A Day In The Life: Too many cute animals!

I haven't got any really interesting stories related to work/real estate as of late. There wasn't a whole lot for me to do on Friday so I spent most of the day opening up some files. There are always files to be opened. We must receive at least three to five agreements of purchase and sale a day. Once we get an agreement, we are able to open it. I don't really like when we get mortgage or refinance files. They usually close so quickly so you have to open the file right away. And the clients never listen when you tell them that they need to provide us with the mortgage statements for the mortgage they want to close out and all statement for any debts that need to be paid out. So we never get those on time and then the mortgages can't be funded when they are supposed to. So it just gets delayed. Which is fine, as long as they don't complain that it wasn't done on the day they were expecting it to be done. Banks are all crazy. The whole mortgage and funding process is still a little bizzare to me. I'll have to wait until I work on a full mortgage file to see what it's like to work with them from start to finish.

Thursday night Crash Karma played in Burlington and my boyfriend went to see them perform. He was up close and personal and even got to chat a bit with Mike Turner. Here is Mike playing his guitar. It's a little blurry but when you are rocking out that hard, there is no way you can stand still long enough for a photo. For those that do not know who Crash Karma are, they are a Canadian "super group": Mike Turner from Our Lady Peace fame, Edwin from I Mother Earth fame, Jeff Burrows of The Tea Party fame and Amir Epstein of Zygote (I have no idea who that band is). The tickets were merely $10 and they played at some billiards bar that normally has cover bands. I am a tad bit jealous that I was unable to attend but us articling students working girls have places to be the next morning and it's far too long of a travel back home at that time of night.

Friday night we watched a movie called "Are You Scared?". Not an instant classic. It was poorly acted and poorly directed. But, it was quite the hilarious horror flick and I did find myself laughing a lot, and not just AT the movie. It is similiar to the Saw films for those of you that have seen any of those. But, like I said, poorly acted. And not as intelligent as Jigsaw. The kills are in the same manner, but were done far more quickly and less dramatically than any Jigsaw murder. The detectives that were supposed to be solving the crime were absolutely useless and added nothing to the plot. They didn't even help the victims that were locked in the warehouse. The one walked in and was instantly killed. The other one was in there looking for the hostages after they had already come out. They never even met. Very weird for them to even be in the movie but I think they were there as filler since the movie would have only been 60 minutes without them. And then they left the ending as a cliffhanger but there is no way that they are ever going to be making a sequel. And there's no way it was ACTUALLY a cliffhanger. The woman was locked in a room with the killer standing behind her. Either they couldn't think of a creative way to kill her off or they really thought that they could make another movie out of that crap.

On Saturday we put on Music and Lyrics. Staring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. It was pretty good. Not nearly as cheesy or horrible as I thought it was going to be. But Hugh Grant can't make a bad movie and Drew Barrymore is too cute to hate. She's a bit of a crazy and he's a hasbeen 80s pop star. Both play their parts brilliantly. And Robert from Everybody Loves Raymond plays Hugh's agent and Hugh's his only client. Hugh plays great gigs like Bar Mitzvahs and Adventureland. Until, of course, he is asked by a current pop star to create a song for her. He comes up with the Music while Drew eventually and begrudgedly comes up with the Lyrics. While the ending is necessarily cheesey and provides serveral eye rolling moments, it is needed for the happy ending that you know is going to present itself from the first time you see Drew enter Hugh's apartment to water his plants.

Sunday we headed to the Pickering Flea Market because Gary Roberts of former Toronto Maple Leafs / Pittsburgh Penguins / Calgary Flames fame was there signing autographs. We decided to not show up as early as we had when we went to get Jonas Gustavsson's autograph so the line was considerably longer by the time we got there. However, it got much much longer by the time we were at the front for our autograph. It only took us about 30 minutes once he got there for us to get to the front of the line. Here he is signing my hockey puck:

Afterwards, we went to the Pickering Town Centre and I spent at least an hour in PJ Pets looking at all the animals. There were so many dogs and cats and bunnies. But so many more fishes!!! Here are several photos of the amazingly beautiful animals I spent my time visiting: