this weekend was packed, productive, and refreshing... with lots of outdoor time, and lots and lots of friend time. wonderful. my friend said to me yesterday, 'i had a jamie kind of weekend' and i realized she was referring to the amount she packed into it. hey - that's a great thing, i think. if i only get 2 days off a week, i want to take FULL advantage of those days.
cooking up a storm with made from scratch spaghetti sauce
and marinated tofu (food for freezing); lineup for beer at the jays game
(priorities, people); jays game with the gang; multiple games of war with joshy
in the hotel, while waiting for our partners in crime; couldn’t get them
standing still; perfect day for a walk in Toronto; myself, and steph and I in the
sun; game of thrones and painted nails in bed.
Friday: worked a bit later than hoped, and then headed
home (after a crazy busy day at work from beyond), and met a friend at my
place. had some drinks while devising a plan, and then took off for an
exploratory walk of the neighbourhood. the original plan was the johnny cash tribute at the gladstone, but when we arrived, there we no seats left, and we were
starving. so, we heard bits and pieces, and then left to wander up ossington. ended up at the lakeview, and ate and drank ourselves almost to sleep. finished the evening with 'where the wild things are' in bed, and had to flip it off
half way through, with heavy eyes.
Saturday: woke up fairly early and accomplished tons. cleaned, organized, purged, vacuumed my entire apt, laundry and tons of other
jobs that I had been trying to get done forever. while cleaning, made a batch
of this spaghetti sauce (vegan butter, of course - and i also used a hand blender and left the onions in), and some homemade marinated tofu to
freeze, to hopefully attain the same level of yummyness that these have been
providing me lately. headed out for downtown about 3pm to meet my friend josh
and his brother and high school friends for the jays game. walked over to the
dome from their hotel, and watched the jays crush the mariners 7-0 to make up for their loss on the friday (thank
goodness I left my mariners hat at home). then, josh and I hung out at the
hotel while the rest of the guys went to the red hot chili peppers concert. we
played a few rousing games of 'war' while watching music videos on much music. once the guys arrived home, we jumped in cabs for the madison (to my dismay),
and upon seeing the line, decided on one of my personal favourites - the pump. spent the evening there, watching the guys flirt with the waitress, and
experiencing one of the best/worst couple fights ever. cabbed home after saying
bye to josh and another friend, and fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
Sunday: woke up and spent a few hours in bed - eating
breakfast, watching game of thrones, and rewarding myself for my productive day
before that... and, being in a ton of back pain for no good reason, I figured I
better take it easy for a bit. once I pulled myself out of my comfortable bed,
I ventured out for the errands I had to do - returning clothes, grocery
shopping, getting quotes on cleaning up my computers to finally sell them. got
home and things put away with just enough time to meet steph for a day long
walk. we wandered everywhere with only 1 goal in mind - slurpees. we ended up
walking back to her place, and her roommate ordered thai food for everyone. ate and chatted, and ate thai food until we couldn't move. steph then drove me home
at about 8, and I spent the rest of the evening in bed, painting nails,
watching game of thrones. after and exhausting (busy and amazingly
full/productive) weekend, I was in bed, asleep before 11.
hope everyone had an amazing and wonderful weekend
themselves - and took advantage of the amazing weather we had on sunday! and.... happy monday!