Can You Hear Me Now?

What more is there to life? I’ve had another wonderful weekend, of the quiet variety this time. A fabulous FOOD weekend because I hit up two of my favourite restaurants.

On Friday my friend Pam picked me up and we went to My Favoutite Vietnamese Restaurant for dinner. After that we went by Safeway to grab some soy milk, because Pam has an espresso/latte machine and was going to make me some soy lattes at her house! Woo hoo! So we went over there, she unwittingly made me decide to get one of these machines as soon as I can (once I realized you can actually find them for under $50… I always thought they were hundreds of dollars) and made me a latte just as good as anything I’ve ever bought at Starbuck’s or Second Cup. We watched a cute movie, Last Holiday, which is one of those inspiring “Live Life to the Fullest” kind of movies. Pam is my friend Russ’ sister, so I got to see him briefly too, which was nice. During the movie Pam made us a second round of lattes that were better than the first (apparently because my soy milk started off colder. All this milk temperature and foam stuff that affects taste is complicated, but I will learn).

On Saturday morning, my mom and Bob came by around 10:00 to help me around here a bit before we went to our Chiropractor. It turns out our chiro and his wife went out for dinner last week to my Favourite Lebanese Restaurant. Well, my Favourite Restaurant period, Aida’s. So I asked him to talk my mom into going there today while he was treating her, because we were going to be dropping something off to my brother anyway, who lives about a block from there. It worked, because after running a few errands, we were all seated in Aida’s. Me eating at Aida’s, twice in one week! And two of my favourite restaurants, in the same weekend! I’m so lucky! And my life revolves around food way too much! Heh.

Anyway, my mom and Bob LOVED their food and I know we will be going there again. Bob went on and on about it. I told them they weren’t allowed to ever go there without me, and Bob responded “fuckin’ WATCH US!!” Hee.

It was close to 4:00 before I got home. I scootered over to Wal-Mart to pick up some bottled water (I am going through it very fast these days, which is great) and then I stayed in to watch movies for the night. A long day like that tires me out, even if it’s not strenuous. Just being out will do it.

I watched two good movies last night - The Break Up and Click. I loved Click. I even cried! You know the part, in the rain… (don’t want to say too much in case you haven’t seen it). I bawled like a baby. I didn’t think I would love that movie so much, and who knew Adam Sandler could make me cry over anything besides laughing too hard?! And Christopher Walken is always a genius in my books, forever and ever babe. It’s our modern day “It’s a Wonderful Life”, with a little David Hasselhoff thrown in for good measure.

Oh! On Thursday after I wrote my last entry, I decided to go for another walk. It was a beautiful day. I grabbed my walker and headed over to the mall, where I made it all the way to the food court (with one little rest on a bench) where I bought my latte and sat there to drink it. I texted a few people “I’m drinking my latte at the mall because I WALKED HERE!!” and then walked home (stopping for a rest on that same bench for a few minutes). It took me over an hour, but I DID IT. That’s only about 1/3 of the way to Wal-Mart and back, which is my goal, but I’ll get there eventually. I’m going to do that again today, using my latte as incentive. I think I used to say “I’m not allowed my latte unless I walk there to get it”, but I do believe that was before I broke my wrist and all that crap that set me so far back in mobility terms. Maybe it is time to set that rule up again (weather pending! I won’t walk on ice!) That is, until I get my own espresso/latte maker. I found one for $35 but it was out of stock. I’ll keep checking, I could have one by next week!!

Taking a rest after kicking the ass of yet another fuzzy ball.

This is how they ended up one day after I kicked them off my desk for the 100th time (this table is beside my desk).