Operation Tubetop

Wellity wellity. It is the last day in June. Tomorrow is Canada Day and I will be feeling a little home sick and a little in the mood for Ice Caps and poutine. I am going to a bbq for an editorial meeting in the evening and I have asked people to learn the Canadian national anthem because Canada RULES! So much win in this picture! I cannot believe that this month is coming to a close. I thought May was wild! June, you done good, Kid. You done good. So let's recap the insanity that was June. Partay at Sekt Comptoir and Heuer : This was a lovely evening, meeting awesome new people and enjoying buckets of sparkling wine. Summerstage : I had a great night out with a friend and we had pizza and we had our first bowle of the season! Huzzah! Brickmakers: Finally got to try this restaurant out. There is something magical about their mac and cheese. Something magical indeed. Art show : This was a lot of fun. I had beer, looked at great work, and then sat outside on the gro

It is Monday again and it is hard to wake up. There is still a chill in the air which makes it feel Fall-like which I usually love but, you know, in September. It was another crazy weekend! The last few weeks have been wild so I am looking forward to slowing down... kind of. This week will not be as wild as weeks past: no balls, no parties, no operas, no clubs. All that is on the schedule this week is a bbq editorial meeting on Wednesday and something intellectual called Parallax on Thursday at MQ which will most likely be over my head and I will be thinking to myself  "Do potatoes bounce?" and then followed by a visit to the Freihausviertel fest afterwards. On Friday my parents are coming for the weekend which will be great! They are moving back to Canada so we won't see them for a long time. Sad. Re: this past weekend: Friday after work, I met a friend for a quick drink and then headed home to make dinner and get the Kid ready for bed. At 9 I headed to the Lutz bar

Reunions are a funny thing. We are expected to meet up, years after we left an institution we were forced to be in and catch up with people who we haven't seen since we thought that tops with crotch snaps were AWESOME. They are not. They are stupid. Tops with crotch snaps are terrible. I have not been to a reunion before and I still haven't because last night was not my class reunion. As I mentioned in earlier posts, this reunion is for the class of 95. I was the class of 99 but left at the end of tenth grade. I finished my last two years at the American school in Moscow and I loved it. I did not have the best time in Vienna when I was a teenager. I was a teenager and ergo I was angsty. I also was a hopeless romantic and falling in love every 5 minutes and of course it was constant unrequited love because I looked like I look today: hobbit-like. Since being back in Vienna for the past 11 years, I have had some contact with old friends and only last year, met up with a frien

Hello Thursday! It looks like it is going to be a spectacular day! The sun is shining and even though it is stupidly cold for June, it seems like it is going to heat up soon. Tonight I am heading to the Lukas bar for a quasi reunion and that should be fun. Unless I turn into "I carried a watermelon" and end up standing in the corner. Then it won't be a fun night. I got a decent night's sleep last night and that always revives me and stops me from making bad life choices like: bangs... Today's post is just a collection of random thoughts because why not? Walks : I love my morning walks. Hopefully I can turn them into morning runs but I lost the running mojo after the Frauenlauf. It will be back but for now, the walks are awesome. I love the city at 5:30 in the morning. It is just starting to wake up on the main streets but the small roads are still sleepy and silent... because it is 5:30 in the morning. I also love that nobody can see me without make up and c

I am totally calling this my Gatsby Summer. It isn't even July yet and I feel like I am already having an over-the-top hedonistic summer... and it is AMAZING! I have already written about the great nights I have had the past few weeks and last night was no exception. I met up with some lovely ladies from my alma mater; AIS. One of the woman is someone I have been hanging out with for the past year and a half and the other two were new friends. Actually, one has been a Facebook friend for the past year and she has been an incredible support to me and I know I said it last night while I was half cut, but I will say it again "Thank you." I like how we both remarked that we were exactly online as in real life... which might not be a good thing in my case. #iamhyperactive. We met at 4 at Schottentor and stopped at Wein and Co. for some wine. I am a slave to Rose on Tuesdays. It's a weird thing, I know. We had a couple of drinks and then headed to ye old faithful Der Fu

