Careful man there's a beverage here...

Last night was our early Christmas. Since we have been opening presents all through December we just had our jumbo stockings to open. The picture above is my stocking after it was dumped out, this picture does little justice as it was pretty much filled with my weight in candy. The highlights included "Hot Tamales" because back in the day at goodlife we used to get them and call them Tam-o-lies and the other highlight was the ring pops, because they are my favorite! It was a pretty great night. We sat around in our house coats, drinking hot chocolate with Kahlua and eating ourselves into a sugar coma. I can safely say that this early Christmas has been the best Christmas I have ever had! I am so lucky to have such a wonderful thoughtful boyfriend in my life.
Today, I am heading home for 5 whole days, this will be the longest we have been apart since we started dating - going to be tough. That being said I am still looking forward to heading home tonight to see my family. The best part is Bracebridge actually has a ton of snow! So it should feel extra Christmas-y.

"Festivus for the rest of us Christmas Hootanany

This Saturday was our Christmas party. We had people over for a little pre-drink, that included a "snakes and ladders" drinking game using a pitcher of white russians and in some peoples case, a little too much Jack Daniels.
Around 11:30 we headed off to Call the Office to see "The Bad Ideas" for the millionth time. I know you are wondering if we managed to remember a camera this time, well the answer is no, I did however snap a few shots of the evening with my blackberry! The night was full of high fives, the question "where did you go?" in reference to Colin's weight loss and people being picked up in fits of joy!
The party was a great success, it felt great to have our very first Christmas celebrated in our home with our friends and top it off with our favorite band!
Even though our Sunday turned into the hangover to end all hangovers and a re-visitation of Jack Daniels in Colin's case it was very worth it!

and you're the prettiest lady in the whole wide world

Today is the birthday of the most wonderful woman in the whole world! My mom! My mom and I are pretty insanely close. I love her like crazy, and would consider her my best friend, not in the cheesy way, but for real! When I think about the opinion I want the most about anything, it is my mom that I trust most. I have four more sleeps until I see her for Christmas and I am beyond exicted to see her, and fill our time doing what we always do - drink a lot of wine, baileys in our coffee in the morning and chatting until our tongues go numb! (side note we really aren't alcoholics). Anyway, I could go on for days about how awesome my mom is and how much I love and admire her, but that would make us both cry ha ha. Anyway, I just wanted to say

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!

I had the best day with you...9 months and counting!

Wednesday was our 9 month anniversary, and yes we are the kind of people that celebrate every month-aversary and any kind of anniversary we can. Come on, are you really surprised, based on all our constant mushiness?
ANYWAY, after work on Wednesday Colin and I met up at the Laundry mat since our washer and dryer in our building is still broken (insert shaking fist here). I was dreading the trip to the laundry mat more than anything, I couldn't imagine a worse way to celebrate our anniversary, BUT to my surprise and delight it was actually kind of fun. The place was really huge, they had televisions, a cafe area and a bar section that sold food and yes alcohol. We just put our stuff in the wash and then headed over to Ben Thans for some Chicken pad thai. By the time we had picked up our order and came back, we could switch over our loads, and since the dryers there don't struggle at life, our stuff only took half an hour to dry, by the time we had finished eating we packed up our stuff and were ready to leave. The rest of the night was fantastic and full of googly eyes and appreciation of our own awesomeness.
I can't believe that it has been 9 months already, and they have truly been the most fantastic 9 months of my life. I mean if we can turn a laundry mat trip into a fun date and enjoy ourselves we can do anything!

Tomorrow is our Christmas Party and we are going to see the Bad Ideas play - maybe we will even remember the camera this time!

This is my life right now and I am in love with everything!

