As I sit here righting this post for your perusal I'm currently enjoying a nice cool breeze blowing through the apartment, it seems the heat-wave has finally been broken, well slightly! Funnily enough it has been still 28c for most of the day but that feels cool compared to the heat of the previous week. I didn't sleep until 4am this morning again, the whole week has been full of broken sleep for us both so I'm hoping tonight we might get back to some normality.

 On Thursday the temperature record for Vancouver was broken again, only by 0.1 of a degree but it was still bloody hot. We went and ordered a new desk from Staples in the morning, I now have a proper desk and a chair - what a novelty! I no longer have to use the cardboard boxes which is great (even if it was very eco friendly!). We also went searching for an A/C unit but as I predicted everywhere had sold out. Even fans are in very low stock now, I'm sure the electrical stores have been loving it as they sell themselves in this weather. In the evening we went to Gastown to as bar called The Diamond. We met up with a group of expatriates there who were from all over the world, the places I remember people being from were France, Israel, Taiwan, Bangladesh and Germany. There was nobody else from England though, I'm sure they were all probably feeling sorry for themselves and melting at home (like I would've been if I hadn't already agreed to attend!). We had a nice night listening to people's different stories and talking to people we probably wouldn't have in any other situation, it was very interesting and nice to share experiences with people who had done a similar thing to us and moved here. Afterwards we headed to a bar on West Pender St and had a few more beers and shared a massive basket of nachos before heading home.

 This morning I woke up sweaty again, this time on the sofa bed as sleeping in the same room to Lou has become impossible as we both make each other even hotter. I was pleasantly surprised though when I opened the windows and balcony door to find out it was much cooler outside than previous days. The apartment was still like a sauna so I set up the fan on the balcony and blew the outside air into our apartment! Mid morning our new desk arrived and Lou put it together in about 20 minutes. Lou enjoys putting up flat pack stuff and she knows from previous occasions I usually take 3 attempts before I put something up correctly (unless it's computer related!) so also it was probably a case of "if you want something doing properly...". In the afternoon we headed to some stores to get in some more groceries and we also got a vacuum cleaner at last, the apartment really needed it after 3 weeks. The vacuum is small and made by Hoover, it works really well and only cost $70. I cleaned the carpets in the whole apartment in 15 minutes and it works really well so we're happy, I think we finally have every essential appliance now.

  I've just got back home from having a few beers with some new friends, it was a very funny night and I really enjoyed myself. The place I went to was only a 5 minute walk away from my home too and it's really convenient. Lou opted to stay in at home and catch up with her programs on TV as she was feeling tired out from the lack of sleep in previous days. Tonight I'm not setting my alarm and I'm going to wake up naturally for once, hopefully after catching up on lost sleep.

 Good night.