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November generally consisted of: making an upsetting decision to stay in Toronto, apartment hunting, helping design my mom's shop, freelancing at Levitt Goodman Architects for a competition, starting full time work at Giannone Petricone, being in a 1m radius of Bjarke Ingels, tasting Copenhagen again, feeling like a real adult at a gala at the ROM, and...proceeding to buy shoes after my first paycheque. Aha! Being paid for the first time in over a year feels pretty good, I'd say.

I had to make a quick decision to take a job in Toronto after my old office in Honolulu couldn't guarantee me a job for the year. The weekend in Montreal was tough having this on my mind, and I was constantly thinking about the uneasy prospect of being away from Mark (and Hawai'i) for another year. I still don't know if I made the right decision, but hopefully things will turn out for the better.

It's been nice to be able to spend so much time downtown and get to know the city again. I've been sampling the local coffee shops in my area, and I have to tell you that the cappuccino at SENSE APPEAL (Spadina/Adelaide) is definitely the best one I've had in the city thus far. You don't get it until you've been here. THOR (Bathurst/Niagara) and LITTLE NICKY'S (Queen/Peter) come at very close seconds. The ginger cookie at Little Nicky's is absolutely perfect. Thanks AJ! Photos from BlogTO.

The festivities and activities round up for the month --

x Apartment hunting
x Strange (and long) days at work
x Long-haul subway rides
x Morning dew
x Giana Factory @ the Drake
x ROM Gala
x Brunch @ Henhouse
x Cool Copenhagen @ the Drake
x Dufferin matter
x Flower shop biznazz
x More apartments
x Grandpa's birthday dinner
x King Street gallery hop

(First studio apartment I saw. Looks gorgeous in photos, but smelled so rotten in real life.)

Oh, and it snowed today. Whee! Toronto, November 2010.

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So...November sort of just happened. What?!

I have to backtrack to Halloween. So much has happened since then, and I haven't really had a chance to just slow down. The weather has gone from sunny and fall to wet and dreary before I can take it all in, but luckily I got a couple weeks of some great bike rides downtown (first time!). It was a really warm November, so I'm really thankful for that. Now what, Toronto? Rain and flurries? Bring it on. Now on to the updates...

At the end of October Elyse and I paid a sweet little visit to Ebner in Montreal. The weekend was just so nice! It had been so long since the three of us had just talked together, and we celebrated Elyse's birthday in usual tripod grace with tons of food, silly presents and very little sleep. All the Halloween celebrations sort of just passed us by...haha! We missed all the parties and bar hopping due to being so chatty. Typical ;)

Ebbies seemed to have such a crazy time starting Masters at McGill that we thought we would put together a little care package for her. A massive bag of scotch mints, photos, a little notebook and candies to make things a little more like home :)

I also finally got that STM ticket settled...went to court and paid off the original ticket fine. Ridiculous. I had a warrant because of it. I guess Mark and I are destined to be together -- both of us got warrants for not paying tickets for the most trivial infractions. A $100 bike ticket, and a $210 Metro fine. Amazing.

Just a note: the bread pudding at Soupesoup is TO DIE FOR. DO IT.

Up next - architecture, competitions, soirees and COPENHAGEN!

Montreal, October 2010.