summer school

studying sucks

heart the weekend

non-stop sleepovers with pseudo hubby.

drinks and biffers and friends.

BBQ with fam and pseudo hubby.

lunch and shopping and park picnic and yoga with beautiful lady friend Stacey.

found the perfect wedges and vintage sunglasses.

love life!!1

lil' sis

pseudo hubby

fav shopping finds

(pseudo hubby just rang door bell, movie night yay yay)

time spent

with school out, I have had more time on my hands lately. it has pretty much been equally divided between thrifting and finding good eats. here are a few suggestions:

Eduardo's, 404 ave Duluth east in Montreal. It is a bring your own wine restaurant, and very reasonably priced (plate of pasta for $10). Cute place, a bit more on the fancy side for a dinner date, but very cozy and yummy.

Midi 6, 3580 rue Notre-Dame west in St-Henri. A little cafe with excellent lunch selection. the place is set up real cute, and the food is healthy, tasty and nicely presented. I suggest going with the "table d'hôte", worth the $10-tip included combo of home made soup, sandwich on baguette, selection of salad, and cup of tea or coffee (and little basket of fresh baguette to compliment the meal free of charge). Not to mention our waitress was a short haired babe wearing chucks.

Encore Books & Records, 5670 Sherbrooke west in NDG. good books, good records, also a few old VHS movies, worth a look if you are in the neighborhood.

I have also found an excellent thrift store up near Jean-Talon, however do not know the address as it is not really a store, and more of a home filled with wonderful finds the owner has been collecting over the years. she is only open 3 days/week, for 3/hours at a time. if you are interested let me know, and I will do my best to explain where it is. from the basement to the second floor, the home is filled with clothes, hats, shoes, purses, jewelry, records, books, magazines and whatever nick-nacks. she will serve you tea, and a dog named Crumpet may be lurking in the shadows.

last but not least, the usual rounds of village at every location, a given. I suggest you show up right when it opens, this trick has been treating me well. my strategy is to hit up the jewelry first, the purses and bags, shoes, then clothes, and finish off in the random house-hold and furniture area, but maybe that is just me.

on another note

the walk down

still working part time with kids. took this pic today with my cell, as we walked down the kindergardeners from their school to the Y. the walk down is always an adventure, especially with the younger ones, never a dull moment between them running off the sidewalk unexpectedly and kicking peoples recycle bins for no reason. but I love them all to pieces, they mean the world to me, and I cannot imagine my life without them.

today my partner in line was this little girl named Charlie, a real sweetheart. she asked me this "do you like spring? even with all the ugly days like this?" I was a bit confused, just muttered I guess so, how 'bout you, type of thing. "I love it" she says, "just look at all the beautiful colours... the greens and the pinks and the.. " as she continued on naming every colour we saw as we were walking. it was incredible, to share that with her, to be reminded to take the time and look around to appreciate the beauty in the world around you, in such a simplistic way. she truly made my day.

meandering after hours

Nick owned this shirt for about 2 minutes last night, until the friends of the guy he had done a tradesies with talked the other dude out of it (a tie-die wasn't going to make the cut for a Poison shirt).

here is to smiles

my apologies for the redundancy of my posts lately, just cannot seem to think of anything other than this:

goofing around

how Matt has the most beautiful eyes in the world

rolling around cuddling and being happy <3

planning for New-Brunswick

the time has finally come, summer around the corner, where I get to plan my favorite week of the year: my vacation back home to New-Brunswick. hoping for the last week of august, a time for both the boyfriend and I to venture (among many other places) to the sights in the pics below. I am really excited about taking this trip, there is just something about that drive down, going to my camp (cottage in woods we call "camp"), swimming in the ocean, and seeing old friends that cannot be traded for any feeling in the world. special addition this summer: driving the extra hour and making it to PEI, have not been there since I was 13 years old.

Pointe du Chenes wharf at dawn

the biggest lobster in the world

Cape Enrage, and the light house I oh so love

the bridge that will bring us to P.E.I.

just the bf and me, no big deal

boy who's got me smiling

this is Matt. he makes me smile. we've only just met, and already he is my most favorite boy. he is the first person I talk to every morning when I wake up, and the last every night before I go to sleep. we hold hands when we go places, and we cuddle while listening to music from his wicked record collection. he is also absolutely gorgeous. I could not ask for more, I have found the sweetest guy in the world.

to make you go "awww"

cute pug pics curtsy JohnBaku

preview:

spring musics

Blink 182, album Greatest Hits

Kelly Clarkson, album All I Ever Wanted

Katy Perry, song Hot N Cold

T.I. ft Rihanna, song Live Your Life

(just because this music makes me giddy and is epic for sing-alongs.)

FetLife

the new craze is here.

though the home page may seem more or less appealing to you, its worth making an account just to cruise around. funny pics and discussions at the least, and kinky ideas to spice up the sex life. have fun boys and girls! 

study tips

-secret spot at school where no one else goes, preferably has couches and a nice view 

-good study musics (ex: Get Up Kids discography) at low volume 

-study buddies for moral support/laughs

-yummy snacks/coffee (however kept to a minimum) 

-no fb (for serious) 

scientology fails, and today so does Concordia

who the hell at Concordia approved an exhibit on "psychiatry" funded by the church of scientology? whoever you are, you should be ashamed for allowing religious propaganda in an educational institution. 

I am livid, absolutely appalled at the inaccurate depiction of the history of psychology and psychiatry that was presented today. yes, there was factual information on those billboards, however what was missing was the truth behind those facts. reputable psychiatrists, psychologists, and scientists from past and current decades were miss-quoted; Wundt must be rolling over in his grave as we speak. 

statistics on medical atrocities were presented in a suggesting manner against the medical field of psychiatry as a whole; though psychology and psychiatry do have a VERY dark passed and continue to make mistakes in this day and age, these mistakes cannot be generalized to an entire field which has as its aim to aid people with mental illness. no, we cannot deny the days of asylums, lobotomies, and eugenics, however we also have NO RIGHT to discredit and shame those whom in the same field fought to abolish these injustices and contributed in making the field what it is today, an already much more healthy, ethical and humanitarian movement.

though there are two very different sides to this argument, and it is obvious which one of them I am on, if I have been taught one thing throughout my educational career it is this: think critically, and never present information in a biased manner. so congrats scientologists, you have succeeded in half of the feat, you are quite the critical little buggers, however you unfortunately loose all credibility in my eyes because you fight like a selfish bratty child who only knows how to win by screaming the loudest.

as for Concorida, you I am simply disappointed in. next time around, dig a little deeper and at least find out who is funding the project, ok? and when you find out it is a religious and biased organization, politely explain to them that this is an educational institution who has as its aim to educate people through the means of presenting them with ALL factual information available, in order for them to make up their own mind about the issue at hand. thanks.