Fri was just chaos. For the uninformed, Toronto was under tornado warning yesterday. I didn't know we could even get those :P Anyway, that meant a thunderstorm. Mad amounts of rain and HAIL. It was insane.

First was my bro who just had to swing by his friend's house to pick up CDs or whatever nerdy thing he needed to get. He wanted to take the car but my mom wouldn't let him go if I didn't go with him. She doesn't trust his driving...which is justifiable cuz he's 17 and only has his G2 so far. Fine, I go along for the ride.

I can never ever be a drivin instructor cuz I just don't know how they do it. The fear and anxiety of young and new drivers behind the wheel! Well I had a few small but still unnecessary heart attacks. He's not the WORST driver but I don't like the feeling of not bein in control...esp of a movin vehicle.

Whatever, it wasn't that bad but then it started rainin and you couldn't see much. Thank goodness we made it home before it got really bad cuz I would've straight up pissed myself. I wouldn't even want to drive in that.

So we're on the way home and L calls to see if I want to come out with her and Darien. I'm like, sure. It's rainin harder now but it's still just water. She picks me up and as soon as we pull away from my house, it starts gettin baaaaad. By the time we reach Timmy's not even a min away, it was ridiculous. You couldn't see in front of you. We pulled into the parkin lot and decided not to get out of the car yet but wait til it died down a bit before we dashed to Timmy's. Well we waited a while but it only got worse. Big chunks of hail came down and battered L's car. It made so much noise like rocks pelting metal, on top of all the rain and we were just sittin there screamin, "FAAAAAAAAK!!!" Hahaha. Dar took pictures. Pure jokes. It was too funny...but a bit scary too cuz it felt like we were under attack and it was so loud. L got all paranoid when she heard it was a tornado warning on the radio and she's like, we're better off inside than in the car. I was all for sittin it out in the car but as it turns out, we would've been stuck in there for hrs cuz the rain just wouldn't stop.

L's stupid 2-door car, we had to get out individually. I opened the door to let Darien out before I could go and L had to wait til I was out so she could lock the car. Dar had the only umbrella so me and L were just gonna sprint. Dar got out and was behind me cuz he had to be away from the door so I could open it and come out. I just saw him strugglin with the umbrella and sayin, "How do you open this??" But I just ran, hahaha. Didn't matter anyway, we all got drenched in that 6 second dash. The front of Timmy's was like a broken dam cuz it had dipped and all the water was gushin down and brought the mud with it...I totally stepped all in it. We tried dryin off with the hand dryer in the bathroom but that just wasn't workin and we sat in Timmy's for a good while all wet.

When we were about to leave, we were semi-dry but had to go back out in it so we got soaked all over again. I'm talkin all the way to the skin, soaked. Goin out at all was such a bad idea! Haha. The roads were flooded by this point. They dropped me off and there was a car I didn't recognize in the driveway and some woman in the garage. I just assumed it was someone my parents knew or somethin, but it was some stranger whose car had stalled and my dad was callin someone for her. And the whole rest of that day was ppl goin in and out and phone calls, phone calls, phone calls. Cuz that lady had to get home or get her car outta there and shit, and my mom tried goin to work but the roads were flooded or closed and came back and kept havin to call work and ppl she carpooled. Then she left again later.

I took a shower and changed and it felt GOOD. I wasn't goin out in that shit again last night :P What freaky ass weather.

Agh, this day has been stressful. Let's just not talk about it...except that ppl and technology can REALLY test me. And it's ALWAYS when it's that time of the month and makes it that much worse!

Job interview today. Guess it went alright. At least that's another thing crossed off the list, cuz I wasn't lookin forward to it at all. Then I picked up L and we went to the mall for a bit and I got in a better mood when she bought me ice cream :)

Yesterday was fun tho. Me, G, L, and Darien went down to Yorkville to shop. Well, window-shop cuz no one can really afford anythin from that area :P Actually, Darien did buy a pricey watch but that was from The Bay. We had some interesting sales woman who we had quite a convo with and joked around and thought we were drunk from a "liquid lunch". Dar doesn't get out much, let alone get to do the tourist-y things downtown so it was some day out for him. It was cool to go browse around Holt Renfrew and Aritzia and such stores knowin full well that I wouldn't be buyin a damn thing. At least we didn't get snubbed by the sales associates cuz we didn't look like potential customers! We were decently dressed, shades on, smoothies in hand, haha. We went lookin for dress shirts and stuff for Dar. I don't think I've ever gone shoppin with a guy, for the guy. Dar's so metrosexual, I love it :) And we were this close to gettin him to buy this very pink shirt.

We went back uptown and hit STC cuz someone needed somethin at the mall, I don't remember what. The mind is goin. Then we went for dinner at Milestone's. We taught Dar a lot more about North American culture and he taught us more British sayings and whatnot. Good times. He was feelin down the day before and we stayed up talkin on MSN for a while. But I'm not allowed to talk about that! Plus it's really long and complicated as always. Hence, the hr-somethin conversation I had with Al on the phone.

And speakin of problems with friends...yeah, that last thing was about P. I still haven't gotten to talk to her yet but L said that P told her that her cell was messed up so she wouldn't know if we tried to call or not this week anyway :P Shhhhh.

Now if only these damn cramps would leave me alone!

• Fish's friend's supposed house party
• Ecko Fest - I cannot BELIEVE it! I'm purposely omitting the details
• Preview screening of a film festival-entry movie "The Pretender"...ready for the 6 degrees of separation? G's sister's (Sarah) bf's (Alan) brother produced it...or was directly involved with it somehow, I still don't know :P The movie itself was just alright, the sound was absolute shit and it was kinda boring at some parts but hey, it's an indie film. And G paid for my ticket :) I was lookin at it and thought that the cast looked familiar. Bein a local production, I figured one or all of them must've been in some Canadian program somewhere. Then while I was watchin the movie, I realized that one of the main characters was a girl who was in my theatre class! So weird! I saw the credits in the beginning but I didn't put 2 and 2 together cuz it had her as Penelope and I knew her as Penny. And I recognized one of the guys in the movie from a beer commercial :P I also saw Kevin from my film class in line. They had a cast and crew session after the movie and had a prize raffle. I missed it by one number for a set of Oscar-winning movies on DVD like Cold Mountain, A Beautiful Mind, Bowling for Columbine, and such. Justin won it! Haha
• Went out to dinner
• Watched first-round Rogers Cup tennis...some blonde and brunette. Don't really remember their names, they were both Russian but played for France and Croatia. The blonde/Frenchie won in 2 sets. Monica Seles were there after cuz they were doin some tribute to her
• I was gonna drop in at the Ice Gardens cuz I think Charles was workin that night at the bar and the Ice Gardens was across the Rexall Centre where the tennis was on the campus...but I didn't

More of a expression of opinion than a description of what I've done over the weekend, so I'm writin this one out...you know how you can tell a friendship is startin to crack, you can just feel it? And it's more likely to crack even more than it is to mend itself? I'm scared of that, it upsets me...and I can see it happenin. I hate that feelin when you know somethin's wrong but you don't know what it is...like it's bringin you down cuz it's in the back of your mind and you can't be happy cuz you know it's there. I just don't understand when ppl are the way they are sometimes. Grr...irrational.