Summer Vacation!

I had the opportunity to take a few days off and enjoy Summer 2012.  I have been off since last Friday and I STILL have a nice long weekend ahead of me back in Toronto.

We began our travels on Saturday- myself and Cdawg, Bolt and Niki.  

We got to the beautiful Bruce Peninsula and of course HAD to go see WILLIE EMERGING for a quick photo-op:

 

We headed north from Wiarton and arrived just in time for some pre-dinner cocktails, and then dinner at my moms.  Pete made homemade, fried Bass.  De-friggin-licious.   

There have been some moments as of late where I feel maybe I will once again give up fish in my diet (not sure how "right" abot it I feel).  Let me tell you PETE'S BASS was not one of those times.  So.  Good.  

Mom also made (my fav) Spinach Lasagna and we ate like kings.

We then headed back to our sleeping abode (Grammas old house) and had a wee fire.

Also on the agenda was a trip next door to visit Mo.

I have talked about MO before here.  Well Mo's pen has some new additions!  A Jenny and a Baby!

 

BOLT had to leave us the next day but Lil Kel, Tiffy and Baby D joined us on Sunday for Canada Day.

We hot hit the beach and put a pringle on Lil Kels bum while she rested HOPING, PRAYING that a shithawk may land and take it away:

No such luck though. :(


In the evening we had another nice dinner and THEN
We had a reaaaal big fire!

HAPPY CANADA DAY BABY D!

On Monday we headed toward Port Elgin to see C Dawgs family.  Gladly, we stopped by the Saugeen First Nations Amphitheater on the way to stretch our legs.
This place was so lovely and serene. 

Someone get married there so I can go back

Once we arrived and showed NIKI around the Port (equals poutine and ice cream at the beach) we bid adieu to Niki and spent 3 wonderful days in the Port.

C dawgs sister Tracey and the kiddies came up as well.  There was beach time a-plenty, and a very necessary visit with Clint and Maggie`s fam.  I HEART Clint and Maggie. Such goodness going on there.  Also I want their house.  And their humungo yard..... I`ll take the hammock

During our time in Port Elgin we ate some good food, had some good visits, but my very favorite would have to be riding around the town on these pretty ancient bicycyles like a pair of teenagers.

Swoon.

 

It is so wonderful to get away ....  But there is something JUST as sweet as coming home.

Especially to a tuxedo cat (who was well taken care of during our absence) rubbing his lil` head against my feets and legs.

Weekend / Work mishaps

I am really looking forward to this-

Also, yesterday when in communicado with a CLIENT, I emailed her the link to THIS:

...Instead of ... well- the link which related in any way to WORK.



The best news was her response:

"I think you attached the wrong link – you should click on it though it’s pretty funny!


LOL :)
Thanks"

 

THREE!

Zumba + KZ equals ouch.

....And not in the muscles-aching kind of way.  I believe when we were "rolling on a river" (thrashing head upside down and right), I may have injured my brain.

Because, my lovelies, after the class I walked home, had a quick shower and BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE
throbbing headache- full on!

The bastard stayed with me all night, past the delicious supper I couldn't eat, into the night, and when I woke up... Still. 

There.

It subsided during the day but still lingered.  

And then again this morning- 

STILL. 

THERE.  

I do believe that -thinking this was all due to dehydration- I drank the equivalent to Lake Superior in just under 20 hours.

I have now temporarily cleared it with my strong cuppa Typhoo and I THINK it may be gone forever.

Here's hoping.

HERE'S HOPING IS RIGHT, BECAUSE soon enough, on their way to the big city is my MOM (Also known as MARMIE) and SIS (Also known as Lil' Kel). 
That's right, it's girls + C dawg loong-ass weekend!


So far I have only planned our visit until tomorrow at NOON.  I suck at "planning".  
We are gong to eat scrumptious brunch foods at FANNYS and then off to get Pedicures!  


Somewhere in there some bubbles will be drank.  
And while my mom doesn't know it yet --it happens to be a certain special anniversary for the boys at our local watering hole on Saturday and so a trip to KILGOUR'S in in the cards.


I mean it wouldn't be "showing my Marmie my way of livin'" weekend without one! 


 I leave you with this old clip from a great show which has nothing to do with this blog post.  Just CUZ.

i have a crush .....

I have a confession to make.

C dawg and I can get addicted to a particular genre of teevee, this changing from month-to-month.

Sometimes it is a certain old syndicated sitcom, or ANY kind of cooking competition, right NOW it is auction hunting-type shows shows.....

Several weeks ago it began with us watching home improvement shows- one after another- mostly with Mike Holmes.

And then one day we happened to stumble across this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEw3hxZAlao

And we went on to watch.  I went on to swoon.

I mean hes adorable right???? (right??)

Plus he looks dang good for 53.

I don't know.  Maybe it was the wine-high, the fact that he's super creative and passionate....maybe it's his tee-shirts and his bandana- but let the truth be known:  I have a serious (female) hard-on for Balki Bartokomous.

That was then

This is now....Hel-lo

Who is this guy?

think mid-nighties

Chicky Chicky Parm Parm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OhJJR8nBl4

(Another) Weekend in Waterloo.

Friday night I got in a tad late but was able to paint some with Bolt and Debby at Nikis NEW place.

The rest of the weekend consisted of sister time.

We did some walking, some shopping but mostly some 90210-ing.

