Hali Hali

Yay! We had fun!

so many indians, where's our chief? (Jbear?)

After eating indian food with our hands. Yum! 

Today's Top 5

I have unilaterally decided to start a new segment on the blog called "Top 5" which is a brief and likely random list of things/people/places that I am in love with right now. Basically it the laziest way possible to write an update. Also provides a brief snapshot into what is consuming me right now.

1. My iPod Touch- I am in love with this little device, mainly for the great toy it is on buses and planes. It is a life saver when I'm sitting on a tarmac or at a bus stop. I love the time management games which plays to my obsessions with doing as much as possible within a constricted period of time. The alarm sounds are also highly amusing.

2. Snow Plows- We had a RIDICULOUS amount of snow this weekend. However given that we live on two bus routes, we know it would only be a matter of time before we were rescued. I waited anxiously on the couch (in my typical neighborhood watch position) and sure enough the sweet, sweet sound of metal on asphalt came by around 2pm on Saturday afternoon. Once again the Sentra (our car) was cleared for travel. Seriously it is a thankless job and yet so essential.

3. Brooches- See post below

4. Christmas music- I just can't stop downloading different versions of the same 20 Christmas songs. My new favorite- Ertha Kitt singing Santa Baby- MEOW! That was a reference to her playing Catwoman, for those of you who didn't pick up on my cleverness right away.

5. Quality Colleagues- Work has been a 3 ring corporate circus lately and sometimes the only thing that makes it bearable is the people you are sitting next to. The sametime messages, discreet texts, quick eye rolls, closed door office gossip sessions and Second Cup runs injects a bit of sane into the crazy.

Brooch is the New Black

As I continue to fall deeper in love with Glee, the school counsellor's style has continued to inspire me. I wish I had her wardrobe with the cute sweaters, jackets and most of all the brooches. I have suspected that brooches were coming back for quite some time, but never had the nerve (or the supply) to help bring them back.

On a recent trip to Edmonton I discovered a rash of brooches at Club Monaco and bought one immediately. Upon sharing my quest to make brooch the new black, my Mom also gave me a brooch that was my Grandma's. Now, armed with two brooches, I am well on my way to promoting librarian chic and bringing back the brooch with a vengeance. I have worn both to work and church and received compliments at each venue.

Let the record state that I am on the "bleeding edge" (insert unnecessary corporate jargon - check!) of the brooch craze and I'm bringing it back to downtown Calgary.

The oak tree and the cypress

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the string of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart. And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

from The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran

Family

My brother in 30 years...

Guns are cool!

Meenalu, on the loose.