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Thai food... Well we couldn't find the restaurant on Blowers Street that we thought was there so we walked a few blocks further to Baan Thai in the courtyard off Dresden Road. Restaurant was nice enough, prints and brass and wood ornaments around the room. Quite a variety on the menu but i found the prices very steep. Are all Thai restaurants that pricey or was it just because it's in a posh area of the city?

My friend didn't want too much heat and spice so no curries this time around. She might have been ok to try a few bites but when you're sharing the dishes she wouldn't get much out of it. Anyway we shared fish cakes and spring rolls to start. The Fish cakes or else the sauce did have a bit of heat, just enough to make it interesting. The hot and sour soup was hot, but not sour i didn't find. Hot! BeJesus! not temperature hot though and it could have been a bit more for my taste but the powerful tiny bits of chilis in it certainly made up for that! Whoah! Not unbearable for me but it did make your mouth stand up and take notice! The soup was quite gingery and had tomato pieces in it and other nice things.

We ordered two dishes, one with "glass" noodles and chicken and the other a ginger port concoction. Both were not hot-spicy at all and were delicious over the steamed rice. It was a nice meal and very tasty. The restaurant is very popular though, it was packed out and filled up shortly after it opened. I did find it noisy as a result.

So today, i have a lot of laundry to do and dishes to do. I do need some groceries and i wanted to get to the gym but maybe i'll do the gym tomorrow as my back is a bit achy today.

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It's warmer out today than it has been for awhile though the wind is still chilly. Even so, i don't think it was quite mild enough for shorts but that's what i saw a guy wearing as i was waiting for the bus. He got off at my stop, had bare legs, shorts, a tshirt with a thin vest over it. I can't recall but i wouldn't have been surprised if he'd been wearing sandals too. (no socks, but socks and sandals is a no no even in winter! LOL!) I recall seeing he had tattoos on his legs so perhaps he was airing them out or something lol

Went to Block buster to rent Ray but they were all out in spite of their guarantee lol That's ok. I got a few others but man they're expensive there aren't they? my corner shop carries dvd's but not a great variety. Anyway i got Garden State, Luther and We Don't Live Here Anymore. Garden State is a bit quirky, about an actor who comes home for his mother's funeral. There's family baggage there and there is a quirky free spirited young woman. Luther is about Martin Luther and how he rebelled against the Catholic church, starting the world on the Protestant religion in the early 1500's. Ralph Fiennes is in that one. The other one is about two couples, one of each having an affair with each other. Have them all for a week so no rush and BB doesn't have late charges anymore anyway.

Went to pick up some groceries and as always spent more than i planned but i got a variety of microwave meals that i can take for lunches to work. I really want to try to do that more often because it is so much cheaper. Bought a few things to make Wyn's maple curry chicken pasta too some time this week. aghhhh didn't get the cream. I can run to the corner store for that when i go to make it.

I got two loads of laundry done and put away and my dishes done too and i did a little painting on my latest creation as well though it still needs a lot of work.