ange & lauren’s big mtl adventure

we have been so terribly, terribly neglectful of this blog. so here i am to update.

its friday. its less-friday than usual because i have to work this weekend, but friday none the less. back in toronto, i used to get rather excited for fridays to roll around because it meant i could don jeans to work for “casual fridays”. in montreal, every day is casual friday because we have an office of 3 (on a good day) so there is no one to impress. no client/vendor visits. casual fridays here would involve pyjamas and slippers, i suspect. don’t tempt me.

it has been a good month since we spoke last. some highlights include:

-i went to chicago for a work trip but it was my first visit to that city and i got to meet up with a family friend and her new baby/see a bit of chicago. nice place!
-i went to toronto and calgary for work too. tiring and fun.
-i successfully pulled off chana masala and made ange’s tummy very happy
-i also finally figured out why the cookies that i was making for ange were little hard nuggets of hate: i was using half the prescribed butter. apparently one stick is only half a cup. now that this has been corrected, they have turned out to be melt-in-your-mouth goodness. (Side anecdote: Ange tried to make the cookies on Saturday while I was still in Cowtown, and texted me to report that the dough was impossible to work with. turns out she didn’t read the butter package either. oops! they still tasted good, even if the texture [like my previous versions] was that of biscotti left on the back porch in January for 4 days prior to consumption)

but it hasn’t all been about me!
-Vivek came to visit and play a show in the village. it was great to have him couch surf for a couple of days.
-Nadia and Melissa also came to visit and we, par for the course, laughed more in one night than most laugh in 4 months.
-Ange completed another paper and got an A on her first paper!
-We saw Final Fantasy and I fell asleep during his set. I kid you not. Wonder how one gets tested for narcolepsy.

what else? we are truckin along.. I can’t believe its november 9th. where have the last 2 months gone? its almost christmas. I told Ange that as soon as the clock struck November 1st I was going to start decorating but I realise now that plan is a bit silly. I’ll leave it until November 15th, then its ho-ho-ho all over the plateau. look out world, tinsel is coming!