Appreciation

I got a humbling surprise in the mail yesterday. A good friend of mine who lives in Toronto sent me a snail mail letter about how much she appreciates me; “the top 5 reasons why i'm awesome”. lol

At first she made me laugh, but by the end i was in tears. It's rare these days that we tell each other how we feel. We have so much technology available, but somehow it seems that this only allows us to be more disconnected from each other. It honestly felt good to know how much someone appreciates me, and to have it said in handwritten letter makes it so much more personal.

I'm guilty of not calling friends i used to call because i see how they're doing on Facebook. But they don't know that i care/think about them. And let's be honest, a phone call or coffee date with a friend is A MILLION TIMES better than a “Facebook like”.

On this note, i will not allow myself to ONLY use my blog or Facebook to say much i care about my friends. I will make it my mission to tell them/show them, in some way, how much i love and appreciate them.

Thank you Val xx You really made my day yesterday!

— Roxy xo

Winter of Fun!

This SUMMER was one of the funnest I've had in a long time, and I think that was mostly due to me setting a few fun activities for myself. Sometimes a season passes us by and we realized what we missed out on.
So now, I'm aiming to have a WINTER OF FUN, despite snowstorms, shoveling, cold & flus and -30 degrees! Ok so... it might not compare to my summer of fun, but I can try!

So here are a few ideas for me to start; lmk if you have any ideas I should add!

1. Attempt skiing ... again (the last time i tried this i ended up with one ski, one pole and in the trees!) 
2. Enjoy more than one hot chocolates with friends
3. Because of Xmas spending; set a budget and stick to it!
4. Go tobogganing
5. Keep my apartment festive during the winter months
6. Try snowshoeing
7. Make snow angels with my godson :)
8. Bake all kinds of goodies!
9. Test drive a new car I'm interested in
10. Have a girls weekend with Val in T.O
11. Enjoy Old Port winter festivities
12. Investigate some neighborhoods I might want to move to this summer!
13. Stay at a cabin on a snowy mountain where I might see dear walking by the window! (hey a girl can dream!) 

I'll keep you posted on my progress!
Roxy xo

Summer of fun!

I've alluded to my Summer of Fun in previous blog posts, but here i go officially launching my Summer of Fun 2011!!!

This was all brought on by my 30th birthday that's coming up this June. Wanted to make sure i took advantage of being (still) young, single, living in my cute apartment in the city, with the least responsibilities that i will ever have!
So, here's the list of things i will do during this summer of fun! Feel free to write me if you can think of something else fun that i should add to the list!!

1. Dive out of a plane on my 30th birthday!! Yes, skydiving. I can't freakin wait!
2. Party it up for my “dirty thirty” on Grand Prix weekend in Montreal!
3. Vacation ✔ check check i'm gonnnnne !
4. Going to the shooting range (with my sister who's the gun expert - not joking!)
5. Bixi Bike riding in the city
6. Weekend with the girls to celebrate our 30th birthdays this summer!
7. Painting and drawing on my balcony/or take a class
8. Going to watch soccer match: Manchester United vs. Real Madrid in New Jersey (July)!
9. Book my tickets for the 2012 Summer Olympics (London, England)
10. Date Date Date. Join Match.com before my 30th birthday, so that i can enter my info as being 29!!
11. Master the art of making “James' Cheeseburgers”!! (James I might need a few samples to start from!)
12. Walk everywhere that i can -- up and down the hill i live on... i swear i will do this!
13. Go to church, even if it is just one Sunday
14. Weekend away at Val's for a girl's weekend of wine tasting, swimming and shopping!!
15. Teach my godson to play soccer! (he's 2 and a half)
16. Try to get MY knees in working condition so that i can play soccer too!! 
17. To actually finish some of the books i'm reading
18. To email less and facetime more (this goes with buying my iphone4 in June!)
19. And finally, to have more amazing nights of drinks and catching up with friends that i don't see enough (aka, this past Friday night at Burgundy Lion - love those peeps!!)

Shop Til We Drop

I'm in Mississauga this weekend, visiting my friend Val. The 6 hour drive wasn't so bad yesterday. Lots of sun, salt on the roads, and 16 lanes of traffic through Toronto rush hour!!



But I made it and the girls weekend began!

Lots if girl talk, catching up, gossiping, pizza and wine! A great way to start a weekend!