It's gonna be you me and the dance floor

I can't believe we now have NO snow, just rain...meanwhile my parents are buried under 180 cm of snow!
Anyway, despite the lack of snow, my weekend was pretty great. After work on Saturday I came home to a wonderfully home cooked meal and a big glass of red wine waiting for me! Colin had done a little Christmas shopping and insisted that I open an early present... I figured why not? Opening presents through December can be a tradition we have! Christmas has officially begun!Colin and I decided to drink before going out, which turned into just drinking at home, and then moved to going out on a hunt for Nachos! What we were not expecting is the UFC fight causing ALL the bars to be packed to the brim, one waitress suggested we stand in the back...umm no thanks. So, we moseyed on down the road to a dive bar to which we found some unpleasant folk, a lot of mustaches and another PACKED bar. At this point the evening seemed more like the twilight zone than a Saturday in London, but we refused to go home with out some cheesy nachos in our bellies. Finally we made our way to Poachers and inhaled a large plate of food before retiring ourselves for the evening! Sunday was pretty fantastic, we simply did nothing but lay around and enjoy our life together! Finally around 6pm we peeled ourselves out of the house to pick up some dinner and Christmas movies.
Tomorrow I have the day off and I plan to do some Christmas shopping myself! All in all, another amazing weekend with my love!

The weather outside is frightful...

I am pretty sure that all the wishing for snow that I have been doing, has been lost in translation. It seems that the snow gods are confused and seem to have sent ALL the snow up North to my parents house. Apparently the snow hasn't stopped coming down since Tuesday and it is so bad, that they are actually CLOSING towns! Apparently Huntsville is CLOSED! How you close a town, I am not too sure, but either way, they seem to be getting all the fun parts of the snow, and we are getting stuck with the fidget cold. Oh well, at least when I head home it will actually feel like Christmas! Although, I have to sat that it seems that unlike most of the people I know, I am actually really in the Christmas spirit this year, I mean it is coming with a little bit of stress (still haven't gone shopping yet) and then the sad fact that Colin and I will be spending Christmas apart. SIGH. I am heading home on the evening of the 23rd and wont be back in London until the 28th. We aren't just missing Christmas together, but it is the longest we will have been apart since we started dating! I know, I know, there are a lot of people with much harder situations, but still this is my blog and I am going to whine ha ha.
but even though we are going to be apart, I am still excited for our Christmas together, and the Christmas-y things we have already done this year have been pretty awesome. I am also really excited to go home, I really miss my family. Also, when I was growing up, we used to go on a sleigh ride every Christmas eve with a bunch of people, but the last few years we haven't done it, and I was really starting to miss it, but my mom has informed me that this year we are bringing back the tradition! It will be a little different, it is just going to be our family instead of a party full of people, and it will go through Port Sydney instead of through a field - which means it is more of a one horse open sleigh kind of a deal, so no one will be thrown off and into a snow bank, like we used to do. Either way, I am so happy and excited that we will be partaking on the sleigh ride again!

Somewhere over the rainbow way up high the dreams that you dreamed of once in a lullaby

Some exciting news! The morning of December 6th Ortal and Thomas welcomed another baby girl into their family! My little god-daughter Addison is now a big sister to little sister Hyleigh Dolhan! That is 3 girls for the Dolhan gang, poor little Noah isn't going to know what hit him when all these girls hit adolescence ha ha. I am so happy for them I can't even begin to find the words! I just wish them all the health and happiness in the world! <3

When you smile the sun it peeks through the clouds

This is what my Sunday mornings look like...only I am not blond and Colin isn't losing his hair. There is nothing more wonderful then snuggling away a Sunday morning. Tonight I will be introducing Colin to one of my favorite Christmas movies "One Magic Christmas". This weekend has been pretty relaxing and wonderful.

First day on a brand new planet.

