Food Truck Excitment

Tuesday night i was watching Eat Street and they had a toronto food truck.  I got so excited, i immediately followed them on twitter.  Then the next day, i was checking my twitter and guess what, they were parked almost immediately across from work.  It was a sign from the food gods....You must eat there, it is your destiny.

So, me and some friends from work went, there were 4 trucks and we got food at 3 of them, pulled pork sandwich, a bacon burger, churros, and this thing called a nutella bomb (it was banana bread stuffed with nutella and then deep fried).

It was amazing.....i love food trucks.  So much fun.

Then that night, i had all you can eat sushi with my friend Kathryn who is moving back to Boston (it is great for her but sad for me)

So Wednesday was the day of Eating for me and i ate myself to a DARK PLACE.

Thursday, i had physio and guess who is cleared for yoga.  Matt actually found a yoga studio and explained my injuries and made sure they would be able to provide modifications that will be safe for my injury.  Look out exercise...i'm back.  I am so excited!!!!
Then i met up with my co-workers and we went out for fun times and drinks, which ended with me and jordan getting slurpees and shopping at BMV....it is open until 11pm.  Which is amazing because that means you can buy books late into the night.

But that did mean it was a late night and i haven't seen rookie blue yet and i overslept this morning.  i also am incredibly tired.  I have been drinking black tea all day to keep me pepped up.

So it is the last long weekend of the summer.  Normally i do a lot of pj's and tv watching and completely zone out because when campaign starts up....i literally have zero time to chill.  but this weekend, i have so much stuff on my plate...two lunches, and mom is having a pool party....plus a friend's party tonight &/or tomorrow night.  I am hoping to get to both but as of right now...i am asleep at my desk minutes away from falling asleep.  I don't know if i will make it for tonight's party.  hopefully tomorrow.

Last week of summer

So this is the last week of summer and i haven't crossed very many things off the summer bucket list.  Although after i broke my ankle, certain things got crossed off because of my movement being restricted.

So what did i do that i wanted to do this summer:

High tea - it was awesome, and i think i was made for high tea....i want to do it more, like all the time...i want to be the queen of high tea, and wear fancy dresses and eat fancy desserts. Although i guess the specialness would wear off if i did high tea all the time.  So i will just drink regular tea most of the time and do high tea for special occasions.

Beach - this one is always on my summer bucket list and i have never been very successful at achieving a bunch of beach days in the summer.  We were on track this year with our plan to beach it up in Kincardine but due to a broken ankle and some crutches i didn't not feel beach ready during our Kincardine trip.  But the plan is on for next year.  And i did finally get to the beach on friday.  We went to Coburg beach, i am sure it isn't called that but it was a gorgeous beach....big and sandy, and a nice smooth walk out, no rocks to kill your feet and no unexpected holes or deep spots.

Shopping - I got to get my shopping fill in Montreal, actually i wasn't too excited about the trip because it seemed very quick and hectic, so i thought it would be very stressful but it wasn't at all.  I had a great time, i got to see two of my favourite people (Ryan & Alex), i got to shop, and i got to take business class home.  I am really glad i didn't bail on the trip.

Pedicures with Amy - I have been angry at my feet ever since i broke the ankle.  The toenails were getting way too long, the foot was dry and scaley.  The feet just weren't pretty anymore, not that my feet were ever super attractive but getting pedicures with Amy made my feet feel just a little bit more human.  In fact i want to go one last time before the summer is over.

Those are my three big things i accomplished this summer.  There was more i wanted to do, a buffalo trip with mom, a day at the spa, train for the marathon me and tak were going to run in October.  But none of those things happened.  But at least i got the three big ones accomplished!

Why can't we just not work at all?

My weekend was awesome.  And i really wish i didn't have to go back to work.  I am still having some issues about work...aka not wanting to be here.  Which is a major warning sign that something is wrong.  I normally love my job and i am very happy.  So i have to look into that.

But i don't want to talk about depressing things....I went to the beach on friday with andrea and crew.  It was amazing.  It was on my bucket list of things to do this summer.  I may have had to cancel almost all of my plans this summer and manage my disappointment of the Summer of Suck.  But i made it to the beach.  It was a great day...one of my favourites of the summer.  Braydon even told me that when i grow up, before i get married, i can live with him.  Isn't that nice.....braydon has just agreed to take care of me in my old age.

