Much to cover! not sure if I’ll get through it all as I’m a tired girl and could use some good shuteye tonight, long day at work tomorrow.

So the rest of the birthday: good brunch at De Dutch Pannekoek House, followed by some not too exciting shopping; I did get this darling cute monkey purse though!

Monkey Purse

(Looking it up it seems it’s a lunch bag, not a purse, but whatever. It’s adorable!)

Then an incredible Parkside dinner, of course. Lovely meal, which we both enjoyed.

Monday was dedicated to even more shopping (! I know!); I had a budget to work with and worked it, baby; got him a nice dress shirt; got me a Peter Nygard silk, lace, tulle, cutwork skirt; a grownup patterned silk skirt; and three tops to go with; as well as an iPod case for mine and a laptop case for the new laptop! so I’m set for any fancy dinners anyone wants to take me to

Monday evening we met up with a diverse bunch at Chill Winston: an ateaser who was in town early for the Tuesday show, several of my favourite food geeks (many of whom were also going to see Radiohead), and Seancouver.

Tuesday was spent cooking and running around a little to hook up with a friend who was buying another friend’s spare Radiohead tickets, and preparing a supper for my dad, who stopped in en route to NJ to walk my Choobie and have a non-airport-food supper; and a picnic for the Main Distractor and me to eat in the Radiohead lineup, as well as a chocolate cake to share with the kids. The concert I’ll talk about separately, it was pretty cool in spite of pouring rain.

Yesterday I had to head back to work, and the boy and I had a quiet evening in and finished watching Withnail & I, which if you haven’t seen I strongly, strongly recommend. Thanks, Dignan, for loving this movie so much that I was spurred to get it myself.

Today, another day of work, and another trip to YVR.

Sigh.

Still no definite date. Keep up the well wishes, this apartness really sucks.