Macarons=heaven

I am not a macaron expert. Until two months ago they never even registered on my radar but NOW I feel I might die if I do not try every flavour. I am talking about French macarons. You know what I am talking about...those colourful little sandwich type pastries you always see in montages of Parisian food shows? Pastel colours...

Well, I saw them in pictures too but I always assumed they would be dry and crunchy and flavourless. I am not sure why I made that assumption because I was dead wrong. My favourite blog Domestic Sluttery has an obsession with them. They seem to be constantly posting new spots to try them around London and you can almost hear them drooling as they were typing up their new reviews. When I had read the fourth review I thought to myself "Self, if these bloggers who I feel have amazing taste in most everything love these macarons what am I waiting for?" and that signalled the beginning of my love affair.

I picked up my macarons today at a place called Nadedge in Toronto which is right across from Trinity Bellwoods park on Queen street W. Like I said, I am not a proper connoisseur by any means but what I do know is I gave away four macarons to four different people and every single one of these people gave me impressions of utter joy as they sunk their teeth into their little taste of heaven.

So what is a French macaron? It is a sandwich cookie of meringue that is filled with either icing, ganache or a fruity jelly. Please try one if you see them. You can thank me later.

Happy Thursday!

Character love.

I am now on the fourth book in the Sookie Stachouse series. This is the series that HBO's True Blood is loosely based around. I am addicted. It has vampires, werewolves and other "supes" but it is super smutty. And who doesn't love Sookie. I wish I WAS Sookie. These books are amazing and I have now been buying them in twos because I know when I finish the first one I will want to immediately want to start the second one. My mum can never start a new book the same day she finishes an old book. It's like she needs to let that one dwell or something. That being sad, she has stayed up very late finishing one book just so she can get to the next book waiting on her night stand. I digress...

The thing about the Sookie Stackhouse books is that I have totally, head-over-heels, fallen in love with Eric. Like silly fallen for him. The strange part is that because I watched the series before I started reading the books, I have also fallen head-over-heels in love with Alexander Skarsgard. I swoon when I see his photo.....like the one posted above....sigh....

So it begs the question, does good writing mean I have fallen for him or does good acting mean I have fallen for him???

Happy Thursday!

Another crazy day

What am I thinking about today?

Tonight is the last night of my eight week boot camp. We have measurements tonight. The last time we had measurements was four weeks ago. At that time I lost 22.5 inches. I felt amazing. I was on top of the world and so proud. This week I am not feeling so confident. I missed two of the classes from this round four week period. I have been mostly eating like crap. Ugh....but I am going to still be measured to see how (badly) I have done.

I am doing Booty Camp Fitness. Like I said, I am on the last day of my 8 week session. Every week my amazing teacher Susan switches things up. The first few classes we played tag as a cardio warm up. How fun is that? Now we are doing agility ladders and I pretend I am in the army. It makes the hour go faster.

I liked the boot camp so much that I have already signed up for a second session. In fact, I signed up for a interim session as well. I will have two weeks with no boot camp so I am hoping I can start running outside again.....

Alright, must throw on my sneakers and get outside.

Happy Tuesday!

Friday night movie

I went out to the movies tonight with a couple girlfriends. We saw New Moon. I will not apologize for it.....or the fact that it is the second time I have seen it so far.....

Anyhow, upon arriving home my living room is full of boys watching South Park so I have retreated to the basement with a glass of wine and my kitty Jakob curled up beside me. What a perfect time to blog.

Life as a nanny is wonderful still! The girls crack me up every day and I almost feel the need to dedicate a whole page to "Little A's" phrases and the things she comes up with....this toddler seriously cracks me up. The Christmas Tree has gone up at work and she sits looking at it telling me what all the ornaments are...until i turn my back. At that point she starts to take them off the tree and then pretends she didn't know this is not allowed. This happens often. It is really, really funny but I, of course, keep a stern, straight face when I politely ask her to hang them back up.

My insane knitting has progressed quickly. C promises to take a bunch of photos of the stuff I am knitting so I can post it. We will see if that ever happens....I bought this fab new knitting book called Boutique Knits and I recommend it to anyone looking for wicked accessories.....I have already knit two hats this week!

Happy Friday!

Technology-arghhhhhh!!!!

It is common knowledge I am not technologically inclined. In fact, many a computer has leaped to their tragic death to avoid contact with me. Humans I can handle......why must I be made to try and figure out a PC?

I think the "PC" thing is the problem. I grew up with Macs.....we were happy, Macs and I. We typed papers together, we designed graphs and charts. We even started emailing. Then I met C. He was not a "Mac guy" and bowed down to the unholy god that is also know as "computer games". The games C liked to play were not compatible with Macs. My first question was, "why would you play a computer game when you can go outside and actually talk to people?" and then I remembered I was blogging.....hello kettle, this is the pot calling.

I digress....

This weekend we were in NYC cheering on my brother running in the marathon. We had an amazing time and my mom emailed me some photos. I clicked on "download"....and the stupid, freakimg pictures have entered into the abyss of this stupid computer. I tried searching for them and, instead, three copies of every photo that is on this godforsaken computer has come up.

I do not want your pity. I do not want your computer related advice. I just want a f#%&*ing MAC.


Happy Tuesday.

I am on the ball...

I have accomplished a lot today! This morning started off with laundry, I took the girls to Riverdale Farm and then I can back home and cleaned. I have caught up on a week's worth of Young and the Restless, I did yoga AND I finished knitting my first Christmas present! I basically rule....

Last night at knitting night we convert a new member....my new co-worker Jennifer! Well, hopefully she wants to come back....

What's new? Fall TV!!! The only good thing about this wretched season is the new TV shows. My favourite so far is Glee! Has anyone seen it? Fab...really, really fab.

Alright, I am cooking a delicious meatless meatloaf for dinner with mashed potatoes and asparagus...mmmm...and C brought home key lime mini cupcakes. I am in heaven!

Happy Friday!

Long weekend

Today I slept in until 10:30am. That, for me, is insane. This might show you how tired I have been lately.

I have now been Mary Poppins, aka a nanny, for over a month. I am still absolutely loving it but it is putting a serious cramp in my energy level. That being said, I have also been switching my sleeping schedule to try and revolve myself to C's later schedule.....and until this week eating poorly. Anyhow, I am now back on track, eating well, catching up on my zzzz's. Life is good.

What have I been up to these last few weeks? Loads. The girls are keeping me on my toes but I have also started watching True Blood AND Mad Men and I am seriously addicted. I watched the first two seasons of Mad Men in a week....the second season in one day. This is a problem. This will also show the people who "just can't get into it" that Mad Men gets waaaay better after the first four or so episodes. True Blood kicks ass and I now have my inspiration to try and look like Anna Paquin...holy smokin' hot body!!! I got a new pilates DVD so we will see how successful I am at using it...

So, I will write more later. For now, sleepy time so I can be bright and perky for a breakfast in the Beach tomorrow morning!!!

Happy Friday!!!