Making It Up As I Go Along #237

MONDAY…
--- Work is alright and I watch a movie or two before going in… actually, movie and a half… I see half of Walk the Line on the movie network (good flick) and then put my Friday Night Lights DVD in.

TUESDAY…
--- Work is alright. Get Greek for supper with Melissa and we pack up our stuff at the end of the evening. Tomorrow, CNI will be moved to the fourth floor of the building where we’ll stay for three weeks before another move back to a different part of the first floor. Office renovations can be a bit of a pain.

WEDNESDAY…
--- Work in the new CNI… up on the fourth floor with a good view. I’m going to get in good shape going up and down four flights of stairs. Supper is good with Melissa at Wendy’s.

THURSDAY…
--- Clean up around the house… more or less complete. Work is real busy but one of those nights when you don’t have much to show for it at the end of it all. Potluck for the team goes pretty well too.

FRIDAY…
--- Ruby and Lee arrive today. It’s good seeing them. Work is fine… supper is pizza with Melissa, Casey and Mike… and some drinks after work with a bunch of the work people.

SATURDAY…
--- Rainy day. I hang around the house… watch Raiders of the Lost Ark with Melissa, Ruby and Lee… and we all have Chinese food for supper. Pretty relaxing family day.

SUNDAY…
--- Hit the driving range with Lee. By the end I seem to have my slice under some degree of control… for now.

Fairly brief on the story this week. It’s been busy with work and visitors and now I’m fairly tired. My depth of thought or creative process is not at the forefront today… so with that…

Renovations or SOS
We’re alone among others. Well some of us are alone anyway. I live in an area with four units stacked on top of and around each other. In my segment of the building, there is an older woman next to me… a younger woman (and occasionally her boyfriend) below… a middle aged woman diagonally below me and a couple next to me on the other side… and we barely see each other.

It gets me thinking… how long would I be left helpless if I fall down the stairs and am laid out paralyzed next to my TV?

This weekend, the girl living below me has been working on installing flooring. So we’ve been hearing hammering much of the day yesterday and today. But it got me wondering… what if she was down there pounding on the floor or wall… hoping to attract attention. She’s been at it two days now and I’m not doing anything to check on her. She could be going for another week and I doubt I’d knock on the door to check on things.

My first year in this place, there was a car parked in the lot and it didn’t move. And that’s no exaggeration. For more than a year, that car was planted in its space. Dirt from snow ploughs piled up under its rear wheel. And even a bit of orange paint coated the wheel when the parking space lines were sprayed on in the Spring.

So seeing a car stuck in a lot will take at least a year before bringing people to alert status. That poor soul who never came out to their car may have spent weeks banging on walls… hoping a neighbour would come to see what’s going on.

Well, in that case, the car is now gone. So maybe they towed the old one away and bought a new one. Or maybe a neighbour began to smell something to alert that all is not right!

I’ve been picky about girlfriends. I haven’t been one to just go to whatever girl is out there… I’d rather be alone then in a relationship for the sake of relationships. I know too many bad relationships for me to want to be in that game. But now that I’ve been thinking of a home as a potential tomb, maybe a girlfriend for the sake of a girlfriend wouldn’t be so bad an idea. I may not love her but at least she’d be able to find me before the sense of smell gets involved in the location of trouble game. It brings new meaning to the “can’t live without you” phrase. Here I thought it was a matter of the heart… when in reality, it’s more about safety.