We are going to the old local pub tonight.
I’m excited to go NOT because its some day you wear green but because I haven’t been there in forever and its where Chad and I use to go on all our secret dates.
You know back in the day when we all hid it from you.
It just so happens that the Canucks game is on PPV so we HAVE to go to the pub to watch it.
Thats the only reason we are going.
And I didn’t have time today to do a proper post because I was consumed with trying to upload all the renovation pictures to flickr and then trying to organize them.
I’m still not done.
Hopefully tomorrow.
Anyways, now I am wasting time on facebook and Chad better be here in 15.
I just ate two pieces of raisin bread and its so good but thats like 210 calories.
Its that even right!?
Is that even a lot? I dunno it sounds like a lot.
Anyways, I’m just rambling now.
I should go make sure I don’t look like a slob.
Holla atcha boy.

So on Wednesday night we all paid $13 to go down to the Italian centre for some wine tasting and cheese and grape eating. It was most delectable! Have to admit tho that Italian wines aren’t my favorite (I know blasphemy) but I much prefer Australian wines especially Wolf Blass. That I could drink every day.




Dario & Marlee joined in the fun! Gawd I love her hair.



6 red, 2 white. Reds are ALWAYS better, but maybe I am bias.

All the rest of the pictures are up on my flickr account. And for all of you who Facebook stalk me and expect to see pictures of events on there, you will have to check my flickr account because my laptop over heats and shuts down every time I upload pictures to Facebook and my work computer won’t let me upload them to Facebook either so to avoid all frustration I have just decided to put EVERYTHING on flickr in nice little organized folders for your viewing pleasure. I still MAY upload some things to Facebook if I have the time to fan my laptop for an hour but we shall see.

Speaking of flickr, I was browsing through some new pictures this morning when I came across Corinnas set of pictures that she took while checking out Riverview Mental Hospital. The pictures are both creepy yet extremely interesting. This sent me into an obsession trying to find out as much as I could about the now shut down hospital and the surrounding building which are still up and running. I was crapping my pants just reading about some of the things and imaging what use to happen there. Then I started reading about lobotomy’s and how they were preformed, it was so eery. Reading the cases of people whom it happened to was the worst. It was so weird because its one of those things that scares you but you can’t stop looking. I just kept researching and reading like an obsessive freak.

I started to scare Chad with all the stuff I was looking up and finding. It was just so amazingly interesting and is a part of our history here in BC with it being the largest mental health facility in all of North America. I don’t know if I would have the guts to actually go there and see if for myself but I just couldn’t stop looking at the pictures. It consumed all my thoughts.

Anyways, that took up a good part of my morning; obsessing over mental institutions.

Now because I wasted time this morning I am in a panic to try and get all the stuff I was suppose to get done, done. Ok well maybe not a panic but still.

After reading all I did today, saying that I am going mental just doesn’t feel right anymore.

When I want a reaction / attention out of Chad I usually do one of two things.

Firstly, I will blow air in his face, and like a dog he usually responds accordingly. However if this action fails, I move to phase two.

This involves tickling Chad. Which I might add is the easiest thing in the entire world to do because 95% of his body is so sensitive that even the gentlest of touches sets him off.

Now because I know this I abuse this. He will tell you that most of my movements when I am around him are sneaky and spastic because I will do anything to make him squirm. This however, has backfired to the point that he just does not trust me any more and has pretty much banned me from touching him.

Which brings us to last night.

We had gone to the Italian centre for a wine tasting event (which I will blog about tomorrow because God knows I will need something to amuse myself during work) and had gotten home fairly early. After uploading pictures of deep fried bacon we sat down for some snuggles. This is how we end every evening. Sometimes Chad calls it Tea Time because its the part of the night where we recap the days events and chit chat about things. And no we don’t drink tea while doing this.

