DAY
4 – Wednesday January 4, 2017:
It’s Brent’s thirty-third birthday today, but he has
to go to work regardless. However, we are
planning to have a nice birthday feast together tonight when he gets home from
work and James and I will be chipping in to pay for it. It’s supposed to be pizza and wings and they
tell me it’s something they enjoy eating very much on a regular basis.
Today has been a very cold and windy day. Brent was going to work till 5:00 pm (2 hours
of overtime), but changed his mind and left work a little earlier. At first, it was doubtful whether the
delivery driver for “Tony’s Best” would be willing to deliver our order, or any
order for that matter, the roads were so icy.
But, Brent persuaded the restaurant owners that if he paid the driver
$100.00, which would include a handsome $20.00 tip because it’s his birthday
today, he hoped that the driver would finally say that he would deliver our
dinner to us. Brent doesn’t even have to
pay for much of it; James and I are paying for most of it. That’s what he gets for having his birthday
in the coldest month of the year.
We didn’t do much today except to have a late
breakfast and a late lunch. James played
some football video games on the PS4 and I read my book and then played “World
Geography” and “Trivia Quiz” on my recently-purchased smart phone, games, which
I had also played last night. In fact, I’m
now really into these two games, which is saying a lot since I don’t usually
like playing games on the computer except for “Solitaire”. In fact, I’d almost forgotten that I even had
a smart phone. I was using it a lot
during“Rio 2016” last summer for getting final Olympic results and during my
trip to the UK and Europe in the fall so that I could take pictures with the
phone’s camera. But, I’ve never used it
as a phone believe it or not, however, that will change the next time I take a
trip overseas. I would just have to
purchase a travel package from Rogers before leaving Canada for the time that
I’m away.
In the early afternoon, James talked me into taking
a short walk outside. We were supposed
to explore along the shoreline to see if anyone was building a skating rink
nearby. Brent wanted to know this
because he wants to help with building the rink so that he and James can use it
during the winter. However, all James
and I did was walk along Coleman Lane to Coleman Crescent (the main road) and
then continued walking over to Jayden’s to see if he and James could play
together today at Jayden’s house. But,
Jayden wasn’t home. Maybe tomorrow, he
and James will be able to get together to play.
I did do some necessary banking first thing this
morning and sent Brent some money I owed him for the futon mattress he’d bought
for me. I also paid off an old MBNA
bill; however, I noticed that this old bill did not contain any of the costs of
our trip down south. So, I am expecting
a rather hefty bill later this month that will include those costs and I want
to catch up on paying off that trip as soon as possible. I am trying my best to keep up with the costs
of the trips that I’ve taken or will take and with the Authorhouse expenses for
the two book reviews I’d ordered at the end of the summer.
Today, Dave called me and verified that he was at
the Travel Plus office to pick up our airline tickets and the papers for the
travel health insurance for Brent and James that I have now paid for. Katina had also made the two necessary
changes to Brent’s and James’ names so that they now match those in their
passports. As of today, we are only nine days away from
departing to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and are extremely excited at the
prospect! I’m sure it’ll be the trip of
a lifetime that we will remember long afterwards.
The birthday feast that Brent ordered from “Tony’s
Best” was really quite nice. There was a
meat-lover’s pizza (extra-large), chicken wings with honey garlic sauce, cheesy
garlic bread, potato wedges, and a large bottle of ice tea. There was more than enough food for all of
us. After dinner, we watched some TV –
the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championships, as well as some other shows. I saw some rather amusing, if not edgy,
cartoons called “Teletoons at Night”, no doubt meant for adults or children who
are at least fourteen years of age.
copyright 2017 - Anne Shier
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