To celebrate my birthday, my wonderful and incredibly thoughtful girlfriends took me on an adventure - an eating in the dark adventure at O.NOIR!
What an interesting experience.
In a lit area (photo above), you are able to pick your entire meal. The waiters/waitresses are all blind, and they then lead you into a dark, dark, incredibly dark room. For some reason, I had assumed that when they said “eating in the dark”, they actually meant “eating in the semi-dark - there’ll be a nightlight of some sort around”. Oh man, I was wrong.
I went with 3 of my girlfriends, but it was really like I was eating alone. I could feel my food, my utensils, and could only gauge the emptiness of my plate with my fingers.
Let me tell you - losing the ability to see - even if it was for just that one hour of my life - was incredibly terrifying. I am uber thankful that I was with them, of all people, to experience this. It makes you grateful for the ability to see.
O.NOIR has 2 locations in Canada: one in Montreal and the other here, in Toronto.
My desk faces a window - don’t be jealous, it’s a view of condo buildings a stones throw away. There is a female that comes out directly across from me onto her back deck every afternoon and lays in a bean bag chair with her legs up against the railing - and every day, her outfit is a surprise. Last week, she came out with just a blanket. Today, a bikini top and hot shorts.
Yeah, I get it. It’s hot out.
Yeah, outside of myself, it’s a bunch of dudes ogling you - but c’mon woman! Have some self respect. Let’s put your tata’s and booty away! We don’t want to see it - well, I certainly don’t want to see it.
This weekend was nice, but I’m still staring at a monitor. I’m so sad about this.
- I have spent a ton of money buying books for my Kindle. Damn the convenience of buying books over the air!
- However, I had to ride the subway for at least an hour of my life yesterday and the Kindle kept me company - I was able to read various books with a click of a button. It kept me occupied while I tried to avoid the crazies.
- Oh help me, I hate side plank. It’s so hard! And my yoga instructor made us do it twicelast night.TWICE.
- I normally don’t rock patterns, but I am looking for a dress/skirt/shirt/scarf/anything with roses on them. I feel like roses and lace are my new loves.
- Cool/geeky conversation at the office (if you can figure out what we’re talking about, bonus points!):
Dude-A: “In just 9 years, we’ll have Nexus Sixes.”
Dude-B: “And that’s a Nexus One!” *points to device Dude-A is holding*
Dude-A: “No. This is not an Android. It runs Android.”
- It is girl brunch this weekend! And I am SO EXCITED.
- I am wearing these booties today:
And let me tell you - they are as uncomfortable as you would imagine.
Share a pitcher of Sangria with your boyfriend, over hot burritos, chimichangas, churros and fried ice cream.
The meal totally felt like something straight out of thisiswhyyourefat.com, but it was oh so good! And it relaxed us enough to enjoy our Sunday without thinking about all the stresses that the impending work week might will bring.
And I was drunk. Yeeeeauhhh.
Sangria Sundays are now a recurring item in our calendars.
But it doesn’t feel like it cause it hasn’t snowed in TO yet. I’m pretty peeved about this because I was really looking forward to the couple days off to be surrounded by it. I can’t wind down yet - still full speed ahead at work.
Every year, I have a handful of resolutions that I may or may not follow through on. Last year, I was pretty good about it (for the first 6 months, anyways). I think I might try that exercise again.
Went to Le Scandinave at Blue Mountain - and I loved every second of it. Well, almost - didn’t really enjoy being shushed a couple times by the Staff, but I assume they meant well :)
I will be there again!
Also, I am sucking at the Project 365 thing. I think I have already missed 2 days already. Maybe 3. :(
Today was nice. Hot yoga (with BF, this time - finally!), running through a thunderstorm (resulting in wet toes), relaxing tea (with the 3 winners pictured above), a fabulous lunch at a great Czech restaurant (helloooo halusky!), a nice nap (for him, anyway - I shopped online, heh), and some tasty sushi.
I have been trying to take more photos after I impulsively bought this a few weeks ago. I have a flickr account that is being way underused - and I find that I enjoy going back and looking at the everyday photos I took a few years ago (that were useless at the time, but said a lot about me and what I was into). I’ll get back into that - baby steps.
It is a beautiful day outside, so I decided to walk to yoga class this evening. On my way there, a gentleman caught up with me on the street and started a conversation.
“Excuse me,” he started. “But, can I ask what you have in that bag?”
“It’s my yoga mat,” I told him.
“Oh, I thought it was weaponry - martial arts or something. But yoga’s cool.”
“Not nearly exciting as swords,” I said.
“It’s still pretty cool. So why yoga?” he asked.
“Well, it started off as a hobby during my quest to find a hobby, but it really stuck. I tried other things, like rock climbing and spinning. Not my thing.”
We walked for another 5 minutes or so together, walking down the dirty, filthy, garbage-filled Yonge street - I told him all about hot yoga (he was looking for a calorie-burning activity). He told me about how he started reading about Kundalini yoga and the seven chakras. I told him that everyone should give yoga a try - at least once. But I suppose that could be said about anything, really.
I guess it was nice to have company walking to my class today; pleasant company with someone I’ve never spoken to before - and will not likely ever meet again.
