My agenda for this weekend was to make it work-free and shopping-free, both of which I can say I accomplished now that Sunday is nearly over. I’ve been working and volunteering every weekend for what seems like FOREVER, though it was actually only November when I went to New York City and Ottawa, and I was working while I was in Ottawa. I needed a break very, very badly. The shopping-free part is a two-fold objective: to not spend money, and AVOID STORES the weekend before Christmas. My major goal for the holidays is not to set foot in a store for the rest of the year unless it’s a grocer. I have 11 days left, let’s see how that goes…
As for this weekend, I just wanted to sleep in and stay in my pyjamas all day as a respite from the weeks of sleep deprivation. That was Saturday, I woke up at 1:30 in the afternoon. Today I wanted to sleep in even more but I committed myself to a holiday brunch at Natalia’s. On Saturday I had no idea what I could bring for brunch that didn’t involve a store (I’m not even that keen on grocery stores these days, everyone’s cooking and baking up a storm), but I found some falafel mix and fried it up. Doesn’t sound very brunch-like, does it? But really, brunch can be anything, in my book. And I came home with an empty container so it’s all good.
We also played a modified version of a game called Outburst that involves a list of categories, a die with the alphabet on it (I think it excludes X and maybe some other tough letters), and letting everyone yell out a word/s that belong in those categories once the letter die is rolled. English isn’t the first language for many people in the room, which you might think is a disadvantage, but Farhad smoked everyone at this game, and he’s an expat. It’s as if he has a high-speed index engine in his head for all the English words he knows. For the rest of us, Sunday is meant to be a lazy day — a mentally lazy day!
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