the world is right when its cool enough to put a blanket on your bed and you get to write an essay analyzing the absurd conversation between Jian Gomehsi and Billy Bob Thorton on an episode of Q.

that is all.

today is the perfect Toronto day. Any day where its going to rain like mad is the perfect day.

after sleeping through my alarm, twice, I woke up around noon, ready for my first swim at the West End YMCA. I forgot how much I enjoyed the cool feel of the water skimming over me, and how effortless it feels to be in the water. Tomorrow I tackle the gym...can I do it? Yes I can! Not working during the week = working out! Its time to stop making excuses about settling in - I am settled, I am in, I am ready to hold onto that happy feeling forever more.

its raining!

this is the best time to finish up work and tie up loose ends before graduation. its not nice enough to go outside, but just perfect enough to keep the windows open, turn off the lights and listen to the rain (and change the channel off of Ghost Whisperer).

in an attempt to eat what I have in the fridge, I have stuffed myself full of fruit these days. this doesn't seem, however, to be allaying any of the illness swarming about in my body. colds, infections, bites (read: bug poison)...I wish they would all just leave and let me be a healthy me!

I am too broke these days to go out or do anything so I just end up staying in all day and sleeping/watching old Gilmore Girls.

tomorrow night is a free show at the Dundas Square off Yonge and a staff meeting, then dinners all weekend with the family. its going to be a long long weekend.

at the request of my cousins husband, I am blogging about shoulder pads. both him and I don't understand their use. I mean, I like a good strong shoulder line as much as the next person, but why go and muck it up with a big old pad like that? Blair would never be caught with SHOULDER pads, so why does everyone think its ok? Kids who weren't even born in the 80's dressing like they grew up then is a contributing factor to the decay of humanity in my opinion.

yesterday I spend the whole day with kids - brunch in the morning with my little second cousin Ella and then the Chilean's kids birthday party in the park way out in the suburbs. I can't tell after a day of kids weather or not I want kids, or I want to strangle myself for doing that the entire day. It was really nice to play and laugh and run and be kid like, but as soon as the screaming started I checked out. right now I'm wondering if the coffee on Via Rail trains costs anything....I hope not, I have no cash and I am in serious need of caffeine (Note: It does). All in all, it was an exhausting day and I am so glad that its over and I am en route to la belle provence!

in the absence of coffee, food and money (this is going to be a long 5 and a half hour ride) I am going to do work and consider all the amazing things I am going to do this week! I get to see Christine and maybe Richard and Candace! (ok the Via Rail guy HAS to stop talking about food beside me because I am going to start to cry soon) (also, i think I am the only person on this train without money because I am a) dumb and b) poor and everyone needs to stop eating and opening their food right now or I might have to steal it...I will make note to take out money for the ride home, as it is my birthday and I plan on getting smashed on the train and making everyone love me).

because this was such an early train (7:05 am departure) I had to be up at an ungodly hour. because of my early wake up I tripped up the stairs on my street car. because of the ungodly hour and tripping up the stairs of my street car I went to the GO Bus Station instead of the Via Rain station (upstairs) and tried to exchange my reservation for a ticket they didn't have nor could they give me. because of all this I am officially never getting up before 8 am again.

I love this train. seriously. this is the most dignified travel experience in Canada I've ever had. screw Air Canada. I get to plug my laptop in and blog from the Ontario/Quebec boarder (and did I mention all the stops in between?) this is so reminiscent of Euro trip '08 that it hurts: I'm poor, I'm exhausted, I'm on a train and I'm starving. I love this!!!

I don't know about you, or the rest of Toronto, but seeing D List Canadian celebrities in the Metro grocery shopping with their wife is seriously exciting for me. I went to do a special shop for a night that got un-ceremoniously cancelled when my friends just decided to be no shows and hang with their boyfriends (ain't it always so...) when I saw the dad from CBC's Being Erica (!). I was attempting to look inconspicuous as I examined the items in his cart from a few lanes away, but was seriously unsuccessful, as I am not sploothy at all. That certainly made my trip to Metro less anxiety filled, as just like Sobey's in Winnipeg (or the Taylor location at least) Metro makes me really anxious and I don't like shopping there...but I must!

the rest of the day was spent hanging with family, printing pictures off my printer, getting a carepackaage from Winnipeg that included my coffee table, watching Gilmore Girls and doing sink laundry as I am too poor to do actual loads of laundry. sigh.

tomorrow I work, then a brunch Sunday, THEN MONTREAL MONDAY! YAY BIRTHDAY WEEK!

I just let out the most ridiculous cough. my parents are concerned that I might have swine flu. I think I just need to stop going to bed at 3 am. However, I need to go to the walk in anyway due to a digit infection, so I will ask them to confirm that I don't have pig flu.

I know I keep mentioning how cold its getting but I've really been enjoying it. Dry hot during the day, and dry cold at night (also a potential contributor to my cold). Tonight I had to walk down College from Bathurst (about 15 min) because for some reason the street cars weren't running. This would have been fine normally, however, I had just purchased my very expensive TTC pass and it seemed like such a waste not to use it.

I have to go do things now.