Weekend Update
Another full weekend! I think that this is just the way things are going to be over the next couple of months. It's great, but I'm exhausted!
Friday:
- off work! yay!
- Dog park with Meg and Ginger.
- Returned a dress at Plum, bought a new one (bottom right, in yellow and black). It came in green/black, but resisted the urge to buy it because I already own a printed emerald green and black dress. It was hard, but the yellow one looked better on me anyway.
- Perogy night at the Ukrainian Church at Main and 10th with some clerks and clerk friends. OMGSOGOOD! We're SO doing that again!
- Drinks at Sigz. odd, small place. Good company (same perogy crew).
Saturday:
- Marriage Prep class, part 2 of 3. Less enjoyable than part 1, but not bad. Topics discussed: God in your marriage, getting married in the church (what to expect, what needs to be done, etc), what happens AFTER the wedding. The "getting married in the church" portion made me glad that we're not getting married at that particular church - the associate priest is quite, uh...jaded.
- quick stop at jewellery place in Kits. While parking, we had a run in with an absolutely idiotic cyclist (who was getting yelled at by mulitple people, it appeared). 99.99% chance she will be struck by a car within the next 12 months - I guarantee it.
- walk at an off-leash area at the top of Heritage Mountain. It was nice to find an entire off-leash trail to walk with Tess so we could get some exercise, too.
- Hon's take-out. Chicken wings in spicy salt, fried rice noodles with beef, chicken potsticker. mmmmmmmm.
- Poker tournament at Paul and Ashley's (friends of Meg and Dave). Tournament was weird and kinda disorganized, but it was nice to play with humans again. I really miss playing poker. I don't even play online anymore :( (G and I have chosen to spend time together, rather than play, but still...I miss it.) Greg got drunk off cheap beer.
Sunday:
- Greg made blueberry buttermilk pancakes that were SO GOOD. Seriously yum.
- first dragonboat practice (missing nearly half the team. ugh. this isn't going to be good). It was so nice to be on the water again. I really enjoyed DB back in the day, and rowing after that. I hope that getting back into it will motivate me to do this every year, even if we don't put together our own team. I'm pretty darn sore, though. I forgot how hard it is on my wrists, and didn't even think about my back. Oh well.
- walk at Vanier followed by the dog park. The dog park there is awesome. It's not quite as nice as Buntzen, but it had a lot of Tess-appropriate dogs (i.e. dogs of all sizes that are used to small, spunky dogs that think they're bigger than they are) who were willing to play with her.
- poutine (and a smokey for me) at Belgian Fries. mmmmmmmmm/uuuuuuuuuuuugh.
- naps (all of us, at different times)
- watched bits and pieces of the crazy Stars/Sharks game.
A very good weekend. The busy part was mostly self-made I suppose, and I like it. I like that we rarely sit around on weekends anymore. I think that Tess forces us to get off our asses and be more active.
Friday:
- off work! yay!
- Dog park with Meg and Ginger.
- Returned a dress at Plum, bought a new one (bottom right, in yellow and black). It came in green/black, but resisted the urge to buy it because I already own a printed emerald green and black dress. It was hard, but the yellow one looked better on me anyway.
- Perogy night at the Ukrainian Church at Main and 10th with some clerks and clerk friends. OMGSOGOOD! We're SO doing that again!
- Drinks at Sigz. odd, small place. Good company (same perogy crew).
Saturday:
- Marriage Prep class, part 2 of 3. Less enjoyable than part 1, but not bad. Topics discussed: God in your marriage, getting married in the church (what to expect, what needs to be done, etc), what happens AFTER the wedding. The "getting married in the church" portion made me glad that we're not getting married at that particular church - the associate priest is quite, uh...jaded.
- quick stop at jewellery place in Kits. While parking, we had a run in with an absolutely idiotic cyclist (who was getting yelled at by mulitple people, it appeared). 99.99% chance she will be struck by a car within the next 12 months - I guarantee it.
- walk at an off-leash area at the top of Heritage Mountain. It was nice to find an entire off-leash trail to walk with Tess so we could get some exercise, too.
- Hon's take-out. Chicken wings in spicy salt, fried rice noodles with beef, chicken potsticker. mmmmmmmm.
- Poker tournament at Paul and Ashley's (friends of Meg and Dave). Tournament was weird and kinda disorganized, but it was nice to play with humans again. I really miss playing poker. I don't even play online anymore :( (G and I have chosen to spend time together, rather than play, but still...I miss it.) Greg got drunk off cheap beer.
Sunday:
- Greg made blueberry buttermilk pancakes that were SO GOOD. Seriously yum.
- first dragonboat practice (missing nearly half the team. ugh. this isn't going to be good). It was so nice to be on the water again. I really enjoyed DB back in the day, and rowing after that. I hope that getting back into it will motivate me to do this every year, even if we don't put together our own team. I'm pretty darn sore, though. I forgot how hard it is on my wrists, and didn't even think about my back. Oh well.
- walk at Vanier followed by the dog park. The dog park there is awesome. It's not quite as nice as Buntzen, but it had a lot of Tess-appropriate dogs (i.e. dogs of all sizes that are used to small, spunky dogs that think they're bigger than they are) who were willing to play with her.
- poutine (and a smokey for me) at Belgian Fries. mmmmmmmmm/uuuuuuuuuuuugh.
- naps (all of us, at different times)
- watched bits and pieces of the crazy Stars/Sharks game.
A very good weekend. The busy part was mostly self-made I suppose, and I like it. I like that we rarely sit around on weekends anymore. I think that Tess forces us to get off our asses and be more active.