Spring is Just Around the Corner

Thank you Sharon for taking these beautiful flower pictures.








For Friday night we had mini foursome trip to Mayne Island since the whole world cancelled at the last minute. It was a really nice night anyways, sometime less is more and we had such a cozy time. In the middle of the night at 4am we were awakened to scarey wind sounds and by morning the ferries weren't running. Then before leaving the cabin for breakfast we sat in the living room watching airplane fast winds tear through our innocent little Dinner Bay. It was very exciting and Calvin jumped off the couch at one and pointed at one gust, "there that one must be 80 knots" you could see a bit of a cyclone and how it chopped up the waves below it as it passed.
We were lucky and the weather cleared for just long enough for Sharon and I to go for a nice run. I managed to run 6km on very hilly terrain in just about 50 minutes, and it was so refreshing. As I was running I thought to myself I'm going to miss winter! No one ever says that but if you think about it, what other time of year can you go for a jog and never feel too hot in the middle of the day. The island is so beautiful when it's stormy and today the ocean looked very grey but active and sharp while I was running beside it. Their were so many birds playing around about it too, they looked like they were having a dance party up there.

Later Sharon went down to this really neat Japanese Garden that's just around the corner from the cabin and took the pictures above. I'm so surprised that their was actually color down there, that daffodil well it almost looks like fruit to me with it's water droplets and I wish I could eat it, same with the purple flowers. To bad more flowers weren't edible imagine having daffodil salad at the end of winter to remind you that's springs coming. (K I won't talk about eating flowers anymore:) )

After we came home, Quentin and I watch the movie, "In Her Shoes" and it put me in a really sentimental mood. They read this poem and I haven't heard a poem in so long it just took me by surprise and made me tear up in a nice way.

I Carry Your Heart with Me

e.e. cummings

I carry your heart with me
(I carry it in my heart)
I am never without it
(anywhere I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear no fate
(for you are my fate, my sweet)
I want no world
(for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart
(I carry it in my heart)

I love the line, "here is the root of the root."

Hope everyone out there is having a nice weekend too,

Here's a county song by Faith Hill that I keep playing and singing this weekend "Wish For You"

Match Point

Well Shayna and I wanted to see a movie that wasn't exactly funny and light hearted and that's exactly what I got with Match Point tonight. It's one of the darkest movies I've seen in a long time. The movie ends of coarse how you won't expect but the whole point of the movie is luck. They make the argument that it's better in life to be lucky than good, the whole movie hinges on luck. Honestly I didn't enjoy watching it because it made me feel like luck is more important than choices in life. Maybe they're right but it just makes everything seem so random and not meaningful, and it steals away hope. :(

Muffin

I have a new cat Muffin. I just adopted a cat this week and she's the cutest cat in the world, seriously no one else has a better cat. She loves to cuddle, spend time following Quentin and I around the house, have her belly rubbed on the couch, and walk around our legs and meow for food. I've now learned that whenever I go near the kitchen she will be there waiting for the opportunity to receive a treat. This picture was taken today after I woke from a hour and half nap, (longer than expected) and she was curled right up on the bed beside me. When I woke and saw her she looked very comfortable and warm it was so wet and cold outside the window, I was like yah this is a nice place to be we really don't need to get up now do we.

Picture taken by Chris Martin (Coldplay) on Stage at GM Place!!

The people who were next to us at the concert caught a disposible camera that Chris took pictures with backstage and onstage. We just received her email today... I love looking at the faces of the people who are completely awestruck - I wish people looked at me that way!! :)

Bush Speaks

Well tonight I made a big Greek Dinner for the family and everyone else that decided to show up. Bradley brought 4 of his friends from Trinity and we watched President Bush speak The State of The Union Address.



Oh my it was hard to hear the TV tonight over everyone else yelling in the background. The one thing I do remember clearly was Bush declaring that America will be actively pursing new sources of energy so not to be as dependent on the Middle East for oil. Tom sitting to my left was like, "you watch a certain type of stock will go up tomorrow" I assume he means the ones for new energy sources.




So I guess the President of the United States wasn't interesting enough on his own and the Trinity kids decided to drink shots of Ouzo everytime Bush said, "TAXES".






So anyways I thought it was hilarious and laughed even harder when they convinced my Mom to drink one. So silly!!!

