home

Heading back home tomorrow am. My trusty friend Heather is picking my ass up in my car from the airport. god love you girl.

Had a super fun time being here and meeting all my mom’s friends (seeing as I was with her 24/14). Bar I, good times. Also, just wanted to send out good energy to my mom’s friend Sue (and her son Alec) for Monday. Will be thinking of you guys.

PS – I am obsessed with this song… appropriately named, Home.

Where everybody knows your name.

Welp, I’m still in the Dub PG (which stands for WPG, which stands for Winnipeg) and I’ve just been chillaxing. Hard core. Thought I’d be back on Tuesday, then extended to Wednesday, then to Thursday and then I was like, F it – I got a new book, let’s stay and do nothing till Sunday. I’ve never actually spent two weeks straight here in I think, like, since I moved away from home when I was 17 (28 now).

I have to say, this trip has really made me appreciate Winnipeg and being ‘home’ now that I’m over my snotty, “I need to live in cool cities” phase. Yep, I’ve loved living in New York, Montreal, Toronto (and Paris for a summer) but I gotta say, Winnipeg is just so…. nice. The people are so amazing. Like coming here just makes you love humanity again. I know there are good people everywhere but I don’t man, there is something about ‘peggers that is just different. Our license plates don’t say ‘friendly Manitboa’ for no reason. It’s really true. The peeps here are just really real. Down to earth, honestly genuine good souls. They really do go out of their way for you. I love it. It’s refreshing.  I swear to god, the Cheers theme song exactly sums up home and how I was feeling prior to my visit. Take a listen (in your mind) to the song…

Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot.

Wouldn’t you like to get away?

Sometimes you want to go

Where everybody knows your name,
and they’re always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your name.

I love you Cheers theme song. Thanks for ‘getting me’.

Anyway, I’ve just downloaded ‘Of Mice and Men’ on audio book, read by Gary Sinise and so I might just have a bath in my mom’s whirlpool tub and take a listen to Lieutenant Dan’s rendition of the classic tale.

doing nothing.

I’ve been at home in Winnipeg for the past week trying to do nothing – and I’m happy to report – I’ve been successful at it!

Only done a minimal amount of work (via the magic of the interweb) and with the rest of the week I’ve read, watched tv, ate, visited some fam and slept! Like real naps! Ahhhh!!! and guilt free too!

I’ve also been able to – for the most part – stop thinking too! Which is so fantastic I can’t even express! I haven’t even thought past the hour the entire week. Which is both bizarre for me and totally needed.

Anyway, just finished a two hour bath whilst reading “Ergon” which is a tween fantasy book about Dragons and Wizards! Booya! It’s great. I’m sure it’ll be a movie soon. Now having my mom make me night night snack.

God, it’s nice to be taken care of.

oh, hello again.

wow. It’s been an entire week since I’ve written here – or anywhere for that matter. Think that’s the longest I’ve ever gone on a blog hiatus.

I’ve been busy and not, all at the same time. Been doing great and awful. Felt inspired and full of despair. Calm and anxious. Connected and utterly alone and lonely…

It’s been bizarre to say the least and I’ve been hesitant to write it all out because it’s just been all too confusing and messy.Things are on the mend, I hope  but fuck it’s been a weird time for me to say the least. Anyway, as I did mention, I have been having some great moments interspersed with the bad. Some highlights of the past week are:

- found the best fricking dance fitness class on the planet. The teacher is unreal. I’m now stalking her around the city at all the gyms she teaches at. I’m actually looking forward to working out! She’s amazing – her web sitey site is here.

- been swing dancing twice in the past two weeks. LOVE IT! Go. that’s all I can say is go. Dances every week. see here.

- The 10 Spot is hosting a Brunch & Brazilians Event! Should be fun if I dare say so myself. Here is the little write up that I put out in our last newsletter…

“That’s right. The 10 Spot’s hosting Brunch & Brazilians! Why not get waxed with a mimosa in hand! Grab some gal pals and make a morning out of your muffin maintenance. Continental brunch and bevies are served up while you mix and mingle with other stellar ladies, then get called into a private room for your service! Great for first timers that need a little liquid courage and friendship reinforcements!”

Brunch & Brazilians
Sunday, March 28th, 10:00am
The 10 Spot Leslieville / The Beach
1402 Queen Street East, Studio D1
$60.00 – gets you our famed Brazilly wax, brunch and bevie (tax in)!
Register Now – Clickity Clack Here! Only 12 spots available!

small wins

I was having a tough couples of days, like really tough and I was talking to my friend Mike, who is I think, is the best pep talk giver around – and he said that his key thing that he does when he gets down, is to take note of the ‘small wins’ – in other words, focus on everything that went good that day and leave the rest.

So, we made a little packed that we’d send each other a text each night with our “small wins” or “small wieners” as it’s become now, becuase both him and I enjoy a bit of a dirty focused sense of humour. So, this is my small wiener list for today:

• Asked the universe for a big piece of salmon today for lunch (trying to eat healthy). Parked, got out of the car, was going into a grocery store but almost ran right into an A-frame sign outside a bistro saying ‘citrus roasted salmon with side salad – $11′  – Booya!
• got invited to a dinner party tomorrow but already had plans. Was sad that I couldn’t go, but also didn’t want to miss the previously planned event, then later found out the other event starts at 6pm, and the dinner is at 8 – so I can now do both!
• sent out our new 10 spot newsletter using ‘chimp mail’ and it was fun to make and looks amazing and has lots of stats!
• was given a great idea from my friend Ryan about our online review ratings
• none of my cooking class group showed up tonight so I left after the demo but my Chef still gave me a whole roast chicken to make tomorrow!
• meditated outside because it was such a lovely evening and there were even stars out!

All in all – some pretty great small wins if I do say so myself.