This weekend was crazy busy! I had a show on Saturday (a school fair where I sold my organic dog treats and accessories) and it was awful. I had never sold so little at a fair! I did not even cover the cost of my booth. Although I have done lots of school fairs, I have never been at one of this format. It did not work well at all so I likely won't be doing one like it again any time soon. Stella got her third set of shots on Saturday as well so she was feeling kind of tired and yucky, just like me!
On Sunday, My boyfriend and I took his mother and father to The Old Mill for Mother's Day. It was so great and she had a wonderful time. It was a little more than we could afford (okay, a lot more), especially with us going on vacation next week, but it was worth it. The food was incredible and there were a lot of vegetarian selections for me. The setting was beautiful and we walked around the gardens after brunch, taking a lot of photos.
When we got back from brunch with Mark's parents, we rollerbladed to Ontario Place where we spent the rest of the day with my mom and brother. That was also a lot of fun although my brother was acting like a total brat. It was a little too cold for the log ride he really wanted to go on so he really acted up. He was definitely not acting his age.
In my opinion, kids get away with way more than they should these days. My mother never put up with bad behaviour from me when I was a kid. If I had tantrummed like my brother did yesterday, she would have taken me straight home after thanking me for ruining an otherwise perfectly nice Mother's Day. I would have spent the rest of the day in my room. Now here she is, same mother 20 years later, buying him ice cream so he will forget about the log ride. It did not work, by the way.
Oh well, I guess that I shouldn't judge. I am not even a parent after all....cats and puppies don't count.
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Monday, May 14, 2007
Monday, April 30, 2007
Weekend of Madness at the St. Lawrence Market
I occasionally work for an event staffing company in Toronto. The pay is okay but that is not why I do it. The assignments are usually interesting and just when I start to think they are getting stale, I get a really fun, crazy paced one. That is what the assignment was like this weekend.
I was hired to help distribute promotional materials in downtown Toronto at the St. Lawrence Market. I immediately jumped on board with this one because I love the St. Lawrence Market and it is not far from my condo. I won't go into all the boring particulars of my duties but essentially I helped hand out these smart looking cloth grocery bags. Everyone wanted them and soon the whole are was completelety saturated with shoppers carrying blue totes! People were swarming me (and the other girls) to get them.
Some of the shopkeeps asked if they could give them out to their customers and I said yes to few of them. Some of them I said no to, though, because they were being greedy. They would try to get as many bags as they could from me by telling me they were for family members. Once they saw they had reached their limit with me, they would drop the bags off in the building and then do the same routine with my two co-workers. They were even coming back to me disguised in hats ad coats or sweaters, hoping that I wouldn't recognise them. Ah well, it is hard to blame them. The bags were pretty cool.
There was one store, Domino Foods, that I gave a lot of bags too. The employees were all so nice and the manager promised to make sure that every bag had a flyer in it. At the end of our shift, my boyfriend (who came a long to help me out, the sweetie-pie) and I went to the store to drop off some extra inventory and the manager gave us drinks and snacks. That was really appreciated because I had been so busy my entire shift that I hadn't bothered taking my break.
We walked around Domino Foods for a bit, it was amazing how much stuff was in there! Lots of bulk foods like trail mixes, nuts, and even peanut butter made fresh in the store. There were jars of sauces and marinades, imported organic chocolate and cookies. My boyfriend and I recognised a some items from our time in Europe. Generally they just had a lot of stuff that would probably be difficult to find anywhere else.
Anyway, I took a card from them and I fully intend to do quite a bit of shopping there.
I was hired to help distribute promotional materials in downtown Toronto at the St. Lawrence Market. I immediately jumped on board with this one because I love the St. Lawrence Market and it is not far from my condo. I won't go into all the boring particulars of my duties but essentially I helped hand out these smart looking cloth grocery bags. Everyone wanted them and soon the whole are was completelety saturated with shoppers carrying blue totes! People were swarming me (and the other girls) to get them.
Some of the shopkeeps asked if they could give them out to their customers and I said yes to few of them. Some of them I said no to, though, because they were being greedy. They would try to get as many bags as they could from me by telling me they were for family members. Once they saw they had reached their limit with me, they would drop the bags off in the building and then do the same routine with my two co-workers. They were even coming back to me disguised in hats ad coats or sweaters, hoping that I wouldn't recognise them. Ah well, it is hard to blame them. The bags were pretty cool.
There was one store, Domino Foods, that I gave a lot of bags too. The employees were all so nice and the manager promised to make sure that every bag had a flyer in it. At the end of our shift, my boyfriend (who came a long to help me out, the sweetie-pie) and I went to the store to drop off some extra inventory and the manager gave us drinks and snacks. That was really appreciated because I had been so busy my entire shift that I hadn't bothered taking my break.
We walked around Domino Foods for a bit, it was amazing how much stuff was in there! Lots of bulk foods like trail mixes, nuts, and even peanut butter made fresh in the store. There were jars of sauces and marinades, imported organic chocolate and cookies. My boyfriend and I recognised a some items from our time in Europe. Generally they just had a lot of stuff that would probably be difficult to find anywhere else.
Anyway, I took a card from them and I fully intend to do quite a bit of shopping there.
Domino Foods
Dried & Glazed Fruit - Roasted & Raw Nuts - Spices - Coffee & Tea
St Lawrence Market, South Side
93 Front Street East
Toronto Ontario
M5E 1C3
(416) 366-2178
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