Did the mistake of getting my hair dyed and letting them style my hair before I was to meet up with a friend downtown, leaving me absolutely no choice of changing it before I met up with my friend. Minus points to this well respect salon for making my hair colour NOT the colour I wanted and making my low lights NOT visible at all like how they were supposed to be. Anyways, running through the shopping mall patting down my hair as if it were a bad wig was embarrassing but honestly once I met up with my friend I could care less about my hair.
L'Attitudes hair salon, thanks for the free wifi but no thanks for the overpriced number you did on my hair.
Today I met up with one of my high school friends and it's always so interesting to see what has evolved since the last time we've met. She's since had a baby and her baby is super adorable with her little trouble-maker smirk that surely melts even the coldest of people. We walked around downtown, put a lot of mileage on our runners, and chatted up a storm. I ended up running into her brother back at her apartment and so that was super cool. I haven't seen him since high school, some 16-17 years ago now... wow.
We talked about everything and anything under the sun it seemed but the discussion about babies really opened my eyes. I told her about the intense stress I'm always under with Koreans pushing me to have a baby and the rude and inappropriate questions that always seem to follow when I tell them I don't have a baby. My friend has a baby, she's a single mom trying her hardest to be the best mom to her little one but noted that random people all the time try to tell her what's best for her girl. Whether it's someone in passing telling her she should put a hat on her child or someone throwing other unasked for, unwanted advice at her, she says having a baby hasn't brought on a whole other set of social stress. "If people aren't pushing you to have a baby then they're pushing you to raise your kid this way or that way", she told me, "If it's not one thing it's something else". Ain't that the truth but honestly I didn't really think of that before. I guess I thought that once you had a baby the social pressures and stress of others butting in would stop but apparently it doesn't. I don't know if I feel relieved or more stressed -- relieved to know that I'm not the only one being choked or more stressed in that it doesn't stop.
Later in the evening, for dinner, I met up with one of my university buddies, a Filipino cutie who has smooth-like-butter dance moves and is just so sweet. It was a lot of fun to meet up with him though I must admit it took us like forever to decide on a restaurant to eat because we both were chatty cathys. Dinner turned into coffee, coffee turned into a walk around Toronto, and the walk turned into him seeing me off on the last Go Train at Union Station, 12:20am. So much for getting back to Whitby for 9am, no worries. I didn't have plans in Whitby but I didn't expect to be in Toronto for as long as I had been. That's the beauty of Toronto though, it's just so fabulous and there's always something to do. Now as for Whitby,... hmmm... I was one of those kids who loved growing up in it but was eager to leave it at the first chance possible. When I left at age 18 I didn't look back and I never moved back.
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