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!!!