Weekend Recap: Days for the Ladies

Friday

After work I scooted down to the closest Godiva Chocolatier. Mother’s Day was approaching and my mother likes chocolates. Okay, maybe ‘likes’ is an understatement. She’s willing to inflict pain on those who would stand in between her and chocolate.

I did my usual picking out of 8 pairs of chocolate truffles. As I paid, I was given four boxes of chocolates (some sort of prepackaged chocolate domes or something) on the house. Godiva was doing some Mother’s Day promotion. Spend so much money, get so much chocolate free. Now, what am I going to do with all this chocolate?

I MSNed with my buddy Columbia from New York City. Always nice to hear (well, read) from him.

Friday was one of those days were I was feeling fat. Probably had something to do with the Tim Hortons maple promotions. Regardless, I have to refocus myself on tightening.

At night, a bunch of us (Bob, Chrissy & Boston) met up to celebrate Janet’s birthday.

(If anybody is curious, this is the birthday I was trying to shop for last weekend. I eventually got out again and shopped slightly more effectively. Got to the store well before closing time. I didn’t want to get Janet a gift card. Although the gift card was going to be my last ditch effort if I couldn’t find anything. Instead, a made a little gift bag of things. A book, a couple of CDs and a mug. I tried to find some sort of coffee or tea to put in the mug, but I couldn’t find anything I felt appropriate and I didn’t want to go to a second store. I dunno, I hope I done good. My goal, get her something she’ll like, something she might not have ever gotten for herself or something she wouldn’t have thought to get for herself and something that says “friend” unmistakenably. Again, I hope I done good.)

We went to some rinky-dink bar in Toronto called Locals. Walked in there and saw this huge air brush painting of Phil Lynett (the guy from Thin Lizzy) on the wall but the band was playing some good ol’ bluegrass. Pretty cool to me. I didn’t see any sexy chicas in the place though. It looked like an older crowd.

At the bar, beer was drunk, fun times were had, one big lesson was learned. If somebody says “How about this ‘badass’ beer?” Turn it down. It’s bad and tastes like ass.

Saturday

Up at 7:53AM. Out the door, on my way to work at 8:12AM.

At work, I got some stuff done pretty quick. My boss called, said he was coming in within thirty minutes or so. Of course, with him, that means like an hour or so. I sat around, wrote this blog post upto this point. Pretty much writing it because I’m at my desk, trying not to fall asleep. It’s a quiet day and pretty much without my boss giving me some stuff to do, I’m done everything. I can’t give the plans to the clients if my boss doesn’t prepare the plans, right?

So I spent much of Saturday morning, slowly surfing the web from my workstation.

Eventually, I just got fed up and left.

As soon as I got home, my phone rang. It was my boss. He wanted to know where I was. I told him I went home. He said he didn’t have his keys with him. He wouldn’t be able to get into work. Too bad, I wasn’t leaving my house at that point.

I took a much needed nap.

In the evening, Bob and the Wonder Twins came to my place. We played some Trivial Pursuit: Warner Bros. Edition. Very hard, very very hard. Questions about obscure Hanna Barbera cartoons are not easy. Afterwards, we went to Tim Hortons and hung out at the corner gas station. Pretty lame for a Saturday night.

Sunday

It was Mother’s Day. My family went to the banquet hall my brother’s wedding will be held at. His fiancee also came with her parents and a brother. The eight of us celebrated Mother’s Day together. The hall looks like a nice place. The grounds there look pretty nice too. My brother and his fiancee are going to have the ceremony right there, outdoors, in the hall’s grounds. The hall is on something like thirty plus acres of land. Lots of trees for my brother to hide in if he gets cold feet.

Music Guessing Game

Monday is the final day to enter submissions for the final round of the music guessing game.