Yesterday was my first day training as a "bridal consultant". I have to say it is a whole new world compared to working in MED or really most things I have ever done. My first day was a basic over view of the entire store, where everything is, and how everything works. There is definitely a lot to learn ; I don't want to say that yesterday was overwhelming, because that sounds negative to me, but my brain felt like a little sponge trying to soak up as much information I could. The way they work the training makes me feel a lot more comfortable, they have me shadow one of the other consultants for three weeks, so all of my shifts will overlap with hers and I literally follow everything she does, as I begin to feel more comfortable, I start to step in with some of the tasks with her by my side. The daily experience is pretty amazing, I mean it can be really hectic and based on their horrible hand recordings of everything a little confusing, but watching girls try on dress after dress and then watching their face when they actually find "the one" is a pretty great thing to see. I saw a lot of girls yesterday, Tuesday is the alterations day, so brides come in all day for their first or final fitting, there were a lot of beautiful dresses, but there were defiantly some moments, where I was actually breathless when certain brides came to the mirror. It sure is a change from what I was doing; in fact on my way to work, I stopped to get a coffee and the group of men behind me were talking about GoodLife and complaining about their contract - there was a huge part of me that wanted to turn around and say all the things I had always wanted to say to a member - mostly " GoodLife didn't do anything wrong here, YOU didn't read your contract, it is two pages, not a hard read! YOU are to blame here." but instead I just smiled and thought about how great it is, that I will never have to deal with GoodLife members again.
It is really nice to be working at a job, where what I am doing is actually important to the people I am helping.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

This weekend was pretty amazing. Friday night, Colin and I finally busted into season one of "Californication" which I have to say, is even better then I could have expected. Seriously, my life has been incomplete until Hank came into my life to fill it with sarcastic banter.

Saturday night we hit up our dear Winks for some pitchers with Darcy. I love that Darcy comes out with us now!As usual our walk home was hilarious, I really think we should pitch our walk home to a reality producer, not just because it would be a lot more entertaining then anything Heidi and Spencer do, but because a side from laughing I never remember a whole lot from the walk from the bar to our front door and wouldn't mind someone filming it.
Sunday evening, we started to make our own Christmas traditions. I baked lots of whipped shortbread cookies, and we decorated the tree while watching "Fred Claus" and listening to christmas music! The whole time we were decorating, I couldn't stop smiling, I felt like I was glowing brighter then the tree! A very fine start to the Christmas season if I do say so myself!

I wanted to make sure Colin felt like it was his tree too. I picked up this Red Sox ornament in the summer and managed to keep it a secret and hide it all this time!

And baby you can have whatever you want...

Today was a pretty fantastic day! I found myself a brand new job, and one that I will actually enjoy, and one that will actually make me feel like getting up and going to work everyday! Anyway, starting Tuesday December 1st I will officially start training to become a bridal gown consultant! I am so excited! After all the time I spent working on wedding stuff with my mom, and then for Steph last year, it is something I really have a great time doing. I am really looking forward to helping women prepare for one of the most exciting day of their lives obviously I am sure I will cross a bridezilla or two, but with the experience that MED gave me, I am pretty sure I am more than prepared, to deal with their worst! For the most part, I am excited for the tears of joy when they find what they are looking for!
The best part is that the job is full time, and downtown! If nothing else this job will at least be something enjoyable to do before Colin and I make our move to Toronto, who knows, maybe I will love it so much, I will transfer to another store in Toronto, so I can work while I go back to school. Things feel so good!

You know I'm not gonna diss you on the internet Cause my mama taught me better than that

I don't know about you, but November seems to always be the most annoying month, it is the time when you are waiting for December and the real Christmas season to begin, and really NOTHING happens in November. Now that the weather seems to be headed for lower more seasonal temperatures, I am determined to find things to keep me from heading down the seasonal depression/ totally crazy inside my own head, road that so many find themselves at this time of year (and then again in January once all the Holiday hoopla dies down.) I need a new hobby for when I hibernate in doors...so I am on a mission...anyone have any ideas? ha ha.

Also, totally unrelated but a little while ago I came across a cover of T.I's "Whatever you want" by Anya Marina and thought it was amazing, today I found it again, and as I listened to the cover over and over and over again, I also started to listen to her other songs. I am not sure what it is, but there is something about her voice and the music that I just find addictive. I think you should check it out, if nothing else T.I's cover is rad-tastic.

http://hypem.com/#/artist/anya+marina

We all have someone that digs at us, At least we dig each other

Friday night, we had Jen and Kevin over to see our place, have a few drinks (Jen brought the most amazing wine as a housewarming gift.) and then we headed down to Bertoldi's for dinner. Dinner was amazing! I decided to try a new pasta dish, it was a spicy marinara sauce with shrimp over linguine. It was amazing, and not so spicy that you don't enjoy it.

