turn it on, pump it up

the past four days have been a blast...but will the fun last?!?

Thursday July 21, 2005
i had plans to meet up with G after work to wander yorkville. there was some walking, but mostly we just sat and talked. he told me about his three week road trip to BC (*so jealous*) which only caused excitement about my plans to go boarding out west this winter. i'm still not good enough to really take advantage of the mountains, but it's been too long since i've taken a vacation and the change of scenery will do me good. i still have a lot of decisions to make about the trip - when i'm going, for how long, where exactly, with whom, my budget, etc. last year G had found a one week package that included accommodations and daily lift tickets for $600. i'm not sure if i'll need a whole week. well really i don't know if my body can handle a straight week of boarding, but it's a pretty sweet deal. still plenty of time to work things out though. anyway, it's been ages since i've sat on the Rock with banana frogurt in hand and even longer since i've seen him. it's good times chatting with G...i usually leave with a smile :) one thing i realized i missed was walking around toronto at night. i used to force friends to walk with me when i lived downtown. haha...poor Nash didn't visit for a long time after walking from my apt to around the UofT campus and back at 3 in the morning. *sigh* one day i'll be able to wander the streets again without dreading the long trek home aferwards.

once i got back to the wasteland, i headed down the street to hang out with zoreoreo who was staying at her mum's for the night. as usual we had no problems yappin' until morning. well, until 5am that is and it wasn't so much us yappin' as it was her getting things off her chest. sometimes just spending a day at work is enough to get me rambling for hours, so i can understand how she'd need to vent to an 'outsider' after facing her family 24/7. we discussed some pretty heavy issues that i won't get into here, but i left her place with a clearer idea of what i want and a new admiration for her. of course, when life gets so serious something must be done to counter-balance it before things become too cliche. we accomplished this with a couple shots of jager, a few glasses of soho + oj, some tokes, and by swaying to the sounds of the beatles and squirrel nut zippers. we even paid tribute to the good ol' highschool days by climbing out onto her roof towards the end of the night. in retrospect that probably wasn't such a great idea since we were both kinda tipsy and neither of us had sat on the roof in years. i remember trying to sneak out one night when i was 17 by climbing out my window and off the roof. not to mention all those times of hiding to one side while smoking out there to avoid being seen by dad who'd be pulling into the driveway. hehe...loser :) despite the 'grown-up' conversation, this was the first time in a long time that we've been able to hang out like a couple of kids again. 14 years?!? yeah, i'm sorry zoreoreo but i think you're stuck with me for life.