I am still so amazed and so grateful to everybody for yesterday. I still cannot believe so much money was raised. AMAZING! I feel incredibly blessed for having so many awesome friends and this means the world to me! So one more time THANK YOU!! In other news, this week is gearing up to be a busy one again. No rest for the wicked! Tomorrow night will be a mini AIS reunion - and of course we are going to Der Fuchs und Die Trauben. And on Thursday there is a meet and greet at Lukas. It is not my graduating year so I will only be attending the all age party on Thursday. I am pretty excited to meet up with a Facebook friend who I went to school with but never hung out with. She was 4 years ahead of me and in high school years that is like the age difference between Clooney and that Stacey Kiebler. Snap. I'm a bitch today. Speaking of today, I'm in a funk. Post-fundraiser blues and all that. I am so excited that everything went beyond well but now there is a bit of void now that

I cannot believe how much money was raised!!! 1,500 euros is a lot of money and I cannot believe how incredibly generous everybody has been! I was so touched to see so many friends show up yesterday and I wish I had more hours in the day to spend more time with all of you. The location Adria Wien was absolutely perfect; the service was amazing and the glass house is awesome! Yesterday before the event, I was a nervous wreck. I love organizing events and get togethers and parties but when it comes to the actual day, I get a little stressed. At our second wedding, I couldn't even look up during the vows; so embarrassed was I. While I am an extrovert and am loud and pushy and obnoxious and will demand attention (I'm not above yelling "PAY ATTENTION TO ME!" at the Husband) I actually don't like being the center of attention. Does that make sense? No? Anyway. Public speaking does not freak me out if I am prepared and talking about something I am an expert in; pizza

It was a ball to remember... I think. Gah! I am going on 4 hours of sleep and lots and lots of spritzers and sekt. I could probably breathe onto a car and make it run. One spark and I would go up like a Roman candle. I don't know what is wrong with me. It isn't like I never go out so I have to wonder why I turn into someone on their Rumspringa. Last night was the Concordia Ball and it was beautiful... Started in 1863 , and that is all I have for facts... A friend came over in the evening and we got ready (drank sekt) and then headed to a French bistro called Variation to meet some more friends. We ate dinner (drank sekt) and I don't know why I thought a quiche would be a wise choice for a night of drinking... because it isn't. After dinner, we walked across the street and walked into the gorgeous neo-Gothic Rathaus (drank sekt). I have been there before but never for a ball and it is spectacular! We walked up several flights of stairs to our table in the main ha

Oh wow! My socialite weekend is about to begin! A ball tonight and a fundraiser on Sunday... living the dream! I will be wiped by the end of all of this and that is just a-ok! Yesterday I had to stay home - the Kid has not been sleeping well at.all. He has had some digestive issues and I think it is affecting his sleep. And also, he might just like to screw with us. Funny enough, a friend just wrote an article for the New York Post about a new book about diet and autism and how it can be interlinked. I have been toying with the idea of going dairy and gluten-free in our house for a while now and I guess it doesn't hurt to try. I guess that is my next project! Stay tuned to see whether the Kid declares mutiny, while placing my head on a pike as a warning to all other mothers who threaten to throw out their child's bagel chips. In other news, the fundraiser is WILD! I cannot believe all of the donations of prizes I have received and how people have been buying tickets even th

I haven't had much time to relax these past few weeks. But relaxing is not something I usually do. On Sunday after consuming my weight in pizza, I laid down on one of the sofas in the living room and the Husband asked me if I was sick because it has been a long long time since I have done that. I feel like I constantly have to be on the move because once I stop, I will be unable to start again. Like a shark... wearing a Michael Kors purse. But even though I am a bit like a tornado, I try and make sure that I treat myself and/or take some downtime... while working on a formula for cold fusion. Ha ha. I can't do math. So here is a list of my current favourite things. Archer : O.K. A friend told me about this show a little while ago. She then admitted she had a crush on the main character named Sterling Archer. There's a problem with this because...well... he's a cartoon. Our conversation went like this (italics are my inside voice ): Friend: He's hot! Me: But

Just a few more days until the fundraiser! I am so excited and of course nervous. We have already raised 250 euros which is incredible!! On Sunday, you can purchase your raffle tickets at the door or if you can't make it, let me know and we can arrange a drop off. On Monday I went to the Dachverband Autistenhilfe on my lunch break. I was a little nervous because when I wrote them the other week about the fundraiser, they seemed a little suspicious and I was about to bring out the snark and be like "So apparently giving you money is a problem?" but I didn't and I am glad I didn't because I am very aware that tone is completely off in the written word. So I showed up and chatted with a very lovely woman and picked up some literature for the fundraiser and found out that there is an online petition that people can sign (details coming soon). This petition is about making it possible for the WGKK (health insurance) to cover therapy for autism. Austria has amazing heal