holidaze

with a whole four...was it five hours of sleep last night i awoke to my alarm at 6 a.m., jumped in the shower, and threw back my yumtastic chocowheyprotein shake. the start to the holidaze. i was actually smart enow this year to pack the night before leaving the city, instead of frantically throwing random items of clothing from my dresser and closet into the [wrong] suitcase and run with it half unzipped down the stairs, as in years past. no, i was smart. packed and ready to go...ish.

it was cold leaving hogtown, so bundled i was when the sister drove up with her man and i lifted my suitcase into the backseat. erm... or onto my lap apparently. sisterfriend had packed a narwhal in the giant bag that took up more than half the back seat. sure, i've been hitting the gym lately, but i didn't fit too comfortably into that half-left-over-seat...in my winter jacket avec suitcase and backpack (napsack soo).

alls good - what's 20 mins in that state on our way down to union station.

last year in line a bad memory from highschool feigned remembering me and line jumped...with his bag of shellfish and meat from the market. seriously. this year my sister warned that she'd punch a brother if such a bad memory came to pass again. so, when i heard my name called out this morning as we queued up, i half shield my faceface from my sister's blow. but, phew! it was my old gradeschool best friend. small world. made for a good trainride to the ends of the earth (or at least to the south of canada)

4 hours later, and a few of them slept...ah sweet slumber...we meet my mother to drive home. the parking lot is a zoo, as per uzh, so she texts me "i can't get in. come meet me on the other side of the tracks". i'm like okay. my sister, though runs off in a craze. turns out, her text read "i'm on the tracks". a little different, no? ha!

driving through my small town, we come up on the torch. as in The Torch. th'olympic torch relay running along the road/shore/boarder of the country. i had seen it in toronto, but still history and all that, so ooh and ah and lookatthatness.

finally at my 'rents, i throw down my suitcase and backpack and breathe in the air from my highschool days in my old room [read guestroom now for people like me. guests]. four more days of this. great.

in amazingness news, i got a picturebook from my friends' wedding (i stood) and love it. aaaand, one of the fab 4 hs bffs is expecting! this is this blogger haphaphappy :)

technically it's now dec 24. xmas eve. the solstice/yule are past and the new year has begun.
that good things come to us, you and me - especially in the next four days whilst here.

hic extraneus sum