saved my life

this long weekend (which was extra long thanks to my amazeballs boss-and-job) was maybe the greatest long weekend that did ever happen. maybe. very possibly. top 5 for sure.

i really never expected to love toronto this much. but i do. love it so so much. i am so happy with this city. friday i had an awesome workout at the extension room, where there was only two of us in the class so jenn worked us extra hard. (abs say owwwww.) then saw joel plaskett with jeff at the queen elizabeth theatre. i will come back to that. saturday was a mega sleep in, then a law-student bbq with sarah and her classmates in a great backyard not far from us. these law kids, they are funny and welcoming and a pleasure to be around. who knew?! sunday was more sleeping in, and watching a baseball game in christie pits followed by another law-bbq at another law-home. margene came. i ate three spectacular homemade burgers. (which is allowed, i figure, because i couldn't eat any of the buns or salad due to being so dietarilly complicated.) finally there was monday, and i woke up to phone chats with mel who was in ottawa for a bonkersbread conducting competition. after lazing about and waking up slowly, i found my way to the park (trinity bellwoods of course) for a good old park hang with my park people. with magazines. and fresca. and SUN FOREVER! when we got thirsty, we rolled on to ronnie's and made best friends with some great patio folk. newspaper friendship bracelets were made. twitter handles were exchanged. margene made friends with a black lab puppy who then stole her treat. haha! and then, you won't even believe it: there was ANOTHER BBQ at jeff's with ribs and steak cooked to perfection by his roomie.

holy cow! i am exhausted!

and now back to work and real life again. and blog posts about having my life saved. this week, obvi, by joel plaskett!!!



he was so so great live, guys. so great. and the audience was so into it. hilarious and grand. i only cried once, but i cried good and hard. ugh. dudes. he played 'beyond beyond beyond' which i knew was about someone dying, but it turns out it is about a friend of his who was violently murdered. sigh and sadness! jeeeez. so heartfelt. he was crying just explaining about how he doesn't normally play it live, but he recently saw a story on tv about another girl he knows who was a victim of violent death. so he was playing it for the two of them. so yeah. i criiiieeeeeeeddddd and held so still and it was so beautiful. hooray for music and tributes and love and all of this.

happy tuesday, friends! party on.