date with a really LARGE ONE!

it's mid-way through the week and do you know what that means? it means hell week is almost done and my huge-ass work promo is launching in a few days. OH MY! OH YES!

but, i still have to survive the rest of the week! LOL!

based on popular demand by my tweeps, last night (after yet another long work day) i went on a date. what i really wanted to do was watch the BOS vs MIA ball game with Mike, but my teeeple spoke and recommended i combine the two by suggesting to my date to watch the game.

he was so in, but i was right - ball isn't his sport. he's all about hockey... but he was still in. plus he received bonus points for suggesting the Real Sports Bar & Grill, a bar located beside the ACC i've been dying to try since it opened a few months ago. with that, he turned my dread of hanging out with him into excitement... not excitement to see him, but excitement to see the Real Sports Bar! Ha ha!

he's kind of recycled. i've been on a few dates with him YEARS ago AND I ALSO have been on some dates with his brother. of course not simultaneously - if that makes the situation any better. hehe. i tell ya, slim pickings back then and even slimmer pickings now hence why i'm recycling. ha!

i had a good time, but you know what? it doesn't matter who or what i'm with, i always have a good time. i can have good time with a wall and a door for god's sake... 

years ago i thought he was pretty attractive, but after last night, i've concluded...

• i'm not as attracted to him as i was 5 years ago (or was it 7?). it was like hanging out with one of my boys.
• i think his brother is hotter even though he's smarter.
• if i were to go on a date with his brother, i'd probably not be attracted to him as well.
• they both have the same type of voice. the type of voice that kind of annoys me. they're both lucky they're good looking.
• nothing panned out with this dude for a reason and i doubt anything will ever pan out.

it's all good though. i'm glad i went... i was able to watch the b-ball game and leafs game, drink beer, eat some good food, have good company and experience all that in an atmosphere that was fun, hype and pretty unbelievable. i say unbelievable because being in the Real Sports Bar made me feel like a child in a candy store. it's a playground for adults in there! i felt like i was in Vegas! YES VEGAS! perfect timing considering i'm taking off to Sin City in a week! 

Check, check, CHECK THIS OUT! it's a 79 footer television surrounded by tons of other TVs!

plus this place has tables with their own televisions! if you ever go here, try to get a table on the 2nd level. being eye level with this 79' TV is effing AMAZING! AMAZING i say! (had to say it twice because that's how amazing this place is!)

1st hell then sin.

F*CK ME!

this week is going to be a week from HELL! though i can't wait for it to be over, i really need this week to drag so i can get all my work done...

• i have a multi-million promotion launching in a week's time at 22 locations across Ontario.
• pre-promotion events launching this Friday at 3 locations.
• another pre-promotion event launching this Saturday.
• and a baby shower i've co-organized this Saturday. 
• plus i have to train staff this Wednesday night.
• also go on site this Saturday morning.
• the above doesn't even include my 7am - 7:30pm work days and all the work i need to complete to make sure EVERYTHING goes smoothly...

 F*CK ME AGAIN! grrrrr...  urgh... argh... bleh... meh...!

 

what a sad, sad, sad list the above is... and what does a sad list call on?? it calls on a HAPPY LIST!

and this is what my HAPPY is after hell week is done...

VEGAS BABY! VEGAS!!!

(via)
 
 ... SinCity trumps hell! i'll be sinning soon! hehe.

fill in the blank friday

f*ck yea! TGIF! 

what a horrible week it has been for me. i'm all over the map... personally... at work... just in general... and i'm not too sure what to do with myself. how i wish it was years from now, at a time this uncertainty of myself and life would hopefully be gone. a co-worker the other day said to my manager, "Maureen is dying." he hit it on the nose. i'm killing me softly. don't worry guys. i'm not going to do something drastic. i'm just not in a good place right now. one day, (hopefully) this will be ALL gone.

well, it's Friday today which means it's fill in the blank friday. if you want to join in on the fun, you'll find it here! don't forget to link up to Lauren's blog.

1.  I am  short. enough said.

2.  I wish  i could re-do most of my life, starting from high school. there's so many things i would do differently, knowing the things i know now.

