Linking up with Marg at The Intrepid Reader
WE ARE TRAVELLING UNTIL DEC 22, I WILL LINK UP IF POSSIBLE. BUT I EXPECT LIMITED INTERNET/WI-FI.
COMPLEX DESJARDINS MONTREAL QC
Last Week's Post Pigeon Cafe
Last Year's Post Tim Horton's HHOF
Five Years Ago Allan Gardens Toronto I wasn't doing weekly recaps back then.
SATURDAY
We are still organizing our trip. I booked our airport transfers for Tokyo. We checked out our Air Canada flights and adjusted some seating.
I'm guess I'm not normal!
SUNDAY
We went to brunch with my cousin and her wife at Capra's, owned by local Canadian celebrity chef, Massimo Capra. My cousin's daughter was as a server while going to university.
EGGS MASSIMO Two Eggs Poached in Tomato Sauce, Roasted Onions, Fresh Tomatoes, Oregano, Sausage or Bacon, Homefries or Arugula & Cherry Tomato, Multigrain Bread.
Merguez Sausage Hashbrown Poached Egg, Shredded Potatoes, Peppers, Tomato, Onion, Citrus Avocado Crema
My fern is doing well, although it does drop a lot of leaves(?).
MONDAY
On the bus - don't let it fool you, it was cold and windy! The trees have lost their autumn finery.
I met my BFF and we had lunch and did the shops. K even bought a top at Winners!
John decided his sandals were falling apart so ordered new ones online.
TUESDAY
Tuesday Treasures
I figured out and configured my laptop so I can use Google Docs while offline.
Then I started encountering this error while doing various things online.
Cloudflare down today: Cloudflare, a critical web infrastructure provider, experienced a major outage that disrupted access to numerous major websites worldwide, including X (formerly Twitter). This incident highlighted the company's essential role in keeping the internet running smoothly and how its failures can have widespread, visible consequences.
I had a haircut and then went to meet a friend for lunch. After that I did a couple of errands before heading home.
Some sights along the way.
We had seen these birds at City Hall last week, but we didn't realized they were an advertising campaign.
Energy Bird is a system of products mindfully designed to regulate your energy throughout the day. Whether it’s building your base, boosting your brain’s energy, or finding balance, we have a formula for that.
The event is free and open to the public, with no tickets required. However, you can unlock special benefits with a Flock Access experience complete with product discounts, exclusive swag and a skip-the-line fast pass.
You can qualify by entering the Instagram giveaway or by finding the Energy Birds located across the city.
The plaque highlights the vital, yet often overlooked, contributions of women to Toronto's workforce. The site was once a mail-order warehouse for The Robert Simpson Company, where women took on significant industrial roles, especially during the First World War, which helped pave the way for greater workplace equity.
Royal York Hotel getting attired in her festive array.
John went out to lunch with his old boss.
I had procrastinated completing our Japan entry declaration and it turned out to be not to bad. Some questions were a little weird due to translation but we got our QR code.
WEDNESDAY
We booked mani pedis for 10:15. Then I went downtown to do some errands. I wanted some makeup and a couple of things for dinner and for Christmas, as well as some cash. I did get a turkey breast on sale for Christmas.
John got started on his packing and his new sandals arrived. He also took his clubs out of the car.
THURSDAY
We got the Christmas fund cheque to the office for the employees. We won't be going to the Christmas party. John started handing out his Xmas money to our special employees that we engage with daily.
The car keys were given to the valets in case they have to move it for something.
Packing, organizing, finalizing, watering plants, tidying, ETC.
FRIDAY
We are off to the airport at 6:40AM!
COOKING
Saturday rotisserie chicken pot pie
Sunday brunch Capra's dinner leftover chicken pie
Monday chips and eggs
Tuesday Vietnamese pork meatball wraps
Wednesday Liver fried onions carrots turnip (yay the end) mashed potatoes
Thursday ORDER Swiss Chalet Chicken
Friday TRANSIT
WATCHING
Memoirs of a Geisha released in Japan as Sayuri, is a 2005 American epic period drama film. It tells the story of a young Japanese girl, Chiyo Sakamoto, who is sold by her impoverished family to a geisha house (okiya) to support them by training as and eventually becoming a geisha under the pseudonym "Sayuri Nitta." The film centers around the sacrifices and hardship faced by pre-World War II geisha, and the challenges posed to geisha society by the war and a modernizing world.
Mr. Mercedes is an American crime drama television series based on the Bill Hodges novel trilogy by Stephen King, which consists of Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, and End of Watch. It was developed by David E. Kelley, and stars Brendan Gleeson and Harry Treadaway.
Retired detective Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved case of "Mr. Mercedes", who claimed 16 lives when he drove a stolen Mercedes through a line of job-seekers at a local job fair. Meanwhile, brilliant young psychopath Brady Hartsfield emerges to focus his attention on Hodges. What begins as an online cat-and-mouse game soon has deadly real-life consequences as an increasingly desperate Hartsfield becomes bent on leaving his mark on the world.
It slowly dawned on us that we had watched this during the pandemic!
I watched Once on CBC Gem, a 2007 Irish romantic musical drama film written and directed by John Carney. The film stars Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová as two struggling musicians in Dublin, Ireland. Hansard and Irglová had previously performed music as the Swell Season, and composed and performed the film's original songs.
READING
With some much organizing going on this week I am still reading A Darker Domain.
However I did download a bunch of books to read over the next while.
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