weekend round-up a la call center

it's been a while since i've had to round up a weekend, but here goes...

friday evening sam came home from work and we grabbed some grub before heading to the office party. apparently the food there was supposed to be crap and karen always told me never to drink on an empty stomach. we arrived to tha backyard of one of the office buildings (which was green and pretty) and headed straight for the open bar. met a few people, explained why i was in liverpool (darryl - i need a t-shirt!) and then parked ourselves with her team who were super nice and hilarious. we made 50p bets on how many people were at the party...my event planner skills failed me as i was drastically wrong. i bet 87 people when there were actually 106. bah.

we then headed off to the tea factory with kelly (sam's twin sister) for a few more posh drinks. that last pint really did me in and we stumbled home a bit later. the next day was largely spent horizontally as i tried to recover from my first night drinking in quite a while.

the next afternoon i was convinced by rich that more drinking that night was in order. so i headed over to the pink richs' house (rich lives with another guy named rich...and yes, they do have a joint bank account). had a few cups of tea to spur me on for the rest of the evening and then headed to meet some of his friends. we had a few pints at metro (not the quebecois grocery store) and then went back to the house to watch some television.

and this is gold....we watched "the littlest groom". picture "the bachelor" but with midgets. yes, this is what graces brit tv at 2:30 a.m. it was unbelievably funny and bizarre and even met a twist when they added 3 average girls to the mix. i know, i know, i'm going to hell for continuing to watch.

random canadian happenings....rich #2 finding a nickel on our table at the pub and a simpsons episode where all of the characters break into "oh canada" at the end of the episode.

advice for the day (said by a cabby last week)..."give 'em hell."