3.  I like  the warmth of the sun, the satisfying feeling of an ice cold beer on a hot day, giggles & laughs & smiles, traveling, many foods from savory to sweet.

4.  I can  always put a smile on my face even at the worst of times. as long as there's people around me.

5.  I hope  every person i care for is happy in their life. corny i know, but i really do hope they always feel joy. realistically, there will be down times and when that's the case, i hope those times don't last for long.

6.  I think  everyone should feel some kind of joy in their life as long as they're a good person. (yea yea, i'm still being corny. i'm really stupid emotional this week.)

7.  I was  trying to get into work super early today and be in by 7am, but got sidetracked with fill in the blank friday. it's all good. i really enjoy writing FITBF. this is more of what i need than drowning in work. 

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE! hope you have a wonderful, stress free weekend!

 

happy 101 x 2.

woohoo! am i popular this week! i've been awarded the happy 101 awarded by 2 awesome fellow bloggers, Leesh and Reni.

Rules for happy 101 award:

1. Post who gave you this award. (check)

2. State ten things you like. (check)

3. Give this award to 10 other bloggers and notify them with a comment. (oh no, bail)

ten things i like... 

(surprisingly, i have written about each of the below except for one. click each topic for the deets.)

1. sushi
2. french fries
3. summer
4. music
5. traveling
6. body jam workouts (go BJ go!)
7. bubble tea (been craving this for the past 2 weeks)
8. beer! (it gets me drunk quick for pretty cheap)
9. starbucks
10. money (i hope this doesn't make me sounds superficial or materialistic. but who doesn't like money? we all need it.)

unfortunately, i won't be tagging bloggers for this. i will need to obtain more followers to get the chain continuing from my end. (sorry Leesh and Reni...)

fill in the blank friday

today's friday, do you know what that means? it means it's fill in the blank friday. come on and join in on the fun right here and don't forget to link up your post! enjoy!

1. Blogging is something i have reacquainted myself with and am enjoying. i'm learning new things about myself, making new friends and connecting with existing friends on a different level.

2. A current fashion trend I wish I was brave enough to wear is heels taller than 2 1/2 inches. i'm too chicken sh!t to wear high heels because they hurt and i'm old. i really should wear them... i'm short!

3. My greatest accomplishment in life thus far is going back to school for event management and finishing with honours.

4. If I had to choose between a mountain or a beach vacation I'd choose the beach baby! i don't know how to snowboard or ski, but i wouldn't mind hiking and walking. then again, i can always just walk on the beach.

5. A talent I wish I had is djing. back in the day i was a promoter for a dj crew. how much more fun would it have been if i was an actual dj? plus if i had that talent right now, i think it would automatically make me cool.

6. A talent I do have is having the ability to go through my day on full blast with minimal sleep and food and not complain about it.

7. This week was another brutal one for me. can't wait for November to hit because the storm will start to calm... after Vegas of course!

have a great weekend everyone! take care and be good...

day 30. the end.

the last prompt of my 30 days is:
a photograph of myself today
+ 3 good things that have happened in the past 30 days.

1. there's no stopping me now... as of yesterday i decided i'm going to Vegas early November! i know i shouldn't because i can't really afford to, but what i am certain of is I REALLY NEED THIS! i'm focusing on me baby! me, me, MEEE!

2. i'm in a better place than i was last month. maybe not necessarily a good place, but i'm definitely in a better frame of mind.

3. i really enjoyed this 30 day blogging challenge. it has helped me get to know myself, get to know new friends and get reacquainted with old ones. here's to more blog posts done by me!

wow, i can't believe today is the last day of my 30 day blogging challenge.
YAY! I DID IT!

day 29. collections.

today's prompt for my 30 days is
things i collect + things i would like to start collecting.

shot glasses.

i like to collect shot glasses from the various locations i've traveled to or where friends have traveled. as you can see my collection is pretty thin. i decided to collect after my Europe travels and at times forget to buy a shot glass or i'm too picky. i guess i'm just not a good collector. i have yet to own a Vancouver shot glass or one from Cali.

tickets.

i have a photo album of tickets. on the back of each ticket i write down who accompanied me. this album consists of movie stubs, concert tickets, sporting events, plays and such. i recently started this collection around a year ago and i stole this idea from the ex. he's been collecting movie stubs for a long time and writes on the back as well. his album has stubs from back in high school. i thought that was pretty cool.

as for what i would like to start collecting... don't think there's anything else i would collect. i think the above is enough mess for me.

let's play tag... 8 questions.

tag, Leesh made me it!

