week end review

I feel like I always start my blog entries off with something like this "it has been WAY too long since i've updated this thing..."
okay, so i'm a crappy blogger. not sure anyone actually reads this thing anyway, but either way, on with another much delayed post.
in an attempt to muster up some creative juices to write my now annual "year end review" which i've had no motivation to write (maybe i'll get to it by march...that would fit my bi-monthly entry schedule on this bloggy thing), i thought i'd start small and (inspired by liz) write my "week end review". that's right, we've just seen the end of the first week of '07 and here's my report. i don't expect to have the discipline or drive to keep up with this on a weekly basis, but maybe it will be the springboard i need for my '06 year end review. we'll see. let's start.
new years eve (although technically still 2006, it began the week and is worthy of a mention) was spent debaucherously as per us at our old hood, cranberry. steph and ty packed their condo way past capacity yet again and we celebrated with friends old and new but all of whom were drunk. good times. games were played (flip cup!) and created (drinko!) and my involuntary attempt to consume alcohol from all four categories (beer, wine, hard liquor, champagne) was ....successful!??! i don't know if that's the right word to describe it as my delayed hangover the next day would probably suggest i was feeling anything but successful. either way, it was a blast and i'm looking forward to being in steph and ty's new house - wherever that may be - next year. at least taht will once and for all get the cranberry rent-a-cops off our ass for having a party on new years (this year set a record at 11:15pm for the first arrival of security, reporting noise complaints. COME ON!!!)
monday, or new years day as one can imagine, was a little rough for not only me but our house guests. persevering in line for 1/2 an hour, we dined at a local greasy spoon (craigleith general store) which tamed the hangover slightly. by 3pm though, i must've sobered up finally because the hangover hit HARD! it's such a burn when you wake up surprisingly feeling decent - not great, i mean i wouldn't go run a marathon or anything, BUT it was nice to not feel like death - only to feel like a bag of assholes by midday. it's like a cruel joke your body plays on you. mentally i'm feelin' great and then a few hours later it's like, "SIKE!!!! just kidding!! you're not doing shit today because i'm going to induce nausea on you for the rest of the day!!!" for those who know me, know that i don't do nausea well...or at all. i'm going to suck at being pregnant one day.
anyway, on with the week. tuesday i caught up with my friend kristen from calgary who i haven't seen since summer. she got the standard tour of the new house and we chatted and played catch up for a few hours before having lunch at my favorite collingwood restaurant, tesoro. it's so nice to be able to walk to these places now that we live closer to downtown. makes it feel like cranberry was SO far!!! in a small town though, nothing is really very far. becauase of the nice weather though, i've been able to get out for a few decent walks - the highlight of my day (yeah, i know, not much is going on these days!!). after heading back to her parents' house which is just around the corner from mine, we had some coffee and cookies (yum!) and i headed back home to find my sick fiance in bed. supposed to be at work, he came home early with a head cold. i hope that he's just nursing an extended hangover as it's only a matter of time before i catch his cold if that's indeed what it was. turns out, he spends the next two days in bed with either the worlds longest hangover, or a case of the local bug that's been spreading. i think we can mark this as the first time ken has been sick that i haven't caught it!!! miracles!
wednesday i spent taking care of ken and i walked pingu all the way down to starbucks and back - for those who don't know, that's like 16 blocks - a record for pingu! she started to get tired on teh walk back and i felt kind of bad for having walked her so far, but exercise is good and the fresh air was nice. i told myself today would be the day i finally go back to the gym and being my only mission for the day, i failed miserably. brutal. instead, i eat more christmas cookies. i still have 5 months to fit into my wedding dress, no big deal, right?!? the best part about today was watching the canadian junior hockey team beat the US and move onto the gold medal game on friday. WAHOO!!! it was a brutal nailbiter with 7 rounds of shoot outs...i never scream at the tv during sports - what's the point - but i was full on cursing and yelling at them during this time. so good that they won!
thursday was the day i had my one and only bar shift for the week. doubly brutal. this no snow thing is killing the resort which now this week goes down to 18% capacity. ouch! i guess i shouldn't have been surprised then when i got the new schedule for this week and i wasn't even on it!!! yikes!!! unless it snows, i'll be doing this housewife thing longer than i'd hoped. unfortunately it doesn't pay so great. hmmm.... thankfully thursday was a half decent night on the bar witht he holiday crowd doing not much but shopping and eating. i now have to ration my wages/tips over the next week and a half. ugh.
friday i did lunch with my mom which was nice since we hadn't seen eachother since christmas day. good catch up and the best part was when she invited me on a trip to NYC in september!!! she had planned to go anyway to see a US open game and her travel partner bailed so i get to go in her place. pretty sweet, escpecially since my mom is donating her air miles to fly her charity case po' ass daughter down. yay!!! hopefully i'll be employed by then. we went down together a few years ago for my first trip to the city and i can't wait to go again. so much we missed last time can be covered this time. AND i get to see a US open game live. i'm not the biggest tennis fan, but it should be pretty cool to see that caliber of a game in person. i'm hoping we'll get to a broadway show too and definitely want to hit up cold stone creamery, century 21 and the newest craze in ice cream (leave it to me to be on top of this stuff!) pinkberry (pinkberry.com).
friday was also great because the canadian junior hockey team WON GOLD!! this team rocks and is truly a display of canada's extreme talent in the sport of hockey. very exciting.
the weekend was declared as a weekend to do nothing as ken wasn't up to much and wanted to fully recover. as was his wish, pretty much nothing was accomplished. except however, we finihsed story mode on tony hawk underground2 for ps2. it was much to our dismay though when we went ot save the finished game and something crashed and we lost all of our progress. if you're a gamer, a geek or just have an appreciation for hours of work lost (yes, i consider video games "work"...it doesn't pay either though. boo urns) it was truly frustrating!!! i was grumpy. we drank wine.
other than that, i DID make it back to the gym on saturday and got my ass whooped. i am SO out of shape having missed a week and a half of work outs and doing nothign but pure binging. we went sunday again too for a swim and after 20 laps, i called it quits. better than nothing.
and that was my week.
pretty uneventful. all you working folk who wish you could do nothing during the day, rest assured knowing you're not missing out. having a real, stable career must be nice.
i should mention that i'm not sitting idle though - i've been job hunting every day to no avail. this town sucks for jobs and with 1300 lay offs at the resort and more factories slated to close, it will be a big pool of unemployed fish that i need to vie with for a new job.
wish me luck! hopefully i'll get around to the year end review pretty soon and guaranteed it will be more exciting than this entry becuase '06 was a pretty great year!