2 posts tagged “weekend”

This past long weekend I...

- downloaded my first ever ringtone and applied it to my phone.
- bought an iPod Shuffle for the gym. I've loaded it almost entirely with deep bass thumping progressive house and live DJ sets. However, I was aggrieved to learn, just now, that unlike the larger scale iPods, you can only use/load the Shuffle with music from ONE computer (PC or Mac, not interchangeably). Grr. But I do love my Shuffle. It's tiny, pink, and I can't stop staring at it. It's gonna be a great little sister to my 80gb juggernaut that currently houses my entire music library and more.
- brunched at Bonjour Brioche. Why have I not been there before? I'm furious with myself! On Saturday night at around 4am I was chatting with some friends about my intense craving for french toast. John A. suggested that I head over to Mars Diner on College for a quick fix. How would I get there at such an ungodly hour? He told me to take a cab and I actually paused to consider it. Jonathan's idea was better though - wait it out a few hours and have baked french toast using day old croissants at Bonjour Brioche. It was a decadent meal - Nick and I split a sweet potato & ginger soup and a brioche; he had the Croque Madam and I had the french toast.
- consumed copious amounts of sangria on Sunday night. Even more great music was enjoyed. And countless drunken antics, including an O Canada/I Think We're Alone Now singalong medley at The Embassy. It will be YouTubed shortly.
- spent Friday all day at Canada's Wonderland again! The Lazy River and I have had a longstanding date for the past two Fridays, and possibly the next few as well.
- started watching the HBO series Big Love and also completely caught up on So You Think You Can Dance (Season 3). I love Lauren, Lacey, Hok (!) & Neil the best!!

This morning on the subway ride to work, the thirty-something dude sitting beside me was completely wasted. He reeked of alcohol. And he seemed to be heading somewhere, not heading home to sleep. I read on Digg yesterday that young adults account for more than half of all 'alcoholics'. The other night on the platform at my stop, the TTC workers were rocking out Black Sabbath, Soundgarden and Rush while touching up ceiling paint in the station. They had a huge ghettoblaster plugged in and were taking timeouts from the paint job to air guitar and rock out devil horns. WTF?

Talk about guilty pleasures: I'm loving the new illScarlett album (I can't stop listening to Nothing Special & Life Of A Soldier. Jonathan and I are embroiled in a discussion about it right now that's revolved around repeating the same three statements over and over again.). You can listen to the album here, if you like!

I've had to type the word REUNION a lot lately, and for some reason I can NEVER spell it right on the first try (this most recent time included :@). Why the fuck?

Between Flickr & Facebook, I never upload pics to Vox anymore. If you want to see what I've been up to (with my new camera), head over to Flickr!

I titled my blog 'working for the weekend' because it makes me think of that Patrick Swayze/Chris Farley Chippendales skit on SNL from like 10 years ago, and it makes me chuckle.

My weekend (which started on Thursday since I took Friday off to recover from the MMV-Heyyyyys) in a nutshell:

- Thunderheist & Crystal Castles @ The Social: rounded up a solid crew of about fifteen friends to attend this monster jam. The house DJ played some amaaaazing old school tunes to warm us up before Thunderheist came out. I was so buzzy just anticipating Crystal Castles and dancing really hard that Thunderheist was a bit of a blur. When Crystal Castles took the stage people started having outright dance aneurysms (not only because of the constant strobe lights) and they didn't stop till they left. Incredible pics of the event taken by Kid With Camera (I don't need to tell you how ridiculously talented KWC is) are here. We capped the night off at The Drake, where they were serving alcohol till 4am (thanks Pride Week!). Actually that's a lie - I capped the night off watching infomercials about pilates and hip hop abs.

- Spent my day off on Friday at Canada's Wonderland by myself. It was the first day that Splashworks was open during the week this summer, and what better time to get over my anxiety over wearing a bathing suit in public than on an off-peak day before school lets out? I spent a few hours floating along the Lazy River, periodically requesting a push from a stranger when I inevitably got stuck in a 'dead end', splashed around in the wave pool, and otherwise spent the entire day with an inner tube tethered around my waist. After Wonderland I headed to Michelle's birthday party @ Montana's and then ate an obscene amount of greasy food @ Fran's. One of these days when I go to Fran's, Joe will actually be working! I always seem to miss his shift. Oh, and who knew Fran's had a fully stocked bar, including Red Bull + Vodka?!

- Spent Saturday strolling through the village for Pride Weekend (we must have JUST missed the Dyke March when we were there), FINALLY saw Nathalie after a hiatus of five or six months (visiting from Ottawa) and then lounged on my patio doing crossword puzzles till it was time to head out again for Stacie's birthday festivities. Participated in a language-off (French & German) before going to Hemingway's for the rest of the night.

- Sunday...had a rough and slow start to the day so I didn't show up to Joe's bocce ball tournament in High Park on time. Everyone was in full 'character' - wearing those braided sandals with black dress socks, short shorts, wife beaters, copious amounts of chest hair, crucifixes, hair rollers and sundresses. Every time Joe yelled out to his parents in typical Italian fashion, he had to remind them to play along in character. Participated in a few three-legged races and then threw a frisbee for a tireless Sheltie puppy until it was time to leave. I moved from one Italian-themed event to the next...Nick hosted an Italian potluck where an obscene amount of food was prepared (and consumed - there were almost no leftovers!). We had tomato & basil soup, grilled zucchini, baby greens, osso bucco, jumbo pasta shells stuffed with spinach and ricotta cheese, butternut squash risotto, and so much fresh bread that yeast was practically seeping out of my pores by the end of the night.

In unrelated news, I am anxiously clicking refresh to find out if one of my girl crushes is going to be at Much HQ in the very near future. If she is, I may erupt. Promise. To illustrate how exciting the news is, peep this convo I just had with Jonathan about it:

Jonathan Soja: she's coming?!
Kat: It's not confirmed yet tho
Jonathan Soja: :O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O:O
Jonathan Soja: SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Kat: dude i know!
Jonathan Soja: SHUT UP
Jonathan Soja: NOW
Jonathan Soja: I WILL DIE
Jonathan Soja: DIE DIE DIE
Kat: omg omg omg
Jonathan Soja: i'm gonna throw up
Kat: what will you do if you meet her?
Jonathan Soja: shit, piss, barf, cum, burp, and sneeze all at the same time.