Caught up with Fayewood for brunch at Sisters & Co Restuarant off 14th ave & Birchmount.

Then spent the arvo at Ames' and brought sushi for dins at her place...yum!

Churro aujourd’hui! 😋

I treated mom out tonight to hear a candlelight string quartet performance
of my fav Coldplay songs!
I say 'treat' because I had paid for the entire outting as she didn't want me to attend all by myself, which I really didn't see any issue with...but hey (shrugs), it's MY HAPPY PLACE!!!!

Dins and Candlelight: Best of Joe Hisaishi #ChulaTabernaMexicana #BestofJoeHisaishi #Isabellas #hbdGrace

A thrill ride (?)

Let me preface with a disclaimer that the WheelTrans service has changed so much (for the good) since I began using it oh so long ago...

My original p/u was at 6:30 and eta was around 7:45. However, I've found that if I randomly check the website, on occasion an option to check if there are earlier p/u's buttom is available. This morning there WAS and after clicking on it, the option of a 5:55 p/u came up (which I clicked because why not? lol). So I was able to change my p/u to 6:05 (expected altho the actual time was listed as 6:14) Granted the ride arrived closer to 6:20 BUT the driver seriously drove like a mad person on the dvp/gardiner so I literally arrived by 6:40!

So, I'm here and my nerves are excited! Let's see how the day goes (as this week's already been a bit of a shocker, what with a very unexpected loss of a long time coworker...)

Ki with the C’s!

BSB summer residency at Las Vegas ‘The Sphere'

National flag of Canada Day

Valentines wishes!

The office distributed these delightful treats preemptively on Weds but I plan to share them with Ames tomorrow when we meet up for an early dinner!

STILL, it's nice to share the love!

It’s been awhile….excellent catchup #besties

Lunar New Year lunch

Danger danger, food coma...

Caught up with Fayewood for brunch at Sisters & Co Restuarant off 14th ave & Birchmount. Then spent the arvo at Ames' and brought sushi for dins at her place...yum!

Clockwork Champagne & Cocktails

New Year’s 2025 celebs #fam #BTeam

Lazy day/weekend

It's definitely been decades since I've had a stay at home day/weekend...it was supposed to be a nice low key day (dad & Ames at a Scotiabank game now) and we (including myself and mom) were going to stay the night at her place. However, I've caught a cold...that's REALLY kind of taken me out....literally!

It's mainly a sore throat (which makes me sound hoarse IF I speak...) granted it's cleared up during the day after having consumed many cups of ginger tea and much blowing my nose.

I'm also feeling super tired so I've been lazing around in bed, napping several times of the day and hopefully I'll have gotten this out of the system to be better enough for work come Monday (got to give my body props for choosing the 'best' time to get ill, lol).

Luckily, I hadn't any plans this weekend so I've also been going through my 'recordings' (haha), as well as catching the Hollywood Roundtable Actresses online. Personally, I enjoyed watching in action than when I read it online yesterday!

New Year’s Eve dins #TheBerzcyTavern

It's going to be a rough couple of days....

Unfortunately due to mother's act of 'kindness'...As Ames & father’s gone to the 7pm hockey game at scotiabank plaza tonight, mom and I decided to check out the new supermarket that opened on the lower part of her condo across from The Spaghetti Factory.
We got to the doors of the supermarket & she opened the right side door…& as I’m passing the left side (we came from the left…see where this is going?), she saw the disability button & pressed it (to be helpful) NOT realizing (neither of us noticed) that the left WAS the door that would automatically open…thus smacking me weirdly hence resulting in my falling quite awkwardly to the pavement.
BOTH embarrassing (bc passersby offered to help us) & trying to pass all this inconspicuously…I’d immediately unattractively got up & we walked back towards my Ames' lobby (mother happened to also get a phone call announcing Ames had a package arrive AT that moment…) where mother took her package to her unit while I regained myself.
By the time she came back down, I was ready to go into the supermarket…we browsed, got some brekkie for tomorrow & went back to my Ames'. Unfortunately, because of the way I was unexpectedly hit & was unprepared to fall…due to the awkwardness of my fall, I can feel my upper body reacting already (esp my right arm….the same arm that I slammed into my wall at the end of Nov).
I have a feeling I’m going to really feel it tmrw…tbd

