Thursday 4 April 2013

Lovers Walks


Lovers Walks

Wednesday night was beautiful, and I mean B-E-A-U-Tiful. It was warm and sunny and spring felt like it was just around the corner. Chris and I decided to go for a Lovers Walk (watch the SNL skit with Will Ferrel and you'll get it, otherwise we're just taking a super lame walk with a cheesy title). Anyway this walk took us through our neighbourhood and up to Pine Dairy Bar. SOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!
Pure magic. Everyone go to this place and enjoy the ice cream and poutine. It's phenomenal!  


Lover's Ice Cream



Cute retro decor

A super studly husband


A super thrilled wife



SUUUUUUUUUUPER Cheesy. Dont hate me. 



Also SUUUUUUUUPER Cheesy, but who could hate poutine?





Tuesday 2 April 2013

Thrifty Finds


My mum is an amazing thrift shopper; the best. Pretty much everything in my parents house is second hand, and its all goes together so well. She has passed the thrift shopping bug down to me and my sisters (lookout Value Village!). Recently my mom picked up a pair of (almost) brand new Birkenstocks. These baby's aren't cheap if you buy them new. I'm talking over $100. Mum got them for a steal under $10. And now they are mine! Happiness is a brand new(ish) pair of Birkenstocks that were purchased for a steal.



Tuesday 26 March 2013

The Longest Date Ever


 Generally when the husband and I go on a date we get in, get out, get gone. We go. We eat. We leave.  Usually we can do it all in under an hour. We inhale a good amount of food, crawl into bed and watch a movie. Super romantic right? You know you're married when. Haha! Mind you I don't think most restaurants would appreciate it if I lay on the floor with my pants unbuttoned after dinner. Just sayin. But the other night we surprised ourselves; we stayed at the restaurant for an hour and forty five minutes. What up? We talked, we ate, we laughed, we watched the game. It was by the far the longest dinner date we've ever been on. And it was great. We might make this a regular thing. Maybe... definitely.

Monday 25 March 2013

What's In Your Cart?




 The saying "you are what you eat" is often brushed aside with a guffaw and a snide comment about not being a cheeseburger. Our body is constantly regenerating and rebuilding itself. Some cells take longer to regenerate than others but, besides brain and some cells in the nervous system, human being regenerate a new body every seven years. The building blocks and fuel we use is the food we eat. So you're going to want to be eating the very best to have the best body possible. So this begs the question: what is in your cart? Are you loading up on good, nutritious food that is going to make you stronger? Or are you filling up on processes garbage that is going to cause heart disease, obesity, cancer, diabetes, strokes, speed up aging, illness, IBS, eczema, psoriasis, and on and on and on and on... Grocery shopping for us has changed a lot in the past six months. The majority (95%) of our grocery cart is produce and the other 5% is usually stuff like nuts, flax, bread, chia, oil (coconut or olive [avocado soon hopefully]), baking ingredients, pasta, quinoa, rice, tomato sauce, fish, coconut milk, etc, etc. Basically produce is the majority of what we're buying and eating right now. And it's working out awesome cost wise. Our food budget is $75 a week. Before we started going vegetable based it was a stretch to get all our food in under $75, and often times we would go over. Now it's a lot easier to stay under budget and we get a lot more bang for our buck! Basically we're loving vegetable based, and there is no looking back.




Wednesday 20 March 2013

Swag


I LOVE MY JOB! As well as working an office job I work at a retail clothing store and I love it. Mostly because of the clothes, but also because of the amazing girls I work with. Anyways I got all this swag last week for $0.35. Amazing.

Tuesday 12 March 2013

Ladies Night




    Saturday night I went out for dinner with some wonderful ladies. It was so nice to eat great food, and chat. You know how sometimes you just need a night out with your girlfriends. This was one of those nights and it was one of the best of those nights. This is just a post to say that I love my ladies, and I love the Hog Wild sandwich.