Are you gonna have cow?

Ok, time to talk about something I like, something I recommend! I love THIS. Daiya is the best vegan cheese going. I have used it on pizza, tacos, sprinkled on soup and it really is the top. It also doesn't have shit in it like so many other processed foods calling themselves vegan. Vegan shouldn't mean unpronounceable ingredients! It should mean top quality foods with upstanding and tasty ingredients.

Try some today. It's quite widely available, even at two of my local No Frills stores and Loblaws at Dundas and Bloor. I wholeheartedly recommend this product for those of you who don't consume animal products but are looking for an A1 cheese substitute that you don't have to fear will slowly kill you. Yay!

On a day like today

I like to brew myself an non-caffeinated cuppa joe, brewed in my special way with a few dashes of cinnamon throw into the basket. Mmmm.

The emperor's new time, and coffee!

This morning I'm awoken by my fiancé telling me it's 7 o'clock. Well then why didn't my alarm go off when it was supposed to at 6:50am?, I ask myself. I check my phone. "It's SIX a.m.!!!" (5:58 to be exact) He hadn't manually changed his phone for daylight savings. Sigh. And I'm sure we weren't the only ones this morning. Better yet we're not the dude I heard about in university who totally slept through an exam once due to the same thing. A university EXAM. Don't envy that guy.

Can't wait to race home tonight to try out my brand new personal pouch of 23 Degrees Roastery coffee supplied to me by the terrific people at Borden. They even hooked me up with decaf brew "Declawed" (only because I begrudgingly don't drink real coffee anymore). I'm loving the experience so far and haven't even ground the beans, or brewed the coffee or DRANK it yet. I'm going to savour - and tell you about! - the whole thing.
To kick things off, their packaging is right on the money. Check it owwwt!



I will consider sharing this brew with my work buds. Heh heh heh.

On the subject of Me

Two things:

The Gap has the best dress/office pants in right now. I bought ankle length (for the shorties among us; but not as "ankular" as you might think - just right for wearing a nice pair of boots), in a nice charcoal grey, their Curvy fit Perfect trouser pants and I would say they really are quite perfect, especially when I don't have to have them tailored! The fit is wonderful - they are ever so slimming and sleek as all get out. A great pant to have for the workplace that'll take you right into evening. Now don't I just sound like a magazine. Buy some. Price is right (bought them when they had a BOGO; what store doesn't have these kind of sales now?!). They don't always have the best fits (last year was the pits) but this year they're right on the money, honey.

In other news, B's dad and his girlfriend are staying with us for a few nights. This morning started off by him knocking on our bedroom door to inform B that it was past the time that he told him last night he would wake up this morning to get to work on time. Being woken up by your dad - when it's still dark outside - in your own house: priceless(ly infuriating). Of course I'm exaggerating. It was endearing. A throwback if you will to when we went on a trip with him earlier this year in Europe and insisted on acting as our daily alarm clock. We're on vacation!!!

Moving right along, my regular morning breakfast ritual was interrupted this morning by my dear future father-in-law giving me career advice from his perch on the living room futon while I prepared my breakfast just above his head in our conveniently open concept kitchen-living room.

Office thoughts

You know what really gets my goat? Office people who do not properly wash a mug. They claim to have washed it, it looks washed, and then upon closer inspection, there are LIP marks. When I see this on a mug I just think, what part of the cup DID they wash? HONESTLY.
Also, also, I'm officially over herb and garlic cream cheese from Tim Horton's. I told them to put on half the amount on a sandwich today - which I think they did - but it is just wrong. Doesn't taste the way it used to; plus I'm not even supposed to eat dairy anymore.
Lastly - lastly - Oktoberfest. I'm going tonight. Kim Mitchell was playing. When my cousin booked the tickets she said, "Hope you like her." HER? WHO doesn't know who Kim Mitchell is!???!

