Spent the weekend in Montreal. Met up w/2 of my friends from my summer in Quebec city. After downing too much caffeine at the hotel, we walked around, went to the Art Gallery (which I always love) and Olympic Park to the fantastic Oriental gardens and the Insectarium, where I held a Madagascar hissing cockroach, a millipede, a walking stick, and ( Read more... )

Ireland was amazing. clear, sunny skies, lots of time spent on white sand beaches (seriously). spent first 4 days solo in dublin w/day trip to belfast. did 7 day bus tour w/40 backpackers and a drunk guide and driver around the west and south sides. good times were had. saw many fasinating sights, so much history and natural beauty. will do the ( Read more... )

So its been a pretty good start of the week, (ack, keyboard doing odd things....) Who needs question marks anywaysÉ --see! So on Sunday, spent my usual 12 hours in transit en route home. Bus to ferry, ferry across, 2 more busses out to slurry Surrey, and thankfully Ben had his new car so we drove out to the Okanagan. Nothing like cruising around ( Read more... )

Heading back to Osoyoos today. Had a blast wandering around Victoria for the last couple of days with Angela. There's some Tall Ships event in the inner harbour, so there are sailors everywhere and these crazy boats w/"pirates" climbing up the masts all day long. Weather has been lovely so have spent each day shopping around downtown, seeing my ( Read more... )

Got into the thriving Abbotsford airport last night (w/flights to 15 (!) different cities...) On the way, got to fly over a thunderstorm in Alberta- couldn't see any lightning, but loved the idea of seeing an event from the opposite side. Me and Ben reverted to our UVic days, drinking crown and coke, eating greasy pizza and watching baaaaad tv. ( Read more... )

For tonights return to high school fun, I got ice cream and candy, ran around in the thunderstorm, and watched 10 things i hate about you (bargain at the cornerstore). My barbie hair pieces even stayed in through the rain...correction, my Gem and the Hollograms pink and red highlights ( Read more... )

movie, 1 word, 2 syllables, first syllable sounds like...lighter...shorter...lit...

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walking home at 3am, shwarma in hand, i pass a man, sitting crosslegged, surrounded by someone's trash. he holds up a pack of birth control pills, and asks me what the "golden pills" mean. i told him that he was fertile, and it pleased him. hmmm. whatever ( Read more... )

hahaha, went to watch the csi finale on andrea's tape, and she had taped NOOKIE! cuz she looooves fred

Everytime my friend Jenny comes down to T.O., we end up doing too many things and exhust ourselves. We hit up Chinatown and Kensington for loose teas and herbs for her store, then went looking for the raw food restaurant Live on Dupont. Surprisingly interesting food, amazing what a blender and food dehydrater can do ("pasta" "pizza" "thai noodle" ( Read more... )