After dinner, we were having too much fun to end the evening so at Jen's suggestion, we went to symposium for some Cheesecake and alcoholic treats. I ordered the blueberry tea, it had amaretto and some other liqueurs in it. The way it was described on the menu sounded so nice, so relaxing. The reality however, was not, it was very gross ha ha. I didn't finish it!

Saturday Colin headed to Toronto with Darcy, and I went to Shauna's for her housewarming party. It was so nice to have a girls night that included learning way too much about some of the ol' MED crew while playing "never have I ever" and two noise complaints. The second complaint was followed by the MED fighters at their best, making the landlord slink back awkwardly saying "sorry I don't want to ruin your night" after he had come in guns blazing! Another win for the ladies. It was a fantastic night!
*side note, we really weren't being loud at all!

Sunday, I prepared my best tween scream and headed out to see New Moon with Jenny and Tina. The movie was defiantly a step up from Twilight, but still had some pretty cheesy CGI moments. I was also excited to see so many girly movies coming out in the near future...which means more dates with the ladies! When I got home, Colin was home, we ordered some Pizza and hung out sharing stories from our weekends, and believe me there were some Dozzies! Then laid around singing old 90's songs and making each other laugh. We also got a really sweet message from Joanne, telling Colin that she and Jen were talking and they have never seen him so happy and how amazing it is for your soul when you find the right person!! That made my heart very happy, as you can imagine. I am looking forward to hanging out with them again soon, we have a lot in common so it makes hanging out fun!

The waves keep on crashing on me for some reason But your love keeps on coming like a thunderbolt

The last few days have been amazing. Wednesday night Colin and I went out for cheap beer and wings, expecting it to be a pretty quiet night, but then we ran into Dally. The night turned into a pub crawl and a dance fest at...wait for it....Jim Bobs...I know, I know not somewhere I EVER like to be, but after Crabby Joes, Poachers, The Richmond Tavern, and Jacks, I no longer cared where we went, plus it was the only place we could get our dance on in the middle of the week! It was a blast, I enjoyed hanging out with Dally and his date, it is very rare that Colin and I actually like the WHOLE couple when we hang out with people. Thursday we decided to take the day off and just hang out together. Colin made pancakes as we waited for the UPS guy to deliver his new phone and celebrated our hangovers together. It was a surprisingly productive day, we hit the town later on and picked up the package waiting at the post office for Colin (Californication FINALLY CAME) we also got our Christmas cards! We had a much needed nap, had some dinner and watched the Office. I had been hearing that The Office had been sucking, but since I only started watching it religiously last year, I didn't know the difference, but after immersing ourselves in season 2 and 3 I know now, that they should have ended that show along time ago, now they are just running it into the ground. Tonight, we are having Jen and Kevin over for a few drinks, to show off our place, and then hitting Bertoldi's for dinner! Tomorrow Colin heads to Toronto with Darcy and I am headed to Shauna's for her housewarming/ladies night - I am pretty excited! Sunday I get to act like a 14 year old girl when I go with the girls to see "New Moon"! So it seems that some really great days are going to be followed by some more awesomness!

* are you curious about the picture? It looks like my lotus tattoo which also matches the lotus on Colins half sleve...before you start rolling your eyes at the cliche of matching tattoos know that we both inked these before we knew the other one existed ha ha.

I lost myself in a familiar song I closed my eyes and I slipped away

Last night we went to Rainbow and saw "The men who stare at Goats". It was defiantly an odd movie, but with a title like that, I wasn't expecting anything different. Either way, I enjoyed it! After the movie we came home and got ready for the week... a nice little Sunday indeed, then woke up at 3:30 am to the music from the girl in the apartment below us. This was day two that I couldn't sleep because she literally BLASTS her music and tired Jena is not someone you want to mess with! I figure she works at a bar and when she gets home she turns UP the music she left on all day which I am assuming she does to drown out the dog she ignores. I wanted to bust down her door and lose my mind, but not being totally insane I did not. Instead Colin started hammering a loose nail in the hardwood...seemed to get the message across to turn it down...albeit not OFF.
Today I am going to start my Christmas cards and FINALLY send the letter I wrote to Danielle!
Tonight we are going to celebrate our 8 Month anniversary with Season 3 of the Office!

