I often look forward to the weekend yet am always surprised when it's time for the Friday Five. Here is this week's edition:

1. How many houses/apartments have you lived in throughout your life?

Seven apartments and two houses.

2. Which was your favorite and why?

My favourite house is the one I'm living in right now. It's my favourite because it's the first home that I actually owned and picked out (with Mark) totally on my own.

3. Do you find moving house more exciting or stressful? Why?

I find it to be a little of both but the exciting usually overshadows the stressful. When I know that I'm moving, I want to do it right then, as soon as it is confirmed. I'm very organized and packing never takes me very long (as long as I have lots of boxes!). When we were getting ready to move into this house, we were living in an apartment that had been lovely when I moved in but, due to complete mis-management, had turned into a dump so the prospect of getting out of the building and away from our slumlord was really exciting. Every day after work, we drove by the house, anxious to get into it. Fortunately, we only had about 3 weeks to pack up and get moved. Any more than that would have been intolerable for me, I think.

4. What's more important, location or price?

Again, it's a combination. When we were looking at homes, we had specific areas of town that we were interested in and we had a pre-approved mortgage for a certain sum of money so we knew, exactly, what we could spend. I suppose if money isn't an issue for you, you can get whichever location you want. We love where we live. The neighbourhood is about 60 years old and is right on the edge of the downtown core so it's like being in the suburbs and in the city at the same time. We're central to everything. Luckily for us, it's a working class neighbourhood so everyone looks after their homes and there is a relatively small percentage of "yuppies" around. It's mostly couples like us or retired folks.

5. What features does your dream house have (pool, spa bath, big yard, etc.)?

We have a lovely huge yard but, if I could build my dream home, it would be in a rural area (but on city water, with high speed internet access) and have a gym, garage, pool, spa, huge kitchen and gigantic master bedroom. Having said that, I wouldn't want to actually clean a house that big so I'm happy to stay where we are and made modifications as we can afford them.

It's still snowing. It's so pretty outside. It looks like Christmas. Yay. We can make snow easter bunnies in a few weeks. Isn't being Canadian fun? Oh well, at least we're not involved in a conflict that is based on a lie. Maybe being Canadian is fun after all.

Another lovely April spring day, another snow storm?

I won't let it get to me though. I've felt kind of yucky over the past couple of days. I can't tell if it's a cold I'm fighting, or allergies, I just feel out of sorts. This morning I felt like hammered shit but I dragged my butt into work and I'm just plugging along, getting on with it without too much effort. I had to move a bunch of boxes around this morning and that kind of knocked the stuffing out of me.

This morning I popped disc two of my Wilco DVD in while I worked out and I cannot get over how great it is. The second disk has stuff that didn't make it into the film (like 70 minutes of stuff) plus a "featurette" about the making of the film. Again, I can't say enough about it. It's wonderful, you should treat yourself to a copy if you're into Wilco!

I am trying to write this post...

At long last, my copy of the Wilco DVD (I am trying to break your heart) arrived in the mail today. I watched the actual film tonight and will watch the second disk of extra footage and bonus stuff over the weekend. Unfortunately, I did not have an opportunity to see this film when it was in the theatres last summer (it never made it to a town near me) but I had read director Sam Jones' diary on the web and felt like I already seen it. His description of the process of making the film was so complete that I felt like I'd been there with him while he was making the film. The end result was absolutely stunning. The film looks incredible and sounds just fabulous. If you're a fan of Wilco you definitely need to see this. If you're not, what's wrong with you? They are wonderful!! See this movie soon. If you know me, call me and we'll get together and you watch it at my house, seriously!! I'll make coffee or popcorn!

So it's "April Fool's Day" and it's snowing. Unfortunately, that's not a joke. I wish that I had brought my camera to work with me so I could have captured a few images of the snow. It's really coming down, hard. The particularly sick part of it is that it's actually accumulating. Someone in my office made the comment, "doesn't the snow know that April Fool's is over at noon?" Good question. I wonder though, why is it that it's over at noon?