BOOSTED BY THE BUZZ

It's been a month of confinement and restriction since the surgery thing. My sleep hours are getting longer if not normal yet. The prickly feeling in my chest is going away slowly, from bottom to top. I've regained 5 of the 10 pounds I had dropped. Bring on the perogies!

In other words, it was time to have some life. We went into Toronto for a buzz-boost and were not disappointed.  Our Beach neighbourhood is green and blue and charming as ever, especially with take-out Chinese from the Goof. The downtown core is being dressed up with structures such as Sherbourne Common (art conceals waste water treatment), the Underpass Park (play area installed under the expressway), and the Yonge Street For People (two lanes of traffic replaced by greenery, outdoor patios, and space to stroll.

Grand iconic Maple Leaf Gardens has become half giant grocery store, half giant Ryerson U sports complex. A full size hockey rink in what used to be the air above the original hockey rink! Impressive creativity. Chinatown brings fond memories of last fall in China.  Yonge-Dundas Square has nightly musical surprises --- for us it was an itinerant  flute/guitar/violin troupe from Peru.

We're checking out places to stay downtown: this time it's about 280 sq. ft. of newly done studios above a furniture store/ballet school in the Little Italy/Chinatown/university area. Very mixed, very cool, very right for us. On our hour long walk we went by last night's Film Festival world premiere. Joshua Jackson and Marisa Tomei in Inescapable. Very Toronto, very Canadian to just walk up to the Hollywood celebs. Great buzz, just what the doctor didn't order but I like it!