Sunday, April 16, 2006

Declaration

This is my official declaration:

Jamie, you are a much better checkers player than I!!

Congratulations! Enjoy the win!

And, other than winning the agreed on wager, I'll also give you that tie!

:D

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Sushi Culture: A Japanese Experience

Long Easter Weekend

Friday was spent with Tanja, Del and the boys at my parent's house for a turkey dinner and my sister's 30th birthday. Part of her gift from me were a pair of shoes, unfortunately in true Weenie style I bought a pair with two different sizes, so I could only give her one of the shoes. My Mom had made a Ferrero Rocher cake which turned out really well, and Dad's turkey was, as always, great. It was a good afternoon/evening.

Afterwards Asili and I headed down to Whitby to visit Bobbi for the rest of the weekend. The night was spent in good company in a checkers battle, I won't go into details, the appropriate person knows who currently holds the championship title.

For lunch today Bobbi and I went to a Japanese restaurant called Sushi Culture, hence the title of the blog. OMG, it was SOOOOOOO good. Actually made me miss Japan while we were there. Started with gyoza (fried dumplings), which the city I lived in while over there was famous for, that were great!, then moved on to yakitori (chicken skewers smothered in teriyaki sauce) which were fabulous, then on to the main course. I had Japanese Curry (MMMMmmm spot on to what you'd get over there - remember the good curry restaurant in the train station Jayson? Just like that) and Bobbi had a beef teriyaki combo. Needless to say we left stuffed, but it was completely worth it.....so good!!! Oh and not to forget the miso soup and salad that came with the meals. We were both very impressed by the place. Can't wait to go again!!!

Forgot to mention how my day started. The second time I was taking Asili downstairs to go out, Bobbi came with me. While waiting for the elevator a guy came over to greet Asili and she flipped out over it (still REALLY timid and gets freaked out by people she doesn't know). The elevator was packed when we got on at the 16th floor, went down two floors and it stopped to let more people on. :S One guy immediately got off it was too much to handle for him, we were crammed in there (almost as bad as the subways in Tokyo at rush hour)....so a guy and his two kids and a dog get on. This is too much for Asili....it's suddenly feeling very warm down my leg...oh yes, Asili has peed all over me....nice! What do I say? "She just pissed all over me!!!!"....Bobbi didn't hear me so I repeated myself louder in utter shock...an adult says: "Is that piss on the floor!?!"...the little boy who had gotten on at the 14th floors comes to my aid: "Nah, I don't that's pee, I think that's water". I love that kid. Thank you kid where ever you now are!!

So we make it off the elevator and outside before Bobbi loses it laughing. Needless to say we took the stairs up on the way back. I was too scared to tempt the elevator again before we went out for lunch, so I carried 20+lbs Asili down 16 flights and we used the stairs to come back up again. I'll be feeling that come tomorrow I'm sure. I've since gotten over it though and have gone back to using the elevator.

Oh the excitement of waiting to see what the rest of the weekend holds!!!

Monday, April 03, 2006

What I've been up to...

I don't know....seems before I sat down to write this I had so much planned to say. Now I can't really remember anything at all that would be remotely interesting or exciting.

Asili is now up to 20lbs. She's finished all her puppy shots; she doesn't have to go get another until next year. Though in a month and a half to two months I will take her in to be fixed. She's also lost a few teeth now too.

Work is still going well, the annual general meeting went well. I didn't do anything embarrassing and my speech went well. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be to have to speak in front of all those professional adults! LOL, maybe that means I'm slowly becoming an adult? Or is it just that I'm more comfortable around them? Some times I wonder if I'll ever feel grown up...Bobbi and I have had this conversation many of times.

A few weeks ago I went to the ballet with my Mom at the casino. It was "Swan Lake". I have to say I really enjoyed it! The orchestra was great and the dancers beautiful!

I went down to Toronto for Melissa's birthday a few weekends ago. Went out to dinner with a group of her friends from down there, then back to her place for drinks. The next day we went to The Ethiopian House for lunch. It was so good!! And you get no cutlery, you just use this pancakey type thing to scoop up the food. Like I said though, I really enjoyed it and it was delicious!

This past weekend I met up with Al and we went for dinner and to a movie and Saturday I spent with Jamie-Lee shopping around Barrie. Also made my first visit to The Home Depot. It was so exciting!!! So many cool things to see!

And I guess that brings me to today...had a surprise visit from Donald who came up from Toronto. And he had a surprise for me! A WHOLE case of FANTA!!! How exciting is that!! You can safely bet I've been enjoying it since I got home from work. Mmmm Fanta...will need to pick up some Vodka ;)

Here's a picture from the last time my sister, Ty, Asili and I went to the park: