Friday again! Yeah! I will be leaving the country Sunday morning for a week in Chi town for a conference that I am very excited about. This will be my first time in Chicago as well; exploring a new city is alway fun.
This week has been good and somewhat boozy. Saturday night Mark and Dale threw a shindig for my birthday that was both well attended and fun. How can rockin out to Journey ever be a bad thing, right? It was a late night and I spent most of Sunday morning and early afternoon in bed with Dale who was suffering a fairly severe hangover. Mark even brought us fast food in bed (heavenly). T was on his way home from his weekend away and I asked if he could swing by and grab me on his way home, which he did (and I was very grateful for). Little did we know the damn Santa parade was on and we ended up getting stuck in traffic for about FOREVER! It was so painful. The entire time we were stuck I just kept saying "all I want is a shower". I finally made it home (T ended up parking the Porsche and walking home to avoid more pain) and immediately stripped and jumped in the shower to discover no hot water. Oh good lord - I almost ripped down my shower curtain in fury! Luckily T hadn't made it to the gym yet and I was able to pack a bag and head to his place for my long awaited shower. T went to the gym and I went shopping to grab ingredients for our favorite meal (rack of lamb - so yummy) and then just hung out at his place. We had an awesome dinner with an even better bottle of Chateau Neuf de Pape that someone gave me for my birthday (I still don't know who it was, but thank you to whoever gave it to me!!) We watched a subpar movie after dinner and then off to bed.
Monday I was exhausted and didn't do much. Tuesday was my actual birthday and T took me out for an amazing meal and another favorite bottle of wine Osoyoos La Rose. We took our time and just had a great night. After dessert we went downstairs to the bar area and had some port and watched the hockey game. This is usually the point in the evening we have to get home otherwise we would most certainly get arrested for public indecency. It is still like when we first met when we go out like that. We went back to his place and laid in bed and watched Seinfeld and giggle until we fell asleep (pretty much the perfect night!) I fell asleep to T whispering in my ear how much he loves me and that he was glad I wanted to celebrate my birthday with him. How sweet!!! Too bad we can never be together. haha.
Wednesday was gym and bed and last night my dream game was on...Green Bay vs Dallas. Unfort, Favre got hurt and my Packers lost, but it was a good game all the same. I watched the game at Todd's with him and Erin and Tina came by later on. We watched the hockey game after the football game and ordered pizza. I didn't drink too much and woke up hungover this morning. I can't tell anyone though because I am having a girl's night/birthday surprise night with Jill, Sarah and Dale. Jill would kill me if she knew I wasn't feeling my normal self. I think I know what the surprise is, but I will wait until next week to fill you all in on what goes down. All I know is we are starting at 5:30, which could be a recipe for disaster! I am looking forward to a night out with the girls. So much so that I have decided to leave work at 3 today to go do some shopping before heading home to get pretty tonight.
Tomorrow I have no plans, but have to catch an 8am flight Sunday morning, so I am thinking a whole lot of nothing is probably best. I may go to Jess's Christmas party, but not sure about that yet.
Dale will be in Chicago with me next week and apparently we have a sweet hookup for the most popular bar/resto in town, so that should be fun. I am also making her come to the Canucks game there. She will not be OK with that, but too damn bad!
I am out...
Friday, November 30, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
One more thing
Please, for the love of god, please stop feeling sorry for the Polish man who died at the airport after being tasered. First off, if he had been anywhere else in the world and behaved in the same manner he did here, he would have been shot, on the spot, no questions asked. Second, the police have no reason to overuse force. Yes there was a language barrier that I am sure lead to the confusion going on, but is that the police's fault? Kind of don't think so. Where is Canadian Customs in all of this? Shouldn't they be answering some of these questions. If they had been better staffed I doubt this would have happened. Having said that I think this needs to just be chalked up to an unfortunate incident. If the dead man wasn't completely out of his mind enraged, he may not have died from a tasering either. So many things leading to this, but let's be serious people...do you really think the polics wanted him to die??? Of course not! I am ready start a sympathetic to the police group on Facebook, but fear the repurcussions of a city full of bleeding hearts! Let's move on to more important things...like my birthday...discuss! (I am a medium, love red wine and champagne and vodka and most ports and rye and beer, so any of the above would make a lovely gift.)
Almost another weekend!
