Monday, December 11, 2006
My Week With MomThis is an e-mail I sent to my good friend Corie, who is in Barcelona... and I thought I would post it on my blog, since it describes what I've been up to lately.
"Hey Corie,
Just wanted to e-mail you because I've been slack lately on keeping in touch.
This past week I was in Pickering. I had ONE more paper to write, which I had ZERO motivation to do and had to start studying for my real estate exam. I wrote the paper, but it took me five days... and I didn't study for the exam. I'm studying now. Or was studying. Until I started writing you this e-mail. ....
The week was pretty adventure filled. That's because I spent most of it with my mom. Who you know is pretty crazy! Here is a list of the things we did:
1. Shopping. We searched high and low for Christmas presents. She even got one for me. :) And we went to Bayview Village which is this very high end mall where everything costs $1 billion dollars. The santa there looked so bored. sort of sad too. Because no one brings their kids there. People go there just to be seen browsing at this place. What were we doing there? My mom had a coupon for Banana Republic.. 15% off! So she bought my dad a sweater that was already on sale. But we were seen there.
2. Visited my grandma at the nursing home. She was pretty excited to see me.
3. Went to my dad's office Christmas party. Took the train with James downtown and then my dad picked us all up. Then we were treated to a wonderful and yummy dinner and drank to our hearts content (well, my dad didn't. He was designated driver. And James didn't, because he was the other designated driver for when we had to pick up the car from the train station). So my mom and I drank to our hearts' content. For free. But it wasn't that exciting because neither of us had that much to drink. So really, no story here.
4. Visited the doctor's office. We even got to share that little bed with the paper on it. We just sat on it though. My mom was getting a flu shot. I had pink eye. Yeah... I know.... gross. She got a shot and I got drops. It was eventful and was a meaningful moment for us to share.
5. Made fruit cake. Normally this is made in the roasting pan that she has. But we couldn't find the roasting pan so she had to spread it between two bowls. It was very time consuming and looked like barf before it was baked. But when it was finally made, it created a wonderful aroma in the house. It created 10 1/2 pounds of cake. !! But I won't eat the stuff, disgusting.
6. Picked out the Christmas tree and drove it home. When we were about 1 minute down the road, we noticed that the tree was edging its way over to the passenger's side of the vehicle instead of staying right in the middle. We decided to turn around and get the guys to re-tie it (afterall we did give them a tip of $5 each, thinking they had done a good job). We were smart to make that decision because it was almost on the road by the time we got the tree back to the store. And our timing was great when we got it back to the house, because my brother, Matt, came home from his friend's house right at that moment. That meant we didn't have to try to get the 10 foot tree off of the roof and into the house.
7. Went to the Christmas party at my grandma's nursing home. We ate wine, cheese, mini-sausage rolls, chocolate covered marshmallows. Santa showed up and a Johnny Cash wannabe sang carols and other songs. It was just delightful. My grandma was so happy to see Santa that she teared up. Loved it! I think I'll go every year because honestly... hanging out with senior citizens and singing Christmas carols is what I call a GOOD afternoon. I'm serious. I'm not joking. No sarcasm. HONEST!
8. Watched Pirates of the Carribean 2 with James and my cat, Sammy. Yes, the cat watched. I have pictures. He's so weird.
So it was a good week. I did a whole lot of nothing with my mom. She did more stuff in between all of those adventures, while I sat and stared at my computer screen, trying to write my paper. It was a good week. I'm looking forward to another week with mom starting this Thursday, when I'm done all my exams.
Talk to you soon,
love Court"
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