I was bombing down kingsway in a drop top yellow volkswagon car.  It was my mom’s and she’d be proud I’d dropped the top on that sunny day.  Behind us was Burnaby and magazines for collages and ahead of us was a film about Banksy and a quick stop at the Met for a six pack of beers.  What’s Banksy without beers?  If you don’t know who Banksy is, check him out.  He’s in a new film called ‘Exit through the gift shop’ and he’s the guy Kris Kross were …

if you missed out on the starbucks frappuccino happy hour campaign, then that sucks for you.  $2 frappuccinos = awesome (don’t even pretend that you’re not gutted you missed out).

but this morning while i wait for yoga class to start, i needed to use the internet and so i popped into starbucks which (not surprisingly) was about 25 metres away from me.   i enquired into how many ’shots’ of coffee they put in their americanos.  apparently it depends on the size, so i asked for a ’short’ (the smallest) …

i have a big lump on my finger:

And it has been bothering me.

I don’t enjoy going to the doctor and I have adopted a ‘wait and see’ sort of attitude towards most ailments.  So far this hasn’t failed me and I have avoided a lot of hassle, waiting rooms and expenses by just waiting for my symptoms to subside.

So the first thing I did when I noticed my finger lump, was google it (obviously).  And so I’m pretty sure I have a terminal illness.

This is why the ‘wait and see’ …

You can’t really come to Canada and not get excited about ice hockey.

We first started watching it during the Olympics.  No doubt along with thousands of others, we become extreme hardcore die hard ice-hockey fans for two weeks.   And even though I grew up watching my brother play in NZ, I still found it near impossible to follow the puck, let alone the players or even to stay interested for the full 3 periods.

Oh how far I’ve come.

The Stanley Cup is like the biggest thing in the NHL.  The competition is …

I didnt’ actually take this photo. I forgot to take a picture of our food… so i found this one on someone else’s blog. you can visit his food blog here.

since when does it become normal for one to wait in line to eat brunch at a cafe?

if there’s is one thing i miss about enzed, it’s the abundance of good places to eat brunch. and not having to wait in line. and the good coffee. (so if it’s three things i miss about newzealand …