  (written thursday night. ) (pics are at the urlLink photo album . click on "miscellaneous party pictures. ") i'm slightly buzzed right now. imbibed a glass of white wine and a martini in a great night toasting mona's pending departure from the fold, from the sex and the city gang .
i remember meeting my two girls mona and vinnie in summer school. i had just returned from toronto and was totally frustrated with being in halifax. i didn't want to make friends to tie me to this dumpy town. mona took the initiative and asked me to be her partner for chemistry lab while i would have rathered do the labs alone. and we all laugh about how i was such an ice queen and otherwise how much more angsty we were a whole five years ago to this summer. how we perceive time is so relative! five years is an awfully long period of time but they seem to have flown by. somehow we all got our bachelors and (for the most part, for the moment) our master's as well. it was invaluable to have the girls on the same path i was on. but really, thinking about how much we changed... we mellowed, shared our dreams and desires, partied together, laughed together and cried together. tonight we went to urlLink fireside ( urlLink review follows) to toast mona's job and to send her off in style. she always gets the best turn out because you can't help but come to love her! bye-bye mona! we'll miss you intensely while you are in sunny california!!
the fireside meal.... i started off with a glass of their cheapest house wine (jost) at 3.95 a glass. i'm not a conoisseur and i was able to daintily sip at it so it was all good.... vinnie and i both ordered tarragon chicken crepes with which you have a choice between caesar or spinach salad.
i chose my usual spinach salad. 9.95 for the entree. it was good. the salad was okay, they were accomodating and paid careful attention to those of us who didn't want bacon bits for various reasons. the crepes were delish with not-too-rich tarragon sauce over two crepe rolls filled with tender and moist chicken and peppers. we ordered an assortment of martinis (5.95 each). mona got banana split, i got sour apple (vodka, melon liqueur, and amaretto), vinnie got blue stride (milky, blue, and you can hardly taste the alcohol), and i don't know what tammy's was called again.
it was lip-smackingly yummy and truly appropriate on a girl's night out . three of us ordered chocolate concoctions (regular-sized for 3.95), desserts to drool over even though they aren't particularly novel. it is really the perfect size, a slice of brownie, heated, with a small scoop of vanilla ice cream and a generous dollop of whipped cream. urlLink read more.... 
