whoa its been a while. after it gets to be too many days it feels overwhelming to write anything so this might be short.
friday morning al and i bought a coffee maker. yup, a brand new delonghi. she sits on our kitchen table. al bought a thermos today so he can set the timer at night and have coffee made in the morning and bring it to work. we bought it with our zellers gift card that we got as a wedding gift.
that night i went to milestones for lisas celebratory dinner (for quitting le shiteau). apparently it was also her five year anniversary and guess what her gift was? a 50 dollar gift card to her own store. thats 83 cents for every month she worked there. i really dont know why she wants to leave but whatevs to each her own. anywas i had a creamy pesto pasta with chicken and it was great but i couldnt finish it. i also ordered a glass of wine and it tasted good but halfway through i had to stop drinking it. it was just too much, it hurt kind of and i got really sleepy. it just wasnt worth it. so i gave it a good home, lisas stomach. here are some pics of everyone at the dinner...including some plastic animals that came with everyones drinks.







the reason theres a bill with a spoon and the word 'fettucine' on it is because we had an awful waitress. she walked up to me and put a spoon in front of my face and said 'fettucine' in the most dead pan of ways, i looked at her confused and she rolled her eyes and said 'you ordered the fettucine?!?!'. obviously im the idiot for not knowing how to react to a spoon in the face.

after the dinner we went to chapters because there was a news report saying that they were charging the american prices. thats a huge deal! so of course after we picked out our books they informed us that the press release was wrong. bait and switch! so i only bought one book, because they gave me 10 percent off. I bought the Moosewood 'new classics' cook book. there are some good recipes in it, and after this halloween season i really need to eat as many veggies as possible (its a vegetarian cook book).
On saturday we had our big trip to barrie. the car ride was stressful, and it was mostly due to me not knowing how to work my ipod. luckily harry is a smart man and he reset it for me. i couldnt get it to play and then it mysteriously disappeared in the car. seriously we looked everywhere and couldnt find it. finally al pulled over somewhere to use the bathroom and i got out of the car and opened both doors and searched everywhere and found it, it slid between the door and my seat.
anna and harry have a beautiful home. it gave me domestic pains. and they have my dream bathroom with a bathtub with jets! so nice. harry did a great job finishing the basement/family room. and theres a cute little nursery for the two little boys anna is hauling around in her belly. we had the greatest lunch i wish i took pics of it. one of my fave things - quesadillas - and a yummy mango salsa. and then the tarts came out, which were really picture worthy but i forgot i had a camera untill we left. there were four and we ate them all - peppermint patty, snickers, raspberry white chocolate cheesecake, and apple cinnamon walnut with a pastry cream. we got them at queen of tarts in roncesvalles. i love that place. so we stayed for a few hours and then i got super hot and loopy. my menopause is in full effect so im going through some weird shit. so we left and spent an hour at the zehrs. what a saturday night!!! we stocked up on halloween candy and i got milk so i could make kraft dinner when we got home. it was a good night, when we got home we just ate dinner and chilled out. heres a pic of anna, harry, shanty and the babies in the belly. and zehrs!!!!!




we went to bed early so we could rest up for the greatest brunch know to man. in toronto anyways.
the hot house brunch was effing incredible. i ate soooo much. and not only do they have every breakfast food imagineable, they put out lunch items too, like my fave pastas! man alive, and the quality of food was so good, and there was live jazz and the coffee was good too, although it should have been included in the price. heres some pics of satisfied brunchers...


Lisa - the eating failure


The Ferrante sisters - eating champs holding the prestigious silver fork awards.





afterwards, alex lisa and i walked around bay and bloor area and saw lars and the real girl. it was soooo good. i laughed a lot, teared up a bit too. it was well done, except i found that the ending could have been a tiny bit tighter. i enjoyed the ending, it just seemed as though the pacing really changed at the end, as if they were editing it and a producer came in and was like 'youre only getting 20 more minutes of screen time so wrap it up'. like maybe a little bit of story was sacrificed, or missing at least? otherwise, i really recommend seeing it.

i also bought a sweet touque. there was a snag so i got a discount. here it is....




it looks pretty cute in real life. heres a picture of what alex thought it was going to look like. i put it on the wrong way when we left the store and she was trying her hardest to pretend to not hate it but her face kind of gave her thoughts away. then i caught a reflection of myself in the mirror and was like 'whoa i look retarded'. then i explained to her that i had it on wrong and she was relieved.


ok im going to make a pb and banana sandwich this friggin blog took forever to write. and im going to go cuddle furley she might have ear mites :(