weekend

Not too much to report from the weekend...
Did some laundry, went to the gym, started on tax forms, and finally saw Black Swan (which, by the way, did not quite live up to the hype...)

weekend

On Friday I went to pick up a camera that I am borrowing to photograph some drawings and paintings. Afterwards, Leah and I went to eat at the black horse pub.
On Saturday I met Dylan and Dan for weekly brunch and bible talk. I spent most of the afternoon photographing stuff with mild success. Jen's camera is great, but the lighting in our living room is far from ideal for taking pictures. That evening we went out for Nicaraguan food with the McGhees.
On Sunday, Leah and I went to Sam James for coffee. It was the first time in a long while, and appropriately coincided with the official (not actual) first day of Spring.
Afterwards, I went to the gym and Leah went to mass.
That afternoon we helped Christine move stuff into her new apartment. There were a lot of helpers, so it was relatively painless and fun. We also met some of her family, including a very cute neice and nephew.
Last night we watched most of Lisbon Story. We didn't make it to the end...

Busy

Hello everybody!
Here's what happened on the weekend.
On Friday night we (Your Heart) played a show at the Crown and Tiger, in the sketchy basement Tiger Bar. It was put on by a bunch of Ryerson students who are raising money to travel down to New Orleans, where they are planning to help with ongoing Katrina/oil spill recovery efforts. The crowd was YOUNG! and super into it, so it was fun.
On Saturday, I had my usual brunch with Dylan. Afterwards, we went grocery shopping, and then that evening we went to the Hub, to see Jessica Stuart play a small CMW show.
On Sunday we went to mass, and then went swimming in the AC pool. That night we stopped by Freechurch for the end of the service, and then went to the Woods' place for dinner.
The end.

weekend

Here's the weekend update (for all the die-hards and RSS feeders)

Friday night..? I think we did laundry on Friday night.
Saturday... I met Dylan for brunch. That evening we rented Let Me In, which is the American remake of Let the Right One In. I really liked the Swedish version, and had read good things about this remake. As it turns out, it is almost the EXACT same movie... which means it was good, but sort of strange.
On Sunday we went to church at the Meeting House. Leah had to go to a service for a school assignment. If you don't know about this place, it is the Toronto church that meets in in the Scotiabank movie theatre. The sermon is in HD (which I am told is better than non-HD sermons). It actually seemed like a pretty decent place (although it is weird to feel like you should be eating popcorn).
That afternoon I went to the gym at U of T. I am trying to make my 4 month alumni membership worthwhile, so I have to figure out a regular schedule of gym-going - which is weird for me.
Afterwards I did groceries, and worked on some drawing that evening.
That is all.

consumer

In my opinion, The King's Speech is a good movie, and a fun one to watch.
Also, The Last Picture Show is maybe a better movie, although more depressing. Strangely, it reminded me of Saturday Night Fever.
And, I finally bought the Age of Adz album. I couldn't get into the Illinoise as much as a lot of people - we shall see how this one hits me...

who is the arcade fire?

This weekend...
On Friday night I went to feed D&J's lizard after work, and then we went to the Woods' for dinner.
On Saturday - I met Dylan for brunch, and then we did laundry in the afternoon. Fed the lizard again... and then we went to the El Mocambo for a Your Heart show. Turns out that Mike was sick, so we played without a drummer, which was not part of the plan, but went pretty well anyway.
On Sunday, Leah went to meet some people for class, and then had RCIA. I went to the Junction, and then stopped in at No Frills. Fed the lizard (I had to go and buy him some more worms, so first I stopped in to visit the strange reptile store people).

Weekend

Here's the weekend update...

Friday - laundry date
Saturday - I met Dylan for brunch. That afternoon we went to visit a friend from work and his family, which was fun. That night we had sushi and watched a movie with Christine and Josiah (Songs from the Second Floor... strange)
On Sunday we went to mass. Afterwards, Leah had to meet people for school. I rearranged some stuff in the living room, and then made dinner. That night I roamed around the Annex in the snow while L worked on a paper.

weekend

Friday - I went to the Interior Design Show after work. I was tired, so I wondered through the kitchens and bathrooms like a zombie. Afterwards, I met Leah at Regis for their CultureFest.

