Thanksgiving This!

Well here it is another Thanksgiving long weekend and I can’t wait to have three glorious days to myself. Tonight a little bit of Big Daddy’s food on King street and then Saturday all to myself and Sunday Turkey! Weather sucks so far, rain, and kinda cold. Oh yeah I have to sing at MCC this weekend, hopefully I can make it there. Lots of fun singing with those sopranos, up in the sky notes. I  have a great picture I will need to upload of FP. I can’t wait to put it into my blog for me to look at all the time. This is short and sweet because I am very tired. So anyone who is reading this  have a great Turkey weekend. Bring on the bird!

Birthday Celebrations

Today we celebrated my birthday….it was a privilege to be with my BFF.  Starting off the morning on the go train to the “shwa” and picked up by my BFF, then off to shopping and later on wine, movie, dinner and sparklers!!!  Or as I like to call them Sparkles!!!

For all of those that wanted to be with me, thank you so much, but it is important that I made it just to this birthday.  Next year will be the big one.  I will celebrate with all of you.

Cheers to all the Libras…enjoy the photos.

Sparklers

 

Ricky toasts herself

Wine....yummy

Hot September!

Indian Summer, that is what we call this September in Toronto 09! I think I have been saved by the sweat Gods, I don’t have to venture on a subway or bus with the public…in warm heat like this it could be alarming! A six minute walk all by myself to my sweet little condo from work’s door to  my door! How pleasant is that. Although I look forward to the fall days, I can’t wait to wear my new Joe Fresh Fall coat…it is so beautiful and cool looking.  Just a quick note, I sang at Ms. Leah’s tenth anniversary at MCC Church last Sunday and it was wonderful. About thirty-five great voices singing their little hearts away and sounding just great. Good on Ms. Leah, she deserved it and is probably one of the greats around town playing that piano. I have joined two choirs, on on Monday night, a community choir just three blocks away from me and of course the MCC church choir. So I really am getting my soprano voice back, believe or not. Little do they know who I use to be! ha!

Three weeks into the school season and things seem to have quieted down a bit. Still seeing many students pass through the doors always needing to talk about their courses etc., but I am their to help them and service all their professors too. I truly look foward to my weekends. This is going to be a busy year where I work and I hope to get through it all. Let’s just hope the weather stays warm a little longer, although not this warm and our winter is not too harsh. I look foward to a new year!

Frosh Fall! I see Students!

My first September here at Ryerson! I can’t believe the amount of noise that these 1st year students have made since they have arrived here on Monday of this month. In some ways it is exciting, but when you are trying to walk the quad it is very hard to get around the little darlings as they walk by you in painted purple faces, every t-shirt colour under the sun and funny hats to complete their outfits! I was never part of that life. I was working and singing my way through Toronto and Ontario and the USA. If they only knew that a “do you know who I use to be” is sitting at their administration office they would all fall to their knees! Well bend a little anyway! On another note, I went to the cottage in Haliburton to visit the Heenman and took along Ms. A with me. I wanted her to see where I have spent my one week in August for the past twenty-five years! She loved it and for me it was closure with Haliburton and the healing lake that I so very much love swimming in. It was rainy and cold and and we got glimpses of blue sky once in a while. We still managed to bbq and enjoy a small sunset. My sista Ms. A drove me through great little roads to get back to her home. We even found a road with houses that had stone walls around their property and it felt like we were in an English farm area! Next time I am up there I will take my camera and capture that beautiful wall of stone. The next couple of weeks probably will be quite hectic around the school, but I am looking forward to the calm come October. I love the Fall and I am already for it with a new coat from Joe Fresh! I will be adding a few pictures soon, so I can look back and remember what the lake and the cottage felt like!

Ahh Canada, my true north strong and free!

This is a view from Sunset Hill at Heenacres

From Sunset Hill at Heenacres

My favourite Hammock at Heenacres

Heenman's Cottage at Haliburton

My favourite room at Heenacres

My Favourite spot to read

Another view at Heenacres

Ahh, the best Sunset at Heenacres

Where is Summer

It has been a long time since I have written anything in my little blog here! Well, lots of things have happened! I went to see “The Zombies” at the Mod Club last week and it was incrediable. To be standing so close to my favourite group! They sang all the songs I love. Thanks to Anne Marie and her birthday party at a great place on College street.

I really can’t say when I will be singing again because of the high drama being played out at Statlers Bar. I can’t seem to get a commitment from the owner and have decided to just let it ride for a while. It is too bad because a lot of people have been asking me when I will be singing again and I just can’t give them an anwer! Oh well, bad for him good for me! I have been singing every week with my Pal Mr. B. and getting a new song list together, lots of old songs out there that I think will be a hoot to do. As they say the beat goes on!

I am counting the days till I go to Heenacres and have already packed some stuff to take up with me! I hope Lake Haliburton warms up and we get some nice weather. was told by the gatekeeper there that bears have been spotted! I will be sitting down at the water pretty well the whole day, in fact I have 8 books to get through which I am really looking forward to. So this should be a great time to chill before the students get back to school and I am stuck at the desk with all their problems! I look forward to helping the little kiddies out.

Tonight off to an Ethiopian restaurant tonight with the GB gang. It is at Bloor and Ossington and I already have picked from the pictures on the website of I want to eat. Waiting for Garou the little Flaxen Brit to arrive here at the CT. This is all I have to report and look forward to a nice quiet weekend with my pal Al from the Shwa.

Where is Summer!!

I see Dead People!

