CALIFORNIA LIVING, CANADIAN MADE
It’s one of those cold mornings, where even though you’re completely wide awake…you kinda just want to stay home.
Well, time to head into work! Maybe I’ll film a video tonight. Excited!? Wait a minute there … I always film videos, I just never upload them because sometimes I make so many mistakes or weird noises (like choking on my spit — really. This time, I promise I’ll upload one tonight :)
Bright and early Saturday morning I hopped on the Greyhound bus to head to Toronto. I arrived in the big city a little before 10am, and ended up doing some shopping (and maybe have some ideas for upcoming blog posts involving romantic valentines gifts). But that wasn’t the real reason I ended up going to Toronto ala solo.
Yes, I did some shopping and will be doing a video perhaps this week on it. BUT! There was a Toronto’s Blogger Meetup!! I knew Susan was going, and since we’re both from the east coast, I knew it was finally time to meet her. Yay for blog-friends becoming real-friends!
I was a bit skeptical at first going to a vegetarian restaurant before, since I’m not one – but it was a buffet style and had an enormous selection of foods for me to choose from. Note, I did choose pizza for the first thing to go on my plate. It was the only thing I recognized ha!
Here’s my plate. I ate everything except the thing on the right that I thought was a potato, but it wasn’t very tasty in my mouth. Commensal was an interesting concept. You pay by the weight of your food, not by what is served for you = less wastage.
All in all I think there was about 18 or 19 people who showed up. Megan ended up leaving early since had to probably back for St. Lucia! Jealous.
So here’s our ‘group’ that met up. (I stole this image from Lily’s site. She’s so sweet and friendly in person, I have to admit – I only knew a handful of girls from their blogs, the other girls — like Lily I had no idea who they were. But that’s always fun too. Lily just started blogging this month! Go say hello :)
I also wanted to thank Morgan for planning the meet up and for the tea, also Lisa for the tasty treats!
Here’s a list of the bloggers that ended up going to the meet up, new blog reads for everyone to check out:
Anyway, it was a barrel of fun. I loved it so much, I can’t wait for more!
Question time: Have you ever been to a blogger-meet up before?
Hey chicken lickens! It’s Friday and I couldn’t be happier. I love it when the work week flies by.Not that my work seems like work by any means, because it certainly doesn’t — which I’m so lucky and thankful for. But this weekend has been in the works for a little while and I’m so excited to do a re-cap. I’d like to tell you guys where I’m going, but for safety reasons of this blog, I don’t like telling people in advance as to where I’ll be and when. Know what I meaaaaaaan?
Alright, here’s the outfit of the work week. You’ll notice I haven’t been wearing dress pants all this week (with the exception of maybe one day, whatever…ignore that). That’s because I took all my pairs of pants to a TAILOR this week! I was recommended by the retired CEO here at work, and since his clothes look well on him, I asked where he went. He’s been a client of these tailors for thirty years. Moses. This week he took me there, and then we went out to lunch at a little coffee shop in an old hotel (and the other part is actually a cigars shop — seriously!) . It was so nice! I can’t wait to see my pants!!
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