Canadian Lyndsay

I finally found a car to purchase. The deal has been made and I’m going to pick it up on Monday. I figure, surely it can’t be that difficult to buy a car in Alberta while maintaining my Manitoba residency right?

Wrong. So now I have to hurry up and get my Alberta drivers license because I need that before I can register my new-used car. OKay, but that can wait a few more days can’t it? Wrong again. My birthday is on Wednesday, which means my Manitoba license expires then. So really I have about two days to do the whole thing.

Which meant that I didn’t do nearly as much work from home in Winnipeg as I had expected because I had to spend the afternoon running around gathering drivers abstracts and letters of experience from both Manitoba AND Ontario. Plus I had to call Shaw and get some sort of paperwork saying my name and Alberta address. Since I was expecting to keep my Manitoba residency as long as possible, everything has my Manitoba address on it. Except, thank you Kristina!, my Shaw bill. Whew! Shaw faxed me a statement of account, I sure hope that’ll be enough.

Okay, the weather in Winnipeg is brutally cold and there’s lots of snow.  After two years, it’s not a big deal to me.

But the weather here in Calgary is just WEIRD.  I mean, yesterday afternoon it was +13 degrees Celcius – a few hours later it started snowing and I woke up to 2-3 inches of snow on my (rental) car!

It snowed all morning and the sun came out and shined all afternoon. Madness.