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

#coldplay

Xmas Eve dins @ Toca #fam

The 47th Annual Kennedy Center Honors

Hosted by Queen Latifah, honoring Bonnie Raitt, Arturo Sandoval, James Brown, Thr Apollo, Francis Ford Coppola, Kamasi Washington, performances by Raye 'cry me a river', Doug E Fresh (beat boxing), Dave Chapelle, tap dancing performance by Savion Glover, Michael Trottier Jr and Tanya Trottier (ie The War & Treaty), Robert De Niro, Grace VanderWaal from the film Megalopolis, George Lucas, Laurence Fishbourne, Al Pacino, Martin Scorsese, Dave Matthews, Talia Shire and Jason Schwartzman, Gia Coppola, Martin Scorcese, Miles Teller, Maggie Rogers, Leon Bridges, Sturgill Simpson, Chairman of Kennedy Center - David Rubenstein, The Grateful Dead tribute: Nancy Pelosi, Molly Tuttle, Norah Jones, John Mayer, Perry Farrell, Ben & Jerry's Founders (Ben Cohen & Jerry Greenfield, band Don Was, Maggie Rogers and Leon Bridges perform 'Friend of the Devil', Chloe Sevigny, David Letterman, performance Dave Matthews, Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi, performance by Sturgill Simpson of 'Ripple' Latifah closed show with announcing tg performance of Buddy Holly's 'Not Fade Away'

Moulin Rouge!

Enjoyed the musical production of Moulin Rouge at The Ed Mirvish Theatre last night!

Met up with the rents after work and we moseyed over on The path to meet up with Ames for dinner at Moon Palace, Atrium on the Bay.

The show was good but it definitely reminded me that it's been a REALLY LONG time since I first saw the movie with Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor...I'd like to watch the movie again as a refresher because THIS production incorporated many more pop songs
along with some of the original ones.

Granted, it was riveting....but I still dozed off near the end of the show (unfortunately, that TOTALLY gives my age away. Normally on the weekends, I'd definitely take a nap to avoid this but due to my working the entire day, this was quite unavoidable. Ah well, c'est la vie, non?

EXCEPT...The ultimate negative take away from last night showed up this morning on my left collar bone...I somehow managed to feed the last mosquito from gosh knows what...what an annoyance to now be dealing with an extra itch, ai yah.

Hump day countdown to Xmas treats!!

*IMPT NOTE bout the honey crueller* it definitely took a trip on the floor to pick up some extra 'vitamins'...lol, the fiasco also had witnesses 'ie. Dylan & big brother - camera' harhar, I'm definitely sticking to vitamins and I'm still here! ;p

Joey’s, pedi & Eataly

Started out the morning working out to Jamie Foxx's 'what had happened was' on netflix which was artfully explained in his standup show that brought comparative flashbacks to my own 'situation' from back over two decades ago...definitely felt very relatable.

Went out to lunch at Joey's (where we split a couple of appetizers and finished on those amazing donuts!) with Fayewood before accompanying her to Aphrodite Spa & Nails for a pedicure with my pedicurist (Tony). As I regularly visit the salon with my rents, we're taken care of so well (with a foot massage too! Granted it's something I normally pay extra for, lol).

Afterwards, we headed over to Eataly for some quick grocery pick ups for Irene before calling it a day.

Before dining at Joey's though, I'd like to thank Fayewood for her most magnificant xmas present to me...a new pair of earrings!!!! This is such a heartfelt gift as she knew I was looking to repair the emerald earrings (one's stem had broken) that I have really been so sad about it's demise...but have been wearing the penguin earrings from Witkos in the spirit of christmas!
In return, I covered our lunch out...even though I don't feel it's a comparable gift in return, I suppose it will have to do. Or as I personally like to think....it's the thought that counts! Still, I'm very excited about trying them out tomorrow!!! :)

Crossover…#greysanatomy #onetreehill #dramaqueenspodcast

THIS was a rather sweet (literally & figuratively) surprise this morning by the Brookfield security guard whom I've become pals with (also not the first one, lol!).
The reason I accepted the coffee (ok, small french vanilla)

#HarryPotter#Hermione

Birthday wishes to Witkos on Thursday!!!