Day off!

Day 102

So I've been working weekends and will be working Saturdays until my new job starts August 19. My weekends have been Tues/Weds or Weds/Thurs, which is nice but also kinda sucks cause no one is usually free on those days.

So anyway, it was my day off today so I had scheduled my yearly doctor visit today. But first, I stopped off at my dentist's clinic to settle a billing confusion. Then I wandered around downtown to enjoy the sunshine and check out the summer sales. Surprisingly didn't buy anything!

Never park on Robson Street! Especially in the afternoon M-F!!! You will be towed promptly after 3pm

Yearly visit to see Dr. Chen

My doctor's clinic is on West Broadway. Bobby came to get me after because the car-less and the bus pass-less have trouble getting around the parts of town that are not in the downtown core where she currently lives...

We had dinner at the Manchester Pub. Yay wing night Wednesdays!

Good old fashion nail painting party

Day 101

I finally have a free moment to do my nails!!

Lego spice rack update!

Day 100

Firstly, 100 days of blogging has gone by really quickly!!!

Here's a lego spice rack update. The first block is pretty much complete. We are planning to buy new spice jars from my new favorite kitchen on robson st. Ones where we can paint the lids red for a more uniform look.

The second block construction is well underway. I just respackled it. Hopefully it will be ready for priming tomorrow!!!

Welcome to Canada!!!

Day 99 Part two

My cousin and his family have arrived! Here we all are chilling out at my mom's house

Camo Kiwi

Day 99

Can you spot the hedgie?

Dont mess with the VPD

Day 98

Presents for Chelsea!

Day 97

My cousin, his wife and their 5 year old daughter Chelsea are moving here from Singapore tomorrow! I picked up a couple of presents for Chelsea: a sweater for our cold autumn days to come and a book on the abcs of Canada!

Dear Fan

Day 96

Thank you for helping me get through the summer.

Lego spice rack update... again

Day 95 Part two

I finished priming the first block this morning and Bobby painted it red. Its starting to look awesome!!

Strange/Useless gate

Day 95

While wandering the streets of downtown doing errands today, I came across this strange gate at the Art Gallery.

Notice, there is no fence currently surrounding the Art Gallery (Georgia St side between Howe and Hornby) so really this gate seems quite useless and 100% esthetic?

Lego spice rack update!

Day 94 Part two

Hit up Home Depot for some painting stuff. Finally painting the first block tonight!!

First layer of primer on!!

Lindemans Framboise

Day 94

Finally opened this bottle, my last unopened bottle of beer from Portland. Its only okay - its got a sour after taste. I prefer the apple flavour, or Fruli :)

2$ grande iced drinks at Starbucks

Day 93

I had an interview at 10am and I am working from noon until 8:30 tonight. I'm starting to feel tired so I got an iced coffee to a) help wake me up, and b) help cool me down!!

Apparently the barista at the Starbucks on Howe and Helmcken couldn't be bothered to stir my drink

Biere and 'za

Day 92

Lazy Sunday after a weekend of festivities. Can't believe the weekend is over again!!!

Brewery tour

Day 91 (a day late - I am falling behind on blogging!)

For Bobby's birthday, I bought him a craft beer brewery tour. A few friends joined us and so we boarded a bus early this morning for an amazing brewery tour around the lower mainland. We hit up Parallel 49 first, then drove over the second narrows bridge into the beautiful North Shore to have lunch at Crab Shop immediately followed by a tour of Bridge Brewery. We headed back to Vancouver and hit up Granville Island Brewery and finished the tour up at Pat's Pub, which had an amazing fruity stout.

Bobby keeping it classy by bringing in a Caffe Artigiano coffee into a Starbucks

Brewery Tour!

The rest of our tour crew

First brewery: Parallel 49. I stopped taking pics because we were all too busy drinking AND checking in our beers on Untappd

With the bday boy

I forced Bobby to drink "Restore" vitamin water after the brewery tour and before the party

CAKE!!!

Huge thank you to WildSide Tours for the amazing brewery tour today. The staff are awesome and the people on our bus were equally awesome, therefore making the tour fun! 

