Just As You Are

I recently got my mother's eReader working again - Google is miraculous and I willingly embrace our Google overlords - so what this means is that I now have unlimited books at my disposal. Okay, a limit of ~500 books. What this means is that I've definitely binge-read Bridget Jones's Diary up until the early hours of the morning, taking me back to my high school days where I'd feel so proud of myself because the librarian would congratulate me on finishing a book in a night.

Bridget Jones is one of my favourite movies. I don't like a lot of romcoms (or "romedies", as Valen calls them), but there's something about Bridget Jones that feels a little more genuine and legitimately hilarious. Or maybe that's the Colin Firth effect - he plays socially constipated but deeply feeling very well. Apparently Bridget Jones is loosely based on Pride and Prejudice, but that book bored me to death because I am an uncultured swine who cannot appreciate "the classics". I think this is also one of the instances in which the movie is better than the book. The book's still hilarious, but when you've watched Bridget Jones' as many times as I have, there are certain crucial moments ingrained in your head. This may or may not include the cat fight between Colin Firth and Hugh Grant.

I'm not even going to mention the 3rd book.

I Love You A Latte

Despite the fact that I have my own cat, I like to visit every cat cafe I come across even though I'm basically just paying to play with cats I don't know. I mean, I definitely don't go there for the food.

Meow Cat Cafe is pretty good because there's no entrance fee and the drink prices are pretty reasonable. The drinks aren't anything groundbreaking, but basically I spent $5 for an iced latte and to play with unlimited cats (~10 cats?) for an hour. I can spend that much at Starbucks and there's no animals there.

Catpuccinos
(Technically lattes.)

Father and Daughter

After the end of every visit to a cat cafe, I want to adopt cats. Right now I have one, but that isn't enough. I think three is a good number of cats. But Vivian has a theory that that's how it starts, and then you think, "Oh, what's one more cat?" And then you have 46 cats.

High Park Bloom

It's always a frenzy when the cherry blossoms are in bloom at High Park. Luckily (?), we chose a rainy, gloomy day after a huge thunderstorm. The blossoms were mostly in tact and there was almost no one at the park, so we meandered about with our matching dollar store rainbow umbrellas and spent as long as we pleased with every tree.

BUCKET LIST ADDENDUM: See the cherry blossoms at peak bloom in Japan. I'm sure nothing will compare.