Vacation - Day 3

Yesterday went according to plan, right to the minute pretty much. All good.

After Jay and I had finished watching Doctor Who I had some time to get the rest of the dinner details sorted and await my guests Mark and Mark, who had spent the day out shopping like all good gay visitors to Toronto. And during that time I received a delightful phone call from my friend, the internationally famous Ms Miriam who is languishing in Bermuda for work. Yes, we all feel so sorry for her.

The cooking began and so did the wine drinking. One Mark and I exterminated a 1.5 litre bottle of white between us over dinner, which was lemon chicken with rice and mushrooms. I am always happy to make this dish, it's not that complicated and it requires just enough detail to be impressive. If it's done right the lemon gives it just enough pucker power, and last night I do believe it was another success. The chicken breasts I used, though, were huge, and it was an effort to finish them, but we managed. And then wierd of wierd things, we watched clips from the new Doctor Who series and got both of them interested enough to want to see more. One Mark is right now borrowing my Torchwood box set. And then a pint glass broke in the sink; it's still there right now so I suppose I should look into cleaning that up soon.

Out we went back into the Toronto gay bars but not for very long; just over to Woodys and Buddies in Bad Times. Buddies was PACKED with dancing young gay men, a sight I had not seen for quite some time. Made me feel kinda old in there though. I also feel a little self conscious because I have put on some weight in the last 2 years and when surrounded by young slim toned beautiful creatures... yeah, it can be a bit humbling. Still, there's my fix of gay bars out of the way for a while, I can get on with other things. Mark and Mark and I parted ways in time for me to snare the last subway home again.

Now it's once more only 4 hours since I got in and I am awake. I don't know why. I really should get some rest because I have a full day coming up soon with my sister and her boys coming to see me for the day. I told them to come for breakfast and I still have that smashed glass in my sink that needs tidying up, then I have dishes to do. Okay, so rest is not an option just now. I should get onto that mission pronto. Then maybe after I can get a nap. Our agenda for the day is really just to do family things; eat together, play, see a movie, all the stuff that little kids enjoy doing. And of course what trip to Toronto is complete for 2 adventurous little boys without a ride on the subway?

I'll get started now. First order of business is a cuppa tea.

That is all.