" You can't fire me, I DON'T WORK IN THIS VAN!"

This weekend was pretty great. I caught up with Brianna over a 4 hour brunch at the best all day breakfast diner then I came home and continued our marathon of The Office season two! We took a mini break and caught the Santa Claus parade...it was a little weird to have the parade so early and that it was about 14 degrees out. I did love that it was at night so that the lights and floats looked so great, the rhythm of the parade was pretty bad, so we decided to walk back and catch the parade at our own speed - this made it a lot better! We caught Santa, and more importantly we saw Andrew in the parade! Sunday we woke up to some Band of horses, pink banana pancakes (they were supposed to be red) and the rest of season 2!


At the parade after too much apple cider...not too sure why my bangs are so tiny here...

Just like 10 hours of our life devoted to this show this weekend...we are so awesome.

Quite possibly my favorite moment in season two, even though I know they don't finally get together for a long time...so glad it didn't take Colin and I years to start dating.

Currently I am listening to the songs The Bad Ideas just put up on their my space...over and over and over again...makes me pretty happy. You should listen too and try to be as happy as me!
http://www.myspace.com/thebadideasmusic

lean against the wind Pretend I am weightless and in this moment I am happy

Yesterday I got Ella groomed, being really unhappy with our old groomer I had a hard time finding someone new, mostly because the old one would pick her up and drop her off, which was very handy as I do not have a car; then I found "The Squeaky Paw" where the groomer actually comes to your house! I was a little worried about what it would be like and how it would work out, but it turned out to be a great experience. Through the summer Ella's grooming went a little out of control so she had to have a lot taken off. Now she hardly looks like herself! But she is still as sweet as ever!

Before After

After the groomer left, Ella and I hit the street to show off her new 'do, we decided to pick Colin up from work. When we got home Colin insisted on making dinner for me <3 which I never turn down...and then we went out for McDonald's for a sundae - I couldn't get over how gorgeous it was and we had to make the best of the weather! Unfortunately the ice cream really didn't settle well for either of us, and before we had even left, we agreed it was a bad idea, ha ha it was a fun idea anyway. We didn't do a whole lot when we came home, literally just enjoyed our awesomeness together.

P.S the other day Colin made this "Band of Horses" lyric his status on facebook

"when you smile the sun it peaks through the clouds, never die for always be around and around and around"

This was outstandingly sweet as Colin is never overly mushy on any social network device and coupled with the fact that it made my heart nearly explode with love when I saw it, I thought it was necesary to document it on my blog so I always remember how sweet he is to me.

Trying to find myself out on the open road...

Yesterday when Krystina dropped me off, I decided to take a long walk through Victoria Park with Ella. I wanted to take some fall pictures there, not to pretend I am being artsy or that I have any sort of photography talent, but to show exactly what I see when I walk through the park. Victoria Park has been a huge part of my life since living in London. Even when I lived with Natalie I would take a bus to Victoria Park to go ice skating by myself or watch whatever music event was going on. When I stumbled upon this apartment building seconds from the park I was ecstatic. I don't know what exactly it is about this park, but it always captivates me, and brings a sense of calm and clarity to my day. Every season in this park is GORGEOUS. The best part is that when I first moved here, I would walk through during each season and imagine that one day I would be able to walk hand in hand with someone I love and be able to share the beautiful feeling with someone else...and now I have that... I guess as cheesy as it sounds it is my dream come true place. That being said, I still love taking myself through the park alone or with Ella and just absorb everything in my own head. I guess in away, it represents the independace I grew while living in London, while also being able to celebrate what I have found with Colin. Ha that is a lot for one park...one thing is for sure, when we leave London, I am going to miss Victoria Park most of all.