Oh my, the Hollywood gang and Michael Jackson have disappeared! In one week we have lost favourite Stars and one big honking Icon! What a week! Of course as soon as you hear about these people, my food intake because smaller, I start to exercise and my mortality starts to kick in, or should I say out! The person I will miss the most as I am sure other people have voiced or showed the feelings is Michael Jackson. I have watched his Video over and over of his movie Ghosts! The one he wrote with Stephen King. I don’t care how screwed up he was or what his preferences were, just watching him dance and sing was all I needed to admire him as an artist. I will go out and buy his cd’s when they re-issue them again…and I still love Thriller almost my favourite! I have even started to go past the CNN garbage spewed out about him everyday, it is getting very tiresome. So that is how I feel about that. Prying into people’s lives after a while still can become tiresome, but being the curious human beings we are, we still want to hear bout all the details, good or bad. I say RIP Michael and now you don’t have to have anybody bothering you anymore, you can sleep and sleep and sleep etc., I think that is what he really wanted to do…it maybe was time for him to exit stage left or right! Too bad it had to be done when he still had so much to give. Somewhere there is a vault with songs we have not have not heard yet….I look so forward to that moment.  I dare not sing any of his songs, only he could sing them and believe me, no singer will or could come close to that voice of his! I will never do the Moon Walk , only the King of Pop could do that! Rock on Michael J. Nobody will ever replace him!

Ahhh Summertime

I have been back a week and some now, my Italy trip a mere dream! We are just a mere blip on the European scene. No one ever talks about us! We are a tiny little country that means nothing to the big guns that rule that part of the world. I viewed my wonderful pictures of Italy last night and will be posting them soon. I still have great memories of the Hop on Hop Off bus! The best ride in Rome to see everything you need to see, great value for 18Euros. This weekend we are invited over to Ms. M’s to view her video of us travelling around Rome and Tuscany! What hoot that will be. I am really enjoying this great weather we are having and hope that Saturday will be a great day for our BBQ at Ms. M’s.!!!! Looking forward but not rushing, to go to Haliburton with my pal Ms. G. I have already planned for that and it looks like it is a go for me in August. As much as I loved travelling, it is good to be home in my own little bed, at a bed that fits my body. Boy, those beds in Tuscany were so small and narrow! I now have to catch up on my Soaps Opera’s, and other shows I hold dear to my heart. But I really don’t want to spend evenings running home to them, and will hopefully get in gear and do some strolling through the Village and Cabbagetown!

Farewell, ciao Italy, I loved you and all your beautiful scenery! Your beautiful Tuscan hills, and Rome, I will miss your huge white buildings and statues of Roman’s and artwork that I could only see in a book, but now have seen them with my own eyes! I now plan my next trip to wherever! The world is my oyster ha! and I am looking for the next pearl!

Ciao Italy

Well, Let me say that was some kinda trip! After leaving the villa with a thousand pounds of luggage, shopping galore, we three gals of Toronto thought we would never make it up the hills back to Rome that day we left! With Miss J driving and me piled in the back of a small little car we headed off to the Leonardo Da Vinci airport, omg! We got are GPS going and headed off. That Autostrada has to be the fastest roadway in the world. The cars in the left hand lane zoomed by us as if they were driving in the Indie Five Hundred! Scary stuff for our poor Miss J trying to get us to Rome in one piece. Dorothy, that’s what we called our GPS device, took us right to the Rome, Hilton Hotel, were we spent the night. I must say that was very wise of us to do, to get ourselves ready for that long 9 1/2 hour flight!!! Scary stuff. We actually had a great flight and after watching two 2 1/2 hour movies I was quite relaxed and happy. Footnote: I actually picked up the wrong luggage at the airport and had to return that night and find mine. It was a very long night! I did find my luggage and it was circling around the luggage carousel calling my name out! I never have been so happy in my whole life to see my little piece of luggage, actually it was a big heavy piece and have all my stuff still in it! What a wild night.  Rome was awesome, the Vatican unreal and the buildings were so huge and white it was like being in a movie set of Ben Hur. Tuscany air was fresh and breathable and the landscape was soooo beautiful I can’t even describe it. We ate pasta everyday, and shopped in every little shop or big one…that was a real trip! Shoes, clothing, rings, boots, purses, wine and more wine and more pasta and more of everything, it was a more than my eyes could take in. Climbing the hills to get to the middle of town was not real either, I think I have built up my calves so I can do anything now! My pictures will soon follow and now that I have seen almost the other side of the world, there is so much more to see…. I am ready for my next adventure. Travelling with my two buddies was great, and I thank Miss M. for taking us for a trip of a lifetime! We laughed and laughed and oo’d and ah’d at all the beauty of one country! As they say in Italy Ciao Bella tuttuo tuttou Bella!!!!!!!!

made it!

We made it. We left Rome and drove to Tuscany with are gps which called Dorothy! Unreal, she got us all the way to Borgo Di Vagli. The road was unreal 30 degree incline and frightening! This place is unreal and we have met some unreal people, all interesting and lots to talk about. Our place is wild and I will have pictures of all these places we will be going to. Cortona was wild and we blew are brains out buying lots of wonderful things.

This is a short blog and will check in hopefully sometime in the middle of the week, keep your ears and eyes posted. This has been quite the trip. I miss you all!

Ciao Bella’s

Ciao Rome!

Hello Everyone!

Well, what a day, shopping all day long and a wonderful Rome Night Walk! It was fab! We saw the most wonderous things, glad I took that walk, even though I am dead on my feet tonight. We start packing for Tuscany tommorow and off we go! Bought some great stuff and if your really nice to me Garou I might bring you back a piece of the Forum, a little rock to put on your little tiny desk! I knew you would miss me terribly! I am very tired so again this is a short blog! Will blog when we settle down in Tuscany. Can’t wait to get there! Should be a rockin ride with these gals! They can really shop! Okay everyone keep your eyes on this blog, should be an interesting one after we get to the Villa, if we ever get there!

Ciao Bella’s and you to Garou!