...and WHAT a Reading Week it was!

So Reading Week has come and gone, and it topped all previous ones! Well, the ONE whole other Reading Week that I've experienced (last year - 1st year). LOL!

My last post blogged up until Monday's events, which happened to be the first day of Reading Week (RW for short from now on), as well as Valentine's Day.

On Tuesday, I decided to stay in for most of the day and just bum around in my PJ's. Joe finally came home from school, and we decided that I would make dinner that night. We had braised chicken drumsticks in an onion, garlic and shallot sauce, "choy sum", and...other stuff? I can't remember anymore. I was then called out to an impromptu Exec meeting to discuss tournament stuff. That wrapped up around 10 p.m., so Zin and I spent the rest of the time planning out details for the trip.

Zin came over on Wednesday morning around 11 a.m. We packed a bunch of stuff into my badminton bag, grabbed the cooler, and headed back to the house. We transferred all my stuff into the club's Pointfore bag (borrowed it for the trip.........), then packed all his stuff in as well. We proceeded to pack all the food, etc. After cooking up some dumplings for lunch, we loaded up the car and were on our way by 3:00. It took a bit over an hour to get up to Wasaga, and the weather was quite good. We checked in to our room and unpacked all the food, figuring that living "out of the bag" for 2 days would be okay (in terms of laundry and whatnot). We headed out to the local IGA after settling in and picked up a TON of groceries (that we totally did not finish by Friday). Oh yea....I haven't even mentioned where we went. So we booked a Jacuzzi Suite up at Saga Resort for roughly 2 days, just to get out of town and away from everything. It was a much-needed two days of kicking back to relax. The in-room jacuzzi was so much fun!! I turned into a human prune watching DVD's and TV in there for hours, but it was AWESOME - especially with bubbles in there!! :) We cooked up some MASSIVE steaks on the outdoor BBQ that night. I've never eaten a steak that big before - it was about the size of a badminton racquet head!!! I've also never BBQ-ed outdoors before in the WINTER. That was pretty interesting. :) We grilled up some mushrooms and zucchinis with the steaks, and also had carrots and mashed potatoes. There was SO much food. After dinner, we vegged for a bit, and then Zin made his apple pie pizza for dessert. Again, watching TV in the jacuzzi is so fun! American Pie and Magic Kitchen and STAR TREK! LOL!

Thursday "morning" - as in, around 2 p.m., we had french toast and breakfast sausages for "breakfast". We were supposed to have shepherd's pie for lunch, but that would mean that dinner would be at midnight! Instead, we just decided to skip "lunch" and have dinner at a "normal" hour. We watched Top Gun after lunch, and then while Kev was preparing the chicken for roasting, I did the dishes and then hopped into the jacuzzi again. Yea, I was too tempted and couldn't resist. :( We watched "Running Out Of Time" (Andy Lau) as the chicken cooked, and the O.C. as we got ready for dinner. That chicken was HUGE!! It was a $17 chicken....holy cow. :S We also cooked up some mashed potatoes and garlic nappa cabbage....just so that dinner would seem less heart-attack-ish. LOL! After that we watched some random TV before watching ER at 10:00 p.m. on NBC. After that, we decided to watch one of the movies that I'd gotten him during Christmas - Love Battlefield starring Eason Chan. Oh MAN, it was such a depressing movie. I felt so cruddy after watching it. Good thing I had peanut butter squares to cheer me up. :) We called it a night after that cuz I was having so much trouble staying up. I even fell asleep partway throughout Love Battlefield. Well, it was also close to 5 a.m. when we went to bed.......so yea, it was LATE already. :S

We woke up, showered, packed everything, and checked out around 11:15. We drove down to the FROZEN beach and took some videos and pictures, and then started to head back into town. We stopped in Barrie for pitas at The Pita Pit. They put green peppers in my philly steak pita, and I had one heck of a time trying to pick them out. *grr!* We got back to Toronto, unpacked everything, cleaned the kitchen, and Kev took a nap. I played NHL 2005 until he woke up, and we headed out to pick up trophies and go on a shopping spree at the BV GAP. I also submitted my resignation letter! That's right! The Toronto Symphony Orchestra called me on Tuesday and offered me a permanent part-time position!! Woo-hoo! So yea, I'm finally leaving GAP, after being there for over 1.5 years. We were gonna run more errands but decided to wait til Saturday because we were both starving. We headed back to the house to make shepherd's pie and watch Six Feet Under. A bunch of people were over for poker night as well.

Ed came over on Saturday morning to pick back up his demo racquets. We chatted for a bit, and then Grace came over to pick me up for dim sum with Kev and Sopheak. We didn't want to wait forever at Market, so instead they chose New Century Plaza. We ordered like.....2-4 of everything because everything else was sold out. There was, like, no variety to lunch. :S Anyway, Emily treated me to a jumbo mango slush from TenRen's after that cuz she won $100 at the casino. LOL! We all went to Fairview afterwards to go fish-shopping for Sopheak. I ended up buy 3 danio's, 4 guppies, and 1 plecko for myself as well. Aiya. I went home, set up the fish in their tank (with my other baby guppy), and headed out again to pick up stuff for the tourny. We grabbed water from Home Depot ($3.97 for 24), and carrots and celery and cookies from Loblaws. We also grabbed birds and door prizes from Lee's. Emily cooked dinner for us back at the house. After eating, Sopheak, Grace, Kev, and I prepped the veggies for the tournament snacks.

Jason picked me up on Sunday morning, along with Shirley and Anthony. We headed to York and the tournament began. I played doubles with Emily and mixed with Kev. Emily and I placed 3rd for Women's Doubles, and Kev and I placed 2nd for mixed. We headed to Boston Pizza for dinner afterwards and had lotsa fun. The food sucked but the company made up for it. Kev and I shared the Boston's lasagna, which tasted like Chinese food/vegetable soup to me. The bacon double cheeseburger pizza just tasted like normal pizza to me. The New York cheesecake wasn't cold enough - imagine room temperature cheesecake (i.e. not cold) *shudders*. The Chocolate Brownie Addiction was SO huge *sarcasm*. Grace was gracious enough to give me a lift home in the crazy snowy conditions. I was incredibly tired from the tournament and passed out around 12....and didn't wake up until 12:30 or so today. I even had trouble staying awake to change into my PJs. The minute I sat down on my bed my eyes already began to close. I was so exhausted. I'd already fallen asleep after the tournament on a pile of jackets. I fall asleep WAY too easily. LOL!

Anyhoo, this blog is now insanely long, and I really hafta keep studying for my two midterms that are due to kill me tomorrow.