Gimme Some Cupcakes!

You must love this girl.
Gift certificate contest and now....cupcakes!

To celebrate Ginger's half-birthday, she's having a draw for people in the GTA to win a dozen cupcakes from her and Madalina over at Duh-Licious. I've got my fingers crossed as...I live in the GTA! Woot!

Now that is a sweet welcome back to her blog! ;)

Countdown to Baby...

On Tricia's facebook today, she mentioned thinking (hoping) that the 'main event' (aka babytime) was either going to be today or tomorrow.

I don't know if she's just wishing that...or if she's in actual labour?!?!

Everyone after that post was wishing her luck, etc. so I don't really know what is going on, but I'm excited for her either way and was thinking about calling her tonight, however I am awaiting the phone call. :)

Drink Review: Mike's Mike-arita & Mojito

Generally I've been pretty impressed with Mike's products. (I've loved their hard lemonade since it came out...pre: Smirnoff Ice) Lately, Mike's newest drinks are 'bartender quality' cocktails. The Mike-Arita and Mike's Mojito. They were sampling these at the LCBO recently and because I am an avid Mike's fan...I decided to buy a couple of each other for evenings out.

I have to say that these have to be ICE cold and preferrably on ice (they are very strong (7%vodka)) and the ice mellows it as it melts. (They are also very strong lime taste...definitely have lots of ice!)

The Mojitos were probably my favourite of the two with the mint flavour hitting (strongly, mind you) alongside the lime.

These would be great for a party, summer bbq or cottaging or camping (because they are cans and easy to deal with)...otherwise, I'd stick with the regular lemonade or the limeade. I'll be sure to try out the pink lemonade though too!

Tomorrow..off to purchase strawberries at the local farm and perhaps head over to the farmers market. :)

Ginger Is Back!

Hey all,
Ginger is back...with a vengeance and tons of cool prizes over at Ginger Won't Snap!
Seriously. Ridiculously cool.

The first cool prize is a $10 US or $15 CDN Amazon gift certificate (I could certainly use a new book...failing that, I'm sure you could use one!! ;))

Be sure to head over to Ginger's blog and check out her contests and her fabulous blog!

Money Spent: $0

Monday is in the bag.
Tuesday to go and then...Canada Day! (Which means..I have a day off in the middle of the week :)) I'm pretty excited. I plan to get some things done (ie. put up my CD shelving again..FINALLY), enjoying a couple of drinks in the evening, hopefully taking some photos and making a few new things for my Etsy shop (namely deciding what images to put on notecards) and just enjoying the day. Tomorrow though, it's back to the job.

Weekend Money Spent: $67.99 ~ bathing suit

$33.64 ~ Canada Day beer//Mike's Mojitos & Mikearitas (total splurge and gifts)

$36.74 ~ UV filter for 50 mm lens

$42.22 ~ Herbs for the garden (finally!)

I went WAY overboard on spending this weekend, but partly for good reason.


I needed a bathing suit (I had left mine in Scotland last year because it was too big and motivation to buy a new one) and in all fairness, this suit was 40% off and the pool is just about ready! I am a confessed swimdress wearer. Sounds frumpy, no? Well, I thought that too until I started wearing them and feeling more like a 40's pinup girl. What's your bathing suit style?


I finally managed to get some herbs bought and planted for the garden! I've got some basil, sage, lavender, lemon verbena, garlic chives, curly parsley and corriander. (I also bought some catnip seeds to ensure that the cats avoid my herbs and eat their own..one can hope right?) We have lots of mint growing under the deck still as well..perfect :)



I forgot to mention that as a 'reward' for my first paycheque from the new gig, I went and bought a new purse from Danier which is GORGEOUS (and purple). (Oddly enough I have worked on projects with the people from Danier in the past, but have never bought anything there!) Anyway, I'm a complete convert. I've never had really fancy handbags (and although this one isn't fancy persay) I do plan on adding a few more goodies into my dating arsenal and clearing out some of the junk I do have.


But this afternoon/evening consists of tidying up, watching True Blood, possibly enjoying a Mikearita (I feel soooo bad for Americans who get the malt version of Mike's (Ugh.), when clearly the real vodka version is 10,000,000,000,000 times better!), reading some of my latest library book (The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson) and maybe just maybe pulling out the quilt.

"If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with."

~ Michael Jackson

I thought a lot yesterday about how I wanted to acknowledge the life of Michael Jackson on this blog. I was still in a strange shock that someone who was an influential part of my childhood AND pop culture had passed so unexpectedly. I thought back to my childhood and how my decor reflected the entire gamut of teen boy celebrities and musicians. I had posters covering my walls ripped from every TigerBeat and teen magazine you could imagine.I even saved money and bought posters of Michael Jackson and River Phoenix (both now deceased long before their time) not to mention the giant Thriller poster that my dad brought me back one day from the video store in town. I was ecstatic.

Michael Jackson was the best thing that happened in 1983 to a 9 year old.
I pretty much lived and breathed Michael Jackson. My friend Wendy and I used to act out Thriller during recess breaks at school and had grand ideas of performing the dances for pretty much anyone willing to sit still.

My parents (who were never big Motown fans) allowed me to stay up and watch TV for Michael Jackson's performance (ANY performance by Michael Jackson on television was something to see) at the 25th anniversary and I had the privilege of seeing this for the first time ever. People have been trying to copy him ever since.

*Golimar
*13 Going on 30 dance scene
*Prisoners have even danced
*He pretty much created the musical career of this man
*Take your turn to dance too or...learn how to Moonwalk

Michael Jackson barely had a childhood, a completely media frenzied existence and what undoubtedly can be called the most surreal life. Although I no longer hang Michael Jackson posters on my wall, I do still listen to Thriller every once in a while. I have a feeling it may be on repeat for a while.

Thank you for the music.