Gorgeous Chicken No Less

I went to a new hair salon to faithfully follow my hair stylist. He now works at Essensuals on Richards near Robson. Great salon and fantastic staff. I went to Rainbow Flowers on Main Street to pick up some flowers and stopped by work. At work, Saturdays are Pub Day. I visited with some clients, requested Johnny Cash from the band, and drank ginger ale with the ladies.

I went to Shiro for sushi on Cambie Street with D&M. No short of awesome. The place is owned and staffed by wonderful Japanese people.

We started discussing traveling to Asia. They want to travel through Asia for a few months. I started thinking about going to Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

D&M showed me the Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show.



Apparently, I passed some kind of test.


We also watched a Japanese aerobic English Learning instructional video.

 

Love Like Blah

Love this polar bar drain stopper.



Like all things bacon--including but not limited to this bacon scarf, bacon bra, bacon diet coke, bacon band-aids, and mall art.

Like that I just signed up for an account at LastFM. You can listen to your favourite artists and recommended similar artists. I like it so far, but easily become bored of stations. I like how you can skip artists and songs you dislike.

Listening to: Planet Funk - Rosa Blue

 

Kodak Gallery Review

Blah. Well, I ordered some calendars as gifts for Xmas and I made one for myself. The binding coil that holds the pages together comes out all the time. I have to constantly rebuild it every time I turn a month page. Argh.

I also printed a batch of photos at their sale price of $0.15. Great deal. On the second batch, someone noticed my friends print their name or logo on the bottom. So, Kodak Gallery refused to print this batch unless I had signed waivers from every photographer.

I canceled my order and decided to buy a Costco card. Costco lets you print photos at the regular price of $0.15.

I think January is officially off the calendar.

Community Is Everything

This past weekend, I went up to Whistler with 21 other people to celebrate a friend's 40th birthday. We rented two 4-bedroom townhomes at the top of a winding road. We soaked in hot tubs, dined on french toast, bacon, ebelskivers, Indian curries and rice, and prime roast, danced, laughed, and sang. It was a great, relaxing weekend amongst some really great people. I think I am finally out of my winter fog. I have the sparkle back in my eyes.




In Burien, the Seattle burners and Ignition Northwest have created a public art space featuring The Passage from Burning Man. B/IAS (Burien Interim Art Space) was officially opened and celebrated this past weekend in South Seattle. The art structure will be open to the public for one year.

Listening to: Eurythmics - Miracle of Love

 

Foggy Dew

There has been a lot of fog hovering over Vancouver for the past few weeks.




Last week, I watched BBC's Blue Planet first disc Ocean World and Frozen Seas. It was immensely good to watch while doing yoga.

I also watched an Lebanese film Caramel, and a fantastic British dramedy Death At A Funeral.

I started watching Weeds. I was hooked after the first episode. Mary Louise Parker is incredible as a Suburban widow trying to support her family as a pot dealer.

My Canon S400 bit the dust after five years. It keeps giving a Memory card error. I replaced the battery thinking it would fix the problem. But it hasn't. I guess it is time to buy a new digital camera.

I got a funky new Tokidoki Messenger Bag designed by Italian artist Simone Legno. My pattern is way cooler. Ha! If my camera worked, I could take a picture of it. Pft.

Listening to: Don Henley - Boys of Summer

 

The Woman

A Softer World




Listening to: Electric Six - Infected Girls

 

Hello Goodbye

Long week, although I was sick at the beginning of it. I feel exhausted and I am not even taking a class this semester. I am eating leftover cold organic steak and thinking about steamed edamame. My new favourite thing is Tetley Summerberry & Rosehip tea with Chilliwack River Wildflower Honey.

We went for a nice walk at lunch to Main & 26th Avenue with JD. We went to Sawasdee Thai for lunch for yummy Phad Thai. This is my favourite Thai restaurant hands-down. Great lunch specials and service that is authentic.

Most of the snow in Kitsilano has melted, but there still are grayish peaks all along mid-Main Street.




I finished reading Prozac Nation. I thought it would be more hipster-contemporary. It was more like reading a young woman's journal while she copes with manic-depression. Not an enthralling book.

I really enjoyed Christopher Moore's You Suck. A tragedy with sarcastic under tones about two young vampires in San Francisco. The book was hilarious and I could not put it down.

I tried to find some used second-year Psychology texts to read for fun. Knowledge is Queen you know. No such luck. I could not sell my old text books either (even at half price).

Not sure what to do this weekend. I usually have to teeter-totter between chores and homework. What ever will I do? Sushi and The Spirit anyone?

Listening to: Frou Frou - Breath In

Happy End of the Year

Well, welcome to 2009. I spent New Year's with a small group of good friends to ring in the new year. We gathered at a friend's place, made dinner, and then joined the Skytrain Party. We just missed the train by two minutes, so we had to rendezvous with the party train in Burnaby.

The party filled up two joined Millennium Train cars. The Carnival Band played as we danced and sang. We sang Morning Train, counted down from 10 and yelled Happy New Year at each stop, and finished our finale at Waterfront Station.

We returned to the house to continue the festivities. It was great to connect with everyone, some of which I had not seen since the end of summer.

I would like to wish everyone good health, prosperity and happiness for 2009!