Carry on, carry on

Bohemian Rhapsody. That's where the line in my blog title comes from.  I've always been very fascinated with this song. I knew it was by Queen and written by Freddie Mercury and that it was featured in Wayne's World. I also knew it had three different types of parts and I just found it interesting. I mean, hello, there's a mini opera in it! Anyways, whenever someone comes over I would make them sing it on karaoke because I never really knew how it went (but always wanted to sing it myself). But then, the BEST SHOW EVER performed it (unfortunately, not by my beloved Gleeks, but by Vocal Adrenaline) but I have to say that now I am COMPLETELY obsessed with this song. I find myself singing it constantly, and I absolutely love it. It fulfills my need for singing in an opera voice. It has a head-banging rock part. It has a slow, melancholy ballad. It has everything you could ask for in a song, including a story. Okay, and if you don't already think I'm craycee, I wikipedia'd it. So now I also know the background of it too. Fascinating. Yeah. That's me. Welcome to my world. So yeah, if you ever come over, be ready to sing it. It's a must.

And while I'm at it - I might as well discuss the Glee Season Finale. (wow, it's been a while) but I'm assuming that all my fellow Gleek obsessives have all watched it by now. I personally loved all the song choices, especially of course the above named Bohemian Rhapsody. I thoroughly enjoyed the Journey medley because let's face it, no one can resist Don't Stop Believin. I loved To Sir, with Love even though I didn't know it was To Sir, with Love at first. (BTW, I also wikipedia'd that because all I knew about that was that Sidney Poitier was in it. Also fascinating. Pretty much a pre-cursor to "Dangerous Minds". Yes, Coolio). Knowing the background to songs always makes it more interesting to me. Anyways, I thought it was lovely and sad at the same time, and I, like Mr. Schu, shed a bit of a tear at the end of it. Of course it closed with the utterly wonderful "Somewhere over the Rainbow" (Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version - a la "50 First Dates"). Which, like all our Gleeks, made me want to put my head on someone's shoulder...Hm..Finn...

It was so bittersweet (sweet because Glee is coming back, bitter because we have to wait until the Fall!). I am going to miss it SO much. I don't know how I'm going to last until next fall though...

I guess I will just have to "Carry on, carry on...(as if nothing really matters)"

7 is my lucky number.

Me and Aldin circa: 2003

So today was my and my husband's 7-year anniversary! It was a very nice day and it was also sunny which I think makes any day automatically better. We had a leisurely (read: liquid) lunch at Joey's on their quasi-patio. (BTW, bellini mondays only 3.99!) We didn't want to have something huge because we were going to have a fancy shmancy dinner, so we decided to just share my new fave thing on the menu: Baja Fish Tacos (mmm...) and the Chicken Lettuce Wraps. So good. There is nothing like eating with your sunglasses on! And I have to say that Joey's definitely knows what to do with seafood. I usually like their Ahi Tuna Club, but lately I've been completely enamored with those fish tacos.

For dinner we had reservations at Lobby on York. Usually I roll my eyes at these sorts of "high-brow" places that don't give you a full meal unless you "put it together" ie. everything is "a la carte". But the last time we were there, I was pleasantly surprised to find the food was actually quite good. The portions were fine, not too big and not too small and though it was a bit on the pricier side, all in all it was worth it. I was looking forward to it! I always love good food. We started off with the Sauteed Chicken Livers, which our waiter stated was an "excellent choice". Then he described the 3 different types of steaks as the most tender, the juiciest and the most flavorful. My husband chose "the juiciest" (Prime Bone In Rib Steak) along with a side of Roasted Asparagus with Poached Egg. (I just love a good poached egg). Going in, I had decided that I was going to have the same steak as my husband because last time his was really good. But after the waiter's description, I decided to have the "most flavorful" (the New York Striploin) with the Wild Mushroom Risotto. The waiter also asked if we wanted to add Lobster Tail to our dinners, which was a little bit funny - only because the way he asked it was like if you wanted potato or fries with your dinner. Like, it wasn't going to cost you an extra $22 to add it. Anyways, we politely declined. The appetizer came and it definitely was as our waiter proclaimed: excellent. For chicken liver haters, even you guys would like it. It did not taste like liver at all. It was served in a delicious brown saute with crispy onions on top of crisp toast with carmelized pear and a hint of cambezola cheese. mmmmm....Then our steaks came out. Rather my husband's steak came out and my little chunk of steak came out. Now I don't know about you, but when I hear "striploin" I think of a strip. As in a long piece of steak. This little chunk (which is the only way I can describe it) was most definitely not what I was expecting. But I thought to myself, it's the most flavorful. One cut in and...unfortunately I could not tell you that. I had asked for medium but unfortunately mine was just slightly under WELL DONE. I was pretty sure they had given me the wrong steak. The risotto was okay, but not as good as last time. My husband's dinner on the other hand was perfect. His steak was juicy and the egg on his asparagus was perfectly poached. I lamented about not going with my original choice (which was to have the same steak as my husband). Then had an epiphany. My husband said that I should always go with my first instinct, because whenever I change my mind at the last minute, I inevitably regret it. It's so true. Last time I decided on the same hotdog and did not regret my decision! In fact, I quite enjoyed it. Hm...he's learned a lot about me in the last seven years. So I thought about dessert. At first I wanted it, then was going to change my mind. Then remembered to trust my first instinct and asked for the dessert menu. We decided to have the tasting menu which consisted of 3 mini desserts: a chocolate caramel brownie, lemon curd with strawberries and shortbread and my fave: creme brulee. So even though the middle part of dinner was not the greatest, the beginning and the end were perfect. Plus instead of a doggy bag, I went home with a new decision making policy: always go with my first choice.

