Happy Birthday

My birthday was two days ago. My first activity of the day was using a bucket for a toilet. Tyler and I had planned to spend the day in Saskatoon (for more on our move to rural Saskatchewan visit Going Rural). Our trip was delayed by several failed attempts at getting the septic pump to work. When we got to Saskatoon we had breakfast even though it was well past lunch time. Then we went to the "Berry Barn" for pie. The "Berry Barn" specializes in all things made with Saskatoon berries, it was here that I discovered that I am not very fond of Saskatoon berries. Next, we went to Canadian Tire to buy a desperately needed solar shower. They were sold out. We eventually headed to a restaurant I had chosen for dinner. The restaurant was closed (they were enjoying an extended long weekend). Yes, we should have called first but our only phone is a very costly cell (not too fond of Sasktel) which we might return but can only do so if we use less than 100 minutes so...we ate at a pub and then rushed to a movie theatre where "Art School Confidential" was playing. Guess what? It wasn't playing anymore. I had carefully written down the movie listing from the paper... Our luck changed when the girl at the theatre said the movie was still playing at another theatre. We rushed there and made it before the movie started, and it was only mildly disappointing...actually it totally sucked, sigh.