This morning, I received a phone call 6 minutes before my alarm went off (don’t you hate it when you’re disturbed before your alarm!?) and it was one of the managers telling me to dress warm at work since the heating wasn’t working. I got into work at it was 10º/50º. The ink in my pen wouldn’t even work! I wore leggings, pants, socks, and three tops on my upper half — to make matters worse, my left passenger back door in my car is ‘stuck’.

When we got back from the airport yesterday morning, I thought it was just frozen shut since it was sitting out in the cold for nine days. However, this morning it still seemed as if it was frozen. The BF is going to google if this is a common occurrence with Mazda 3 hatches. I personally just want to bring it into Mazda and get them to fix it, since my car is under warranty until this March. It was just frozen shut! It works again now!!!

Funny how different types of cold affects you. In Newfoundland we have a damp cold. When I went home for vacation I thought it was the warmest day ever and didn’t even want to wear a winter coat. Mostly because it was mild and above zero. By the end of it though, I acclimatized to it and got chillier as the days went on — but when I flew into Toronto, I was back “home” so to speak, and standing outside with my lululemon pants on, it was something like -11º and no wind. The BF was shivering, but I was standing still, obviously cold but not as cold as I was back home due to the wind, and dampness. I tell you, I definitely like the weather up here a lot more. Especially the fact that there’s hardly any wind. I had to brush my hair like 8 times a day when I was home, and it hurt!! So many tangles from the wind. Brutal.

Going to go make us some pad thai for supper tonight. Yum yum.

So, that’s my Monday! How was yours? lol

So my CHI hair straightener, just three years old went out in style with a bit of drama. It never lit up to its full potential for about 6 months but I thought the light was just going. Well. The third day that I was home I had turned on my hair straightener right after blow drying my hair and as soon as I was waiting it for it to heat up, I was holding it as there wasn’t a spot to place it. Some sort of gas or smoke came spewing out of the connecting wire where it attaches to the bottom of the hair straightener and went in my eyes. I dropped the CHI hoping I wasn’t blinded by the smoking gas stuff, and rushed over to it to turn it off, then unplug it. It stank, but I’m not sure of what. It’s in the garbage now.

It must have clearly had a bad connection as my parents are both handy-type of people and didn’t think it’d be best to even look at the thing, just chuck it out.

I decided that I couldn’t go very long without a hair straightener and ordered the pink GHD off Beauty Ticket’s website. Unfortunately, they’re not available for purchase anymore as items on Beauty Ticket sell out fairly quickly, because I guess it’s just overstock and they sell it for cheaper.

I made it back to Ontario (today) in one piece. Of course the plane was delayed (when is it not?) and there were a ton of unclaimed shipping boxes in the luggage claim at Pearson airport. Not miiiiine. Knock on wood.

Back to the working grind tomorrow. Dreadful.