I wish I could start all days like this. Lazily get up around 9AM, eat breakfast in bed, drink a big mug of Chai tea while surfing through my daily sites... Ah, weekends. How I love thee.
So I've been on this mission for the past month to buy a new winter coat and winter boots. I don't know why this is so challenging! Okay, I do know, it's because I don't want to spend $200 on ugly winter boots that will hardly be worn outside of Montreal, and I'm a bit picky about coats. But seriously! Today is THE DAY. I must buy either one or the other - preferably boots. Last Monday it snowed for the first time. Just a dusting, but still snow. This week it's forecast to snow lots and dip down to -15. WICKED. I love Montreal winter already! (That was sarcasm.)
I never wrote about how I made it the whole month of November as a vegetarian. Yep, I was successful, and even expanded my cooking repertoire. I actually didn't find vegetarianism that difficult. Maybe I should up the ante next time and try veganism. Or not.
I would like to write a book at some point in my life. A couple weeks ago I found this website,
National Novel Writing Month, which promotes the idea of November as novel writing month. The idea is to just write without any editing, just let the words flow, and try to write a novel within a month. You have a set wordcount you have to achieve (50,000 words), you have to start with a fresh idea, and there's advice and forums to help support you along the way. I think this is a fantastic idea, and I wish I had stumbled up on the website at the end of October so I could have tried it out. Maybe I will turn January into my own writing month. After all, it's going to be so freaking cold, there won't be much else to do!! Hmm.
This up-coming week is going to be epic. The amount of events written on my calendar is unreal. Hello social butterfly.
Labels: 30dayvegchallenge, books, montreal, winter
Expanding horizons
One nerdy thing that I enjoy are libraries. I love to go to the library to check out fiction books and then wander the aisles of non-fiction and glance at all the topics I can read about, and sign out random books on random topics. There is so much to know about, so much available on any topic. My past two trips to the library I have checked out books on photography: techniques, photography as art, and essays on photos. Now I'm going to curl up in my chair by the window, which is filtered in dappled sunlight and leaf through these wonderful books. That is a good Saturday afternoon.
Labels: books, random
My two favourite things about tonight:
1) my new vampire book
2) the TV show "Workout"
Okay, Mandy at work is lending me the vampire series written by Stephenie Meyer, and I devoured the first book last weekend (well, it's also an easy read with giant printing, and at a level meant for teenagers), and I've just started the second book yesterday. All I have to say: who will find me a hot vampire boyfriend?! Preferably with the name Edward? Anyone?? Haha, anyway, these books make me really happy in a giddy sort of way. It's fabulous.
The second thing, this TV show called "Workout" plays every Wednesday night and it's a reality show about a gay trainer in LA who owns her own trendy fitness centre and all the trainers who work there are gay (pretty much) and the owner is hot and her girlfriend is
smokin hot, and hello, can I get in on the hot lesbian fun? Haha, slightly more kidding about that one. BUT. It's a great show.
Hot vampires and hot lesbians! Can't have a much better Wednesday night than that, can you?! Hehehehe... ;)
Labels: books, TV
