Since Ed’s bachelor party was on Canadian Thanksgiving weekend, we missed out on having a thanksgiving feast with our friends, so we are making up for it tonight.
I love that we can throw together an impromtu dinner party at Trondee’s house in a matter of days and it is always a good time!
I will be truly sad when these dinners go on hiatus during Chress’ and Trondee’s adventures abroad. But I know that when we all reconnect it will be just the same 🙂
After the Santa Claus Parade, it becomes acceptable to start thinking about Christmas. The city starts to be illuminated with bazillions of lights, the Bay windows are unveiled, the Christmas music is playing in the malls.
I was excited yesterday to remember that with Christmas, comes coffee places adding Christmas flavours into hot chocolate. The best is still Second Cup peppermint white hot chocolate, but I am always game to try new ones. And last night I had the gingerbread hot chocolate at Tim Horton’s, it was “interesting”, both mom and Jon seemed delighted by the strange concoction.
Additionally, I love Christmas flavoured ice creams too. Even though I just want one bowl of it. And Ed always groans and moans when I get excited about the newest release. I do truly like the peppermint fudge crackle from President’s Choice, but I agree that one year I had an eggnog one, it was in there till June.
YEAH Christmas flavourings!!!!
I can feel myself rising up from my bridal brain mush, like a newlywed phoenix. There were a great few months spent thinking only of red and aqua details, entertaining our guests and throwing the best damn wedding we could afford!
Now I am ready for the next challenges and details that will occupy that brain space.
As I re-charged my i-pod this morning, I realize that I need a new set of running music to get me back to full force. And with that energy, I hope that soon there will be no looking back from the next whirlwind adventure.
p.s. I will be writing about the honeymoon diary soon enough
I am challenging myself to do a blog a day from now till New Years, by then it will hopefully become habit.
Today is our one month wedding anniversary! We survived! “They say the first month is the hardest…” Ha! if only every month could be started with a fabulous trip to Asia. We are going to celebrate by trying a highly recommended Thai restaurant called Sukhothai – just like the hotel we went went in Bangkok was called Sukhothai Hotel.
With the holiday season approaching, a few things to think about, eggnog, baking, decorating and making a wish list.
well, I clearly missed the boat on writing about our wedding adventures, now that it is is half way through November and nearly a month since our wedding day…
I even missed out on writing about our honeymoon, sheesh, what a lazy ass I am!
I will try and be a little more persistent in writing about our actual lives.
We arrived home from our 3 weeks in Asia in a daze and love for HK. We have actually discussed moving their and the adventures we could have…tho I think the adventure we are having here is just as invigorating, tho comfortable.
Our domestic adventures begin with our new appliances, our need for creative storage solutions and of course our daily episodes with our furry babies.
And what has finished to be an awesome day, we are now on our honeymoon now.
Here are some pictures from the amazingness
http://ikonica.smugmug.com/Weddings/Jennifer-Edmond/10142563_tZRCK
http://360.smugmug.com/Family/Jenn-and-Ed-wedding/10108751_Gvhhf#694351425_zoS6k
So what has become a tradition amongst JED, is the usual drinking of beer on this special day. This year we decided to try and plan out a lot of destinations downtown since everything is very close to eachother. I had mapped out about 10 different bars/pubs that we could go to, however we only ended up going to about 4 [that’s the nature of the pub crawl, you can only go as far as you can drink].
The [late] afternoon started off at the Duke of Westminister. We met up with people there and Jenn was getting a bit angry because the beer that was given to us wasn’t “green”. Also, the first pitcher took a while to arrive at our table since there were technical difficulties with the keg. We ended up sitting in the dining area which is very different/upscale compared to the bar area. After 2 pitchers, we decided to head out onto the next destination. We arrived at Fionn Mcool’s thinking that we could possibly get a patio table since it was fairly warm out, but too cold for some people to stay outside. Alas, it was full and there was already a line up that ended up at the sidewalk. So we continued onto destination #3, Elephant and Castle. As we figured, the place was rammed, but we managed to get a couple seats at the bar and just hovered around there. By now, Jenn was having a “good time” [i.e. Asian glow was upon her] and we met up with some more people. We finally had our 4 or so pitchers of green beer which basically made the night. After this we were determined to get food, however some newcomers to the party needed a pint since they arrived late to the Elephant & Castle. We made an unexpected stop at Lone Star and grabbed 2 pitchers there. For dinner we headed to the wonderful golden arches to fill our bellies with nice greasy food. We ended up heading east on Front to C’est What, where we were turned down quickly saying they were at capacity. Although I do think that they turned us down rather quickly, I do suspect something was fishy. We ended up waiting in line next door at the Jersey Giant and finishing our last pint there. Feeling pretty much done for the night, this was the last stop. Our drinking went from a pint in about 10 minutes to a pint in about an hour. You know its the end of the night when things come to a halt like that.
