I'm so neglectful sometimes, my appologies. One would think having 10 days off for holidays would make for plenty of time to laze around and relax. Not so i'm afraid. I have a few friends home for the holidays that i do not get to see very often so i've been trying to spend quality time with each of them...which has not really worked out haha but i digress. Howard arrived home on the 15th and i have yet to see him and Jen was down for a few days and i also missed her. As well an old coworker is back in town from the Yukon for a few days and yup you guessed it...didn't get a chance to see her either. Mind you she called when i was out of town and i did call her back and left a message hoping to catch her on her last night here.
I went to a Christmas pubcrawl dressed up as Jack Skellington (see above pic) which is always good times. There were lots of funny costumes....Mary with the tummy and all, the really ugly bad christmas sweater, elves, reindeer, santa...you get the picture. We managed to make it to 7 bars which is not so bad, though the pubcrawl is called the 12 Bars of Christmas, so i guess we were slacking a bit or enjoying ourselves too much with the booze!!
On boxing day i was up at 6:30am and drove with my mom and sister to a mall about an hour away. We shopped till 5pm and yes we got some deals and i finally bought a digital camera yay for me!!! A few minutes later i get a call from Dawn asking about Gavin's open house that night.....i had completely forgot about it and was exhausted but we went and had a good time as all our old buddies were there.
Yesterday a bunch of us went up to TO. Now Moe a friend of mine is down from Dubai for the holidays. He asks me if he needs to bring anything. I suggest pj's a toothbrush stuff like that for the night. He brings nothing and makes us stop at a store so he can get a toothbrush and some deoderant but only because we were disgusted that he didn't bring anything. A few friends stayed in the hotel room and drank while Moe and i went to the Raptors game. We had great seats and ended up meeting Jennifer and Sly for some beverages as well as the hotel crowd. We danced and drank and i ended up chatting with a fellow at the bar and for some reason i took a picture of him LOL. Turns out he also does not eat meat and i got his digits, but we'll see, not sure he's quite my type. We return to the hotel where it's mayhem as we've had far too much to drink and we're all rather silly. In the morning I discover rugburn on my elbow ... curious... and i drag everyone to the Red Room for Pad Thai. Jennifer you will be happy to know that my New Year's resolution will be to step outside the box and try new things....get out of my comfort zone.
As for the next few days...well New Years is creeping up on us and i'm so indecisive. Happy New Years to everyone though !!!
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Oh I didnt even THINK to buy a digital camera on boxing day....I thought you got it for x-mas..it's so tiny.
What in the world is boxing day?
Linny it's like your Thanksgiving sales in the states. In Canada we call it boxing day and it falls on the day after Christmas :)
it was good to see you ash! did you kids head anywhere hip after cobalt?
Sly, we went to Supermarket, then I flaked out and went home while these guys kicked it into overdrive.
Ash, I had a friend in town for two weeks from Africa and I still haven't managed to talk to her on the phone for more than 30 seconds, she's leaving tomorrow. Yeesh!
Linny, Boxing day is a statutory holiday in Canada, so you always get two days off around Christmas, you go out on Boxing day and shop your ass off, and use up all your gift certificates, then you go home and eat leftover turkey.
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A Christmas pubcrawl -- how fun! I've only ever done one pub crawl. I was so drunk that I had to beg the last bar to let me in by promising that I wouldn't drink anything. I really was too drunk to go in but I wanted to say that I made it all the way through!
In Toronto you can rent an antique streetcar to take you on your pub crawl through the downtown.
I totally want to do this some day.
PP yes a digital would have been a good purchase
It was good to see you too Sly, perhaps i'll get my butt to Ottawa sometime soon .. i only work till 1pm on fridays :)
Px i've left a new message on your blog, glad it's been resurrected.
SS hope you are feeling better.
Jennifer i actually went on one of those streetcar crawls for an engagement party. It was good fun. You map out what bars you want to hit and the streetcar takes you to them and you are allowed to drink on the streetcar on the way to your various destinations. Perhaps a 30th bday idea...
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