Last weekend was a good one...I have three words that sum up the weekend: bottle service bad!! Good lord - old bosses have brough this usually reserved for Vegas tradition to Vancouver and I don't think it is a good idea. Three nights a year in Vegas I can do. Random Friday AND Saturday night...not so much. No table of people (no matter how large) should consume 3 bottles of Grey Goose. I am going to have to ask them to not be my friend anymore if this continues. Actually, I may have to ask everyone I know to not be my friends anymore after the past few months. Dale and I had this conversation last weekend:
me: what do you think normal people do on weekends?
Dale: ummm, probably go for nice dinners and maybe have one or two glasses of wine and then go home to bed. They probably get up and do the Grind in the morning and stuff.
me: Do you think they go bowling and to movies and stuff?
Dale: probably...maybe even art galleries or plays
me: hmmmm, no wonder I have decided to never be "normal"
Pretty sad that we don't actually know what to do if we aren't out and at three different bars every weekend night. I stayed home a few Saturdays ago and it was so very boring!!
Went over to Dark's last night for a delicious roast beef dinner prepared by Dale. We then perused every website available to find some good travel deals and it looks like we may have found a trip suitable for everyone at a lovely hotel called PairaAnuses. OK, it isn't really called that, but after a few bottles of wine that was the way funnier way to pronounce the hotel name. It looks like a go...so excited!!
This is my horoscope today:
Sagittarius: It's time to cut someone out of your life. It will be sad and painful, but they are doing you no good and you can't let them continue to hurt you..
Hmmmm....very interesting indeed. I wonder who that could possibly be??? Funny thing is the person I am thinking is the same sign as me...what are the chances that he is sitting at his desk totally thinking the exact same thing about me right now? Haha. We can discuss at dinner this evening! haha
In other rather less exciting news, it is my birthday next week. Ya, another year older! So, not looking forward to being in the mid part of my thirties - at least I can still say early thirties - I may even try to get away with very late twenties! Birthdays don't bother me much, so not too worried about it...yet! No one ever told me I would be the proud owner of wrinkles and zits though! Mark and Dale are throwing a bash at their house to commemorate me getting old. It should be fun, I am quite looking forward to it. Any excuse for a martini bar, I always say!
I did get asked out on a date this week and I think I am going to go. Considering all I know about this guy is what he does (not too overly thrilled with his occupation, but it is an honourable one at least) and that he used to play in the CFL and loves football, I don't know much, but he is cute and seems nice and at the very least I know I can kill a quick lunch with an hour of football talk, so it should be OK!
Working from home tomorrow to try and get my shit in order for 2008 - so very overwhelmed with planning right now. I actually almost cried at my desk yesterday. I didn't even know I was capable of those feelings. Starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel (after 3 - 12 hour days this week).
I passed pretty much everyone I saw on my walk to work today. I even do that quicker than everyone else and with a sprained ankle!!! Go me!!
me: what do you think normal people do on weekends?
Dale: ummm, probably go for nice dinners and maybe have one or two glasses of wine and then go home to bed. They probably get up and do the Grind in the morning and stuff.
me: Do you think they go bowling and to movies and stuff?
Dale: probably...maybe even art galleries or plays
me: hmmmm, no wonder I have decided to never be "normal"
Pretty sad that we don't actually know what to do if we aren't out and at three different bars every weekend night. I stayed home a few Saturdays ago and it was so very boring!!
Went over to Dark's last night for a delicious roast beef dinner prepared by Dale. We then perused every website available to find some good travel deals and it looks like we may have found a trip suitable for everyone at a lovely hotel called PairaAnuses. OK, it isn't really called that, but after a few bottles of wine that was the way funnier way to pronounce the hotel name. It looks like a go...so excited!!
This is my horoscope today:
Sagittarius: It's time to cut someone out of your life. It will be sad and painful, but they are doing you no good and you can't let them continue to hurt you..
Hmmmm....very interesting indeed. I wonder who that could possibly be??? Funny thing is the person I am thinking is the same sign as me...what are the chances that he is sitting at his desk totally thinking the exact same thing about me right now? Haha. We can discuss at dinner this evening! haha
In other rather less exciting news, it is my birthday next week. Ya, another year older! So, not looking forward to being in the mid part of my thirties - at least I can still say early thirties - I may even try to get away with very late twenties! Birthdays don't bother me much, so not too worried about it...yet! No one ever told me I would be the proud owner of wrinkles and zits though! Mark and Dale are throwing a bash at their house to commemorate me getting old. It should be fun, I am quite looking forward to it. Any excuse for a martini bar, I always say!
