Happy day after boxing day!

2010 is it. Get ready for it. It's on like Donkey Kong this year. I mixed in sugar and spice into my 2010 batter and it tastes sooo good.

Happy Aniversary Tania!

Wow, it's been a year since we last visited Ireland. If it were up to me, we would be back making new memories. Too bad my bank account doesn't feel the same.

It just came to my attention that Tanialasvegas hasn't stopped her creative writting, keep up the good work, try and mention me more. So vein.

Colombia in on the brain, my co-worker is booked and ready to go in February 2010, she's stupidly waiting for me to make a quick decisions. She'll learn quickly.
Planning takes time, especially going to a destination where tourists are not well known.
A t-shirt has already been made, saying 'my parent's don't have money' this way a Colombian doesn't try and snatch me/her up, keep us captive in hopes that there is some kind of cash reward. Smart. I'll take that in a Medium, please.

Keep you posted.

Tania, throw your hands up xoxox

Has it been a year already?

It's time to make new memories. New trips. New fun. New stores. Most of my family is going to Europe in 2010 and I am determined (well, not totally determined) to join.

I won the contest

Those pesky Bell telemarketers folded. Perseverance will always reward you. Take my advice - don't answer those 14 daily mind-numbing phone calls. It will end in 31 days.

I'm a success story.

Peace owt

to Dawn Diggler and T-dot. Off to Toronto they go, with their lives packed up and stacked up in a Uhaul. Be safe, friends.

Green Monsters

I have recently become obsessed with Green Monster smoothies. I was turned on to them a few days ago and have had one everyday since. Spinach and kale as a base? Who knew? I sure didn't. I also made my first chia seed pudding to enjoy post-run. Sounds gross, right? It's so good! It tastes like tapioca, I think. I've never had tapioca, but I imagine this is how it would taste.

Slow and steady wins the race

I'm in a race against Bell telemarketers to see who will break first. I have successfully evaded upwards of 85 of their calls over the course of three weeks. How long will it be before they give up? I know they will eventually because this is not my first time at the rodeo. Just like the front door, I don't answer.

Tania says

- I still have the replacement FOB. I haven't lost it yet (again). I quit my trainer temporarily - maybe he was behind me losing my FOB?

- Motherland '09 came and went without us. I saw photos of Mickey Rourke lapping it up on the beaches of Croatia and felt pangs of envy. Following that, my cousin who lives there posted photos of her and her friends frolicking in the beaches. Of course, it's heavenly. Next year you are mine, Motherland '10.

- Enjoyed a few giggles over Kelly's lost-in-translation tattoo experience. Kelly - today I came across the notebook where I wrote T. Kelaher in cursive for Andor, trying to get the point across. somehow his interpretation of that was gang lettering.

- Have yet to wear that bad-ass dress I bought in Belfast from Zara. I have worn it around my apartment.

- Blood pudding really has blood and other ungodly parts in there. Check for this at your next traditional Irish breakfast.

- I no longer think it's weird that the Bristish Airways steward tucked me in when I fell asleep. It was sweet, just like those portable dvd players we each got.

- I've been thinking about doing a work placement camp, but I'm concerned about my safety. Need to find out that likelihood that it's a front and I'll be recruited into some unsavory underworld.

Holding it down.

Upside down. That's the wear to dry your hair a bit before you start the straightening process. The women know what I'm talking about. Why did men get let off so easy in the grooming department?

I'm on my 3rd

FOB now. No, wait - 4th. I shelled out the 100 bones for it. Wasn't the 50$ I thought it was. I can be careless with my things. I am also a target for game-playing spririts and thieves because many of my things frequently go missing and I know it's not me.

Look

I'm doing it again. Nothing to say.

Oh wait, yes - I am vacationing this week in Ottawa. Exactly.

Tania says

why am I updating when I have nothing to say?

I found Ricky Gervais' blog and guess what, I'm obsessed.

Motherland and Friends '09

Early stages...it's all talk right now....

Motherland = Cro
Friends = Turkey and Greece

I'm stepping my international travel game way up.

...and here's hoping it's not all talk and no action. No one like a fraud.

Real World Labelle

Blueberry Lake was a slice. Bomb chalet, fantastic company, ridiculous food and enough belly laughs to harm a small child. The weather was perfect for sitting inside. I had big dreams of going snow-shoeing (until I discovered that they're not those fun tennis rackets - more like half-skis), cross-country skiing (until it started raining) and tubing (until the weather turned brutal and windy). Instead, I was part of the quartet that drove down the mountain into the town of Labelle in search of tonic water, milk, frosted pink lipstick, toothbrushes, crazy glue, contact solution and joke fodder. We found all of that and more.

It was a weekend of firsts - played proper pool (proper = not using my hands), tried pomegranate vodka, and started a fire (in the fireplace). I'm a big girl now.

Fats Domino

found his thrill on Blueberry Hill and this weekend I'll find mine at Blueberry Lake. A select group of us are packing it up and taking the party to Blueberry Lake, spending the weekend at a luxury chalet. If you recall from my experience flying first class to London, I've stepped my lifestyle up and will only partake in A+ events. Yeah, right! The weekend will involve outdoor activities (like steaming our pores in the hot tub and building snow forts), eating like kings and queens and dressing up in 80's cast-offs. Hotness.

Lost again

This time it's my FOB. This is the second (or third?) time I've misplaced it and I refuse to shell out another 50$ for a replacement. It's really because I'm too embarrassed to call the condo corp again and tell them I need another replacement.

I wouldn't normally care, but I use the gym there to work out. So much for that.

Lost and found

I found my swipe card. It had fallen behind my desk...wedged between the filing cabinet and wall. Someone pushed it back there and it wasn't me. The papers strewn across my desk are like little Gremlins and I wouldn't put it past them to grow arms and mischievously hide the card where I sure as hell would never find it.

Also found in the same location was the temporary card I had to get while I searched high and low for my own.

Swipe card still at large

But I have found a particular hair clip that has been missing in action for a while. It was on the floor by my computer, probably exactly where I dropped it many moons ago.

Now if only the two waterproof Revlon eyeliners, NARS lipgloss and MAC lipglass would reveal themselves. Oh and my HBC points card. Seriously, where does this stuff go? My place isn't big and I use one handbag. I should tie these items to my wrist with string - for sure I'll never misplace them again.