Vancouver

So, it turns out that Vancouver is a great place to go shopping. If any of you ever feel the need for a nice self-indulgant spree, i suggest you fly yourselves out to Vancouver.

(We spent last weekend there, and here's my roundup.)

Its a beautiful city (clean, and surrounded by truly spectacular mountains), and accessible. This time around we stayed right in the city center, and walked almost everywhere. (my favorite part of all, probably, is just walking around with Josh.)

The store that i can think most of you would really relish, is called Lush. They sell really nice and extravagant bath goodies, and beauty creams, and, massage bars, and er, some extra feel sexy type of things. But, there were an inordinant number of clothes stores, a couple of good book stores, and good music stores.

Plus, most of the restaurants i've been to in Vancouver are good.

We saw a hockey game on Saturday, which was a complete blast. I really enjoyed the game, actually, plus the chance to see Hockey in Canada is sorta cool. (its like Opera in Vienna.) On Sunday we drove to North Vancouver (a nice part of town), and bought some expensive ice wine. wheee...


All in all, it was a wonderful, extravagant, romantic, and enjoyable weekend. =)

Guilt

Back to work this week...

I worked really very hard last week (including both days over the weekend, and almost all night on Tuesday night).

Then I took Friday off, and we went to Vancover, and had a wondeful weekend.

I think i was lucky in being able to relax over the weekend, and to enjoy myself.

Now that i'm back at work, though, i'm busy again. And i feel very guilty. I'm sure there was something i could have done to work harder last week. I'm sure i could have worked all day Friday instead of taking the day off. I'm sure I could have done more to be prepared last week in Syracuse.

I'm even a bit guilty because we had such a nice weekend, while there were people begging on the streets...

Just a comment - i should be able to mitigate this guilt - do something about the stuff that is reasonable, and not beat myself up so much about that which is not.

humph.