24hrs later, we're now lying on the living room couches with our feet up; exhausted! We went shopping for 5 hours today at Square One Mall, and we shopped til we dropped!!

I spent way more than I should have, but it was so much fun! Especially at Victoria's Secret! Their Semi-Annual Sale always gets my heart pumping ;)



I'm already on my way home already tmrw. These weekends are always short and sweet. I will enjoy tonight and tmrw, then it's back to reality and to my beau, who I miss like crazy xx

Enjoy your weekends peeps, I know I am! xo
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Recap: Girls Weekend in TO!

Here's the recap of my awesome girls' weekend!! I visited my friend Val in Mississauga for girls talk, wine drinking, gossiping, shopping and tanning :)

Only hard thing about the weekend was all the driving... I'm recovering from the 5.5hr drive x 2 in 48hrs. That's alot for one single girl!  But Rihanna, Hedley and many other randoms kept me in good company during the drive! ;)

RECAP of FUN TIMES:
• Arriving Friday late at night (after watching the disappointing England World Cup game... no comment)
• Saturday was wine day -- i discovered a whole world of wine in Niagra on the Lake (beautiful area!). Bought 2 bottles of wines that i loved (ok so, i will just drink these bottles and THEN be off the booze for good like i promised! HAHA) 

• My friend and I had an awesome organic lunch at a restaurant in a vineyard with a gorgeous view of the valley. I need to send my sister there! She'd love it!

• We ordered Szechuan delivery for supper, and rented When in Rome on Rogers demand (cute!). Perfect lazy end to a busy day!
• Sunday we got up and shop shop shopped til we dropped! Or, actually until my credit card couldn't take any more!! HAHA So many nice new things -- including gorgeous shoes! ... i just couldn't resist. Damn i'm bad. Oh well, happy belated birthday to me!! lol
• Sunday yummy lunch and afternoon spent by Val's pool. Soooo relaxing in the sun. So much in fact that i didn't realize the time go by, and had to rush around when i realized it was already 4:45! I left at 5:15 for my long drive back home solo...
• P.S. Thank god for RedBull when ur tired driving at night!
• P.P.S. McDs isn't a good idea to eat twice in one weekend...

Home sweet home! thanks for the weekend Val! Always so much fun! xo

Bday weekend!

I don't really know where to start with this recap of the crazy bday weekend i had. Everything that COULD have been disastrous ended working out fine, and all in all, i had a great night/weekend!

Originally, this post was going to carry the main message: that i REALLY am not drinking anymore. But looking at my literary for NEXT weekend … that message would end up being a lie. HAHA Next weekend i'm visiting a good friend in Toronto, and she's organized a special wine touring day, that evidently, includes ALOT of wine!! But i figure, it's not binge drinking, so i should be fine. ;) Let's see if my liver feels differently.

So getting back to this past weekend.
Friday was an awesome supper with my closest friends. Reservations were a disaster with Vauvert. I will never book there again. Loved the restaurant the last time i went, but the way they handled my reservation this time was really disappointing.

What happened was: Thursday night, i had to find another restaurant within 24hrs on GrandPrix weekend for 15 people, because Vauvert were suddenly insisting on charging 75$ per person for a special Porsche evening! ( i'd had reservations for over 2 weeks and this was never mentioned previously to me) AGH! Impossible to find somewhere new! Restos in the West Island were laughing at me over the phone! Thank god for having great connections, otherwise everything would have been cancelled! A good colleague/friend of mine helped me out during my hour of crisis, and got me reservations in the Old Port at a resto called GRANGE. If you're ever looking for a place with great drinks, great food and amazing service, on the cusp of the Old Port (McGill), you should go to this place. Freakin awesome! I give it rave reviews! and i think my friends would agree. thanks Ari for hooking it up -- it was an awesome birthday present!

The night was perfect. All my friends made it, even my BFF who had heart surgery last tuesday was there! What a trooper! I am so happy to simply see her smile again :) My sister made it on crutches. My brother who's usually MIA made a huge effort to come as well: out of his normal routine of downtown college bars ;) Even my suburban friends found a babysitter for the night -- sweet !

So, then there was family day on Saturday i won't bore everyone with those details. But we did watch the World Cup England game, that was slightly disappointing with Green's performance (click to see) I can't bear to watch it again.. My heart goes out to the guy… really embarrassing. I don't care if his girlfriend broke up with him right before; there's no excuse for letting that goal in!

