13th - 15th June 1998

Saturday 13th June
We slept in quite late and as it was nice weather decided to go to the beach.  We went to Tonquin and had a really good time.  Matt went to work and I went back to the van, I was dozing when there was something going on outside.  They were trying to move a horse-box into the space where the boat frame was.  They couldn't get it in because we were in the way.  I'd left the keys in the outside of the door and they were just about to get in and move our van when I made myself known.  I took the van onto the road and waited for them to leave and then drove back.  I went and saw Liz to sort out or days off.  We had ice cream and fries and I saw Matt.  He came round after work but really needed to sleep and said he'd come over tomorrow morning at 8am.
$4 ice cream and fries

Sunday 14th June
He didn't arrive at 8am.  He didn't arrive at 9 or 10am or 11!  He finally showed up at 2.30pm!  Only 6.5 hours late! He spent twenty minutes with me and then he had to go to work.  So I spent all day sleeping and reading and then working at 5.  I went to the coffee pod at 3pm to get on the internet, unfortunately it was fully booked.  Christie spoke to me and apologised for not speaking to me on Wednesday night - it wasn't me it was Matt!  I felt really bad talking to her.  She said I could quickly check my messages and then I got scared if anyone had written back about Matt as she sat next to me while I looked.  Luckily no-one had written to me.  I went to work - spoke to Matt.  I told him that I heard Christie was asking someone for a room - so he asked her about it.  Once he finished work I saw him go to the bar with Christie and then about 20 minutes later he showed up and said that he'd split up with her and she was moving out! Meanwhile Dave called for Claire.  Matt said he would come back and meet me after work.  So he came back, watched me cash out and then met me up the road.  We had some beer, talked about the van and Christie and us.  Claire arrived back and we talked about the van - basically it's sold to Matt.
$4.27 roast beef sandwich, $3.30 latte, $12.40 beer

Monday 15th June

This morning I got up and Claire I had a drink in the van.  Sister and Doug arrived and swept Claire off to Ukee to work on the boat.  I went to work which was really boing - 8 customers for the first 3 hours, then the power went out.  Apparently a tree has come down on the power line by the ESSO.  So it should be pretty soon (it came back 8 hours later).

Matt and Ben went and looked at Calvin and now I'm in the pub waiting for the power to come back on.  I went back to work and coped for an hour with no power, writing everything down and doing cash manually.  Kevin told me to close at 4.15pm so I lost out on an hours pay.  Matt was supposed to come back and see me before he started work at 4pm but he didn't so Ilan and I hung out at the van for a bit, then went and bought some food and went to Aaron's to shower.  Aaron looked strangely fierce as at the weekend Tony shaved his head and said it would be funny to leave a but in the middle for the night and finish it off today, but Aaron couldn't get hold of Tony and then the power went off.  Then he was pretty happy to hear that Ilan had charged up shaver.  So I had a shower, we ate bagels, Aaron had his head shaved and then we left.  The power still wasn't on so I knew that Matt wouldn't be working so we went to Bella Pacifica.  Ilan scoped out his supposed new home i.e. Matt and Ben's but they weren't in.  So we went back to town.  Matt was walking along the road so we picked him up.  He was swing if the Weigh West Interact machine was working so he could buy some beer.  They have a generator but the interact didn't work.  We went back to Chez Moi and had a beer.  Ilan left soon after and Matt mentioned that he was supposed to be going to the beach with Ben, Jana etc etc and probably Christie - this meant that I couldn't go and seeing as we have a night off together I kind of wanted to be with him.  So he said he would walk home, tell Ben & Jana not to bother about him at the beach and cycle back.  He was gone for 2 hours!  I know I've only been with him for 1 week and I have no right to demand time with him but I'm only here for 3 more weeks and I really want to spend some time with him.

When he came back he was annoyed because he got a puncture and said he'll have to go home at 5am to sort that out and call his Mum and other stuff.  Then he'd come back and lie with me until he went to work.  I kind of became like a whingey girlfriend again "spend some more time with me..."  "Don't leave".  I really hate myself for doing it and I wish I could just be casual about the whole thing.  I'm going to try.

$2 toast and soup, $1.50 choc croissant, $2.85 bagels

<these are extracts from my diaries written whilst travelling and working in Canada and the US in '97-'98>