Sharkboy

The iPhone 4 is finally available in Canada. The 2nd largest country in the world is finally able to purchase the latest in Apple amazement. YEH.

I want mine now… and after learning that the great family plan DR and I share with our 3G will remain if we act in the next 30 days of the release, I want it now ever more.

This morning, at 7am, when the Apple Store at Eaton Centre opened up, the media was present and showed the long line up of people that had camped over night to be first to buy… I knew better than to rush there expecting to buy and be at work on time. I thought I’d be smart to wait until lunch time and see how it was…

Lunch time comes, I take my sandwich and my book and make my way to City Hall to read and eat on the garden patio… As I sit down, I get this text from DR saying: “I’m farting right now”. Of course I laughed and replied: “I hope you’re still in your office” and then put the phone down on the bench awaiting a reply… 20 minutes passed and since I was itching to see if the Apple Store was as busy, I closed my book and made the trek down the stairs, across Bay St to the side entrance to Eaton Centre. As I came in, I took a quick look up to see that the line up had not gotten any smaller in the 5 hours since they started selling. I reached in my pocket to text DR so he can be forewarned that his evening will certainly be super busy… My pocket is empty. No phone. My brain did a couple of quick back flips only to remember that I set it down on the bench where I was reading…

I took off running out of the mall like a bandit. All the while thinking about the very last text DR and I exchanged and how weird it will be for the person who found my phone and turned it on… Farting in the office place… Yeah… that’s how I want someone to find out more about me…

As I crossed Bay St once again, and ran up the stairs, I can see that no one is sitting on the bench I was occupying… I didn’t slow down.

As I arrived, I saw the shiny black phone still resting exactly where I had left it… It had been probably 10 minutes in total and of course it turned out that anyone interested in a phone today was already lining up at the mall to buy one… No one was interested in a lost cell phone full of farts in the office stories. And a 3G at that.

Still, it’s kind of weird that on the same day I tried hard to replace my 3G without any remorse, I almost hard a heart attack when I realized I didn’t have it anymore…

I’m looking at it right now.

As first reported on DR’s blog 3.5 yrs ago, and then again more recently, the panty game still goes on…

This morning, at Starbuck as I’m waiting my turn at the counter, I open my work bag and pull out my Clear Starbucks Reusable mug only to find the freakin’ panties all smooshed in the mug… I don’t think many people had noticed but when I exploded in laughter I had quite a few heads turned my way… I must have been 2 shades higher than scarlett when I noticed all eyes on me…

My coffee tasted extra good as I planned my revenge.

Yesterday was DR’s birthday and since we didn’t have any solid plans until dinner time, we decided to take the day as it came:

At 6:00am, opening gift box (best I could do with the iPhone quality with just a nightlamp)

After a shower, we were ready to hit the road

Venti Early Grey Tea coming up!

Early walk on a quiet street

Flowers… good lord!

Best breakfast in town

Even on his birthday, I let him pay.

Walking through the city with a half stormy and half clear sky.

Bathroom break

Shopping for books at Chapters. The new Cory Doctorow is out…

We wanted to know who Salt was… I let him pay.

On the long long long stairway to Theatre 2 to see who Salt really is.

I let him pay for popcorn too.

Keeping an eye on my popcorn while I go pee.

Gotta go to Silver Snail on your birthday. He bought two little Star Wars robot figurines. I let him pay.

Yep… the robots are still in there.

With South-American performers… We were at least one foot taller… so cute.

After another bathroom break

Shopping for more books this time at World’s Biggest Bookstore.

Shopping for new – used video games… Red Dead Redemption is almost done.

Telling Da how to fix little computer issue.

In a moving elevator… wooooooosh.

Crazy spicy dinner at Green Mango.

Scratching and winning. Da’s birthday card to DR had a few lotto tickets and and he won $18… not bad..

And then on the way home, he noticed this little fun sign at some church.

I realized at the end of the day that when we do stuff together, we’re so set in the fact that DR will take out his wallet and use the interac billing system that I never even thought of making his day more special and actually pay while he waited on the side… oh well…

By the time we got home after dinner, our “dogs were barking” so badly that I fell asleep on the couch within minutes while some japanese animated movie was playing…

I asked one of my online friend to complete a mission for me… Find his favourite 25 songs presently on his iPod and create a playlist for me as I haven’t been listening to any new kind of music lately unless it was by Kylie or Pet Shop Boys. He’s working on this list right now but he gave me a preview of one song that would definitely be on it:

Sia – Clap Your Hands.

Of course I had to look it up on youtube and I fell in love right away:

DR’s been working so hard lately, his regular job during the week days from 8:30 to 4:30 and then his dreamy Apple Store jobe from 5:00 to 9:00 in the evenings that I wanted to get him a little surprise in advance to his birthday next week…

So today is our “date day” as we haven’t spent much time together… He thinks we’re going to see Inception, which we both really want to see, but I’m taking him to Miss Saigon instead. We’ll probably see Inception later on tonight, just in case Miss Saigon was a mistake… not the most uplifting choice for a romantic date, but he’s never seen it, it’s in town for a little while only, it’s playing at the Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts (which needs to be visited at least once) and the show has some of the most beautiful songs…