My Little Brother Posted

Brad's Space This is my baby brother's msn space. Here he writes about the family Hawaii trip.
For some reason I think that everything he does is so cute and I can never get that mad at him. Maybe it's because he's smart enough to not argue with me and usually does what I say. However he phone me tonight to say that I'm making dinner for him, the family and his friends from Trinity to watch the Prime Ministers inauguration on Tuesday night??????, oh and I've been told to make this big Greek Pasta dish called "Euvisty" (not correctly spelt) in Greek or Stewed Lamb with Tomatoes Orzo and Rice. Actually I bought a big bag of pasta Orzo awhile back and I would love a chance to make the whole thing, this should be fun I hope my Greek dish turns out okay.
p.s I was looking at this recipe more closely and it's missing cinnamon and fennel which I think will make it taste more authentic.

Chinese Happy New Year

Today we went for an adventure in China town through the pouring rain lead by none other than the ultimate adventurer himself Calvin.



It was cold and wet,


and us girls huddled together under our tiny little umbrella with soaking wet hair and jeans,



but we got to see Chinese Dragon dancers blessing stores fronts,



lettuce hanging in door frames,



and very peculiar food items.





Then after we rewarded ourselves with a nice normal western dinner at dry warm Cactus Club.



Thanks Cal for our Sunday afternoon rain adventure.

Andrew turns 30

We went to my friend Andrew's 30th birthday this weekend. For some time before his birthday he spoke excitedly about getting a new fork for his bike and honestly I really had a hard time visualizing what the heck he was talking about. Well here he is happy as a clam with his new bike fork thingy and now I know. Happy Birthday Andrew!!!



Opening more presents.



They bought a cake from Hillcrest Bakery which was really good!



Way better pictures @ Amanda's Blog

Front Row @ Coldplay

Quentin and I had front row seats to Coldplay tonight, it was an incredible show and I, of course, went nuts with my camera.
This concert was fantastic; Coldplay is one of those bands that sing better live than on recording. I could have listened to Chris Martin for hours. My favorite songs were The Scientist and Ti'l Kingdom Come. It was so emotional to listen to him sing them to us ,live, WOW!
I think Quentin and I feel extremely spoiled Quentin keeps saying, "it's like Coldplay played in my living room" So it will be hard to see another concert where we're so far back as usual. I always thought it was a bit extravagant to sit in the front row now but I recommend trying it at least once.
Anyways that was my wonderful Christmas present from Quentin and it was fantastic. Thanks Honey!

Concert Video - Click HERE -

We were so close

Chris Martin

Singing Away

On stage



I had to add this in, Chris Martin threw these into the audience after he was finished playing and Quentin caught one. He wore them during the concert to help him play the guitar I think, pretty neat hey!

At the Piano

What I'm supposed to do

I was cleaning today and in a box I found a small stack of Christmas cards that were supposed to go to family members back east and to a few other friends I haven't spoken to in awhile. I'm so upset because I spent a long time writing these and I thought I delivered them. So do I throw them away or just put them in the mail anyways. Do I write on the envelop sorry I misplaced these somehow? I don't know what to do?

Tonight's Running Clinic

Tonight I ran my little heart out again with Pennisula Runners, wow what an intense work out. I might as well be asleep at Just Ladies Fitness Group Power in comparison to this. In total the instructor said we ran 7km tonight. We ran to this track did a couple laps and then started sprinting drills. We did the drills for about 30 minutes and at one point after a 300m sprint everyone was breathing so hard, it was odd yet kind of rewarding to know that everyone had pushed themselves to the brink . Half way through the drills I started to run faster toward the finish and I could just feel the endorphins kicking in, that felt incredible.
It was so dark, cold, and damp outside and all the wet trees surrounding the track had this mist that hung from them. It sounds really gloomy but with these huge lights hitting the track and trees it was very refreshing. Maybe like swimming at night in a warm lake.
Okay so now were supposed to go home and have and ICE BATH which I think is going to be torture but supposively it helps to reduce the inflammation in your legs. This is going to be hell I'm not looking forward to it. Brrrr

A Pedicure at Sharon's Spa

Today just as a treat I went to visit Sharon at her new Spa Room in Granville Island that she just opened. Of coarse she has a fancy SLR camera so we couldn't resist taking pictures. Here I am relaxing in her new room.



Sharon adding the nail art to the pedicure.


My very pretty toes, thank you Sharon you're the best!

Quentin sent me this today, It's funny, get it!

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060123/full/060123-2.html

I'll write a bit on this later.

Our new Prime Minister.

Here is one of my friends Boomer (Caroline) with the new Prime Minister of Canada. So cute Boomer and good job Stephen Harper.