I did get asked out on a date this week and I think I am going to go. Considering all I know about this guy is what he does (not too overly thrilled with his occupation, but it is an honourable one at least) and that he used to play in the CFL and loves football, I don't know much, but he is cute and seems nice and at the very least I know I can kill a quick lunch with an hour of football talk, so it should be OK!
Working from home tomorrow to try and get my shit in order for 2008 - so very overwhelmed with planning right now. I actually almost cried at my desk yesterday. I didn't even know I was capable of those feelings. Starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel (after 3 - 12 hour days this week).
I passed pretty much everyone I saw on my walk to work today. I even do that quicker than everyone else and with a sprained ankle!!! Go me!!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
I keep trying to pull a fast one on my liver
Another weekend of ridiculous debauchery. Friday and Saturday sort of blur into one as I didn't get home Saturday morning until ridiculous o'clock (after another late night feeding at the Denny's) and then Dale, Marn and I started in on one of 5 bottles of wine at about 2pm after picking up Marn from the ferry. We decided lunch on the Glowbal patio would be lovely, which it was; however, we may not have needed the 3 bottles of wine that accompanied it. Jill came by after we were done eating and helped with the 3rd one...thank god! Mon was in the city for a conference, so we went to the Hotel Van to meet her for 2 more bottles of wine. Keep in mind it was about 6pm at this point...not too smart. I got home and had a bath and was even contemplating a nap when Toad and EH showed up with a 26er of vodka and mix. Good lord!! Jill and Sarah came by and we had a fashion show and more drinks until we had to get to Cobre for Sarah's birthday dinner at 9. Dinner was lovely with champagne and more wine, then it was back to Glowbal to meet up with the others and a ridiculous bottle service. I could barely stand at this point and Marn and I called it a night - jumped in a cab and went back to Dale's. She came and met us about a half hour later. Let's just say it was a loooong day!
Sunday and Monday were both very lazy. I pretty much did nothing at all. It is amazing how 2 nights of crazy can tear me down. Anyway, enough about that...
I realized something a long time ago and as I get older I know it is true more and more. I am faster than everyone else at most everything. I am not talking a running race or anything like that, but I mean at the everyday tasks people perform. For instance: I am the quickest user of an ATM, I go to the bathroom quicker than EVERY women and most men, I am always the quickest person in a checkout line, etc. I don't know why these tasks that we should be used to doing take other people so bloody long. I almost snapped at a woman at the ATM on Friday. There was a 5 person lineup and she obviously waited for 10 minutes like a complete idiot because we she got up there it took her 5 solid minutes of rummaging through her purse to find her bank card. Who does that??? You had 10 minutes of twiddling your thumbs...why wouldn't you use this time to get your shit in order? Maybe I just always happen to be in line behind these people? It really pisses me off!
As a kind PSA I would like to remind everyone to make sure you know who you are texting/calling at 2am drunk. There are often more than one person with the same name!
Sunday and Monday were both very lazy. I pretty much did nothing at all. It is amazing how 2 nights of crazy can tear me down. Anyway, enough about that...
I realized something a long time ago and as I get older I know it is true more and more. I am faster than everyone else at most everything. I am not talking a running race or anything like that, but I mean at the everyday tasks people perform. For instance: I am the quickest user of an ATM, I go to the bathroom quicker than EVERY women and most men, I am always the quickest person in a checkout line, etc. I don't know why these tasks that we should be used to doing take other people so bloody long. I almost snapped at a woman at the ATM on Friday. There was a 5 person lineup and she obviously waited for 10 minutes like a complete idiot because we she got up there it took her 5 solid minutes of rummaging through her purse to find her bank card. Who does that??? You had 10 minutes of twiddling your thumbs...why wouldn't you use this time to get your shit in order? Maybe I just always happen to be in line behind these people? It really pisses me off!
As a kind PSA I would like to remind everyone to make sure you know who you are texting/calling at 2am drunk. There are often more than one person with the same name!
Friday, November 9, 2007
Long Weekend - Yeehaw!
