If I can't find it easily, the place is not for me! / Chocolate heaven in Belgium

I just got out in enough time to take the bus this afternoon, but got lost trying to find where a suite was for viewing. Somehow, I don't think this place is for me if I've been stymied the two times I've attempted to go there to take a look at it! Walking down Aragon (reminds me of Katherine of Aragon, the first wife of Henry VIII), then trying to navigate the endless stream of Aintree this and that? No thanks! Doesn't help that I have a middling sense of direction, but at least I made a note of where the major intersections were so I could find my way back to a bus stop at Shell / Williams. That wasn't actually where I got off the bus originally, either... hmm! At least I got home by 7:45. Despite what Corey thinks, I did indeed look things up on a map before leaving!

The whole trek reminded me of newspaper route days, or the days where I walked to Dee's house for Avon-related purposes! I swear, even the party house on South Sumas in Chilliwack was easier to find that day when I had to bus there after a Greyhound ride to see if I could get something from Korey's room! (nobody was home...) Granted, I'd been to the house a few times via car and cab, but STILL. Seriously, it's not for me if I can't even FIND the darned place! (NOT a fan of living way off the beaten track...) I had a square of Green and Black organic chocolate - yum!

Since I was determined NOT to waste the trip out, I went to London Drugs to see if I could get some more Mars Bars (with caramel?) for Corey. He's right: I really don't want to risk shredded pork being confiscated if I try "smuggling" it like he did with the fire oil! To my pleasant surprise, the Mars Bars (along with a bunch of other chocolate) were on sale! I was intending to get some more for myself and save it, so I did that along with buying a birthday card for two-year-old Gabriel. Got Belgian Continental dark chocolate (two huge 300g bars for $3.29 each), bite-size Reese's Pieces (it seems they have that for EVERYTHING now), and some Mars Bars. So at least THAT wasn't a waste of time... maybe I'll mail the stuff off on Friday or something. Went home and fielded an inquiry from Andrew about THE POISONWOOD BIBLE: he says it's initially boring, but gets interesting halfway through. (maybe it's like Harry Potter...) I'll have to borrow that from the library sometime!

Before I left, I was checking my Gmail trash bin for something. Lo and behold, I found an email from Korey asking how life was, and I could tell from the snippet that he'd sent me something on January 13. I wasn't even tempted to read the email... it's a testament to how far I've come! I'm not even curious to see what the rest of it said, since there's a REASON why I'm no longer talking to him. Heck, there's a reason why I even shut him out of the Blogger journal!