So smart.

Last week, Allen went out to get some groceries.
He left the dogs outside, like he always does.
He was gone about an hour, and the sky was threatening to start pouring down.

He came home to hear strange noises coming from inside of the house.
He opened the door to see Chomsky and August in the living room.

Hun??

He looked at the back door. It was closed and locked, just as he had left it when he put them both OUTSIDE.

The dogs had broken into the house.
He realized that he left the window of our bedroom slightly open to let a bit of air in. The dogs climbed on the deck chairs outside, then on the deck table, from which they could reach the window. They pushed it opened, then ripped the fly screen off it to be able to jump into the bedroom.

Seriously, our dogs are so smart, they could solve crimes.

Water is a no-no.

Last night, late. Very late.

I put my alarm for the morning on my new, oh so pretty white iphone. I turn the lights off. I make sure that I put down the right time for the morning, since I had my first day of class at the Quebec technician's union. I check it, it's correct. Then, I put it back in the bowl on my bed stand that also holds my pawpaw, my hand cream, ect.

4 hours later I wake up. My mom is leaving early for work.
I have a thirst.
I reach for the glass of water on my bed stand and bring it to my lips only to realize that my iphone is swimming in it!!!!!

Oh my god!

I go nuts. I take it out, and it's soaked. it's literally dripping from the microphone, the speaker and the docking socket. I try a button. It's dead. I look at it closely and I can see water underneath the touch screen! Shit. Oh SHIT! How could I have not realized I put it in the glass instead of in the bowl?!? Was I already sleeping? I start shaking it and shaking it. Water is still spitting out. I am thinking there is absolutely NO WAY I can afford a new one. I run downstairs to see if there is something on the internet that can help me. Nothing. I only find out that my warranty does not cover water damage. Of course not.

Somehow, my mother comes up to me and just says everything was going to work out.
She takes the phone out of my hand and shakes it in a different way. The water slowly starts coming out from the home button, and therefore, out of the touch screen! So I shake it like that for about half an hour until I can't see any trace of water anymore. My arm is killing me. I leave it upright all day to try and let gravity take its course after I have gently blown it out with a hairdryer.

I come back from my lecture and I take it and plug it in my laptop.
A battery sign lights up. It lights up! But it's one I have never seen before. It takes a while before my itunes opens and that it tells me my iphone is in recovery and I need to reinstall the factory settings! So I do, and after about 30 minutes, not only is my iphone working, but it's back to normal, exactly like I had set it.

Seriously, how can you not love Apple?
They rock.
They really really do.

My beautiful days.

The weather outside is frightful.
But the fire is so delightful.
But I've got lots of places to go.
Let is snow, let it snow, let it snow....

I love when my day is so well organized and that everything is so nicely timed that I get to do lots of different activities with different people, all in one day.

For example. Last sunday, I had my brother and my sister in law over for brunch. I had made lots of goodies and set up a nice table. We had a nice and lazy morning, with my dad and my sister that walked up a bit later. Then, we we were just leaving the table, my cousin Patrick and his girlfriend arrived to pick me up and take me to their new house in Laval for a grand tour, some interior design tips and a gorgeous High Tea they had put on. Then, we finished just in time for them to drop me off to my friend Mélanie's house for dinner (they had a dinner to go to in that area) and she and I walked to a theater near her house where our actress Maude was acting in a play.

How fantastic.

Today, I had a coffee in town with Janice, then met up with my sister in law Marie and we went to the Salon des Métiers d'Arts (A big indoor artisan market) and spent a wonderful afternoon browsing through more than 200 booths of really amazing and unique stuff. Then, we met up with my brother at the metro and went down to their house for a nice little dinner.


I wish all my days could be like that.x

Let it snow

It snowed all day.

The car is covered, the driveway is covered. It's creaping up the windows and the doors of the house.

There is something calming and cosy about being snowed in.

It's still snowing outside. The kind of snow you love to see fall. Big, fat flakes, slowly coming down. It's fluffy, sparkling, oh, so pretty.

When there is snow like that, everything sounds different.

Everything goes quiet.
It's white, soft and still.

I love that.