Some days I'm confronted with the reality that I need to leave this city. I love the whole atmosphere of Toronto but everything is so painfully familiar here that I think I have to get a new start somewhere else. ANYWHERE else ( Read more... )

It has been about a year since I declared I would change my lifestyle which I did. However, for the passed three months it's been pretty much out the window. Yesterday I went to the gym and fortunately I had only gained a few pounds since I'd last gone and fortunately I've stayed 10 pounds under what I weighed last year but now it is time to get ( Read more... )

Stephen Harper cancelled the dress rehearsal to my recital. That's right: the Canadian Prime Minister. He apparently had to use the hall (in which I was supposed to be playing) in order to show off that he cares about the arts and play two variations of the main theme of Pachabel's Canon on the piano. Any words to describe my thoughts on the matter ( Read more... )

I have two auditions for two summer programs in the next two days. One is the National Academy Orchestra of Canada and the other is The AIMS Orchestra in Graz, Austria. Both would be amazing. One pays, the other gives me an excuse to go to Europe. In both situations I would be learning a whole slew of orchestral rep and getting some opera ( Read more... )

Apparently my parents might move to either California or North Carolina when they retire depending on the economy and where my brother and I end up. Lately I've come to the realization that there's a really great chance I won't be living in this city for my.. you know life... and now my parents aren't even going to be here. This is my hometown ( Read more... )

To beat the winter blues I'm in the process of creating a "odd street people" bingo. I need to come up with 24 odd street people. So far I've got 15 ( Read more... )

Now that I have a super clean apartment I've been looking into decorating it. I found a website that sells wall decals that look like TTC station signage and I'm trying to decide which one to go with.

The obvious choice would be Ossington which is the station I live at. Also Glencairn or Eglinton for where I grew up... Along the lines of that I ( Read more... )

I think now that I've aged I've figured out the equilibrium to obtain a net benefit whenever my mother's involved in something ( Read more... )

Let's see how I tallied up this year!

1. As per usual: lose about 15 pounds (all that holiday wine)
Well damn... I actually gained about 25 pounds this year and I've lost a good 15 of that but there's still more to trek on with. I will be lighter next year damnit!

2. Read even MORE books
I did read more books. I read Love in the Time of Cholera. I ( Read more... )

Today I made fondue for the first time ( Read more... )