SURPRISE SUPRISE BIRTHDAY GIRL

Today is one of my best friend’s birthday (Anna), and she is spending it with her family. Us girlies (Andrea, Christina, Hilda, Winnie, and I) will see her coming Friday to celebrate with a post birthday bash. Anna is finally legal to order her own drinks, without worrying about being card and underage.

While wrapping all of Anna’s presents to the nines, I can imagine her struggling to open each and every single one. I have always loved gift wrapping…so I tend to go overboard at times. I use tissue paper to wrap each item, and then double sided tape to secure each open flap, then I top it all off with tightly wrapping ribbon around it.

Little does she know, the first item (pictured in front of the bag) contains more goodies inside that need to be unwrapped. It is all make-up related items, while the other part of her gifts are jewellery based. At the end of the day Anna will love everything!

- C

Haagen Dazs

i have a friend that absolutely worships Haagen Dazs.
just recently she told me (while looking at the tub of HD in her hand) “it’s like my friend…we’ve established a strong loving relationship”

one night while i was rummaging through my kitchen for my late night snack, i happened to walk by the stack of fliers near my kitchen table, and for some reason, i just picked up the one sitting on top. and i saw that my local grocery store was having HD icecream for sale for less than half price. i knew this must be fate because i never look at my fliers, and the sale was starting the next day. it’s a sign!

so of course the first thing i did was let my friend know.
and our conversation went something like this::

“omg i have to tell you something that will change your life forever!!!”
“what?”
“HD is on sale at price chopper for 3 dollars!”
“WHAT? REALLY? when does it start?”
“yea! it starts…um…TOMORROW!”
“ok we’re going to price chopper tomorrow ^^”

and this is the relationship most of the female population has with Haagen Dazs.
it’s a beautiful thing,
- W.

AMATEUR YOGI ADVENTURE PART 4

Two Sundays ago I was supposed to go to a morning yoga class with and old classmate, but she bailed last minute due to running errands before work. It did not matter much since my two co-workers/friends planned to come with me. I encountered a delay with the TTC (public transportation) in the morning, and thought about whether I wanted to take a taxi to be at Lululemon early/on time. When the train was running smoothly again, I basically speed walked my way to the store. When I got near I saw the doors slowly close on me, but I was lucky and someone opened it on my behalf. My two friends got there when the class started, and did not have luck getting the door opened for them. So I did yoga alone, with a small class due to the rainy weather outside that morning.

After the class, Jenn (one of the people I work with) told me to go to Good Life Fitness for its yoga session. So having nothing to do I went to check what difference a free and paid class would be like. Ironic as it is, both places (and helpful instructors) did the same program : plank, lower, upward dog, and then downward dog. The only thing Lululemon did not cover was various styles of breathing technique. Overall I say both places are relatively the same, with minor differences as expected. At the end of exercising for two hours, I enjoyed a nice rest…and boy did I need it!

- C