I so need a weekend of sleep. Will I get it? Probably not, but at least I am going in to the long weekend with high expectations. I will probably end up staying out drinking until the wee hours every night. Wouldn't it be ironic if I ended up not remembering on the Rememberance Day weekend???
One other irony I found this week was the fact that China has issued a travel advisory for Vancouver due to the gang violence that seems to be happening in the city. Not to be racist, but so far all of the shootings have involved those of Asian and Indian descent. Maybe they just urge their most dangerous residents to emigrate here! I guess I shouldn't say too much about that considering that there are 2 Canadian men currently in custody for molesting children in Asia (I guess it goes both ways). I can't even say that because one of these pigs is in Canada now and was granted bail even though he is considered a high risk to reoffend (luckily the loser doesn't have the money to post bail...PHEW!) I love that he is allowed out on bail, but not allowed near any location where children might be...ummmm, isn't that everywhere??? Unless dude plans on spending the next 30 days waiting for his trial in a night club I am quite sure he will have the opportunity to run into children on a daily basis. Our justice system is seriously screwed!!
I digress.
Not sure what the plans are yet for this evening. I am supposed to be going out for a friend's birthday, but I am on the fence. I am taking her out tomorrow night already, so I may just save my pennies (and liver)tonight in order to go crazy tomorrow night. We are going to a newish restaurant that I have been wanting to try since it opened, so I am excited about that. The only problem is the executive chef is kind of slimey and has hit on me quite a few times (he used to work for a friend). I am sure he won't be out in the dining room anyway, so not too worried. I even went out and bought a lovely new dress for the evening. Tip: Bebe is selling everything at their American pricing, which means 33% off!!! I was in heaven!!! Also bought a lovely new black satin trench coat to die for!!
Sunday it looks like Kim will be in town, so the plan is to see her, but again, I may just do a one night weekend this weekend. We'll see how things play out.
Last night was another working evening and then I got convinced to go out and eat. I went because I finally convinced T to try my favorite restaurant in the city, which he loved (I knew he would). I was home by 8 and in bed by 9. A lovely Thursday (much tamer than the last 2!)
I am trying to keep my weekend somewhat unplanned in case I just decide I want to do nothing at all. If anyone believes that would ever happen you are pretty naive! hehe. Marky is in Cabo for a week, so I have a feeling Dale and I may be spending some time together in the next while.
Hopefully next time we meet I will be well-rested after sleeping in for 3 glorious days!
One other irony I found this week was the fact that China has issued a travel advisory for Vancouver due to the gang violence that seems to be happening in the city. Not to be racist, but so far all of the shootings have involved those of Asian and Indian descent. Maybe they just urge their most dangerous residents to emigrate here! I guess I shouldn't say too much about that considering that there are 2 Canadian men currently in custody for molesting children in Asia (I guess it goes both ways). I can't even say that because one of these pigs is in Canada now and was granted bail even though he is considered a high risk to reoffend (luckily the loser doesn't have the money to post bail...PHEW!) I love that he is allowed out on bail, but not allowed near any location where children might be...ummmm, isn't that everywhere??? Unless dude plans on spending the next 30 days waiting for his trial in a night club I am quite sure he will have the opportunity to run into children on a daily basis. Our justice system is seriously screwed!!
I digress.
Not sure what the plans are yet for this evening. I am supposed to be going out for a friend's birthday, but I am on the fence. I am taking her out tomorrow night already, so I may just save my pennies (and liver)tonight in order to go crazy tomorrow night. We are going to a newish restaurant that I have been wanting to try since it opened, so I am excited about that. The only problem is the executive chef is kind of slimey and has hit on me quite a few times (he used to work for a friend). I am sure he won't be out in the dining room anyway, so not too worried. I even went out and bought a lovely new dress for the evening. Tip: Bebe is selling everything at their American pricing, which means 33% off!!! I was in heaven!!! Also bought a lovely new black satin trench coat to die for!!
Sunday it looks like Kim will be in town, so the plan is to see her, but again, I may just do a one night weekend this weekend. We'll see how things play out.
Last night was another working evening and then I got convinced to go out and eat. I went because I finally convinced T to try my favorite restaurant in the city, which he loved (I knew he would). I was home by 8 and in bed by 9. A lovely Thursday (much tamer than the last 2!)