I was tagged in this fun 8 questions game by Leesh at The Blarkness Chronicles

So the way this goes is I answer her 8 questions, then I make up 8 of my own & tag 8 awesome bloggers to answer them.

Let the fun begin...

1. What's your Starbucks drink?
i have several: toffeenut soy americano misto, caramel macchiato and (the new) toffee mocha.

2. What movie do you like better - Sex and the City or The Devil Wear Prada?
The Devil Wears Prada!

3. What's your token fall fashion item?
i'm more of a summer person, but i'd say boots. i have 2 new boots i'm sporting this Fall.

4. Your cable is out and the TV fairy is allowing you to pick one boxed set to watch, what show do you choose?
Californication. click here to see why!

5. What's your favorite ice cream flavour?
it depends which brand... baskin robbins = mint chocolate chip, laura secord = french crisp, haagen dazs = vanilla swiss almond, i haven't decided on a ben and jerry's flavour yet.

6. What's your go-to food when you are having a bad day?
i don't really eat when i'm having a bad day. i tend to drink! LOL! my go-to drink lately has been a pint of Rickards White.

7. You get to choose a free trip, do you choose a beach or city vacation?
i'd say city vacation. i like the beach too, but i can't seem to sit still.

8. What's the first thing you do when you get home from work?
take off my rings, earrings and bra!

now i'm suppose to tag 8 bloggers, but i don't even have 8 bloggers following my blog...

(this is all i can) tag! you guys are IT!
Mike at OPEN MIQ
Leesh at The Blarkness Chronicles (sorry that i'm tagging you back...)
Steph at A Simple Kind of Life
Jenn at Publicly Private
Reni at my so-called life

Here are the 8 questions for you to answer (if you participate, leave a link to your post in a comment):

1. what is your favorite alcoholic beverage?

2. what is the fondest memory of your childhood?

3. what movie do you plan on watching in the theatre next?

4. what frightens you the most?

5. what is your favorite body part on yourself? (LOL!)

6. what is your favorite body part on the opposite sex? (ha ha!)

7. what are your plans this week?

8. if you were granted one wish, what would it be?

day 28. best part of my day.

day 28 of my 30 days | the best part of my day

how sad is this?
... there is no best part of my day.
unfortunately, nothing stands out.

day 27. traveling.

day 27 of my 30 days | something i could never get tired of doing.

i love to travel and wish i could travel the world. what would even be better is if i had all the money to help me accomplish this and found someone i can travel everywhere with...

[via]

day 26. pet peeves.

today's prompt for my 30 days is:

5 pet peeves.

1. the pre-bail. the "pre-bail" happens a few days prior to the day you made plans. it's when little hints and excuses are voiced leading up to the plans and then on "the day", that person bails. i don't understand why people make plans and then do the pre-bail. just be straight up. if you don't want to go or think you can't go anymore then say so without sugar coating the process and dragging out the actual bail. just so you know, most people have concluded you're going to bail. there's no need to be flaky.

2. personal news announced impersonally. i recently wrote a post regarding this. click here if you want the deets.

3. pda (public display of affection). this is probably my oldest pet peeve. i say this because back in high school i used to go to the library with a friend and her bf at the time. i remember when she had to use the washroom, he would have to walk her to the door (holding hands of course) and then have a full blown make out session with her in front of the door. i remember thinking, what the eff?! the toilet isn't going to swallow her up. she'll be back in a few minutes.

4. traffic on days and times there shouldn't be. i believe traffic should not exist on a Sunday or really late at night. why the eff should there be? it's not a work day and it's not rush hour so we should be cruising on the roads and highways.

5. people who clip their nails in public places. seriously? that's just f*ckin gross and disgusting. why would people feel the need to cut their nails at work and not wait til they get home is beyond me...

day 25. celebrity crushes.

today's prompt for my 30 days is:
my celebrity crush list.

it's a short list, but a hot one!

