Boys, Sunshine and Vampires

Mmmm....Starbucks

This one’s a bit of a long one, so brace yourselves!

It’s embarrassing how late I sleep in sometimes but I rarely get to do it now so I totally exploit it when I can. This morning, after waking up at close to noon, I had some lunch at home and then went to run a few errands. Afterwards, perhaps influenced by the sunshine, I decided to drive down Mississauga Road. There’s something very atmospheric about driving down the windy road with all of those large trees glaring down at you with Rachael Yamagata coming through the speakers. I then decided to make the full drive down to Port Credit to chill out a little by the river. Little did I know the Mississauga Waterfront Festival was going on and I had accidentally stumbled upon it!

I'd look really creepy riding this as a grown woman, wouldn't I?

Really wanted to ride the Merry-Go-Round except, well, I’m 23 and didn’t have the excuse of having a kid to take on it. Although to be fair, in my flowery dress and ribbon headband in my hair, I’m sure I could have passed for younger.

Yesterday, I was supposed to have the day off but was forced to go to work to arrange the G20 passes for next week. Henry was having his first day off in who knows how long and wanted to spend it wisely so I told him I could meet up with him for lunch and hang out afterwards since the security passes were supposed to be in by noon anyways. Of course, they weren’t and since our security person couldn’t tell us when we were to expect them I decided to leave when Henry got into town. We went for a nice lunch at the King West Kitchen and then strolled down Queen Street for a bit while Henry pointed out to me all the places he’s been that hot girls hang out. Because I really needed to know this information.

Of course, I just had to pop into a couple of the stores and even found a store that sold these awesome vintage dresses from Bettie Pages Clothing. Wanted to try them on but felt bad for making Henry wait for me, although he said it was ok because he wasn’t on a schedule anyway, haha! Oh well, next time I will have to.

Afterwards, we picked up Howard when he was off work and headed back to Mississauga. We stopped by Square One for a bit before meeting up with Jeff for dinner. Dinner was spent just generally being loud, inappropriate and laughing way too much as is usually expected with these boys. I say boys, but they’re all 9-12 years older than I am but I grew up with them. They saw me during my awkward, pre-teen tomboy rebellion phases and now that I’m finally grown up, they have free reign to make inappropriate jokes in front of me. Still, I love them like my big brothers and of course, they had to ask me who out of all of them would I choose to date. I gave the diplomatic answer of “Suicide”. The truth is, there are things about each that I love and things that I absolutely can’t stand. So I think I gave the right answer.

We went back to Square One after dinner because Howard wanted to buy a jacket he saw there and then we decided to go watch a movie but nothing that was playing was interesting so we decided to rent a movie and watch it at Howard’s. We settled on “Daybreakers” and most of the movie was spent with the boys asking one another “Would you date her?” whenever a female popped on screen. Really, I don’t know why I’m still surprised this happens. The movie itself wasn’t all that impressive, but entertaining enough I suppose.

Earlier in the evening, we had all contributed to buy a Lotto Max ticket in the hope of becoming millionaires and we attempted to stay up to wait for the winning numbers to be announced to find out if our lives would be changed forever but when we saw the numbers weren’t going to be posted for awhile, we decided to call it a evening.

So, if you read all that I commend you. Frankly, I don’t know if there’s anybody out there still reading my silly little corner of the Internet anymore. I don’t know why I’ve been compelled to update lately, I guess maybe it’s because I’ve actually had something to write about. Life is so much more interesting with other people in it. And yet, I spent the majority of today on my own and was perfectly content as well. Maybe this is what it feels like to be at peace.

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