reflection on a weekend that was.

i need new struts. i found this out saturday afternoon after our spanish class. yup, our spanish class - more on that in a moment. i had taken the element in for some routine servicing and had asked them to have a look at my front end - excuse me...?...because i had been hearing some odd knocks and such, and sure enough i need new struts. too many potholes and, at least one, medium to light bump on a curb near the home depot when it was icy. and really, it's not that unexpected.
so, spanish....yup, shauna, emilie and i have signed up and on for spanish classes at VCC and had our first class saturday morning...i was suffering from some serious shyness when it came to the 'turn to your neighbour and say hello and work on the phrases we have just learned...'..i found myself kinda freakin' out like a million butterflies were in my stomach but i'm hoping that goes away and thank-god (or someone) that shauna was there or i think i may have passed-out. seriously. out instructor/teacher, maria, is very good and puts a very relaxed spin on the whole affair. now we have homework to work on...
after we got the elephant we went and picked-up ang and went for coffee and some shopping...things went south at one point and i did something slightly out of character, that will not be discussed here but i want to publicly apologize to both shuana and ang for my untimely behavior. and that's all i'm gonna say about that....i'm better than my mouth would indicate...i love you both..
speaking of love...i decided that since saturday was six month mark of our first date that i'd take her out for a nice dinner to West. (don't cringe...it was very nice and good reason to do it...) we ate like champs with me eating my first steak like meat for the first time in so many years i can't remember the last time...i've been eating more meat in the last six months but as far as steak goes - and in this case an alberta beef ribeye - it's a new adventure. shauna had some smoked sablefish and an appetizer of beef and goat cheese and some other jingus. i had a starter of oysters and some fancy lobster and crab risotto. nice. and for the second or third time in as many months i've had a glass of wine with my dinner...maybe i'm getting fancy in my old age.
sunday was a late start as it was the first day we really had to sleep-in in a while...cleaned the house a little and did some laundry, that sort of shit...then we had a little breakfast at the alibi room and then off to crab beach to let stella run around and be a dog....i had a hockey game at 5 so we just had time to run a few small errands before i had to make that happen...
it was a good game, cleana dn such without the usual stick work by the other team but we lost 3-2 but really, and here's the clique, we could have beat them but were unlucky and out of the fifteen shots i had at net only five or six hit the actual target...not my best shooting display....most of our shots never made it to the net where i was set-up which was frustrating...my pal ed came out to lend a hand and was a great addition to the bomber line-up...now if i could just get him the puck...

ok...back that salt mine...

have a great day.

g. xo


good food at west....