Saturday was a pool day, i got to swim again, the swimming feels nice on my ankle, i also had dad help me spray paint my cane.  Then i had a movie night with andrea and the kids.  It was a very Andrea  and the Kids filled weekend which was the best because i feel like i don't see any of them enough.

Sunday was High Tea day.  Me and Tak have been talking about going for high tea for so long and we were going to go for my birthday but we had to post pone.  So sunday was the day.  We went to the Park Hyatt and enjoyed tea and finger sandwiches, and scones, and other delicious treats.  I personally would forget about the finger sandwiches and just go for extra of the sweet treats.  But it was a great time, i have never gone for high tea before and i really think it suits me.  I am meant for high tea.....it is the perfect match for me.

So, now it is monday and i am back at work.....i told matt on thursday that i need exercise and i need it fast, i think it is one of the things that helps me survive the stress of work.  Without any outlet....i am up frustration creek.  I need to find other ways to manage my stress now that i am not cleared for exercise.  Also i have been eating EVERYTHING in sight because i am eating my feelings so i am turning into a major fatty.  I am always been plump but now i am a fatty and i am not okay with that.  Things need to get back to normal.  I want to be able to walk normally, i want to ditch my cane....no matter how much i paint it, i can't love it. I want to be able to work out, i want to not be so grumpy and frustrated at everything.  I was so annoyed with people going through union on friday night that i almost hit four people with my cane...ON PURPOSE.  That is not like me at all.  I think i am still broken but this time in spirit.  And i don't know how to fix it.

Montreal

So, it was a quick trip.  over before it really even got going.  But it the first set of plans that i didn't cancel or modify this summer.  Although i didn't get to run the colour run, it looked like fun, alex and ryan came back all coloury.  And i was jealous.  and they said it didn't clean over very well...that means you get to be a rainbow longer.  I wouldn't mind that.

So on the train there, i sat beside this guy who had brought so much food (he worked for a grocery store he told me) and couldn't eat it all so he gave me some fancy chocolate covered mangos....but worried for my safety, ie...i don't know this guy and he could have drugged something, i didn't eat it, but brought it to the hotel and ryan tried them first.
I got lots of shopping in.  I love simons.  It is my kind of store.  It is a mix between H&M but less snobby and forever 21 but better quality.
So you probably all want to know what i bought...i bought all of this:

I also bought some flowered jeans, but i can't find them on the simons website so i will have to show you guys later. 

I really enjoyed seeing alex and ryan, i miss them and wish i could see them more.  But you know me...i like to keep everyone close to me.  

I took business class home and it was awesome....i know i am easily impressed but dude it was super cool. They fed me and i got two whole seats to myself, and they had curtains to shut the sun out so you can sleep or whatever.  I may always travel business class from now on.....well not really because i am cheap so train to kingston i will stick with steerage aka regular class...and longer trips where my butt is going to go numb and i am going to go stir crazy...business class.

I am starting to worry

The blues aren't going away.  I am starting to worry it is a permanent state of being and that isn't like me.  I am starting to get restless....and you know what that means.  I need a change and i need it soon.  I am 33 now.  and according to some british study this is suppose to be the best year of your life because you are old enough to not really care about what people think and you are young enough to not have too many responsibilities yet.  So 15 days into being 33....and i got to say, so far, it is not awesome.  I feel like i am failing my potential.

Maybe i am just overly emotional today.

Ugh

I don't want to be here today.  I have known since friday today was going to be a rough day.  I won the sock lottery today and i am still positive today is going to suck the big one....I have movie tickets to see Serenity on the big screen today.  There is a special one time screening tonight as part of the summer season or something like that.  That should make me ecstatic...like seriously i should be bouncing out of my seat and i am not.
I don't like to complain about work on this blog because this is not the forum for that...this is my own personal blog, about me and my personal life and thoughts.  I like keeping work out of it.  So i won't complain here but i will say, I am tired....so tired and it hasn't even started yet.  I really don't know how i am going to survive the fall.
I dedicate a lot of my energy to work but lately i have had to divide my focus between work and recovery.  I know i should focus on work but my number one goal right now is getting healthy and being able to walk again.

Okay enough whining....everything will work out.  I am sure of it.

