Happy (belated) Christmas! And a Happy New Year as well!
So decided I should have a proper Xmas posting to report on holidays. I recently quit my job at the evil place (beginning of December) so I was able to hang out with my friend L who came in from Honkers. Lots of fun was had including walking all over the downtown, going to the museum (the MFA here is quite cool and FREE! Unlike something called the ROM). We didn't see the entire museum collection because I started to get dizzy. L didn't bring his boots to Mtl (crazy!). Outside was like and is like a giant ice rink. Anybody thinking of coming to Montreal ought to bring PROPER BOOTS.
We had dinner at boy's place (boy made curry), at my place (we made pizza and caeser salad) and at Au Pied du Cochon which specializes in pig's trotters and foie gras and the uber Montreal Schwartz's. Lots and lots of fat was consumed as was chocolate. Good times over all. L left during a snow storm and arrived back to Toronto a couple hours late due to the gods and Via Rail. Despite the fact that I LIVE next to St. Joseph's Oratory, we didn't make it up there! We did make it to Marché Jean Talon where foie gras, sausage, and maple syrup was purchased by L for the voyage home to HK. I got myself a box of oysters (I have been training self on opening them...NOT EASY!!) and sausage. Boy is not particularly keen on foie gras (crazy crazy boy!).
Boy and I had Xmas dinner with Amelie her bf and her Frenchie friend C. Duck, foie gras, lots of wine, caeser salad (boy's idea) and Christmas cookies were on the menu. Lots of mild drunkenness. The weather was crap outside (started to rain after several days of accumulated snow fall). After it got dark, it froze over so boy and I walked home (luckily just about three minutes away) trying not to slip on large vats of ice. Yes Ames and her bf now live literally a stone's throw away, they can see my apartment from their window.
Xmas day, Ames left for la belle patrie and boy and I opened prezzies. He got me a humidifier (my skin has been angry at dryness of Canadian indoors due to dryness in general + indoor heating), rolling pin (yay!), hazelnuts and chocolate (large large gift). I only got him a mixer but quite a nice one with two kinds of attachments (one for beating and one for whisking), a carrying case and all that jazz. Boy took me out for a movie (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and then we tried to track down Chinese food for a Jewish Christmas but all the decentish Chinese restos appeared to be packed (leaving the yucky Chinese buffet). So we went home and had the last of the dumplings with udon (yum!) and some nice sausage and cheese (basically a forage in the fridge).
Today must clean apartment and want to do laundry maybe (hmmmm....) and make a banana cake.
PS I called mum and she sounded happy to hear from me. Called everyone else. Plans for New Years? Maybe roast chicken and mash for dinner and a nice bottle of tipple (already bought) for celebration-time come on! Unless someone has a better idea.....
We had dinner at boy's place (boy made curry), at my place (we made pizza and caeser salad) and at Au Pied du Cochon which specializes in pig's trotters and foie gras and the uber Montreal Schwartz's. Lots and lots of fat was consumed as was chocolate. Good times over all. L left during a snow storm and arrived back to Toronto a couple hours late due to the gods and Via Rail. Despite the fact that I LIVE next to St. Joseph's Oratory, we didn't make it up there! We did make it to Marché Jean Talon where foie gras, sausage, and maple syrup was purchased by L for the voyage home to HK. I got myself a box of oysters (I have been training self on opening them...NOT EASY!!) and sausage. Boy is not particularly keen on foie gras (crazy crazy boy!).
Boy and I had Xmas dinner with Amelie her bf and her Frenchie friend C. Duck, foie gras, lots of wine, caeser salad (boy's idea) and Christmas cookies were on the menu. Lots of mild drunkenness. The weather was crap outside (started to rain after several days of accumulated snow fall). After it got dark, it froze over so boy and I walked home (luckily just about three minutes away) trying not to slip on large vats of ice. Yes Ames and her bf now live literally a stone's throw away, they can see my apartment from their window.
Xmas day, Ames left for la belle patrie and boy and I opened prezzies. He got me a humidifier (my skin has been angry at dryness of Canadian indoors due to dryness in general + indoor heating), rolling pin (yay!), hazelnuts and chocolate (large large gift). I only got him a mixer but quite a nice one with two kinds of attachments (one for beating and one for whisking), a carrying case and all that jazz. Boy took me out for a movie (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and then we tried to track down Chinese food for a Jewish Christmas but all the decentish Chinese restos appeared to be packed (leaving the yucky Chinese buffet). So we went home and had the last of the dumplings with udon (yum!) and some nice sausage and cheese (basically a forage in the fridge).
Today must clean apartment and want to do laundry maybe (hmmmm....) and make a banana cake.
PS I called mum and she sounded happy to hear from me. Called everyone else. Plans for New Years? Maybe roast chicken and mash for dinner and a nice bottle of tipple (already bought) for celebration-time come on! Unless someone has a better idea.....