29 April 10

One of my photos was featured in the New Faces of BC exhibit which opened last night at Centre A, and I took Jeff as my guest. We drank some free wine and ate free cheese, listened to some speeches, saw some art, and then decided we needed real food. We saw this while walking to the Alibi Room for dinner, and I almost died.

You can see a couple of photos (I didn't post too many because the exhibit is still showing until Thursday) from the exhibit on my flickr, as well as the original of the photo that was featured.

I may have just set a record for most links in a single post.

28 April 10

When I got home from work I found these on my desk with a note that said, "Make sure you let me try some ♥" They were from Schokolade Cafe on Hastings, and they were delicious (as you can see from the picture, I already ate some).

27 April 10

sun and rain together. It makes everything so bright and fresh.

26 April 10

I'm not sure if I posted this before, but it is the Christmas gift Jeff and I got from Maddie. She based it on the album cover of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Let Love In and it is amazing.

25 April 10

Jesse brought home some new herbs to replace the suicidal basil.

24 April 10

Jeff took this, but I'm posting it because a) it is a billion times better than anything I took this day, and b) it is rare that I love a photo of myself this much.

23 April 10

This is what I brought Steph home from Mexico. Her reaction was instantaneous laughter, followed by putting the mask on, going, "Why is this a thing I don't understand!"

Anyone who would like to see more photos of my Mexico trip, click here.

22 April 10

Jeff and I went to Raw Canvas with Chris and Kristina. Didn't get a chance to paint, but we got to drink delicious wine and eat lots of meat and cheese. It was basically great. I also enjoyed these industrial-style chandeliers.

21 April 10

These are growing in our back garden, amongst dandelions, sage, and poppies.

20 April 10

I got stuff on Etsy shipped to me from Thailand. I greatly enjoyed this elephant stamp.

19 April 10

I like when trees have leaves on parts that are not just the branches.

18 April 10

Jeff and Jesse created this honey-sage marinated chicken with vegetable basmati rice and chive blossom garnish. I was still too shaky to eat more than half of it, but I at least recognised how beautiful it looked.

17 April 10

This is the beach at the hotel. I spent this day recovering from my horrific adventures in the bathroom the night before, and then we flew home in the late afternoon. I drank water and ginger ale on the plane, and at 11:30pm when we finally got back to Maple Ridge, I ate half a Subway sandwich. Around quarter to one Jeff picked me up from my parents' place, where I was passed out on the couch. My appetite didn't return completely until Monday, and all Sunday I felt terribly weak and exhausted. BE CAREFUL EATING SEAFOOD, YOU GUYS.

16 April 10

Nothing says tropical vacation like drinking fruity drinks poolside. Too bad I got food poisoning later this day.

15 April 10

For some reason, this photos gets the song "Tahitian Moon" stuck in my head.

14 April 10

Nice to know that kids wanting to scare the shit out of birds is a cultural universal.

13 April 10

I'd like to think that days where I take several photos I like (so that choosing which to post is actually difficult) makes up for the days where I take no photos or only crap, but instead it just means I feel guilty about those days.

This is the view from an incredible tapas restaurant called Barcelona, where we got tipsy on sangria and watched the sunset after a day at the beach in Bucerias, where I stepped on a bee.

12 April 10

Near the palado where we sat for most of the day, eating delicious things, drinking beer, reading books, and swimming in the delightfully warm ocean.

11 April 10

A beautiful and haunting statue along the Malecón (sort of a boardwalk/seawall kind of thing in downtown).

10 April 10

Even though snow-topped mountains don't really fit with the rest of the Mexico photos, I'm posting this because, well, when's the next time I will see this?

08 April 10

Jeff, doing what Jeff does best. Well, one of the things anyway.

07 April 10

Okay, so I am basically the most behind ever. I have photos and will get them up soon.

Uh... this is my closet. Two people sharing a single-size closet is pretty much horrible. I have fantasies where I have a walk-in and Jeff keeps his things in another room.

06 April 10

my to-do list. Stuff doesn't seem to get crossed off as quickly as it gets added.

05 April 10

Annnd here is a properly iced mini cupcake. The frosting is made with vegan cream cheese and rosewater, and it tastes absolutely amazing with the raspberry on top.
I'm not really sure why I took this photo with my iphone when I was clearly at home and could have used the camera. I apologise for the uninspired photos lately; I have been sick and just generally unmotivated. Plus the weather is crap so it's hard to get good lighting anywhere.

04 April 10

These vegan red velvet cupcakes turned out amazing, though I kind of buggered up the frosting - we were low on icing sugar so I made the rest using raw sugar in the coffee grinder, which came out kinda gritty.

03 April 10

Sleepover with Tams, Val, and Steph... Tamara made us watch Twilight, and Tremaine created this lovely title menu. I wish I could have video recorded it, because what you can't see in the photo is that Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" is playing.

01 April 10

My shirt came out of the dryer like this. Wtf, dryer. Or maybe it was the washer? I shouldn't point fingers.

31 March 10

Stayed home sick from work with swollen tonsils and because I feel like a butt if I sit around in pjs all day, I compromised by wearing one of Jeff's giant 90s shirts.

30 March 10

crappy iphone photo while waiting for the bus after work.