I am trying to keep my weekend somewhat unplanned in case I just decide I want to do nothing at all. If anyone believes that would ever happen you are pretty naive! hehe. Marky is in Cabo for a week, so I have a feeling Dale and I may be spending some time together in the next while.
Hopefully next time we meet I will be well-rested after sleeping in for 3 glorious days!
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Plan This
I am caught in planning hell. I have to have all of my goals and estimated numbers for the entire of 2008 done by tomorrow. I started on this a while ago, but have been slowly adding to it until I realized today I have to have this done tomorrow! Needless to say, I will be working on perfecting my report this evening. I really hope all the work I have put into this so far is OK. It has not been a fun process thus far. I don't even know what I am doing tonight let alone a year from now. If I need some work on my numbers I may be calling all of you up to ask you to purchase something from my site (you can always return it in 30 days!).
Last weekend was crazy, which seems to be the norm lately. Friday night culminated in a last night Denny's pig out with Tito, Sarah and Gary. I won't get into the calls to the gyno we made or the million dollars we spent on the stuffy machine, but it was a really funny night what saw me getting home at 5:30 am Saturday morning. Luckily Sarah had all of her dubloons to get home in the cab OK! Satuday was pretty much a write off. I went to a family dinner and then went over to T's to watch the end of the hockey game. I fell asleep before it ended. I was bagged.
I am sure you are all wondering about me going over to T's. Well it is a long story, but rest assured we are not together, but simply still hanging out and doing the things we enjoy doing with each other with no expectations, which is how things were supposed to be from the start. I am glad to say he is the one who called me. haha.
We were up very early Sunday morning (forgot about the damn time change!) and I went home and climbed back into bed for a few hours. Toady and I headed over to his bar to watch the must anticipated Pats-Colts game. I am so sad to say my boy lost. I still love you Manning. I still hate you Brady! At least the game was respectable. Toady and I managed to pack back quite a few beers and people came to meet up with us throughout the day. T even came by after the game. Everyone left early and T and I went to his place for a movie and pizza. I was pretty tired Monday morning.
Funny tidbit from the bar on Sunday. I was standing talking to Dale and an older man at the bar turned to me and said, "You have such a confidence about you that you can't see, but everyone else can". He want on to say, "you command attention in a room and you don't even know it."
As astute as his observations are I didn't have the heart to tell him that I am quite aware of my confidence. I am wondering now if this was just his way of calling me a bitch. Hmmmmm...could have been.
I have been trying to conquer some of my small fears I have this year with pretty good success. As much as I can talk about my confidence I do have areas where I do get nervous. Something that would get me nervous is going to an event by myself and having to approach complete strangers so as not to look like the idiot who is by themself. I think most people would be surprised by this, but I think because I always have a big group of friends around I never find myself in this situation. I have been getting very good with this lately though and have even purposely gone places early when I am meeting someone just so I can sit by myself and have a drink. More often than not, I don't even need to start a conversation - people feel sorry for the lonely, single drinker and approach me. I have become a charity case!
In other sad news I finally went to the doctor yesterday to have my badly-swollen and hurty ankle looked at and it turns out I have a bad sprain. Apparently wearing my tensor under my stilettos is doing nothing for the hurty ankle! Shocking! Apparently I am looking at a 4-6 week recovery! WTF??? She didn't exactly say to stay off of it though - she did say it was good to keep it loose, so I went home, got changed and went off to kickboxing class. I am quite sure this isn't what the doctor ordered, but I can't not go. I am planning another class tonight and training with the trainer tomorrow morning. I swear I will be elevating and icing in between all of this though! If you see me limping around town this weekend don't be surprised. Oh and - YEAH for a long weekend! Mama needs some extra sleep!
Hopefuly booking my week in Cancun tonight! Need the sun badly!
Excited for the upcoming weekend...plans will surely follow on here at some point.
Last weekend was crazy, which seems to be the norm lately. Friday night culminated in a last night Denny's pig out with Tito, Sarah and Gary. I won't get into the calls to the gyno we made or the million dollars we spent on the stuffy machine, but it was a really funny night what saw me getting home at 5:30 am Saturday morning. Luckily Sarah had all of her dubloons to get home in the cab OK! Satuday was pretty much a write off. I went to a family dinner and then went over to T's to watch the end of the hockey game. I fell asleep before it ended. I was bagged.
