2007 Is the Year of the Moustache??

So last night I took out my friend Nanz for her birthday to Rodney's Oyster House which I love love love... It is one of my more favourite restaurants in Vancouver because whenever I'm there, I don't feel like I'm in the city. I feel like I'm away somewhere tropical & I can forget that it is pouring rain outside (although yesterday was gorgeous... cold & windy but gorgeous) and it also helps that food rocks (and last time I was there with Princess Nalini we spent the entire meal letching the waiter... sad but true).

Last night was insanely busy. We had to wait for about 10-15 minutes for a table when all I wanted to sit at the bar because it usually is the most fun but that too was jam packed. As I surveyed the crowd, I noticed at the front bar is Vancouver's own Tom Selleck look alike. (I'm not kidding, totally looks like him. Nanz commented that he knows it too and it apparently that makes 2 people in the world that can pull off that moustache. I think it's because they have the eyebrows to match.... balances out the hair).

I actually met Tom's Twin back in November at an anniversary party for Palladio, a jewellery store downtown owned by my friend. It was a pretty standard anniversary party. Wine was flowing, people were mingling and the jewellery was being offered at a discount to friends and loyal customers. Brutal herself was contemplating a watch that evening. Whilst standing at the counter, we started talking to Tom's twin who also was contemplating an $8000 watch. He was usure of the purchase so I looked at him and asked "What would Burt do?".... Don't know if he heard me but I was reluctant to REALLY yell that out. (Also because I ripped that line off from the movie 'Ed').

So Nanz and I giggled over our wine as I told her that story and also over the many things that we've been through together in our 24 year friendship. Both of us couldn't believe that we've known each other since our fateful meeting in the first day of grade three. Nor could we believe that it's gone by so fast.

I realized then that I have known her longer then I had known my own mother and for whatever reason felt I was without family unaware of the fact it is escaping me that I've known my dad & brother for some thirty *cough* years. (Yea, now I hide my age, if you've been paying attention at all you would have done the math... but Nanz IS older............. and a cougar. ha ha!).