Hope you had an amazing day, Bobby!

BBQ

Day 90 (an hour late!)

Just got home from a bbq at Lawrence's house (hosted by him and Najin!). Bobby got stuck on his chair.

Got home and found these two fighting over the wheel

Kiwi cuteness

Day 89

I made this skirt for Kiwi (and a matching one for Chaos) for Halloween last year but its so cute that its relevant everyday!  :)

Bobby's birthday continued

Day 88 part two

Birthday cupcake for the birthday boy! (Real cake to come on Sat for the party with friends)

Happy birthday, Bobby!!!

Day 88

It's Bobby's birthday today!!!!! I asked him what he wanted for dinner and he said wild boar bacon (we saw some in a specialty meat store while roaming in Kits one day) with pasta with a side of crunchy asparagus with cream cheese wontons.

Wild boar bacon I purchased from a store called Jackson's Meat and Deli on West 4th Avenue

Making the asparagus

Crunchy like fries!

Bobby excited for his pasta

Wild boar in interesting. I can definitely cross off "eat something I have never eaten before" off my bucket list :)

Anyway, a very happy birthday to Bobby! Hope all of your wishes come true!

Tap and Barrel/Fun in the sun

Day 87 Part 2

Met up with Janice and Luca this afternoon at Olympic Village for some catch up time. Then the guys came and met up with us for dinner at Tap and Barrel. The food was okay. The company was awesome!!!

Day in the life of Chaos

Day 87

Chaos, my crazy hedgehog likes to go where she fits the least. Here is she chilling in her coco hut

Getting in is the easy part...

Then she gets stuck....

Getting out is the hard part!

Monday randomness

Day 86

First off: BIG CONGRATS to Najin for passing her Canadian Pharmacy board exams! So happy for my rabbit!! :)

No pics from today so here is a pic I forgot to post yesterday! Kangaroo meat anyone?!?!

Sunday Funday!

Day 85

So it is officially the start of Bobby's birth week!

Took it easy today. Did a mini shopping trip while Bobby got a hair cut. Then I had to go to Poco to drop off my mom's recently fixed computer. It didnt have its box anymore, so we had to be creative in protecting it during the 30+ minute drive from downtown to suburbia:

Happy 16th month day, my Kiwi-Keys

Day 84

16 months ago, Kiwi entered into this world in full force. I love her to bits because she's a fire cracker with a tender side.

Chaos and Kiwi chillin' in their fort

The monthday girl!

Hedgie territory: NO HUMANS ALLOWED

Despicable Me 2!!!!!

Day 83 (a day late!)

....in 3D!!!

Caught up on my minion news then went for drinks at 6 Acres afterward.

Awesome time with awesome friends!!!

Super cool reused book covers as menus!

Homemade lasagna night!

Day 82

Made lasagna with meat, cucumbers and mushroom today:

Veggies!

Prime rib ground beef?

Pre-oven

Post oven.

This is my first time using the no boil noodles. Hopefully they are just as good as the boil ones...

Bon apetit!

Summer!!!

Day 81

Its finally sunny and 25+ degrees in Vancouver! I am a little bit sunburned so I picked up some lotion sunscreen. I've been using the spray one but I find that it irritates my sunburn while the lotion one helps soothe.

In totally related news: I am making fresh iced tea to help combat this heat!

My iced tea recipe: fresh brewed orange pekoe (tetley or whatever you have), fresh lemons and a splash of ginger ale for a hint of sweetness :)

Vacation blues

Day 80

Exhausted today and suffering from post vacation blues. Celebrated Aleks' champagne birthday last night! Worked 12:30-8:30 today which isnt bad except that I woke up at 7am because it was so hot. Damn heat wave!

Anyway, missed these two tiny terrors (Chaos is tiny and Kiwi is the terror) very.much over the weekend!

Happy Canada Day

Day 79/Whistler Day 5

Happy 146th birthday Canada!!!

We ended up staying an extra night in Whistler in order to enjoy the nice weather. It was 30 degrees from Saturday on!!!

We enjoyed celebrating Canada Day with fellow Canadians in lower village. They had a parade and free music.