Remember Brandons ex- Nikki?  Well I bought me some "Nikki-pants".  I can't find a pic of these pants, but her character used to wear big ol' silky-like tenty things.  They are uber-comfy for the hot summer.....And now I can say I own "Nikki-pants"

Hmmmm what else occurred on the Bev Hills front?

Well, seeing as though we spent a large majority watching this in all it's glory ----Alot happened.

Brenda ALMOST ran away and married some gapped-toothed creeper whom she has zero actual chemistry with:

And more frightening than that is I came upon this beauty:

...when trying to locate a pic of this guy.  It's from someones LIVE JOURNAL.  They must obviously disagree with my whole zero chemistry theory.

And then, there was the RETURN OF EMILY VALENTINE.

Brandon met her 2 years prior looking all:

But then runs off to SAN FRAN to find her looking  (more like, not exactly) this:

Anyways, Of COURSE they're all in love and shit again RIGHT AWAY ... until she reveals that she's moving to Paris.  See ya!

Ok, I have now stepped out of the boob toob to the remainder of the weekend.

BABY D's BIRTHDAY EXTRAVAGANZA.

"Fresh" from a nap. Birthday girl Daliza.

It ain't a party without:


bijon frises in the mix 

Good people

 

Spilling white wine spritz on my sundress:

 And finally- A Piñata!!!

Brother Rob got it up and ready to go

Baby D takes the first swing

Caiden joins in

Ryder GIVES ER

Adelina with her mallet.
AHEM....Prior to this- she ALSO had a mullet.  Mom told us all about the little stinker cutting her OWN hair recently, hehe. 
Here she is all fixed up with a MALLET only, no MULLET

Those kids blew Dora's head right off!


And the best shot of the day goes to:

BABY D- look at that Hand-eye coordination!

The Kumar clan (complete with MOMMY G) showed up just in time to drive my arse homewards.  Many party goers made their way out front to see the newest baby- Chetan.

He was, of course a show stopper. 

Now they have seen how wonderful he is IN REAL LIFE

Nice work again, my pals.

A Baby, a BBQ and one Giant Pussy!

Seriously?  Can you GET any cuter?

 Oh you may JUST have done it!

This child is perfect. I could stare at him all day.  The parents are also gorgeous so I suppose I know where it comes from.  

We had a DELICIOUS BBQ with the Kumars over the weekend.  Sweet potato "wedges" (teehee), Greek salad, Burgers etc.  (Steak for the steakies).  SO delish!

 Meanwhile in awkward land....

 "Baby, take a picture of me near this flower"

 

 "And this giant cat..."

We spent last weekend mostly outdoors. How AMAZING was that May 24 holiday weekend?  

"So amazing" is the correct answer.

We were attempting to break-free from the city and head over to the islands, but unfortunately so was the half of Torontonians that stayed in the city over the weekend.  It was a NO GO.  We waited for a Water Taxi for some time before giving up and just decided to walk around the lakeshore.  The above shot is at PAWSWAY where they also have a Purina Hall of Fame featuring our fuzzy friends (and 1 horse!) who have saved peoples lives.

There was a cat in like, 1969 named JIGGS, that saved a family in Wiarton.

Whadda (sweet bud) Hero!

 

Yummy.  Streetcar boy.

 This was our view much of Monday when we went down to Christie Pitts park to bask in the glory ..... and play some cribbage.  Cuz we're super lame that way (the good way).

 Baby and his space phone.

 So that was the weekend...... and this week was SUPPOSED to feel short but it really didn't.  

Jenna and I ditched our pilates class yesterday to lay in the park and saw these naked people:

 

Good times.

Whhhhhats new?

Going backwards in time.  It's called "whats been going on...."

Mother's Day weekend!  Well, Neither C dawg or I got to see our mommies this weekend as they are a tad far away HOWEVER we did manage to get out of the city for a nice Kdubs visit. We EVEN had the priviledge of getting a lift down there with my favorite family of 3.

JUST LOOK AT THIS FACE:

NIIIICE work Kumars!

We had a "BBQ" at Kel and Robs (read: snicky snacks, mostly cheese) and had some good-ass people over there.

I had very high expectations for the weather but Mother Nature decided to cool er down a bit more than I would have liked.  So it was "Leather-Jacket-Outdoors-times" into the evening until we all got too chilly and pulled a complete 180 by lighting a fire inside!

The next day however- the sun was a shining and we got out to play 9 holes of golfy:

Yes yes ok LIL KEL you totally win that PHOTO COMPETITION.

Backwards we go to last week's work karaoke extravaganza.

We started off with the crew at CLINTONs before heading upstairs (at just after 7PM, by the way) to XO Karaoke.  We got the BIG room.

SISTERS

DANCERS

SINGERS

KZ-ers

Good times had by all (I think).

Moving along, there was a lover-ly wedding brunch for my good pal Neeners.

They got a beau-tiful Sunday in Mississauga to share and spread their love all about.

Kick ass brunch-foods we're had.

And some MIMOSAS

MJ MMMMimosa

GORG (her, not me)

Coupla cuties

 

US!

Well that about sums up the last coupla weeks I suppose.

I swears I'll be back sooner than later. BBQ this weekend with my buds- will take pics!

Cheeeeers.

Question of the day- would you make fun of C and I for getting a cat sitter (2 visits) when being away for about 30 hours????

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