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so I was all excited about the upcoming weekend, friends coming to visit from thunder bay, last minute halloween costume wrangling, but then the following happened: ( honestly, this is kind of gross, don't say I didn't warn you ) |
dude... just found these shoes on amazon.com, selling for $99:
I bought the exact same pair a few months ago at winners for $25. Um, that's all. |
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In Winnipeg now! the apartment is great. I'm not super excited about the colour of the walls, but it's really spacious, great location. I haven't bought my car yet, but I spent all of yesterday taking the bus around doing errands - what a pain. |
Just found out earlier today - my paper was accepted for publication in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology!!! Sort of shocked, as I thought they were going to turn it down, but so happy!
Plus, I had a fun day hanging out with my mom and grandma. We went to the valley. The apple blossoms were in full view and GORGEOUS. We also went to Tangled garden", which I had read about a few years ago in Canadian house and home, or a similar magazine. Gorgeous garden, and such a lovely house. We ended up getting some ginger lime thyme jelly. yummy. I love my grandma, she is such a sweetie! I don't get to see her often enough, it's been about 3 years, I think.
And... graduating on friday! |
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So my mom and grandma both flew in from taiwan to see me graduate (on friday). got in last night. so happy they could make it. we haven't really done much - it was raining and cold today, and they were both jetlagged. my mom bought 5 lbs of mussels, which I think is a bit excessive. we boiled them up and ate half of them today, and I realize now that I don't really like mussels. ugh.
tomorrow I think we might drive down to the beach, or peggy's cove or something.
May. 23rd, 2006 @ 03:09 am
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a really interesting blog post about the use of counterpoint in pop music.
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May. 19th, 2006 @ 10:03 pm
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Photobucket is not very user friendly... was getting annoyed with this.
Vancouver pics
May. 19th, 2006 @ 08:51 pm
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Vancouver was lots of fun. We mostly ate a lot, slept a lot (for some reason, I was tired all week, and took multiple naps per day most days), and did lots of shopping.
Arrived Tuesday mid day. J picked me up from the airport - yay! Got to the house we were subletting - very cute house with a great kitchen facing south into the backyard - so much sun, what a great room.
Sort of in the south main street area, not sure what that area is called. Very close to QE park, very cute residential neighbourhood. I was tired, so I took a nap while E and J chatted in the kitchen. Then we went to Granville Island and T&T, this asian supermarket, to pick up some things for dinner. Had clam linguine - love e's linguine, seared ahi tuna, sugar snap peas, string beans and peppers, and these huge shrimp fried in garlic.
Wednesday - took it easy. Played frisbee at kitsilano beach. J taught me how to properly throw forehand, and I was sort of getting the hang of it by the end. This guy had lost his cell phone near where we were playing - had apparently left it there a few min before we arrived, and kept walking around near us. He prob thought we had stolen it. bleh. We of course did not. We helped him look for it for a bit. Went home and made butternut squash soup (ok, E made it). Got some bubble tea at Dragon bubble tea with D - I think that's what it's called. I think it's on King Edward drive, and it's really popular - it was packed. I got this brewed fruit tea, which I remembered having in Taiwan and loving (herbal fruit tea with some berries floating around in the bottom), but this fruit tea was terrible - they pretty much brewed orange juice and had random fruit chunks floating around. Not good. E said it tasted sort of like vomit - and yeah, he was right. Just because it was so warm and acidic. Gross. That really turned me off that drink. Then we drove downtown and walked around Coal Harbour down to english bay and back. On the walk back, the moon had this dark halo all around it, I don't remember seeing anything like that before. It was so weird, we were just walking and gawking with our heads bent up looking towards the sky for most of the walk back.
