Friday night started in a cab jetting from Trinity Bellwoods
to Roncesvalle with AK to take a few photographs for her latest venture. I spent the
beginning of the evening enjoying several delicious cocktails at The Westerly—the first, a
half tart, half sweet blood orange concoction (the owners suggestion) and the second, a
glass of Pim’s Cup (which will forever remind me of JB) and soaking in the New
York- like vibe. A few photographs and about 3 hours later, it was back to
reality and a walk to the Queen St. streetcar.
I’ve been venturing past my 7 block radius much more as of late.
It’s easy to stick in this area. There's lots of shops, great food and work is right
there (I can almost see it from where I am sitting). So, after an invitation to the other side of the world (ok, it was to
Bier Markt on the Esplanade) it was back to the street car at 10pm. We arrived
to find that none of the friends that were supposed to be there actually went. Let
the random night commence: new friends, old friends, dance parties and beer (or is it bier?).
3:11am street car home.
Saturday was a pretty lazy day (4am bedtime has never really
worked out that well for me.) Saturday night made up for what I didn't do during the day. MC, AK and I
headed to Yours Truly for dinner without reservations hoping to snag a few
seats at the communal table. We ended up at BQM (an Ossington staple) for
burgers instead. We rushed to The Mod Club for 8pm to see our friend CB in the
band The Set play. A great show, a very small amount of dancing
(the kids these days don’t dance at pop-rock-punk shows anymore, I guess) and
one drink later we headed to Crawford on College. Greatest DJ, ever.
I strolled home at midnight, thinking it would be an early
night but after a text from AM (who is rarely in the city) I managed to pull my tired self out of my bed and walk
over to Bovine Sex Club (note: this is not a typical dancing club nor a place
to have sex… that I was witness to anyway) for a drink with AM and his buddy. I
have walked by this place everyday since moving to my new place and thought it
looked like a shady bar with weird stuff hanging off the outside (it is). We
then walked to The Horseshoe, another Queen W. “staple” that looks super shady
and that I have never been to. After lots of stories and a random encounter with a band member that recognized AM from Hollywood (sorry, who are you?) we made a last minute trip to the newest Hero Burger
(open 24 hours!) and a walked home at 3:30am. Another (great) late night.
This finally brings us to Sunday (this weekend has been
splendidly long and hence the Oh What A Night title choice) which included some story editing at Starbucks and another
streetcar/ subway combo to make it up to Younge and Eglinton for a Second City
comedy class comedy show. It was very funny and I’m completely impressed that
they all did so well. I fear mine would like a little like Dee from It's Always Sunny.
I think I spent all of my money going back and forth on some
form of TTC transportation this weekend. Perhaps I should have splurged for a
transit pass this month? Tomorrow is Family Day(!) in Ontario and I will be
celebrating Monday by sleeping in, eating the banana bread that is currently in the
oven, finishing A Good Year, starting The Hunger Games and going on a
mini-walking adventure around the (what I imagine will be) closed city. Every
weekend I love this city more and more.
Adventure time!
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