Downtown Adventures With Good Weather = A Great Day

I had a fabulous day yesterday, and the weather was fabulous too! My boyfriend took the day off from school because his brain was going to explode (from knowledge... not from some sort of medical emergency) and we went downtown to get him a pair of sunglasses he's been eyeing since the summer. After that we got some lunch at the new Poutinerie and Burrito Boys and boy did we feel disgusting after. Not that the food tasted bad, it was far from it, actually... but it's definitely not the healthiest stuff out there! So we walked around for a bit and made our way to the skydome and CN Tower, and the bf took some pictures with our awesome new camera. While we were there I pointed out the Steam Whistle Brewery which we had both never been to, and since we had some time to spare we decided to go and take a tour.
It was AWESOME!! We walked in the doors and they were like "do you want a sample?" and then poured us a half-pint of beer. And then handed us a ticket for a free sample. A tour was starting just as we got there so we tagged along and after the tour, we got another free sample of beer. Without giving in our ticket that we were given before, so now we've got 2 free sample tickets and totally plan on going back to take advantage of those!
It was really nice just to spend time together without thinking about external things. This past week has been kinda rough between his insane schedule of tests and labs at school and me being sick and still not having a job, so it was nice to forget about all that and just hang out.

Tonight we're hosting a bbq and we're having a few friends over for food and drinks. We've got a pork tenderloin all rubbed up and I've finished a pasta salad, so it's just a few appetizers to go and we'll be all set!

Paying Attention Is Overrated - I'd Rather Eat

Ugh... I HATE applying for jobs. I always screw up SOMETHING on each application, which narrows the amount of people who will probably contact me back. Things like forgetting to attach my resume, or forgetting to change the contact name on the cover letter, or the position name or take out certain parts of the cover letter that pertained to the previous job but has absolutely nothing to do with the one I was working on. Like right now, someone at a property management company is going to be reading my cover letter meant to be for an admin assistant, but instead is focused towards an office admin position. And says office admin position in it. And mentions how I'm taking HR courses which will be useful for assisting the HR manager which is not part of the job description. Gah... I guess I'll just try to be more careful. That way I'll be telling the truth when I say I am detail-oriented.

In other news, I marked yesterday as The Beginning Of The Time When Lil S Stops Eating Crap And Starts Exercising Again. Last spring I ran every day and then in the summer I worked out every day and was really active while I was working at camp. Since then, I have been working office jobs and eating whatever I wanted, far too frequently. Needless to say that especially over the past week, my weight has... inflated. What can I say, I come from a family that eats when we're sad, stressed, celebrating something... so basically all the time. And it's not even that I think I'm fat or anything, I just don't feel as healthy as I did last summer. So I went for a run yesterday (stamina? I had that once? Really?? Could swear that I have NO idea what that is now...) and made shit loads of tea rather than eating cheese and crackers as per the norm so that I would feel full. Helped a little, I guess. But the major issue now is that I'm unemployed so I'm home all day, and that means I have access to my wonderful fridge of yummy surprises all day long. Here's hoping I can resist the urge to shove my face full of food!

Excuse me whilst I make a pot of tea.