My day started off with a 5am phone call.

Ok, so I was called into work an hour early (6-3 shift, shoot my brains out) but it wasn't a terrible day. I mean, the first 6 hours were. But I went for a run on my break, and everyone loved my salad bar. Cory met me at work and I showed him around, and we walked to a rink downtown to drink coffee (chai tea for me, of course) and watch kids fall down. Marcel came too, and he actually took pictures of the kids until we were like, ok, maybe we should go before someone arrests us for stalking. Then we met up with Rene at his work, and went to the Unicorn for pub food, beer and to watch Canada kick Russia butt. Not too bad for a Wednesday.

you got a fast car, I want a ticket to anywhere

What a gorgeous day in Calgary. We have a little backyard fire pit and today we had our second outdoor fire this month. In February! There wasn't a cloud in the sky and it was about 5 degrees. So I guess there are bonuses to living in this silly city.

This morning I went to IKEA with Annabelle, Wayne and Emily while Cory was at work. I wanted to get some art for our bedroom which is depressingly white, but ended up buying another plant. If this keeps up, soon I will live in a jungle.

the old black rum

Lately, I have been in the mood to drink. It's a strange feeling, I don't do it very often considering we don't know many people here, it's expensive, and so on.

So last night we went out and had a few rums at a very interesting pub called the Hop in Brew. It's basically a really old house with taps of beer thrown in at the back. (It actually reminded me a lot of Brutopia in Montreal) Apparently they are well known for their draft, but we tried a few and they were pretty terrible. The rum was delicious, however. We met up with my friend Marcel from work, and a few of his friends. It was a great time! I really liked the pub. It had a very local feel to it, but very different than the usual cowboy-fighting-oil rig sports pubs you find in Calgary. And bonus, it's only a few blocks from my work. Anyway, I would recommend it to anyone visiting Calgary, and we'll definitely be going back.

hippie, hippie, hoorah

Walking around on my break attempting to get some health care, I realized that I really, really hate this city. I mean, living here is not so bad, I could really live anywhere as long as I enjoy my job and have a good yoga class to go to. But the city itself is just a hell hole. Grey.

Right now, I'm listening to some mixed CDs Marcel made for me. He put pictures of Thetis Lake on the front - he lived in Victoria two summers ago and we talk about our favourite spots all the time. Marcel is the first person I have met out west that I actually enjoy. And I wish Jess was here to date him, because for some reason I can't get it out of my head that they would be great together.

Cory's first DJ set is tomorrow at some bar downtown. V exciting! I work at BP, hopefully not too late that I will miss the show. Speaking of which, I don't think BP will last much longer.. I'm getting pretty burnt out.

This is basically how I spent my day yesterday. That's my new mug!

my life is food.

We finally made it to the Calgary Farmer's Market this morning. I got a beautiful new ceramic mug for my tea needs and we all bought pies from Simple Simon Pies. It was a tough decision but after about 5 samples (great marketing) Cory ended up with a chicken curry pie, and I got a mushroom chicken pie. Such a great idea for a market stall - they had about 20 "meal" pies, and 15 dessert pies, all different sizes.. puts me in the mood to make some pastry.

I picked up a food magazine on cheap eats in Calgary while we were there too, so I'll be reading that later to find some good spots. Jess and I discussed a possible spring visit so I'll want to be in the know of some cool places to take her to, and eating out is back on the agenda now that Cory is working again.

looong weekend!

Go Alberta and their made up holidays! Thanks to "family day" on Monday, I'm at the beginning of a long weekend. Usually I don't care but thanks to my new job I actually have the time off.

Hooray! And happy valentine's day

robots need love too, they want to be loved by you.

Last night Cory and I saw Dan Mangan at The Gateway in SAIT. It was quite an ordeal to get to the pub (I blame google maps) but totally worth it in the end. He put on a great show and we met him after the show! He was very handsome and Cory said I was star struck.

Yesterday we also went skating on the Bowness lagoon. We took Annabelle's red sled and got hot chocolate afterwords.. it was a great winter day.

free lunch day!

Today was a free lunch at CM. We ordered $3000 worth of food from some Asian noodle house and set it up for everyone to eat buffet style. Turns out we only needed about half of it.

I came home with four take home containers, plus some muffins from breakfast. Love love love my job.