Well, it's after 12:00 so my anniversary is officially over. But, I'm very happy to say that my husband and I are still going strong : )

And I thought ketchup, mustard and onions made the perfect hotdog.

Yesterday we had gourmet hotdogs for lunch. I know, that seems to be somewhat of an oxymoron, but let me tell you - it was delicioso. First, any hotdog that lasts the whole length of the bun is already in my good books. Add in loaded toppings and it doesn't get much better than that. The place we went to featured hotdogs with different toppings. There was a "Zorba" which obviously had greek type toppings (feta, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.), a "Godfather" which had italian type toppings (mozzarella, pizza sauce, pepperoni) a "Reuben" topped with sauerkraut, and so on. Anyways my husband and I both had the "Canadian". I usually like to have something different than my husband, but the Canadian sounded too irresistable to share: a hotdog topped with bacon, chili and cheese. And just to make it that much better - they topped that with potato chips! (Hello, they had me at bacon!) Anyways, they also had fries on top of which you could get the usual gravy or poutine. On this visit, we just got plain fries, which were awesome! However, they also had something called "Smothered fries" which we didn't order, but the next table did and boy, were they smothered! They were topped with cheese, bacon, chili and chopped up hotdogs.

So proud to be Canadian! lol

This place (whose name I can't remember at the moment, sorry!) also had an array of bottled sodas (250 different kinds apparently) including pic-a-pop! If the soda you chose wasn't chilled, they had some kind of machine that would chill it for you in 2 minutes. After much indecision, I ended up choosing a lemonade soda (called "Leninade" lol) while my husband chose a classic rootbeer. Ah so refreshing! This little place was so good - we felt like we were in an episode of "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives"! Next time I think I will try the "Baba" hotdog, which is topped with bacon and cheddar perogies, cheese, bacon and sour cream... mmmmm.  I think Guy Fieri would be proud.

Google "the Brady Bunch" theme song...(so you know the tune...)

Bonjour my totally fab friends! I'm sorry I haven't been posting so much lately. You probably aren't even reading anymore, what with my unpredictable posting style. I went from blogging daily, to just the weekdays, to 3-4x a week, to once a week! Hmm...I was crowing about the weather the other week saying it was too hot to blog, but now I suppose I don't have an excuse. Truthfully the reason is that my totally fab life hasn't been overly fab lately. Not that anything bad has happened, its just that nothing too exciting has been happening. I'm busy with a big move at work (which means I don't have time to be stealth, heh heh) and other than that I've been crazy planning my Vegas outfits. Everyday. I changed my outfits many times. However, I think I have my final outfit spreadsheet finally filled out. Yes, I said spreadsheet. In fact, this morning I was thinking about my blog and the theme to the Brady Bunch popped into my head, except instead of "Here's the story, of a lovely lady, who was raising three very lovely girls. They all had golden hair, like their mother, the youngest one in curls..." my version went a little like this "Here's the story, of eleven outfits, they were going to Las Vegas in three weeks. There were leggings and "one-shoulders" and even sequins, they all looked very chic". (haha, I'm so silly). BTW, before you say chic doesn't rhyme with weeks, it totally does because chic is pronounced "sheek" (and if you already knew that, I apologize. I'm really only writing it for myself, because when I read it, it looks like chic (pronounced "chick")... If you know what I mean. Anyhooo....

Yes! My outfits are almost complete AND I think I may even be able to get the shoes to go with all of the evening outfits! How exciting! Of course, now that I am low on the funds (on account of saving for Vegas), EVERYTHING and their dog is on sale. Why is that? It never fails. The amount of liquid (ie. cash) you have available is inversely proportional to the availability and price of the thing you want to buy. (ie. When you have no cash, the thing you want to buy is on a ridiculous sale and everything is in your size and when you do have cash, nothing you want is on sale and if there is something you want, they don't have your size.) Yeah. It's irritating. So here's what I need to pick up to complete my Vegas 2010 summer outfits: black "harem" capri pants (found the perfect ones, my size, but alas, not on sale), perpel printed strapless draped top (I figure I need this so as not to have a farmer tan, however, also not on sale), and black David Dixon cut out shoes (to go with all the evening outfits, on sale, and will hopefully still have my size!). But...

Perhaps this outfit planning is ridiculous though. Apparently this Sunday in Vegas it will be +40. Ugh. I don't think my outfits are conducive to such high heat. I will probably end up only wearing my bathing suit. Everywhere.

UGHHHH noooo...