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Rare midweek update !!

Last night Leah and I went to St. Stephens to record a song for the Fruit of the Spirit series that is going on at Freechurch Toronto. It was sort of ridiculous, and I am looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

Afterwards we watched Julie & Julia. It is pretty good... mostly worth watching just to see Meryl Streep act.

The Fake News

On Friday I skipped out on the Interior Design Show and went to Regis College to meet Leah for the annual Regis College CultureFest. We ate assorted foods with her classmates and faculty, and then there was a short program that was basically a talent show of sorts.
On Saturday morning I went grocery shopping while Leah did the laundry. I bought all the ingredients for a recipe to make food for a mass of people who were coming over on Sunday. Sadly, our oven is one that our landlord got a 'good deal' on - and the food was pretty much destroyed.
In the afternoon I went to watch Avatar. I had read enough reviews to have a fairly low expectation in terms of plot - so I was actually pleasantly surprised. Really, I went to see the 3D craziness - which I have to say was pretty amazing. Overall - I would definitely recommend seeing it (to anybody who actually hasn't seen it yet!) - I might recommend it even in 2D, but you really should see it in 3.
On Sunday we went to church in the morning, and then had an elders' meeting. Afterwards, I went grocery shopping again. And then we cooked food again for all the people who were still coming over for dinner (which was delicious and fun).

In other news...
Check out Andrew singing for joy...

The Weekend

I finally finished a drawing/painting that I started FOREVER ago. Here is a sweet web-cam picture of it... There was a bit of a race to see whether I could finish it before Mabel could irreparably destroy it. I sort of won - but she definitely left her mark.

Also - on Friday night Leah and I went to the Linux Caffe for coffee. I haven't quite figured out the connection between coffee and an open-source operating system... but it is a pretty nice place. It is a bit like somebody beamed in a coffeeshop from the nineties.

On Saturday evening we went out for dinner with the McGhees and the Richters. They were eating their first real meal after a crazy 10 day cleanse/fast. We were just eating a meal. It was fun.

After church on Sunday we went over to the HuangBowser house for a pizza party.

weekend

Friday night - Leah and I went on an 'Annex Date'. The Annex is where we end up when we want to get out, but don't have anything specific we want to do. We stopped in at Kensington Natural Bakery, and then looked at CDs and books in CD and book stores.

On Saturday, I went on an epic trip to acquire a new sound system for our apartment. My style of shopping (especially for somewhat expensive items) is to try to look at every available option before making a decision. This meant that I ended up at Best Buy, Circuit City, and Bay Bloor Radio, and ended up at each store TWICE! (Once to see what was available, and then again to actually buy stuff, which was complicated by items being out of stock etc...)

Anyway - I ended up with a tiny Sony shelf system, and a separate turntable... Compared to our last cheap setup, this one sounds much better, and will actually play CDs every time you want it to, and not according to some mysterious timetable of its own choosing.

That night we ended up back in the Annex for dinner and a movie at the Bloor. I thought Leah would have lots of reasons to dislike Fantastic Mr Fox (talking animals, Wes Anderson...), but we both liked it.

On Sunday we did laundry, and some cleaning of the apartment. We also went to church, which was good. We are gearing up for a series on the Fruit of the Spirit - check out the first of a number of videos over at the FreeChurch website.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year etc.

So it is back to work after a full two weeks off. 7am seemed awfully early today.

What happened?
We went out to Middleton, Nova Scotia, to visit Leah's parents for Christmas. It was a good trip, and as well as visiting family, we saw a few of Leah's old friends who were around for the holidays. We also painted Leah's old room, which turned out really well.
We got back in to town on New Year's Eve... just in time to make dinner and go to bed.
Other noteworthy events included a trip to Hamilton to help the Cumby's paint their new house, breakfast with Sue, who was in town for a few days, the festival of lights in Kensington, and general hanging out with friends...

Anyway - hope you are all geared up for 2010..!