My New Torch

Time: 11:29pm
Mood: Sleepy
Song of the moment: John Mayer - Slow Dancing In A Burning Room

I really really should sleep because I don't want a repeat of what happened on Friday! But I wanted to blog about this before I went to bed!

Flo and I went to Yorkdale on Saturday and I picked up a Creme Brulee torch set from Williams Sonoma (I had a $100 gift card... had to spend it sometime!). I've been eyeing this torch set ever since I first set foot in a WS store (that was years ago... during one of Rita and I's Boxing Day shopping trips @ Yorkville).

I used it for the first time today :) I successfuly made some really yummy creme brulee's today. I'm really happy now that I can make my favorite dessert in the comfort of my own home!!!














hm.. if you're wondering why you can't see the flame... Jimmy took too long to take the picture and I had to let go of the ignition button because my hand was getting tired! LoL!

The Day I Slept In

Time: 10:53pm
Mood: Exhausted
Song of the moment: John Mayer - Slow Dancing In A Burning Room

The day started out great. I had decided to meet Jimmy downtown for lunch. I figured, it's a Saturday, it's probably quiet at work and he would probably like some company....

I suddenly wake up. I think it's Saturday. It's not Saturday. It's Friday morning. I have to head to Detroit. It's 7:15am. SHIT it's 7:15am!! This normally wouldn't be bad but I had a meeting in Detroit at 11:00am and I had set my alarm to wake me up at 5:45am so I could leave by 6 and make it for that meeting. I jumped out of bed and I swear I managed to dash out the door in 5 minutes. As I'm driving I'm caculating in my head "ok, it takes 4 hours to get there.. it's 7:20am, so that would mean I would get there at 11:20am... 20 minutes late is not bad!" Then I hit the rush hour traffic. I quickly realized there would be no way in hell I would make it to Detroit in 4 hours (I had also failed to take into account the fact that crossing the boarder with test parts in my trunk would not be a whiz considering it took me 1h to cross the boarder last time). I quickly called up the customer to tell her I couldn't make it. She was fine with it and we had planned to reschedule the meeting. She couldn't tell me which day she was free - at the time I called her she was in the process of buckling her kids into the mini-van. She told me she would call me later and confirm a rescheduled date and time. So crisis adverted. Luckily for me, I was actually pretty close to my work place, so I drove into work.

Every time we go to Detorit my company rents cars for us to drive. We usually park and leave our cars at work while we are away. If our meetings are on a Monday, we usually rent the car on Friday and drive it for the entire weekend. Because I did not know when the reschdule date/time for my meeting was, I wasn't sure if I had to return the rental. If I had to I would have been screwed. Why? I left my car keys at home. So I freaked a little. I was praying to God my meeting would be rescheduled for a Monday instead of a Tuesday. Luckily for me, my customer said Monday was ok, so I get the car for the whole weekend.. and my company pays for the gas!

Oh I'm SO glad my day worked out!!!

I Love You John Mayer!

Time: 6:35pm
Mood: Happy (hooray of John Mayer!)
Song of the moment: John Mayer - Gravity

Went to the free John Mayer concert today w/ Jenn, Saloni, Cecilia and Jimmy :D Laura came too but she left before the concert (the poor girl felt a migrane coming on, so she dashed back to Hamtown.. poor chickie!) The concert was awesome! I bought the CD on Wednesday, had a listen and I absolutely love it! He played a bit of his old songs, a bit of his new songs. I think if it wasn't free I would have still paid to go to that concert! Here are some pics from the concert:




Here's John Mayer on stage, playing one of his smoothed-out tunes







John Mayer on the big screen @ Yonge & Dundas








The gals: Cecilia, me, Saloni & Jenn

Photographer Booked!

Time: 9:56pm
Mood: Relieved!
Song of the moment: John Mayer - Waiting On The World To Change

*yay* I finally booked (or should I say re-booked) a photographer! His name is Joe Wong... to check out his website click here :D

I'm so happy with my new choice... I can finally enjoy my planning again!

I bought the new John Mayer CD the other day - Continuum. It's awesome! He's coming to Toronto for a free concert @ Dundas Square this saturday. Guess who's going..!! :D I'm excited!

Entourage!

