With apologies to Dave Edmunds. [and this was only started when it was almost Saturday night; finished on Sunday] I guess, since I haven’t written since Wednesday, and even then was writing about Sunday – we are due for a wrap-up. Wednesday was Mark’s birthday. We took him out for dinner at Pig in a […]
Years ago there was a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon about not just seize the day, seize the day and throttle it. I don’t think it’s this one is exactly – rather than Calvin in the tub, I think it had Hobbes all tattered & torn. I went to the Willy Street Fair on Sunday morning, […]
We got back from Canada on Monday night at about 7:30. It took me until 11:30 to get unpacked and get the furniture De-cat-haired and the countertops De-cat-footprinted. On Tuesday I had hella catch up day at work – the usual, cleaning up email, etc. but I had to get slides ready so I could […]
So like I said, we had dinner out on our second Saturday at TIFF, at Acadia. It’s Southern cooking (like the Acadians who drifted down to Louisiana, Acadian Driftwood) with local ingredients in Little Italy/Portugal in Toronto – so a fusion restaurant for sure. Acadia is not reviewed too well on UrbanSpoon, but it Yelps […]
We had breakfast at the St Lawrence Market. Then headed off to our first movie, a really good movie in one of the kinda sucky Scotia Bank Mall multiplex theaters. The Husband, about a guy who is taking care of his baby while his wife is doing jail time for having sex with a 14-year-old. […]
Friday was a three movie day – starting with The Love Punch at 11:00 at the Elgin. Romantic comedy with Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson as a divorced couple who reunite to steal a diamond from the hedge fund manager who’s stolen Brosnan’s company’s retirement fund. They bring in their next door neighbors, played by […]
When we got home [our airbnb condo home, that is] on Wednesday, around 8:00ish, I tracked my passport to see if it had arrived, and the website said that the driver had tried to deliver it, but could not because there were funds due …. which baffled me, because I knew Rach had NOT sent […]
We got up and secured tickets for Mary Queen of Scots, a 9:00AM show at TIFF Bell Lightbox, the festival’s classy theater. We took the streetcar downtown, and Mark went for tickets, while I went for coffee. The first Starbucks I thought I’d try was in the mall, so not quite open – though […]
Tuesday, we slept in a bit, then walked to the St Lawrence Market and bought eggs, butter, ham, bacon, lettuce, little tomatoes, a few more bagels, a few plums. The we came back to the apartment and had breakfast and headed off for our first movie, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her/Him. It’s kind of […]
I’m going kind of a day behind on these – now writing this post on Tuesday AM, on my iPhone, still in bed at 8:03, tho I could argue that it’s only 7:03 at home in Central time. [at least started; gonna move over to the “real” computer to do the pics] On Monday, we […]