for supper today we made this pretty fantastic broccoli and cauliflower casserole. it had a cheese sauce and crumb topping and had real parmesan cheese - the kind you buy one rock solid hunk at a time, not the stuff that you shake out of the canister onto your pasta. man it was goooood. along with it a simple store bought chicken that will be ( Read more... )

tuesday night i go to bed at a reasonable hour, and set my alarm for 7.45 the next morning. i have a decent sleep, but struggle getting up in the morning, hitting snooze and lazing around in bed for a bit ( Read more... )

i just got back from the JLC where i saw Chicago. it was was fantastic, and made me wish that i could dance and sing so that people would clap for me ( Read more... )

so it's been a while. this is due to the fact that i'm busy, but there's not a lot going on. so there's not enough time to write about what's not going on in my life :-) work has been work. slow during the week but insane on weekends. thankfully i don't have to experience the madness that is saturday night; just working friday is more than enough ( Read more... )

for lunch yesterday, we made salmon. but not just any ol' boring salmon. mediterranean salmon. with balsamic vinegar, basil and cilantro. and then we made fancy couscous to go with it. it also had the basil and cilantro, plus sundried tomatoes, green onions and beacoup d'ail. oh man it was so good. i was a little uncertain at first, not quite sure ( Read more... )

i was watching the news this morning and they had all this talk about puppies in toronto that had rabies. it reminded me of way back in the day when we first moved here, and henk and i went to the barn and saw this cat that was doing all these weird things. i think i remember it just running in circles for a long time. we told our parents and i ( Read more... )

my hair is currently in a french braid and i'm pretty excited!!! i went to get it cut (well, trimmed. she took off less than 1.5cm i think?) this morning and i think she got sick of blow drying my giant mass of hair. so she stopped when it was about 75% dry and started to braid it. i thought about protesting, since i thought i was paying for a cut ( Read more... )

we just got back from the grocery store, originally just to get a few things and not spend too much cash. surprise surprise, it added up fast, and we ended up spending around $100. how are groceries so expensive!?!? it makes me mad. on the plus side, we have enough to last us a while, and hopefully the only thing we'll have to get in the next two ( Read more... )

so niagara came and went, and was over all too quickly. the hotel was grand, with a lovely hot breakfast buffet in the morning that was included in the package (french toast!! omelette's made to order!!) a huge tub in our room, and a complimentary shuttle around the falls area. which was NICE, considering it was -20 and then some with the windchill ( Read more... )

this was from yesterday afternoon.
but then the internetting crapped out. so here it is!

so Christmas has come and gone. it always flies by way to fast and before you really get to let it sink in it's all gone. BUT now there's a whole brand spankin' new year to look forward to. it's going to hold my parent's 25th anniversary (and the big party that ( Read more... )