Another good thing about being home is not eating cafeteria food every day. I can feel my health returning despite this nagging cold (which will die very soon. die.) Wow, vegetables that aren't drenched in some kind of sauce! And, what's this? Flavour? Spices? Hurrah! I've made curry two nights in a row.

Of course, I also bought good ice cream. But c'mon now, if you're going to eat sugary stuff, ice cream is the best thing you can choose. So say I. At least it's got a little nutritional value. I was eating these cookies at the cafeteria in Moncton that were really good tasting, but probably each cookie was the equivalent of a a bag of store-bought cookies. The grease came off on your fingers. Yeah, so with those eliminated from my life, my body has begun to feel better. It's just hard when you see an unlimited supply of cookies (we didn't pay for our meals - we had a pre-paid food plan, so the cafeteria was pretty much just an unlimited buffet.) to say "No, I don't want a cookie. No, I don't want another cookie." Well, for me it's hard. So now I am back to Normal. Phew. All I want to eat is real food that I make myself. And my oven isn't working, so I can't bake cookies ;)

Speaking of things not working/falling apart... When I got home on Saturday, I noticed that half the kitchen ceiling was hanging on by a thread. Yes, and water was sploshed across half the kitchen too! Wow! Nothing says Welcome Home like major house repairs! Apparently this happened on Friday. So the landlord came over Saturday afternoon and they hacked away at the *fully rotten* wood boards in the ceiling, trying to figure out what had happened. Turns out it wasn't a slowly leaking pipe. It was a slowly leaking washing maachine! Yes, somehow the woman upstairs didn't realize that her washing machine had been leaking for, oh, probably a year, and was sitting in a grand puddle of water! It's a bluddy wonder the machine didn't come through our ceiling... seriously, it could've. eesh. So, I get to have cheap-hire repairmen trapsing in and out of the house for at least two weeks. At least they're going to fix the dripping faucets in both kitchen and bathroom. Maybe they'll put in new windows that actually keep the cold out. hahahahahahaha. ah. ha.