I am sure you are all wondering about me going over to T's. Well it is a long story, but rest assured we are not together, but simply still hanging out and doing the things we enjoy doing with each other with no expectations, which is how things were supposed to be from the start. I am glad to say he is the one who called me. haha.
We were up very early Sunday morning (forgot about the damn time change!) and I went home and climbed back into bed for a few hours. Toady and I headed over to his bar to watch the must anticipated Pats-Colts game. I am so sad to say my boy lost. I still love you Manning. I still hate you Brady! At least the game was respectable. Toady and I managed to pack back quite a few beers and people came to meet up with us throughout the day. T even came by after the game. Everyone left early and T and I went to his place for a movie and pizza. I was pretty tired Monday morning.
Funny tidbit from the bar on Sunday. I was standing talking to Dale and an older man at the bar turned to me and said, "You have such a confidence about you that you can't see, but everyone else can". He want on to say, "you command attention in a room and you don't even know it."
As astute as his observations are I didn't have the heart to tell him that I am quite aware of my confidence. I am wondering now if this was just his way of calling me a bitch. Hmmmmm...could have been.
I have been trying to conquer some of my small fears I have this year with pretty good success. As much as I can talk about my confidence I do have areas where I do get nervous. Something that would get me nervous is going to an event by myself and having to approach complete strangers so as not to look like the idiot who is by themself. I think most people would be surprised by this, but I think because I always have a big group of friends around I never find myself in this situation. I have been getting very good with this lately though and have even purposely gone places early when I am meeting someone just so I can sit by myself and have a drink. More often than not, I don't even need to start a conversation - people feel sorry for the lonely, single drinker and approach me. I have become a charity case!
In other sad news I finally went to the doctor yesterday to have my badly-swollen and hurty ankle looked at and it turns out I have a bad sprain. Apparently wearing my tensor under my stilettos is doing nothing for the hurty ankle! Shocking! Apparently I am looking at a 4-6 week recovery! WTF??? She didn't exactly say to stay off of it though - she did say it was good to keep it loose, so I went home, got changed and went off to kickboxing class. I am quite sure this isn't what the doctor ordered, but I can't not go. I am planning another class tonight and training with the trainer tomorrow morning. I swear I will be elevating and icing in between all of this though! If you see me limping around town this weekend don't be surprised. Oh and - YEAH for a long weekend! Mama needs some extra sleep!
Hopefuly booking my week in Cancun tonight! Need the sun badly!
Excited for the upcoming weekend...plans will surely follow on here at some point.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
I'm baaaaack (kind of, sort of)
I have been toying with trying to come back to the blog on a regular basis. I kind of lost my blog love a while back, but writing is part of me and I find myself thinking about blogging more and more these days. It may be because I have been so busy and this is just a great place to get down all my thoughts in a somewhat coherent manner. Lots is going on in the personal and professional life. I am at another new job (yes, I know!!) I really love it and I think the position is finally what I have been looking for. It keeps me very busy, but I like that. I really hope things continue going well with it because I see myself being here a while.
In the personal life I can safely say I am truly single for the first time this year. Even though T and I were never really 100% in a relationship I still didn't consider myself single and wasn't much interested in dating because I had him to fall back on. In the end, I decided that I needed more and I wasn't really sure why I had hung on as long as I did. It is weird how that light can just flick on one day and all of a sudden things are so clear. We haven't spoken since he dropped me off Monday morning. We had the talk Sunday night in bed (probably not too smart), but we both felt like it was time to move on, so we have. We won't speak for a while because with us one phone call turns into hanging out for a weekend and being back at square one and I don't want that now.
I am excited to be completely free once again. I am much more suited to this lifestyle. I am definitely open to dating right now, but I don't think I want much more than that. Who knows that will happen though. I have met a few people in the last while that have caught my attention (and I theirs), but I am keeping things casual and just seeing how they play out. I will really start trying in earnest once my hair has some time to relax and grow out a bit (let's not get into that; I just want to say "don't dye your hair blue...ever!)