On Saturday, we went over to D&J's for breakfast. Becky Hubble was staying with them for the weekend, since she was in town for Come Up to My Room...
Later we went grocery shopping, and then that evening, we went to LL's birthday party.

On Sunday, we went to Ping Pong and bought a table for Leah to use as a desk. Afterwards, she had to meet some people to work on school stuff, so I went to Come Up to My Room, and to some galleries, and to Ideal Coffee.

Weekend

We got a lot done this weekend, although most of it felt like a struggle.
I managed to get the living room painted (1 coat on Saturday and 1 on Sunday), which is amazing. I was expecting to need 3 coats to cover the dark brown that we had previously used, but 2 looks great.
Also - we stopped in at a travel agent to book a trip to some beach-type resort during Leah's reading week. Turns out that such a trip during such a week costs roughly twice what we expected (oh, that's the price PER PERSON?!)... So if anybody has any clever ideas of places to go on the cheap to get away from the -20C weather, let me know...
Leah did tonnes of reading and writing while I painted.
Also, Starving Artist on Sunday was delicious, although frustratingly busy. We were poised to jump the larger groups waiting in line ahead of us, when a party of four decided to split into 2 parties of 2 and took up all the small tables... There was almost a waffle riot...

Happy MLK Day

update

The weekend...
...was kinda busy. Leah is in the last week of term, so she was writing papers all weekend. I did some laundry and some groceries. I also went to a party at my bosses (newly finished) house...
Two weeks 'til Christmas.

weekend

The weekend was a welcome break after a hectic week...
Some things we did (not in order):
Brunch at Starving Artist
Church at Newman
Groceries
Laundry
Watched people skating at city hall
Visited vet to buy cat food
Falafel sandwiches
Epic walk
Naps

tuesday update

The weekend...
On Friday night we went to hang out at Lisa's... well, it was at an apartment where she was cat-sitting. The owner is an antique collector, so the place was rammed with crazy stuff!
On Saturday we went to the Eaton Centre to buy some clothes for work. Afterwards we went to Hibiscus, and then stopped by the MOCCA gallery.
On Sunday, I went to church in the morning. Afterwards, we did epic quantities of laundry and then I went grocery shopping. That night we went over to Andrew and Esther's for dinner...

weekend

Not too much to report...
On Friday night we went out for dinner.
On Saturday, Leah went to the library, and I went down to Queen Street. I stopped in at the MOCCA, and was happy to find a really cool show of work by David Hoffos - check it out if you get the chance.
I also walked down Queen, stopping in at Rotate This, which was having a sale.
That night we did laundry, and then I worked on setting up my portfolio website... which is slow going and involves reading a lot of wordpress help docs.
On Sunday we went out for brunch with the Cumbys and the Woods. That evening I did some grocery shopping, and then after dinner we watched a movie called The Exploding Girl.

weekend

On Friday night, Leah went to Dorian and Lodwijk's housewarming party. I was pretty tired, so I stayed at home. I ended up using the evening to 'install' wordpress on my immigrantdesign website. I still have an extremely limited knowledge of how it all works, so it will likely be a while before I have a new portfolio site up and running.

On Saturday, we went to the dentist. That afternoon Leah did the laundry and I went grocery shopping. After dinner we went to the Woods' house to hang out.

On Sunday I tried recording some music. It was a bit frustrating, 'cause I think our netbook just can't handle it (time for a Macbook?).

That evening I finally bought the R.E.M. Automatic Box that has been sitting in Sonic Boom for months. I listened to it whilst making butternut/yam/carrot soup and apple crisp for dinner. We also watched the movie Julia after dinner, which is insane.

Blogging

That is all for the Berlin pictures... for more and better pictures by somebody else, check out Christine Lim's 31 pictures of October.

This weekend was Halloween. Which is also the end of October and the start of the beginning of winter (at least in my mind). To celebrate, it snowed an ever-so-small amount on Sunday morning, and this morning's temperature was below freezing.

Which means I am taking the subway instead of the bike. Which means I have to read more books (to stay sane). So I grabbed Til We Have Faces on the way out the door this morning. I have read it once before, but started it many times before that. We shall see how it goes - despite having a hard time getting into it, it is possibly my fave Lewis book...

In other news, I played guitar at church on Sunday - which was pretty fun. It is always impossible to really hear everything, so the only course of action is to just play...
Afterwards, we rented The Birds, in order to celebrate the day.