Thursday - left for Seattle in the morning with E and J. They're both guys, but they really like shopping... it's kind of weird, but I can't complain. They're power shoppers, I can't believe how fast they do it. I guess I'm kind of slow - prob average for a girl. bleh. Went to the outlet mall on the way, and got some things at L'Occitane, including this great linen covered box meant to hold candles, some shea butter, and almond hand cream (lots of great deals, unfortunately, none of their fab hand cream in the silver tubes). Got a pair of nine west shoes for work that I've been wanting for awhile. Then we hit up two nordstrom racks before dinner at Brasa, which has half priced bar food from 5 - 7. Got about 9 dishes between the 3 of us, including paella, a curry fish stew, these fantastic really tender squid. And Spanish donuts! holy crap they're good! So bad for you but oh, oh so good. Stayed at the crowne plaza downtown, thanks to a cheap rate from priceline.
Friday - more shopping. Went to a couple places downtown - the diesel store, anthropologie, where I got this pretty bottle of perfume, and TBC, which gets last season's things from Sway and cake, a boutique in town. TBC was great. Got a splendid wrap top for $12 and a gorgeous gold hawk cami, which normally sell here in halifax for $170 I think, for $20. Went to the remaining area nordstrom racks on the way home. Nordstrom rack is pretty good, wish we had them here. They have great designer jeans. Their shoe section, though, is SUCH a disaster - shoes everywhere, all over the floor. Got the best pair of purple pumas for $40 though - so cute. Also, a cute cotton tie halter tank and a teal short sleeved sweater for work from the ann taylor outlet. Went to target - got a cute silver necklace with a thin silver circle. We drove home that evening, but I hadn't realized that since we were there for less than 48 hours, we only had like, a $50 exemption each. I was sort of sweating, but thank goodness we had no problems crossing the border.
Saturday - dim sum at Kirin with E, J and their friend W. Excellent dim sum. Had this dark, inky black sesame seed soup for dessert. Then in the evening, we went for dinner with J's parents, aunt, uncle and cousin at a neighbourhood cantonese place - they had tvs mounted on the walls with period Qing dynasty melodramas, it was odd. The food was good, though. I had pigeon for the first time! I was a bit apprehensive because, after all, pigeons are basically flying rats, but they were apparently farm raised. Afterwards, we went to visit J's aunts's dog Lok-lok, who is a ginormous sheep dog that acts like he's a puppy, the way he runs around and jumps like a crazy person. He is hilarious and cute.
Walked around Coal Harbour again, and I climbed this sculpture thing. Then we found out you can rent motorboats there for pretty cheap! So we were all excited about that. That night, we went to freaking Atlantis, which is supposedly the asian club in town, because we were curious. And indeed, it was pretty much all asians in there, and it seemed that it was mostly recent immigrants and international students and the like, and everyone seemed really young. There was also a preponderence of extremely short skirts and teeny halter tops. Felt out of place in my jeans and long sleeved top. Was wearing heels, though, and for the first time was the same height as some of the guys in the club - I was even taller than a couple, and I really am short, so it was sort of awesome. Bumped into J's friend - who is from Halifax and inherited E's paper route - SG who was dancing like an insane person on the stage.
Sunday - rented a motorboat! went with e, j, t, and d, and went all around the bay. packed a picnic lunch (made sandwiches on baguettes, san pellegrinos, and these annoyingly difficult to make smoked salmon appetizers), and ate it on an island. Sooo much fun. It wasn't bad, actually - $40 an hour for 3 hours. And it was such a gorgeous, warm, sunny day. We all took turns driving the boat - I've never done it before, and it was pretty fun. I'm thinking it would be fun to take a canoe out along the same route, they're so much easier to manouever and dock.
all of my photos from boating kind of suck
Then we went to Stanley park and played frisbee for awhile, then E tried to teach me not to throw a baseball like a girl. Actually haven't used a glove since grade 9, the last time I took gym class... but yeah, it's easier than I remember. That evening, we went back to Stanley park, to Sequoia grill. Really tasty.
And... this is getting really long and I'm getting tired of typing. More later. I'm also going to upload my photos in a little bit.
May. 19th, 2006 @ 02:27 pm
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