I am heading out tonight to the annual jewelery store party (the very one I dropped $3K at last year on my most beautiful watch). I bought myself the watch as an early birthday present and for a treat after being so dedicated in losing my weight. I have managed to keep the weight off (give or take a pound or two) in the last year, so that may mean I will have a new bauble in my future! I don't think that will happen tonight...it looks like it is going to be New Years in Cancun, so I want to save my pennies (literally, that is all I have!) for that. It could be an interesting trip; it looks like Dark, Tito, the ex and myself are going to go. Does anyone else find it odd that I am going away with my ex fiancee? I guess you would have to understand us for it to make sense. I just told my mom and her response was "you guys will get down there, have a few drinks and yada, yada, yada you'll be back together". My answer "You just yada yada'd the best part!" She was not impressed. haha.
I also just found out today that I will be hosting (and cooking) my family's Christmas dinner this year. I have never done one in all of my (almost) 33 years. Dad and I collaborated one year when mom was working and it was damn tasty, so I think I will be fine. I know my mom will be over my shoulder and pushing me out of the kitchen all day anyway, so I know that really most of my job will be putting turkey in oven...I think I can handle that! I feel so grows up!
Tomorrow is a work at home day. We are moving the marketing area around at the office, so my whole staff is out of the office, so I figured I should work remotely too. Plus I have pulled tendons in my left foot so I need to stay home and elevate and ice instead of teetering around the office in stilletos.
Tomorrow night I am doing an undercover wine tasting with some newish friends. All the wine is $20 and under and is covered; everyone votes on their favourite without knowing what is what. I think it should be great and a good way to find some cheap, good wines! I am going to meet up with some others for a night out afterwards. I have a family thing Saturday night, so this will be my only fun night for the weekend.
Back at it. Hopefully you will be seeing more out of me on here in the coming months.
In the personal life I can safely say I am truly single for the first time this year. Even though T and I were never really 100% in a relationship I still didn't consider myself single and wasn't much interested in dating because I had him to fall back on. In the end, I decided that I needed more and I wasn't really sure why I had hung on as long as I did. It is weird how that light can just flick on one day and all of a sudden things are so clear. We haven't spoken since he dropped me off Monday morning. We had the talk Sunday night in bed (probably not too smart), but we both felt like it was time to move on, so we have. We won't speak for a while because with us one phone call turns into hanging out for a weekend and being back at square one and I don't want that now.
I am excited to be completely free once again. I am much more suited to this lifestyle. I am definitely open to dating right now, but I don't think I want much more than that. Who knows that will happen though. I have met a few people in the last while that have caught my attention (and I theirs), but I am keeping things casual and just seeing how they play out. I will really start trying in earnest once my hair has some time to relax and grow out a bit (let's not get into that; I just want to say "don't dye your hair blue...ever!)
I am heading out tonight to the annual jewelery store party (the very one I dropped $3K at last year on my most beautiful watch). I bought myself the watch as an early birthday present and for a treat after being so dedicated in losing my weight. I have managed to keep the weight off (give or take a pound or two) in the last year, so that may mean I will have a new bauble in my future! I don't think that will happen tonight...it looks like it is going to be New Years in Cancun, so I want to save my pennies (literally, that is all I have!) for that. It could be an interesting trip; it looks like Dark, Tito, the ex and myself are going to go. Does anyone else find it odd that I am going away with my ex fiancee? I guess you would have to understand us for it to make sense. I just told my mom and her response was "you guys will get down there, have a few drinks and yada, yada, yada you'll be back together". My answer "You just yada yada'd the best part!" She was not impressed. haha.
I also just found out today that I will be hosting (and cooking) my family's Christmas dinner this year. I have never done one in all of my (almost) 33 years. Dad and I collaborated one year when mom was working and it was damn tasty, so I think I will be fine. I know my mom will be over my shoulder and pushing me out of the kitchen all day anyway, so I know that really most of my job will be putting turkey in oven...I think I can handle that! I feel so grows up!
Tomorrow is a work at home day. We are moving the marketing area around at the office, so my whole staff is out of the office, so I figured I should work remotely too. Plus I have pulled tendons in my left foot so I need to stay home and elevate and ice instead of teetering around the office in stilletos.
Tomorrow night I am doing an undercover wine tasting with some newish friends. All the wine is $20 and under and is covered; everyone votes on their favourite without knowing what is what. I think it should be great and a good way to find some cheap, good wines! I am going to meet up with some others for a night out afterwards. I have a family thing Saturday night, so this will be my only fun night for the weekend.
Back at it. Hopefully you will be seeing more out of me on here in the coming months.
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