Jake Gyllenhaal

Josh Duhamel

and that guy i saw at Loblaws awhile back who's so hot he could be a celebrity and the best looking guy i've ever seen in real life... i really hope to bump into him again!

fill in the blank friday (but on saturday)

last night, Leesh suggested i start fill in the blank friday. plus my friend Steph also participates. so this morning i thought, "sure, why not?" so here it is, a tad late... but better late than never, right? i'll be more on track next week...

btw, HAPPY GOBBLE GOBBLE to all you Canadians! have a lovely, stuffed-with-too-much-food long weekend!

1. The first thing I do in the morning to start my day is play around with my love - my iphone 4 by checking email, twitter, facebook, the blogs i follow and see if i have any Words with Friends moves to make... then i hop into the shower.

2. Today I wish I was still sleeping. it's saturday and i've been up since 6 in the morning. did i mention it's saturday?! i'm not working today... i should be sleeping in today.

3. If I had an extra $100 in my bank account today I'd buy myself a new dress to wear to the wedding i'm attending this afternoon. i rampaged my closet last night and tried on all my appropriate dresses to wear to a wedding and all but 2 are too big for me! the 2 dresses that do fit, most of the wedding guests have seen me in. so the dress i've decided to wear is the dress they have seen me wearing for fewer minutes.

4. Tomorrow i'm not sure what i'm doing during the day. a good friend from Vancouver is in town, so hopefully spend more time with her. in the evening, i'll be having a Thanksgiving feast with the family at the tita's house.

5. Two things that don't go together are me and sleep. we have a rocky relationship. sleep doesn't like it if i sleep with him for too long. he doesn't even like it if i have a normal amount of time with him. so instead i settle for 4-5 hours a night, but that's if i'm lucky.

6. Something I can never pass up at the grocery store is walking down the cereal aisle. it's odd because i'm not a hardcore cereal eater. i just want to know of any new cereals just it case it's an awesome one i would like to try. but there never is... in Canada. in the States, that's another story.

7. The last time I tried something new was a couple weeks ago... i discovered skinny jeans! i know i know, they've been around for ages, but i was always against wearing them because they made me look pretty hefty. i don't have thin legs and i have hips therefore they were never flattering on me. but it seems i was wrong (i guess losing some weight has helped as well. LOL!). so now i'm rocking the skinny jeans and now there's no effort required to tuck in the jeans in my boots - they just slide right in! (haha, that's what she said.)

 

what are you up to this weekend? enjoy!

day 24. necessities.

today's prompt for my 30 days is:
a list of things i don't leave the house without.

the below are the absolute minimum i can't be without...

my iphone 4
(my phone holds my world and rocks it too!)

keys
(i gotta lock my door and start my car somehow)

wallet
(how can i be pimpin without it?)

lip gloss
(hence why i have soft, luscious lips)

gum or mints
(for minty, fresh, kissable breath)

day 23. tv porn.

today's prompt for my 30 days is:
a show i'm currently addicted to.

there's this tv show my ex and i would watch religiously. we received 2 of the 3 seasons in the form of downloads (shhhhhh through friends) and rented the other season (because we were too impatient to wait for our friends' files). we would watch this show back to back to back and sacrifice sleep in order to watch just one more episode.

the tv show bleeds sex (i guess it could be considered soft porn)... at times the storyline seems unbelievable but you can't help but think "this probably has happened to somebody"... plus the show is fricken hilarious, keeps you on your toes, damn addicting and leaves you longing for more!

it's called Californication. check out the preview trailer for season 4.



tonight, i found out season 4 doesn't begin until 2011. booo... thumbs down! i can't believe i have to wait until NEXT YEAR to watch my favorite show. That's pretty effed up. it seems so far away... but fortunately it starts early in the new year. looks like M&J will have lots of d/ling to do for me in 2011!

day 22. TEE! OH!

today's prompt for my 30 days is:

a photograph of the town i live in.

here's Toronto (downtown), Ontario, Canada.
pretty sexy, huh?

day 21. favorite resto.

today's prompt for my 30 days is:
a photo of my favorite place to eat.

