This past weekend I went to Miami for some partying. It was my girls birthday and we thought we’d celebrate it in the sun.. rather than the cold here where we live. I arrived a day earlier (Wed) than all my friends (1 of the girls I was supposed to meet up with missed her flight). I was pretty pissed off when I arrived.

I found that the Miami airport was very confusing. I was waiting for a shuttle to come from “Runway Inn” hotel – They never showed up. Even though I called them twice and my friend (who was calling from Ecuador) also called them. I waiting outside where all of the shuttles/pickup etc came.. Nothing for 2 hours. I was almost ready to cry from frustration. It was such a terrible night. Anyway, after calling them another time and getting the run-around from them, who couldn’t care less of my wait BTW – I SUGGEST TO EVERYONE  — NEVER BOOK WITH RUNWAY INN MIAMI — EVER….. I said fuck it, I’m not waiting anymore and called my Hostel (which we were staying at the rest of the 5 days). They were so polite, took me in last minute – set me up. I took a supershuttle into Miami Beach, the driver took me around and showed me all the sights, gave me advice, etc – Even helped me with my bags at the hostel. Nice man.. That night I spent the time in my room. I was exhausted anyway, and really didn’t feel like partying much.

Next day (Thurs), I had a nice walk along the beach in the early morning, got some yummy breakfast, tanned on the beach and met up with the rest of my friends. It was good to finally not be alone in this strange place. LOL Waited for another one of our friends, checked-in and headed to the beach. Afterwards at night we got ourselves dinner (which was provided free by our hostel), and we headed out to LIV Nightclub at the Fontainebleau. I don’t get what everyones hype is about LIV.. yeah sure it’s in a good area. But the place is small, I’ve been to a ton of much nicer clubs before. The dancefloor got packed by 1AM – Sharam was DJing that night. The girls and I could hardly move.. so we left pretty early… around 2AM-ish… our feet were hurting. The hotel was really quite pretty, loved the chandelier  — but nothing compared to the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. I think Vegas has spoiled me to a point where I’ll never really be impressed with any other hotel. LOL

Next day was another beach day (Friday). It was very windy though and also cloudy. Actually.. most days (other than the first and last day) were cloudy and windy. We ended up going out with our hostel that night to Love Hate and Cameo… I was pretty gone that night, as the hostel gave us drinks and shots. I remember dancing on the ledge between the tables (I’m very surprised I didn’t fall on my face).. It was fun from what I remembered.

Saturday – yet another beach day, and also Jenny’s birthday! We walked around like usual, checked out Lincoln Mall – great place to shop! That night we ended up meeting with a promoter at another hotel, and we got into Mansion Nightclub for free. The group basically needed more girls to get them in. There were probably around 20 other guys – us and a few other girls. We didn’t mind – Definitely didn’t want to spend $25 to get into the club. That night Dirty South was DJing – so it was pretty busy. I stayed sober that night because I wanted to enjoy the music – OMG It was a pretty amazing night! They handed out lighted foam tubes everyone was waving around, had confetti cannons everywhere. It reminded me of Las Vegas. LOL – One thing I do regret from that night was walking back to our hostel ALONE. I felt so unsafe – so much cat-calling, questionable characters on the street @ 4AM – I stuffed my iPhone/ID/cash in my bra while I was walking… Never again.

Sunday, went out for breakfast by the beach at Ocean… tanned at the beach – Even floated in the Ocean! Damn that water is salty! It was the first time I went in (past knee length) – Not as scary as before LOL… We ended up at Nikki Beach with our hostel. It was fun from what I remember – I made the mistake of pre-pre-drinking LOL BAD IDEA. I pretty much blacked out. I don’t remember much of the night.. and I probably made an ass out of myself. Damn. Horrible.