Anyways, we somehow got onto the topic for the millionth time about how I am grabby and tickly and such and I happened to mention that at one point I was given the name ‘Crab Hands” because I acted as if I were a crab with claws to grab and pinch and such.

Chad then exclaimed that he was going to play ‘Jealous Raging Significant Other’ and insisted I inform him as to who gave me such a name. I however, would not comply. This set us into a back and forth scuffle of Chad yelling ‘Who called you Crab Hands, Crab Hands?” and me Crab Handing him to death. Then all of a sudden Chad stops and proclaims that his ear is bleeding. I don’t believe him tho because he has pulled this stunt many a time while trying to escape my wrath of tickles and it is never true.

He then pulls his hand away from his ear and there is blood all over it. Um, excuse me?

I look at his ear and there is blood in spots but I can’t tell where it is coming from. We go over to the bathroom where I wipe it clean and take a closer look at the damage.

It seems that a piece of skin has been scraped from the inside of his ear and this surface cut was causing it to bleed like a mother. How the hell the inside of his ear got damaged is beyond me. The only plausible culprit would have been my “dangerously spiky” ring, but still.

So jokingly annoyed he stands there with a Kleenex sticking out of his ear scowling at me, to which I respond by laugh hysterically because he looks so utterly cute that I just can’t help it.

I think he finally learned that as long as he is ticklish he will never win!

Last night was girl’s night with the work crew. We had to do our usual sneaky escape since it is illegal for us to hang out together outside of work. HA. It gets complicated at times.

Alicia and I got off earlier then Claudia so we drove around for a bit and then decided to park somewhere hidden so Claudia could go on an adventure to find us.

We took pictures of each other and watched all the crazy people around us. Commercial drive is full of hippies and Italians. It’s a very odd combination. The hippies piss me off those because they are constantly jay walking and popping out in front of your car and riding their bikes erratically everywhere. It’s a driving disaster. The Italians just sit on their patios and drink their coffee and ignore everyone.

Self timer doesn’t work well when your camera is falling. I’m over exaggerating a little in the picture.

But it does make Alicia burst into a hysterical laughter.

This is much better.

OH LOOK! There is Claudia!

We had to drive to get her cause she didn’t want to walk up the big hill.

So we headed downtown to Davie street for some din din. We went to a little noodle house called Legendary Noodle that was super small. We walked in and the first thing we saw was this Tranny dressed up with this huge golden blond curly wig. It was crazy. She had A LOT of make up on.

Claudia ordered a bunch of stuff for all of us to share. It was so much food we just couldn’t finish it all. I got to take the rest home.

Gai Lan. Amazing.

Dumplings. Amazing.


Left – Thick noodles with lemon and red pepper flakes. Very popular.
Bottom – Thin noodles in a black bean sauce. Not so popular.
Right – Flat noodles in a peanut sauce. Good but it was weird eating noodles in peanut butter, which is basically what it was.
Top – Stir fried veggies. Good!

The weird thing was is that we saw the waitress bring out the huge platter and so we thought it was for us, until she passes us and placed it in front of the Tranny, who I might add was there by herself. Yes that’s right, that HUGE platter all for herself. We were stunned.

After dinner we walked down to Cookies by George to get some yummy yummy cookies. Then we walked over to 7 Eleven to get some milk to accompany the cookies. Next stop, Claudia’s.


Cookies clockwise from the top: Marble, M&M, Classic Chocolate Chunk, Double Chocolate. The perfect way to end a night.

The view from the 15th floor.

We flipped between Beauty and the Geek, and American Idol while chit chatting about work and all its joys and sorrows.


After that we popped in Sarah Silverman’s Jesus is Magic. We only got to watch the first half of it though because it was super late but it was so funny. She is a genius.

“Could I, steal you, for a minute” – GOLD

Over all the night was a awesome tastic. I went home with a million pounds of food from dinner plus the two cookies that I didn’t eat. They were so good this morning.

I heart our funny girl work parties of 3! I can’t wait for our trip to seattle!