Oh PS - wanted to update you on the Behr situation. They came back to me saying I need to present them with the original receipt for the paint, not a duplicate. I said well of course I don't have this after having done the painting a full seven months before I finally contacted them. They CALLED me yesterday to tell me in the weirdest phone message that since I don't have the original receipt the LABEL from the paint can will do. If I haven't kept a receipt for seven months will I really instead have kept an empty paint can!? Come on people, I wrote back the following:

If Behr wants to continue to have me and anyone in my circle of friends and family (not to mention anyone in the social media world) remain consumers of Behr paint then you will accept my duplicate receipt/copy of my credit card transaction. Otherwise I will not purchase Behr again and will instead buy Benjamin Moore for my next project. Please confirm at your earliest convenience. I will be buying new paint within the next couple of days and need to know which brand to buy. Thank you.

Booyah.

Keeping up with the conversations

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:21 AM, LF wrote:

I know, I'm bored as all hell too! Today, I actually remembered that I had to take a salmon "filet" (ew, hate that word) out of the freezer for din (to be honest, can't remember how long it had been in there, a while) and it was black! EW. Guess I'm having tuna for dinner, blargh!!!!

"Omg" my boss just hired a contract person here, at least she is closer to my age, but yesterday she was like, "oh my god, I'm 23, I'm getting so old" I HATE when people do that, I was like ugh, I just want to work with some normal ppl my age!

Then, oh, this is la creme de la creme -- I told her I was going away in october, and that I wanted to go to spain, so she was just telling me about a recent trip she took there, and she was like "the food was awful" are you f****d??!! she was like "we had to eat at mcdonalds" because apparently the food in spain was just too greasy and heavy. Again, are you f****d?!! Omg, some people are seriously just out to lunch!!!!!!!!!! WTF???? She'll fit right in with the people I work with!! Oh man, just heard my coworker "coke lady" pop back her 1st or 2nd one of the day. GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps: Getting my hair cut tonite! Any ideas? I'm thinking bangs, but on the fence...


On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:21 AM, KM wrote:

we used to have a prof in third yr or something, when i took summer school (yah!) and every a.m. in our 8:30 class he'd have a 1 litre bottle of diet coke - he ALWAYS wore suspenders and had a gut that looked like he was expecting OCTUPLETS!
yikes.
ok, that spain woman!? what the f*** ever. that's like the woman who told my mom to bring CEREAL with her when we went to JAPAN because they don't have any there. WHAT THE HELL!???! we ended up eating fish and tofu for breakfast Ms. North America, thank you very much. people like that don't deserve to travel, and they deserve only the finest STAYCATIONS money can't buy.
i couldnt agree with you MORE about the whole old-at-23 bullshit. complete bullshit.
leftover roti for lunch, from pam's caribbean kitchen.
haircut? i once asked a child how i should get my hair cut and he said, "with eyes and glue." sooo, i wont give you that advice.
i always like bangs :-)

Fridays morgens

When you're hungry at work at 10:15am because you had to eat a bowl of milkless cereal this morning maybe don't drink half a cup of brown drink (read: Diet Coke) from an open can in the staff fridge.

In other news, I wanted to report on my other "free" thing. Earlier in the summer I had purchased a pair of Mephisto (read: old lady) sandals, of the snake print persuasion. These are the most comfortable things I have had the pleasure of slipping my feet into, ladies and gentlemen. Also, each time I took them off, my feet were silky smooth; and I don't know why! They were that good. But, after wearing them fewer than 10 times, the snake print started to wear off :( I got in touch with my friendly neighbourhood Walking on a Cloud where I purchased them and as of a few days ago, they offered me a credit for the value of the sandals. Yay! So I'm going to pick up some newwies today. These are the best, I'm telling you. Buy some. Not cheap, but your feet will proverbially thank you.

Also, I wanted to tell y'all about this. I am in week two of my weekly dose of CSA from Kawartha Ecological Growers. I like everything about this deal. The pick-up is right behind my work, the basket is always plentiful and colourful, the people are great, there is no waste (you bring your own bags 'n such) and it's such a nice way to celebrate the bounty of the summer and fall. Yes, I'll be getting a basket until November. Yessss! An amazing value for $15 a week of veggie and fruit goods. And that's just for the mini basket. There are small and large baskets as well, at $25 and I forget the other amount, respectively. Check them out. It's such a pleasure :)

Have a great weekend! Go check out The Ex! Maybe try a cheeseburger donut! Ok I'll stop there.