Well, this weekend proved wonderful. After all the stress.
You see, my most amazing flatmate in the world agreed a couple of weeks ago to drive me down to Montréal to pick up my brother and bring him to Ottawa, where he'll be staying until he gets a job.
Naturally, things went bust.
We went to see The Muppets Thursday night with friends. Thanks to T.H. for organising it, by the by. It was a great movie. We laughed liked crazy. Then, as we climbed into the car to head back, Jazz noticed a flat tyre. The front driver's side tyre was shot. We crawled down Bank St. towards the mechanic's at forty, then ten, the car sounding terrible, leaning heavily to the left.
Thinking that the shop would replace the tyre relatively inexpensively, we walked home not terribly worried.
Well, didn't I arrive home Friday after work to Jazz' words of greeting, "Don't freak out."
I freaked out.
We suddenly didn't have a car. Apparently, in addition to the flat tyre (which was replaced relatively cheaply), the car was leaking power-steering fluid. Replacing the necessary part put the repairs at something like $2 000.00. Yup. That's $2 000.00 neither of us very broke people had to spare.
Jazz' explained that she had to go to Montréal tomorrow and asked them to do a quick-fix. They said they'd try. Three blocks from the apartment, not even ten minutes away from the shop, the power-steering failed.
We had no car for Saturday.
Desperate to keep our word to my brother, we texted and called as many people as we could.
To the rescue, A.G. flew in with a car we could use. That girl deserves a cape and a badge. Honestly.
We now had a car.
The rest of the weekend went fairly smoothly. We picked up my brother, went to the Ruby Rouge in Chinatown for a Yum Cha lunch (Dim Sum), then headed home again. Then off we went to the Little Lamb Mongolian Hot Pot for dinner with Dad, transferred to bags over and sent Chris off to stay with Dad for a bit.
Then we slept. Yay, sleep!
So, a massive thanks to both A.G. and J.M-B. for their efforts Saturday. You both rock the Casbah.
Sunday was, thankfully, much more quiet. I met a friend for lunch and that was the entirety of the day.
Now I'm at work, falling desperately behind in my NaNoWriMo efforts because the computer took 3 hours to load properly. Go team.
I have to go and start writing, or I'll never make my daily 3 000. Wish me luck! I'm so going to need it today.
Bedfellow
The simplicity of ancient manners made it common for men, even of the highest rank, to sleep together; and the term bedfellow implied great intimacy. Lord Scroop is said to have been bedfellow to Henry V [as found in Shakespear's Henry V]:
Nay, but the man was his bedfellow,
Whom he hath cloy'd and grac'd with kingly favours.
After the battle of Dreux, in 1562, the prince of Condé slept in the same bed with the duke of Guise, an anecdote frequently cited to show the magnanimity of the latter, who slept soundly, though so near his greatest enemy, then his prisoner. Letters from noblemen to each other often began with the appellation bedfellow.
- Robert Nares' Glossary [of] the Works of English Authors, 1859
This unseemly custom continued common till the middle of the last century.
- Rev. T.F. Thiselton-Dyer's Folk-Lore of Shakespeare, 1884
Surely this isn't forgotten? Am I the only one who uses 'They make strange bedfellows.'?
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