Squid, Bovril, spatulas, Wind phones, cheap Valentine's Day candy, and more...

When Teunis got home, he showed me his new electric coffee grinder - he's missed that, and it's better than the one he used before, which is always NICE for the revenge factor! I checked my mail prior to going out the front door for Richmond Centre / Save-On / Yaohan: Janina (mrshannibal) sent me a Valentine's Day card with lots of heart stickers / ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE lyrics, Wind / Telus / Rogers phones, Androids / Blackberries, and I got my hydro bill. We discussed his feeling better because of his haircut (which does look good), moods, parking, eggs, allergies and sensitivities, a spatula, aged cheddar, Kaili, muffin tins, being lucky to be alive, Easter cards for Julie's Easter stickers (I finally found 16 in two eight-packs in Shoppers after looking in Carlton's), his Hundred Mile House friends coming tomorrow, Bovril being a better buy than soup just for a warm drink, beef sausages, disorientation because of perfume, computer questions at Memory Express, cookies from Blenz, Flaming Wok bubble tea (mango and coconut - coconut jelly), and spring rolls.

Also talked about meat pancakes, no maple syrup, stories at the Persian barber's, BAD traffic (90 minutes to get from Broadway / Granville to Lansdowne?!), his California friend, wrestling, walking around a LOT to look for the non-existent Rockport shoe store at Richmond Centre, shoes at Payless / Sears / the Bay (the elevators were out of service - no escalators for ME!), and steel-toe boots. Then we discussed the elementary schools science fair at Richmond Centre (all the kids made him feel like even more of a giant), French immersion, St. Patrick's Day stuff at the dollar store (we should go to the Foggy Dew and listen to the bagpipes on that day!), on-sale Swiss chocolate / chocolate hearts (two packages for Ian and Sean) / Life red and white jellybeans / ju-jube hearts, magnets, dim sum, mall directories, squid, meat pancakes, cooking, Indonesian food, and the disadvantage of having a cellphone. We conversed about thuds / DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS characters, his friend Chris WANTING to meet online people, kids, radio shows, not being in the mood for ads, shin splints, exhaustion, and more at home.