Monday – I stayed in bed all morning-afternoon feeling ashamed and hungover – oh well – afterwards we went over to an Italian Restaurant on Lincoln and had gelato for dessert. We had to because of Jersey Shore. It was pretty great too! So surprised. We didn’t end up partying like we usually do – went to bed pretty early (around midnight)

Tuesday – well rested, the girls left before me and I went over to the beach to take some well needed photos and video. I was going to incorporate them in a school project, but I can’t think of a way to combine them without looking bad LOL – just no motivation… Johanna and I took the bus around 1PM to the airport and I was off to home at 4:30PM

I had direct flights to Miami both ways – so it was pretty easy to get down there. The airport in Toronto only took me 30 mins – Miami about an hour wait.. flights were both under 3 hours. Pretty sweet! Overall – my trip was good. I think it will be a long time before I plan to go back though. I felt that staying by the beach was unsafe, and I was always watching out for someone to take my things. There were a lot of homeless people on the streets and sketchy people that would yell out, try to get your attention with rude/perverted comments, EVEN weirdos trying to touch you. Not my kind of place to vacation in… *nods head*

Happy birthday to me!

Today I turned 27 years old! WOW. Time really flys by… I don’t even feel my age .. OR should I say… ACT my age

At this age, my parents were married for 1 year, in their own house… my mom was expecting her first child – I can’t even imagine being in that position in my life right now.

I guess in my generation things go a lot slower. Though most of my friends are living on my own. There is only a select few that are actually married and living in their own houses. None with children yet.

Sometimes I do get a little worried that my life wont be how I originally wanted it to be, but I try not to think about it in details. I like to believe that these opportunities will still arise in my life and I’ll get back onto the “family” goal aspirations I have for the future.

Enough about the seriousness. So far my birthday has been pretty good, I can’t complain too much 

Over the weekend I celebrated with family and friends. My dad took the whole family out for sushi lunch. MMM! and afterwards we celebrated with cake of course (as seen from the above photo). Later on, I went out with all my girls and we went out dancing. It was so much fun. We danced the night away at The Devil’s Martini – Had a good time, drinks were fairly cheap.. and thanks to all my friends, I didn’t have to spend a thing <3

Though after I woke up (after the storm) – I felt really sick…. not a “hangover” kind of sick.. Actually SICK and still am. I’ve been fighting off a flu-like illness.. I missed Monday & Tuesday’s classes.. I finally made it back today — still really sick. I might have to cancel my birthday dinner with the girls again tonight OH WELL — Can’t complain much. I don’t get sick often. I guess it’s just my time. heh

I’ve been very busy with school and work. Life is a bit overwhelming at the moment, lots of projects due, teaching myself crap.. and failing.. It’s stressing me out. Last week I just about cried every day of the week, it was horrible. I contemplated some terrible ideas in my head.. which I will not discuss. I had a major breakdown – and visited my moms grave for some guidance. It was pretty intense. I feel awful just thinking about it again. I got over what I was dealing with – it was me failing on php – and I’m thankfully back to normal now.

My birthday is coming up quick. I’m going downtown clubbing this time. I haven’t done the Toronto clubbing scene thing in a while.  I felt like it was greatly needed. LOL I’ve decided on a 25 and over bar. Though half of my party is under 25, I’m sure the club wont decline a bunch of pretty girls .. ya know? .. well I hope! OR there’s always somewhere else. I decided on the 25+ place because I am so sick of touchy guys at the club thinking they can just come up behind you and rub their junk on your ass/back. I’m over that part of my life. The bars/clubs around my area are usually filled with 19 year olds that always manage to disappoint me.. I’m too old to go out in my area. LOL

ANYWAY, my summer has been pretty awesome. Been working lots, traveling, etc. After my 2nd year of school was done in April, went to Vegas to celebrate… well not really celebrate.. but maybe to hit off the summer. May was wicked.. The girls and I stayed at Treasure Island this time… for 4 days… and then travelled to California for another 3 days. The trip was pretty amazing. This year visited Rain on the first night, 2nd night we spent at XS, 3rd night was at Marquee & the 4th night we spent at Moon. Nightclubs were amazing as usual. I absolutely fell in love with the Cosmopolitan and Marquee… fabulously beautiful. Hotel and nightclub were so amazing. We had the best time there and met some great people too… HA!

I could go on and on about what happened, and what else we did while we were there, but I’m really too lazy to get into it.. and it’s not something I want to discuss on here.. just incase anyone gets offended/etc… but if you would like to know, you can ask. All I have to say about Vegas is, LADIES get a hookup from a local promoter there.. it’s worth it to get yourself and your friends into whatever club you want to go to… entry, drinks.. free.

