In Ontario (and also Alberta and Saskatchewan), today is Family Day.  The majority of my family is in St. John’s, so Matt and I had the pleasure of going out for brunch with our friends Jon and Rachelle.

They’re both from Newfoundland and Labrador originally; Rachelle is currently attending school in Toronto and Jon was up visiting her this past week. History note: Jon and I have been friends for a heck of a long time. Going back to being in the same church choir growing up and then hanging out in high school and even more so in University onwards.

A couple of days ago, Jon suggested we go for crepes and Matt mentioned a place at Queen West and John Street. Now I’ve seen Café Crepe before, but have never gone in. Wow have I been missing out!! It turned into a really fun morning and was a great way to kick off Family Day.

Check out more details about our Adventures with Crepes in this quick video I’ve put together:

If you haven’t been to Café Crepe, I highly recommend you check it out. YUM!!

Dear VirginiaMiddleton.ca/blog,

It’s not you, it’s me. I’m sorry for neglecting you lately and it’s really nothing personal! I’ve been busy, but think about you often. Sometimes it’s late at night when I know we can’t connect because sleep is fast approaching. And sometimes it’s when I’m on the subway and we all know it’s impossible to get some precious Wi-Fi when underground.

I promise we’ll hang out very soon.

I have something fun to share with you in the meantime. I’ve been knitting a lot since the New Year started. In fact (and you’d be really proud of this), I’m knitting something for ME! It’s going to be a green vest. This photo doesn’t do justice to what the final project will look like, but hopefully this will help easy your annoyance for my recent absence.

See?! Isn’t it awesome!!!! I know, I know, it just looks like a green rectangle with a hole in it, but I promise the final product will be full of win and awesome-sauce; just you wait.

Lots of Internet hugs,
V

At 7:35 p.m., my husband Matt and I fly home to St. John’s for the holidays.

I’ll attempt a few updates while there, but will confess right now that I may be a little slack over the next two weeks as we haven’t been home since June and there are a lot of friends and family to visit.

Happy holidays Internets!
Virginia

The past few days have left me with a mild bout of writer’s block and while I have a few drafts in the works, I popped over to Livejournal and accessed some suggestions for blog/journal entries.

Here’s what we have…

If  you could keep only one of your five senses – taste, touch, smell, sight, or hearing – which would you choose and why?

Personally, this is a really tough question! My initial thought is “Sight. I’m 100% sure about that”, but after reading them over, the thought of losing touch is also really bothersome. Not being able to feel the touch of another person, to sense the wind whipping past you, and losing the warmth felt from a burning campfire – no thank you!

I guess my initial preference for sight is that as someone who wears glasses and doesn’t have the best vision on a good day, the idea of losing my ability to see is really terrifying. Not being able to see my surroundings really strikes a cord with me.
Morbid Moment: Whenever I pass on/expire/cease living (Monty Python reference!), I hope it’s possible to donate my eyes to someone who can still use them (why be greedy when someone else can benefit?).

Now it’s time for a confession – I LOVE food. It’s not a secret and the way I see it, the more garlic in a dish the better! But if I lost my sense to taste or smell, that would be terrible! Horrifying!! Now that I think about it, if I lost taste and touch at the same time, could I even eat?!?! Gnawing on your tongue doesn’t count as a meal…

Losing the ability to hear would of course be very unpleasant and not something I’m eager to experience. I’m a talker; I’ll admit (no confession needed there!). Not being able to hear other people or even hear what I’m saying (to help ensure I make sense) would really put a damper on my ability to communicate! It wouldn’t snuff it out completely of course (lots of people are unable to hear), but I’m embarrassingly bad at reading lips, so it would be interesting to say the least… there’d be a lot of “what?” and “no that’s not what I said…” I’m also a music lover and while country music really isn’t my thing, I’m happy to listen to just about anything else. I find listening to music to be calming, energizing and a great way to get motivated.

I’m really starting to believe that this was a trick question!! Doesn’t the sense of touch pretty much impacts all of the senses if it’s gone (with only  sight, would you still be able to blink?!). Mayby I’m over thinking this…

At the end of the day, I still feel strongly about sight, but am left feeling that I really take my five senses for granted…

How would you answer the question above? What sense (if given a choice) could you simply not live without?

Going forward, I’m planning to try and do a semi-regular “Friday Five” where I’ll take a topic and list five views, opinions or simply list five things about the topic.

I’ll keep these entries relatively short where possible, but also aim to make them entertaining.

Friday Five – Things I want to do while in St. John’s over the holidays

1. Enjoy family traditions
2. See the Christmas lights in those hidden pockets of the city
3. Have an annual dinner with friends from high school
4. Spend time with my parents and immediate family
5. RELAX

This is a rather crazy week for me, so I’ll try to give an expanded update (with photo!) to detail each point a little more.