Thursday, August 16, 2007
Roderick Reunion!
Laura and I are heading out this evening to the booming metropolis of Saint John, New Brunswick. More specifically, we're heading here! Grand Bay Westfield. Sadly, the street my cottage is on doesn't make it onto Google Maps.
I've been busy this week! On the weekend Laura and I painted the bedroom again. Some of you will recall the fascinating cranberry red we had. We've switched over to Carribean Coast. It's like sky blueish. The whole process actually went very smoothly this time(much less drama than last time), and while I'm not a SUPER huge fan of the colour itself, the paint job is pretty much impeccable.
On Monday I dropped off Sara's birthday card -- boy that girl has a lot of peaches!
Tuesday, Laura and I went to Shakespeare in the Park with LT's sister, Erin. It's an annual tradition - this theater group puts on a play in High Park, with a fairly basic stage setup and seating on this hillside. They did A Midsummer Night's Dream this year, which we all rather enjoyed. This is the first year we really yuppied it up and brought dinner + wine.
Last night my work buddy Ryan and I went out to Red Violin Brazilian Steakhouse. I think I posted about a similar place I went to in New York. It's all you can eat, but with a twist. There are about 12 different meat dishes(most different kinds of beef, plus chicken(including chicken hearts, which I've never had before, and probably won't have ever again), turkey wrapped in bacon, veal, etc. The meat is served at your table by waiters who carry the meat around on these giant skewer/swords. While we were a bit worried since the online reviews we read were 'mixed'(read: bad), the place itself was stellar and turned out quite well!
Okay! Off to the Roderick Reunion!!
I've been busy this week! On the weekend Laura and I painted the bedroom again. Some of you will recall the fascinating cranberry red we had. We've switched over to Carribean Coast. It's like sky blueish. The whole process actually went very smoothly this time(much less drama than last time), and while I'm not a SUPER huge fan of the colour itself, the paint job is pretty much impeccable.
On Monday I dropped off Sara's birthday card -- boy that girl has a lot of peaches!
Tuesday, Laura and I went to Shakespeare in the Park with LT's sister, Erin. It's an annual tradition - this theater group puts on a play in High Park, with a fairly basic stage setup and seating on this hillside. They did A Midsummer Night's Dream this year, which we all rather enjoyed. This is the first year we really yuppied it up and brought dinner + wine.
Last night my work buddy Ryan and I went out to Red Violin Brazilian Steakhouse. I think I posted about a similar place I went to in New York. It's all you can eat, but with a twist. There are about 12 different meat dishes(most different kinds of beef, plus chicken(including chicken hearts, which I've never had before, and probably won't have ever again), turkey wrapped in bacon, veal, etc. The meat is served at your table by waiters who carry the meat around on these giant skewer/swords. While we were a bit worried since the online reviews we read were 'mixed'(read: bad), the place itself was stellar and turned out quite well!
Okay! Off to the Roderick Reunion!!
Labels: high park, painting, Roderick Reunion, shakespeare, steak
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Latest & Greatest
I've been lax in updating this thing lately.
A few major highlights:
- hit Sauble Beach last weekend for the first time. Really quite a lot nicer than Wasaga, less people, less pollution, cleaner water. Almost got into a car accident because of two of these. The car behind us got creamed by the car behind it -- luckily no one was hurt.
- Squash with my Waterloo bud Dave on Tuesday. Alas, he won 3-2, but the follow up dinner at Don Juans made me forget my woes. We really branched out and tried the deep fried wontons as well as the sesame beef -- both quite good!
- Played bridge with Dave and Sara on Wednesday. I think we've got the basics down, but it'll require a few more tries to get the bidding down to a science.
- Hit up the driving range with Laura and her dad this weekend and got my swing a bit more under control. Why, you might ask, would Greg be at the driving range? The answer: The Roderick Family Reunion 2007 and the associated golf tournament.
- Speaking of the Roderick family reunion...some of you might remember Freenet and IRC. Rob Shanks and I made friends with these two girls from Bell's Corners(out near Roblaw's) on IRC. I haven't spoken much to Dayna or Olivia in recent years, but with the advent of Facebook, I've been back in touch with Liv who has been going to school out at St Francis Xavier (better known to some as St FX). Just so happens that literally every Roderick on my dad's side has gone there for school, so I was surprised that Liv hadn't run into any of them....until Thursday. Got a message from her saying "You wouldn't believe who I met last night. Was at a bar and saw someone wearing a Roderick Family Reunion tshirt, so had to say hi". Ah the Roderick Family Reunion tshirt pulls through again.
- I totally harvested and restarted the worm compost this weekend. I felt it was due time for a clean start...that, and a couple of mites had shown up in the past week. Conclusion? I have almost a whole cool whip container full of worms. Like, 100% concentrated worm. No filler / dirt, just worm. Like several thousand worms.
A few major highlights:
- hit Sauble Beach last weekend for the first time. Really quite a lot nicer than Wasaga, less people, less pollution, cleaner water. Almost got into a car accident because of two of these. The car behind us got creamed by the car behind it -- luckily no one was hurt.
- Squash with my Waterloo bud Dave on Tuesday. Alas, he won 3-2, but the follow up dinner at Don Juans made me forget my woes. We really branched out and tried the deep fried wontons as well as the sesame beef -- both quite good!
- Played bridge with Dave and Sara on Wednesday. I think we've got the basics down, but it'll require a few more tries to get the bidding down to a science.
- Hit up the driving range with Laura and her dad this weekend and got my swing a bit more under control. Why, you might ask, would Greg be at the driving range? The answer: The Roderick Family Reunion 2007 and the associated golf tournament.
- Speaking of the Roderick family reunion...some of you might remember Freenet and IRC. Rob Shanks and I made friends with these two girls from Bell's Corners(out near Roblaw's) on IRC. I haven't spoken much to Dayna or Olivia in recent years, but with the advent of Facebook, I've been back in touch with Liv who has been going to school out at St Francis Xavier (better known to some as St FX). Just so happens that literally every Roderick on my dad's side has gone there for school, so I was surprised that Liv hadn't run into any of them....until Thursday. Got a message from her saying "You wouldn't believe who I met last night. Was at a bar and saw someone wearing a Roderick Family Reunion tshirt, so had to say hi". Ah the Roderick Family Reunion tshirt pulls through again.
- I totally harvested and restarted the worm compost this weekend. I felt it was due time for a clean start...that, and a couple of mites had shown up in the past week. Conclusion? I have almost a whole cool whip container full of worms. Like, 100% concentrated worm. No filler / dirt, just worm. Like several thousand worms.