Drink some wine reminisce talk some shit forever young is in your mind

So this weekend Krystina came to London (finally) and her visit here was incredible! Seriously, so much fun. We went to Moxies literally the moment she got into town, and then spent over three hours eating and chatting about EVERYTHING under the sun. Krystina and I met at some point in high school when I went to School in Collingwood, we even traveled aboard together, it is amazing how close we have been able to remain, even after I have moved - about a million times.
After our very long dinner we came back to the apartment to collect Colin, and headed out to Winks.
Since Colin had only eaten a peanut butter sandwich ALL day, and I am a cheap drunk, we got drunk way too fast, but it was a blast and there was bonding had by all.
Sunday Krystina went to Silvercity to see " A Christmas Carol" in 3D! It was Krystina's first time seeing a movie in 3D so, it was pretty exciting!
I wish this awesome girl lived closer, hopefully she will be back in town sooner than later this time!

I've been trying to find, what's been on my mind

So lately it seems that the main topic of conversation among my friends and inside my head, is where do I go from here? It seems like we are all struggling to figure out how to get from the place we are at now to the next step in our lives, and how to ensure that next step will a) make us feel full filled b) allow us to function as actual adults -saving for a house, life etc. The thing is, no one seems to have any idea how to get from here to there. It seems that all the education we have gone through has failed to teach us what we actually NEED to know, which is how to live as successful adults. Lets face it, if you have a degree in anything arts related you might as well just set it on fire, because it gets you nowhere, and not only does it get you nowhere, but the courses failed to teach us anything useful - like HOW TO LIVE! It is like the road of life isn't even a crossroad right now it is just a foggy road with no lights! I would be happy with a crossroads at this point. Don't get me wrong, I am so happy to know that no matter what happens I have the love of my life and my best friend to head down any road with me and that makes the whole "journey" a little easier to swallow, but I just fear waking up a few years from now, exactly where we are at now. I am just not sure what steps to take to get to the places we want to be. Colin and I both want to go back to school, but it is going to take money to get to that place. I feel that once we can get through school and get into an actual career we can feel a little more secure in our lives, but what about the in between time? Do we do travel first? Mostly I am afraid of life getting in the middle of our plans and looking back later and being upset that we didn't do what we wanted when we had the opportunity (well time at least) to do so.
I am just in need of some choices to present themselves in my life so that I can pick a direction! At this point I would be happy with a crossroad to concern myself with!

* it does make me feel a little better that some of my closest friends are going through the same growing pains as I am*

and I did my time in hell

So last night was AMAZING! We went to see The Bad Idea's for the millionth time, and as per usual they were fantastic. Also as per usual we forgot our camera! One day we will remember and be able to document the event in picture format.
But I am ahead of myself, even before the concert our night was incredible. I just love being able to have the love of my life come home and my very best friend all in the same body! We ate subs and hung out, and played some music while I danced around. A laugh fest for sure.
I know that one thing is for sure, when we are together I am always happy and when the evening ends with us drinking and rocking out to Chance's band, it is the best day Ever!

Have you seen the ghost of John long white bones and the rest all gone...

I am really glad we spent most of the month of October celebrating Halloween, since I ended up falling really sick and could hardly get off the couch, much less party and eat too much candy. I love Halloween, but I am really not too disappointed - we had a pretty amazing time the weekend before, at Canada's Wonderland for the Halloween Haunt and watched every scary movie under the sun! I am pretty lucky too, because as sick as I was, I had a pretty great day, because I have a pretty great boyfriend that took care of me, and watched Halloween movie marathons with me all day. I AM SO LUCKY!!!
While I am sad I missed out on dressing up, I really don't feel like I missed out too much on Halloween this year, in fact I feel like I celebrated it more this year, than I have in all the years I actually dressed up and went out! Plus, there is always next year!

Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart

Tuesday night Colin and I went over to Tina's for some serious Pumpkin carving!( is it possible to seriously carve a pumpkin? lol) It has been fun starting holiday traditions together!
We have been spending a lot of time, watching scary movies to get into the spirit of Halloween; last night we watched "The Orphan" which was a lot like "The good son" but even better, I was surprised at how good it was, it was nice to watch a scary movie, that wasn't super lame. The last few days I have been battling a pretty epic cold, so no big plans until Saturday night...HALLOWEEN!!!

Let's take the moon and make it shine for everyone

This weekend was VERY busy! Saturday after Colin helped Darcy move, we headed to Burlington to stay with his sister Chrissie. Saturday night we took his niece Hailey and her friend to Wonderland for the Halloween Haunt. Wonderland was AMAZING and terrifying. Colin and I went into one haunted house called "blood shed" basically it was an enclosed maze packed with people and monsters jump out at you, I was actually scared out of my mind. Colin protected me from the monsters and got us out safely ha ha.
They also had all these costume guys running around yelling and chasing us! At the end of the night, we tried to get a group picture, but instead Hailey and I ended up getting chased out of the park, screaming at the top of our lungs! We returned back to Chrissie's where Colin and I had the wonderful sleeping arrangement of a child size single bed ha ha. We made it work though!



Sunday we hung out with Molly, Colin's 5 year old neice, before heading off on our search for the perfect Halloween costume! After an hour and a half at the costume store we finally found a great idea - but it is a secret! After killing some more time in Burlington, we headed down to Toronto for the Get up Kids concert. We got into Toronto pretty early, and discovered that we were already exhausted, so we decided to check into our favorite hotel (since it was a block from the concert) instead of trying to drive home after midnight.
After we checked in we headed right over to the Phoenix to watch the Get up Kids reunite after 5 years! The concert was awesome! The concert was mostly for Colin, I had heard a few songs, but didn't know them that well, but after the concert I really like them a lot. Being introduced to a band live might be the best possible way to get into them!

After the concert we headed up the street to our favorite bar, and in a "it's a small world" moment, our server was someone that Colin knew from Goderich, a guy he grew up with and was an alter boy with! Crazy!
Monday morning we were EXHAUSTED and headed right back to London, before taking our rental car back we hit up the grocery store and bought some pumpkins to carve tonight at Tina's. The rest of the night was very quiet since we were exhausted!
All in all, we had yet another fantastic weekend together!

It's as simple as something that nobody knows that her eyes are as big as her bubbly toes

This morning, missing my dear God daughter Addison, Ortal was awesome enough to send me some pictures! Basically I am just posting them to show how sweet and adorable she is and because I love her to little teeny tiny pieces!

This is where Ortal found her sleeping this morning!

I love this picture, she looks so GORGEOUS!

Some movie thoughts...

I don't normally "blog" on here, I more so state what I have been up to, but I was pretty impressed with 500 days of Summer, last night. I really enjoyed the honest portrayal of relationships; which isn't something you often get out of Hollywood. - So I thought I would ramble some thoughts about it!

Tom goes through what the majority of people do at some point in their life. You meet someone and feel that the relationship is perfect, and that they are the "one". So you stay totally blinded by the truth of the relationship, ignoring signs and feelings that it just isn't working - maybe you argue, maybe they don't put you first whatever it is, looking back at a break- up, later, you always see it, and you know you knew it was there the whole time, but you didn't want to see it or admit it. You stay holding on to the relationship with all your might, even though it is hurting you to do so. Most of us have been through this, and when it ends you feel that there is no way you are ever going to be happy again, that no one will fill the standards that the last person set. What I enjoyed a great deal about the movie is that it actually took a realistic view on this, and showed that just as the other person moved on to what makes them happier, eventually the other person does too, and often with someone that doesn't make them feel insecure about the relationship everyday and makes them happy instead. They really showed that, if one person steps out of the relationship - it wasn't meant to be, but it wasn't for nothing, because with every person we are with, we learn and grow and love more. Having already gone through these motions myself, and finding my "Autumn" (which only makes sense if you have seen the movie) I thought it was great to see a more truthful look at relationships, break- ups and moving on with your life. It makes people that have been through it nod, smile and hold their new love a little tighter and realize just how lucky they are and yes that is directed at you Colin :) ; it makes those currently going through it, sigh in relief that there could really be a light at the end of the heartbreak tunnel.

