Renovations

Last night I dreamed that I was coming home from work when I saw my upstairs neighbour. (Not really anyone who actually lives in my building, but he kind of looked like a grown up version of the kid who played Marco in "School of Rock".) We were chatting about this and that. I asked how he liked the new apartment and he said 'So far so good. You?"

"I love our apartment, but we have to move."

"Really? That's too bad."

We went into our respective doors. "Yes, I'm pretty disappointed." It was then that we realized we could still see each other. The wall had been knocked down seperating our hall and the stairs. "What the..."

I looked around. Clearly our landlord had spent the day doing renovations! The wall had been knocked down, all of the floors had been sanded and refinished, and the aroma of fresh paint was in the air. Our formerly yellow hall was now white!

"What's going on?" asked Marco. Just then, the dark haired girl who lives upstairs appeared.

"We're all getting evicted," she said angrily. "Apparently Dominic's sister in law wants to turn this part of building back into a single family home. I heard she's bringing her best friend from Germany back to Canada with her."

"And her husband!" I put in, shaking my head. "I wonder if I can hang up a tarp so that you all aren't marching through my apartment all the time. Well, see you later."

I entered the livingroom to discover Treezilla 1 and 2 standing in the livingroom. They were all brown and had decorations still on them. As though this were a normal occurance, I shook my head and started taking the ornaments off them. "I guess I'll have to really start apartment hunting now..." I thought.

There was a bit more after that, but it's fuzzy.

posted by Lisa at 8:45 AM |