for someone who loves awesome food, i suck. i can't give you a photo of my favorite place to eat because sadly, i don't have a favorite restaurant. this is probably because i'm always craving something else, so there's no one restaurant that can hold my attention for too long... kinda like how i am with boys. LOL! just kidding... kinda.

but i do i have a consistent food love in my life and that's SUSHI! i'm sure if there was a restaurant in Toronto with fantabulous sushi that would be my favorite place to eat!

so instead, here's a photo of my last meal during my August 2010 visit to Vancouver, BC at Matsuyama. Sushi is so awesome in Vancouver! it's inexpensive and so fresh...

day 20. i do?

today's prompt for my 30 days is:

my dream wedding

ahhhh... this one is an easy one...
i don't have a dream wedding.

never given this subject much thought
since i'm too far from this stage in my life.

one step at a time baby. gotta find a dude first...

personal news shared impersonally

imagine this...

you're a pretty good friend of mine. we've known each other for almost 20 years. and you find out i'm engaged at the same time my 950 friends on facebook do?

i wonder if my parents would mind if i told them about my engagement via text?

how about if i asked you to be part of my bridal party through twitter?

or...

how about if i was pregnant? would you care that i was expecting and only found out when i updated my status on facebook?

our twenty years of friendship lumped together with people i may have only worked with for less than a year... people who i may have only seen less than a handful of times... people i may never see again in person for the rest of my life... you're grouped in together with all of them.

call me old fashion, but that information about me i consider very personal, very important - they're one of the very few milestones i'll ever experience in my life... that information is very near and dear to my heart and I DON'T WANT ALL 950 facebook friends to know about it at the same time my family and close friends find out about it.

i really believe my very good friends and family deserve better than that.

maybe you don't agree with me. and that's fine. we're all entitled to our own opinions. i just think those people who have been there for me my whole life and who will forever be there for me, deserve at least a phone call when i share with them some of the greatest news of my life.

day 19. a pet.

today's prompt for my 30 days is:

a photo of an animal i'd love to keep as a pet.

some animals can be cute and all, but there is no animal in particular i want to keep as a pet. it wouldn't be fair. who's going to take care of the pet?

i live on my own. i'm never home. a pet is basically a baby that stays a baby forever. you have to clean up it's sh!t. feed it. give it attention...

yea... i can't imagine doing that everyday! (i'm just sayin, so please don't hate on me!)

day 18. then & now.

today's prompt for my 30 days is:
a picture of me from last year + this year + how i've changed since then

in honour of this post, i decided to put up photos of myself from 2009 and 2010 wearing the same dress, the same sunglasses AND the same shoes. LOL!

THEN

- semi-employed
- often somewhere else other than Toronto
- carefree, relaxed and happy
- fatter :P

NOW

- i have a full-time job and a part-time job
- toronto-bound, unable to travel as much
- heartbroken, fairly stressed and confused
- skinnier

this post was extremely difficult to write because it's resurfaced emotions i try so hard to lock away. now that it's written, it's pretty apparent that i'm the opposite of what i was last year. wow, many (little) changes but i'm not sure it's for the better (except for the job status and the skinny part...). they say things happen for a reason and i have to trust that they really do even though no big things ever happen to me.

time goes by very quickly and i need it to slow down. i'm running out of time to meet someone, to gain momentum in my career, to own a home, to travel the world, to eventually be a mom, to happily spend the rest of my life with that guy...

i'm a natural planner but not when it comes to me living. all this time i've been living in the moment and waiting patiently to see where fate takes me. but now i'm doubting my life strategy and possibly regretting how i've lived my life. have i been wrong all these years? here i am, sitting in the sidelines as i watch everyone around me and eat their dust.

day 17. last purchase.

today's prompt for my 30 days is:
a photo of something i last purchased

it wouldn't be fair if i only posted one photo of the last item i purchased. to be fair, i HAVE TO post three. that's because my last purchase was a pair of 3-in-one boots! what a coincidence that this prompt lands on the same day Leeshi asked me to tweet photos of my boots. therefore, i'm photo ready for this post.

style #1.

style #2.

style #3.

for awhile i've been wanting to buy a pair of not-so-high heel boots for fall/winter. these are the EXACT heel i was looking for AND they're 3 styles in 1! i'm in love with them... it's definitely meant to be!