August 17, 2011
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I'm eating cherries for the first time in...well, I'm not sure. They're always so expensive at the grocery store, but they seem to be dropping in price a little as the season is slowly coming to and end. Today I totally splurged on fruit at the farm market. I bought about two pounds of cherries and 2 1/2 of blueberries, pears and black grapes (because I've never eaten them before). I also restocked on some of my usual salad stuffs. I've been trying to find a lettuce I like and I think I'm good with butter lettuce. It just melts in your mouth and doesn't have any sort of bitterness to it.
This afternoon I went a bit crazy with the cleaning. I finally tidied up the bedroom and vacuumed under the bed because there was a full on colony of dust bunnies hanging out there. I don't do it as often as I should because I neither remember nor like doing it because it's awkward getting under there with the vacuum. I vacuumed the rest of the apartment as well and quickly made an unhemmed runner for the bookshelf where my plants sit. The pots are starting to wear away the finish, so I thought a barrier of any sort, provided it looks good with the decor
, should suffice. We have two, but I only did the one because I'm not sure if it would be too much red in a single corner of a green room. I also have this big vase that hold three bamboo shoots with glass pebbles in the bottom. It was getting slimy so I drained it all out, cut the roots off the shoots, washed the vase and the pebbles and put all back together. Does it ever look so much better and presentable now! If I didn't have this feeling of being finished for the day I would tackle the other bedroom, which has seemed to explode since Nate has taken it over with his little art project/Halloween costume.Nate mum is staying with us for a few days and she has her friend's car with her. I finally remembered all the bagged clothing for Sali-Ann that was in the closet so I took advantage of having a car to use and we dropped those off. Six bags in total! And my closet looks that much better. I also went the farmer's market as mentioned above and we stopped for ice cream at Dairy Queen before heading home. Nate's mum mentioned taking the rest of AJ's (Nate's brother) stuff with her when she goes over to visit him in Nanaimo. This made me ecstatic. He moved out a year ago and still his shit is on the walls or in the closet of the second bedroom, particularly his bike. Bikes take up a lot of room. I'll be glad to be rid of it.
Looking outside the window, the tree on the side of the street is already turning yellow. To be honest I don't mind. I'm an autumn child and looking forward to it. But I have to say that over the three years that I've live in this apartment I've noticed that this tree spends more time naked than most. It wasn't finished growing in all its leaves until the end of June and looks like it's going to the one of the first the shed all its leaves too.