So, Saturday night, the party was on again. This time, at a friends place who just moved to the downtown core. Literally on the corner of Sherbrooke and St.-Laurent. It was insane with the Grand Prix parties everywhere. We cabbed it there and back, with my sister on crutches and the city in gridlock. It was fun! You should SEE the place this girl has -- i'm jealous E!  By the time the night ended, i had to crash on my sisters couch...

The whole next day was horrible with hangover sickness…

I'm 29 now… my body has spoken. It hates alcohol… 

...and unfortunately, it's now making me listen to it's nonsense. A few glass of wine with dinner (or at a wine tasting!), but no more than that… I've turned over a new leaf. The damage it does to my body and feeling of the day after just isn't worth it anymore :( Sorry peeps; there's many of you who love 'drunk Roxy' , but this is definitely the end of an era.

Xmas spirit

OK i'm in the xmas spirit now!
It took a while, but it finally happened!

HOW, you say?!

• Val The City Girl inspired me, check out her xmas posts :)
• I got a xmas tree and will be decorating it with some great friends of mine tonight.
• Tonight i'm having a xmas party at my place (lots of preparation today!)
• There's are bottles of Jack Daniels and Baileys in my apartment (yummy)
• Anyone i seem to know has After Eights on their kitchen table (and i eat them everywhere i go!)
• There's 30cm+ of snow already on the ground...
• My IKEA star lights are officially up (meaning it's officially xmas!)

And i have candy canes all over the place!! LOL SWEET!
Have a great weekend everyone!

Girls Weekend!

Val the City Gal and I had such an awesome girls weekend:: wine, gossiping, Victoria's Secret catalogs, pizza, Grey's Anatomy, banana muffins, shopping at Toronto Eaton Centre and New Moon!! How can a weekend get much better?! Maybe someone to drive me home and the end of it all!! lol But i made it back in great time today so i can still enjoy my evening.
I let Val do all the writing this weekend, so read her blog posts here:
Day 1 — girls night
Day 2 - Girls weekend

Here are a few photos to peak your interest ;)

I'm in T.O!

Follow me on Twitter for timely updates of my girls weekend in Toronto! It's gonna be lotsa fun! While i'm there, my friend Val (who is a fellow blogger) and will be writing updates for sure! I'm sure she'll be more organized than i am this weekend, so read her updates @ ValTheCityGal.

Ciao chicas, updates when i get back I promise!!

Weekend of Fun!!

Are you guys as excited as i am to see New Moon??!! Hells ya! Even though the movie's probably nowhere near as great as the book, you can definitely still enjoy the hotness! My plan is to head to Toronto next weekend and watch New Moon with another devoted fan, ValTheCityGal ;) We're going to have an ultimate girlie weekend and it's going to rock! I'm sure Val will write an in-depth blog post about it: she is a great writer and doesn't let any detail go un-noticed! Let's not let any secrets slip ok Val? hehe ;)

Wonder what's on the itinerary....?

I'll give you guys a recap when i get back!! xo

Halloween romance ♥

So... who knew a Vampire and Tiger Woods could have such a connection?!

Ok , so you all guessed: my exciting news is that i met someone who seems funny, very cute, mature, sweet and normal!! lol I only met him for the first time at my Halloween Party on Saturday. It was kind of a setup... we have some mutual friends. I was the vampire (remember the sexy vampire costume? It worked ladies!!)and he was Tiger Woods. A pretty damn good look-a-like if you ask me! We talked all night and he seems pretty awesome from what i know. I would die if he read this post right here, but i'm taking a chance and doing it anyway.

So i was kinda freaking because he hadn't called, and he had seemed so interested in doing something this week. So tonight, after some good advice from a great friend ValTheCityGal, i just texted him. It's already been 2 days, so i figured what's the harm?

Anyway, it worked out great. I texted, he called and he said i beat him to the punch - he was planning on calling me tonight. So... i was lady-like and let him decide where he's taking me for dinner on Wednesday! sweet! Sounds like fun! I'm sure i'll be tweeting all about it on Wednesday before the date. I'm already actually nervous for this one. I don't usually get nervous on dates!! I'm the Queen of dating!! lol

Anyhoo, stay tuned Roxy fans!! Wish me luck!! xo