Also to finish a great night, Jenn was able to scam some free swag from the Jersey Giant!
So here I begin my reviews. Ok, so I’m no professional reviewer or food connoisseur, but this is for to remember, review, and reflect. [ha! That was lame]
Easy [a.k.a The Fifth]
So this wasn’t my first time going to Easy on last Friday, but I do think that each time has been a jolly good ol time and this time was no different. One thing about winter clubbing is that you can virtually get into any club because no one wants to club in the winter. Anyhow, the usual Friday $10 cover applies, but drinks are $3.50 until 12pm. This applies to all of your normal brand liquors [vodka, rum, gin etc]. Without the cover I would add this place to my top cheap-o drink places, but you still can’t beat $3.50 drinks in TO. I am always quite surprised and impressed with the DJ at Easy. With mixes of hip-hop [yes, I did go nuts when they played the Lil Wayne song, but that’s because I’m on a Lil Wayne craze…stupid Troy], rock, stupid Britney songs [Jenise and Jenn made it a point to have more “fun” during these songs], 80’s and dance music. Each song was not overplayed so you didn’t feel like a set was going for too long and the DJ did a good job [yes, this is his/her job so they should be good at it] at blending each song/beat quite nicely. The overall feeling of the night [crowd, music, drinks] was a night to be remembered and probably another night to be had.
And also not to forget that nothing quite beats a good night out but finishing it off with a big bowl of Pho..mmmm
So after almost 3 hours of tweaking, troubleshooting and getting it back to where it should be, I’ve upgraded JED to 2.7.1. For a small point release, this upgrade was painful and horrifying. I would think for an application that has been around for awhile, they would have fixed most of the unix file permission issues when installing/upgrading/FTP’ing. However, I was getting error after error and with my limited linux knowledge it was quite frustrating. After almost giving up, I figured I would try re-installing a plugin manually [copy to plugin in directory, and activate] and voila! It works.
Sigh…
Note to self….never again
Anyways…so my knees are hurting. I think I’m getting old. I’m trying random leg stretching/strengthing exercises and I don’t know if it is making things worse, or if it’s actually helping. Leg lifts at work seem like a good idea, however I think my head bobs up and down after each rep. I hope my co-workers don’t think I’m nuts. I think I need new shoes….
well after only my second wedding dress shopping excursion I bought a dress. I really didn’t think it would happen so soon. I figured it would get to the point where it was annoying mom that I hadn’t made a decision and we would have a fight about making a choice, just like when we bought our condo. But it was truly amazing. After arriving at the Woodbridge Bridal plaza, we started investigating the different boutiques. At the first store, the dresses were starting around $6k…so I tried some on for fun. And that really mdae me want to buy the Bride’s Project dress. While we were there we learned all the tricks of how to clip a wedding dress. For me they clipped it to my bra, so that it looks done up, even though it is too small. Then some other chick but on a size 6 and had to clip it cause it was too BIG! Hate her! Anyway, on to the next store. It was a 50% off discount store with dresses priced under $1000, such a huge difference. But sadly, they were all hideous. Now onto, Chez Jordan…at this time I was getting a little unmotivated from the aggressive sales people and the multitude of dresses I had tried on. So Jamie and I picked a few more, and so did the sales lady and mom. So I started out trying no 5 more dresses. The first one, had a corset, which made me want to buy the Bride’s Project dress and add a corset. And the sales lady said “oh, that is your dress” and I thought, you are sneaky! So onto the next dress, I put it on, and it was lovely. And I thought well good to know. Then I went back into the dressing room for dress number 3. After putting on dress #3, I thought how much is dress #2? I was thinking it was going to be out of range. But it was $1150. uuuummm…ok, that is reasonable. So mom and I look at each other and say, “maybe I should give that one another try” I put it on once again, and walk out. Step on the step stool and they tighten it up. Then they get a veil. The first one’s colour didn’t match, so they go and get the ivory one. Just then mom starts crying! And we knew it was the one. This of course made our already poor bargaining skills have even less merit. In the dressing room we discuss putting off buying it and how to get a better deal. In the end, I got it with no tax. So I am quite pleased 🙂