I really love my nail polish today.  I got this new blue for my birthday (from me) and it is a great blue...really rich and i painted tiny pink hearts on the fingers, not all of them, just one heart per hand....but the neon pink i used really pops against the blue.  I am very happy with it.

I didn't do much this weekend, it was my first weekend without the boot....i am sore.  It doesn't hurt right away to walk on my foot but if i am walking long distances it starts to hurt near the end.  With the subway out, there wasn't many places for me to go, so i stayed home and did my physio exercises and iced it.  On sunday i decided to brave the world and go for a walk.  I walked to the post office.  My package arrived on friday!  So, i decided it would be good practice to walk over there...of course with my crutches...i can't wait for that cane.  I got my new purse and it is awesome.  I love it.

I also made iced teas all weekend with my new steeper.  It is like the best thing ever invented.  I love it!!!

So things are Looking.....

I don't want to say up because i am very superstitious...especially since i had all those accidents and illness all condensed together in a very SHORT period of time.  It felt very curse-like.....i must have broke a chain letter or something.  So now...i will not say things are coming up Erin because.....that seems like i am going to immediately curse myself.

BUT.....i have very good news.

I am been released from my boot.  So i officially have no cast any more.  I still have crutches but....if this week goes well without the boot on the crutches then i could get a cane my next appointment which would be great timing because i am getting on a train Friday and heading to Montreal.  Although i am still bitter that i can't do the colour run.....the only run i have EVER voluntarily wanted to run.....i am going because Ryan and Alex want me to cheer them on.  Plus.....i can do some shopping at Simon's.

In other good news....I say it and it happens, meaning, i posted all those things i wanted on Wednesday...and Amy awesomely bought me the steeper from David's.  WOOT.  And The bay stuff being on sale, Andrea nicely bought me the Bay City tote...(i may have also bought myself a bay fleece blanket) I may have a problem because i just love the bay strips and now have a lot of bay striped merchandise.  So yay....city tote and steeper.  Woot!
I can't wait to make some iced tea!

So this weekend, i may be stranded at home because the subway is out from st. george to bloor.  The whole loop is closed for Signal replacement.  Which means i would have to rely on other forms of ttc transportation which although i am sure are nice, cause me great nervousness because 1) you have those big steps up...which i am not cool with because stairs as you know are one of my new nemesis' and 2) smaller spaces, more people....less chance of getting a seat, more stop and go which is tougher to balance, and someone is bound to either kick my foot or step on my foot due to the close quarters.
So i am not sure if i want to brave the bus or streetcar.

But i do really want to go see Amy and Austin and go swimming at my parents.  So we will see how brave i feel tomorrow.

I want

So.....i haven't done too much shopping this summer.  I have kept it really low key.  A few dresses from target, and a new back pack.  Oh i did get myself a birthday outfit....on par with my level of caring right now...a pair of summer sweats (they are thin and light) and a zip up hoodie.
I have thought about it...and i have really stopped caring.  No make up...i haven't done anything fun with my hair in months.  It is currently way WAY too long at mid-back level.

So here are some things i want:


and this (it's on sale):

Or this:


I have also decided i want some ridiculous sneaker wedges.  I don't know why...i just do.  I think it is because i have been wearing the same shoe for 2 and a half months.  Just the one.  Now all i can think about are other shoes i can wear.



Most of all i want this:

I have wanted one of these chairs for like ever.  I really really want one.  I can get rid of my old couch and get that chair and life would be perfect....well until the next thing i really need.

Countryfied

So, a long long time ago pre-broken ankle or PBA for short, me and kelly talked about going up to Kincardine to visit her sister and spend two days doing nothing but beaching.  It was a great idea until BA...then it sucked and everything sucked and the world became narrow and inaccessible.  But Kelly pushed forward and dragged my butt to Kincardine with the promise of a trip to the drive-in.  She rented a fancy car and we got to eat food in the car...and not just simple snacks we packed but like drive through food.  Plus when we got there....there was a great dane and a tiny black kitty.  I got lots of hugs in....i also really enjoyed how stoic Reese the great dane was...she handled my hugs with calm resigned acceptance.