The other movie thought is much shorter, so stay with me.
Last night there was an add for a new Disney movie. I was so excited that they were actually coming out with a children' s movie that wasn't digitally animated - back to the old school "cartoon" version! However, after my excitement passed I thought to myself; Disney still hasn't grown - after all these years, nothing has changed. Yes they made this princess of African decent, which hardly seems like growth, but more of a "token" character - one that they can now sell to children of colour (just like they did years ago with the introduction of a brown haired lead). No doubt a doll they can hope to see in the hands of one of President Obama's children - to up their sales.
I digress, my point is that she is still a "princess" needing to be rescued needing her "prince" to find/save her. Dear Disney, let out the waist lines of your Princess' and give these women some stronger personalities! Although, I fear that even if they did, it would become a baseline for jokes and be just another token. *sigh*

Just a picture perfect day that last a whole lifetime

I have been wanting to see this, since I discovered the trailer, back in the spring. Unfortunately I could never find it listed anywhere in London. I thought I was going to have to wait until it came out on DVD. BUT fortunately the great love of mine, discovered that it is in fact playing here - even better it is playing at the Western Film so it's super cheap! I am pretty excited for our date!

Where everybody knows your name

At the last minute last night, we decided to hit up Rainbow for a late movie! (Two Toonie Tuesday!) We saw "Law Abiding Citizen" which we had pretty low expectations for. I also, was a little hesitant to watch a movie where someone goes around killing police officers, lawyers and judges, but the movie surprised us by being interesting and suspenseful - even a little graphic. They even held back on the cheese - aside from a nearly nude scene of Gerard Butler (which I don't think any women in the audience would protest too loudly) and a fire scene at the end, they kept the cheese safe for the lactose intolerant in the crowd.
Overall a pretty good movie!

After the movie we found out Winks - aka our favorite bar; also has a $3.00 Corona night! Finding this out of course we decided to hit up some of that action! We had a fabulous time despite the Western students that managed to step out of the line for Jacks, just long enough to find out that Winks exists.

We could close the curtains, Pretend like there's no world outside

Colin cooking pancakes!

Ella and I waiting for the pancakes and enjoying some sweet coffee!

Not too sure why we used such a huge plate for the banana with banana's pancakes.


Sunday morning, Colin made me Banana Pancakes to start off our day of hibernation - well except when he played baseball and I went to the grocery store! As I mentioned earlier we later watched "Sleepy Hollow" and then took Ella for a nice long walk, with a trip to Starbucks for some Apple Caramel Cider! All in all the weekend was a huge success.

What's YOUR favorite scary movie?

Saturday night after we returned from the mall and the movies, we decided to have a "Halloween-a-thon" we picked up a few scary movies and some candy and stared the scream fest!
We rented "Drag me to hell", "Scream" and "Sleepy Hallow" and stayed up almost all night watching them! Followed by a few episodes of Entourage so that I could fall asleep afterward!

"Drag me to hell" was really bad. I thought it would be the scariest movie we picked, I expected a lot of gore. It wasn't scary, it was really lame and predictable and Justin Long's character was very boring, and really only there to be a Mac sponsor. I rolled my eyes more than covered them. Since I scare easily, this says a lot about this movie.

I haven't watched scream in years, and it was AWESOME. Scream was the first scary movie I remember seeing, and it still had the same affect on me. I am glad we stuck with a classic for the evening. Something that was nostalgic as well as somewhat scary! (more so when it ends and you are left in the dark with the memory of it!)

We didn't actually get around to watching "Sleepy Hollow" until Sunday night, but it was the perfect end to our Halloween kick off. Plus the ambiance that mother nature produced outside made it perfect for this movie! There is just something about this movie that makes me want to watch it every Halloween. To me the best Halloween movies take place in the 17 or 1800's using folklore or mythology.