Time: 10:49pm
Mood: Tired (it's been a long day..)
Song of the moment: Nickleback - Far Away

Omg I'm actually admitting I like a Nickleback song! Haha one of those "guilty pleasure" bands that you never admit to liking.

So over the past couple of weeks I've grown obsessed with an HBO show called Entourage. It is about one A-list movie star that brings his childhood friends along for the ride: Vince - the A-lister, Eric ("E") - the manager, Johnny Drama - the older brother, and Turtle - his personal assistant. My favorite character (and I think majority of the people that watch this show would agree) is his agent - Ari Gold. He's got the best lines ever!

I first heard about this "critically acclaimed" show from a tv station promo. A local station is planning to air episodes starting next month, but I thought I would read up on it to see what it was all about. Lo-and-behold it's already on it's third season.. so what do I do? I manage to snatch it up on BT :) Very fun show to watch.. it's like a male Sex And The City :) It really gives you an inside view on the nitty-gritty media circus that comes with being a star.

Missing My Bling

Time: 9:10pm
Mood: Less stressed than I was earlier!
Song of the moment: Ne-Yo - Sexy Love

Wow my iTunes took forever to load up! I guess it's time to reconfigure my hard drive perhaps? Or maybe I should start clearing out my hard drive.... I have 5GBs left on my C-drive :S Lucky for me Jimmy just installed a 120GB second drive in my computer (sweet! perks on having a honey working for IT! Free computer stuff!)

So I'm missing my bling. Before you jump to conclusions let me tell you why and how! Jimmy and I are getting our wedding bands made! Mines is going to fit my e-ring, so they jeweller had to take it. My wedding band is going to be encrusted with diamonds along the top half of the ring.. more bling! :D Jimmy's ring looks pretty kewls too.. modern looking :) I will take pics of them when I get them!! Because it feels weird when there is no ring on that finger, I had to buy a dummy-ring. But I couldn't go cheap.. my skin can't handle non-precious metals (thus the rash developing around my pinky finger due to my Iron Ring... I'm not taking that off.. that was 5 years of blood and sweat to get that ring!). So I blew $45 on a silver ring at one of those ring stores @ Pacific Mall.

This long weekend was pretty eventful! I went to a wedding reception as Flo's date :D hehe! It was Malaika's (an old highschool friend of ours) wedding. I havn't seen her in a while.. she looked so beautiful! Her and her new husband make such a lovely couple! And I got to see some old schoolmates I havn't seen since the last day of OAC!

I got sent down to Detroit this Tuesday. The good thing about going down after a long weekend was the fact that I had the rental all weekend long.. and my company paid for my gas :D Sucky thing was, I got stuck at the border for about an hour. It was partially due to the volume of cars and the fact that I was carrying parts over the border... I had to go into customs and pay some trucking fee. And on top of that I really had to pee. I think I did the pee-dance for an hour! haha! That wasn't fun at all! After the meeting, two of the ladies in my meeting told me to hit this mall called Somerset located in Troy, which was about a 15 min drive from where I was. They actually told me about this mall last time I met with them, and the said it was huge. They weren't kidding.. this mall was massive! Imagine a huge road, with a mall on either side of the mall, connected by a skywalk. This mall had a Macy's, Neimen Marcus, Tiffany's... you name it they had it! I walked in.. went into a total of 3 stores (I only had 30 min) and managed to spend a little $100. And I was able to sneak it past the border guard! Bonus!

I've been majorly stressing about my wedding, partially because over the last 2 months I've been second guessing my photographer. She's a great lady and all, but I feel like her style of photography didn't quite suit my taste anymore. So I went out and started interviewing more photographers. I have it narrowed down to one (which I will reveal once I book him/her... hopefully I'll send out an email tonight!). Anyway, so I called up the photographer I had booked and told her I was going to take my business elsewhere. It was by far the hardest thing I've had to do. She tried to convince me to stay with her, telling me the style I want is what she's trying to get into, but she just needs to find a client that will give her a chance. Unfortnately, I'm not the chance-taking type when it comes to my wedding. But I'm so relieved that's over and done with, and that I found myself an awesome photographer that takes photos in the style I'm looking for! On a bad note, I lost my deposit... $345...

Wow I'm going for broke!