-39 Celcius

Aboot Canadians

You may live in Canada if...

If your local ice cream shop is closed from September through May.
If someone in a Home Depot offers you assistance and they don't work there.
If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time.
If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number.
If 'vacation' means going anywhere south of Detroit for the weekend.
If you measure distance in hours.
If you know several people who have hit a deer.
If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day and back again.
If you can drive 90 km/hr through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching.
If you install security lights on your house and garage but leave both unlocked.
If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
If the speed limit on the highway is 70 km, you're going 95 and
everybody is passing you.
If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.
If you have more kms on your snow blower than your car.
If you find -2 degrees 'a little chilly'.

Jeff Foxworthy (?)




Tail part 3 (Winter Ed)

Cover 13: Lovesong

the cure


adele

Blue Monday

Apparently the 3rd Monday of January is the most depressing day of the year. Shorter days, cold weather, a pile of Christmas bills, the feeling of failure from unfulfilled New Year's resolutions... It all piles up...

My Blue Monday was indeed gloomy because I spent it at the hospital! Ever since I fainted last weekend, I've been having chest pains that reached their peak Sunday night. Monday morning was bitter cold (-30C), and as I was watching the steam rise up from the St-Lawrence from my window seat on the bus, the pressure in my chest felt scary. Once I arrived at work I called an ambulance to take me to the hospital where I spent all day having tests done: 2 blood tests, 2 ECGs, I drank novocain (!), peed in a cup, and had x-rays taken. Thankfully all results came back normal, so it's nothing serious. So what's causing this tightening crushing feeling in my chest?!

Maybe it's a combination of things: stress from work, feeling worried/sad about Tony moving to Denver next week, winter blues, lack of exercise... Maybe all I needed was a mental health day or 2...

Will Ricky Be Banned?

Ricky Gervais

This Weekend (Tues/Wed)

- Fainting & throwing up in public, 911 being called!

- A little pampering, a few beauty treatments
- Pizza, mojitos, beers, and too much fun!
- Greasy breakfast, burrow driving, coffee at Shaika & the McCord Museum
- Great memories of the (al)most perfect weekend with my Tony <3

Capable Of Greatness

Cat Behaviour part 2

Tru Dat!

Neil Pasricha: The 3 As of awesome

The 3 As of awesome

Attitude: Chose to move forward when times are tough.

Awareness: Take the time to appreciate the small wonders found in the world around you.

Authenticity: Stay true to yourself.

Cat Behaviour

What The... !?!

James is that you?!

7:00am Driving Tunes

sol winds


fires in the distant north

rinoa

(Video) Cover 12: Monster

kanye west


the muppets

A Digital Park Bench

The Sartorialist

This Weekend

- Spinning: the last interval training with J-L & sweatfest with Ben for the next 2 months :(

- Drinks with my baby T at la Distillerie

the architekt- arms and sleepers

- Deep fried gewy sesame incrusted heavenly red bean buns (more like donuts)!!

Beats part 7.5

Though I'm forced to listen to Virgin Radio (a station I hate for everything it stands for/plays) all day everyday at work, I'm kinda loving this song when it comes on:


like a g6- far east movement ft the cataracs

Beats part 7

time and space- groove armada


erosion- vibrasphere


progress in happiness- kick bong

7 Billion

AHWOSG

I just finished re-reading Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. This was a memoir that I had read almost 10 years ago, and it had made such an impression on me that I have been declaring it as one of my favorite books of all time. Re-reading it after so many years though, my feelings about the book have changed... It's almost as if it has lost its charm. Maybe I just grew up, and certain things that may have impressed me in my youth no longer have that much impact or relevance anymore.

Youtube-ing the author, wanting to post a clip of maybe an excerpt of a reading, I found this:



I can't wait to read Zeitoun, a book that I'm sure will leave me with my original belief that Dave Eggers is one of the best authors of all time...