California was also pretty good. We laid low most of the time because we were still recovering. I was terribly sick too, it was pretty awful… BUT I still made the most of it

The rest of the summer went by pretty quick too.. long weekend cottage partying, camping, so many concerts [ie NKOTBSB], summer BBQ’s… working…

I can’t believe it’s already August.. and school is 1 month away! AHH.. CRAZY!

So my girl Sam and I are ending summer with a big bang.. and going to Las Vegas. HAHA I know.. again. YEP. SO WHAT? ;) We are heading down Sept 1st until Sept 6th. 6 days [5 nights] of pure craziness! Staying at the MGM Grand… for Labour Day weekend festivities… I hope everything goes as well as it always does… There’s so many things, places, DJ’s, pools, etc I want to do. I hope it all works out. My friend isn’t as much as a drinker as I am.. but she’s been with me last year.. and she seemed pretty good.

I’m pretty stoked for this trip.. I shouldn’t really be going on another trip… but you only live once right?

So we had reserved a booth and bottle service at the club for my friend Melissa’s birthday. When we got to the club, the bouncer/guy with the list said we weren’t on it. My first reaction was .. what the fuck ? We made the arrangements weeks in advance!! The guy continued to tell us we did not. This was while we were waiting out in the arctic temperature outside. It went on for about 10 minutes. Lucky thing the girl who arranged everything (my friends sister) remembered the guys name she had been talking to on the phone. Well the guy remembered, and he had booked us for the weekend after. I really don’t see how you can confuse the dates. It’s January 30th.. next week is a whole different month! You can’t confuse January and February. :/ He talked to someone and he finally let us in. Another peeve of mine was the carpet at the door was wet with slush and was on a slant. All of us were clearly slipping, and the 3 guys standing at the door didn’t even bother to help us. Luckily none of us slipped.

Good thing was we all got in for free. Bottles were $100 + tax and 19% Gratuity. So the bill came to $280? Not bad for downtown. The host was fun and energetic. AND pretty hot. But she kept making us drink like 3/4 full drinks of alcohol. LOL We suspected that she didn’t want us to stay at the booth for long. BUT we did! HAHA for them.

Music was great as always. 4 Korners were DJing and they’re always good. By the end of the night we all had fun. We were all pretty sloshed, and all was well at the end.

Kitten!!

I got a kitten! He’s so full of love and is so cute! I’m currently up in the air for names. He was named Tigger, but I think that’s just a cop-out name LOL and I don’t really like Whinny The Pooh. :/ I really like when animals are named real human names.. So I was thinking Harrold. HAHA Harry for short. What do ya think?

He’s my first real pet. LOL I’ve never had cats & dogs before. It’s quite the experience. He never lets me sleep when I want to. I have to get use to his claws, they hurt like hell when he plays. :/ I would never de-claw.. it just seems so inhumane. How hard is it to trim claws? Does everyone do that?

Other than getting a kitten, I’ve been up to not much of anything. Still reading my books. Almost finished the entire Shopaholic series. I have a few more chapters left that I will finish today sometime. I’ve bought the rest of Sophie Kinsella’s books that I didn’t have, The Undomestic Goddess and Can You Keep A Secret? I’ve heard they are really good. I bought a few more 80% books from Chapters yesterday after work. So that should hold me over for at least a month. LOL

Today I’m going downtown shopping and then clubbing at Reign Nightclub for Melissa’s Birthday. We are getting a booth and bottles, so that should be pretty fun. The DJ(s) who are there tonight are the same ones from Circa Saturdays. So I know I’ll be having a great time. I hope my fave guy is there and I don’t make an ass out of myself like last time. rofl… Saturday is a bachelorette party at Circa Nightclub. I’m happy they chose to go there. It’s always so much fun there. I haven’t been since New Years Eve!

I’m giving Reign another shot tonight. I went last Saturday, and they made us line up for 30 minutes even though I put us on Guestlist, in the -20 degree weather. AND they only gave us 1 free pass. There were 3 of us there. Also they advertised that it would be 90′s music all night, which is why I went, BUT they didn’t not play all 90′s. Most of it was current. I was pretty pissed about that. OH and cover was $20… and the place was tiny. 2 floors and pretty rammed. I would’ve went to Circa if I knew my guests had to pay that… drink prices were okay, $6 .. which is good for downtown Toronto….

Well  I gotta shower and pack up my things for tonight. Have a good weekend!!!