best advice I was ever given and I'm going to stick to it.
With it being the year of the rabbit, I'm hoping this year will be lucky, because I could really use the luck. If luck has plenty it wants to give me, then go ahead, and give me some extra luck. I don't think people complain too much about luck. I want to earn things, but luck is always good.
Cheers to new things, cheers to luck and cheers to the year of the rabbit.
