3 am Stylings

So... it's almost 3 am. And I am sitting on my balcony. Enjoying a moment before I go to sleep. It's rainy, drizzly, quiet and nice. I'm currently surfing Stereomood on the "it's raining mood" and this song comes up.

It's added to the ambiance and I thought it was a really nice, thoughtful and moodful piece of music.

...Latah Nights.

Sometimes I am an Unapologetic Carnivore!!

It's Ribfest in Ottawa. That's right!!! Step out your front door if you live anywhere near the downtown area and take a deeeeeeeep breath. And smell the gloriousness of bbq ribs and chicken and pulled pork. No don't just smell. Go have some!!

It kicked off Wednesday. And after a failed attempt at going for lunch, I called up my sister (ok you caught me I texted) and said we should go. Now I was shocked and amazed to discover that my sister, who loves ribs, has NEVER BEEN to Ribfest. In all the years she has lived in this glorious city, she has never ever been to a Ribfest.
Now back in the day, they used to pair up Ribfest with Beerfest, but sadly that is no longer.

So I met my sister at her work, we trucked over, in the rain too I might add, to Sparks street, and there we began the day ol' debate on which Ribtruck/stand do we try. Since my sister had never experienced this before, I wanted to make sure we settled on a kick ass truck with some amazing ribs. We walked back and forth a few times, but after close inspection (ok really I just watched to see how much sauce they put on the ribs) I decided we would go to Bibbs. I usually get the pulled pork, so that was my choice. And Lisa got a half rack. Then we sat under an umbrella at 73 North's patio and paired it with a beer. And after Lisa's first bite, she now understood the awesomeness of Ribfest. I will be dragging her with me next year!!

Then she went home, and I decided to go for one more drink with some friends at the Cock and Lion. A good way to end a Ribfest experience. I wish I wasn't so broke and could go again :( Ah well, next year!!


GO GET SOME RIBS!!!!

Latah Daze!

Dude.. Slurpee???!!

So it's not officially summer for me untill I either have an Ice Cap, or a Slurpee.

Today, I was craving the Slurpee.. mmmmmmm now usually I go for the mixture of a few different flavors. Like cherry, orange or blue raspberry. However, the Quickee I walked into about an hour ago.. had no such flavors!! AAAH!!! Instead it was Coke, Dr. Pepper and Crush Cream Soda or Orange Crush. I debated but I was then like, whatever dude.. a slurpee is a slurpee is a slurpee...
So I chose cream soda. And now it's officially summer.
As you can see, I demolished half of it on the 2 minute walk home :P


And everytime I think of a slurpee, I always think of these guys!! Holy blast from the past dudes!!!!!







Latah Daze!!

Chicken Bacon!!!

I've never tried chicken bacon before. Ok wait.. the correct term is chicken breakfast strips, not chicken bacon. But same thing right?? I dunno. So I decided to try some, as I've had some in my freezer for alittle while now. And I was craving something breakfasty that wasn't too filling (ie. pancakes). So I began cooking them up. They looked a little different. They smelled the same though. So I cooked up some eggs as well, and cut up some fruit and voila!!! Breakfast for lunch time!!!

Verdict... hmm... it kinda tasted a tad like Bologna...so I poured some maple syrup on it... which kinda makes me wish I had gone with the pancakes!!! Maybe I'll make some bread and do up some french toast for supper.


YAAA TOAST!!??!!

Latah Daze

Hello Weekend!!

My weekend so far....
got off work.
chilled on my balcony with some pretty good company.
didn't have a beer... awww but ah well :P.
finished a painting.
Went out for the night to dance and show some art at The Last Exposure
Sold a magnet to Corey for 3 dollars!!! woot!
Slept in.
Had a very tastey fruit salad and yogurt and granola breakfast...ok.. lunch.
Watching some Jericho.

So far so good right???
What's on the agenda tonight...
WestFest get Naked!!... that's right Bif Naked is coming to Ottawa for a free show!!! So excited for this actually!!!

Come out!! If not.. enjoy some Bif Tunage!

Latah Daze

I Officially Think It's Summer!!!

My apartment that I moved into last October, is awesome. It's a tad over my budget.. but it kicks ass. It has an amazing downtown Ottawa skyline view that has the peace tower light up, reflects the sunset on the office building windows, and a park that has kids, dogs and very cute ( I am assuming) baseball, ultimate and soccer players using it everyday/night. My balcony was one of the selling points to this place.

So, it's warm out, and this is the view of my world right now :D
Ok, so I went to take a picture, and the guys building the house next to me were totally on the roof with no shirts and chilling.. I didn't want them thinking I was taking pictures of them! HAHAHA. So this one will have to do for now :D
It's my mini table garden. I have a veggie one growing as well, but that's clearly not on my balcony.
I'm gonna get some patio lanterns (hopefully some asian looking ones and not stupid crappy ones that will just look tacky.) and string them up. Then whoever wants to come over for a drink, come one come all!!!




And now enjoy another summer feel good jam :D I was gonna do the original Bob Marley.. but you've all heard that one.. so here's Damian for the win!!

Latah Daze!

Birthdays!!!

So it was my birthday weekend. Alot happened, and alot didn't happen. But that's how they go.
Saw some great friends, went out on great dinners. Caught up with people I never ever see, got texted by people I wish I could see more often.

I'm 28, and I actually felt a little older as I walked into my apartment last night. Even my apartment felt different to me. It was odd!!!  But good older, and good different.

A new year, I'm sure it's going to have some big bumps come my way to due to unforeseeable circumstances...but new year.. and I can take it because I have nothing to hide nor did I do nothing wrong.

A new year of me just being me and doing what I want to do for once without feeling guilted or blamed or raged on.

Bring on the summer :D And thinking of Summer makes me think of this song!!! :D

Trash...

This is how I used to check my email.

Log in.

Delete all the Oprah/Ikea/Old Navy/Skin health/crap newsletter sites.

Scan Facebook messages to see if any are important or perk my interest to go on facebook.

Delete facebook messages.

Read new regular mail if I have any.

Read crochet/art newsletter emails I get.

Delete those.

Go to spam inbox and delete all the spam

Go to trash inbox and delete all the trash.

This is what I did once a day or once ever few days. Do you see anything wrong with this???

Apparently normal people don't delete their trash boxes. With Gmail, you are allowed a bazillion MB (ok really mine says 7589 MB so not really a bazzilion) of space to keep every single email you will probably get in a lifetime. And this grows everyday. So normal people don't bother going into their trash and deleting for good all the crap they get. With a certain click of a menu option you can decide for Gmail to do it for you every 30 days as well. So that you don't have to. Pretty convenient no??

Put normal people don't do this. Or so I was told. 

But I do. I go and delete all the emails, and spam too, in order to always have an empty trash box. Is there something wrong with this???? Does anyone else do this?? What could possibly be wrong with deleting your trashbox?? 

I was just reminded of this because I just checked my email... and for the first time since January (long story why there) I now have an empty trash box. HA!!!

Another word for trash is Garbage... so here's some Garbage for you :D hmmm... seems fitting...

Latah Daze

Beer, Pizza, Boxed Seats, Cheers, A Great Person, ... strippers??? and... Kid Rock!!

Was how I spent my night on Tuesday.
It was epic. And an awesome way to celebrate a joint birthday. However, my birthday is not till Monday, but whatever it's only a day.

And to think, I let someone give me shit when I responded to said great person when he asked me if I wanted to go. I think it was a no brainer.

I came home tired, half drunk, a tiny bit sad because I had to work in the morning, but definitely in a better place then I was a month ago.