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Two days in a row without the temperature ever once popping above -40 degrees is... wearing on me, but at least it's Friday, so I can finally get a decent night's sleep tonight. We successfully went out and picked a new set of living room furniture on Wednesday, and while that meant dropping another $1000, we ended up with even nicer stuff and the guy gave us a genuinely great deal on it and was very helpful throughout and I'm actually feeling cautiously optimistic about the whole thing again? Delivery is tomorrow afternoon (after all of the sleep), so hopefully it doesn't fall apart at the finish line again!

It's still night when I both get to work and leave it, but there are a few more hints of sunrise/sunset on the horizon with every day that passes. The end will come. Just gotta get there.

Theatre's still closed, though. Pretty sure now that I'm going to miss The Bone Temple entirely, and that that list of films is only going to grow. Bleak shit! I don't think I've ever hated living in this city more than I do this month!

At least I have plenty of wrestling to catch up on. I don't want that to be all I watch, but watching movies at home just upsets me right now, and I have inexplicably finished season 1 of Sailor Moon, so I may just hunker down in a little cave of obsessing over the graps for a while, until this bout of lowercase-d depression passes.

( Album #515/1001: The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter )

Okay, back to dealing with the absolute stupidest emails from car salesmen that you can possibly imagine for eight more hours, bye!

And we're back to work! Again! Some more! The holiday party was Fine, the food was decent and the band was decent and they put my name on a plaque and gave everyone fifty bucks for attending, so definitely worth it in the end, even if I would have rather stayed at home and watched lucha libre.

As one of the 29 employees silly enough to still be working here after ten years of the new owners, I have received a gift certificate for a dinner theatre in Edmonton, so now I have to decide if I use it when I'm down there for Dynamite in April anyway or plan another trip sometime this year to go see something other than One Night With Roy Orbison. Something to think on! I will need stuff to do when I'm down there because there's a full week between the Winnipeg and Edmonton shows, so.... I HAVE BOOKED MY DAYS OFF, IT'S TIME FOR THE PLANNING TO BEGIN IN EARNEST. Though it'll be another week before ROH/MLP tickets go on sale, and I should wait to lock those down before committing to travel and accommodations.

Current mood: cold.

( Album #513/1001: Youssou N'Dour - Immigrés )

So the new couch that we picked out on Boxing Day and have been eagerly awaiting for weeks... does not fit in our house. So we have to go pick out a new one after all that (eating the cost of the failed delivery in the process) and do this all over again, and in the meantime, we don't have a couch because we had already arranged to have the old one hauled out. The old one that was fucking massive, so I don't understand how the fuck this one can't possibly get through either of our doors, and work is stupid and frustrating (love 2 b bulldozed by a stupid bitch manager, also when porters tell me they'll do something and then immediately fuck off for three hours) and I'm still so fucking cold and I just want to cry.

Also, the wind was so crazy last night that it completely carried off one of our massive recycling bins, so that's just... gone. Throw all that in with the theatre STILL being closed, and this is shaping up to be pretty much the worst birthday week I've ever had? Dinner out Tuesday was nice, at least. Hopefully leftovers and Dynamite will let me forget about all this shit for a couple of hours tonight.

( Album #511/1001: David Gray - White Ladder )

Ugh, I'm just so fucking discouraged about everything right now.