On saturday, we drove around and they showed me all the beaches i could have enjoyed from the car.  That is the weird thing about the country.....there is like nothing but space....wide open space.  You would see nothing for miles....and all i thought was....dude if this were a horror film.....i mean it practically writes itself...two city girls on a trip to the country for a visit....one mobile-ly challenged.  I really am a weirdo if my first thought when we hit all that open space is how horror-story it is.  I wouldn't last as a country girl.  Although small towns have their appeal, and if mom and dad never moved out of kingston, i doubt i would have.  I tend to stick close to the family unit.  I am and always will be a home-body with my roots firmly planted.  I don't have that wanderlust people talk about.

Anyways the most exciting thing was the drive in on saturday night.  The movies themselves were horrible.  I can't stress that enough.  In normal circumstances i would never pay to see these movies but DRIVE IN.  Dad told me when i got back from this weekend, that they did take me to the drive in when i was little...but i don't remember it and he can't remember what movie or how old i was....so the story is suspect.  Anyways, we brought our own food, and it was like having our own private showing....and at one point...i put my foot out the window in an effort to get more comfortable.  It was so much fun.  Now i really want to do a dusk till dawn showing.  4 movies in a row.  Drive-ins are the coolest.  Especially the people that came in trucks because they sat in the truck bed all cozy...can you imagine....turn your truck bed into an actual bed and you can cozy in and watch movies outside.  Then driving home from the drive in....there were like no street lights, it was so dark...like crazy town dark.  Super creepy...it felt like you were the only one around for MILES.

Sunday we drove home....back to city life, where...even in the middle of the night, there are still lights on somewhere.  It is never fully dark in the city and i like it.

For the rest of the weekend, sunday afternoon and monday, i spent it sleeping, elevating my foot and doing my physio exercises.  I am getting good at just standing equal weight on both feet but walking is still not great and my achilles is crazy tight, and i still experience lots of pain.  More than when it was just healing the break. It is actually more painful now that i am using it.  It throbs and swells and is super tight which makes all the exercises very painful.  I know i am making great progress but i am still on crutches, long distances still suck the big one...i still move at the speed of a snail, which is frustrating.  I want to be more mobile. I want to be free of my boot, i want to be graduated to a cane.  But all that takes time.....stupid time...August is a wasting!

The Case of the swelling foot

Matt told me my foot would swell once i started being active and doing the exercises....and i have been doing the exercises since friday.  But yesterday was the first day it really swelled and i mean sausage foot swelling.  So i spent most of last night icing and trying to do the exercises....it wasn't fun.  I have an appointment today so i am going to tell him about how bad the swelling was last night...and see what he recommends.

It has been raining since yesterday which is one of my many nemesis' since i broke my ankle and got stuck with crunches.  The rain makes everything slick and i fall down real easy without the rain...add rain and it is not fun at all.  So i had to take the long way into the subway yesterday and today i had to wait a bit before i left my apartment because it was raining too much.  I was debating taking a cab in but once i got my independence back with the subway....it's hard to justify paying for a cab.  Plus i am going to save all my cab money to help me get too or from physio because it is at yonge and spadina which is just slightly too far to walk from work.  I have walked back to the subway after my two appointments but it takes me like 20 minutes for something that use to take me like 5.  So it is very frustrating.  That is another one of my nemesis'......long distances.  Why can't everything just be lumped together?  Why is everything so far.  And stairs....why is everything not very accessible?  Most of the subway stations are stairs....and i never really thought about how inaccessible everything is until i needed them to be.  And worst of all....shopping is so hard on crutches...you can't carry anything, you can't really maneuver around the racks and aisles...and standing and walking for long periods makes me so tired....i have to sit down a lot.  I have barely shopped in the last two months.  I have gotten a few fixes in here and there....but i miss it.  And i miss being able to sleep in and rush to work.  Now i have to get up stupid early and plan my route carefully.  I haven't worn my skinny jeans in ages....and i have been eating my feelings.  Which is really hard because i can't grocery shop.  So if i want to eat my feelings i have to plan it out so i can stop by somewhere on the way home and pick something that fits into my back pack...or i have to order grocery gateway and wait a day....either way, it is very hard to eat your feelings.  

Also as strange as this sounds....i miss moving around, i miss working out....not running because it is the evil bitch that did this to me.  Stupid running.  But the simple fact of going out, meeting up with friends and working out.  Worst of all....this broken ankle made me have to cancel the one run that i actually wanted to do.  The Colour Run....is not for me.  It is a missed connection.

Anyways....that is what i miss and what's new with me.