My Life As You Know It

Okay here goes: - Wallet - Sunglasses in case - 2 packets of Gum - Both Mint of some kind - Coach change purse with MAC Lipglass in Viva Glam VI, MAC Lipstick in Dubonet and C.O. Bigalow Lemon Lip Cream - Numerous recipts - Blue Ant Bluetooth ear piece - Sephora foldong mirror - 1 pen - Lululemon change purse with Gift cards for Lululemon, Sephora and Starbucks - HUMPHREY! - My Camera - Knitting needles (size 8) and 2 balls of yard (I went on a road trip this weekend) - Jar of Advil liqui-gels - Bus passes - Feminine products. - Bic ballpoint pen - Blue - Cheque book - Card for my husb's nephew that I need to mail... Whoops!  That's it!  :D

This is a tough one for me, as I am a Virgo and I am incredibly critical of myself and as far as I am concerned all my habits are bad ha ha ha.  But maybe that in itself is my worst habit.  I put myself down ALL THE TIME!  I am so so so critical of myself it's ridiculous. Nothing is ever good enough for me.  I can never reach high enough and I can never do good enough.  There is rarely an occasion when I am comfortable saying something positive about myself, and I know that is bad.  A few years ago after I got the rug pulled out from underneath me by an ex-boyfriend my Dad made me go see a therapist and she tried to make me say three good things about myself and I almost couldn't do it.  In the end I told her what she wanted to hear and never went back.  I felt stupid. I have tried to figure out where all this negativity comes from, but I can sort of understand where my lack of confidence comes from.  I was teased incessantly as a child....

I am veto-ing this post and inserting another topic - My favourite cartoon as a child. My favourite cartoon character was Rainbow Brite . That girl had it all; great friends, cute sprites and a rad horse .  I used to collect the dolls and I had RB and Lala Orange .  I got the latter one at my Mom's work Christmas party.  I was so excited, and a little jealous of the girl who got the Patty O'Green doll (looking back I realize that Lala had WAY better fashion sense.) Oh man I loved this show!  I loved it so so much as a kid that my aunt made me a Rainbow Brite cake for my birthday.  She worked for hours on that thing.  I am pretty sure that it looked a bit like this: So it was pretty labour intensive.  The problem was that we never got to eat it cause the servers of the restautraunt that we went to dropped it on the floor, and then tried to feed it to us.  Needless to say my family was so pissed we all packed up and left.  I...

7:30 - My husband gets up 7:45 - My husband kisses me goodbye 8:00 - My alarm goes off 8:30 - I actually get up, do my makeup, get dressed 8:45 - Feed the dog and take her out to go potty 9:00 - Make Lunch  - Spinach salad with carrots and red peppers, strawberry yogurt, an apple and a tangelo... Oh and about 12 dark chocolate m&ms 9:10 - Eat breakfast - Cheeios 9:20 - Take the dog out again 9:45 - Put dog in her playpen and leave 9:50 - Clean up the playpen after puppy goes poop just to spite me 9:55 - FINALLY get into the car and head to work 10:15 - get gas (Petro Canada) 10:30 - Get to work (get a SWEET parking spot) 10:35 - Get to my cubicle and boot up my computer 10:40  - Figure out my Internet isn't working, check all the cables, reboot my computer then head off to find the IT wizards 10:45 - IT wizards no where to be found 10:50 - start trying to work only to realize that EVERYTHING I do needs Internet 10:55 - Go...

I live in a cute town in the crappiest province in the first nation of hockey.  (I would argue it's the greatest country in the world!) Canada is pretty much summed up as follows: "Hey, I'm not a lumberjack, or a Fur trader, and I don't live in an igloo, or eat blubber or own a dogsled. And I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada, although I'm certain they're really, really nice. I have a prime minister... not a president, I speak English and French, not American and I pronounce it About, not A-boot. I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack, I believe in peacekeeping, not policing, diversity not assimilation, and that the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal. A toque is a hat, a chesterfield is a couch, and it IS pronounced Zed, not Zee... ZED!! Canada is the 2nd largest land mass, the 1st nation of hockey, and the best part of North America. My name is Joe... and...I......AM......CANADIAN! Than...

Whoops so I fell asleep at like 8 last night, so I didn't post... oh well I am going to cheat and fake the date so no one will know... So my Youtube video is a clip of one of my FAVE shows Top Gear.  It's awesomeness will speak for itself. (The real magic is at 7:16 - classic Top Gear)

Okay so this one was actually pretty easy for me!  I visit foodnetwork.ca RELIGIOUSLY!  I love to cook and bake and so this is where I turn where I want to get creative. I love that whenever I need inspiration I have thousands of recipes at my fingertips!  I'm not afraid to make pizza dough, risotto and fondant au chocolat cause now I can just watch a video when I get stuck! My favourite hosts are Laura Calder of French Food at Home and Giada !  :) I would love to be a food network host, but I lack the culinary training to make everything look easy.  Maybe I'll try one day and post my creation here. hmmmmmmmm.