Guess I have no choice but to drink beer all weekend.

This water debacle is starting to wear on my nerves. How am I supposed to get up early & come into work if I can't get any freakin' coffee.... Yes, people, Vancouver is under a boil water advisory. What I find interesting is that the water was disgusting yesterday as well & I managed to get not 1 but 2 tall vanilla non-fat lattés (I'm being descriptive in case the day comes to which you want to buy me a coffee. In which case, that is what I drink). These were not simultaneous of course.. but I drank the GVRD water yesterday & am alive to talk about it and I'm pretty sure the vegtables I consumed were washed under the tap...

What I'm saying is: I'm still alive.

and am grateful I live downtown. I was just talking to my friend yesterday about the good ole days I lived in Tsawwassen. Where I grew up specifically seemed to be on its own electrical grid and we lost power about once a month. Ooops the wind shifted.. lose power. Oops... a rain drop fell... lose power.. I was just grateful we had a gas fireplace so we never really froze our tootsie's off too bad. Granted, I saw my share of trees thru roofs but the rest of the town would be functioning as per normal but we'd be forever in the dark. I don't miss that.

No, but downtown you hardly notice the effects of the storm like you do in the outlying areas. I'm not saying that the sun shines specifically on my street but everything seems just a little less severe over here. We get less snow, it's warmer, less wind (unless you get in one of the wind tunnels)... but we do have rats (haven't seen one, but was informed of which last night) Thank god I'm a 17th floor vixen. I want to move less and less every day.