Though this weekend was an expected blur of friends and visiting, I am lucky to have so many great people in my life – so I can’t complain one bit about how EXHAUSTED I am today because of it….
up close and personal with my little monkey (a week and 3 days old); staring contest with auntie jamie; my 4th little monkey (and 5th in total!) snuggling all night long.
Friday: since I had a meeting with clients in waterloo, I was already there without the Friday afternoon drive. It was GREAT to not have to battle traffic on a Friday afternoon on the highways getting out of Toronto. I met up with karli and sean, and got a few things with them, as they had just moved into their brand new house (exciting!). we waited on Alex (another friend who we donned with at university), and then got a tour of the new abode. We then went out for dinner – to one of our favourite places in waterloo (which is actually the first place I had real Indian food) masala bay. the best part about waterloo? Seeing university professors in the restaurants, who you had crushes on, and realizing you are becoming closer and closer to their age. So. Weird. Dinner was, as always, amazing, and filling. And I have lovely friends who are always willing to eat vegan with me. We then headed back to sean and karli’s place, where we settled in for our typical bambino (it’s our bk-heart thing), and watched ‘bridesmaids’. This led to a quasi intervention, in which I was toted as the Kristen Wiig of the group… and that I need to get my life together. We then were up way too late watching sports highlights, and talking.
Saturday: slept in a bit, and then hung around the house watching taped episodes of ‘the view’, and chatting. I left when they left to move some of the last stuff over from the apartment, to head to the football game. Spent the football game chatting to old friends, and bumping into students (from when I was a don) – one of whom is engaged! – and catching up. I love homecoming for things like that. Then went to morty’s for lunch/dinner with a group of friends (new and old), and talked about international development, sports, and other good convo topics. Headed to a friend’s brother’s place, where we changed (probably should have napped), and danced, and had some drinks, before leaving for the bar. Since I was still in my football clothes, I had to do a quick stop at my car to get bar clothes. went to the turret - the on campus bar that reminds me purely of every week at university, where my roommates and i got into endless amounts of trouble. Ended up spending the night again talking to old friends, spending quality time with an ex boyfriend (who I have repaired bridges with – so nice to have the friendship back), and getting into plenty of trouble. 1 burrito, 1 long walk, a cab ride, and lots of laughs and smiling later, we ended up home and in bed at about 4am.
Sunday: woke up late to my friend’s brother making us smoothies. Sat around for a bit, before being dropped off at my car at around 2. Then went over to cait and matt’s, to visit with them and the unborn nugget for a couple of hours, before heading to my friend jamie’s place for a surprise celebration of her graduation, new job and birthday. Was nice to see all the parts of her life come together – loved that I was invited as well! After dinner, I scooted to dundas to see my little munchkins, and Stacie and Nathan, and spend some quality time with the newest monkey. I got a ton of cuddles from the little ones, and didn’t even notice when it was 10pm and I hadn’t even started driving home yet.
Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend – enjoying the last bits of summer/fall (summarall?) while we can still get away with being outside with no hats.
Friday: since I had a meeting with clients in waterloo, I was already there without the Friday afternoon drive. It was GREAT to not have to battle traffic on a Friday afternoon on the highways getting out of Toronto. I met up with karli and sean, and got a few things with them, as they had just moved into their brand new house (exciting!). we waited on Alex (another friend who we donned with at university), and then got a tour of the new abode. We then went out for dinner – to one of our favourite places in waterloo (which is actually the first place I had real Indian food) masala bay. the best part about waterloo? Seeing university professors in the restaurants, who you had crushes on, and realizing you are becoming closer and closer to their age. So. Weird. Dinner was, as always, amazing, and filling. And I have lovely friends who are always willing to eat vegan with me. We then headed back to sean and karli’s place, where we settled in for our typical bambino (it’s our bk-heart thing), and watched ‘bridesmaids’. This led to a quasi intervention, in which I was toted as the Kristen Wiig of the group… and that I need to get my life together. We then were up way too late watching sports highlights, and talking.
Saturday: slept in a bit, and then hung around the house watching taped episodes of ‘the view’, and chatting. I left when they left to move some of the last stuff over from the apartment, to head to the football game. Spent the football game chatting to old friends, and bumping into students (from when I was a don) – one of whom is engaged! – and catching up. I love homecoming for things like that. Then went to morty’s for lunch/dinner with a group of friends (new and old), and talked about international development, sports, and other good convo topics. Headed to a friend’s brother’s place, where we changed (probably should have napped), and danced, and had some drinks, before leaving for the bar. Since I was still in my football clothes, I had to do a quick stop at my car to get bar clothes. went to the turret - the on campus bar that reminds me purely of every week at university, where my roommates and i got into endless amounts of trouble. Ended up spending the night again talking to old friends, spending quality time with an ex boyfriend (who I have repaired bridges with – so nice to have the friendship back), and getting into plenty of trouble. 1 burrito, 1 long walk, a cab ride, and lots of laughs and smiling later, we ended up home and in bed at about 4am.
Sunday: woke up late to my friend’s brother making us smoothies. Sat around for a bit, before being dropped off at my car at around 2. Then went over to cait and matt’s, to visit with them and the unborn nugget for a couple of hours, before heading to my friend jamie’s place for a surprise celebration of her graduation, new job and birthday. Was nice to see all the parts of her life come together – loved that I was invited as well! After dinner, I scooted to dundas to see my little munchkins, and Stacie and Nathan, and spend some quality time with the newest monkey. I got a ton of cuddles from the little ones, and didn’t even notice when it was 10pm and I hadn’t even started driving home yet.
Hope everyone had a fantastic weekend – enjoying the last bits of summer/fall (summarall?) while we can still get away with being outside with no hats.