So yesterday (Saturday) was fully hectic. The day started off with me getting up at 7am and heading downtown for a private salsa lesson due to start at 9am. Silly me had assumed the lesson was going to be at the same venue where I’ve started level 4 salsa lessons on Wednesday nights when in fact the private lesson was to be held a few blocks away at a different studio! I made it eventually and had a great 60 mins of instruction, correcting my dancing, and learning some moves that I had missed out on when I was in Sydney.
Following the lesson I headed to Dufferin Mall to pick up my new bike. Only thing was that I arrived an hour and a half early so I had time to kill. I wasn’t feeling too crash hot after my lack of sleep from the night before so I headed to a nearby park and chilled on a bench (tried to sleep but couldn’t so I just lay there with my mp3 player on) for thirty or so minutes before heading back to the mall and grabbing myself a Subway foot long sandwich for lunch. At 12:30pm I picked up my bike from Toys’R'Us ($99 special yay!) and began cycling towards Yonge St when I came upon a bike store. I stopped and purchased myself a $60 lock (funny how the lock costs nearly more than the bike itself! LOL). The dude at the store told me how new bikes were prone to theft in Toronto so getting myself a lock was a good idea. It was interesting to hear that as Neesa had also had her bike stolen previously (within a week of buying her first bike last summer in TO).
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First weekend back in Toronto and the craziness was on once again. This was meant to be my “do nothing” weekend… yeah right!
So where do we begin?
Friday night I had a dinner and movie date with my gorgeous girlfriend. It gave me a chance to test my cooking skills again, seeing as I basically cooked nothing the whole time I was in Sydney, and I think I did a reasonably good job with veggie burgers and bruschetta (Neesa and I had visited an Italian restaurant on Wednesday night and figured “hey we can make this bruschetta stuff ourselves!” so that’s what I did). Add to that a glass of Yellow Tail shiraz (South East Australia’s finest) and some Lakeview Cellars’ (Niagara) Icewine Vidal dessert wine, and it was all good!
Because it was Friday the 13th, the theme for the night was of course horror/thriller. That was definitely Neesa’s idea as I’m admittedly not the biggest fan of the horror genre, but she most definitely is. So we watched Ringu and The Shining (listed as one of the top 20 horror movies of all time).
I gotta say we were pretty disappointed by Ringu (the original Japanese version of The Ring). Maybe it was the fact that we had to read subtitles the whole time or just the way it was filmed. I’m not sure, but the fear factor was basically nil.
The Shining was a little more interesting, and Jack Nicholson’s performance was exceptional. It wasn’t hard to see why he plays the psycho guy in a lot of movies. Similarly, fear factor wasn’t high with this movie, but it kept my attention for the most part (until it got really late and I started drifting off).
So I guess horror movies aren’t too bad after all.
Dinner and movies at home on a Friday night with lovely company… what more could a guy ask for? 