De-Sensitized.

I had a little over a week off from work. I go back tonight. Most of my time off from work was spent right here in front of my computer. Sitting and thinking. You see, most of my time away from here isn't spent alone. It's spent with my Mom. Most everywhere I go and anything that I do, my Mom is with me. Pretty much every time I go out to eat somewhere my Mom is with me. When I go shopping, my Mom is with me. When I go out to the beach/lake, my Mom is with me. I don't feel that I can exclude my Mom from accompanying me when I go places. However, from to time, I just need to break free and go places by myself. It's not that I don't like my Mom or that we don't get along, I just need time alone. That is part of the reason I have scheduled my trip to Toronto with my best friend in October. It'll be the first time we've ever gone on vacation together. Kind of a "Guys Weekend" away. While I go out to dinner with my Mom a lot, I don't ever pick restaurants to eat dinner at that solely appeal to me. Can't very well say to Mom, "Why don't we go to Hooter's for dinner tonight?" So, after booking the trip to Toronto I set out to find various restaurants that would satisfy the requirements for a "Guys Weekend" away. In other words, restaurants that were nice, but not too fancy and places where the food on the menu sounded good and the atmosphere of the restaurant looked fun. Three places I bookmarked were "Grace O'Malleys", "Irish Embassy Pub-Grill" and "Baton Rouge Restaurant and Bar". These are 3 restaurants that I intend to have some form of lunch or dinner at while in Toronto. Am I looking more and more forward to getting away for these 4 days in October. In the meantime, I have bought tickets to next Saturday's Tigers game in Detroit against the Tampa Bay Rays.