V-Day

I have to say, this Valentine's Day has been going pretty well so far. 

First, it brought the first real snow fall!!  Snow in general is a pain and cold and icky, but the first snow fall rocks.  It was so fun trudging through the fresh white snow drifts on the way to work and back.  My coworker said it felt like Christmas cause of the snow.  How can a day that feels like Christmas not be awesome?  I was even wearing a Christmas sock so I obviously had the Christmas spirit too.

Also, I got 5, count em five Valentine's day gifts this year.  I have to admit I use the term gift quite loosely.  A couple *gifts* I received are a Valentine's Day card from my Grandma, and a chocolate heart from building management at work. 

And tonight, is the finale of Beauty and the Geek.  Throw in working out at the gym, some crappy season 7 gilmore girls, the prospective of buying cheap chocolate tomorrow, and I have myself a successful Valentine's day.

Chopin

Last night for *wing* night we decided to go to Rob's Polish place for supper.  It was pretty far west, but thankfully the streetcar went right past it.  Well, it was supposed to anyway.  The streetcar we got on decided to randomly stop at Roncesvalles which left us 6 blocks more to go in the cold snowy weather.  Thankfully Patrick asked the driver about it and we all got transfers and hopped on the streetcar which conveniently just behind ours.  So that turned out alright.

Rob was watching out the window to figure out when our stop is, and when he requested a stop we gathered and watched out the window looking for the restaurant with him.  We saw it.. and the closed sign as we drove by.  Closed???!!  We spent half an hour on a street car and the place was closed? Oh noes!  So we got out and went to look at the sign.  It was closed from sometime in January to February 15th.  Two days early.  What bad luck. 

We followed Rob into the Sobey's a couple doors down, where he asked the cashier if she knew of any other good polish restaurants.  He knew there were a few good ones close by but didn't know of them.  The cashier was useless.  Thankfully a couple people paying were helpful.  One suggested Chopin because his friends go there a lot and one is polish so it must be good.  The other pointed us in the right direction.  Matt had heard on Chowhound that it was one of the best polish restaurants so off we went.  It was a nice little place.  And the food was yummy!!  Another wing night success =)

Bears vs. Colts

The superbowl was pretty exciting to me.  My colts made it, as well as my brother's bears.  My brother has been a fan of the bears since he was a little kid.  He stuck by them even when they were playing horribly and was embarrassed by them.  That's a true fan.  Me, I just randomly decided to like the colts a few years ago.  Because of this, I decided I would cheer for the bears last Sunday.

Yeah... that didn't work out so well.  After the first kick off when the bears out maneuvered the colts and went all the way for a touchdown I was like "noooo!!!" then I realized wait, I want the bears to win, so I should be happy. It was too strange and conflicting and weird to not cheer for the colts.  I decided I would cheer for the colts but in the end i hoped bears would win.  Sucks they didn't, but on the other hand, wohooo!  They really deserved it last year and it sucked they got knocked out so quickly, so I'm very happy they won.  Maybe it'll be the bears turn next year.

I made chilli for the big game, and Matt came over and brought fresh bread from thuet.  Mmmmm bread.  Wilson came too and brought homemade dumplings!  Those were super yummy.  Rob watched too (while playing DS) and he contributed melon bread from j-town.  Overall, there was a silly rainy game of football in pretty HD, friends, and lots of great food.  I call this a superbowl success!!

17 Days

Since my secret shame of liking Nascar is simply just a fact now, i guess it's no surprise I have a Tony Stewart daily calendar at my desk.  My Dad saw it at Walmart and thought of me.  Each day has lots of orange, the number 20, his autograph, a monthly calendar, date, and a little nascar/stewart fact.  Today had to be the *best* fact I've read so far: "Tony Stewart drives the No. 20 Chevrolet for Joe Gibbs Racing".  It's a Tony Stewart daily calendar for goodness sakes.  If you're going to state the obvious, at least mention one of his championships. At least that way it'll bring happy memories, rather than disgust of the writer's stupidity.

 

I remember a girl at work asked me once, "Is that your boyfriend"? referring to the picture of Tony on my mouse pad.  Eugh. If I have to have a nascar boyfriend, it would be less embarrassing if he was hot.  Easier to justify anyway.

Music galore

One thing I hate about winter is if I leave work even a tad bit late, it's dark out.  It's so depressing.  The other day I wasn't looking forward to going home cause it was dark.  When I got outside I realized how wrong I was.  The city looks so pretty!  There are even some lights up on some trees still.  I love it! 

The other night on my way home, I faintly heard music.  I had no idea where it was coming from.  As it got louder I only grew more curious.  I discovered the music was coming from the little park I like to cross through on my way home.  I was extremely surprised to discover there was a marching band, battle of the bands!  They had girls spinning flags in the air, and fun marching band music.  Sooo amusing.  They were in town for the football game the following day.  I could even hear them when I opened up my window that next morning. 

On Wednesday I got to see my high school friend play in a concert at the Four Seasons Centre of Performing Arts.  It was sooo amazing.  It was a drumming ensemble that combined traditional Japanese rhythms with Western influences.  I loved it.  The movements were very dramatic and as important as the actual drumming. It was as fun to watch as it was to listen to.

Next week I'm going to the Symphony to hear some Mozart.  I've never been so I'm very excited.

I miss playing music some days.  Like today.