And I ain't gonna walk around the flat in circles to get those last 1443 steps. I'm already in bed. Screw u global corporate challenge, screw you.
Thursday, 20 June 2013
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Holy Perogy
Oh and don't forget Parmesan!
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Ah nature
Keith: isn't this beautiful?
Me: how long is the walk back to the car again?
More from our weekend on the Sunshine Coast to come
Monday, 10 June 2013
My husband's favorite hobby: winding me up
Me: "god, Chinese people really like to put pictures of their food on Facebook" I say as I scroll through my newsfeed to view a piece of salmon on some spaghetti and some kinda noodle in broth (riveting)
Keith: "not just Chinese people"
Me: "like who? Dave? And his fish and chips?"
Keith: "... Or Anna*. And Bill*"
Me: "I guess. Who else though?"
Keith: "you"
Me: "I AM Chinese you idiot!"
Keith:"hahaha you are so easy to wind up"
But it's true. Tonight I had a paneer malkani from Curry Zone and I wish I had a picture of it to share with you all.
*names changed to protect identities of rare non-Chinese food picture addicts
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Global Corporate Challenge
I'm doing the global coroporate challenge with work. It's basically a program pushed out via busniesses who get their employees to form teams and encourage them to get more active during a 16 week period. The goal is 10,000 steps a day. At first, I was reluctant to sign on, as any kind of committment to exercise is automatically rejected in my innately lazy self. But since I walk 1.2 kms each way to and from work every day, I actually automatically walk about 3500 steps just from that. So I decided to bite the bullet and sign up!
Since it hasn't been too busy at work lately, we have been able to go for walks at lunch time to bump our steps up, which i guess means the program is working because we are doing about 40 minutes of continuous walking that normally we wouldn't do. It has been really sunny this week in Vancouver so it has been very nice walking down by the waterfront towards Stanley Park. Today we were walking along the waterfront when we noticed a lot of people standing still and staring, some with cameras out. We peeked over the edge and saw a big heron with an eel about 10 inches long in its beak. Wish I had my phone to take a picture. The poor eel was writhing around a little bit trying to free itself but it was beat. My vegetarian coworker that I was walking with felt so bad for the poor eel, and i was like, yummmmm, unagi.
Countering the effects of the walk, both days I have had a coffee frappucino from Starbucks at the end before heading back to sit my f@t @ss at my desk. Perhaps publishing some stats will motivate me!
Steps today so far (June 5): 8,616
Total steps yesterday (June 4): 12,791
Personal best to date: 17,268 (Vegas forcing me to schlep around over the weekend)
Step average: 11,765
Really cool how world-wide this thing is. My friend in DC that we met up with in NYC a couple of weeks ago mentioned counting her steps and we realized we were both in this challenge thing this year. Her team is ranked 3,709. My team is ranked 24,157. I'm contributing 30% of the distance walked so far to my team of 7 though so I blame them.
Since it hasn't been too busy at work lately, we have been able to go for walks at lunch time to bump our steps up, which i guess means the program is working because we are doing about 40 minutes of continuous walking that normally we wouldn't do. It has been really sunny this week in Vancouver so it has been very nice walking down by the waterfront towards Stanley Park. Today we were walking along the waterfront when we noticed a lot of people standing still and staring, some with cameras out. We peeked over the edge and saw a big heron with an eel about 10 inches long in its beak. Wish I had my phone to take a picture. The poor eel was writhing around a little bit trying to free itself but it was beat. My vegetarian coworker that I was walking with felt so bad for the poor eel, and i was like, yummmmm, unagi.
Countering the effects of the walk, both days I have had a coffee frappucino from Starbucks at the end before heading back to sit my f@t @ss at my desk. Perhaps publishing some stats will motivate me!
Steps today so far (June 5): 8,616
Total steps yesterday (June 4): 12,791
Personal best to date: 17,268 (Vegas forcing me to schlep around over the weekend)
Step average: 11,765
Really cool how world-wide this thing is. My friend in DC that we met up with in NYC a couple of weeks ago mentioned counting her steps and we realized we were both in this challenge thing this year. Her team is ranked 3,709. My team is ranked 24,157. I'm contributing 30% of the distance walked so far to my team of 7 though so I blame them.
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
Las Vegas Recovery Ratio
I survived my first Las Vegas bachelorette party!! No puking, no sunburn, no molestation, but am I ever tired. Given that I was only there for 2 days, came back on Sunday and it's now Tuesday afternoon, it seems an unustifiable amount of exhaustion. I've had to resort to a coffee frappucino (it being a balmy 20 degrees in Vancouver today, a blended ice drink was needed) at 1:45 after my lunch time power walk to get me through the afternoon.
Here is my review of some of the delights Las Vegas has to offer:
Mirage: an older hotel but the rooms were fairly updated.
Pros: staff were fairly patient with drunken girls spilling bottled water on their lobby floor at 6am in the morning
Cons: black streaks which Kim guessed might be mould found on one towel
Pool Parties: where no one swims, the men gawk at the women, and official hottie contests are held
Pros: Mash lent me a hat and I didn't get sunburnt. Too early in the day for the men to be drunk enough to get grabby. Tossing beach bawls around keepy-uppy style actually kinda fun.
Cons: missing the guest list by 2 minutes = $20 entry fee.
Restaurants: amazing steak at Joe's Seafood and Steakhouse, frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity 3, champagne buffet at Mirage
Pros: YUM YUM YUM and not that pricey! I think I devoured 25 prawns with cocktail sauce at the buffet. I even wasted space with a barbecue pork bun from the dim sum table but I couldn't help it - those are my favourite!
Cons: none. but i was so stuffed after the buffet I needed to lie down for 2 hours
Behold the 4-cheese mac and cheese from Joe's and the frozen hot chocolate from Serendipity!
Clubs: Tao
Pros: none
Cons: snooty bartender getting snippy with us when we stood on the wrong side of the cut-off point at the bar where the waitresses pick up table orders, then proceeding to completely ignore us and not serve us, until such time that the cut-off for free drinks from our wristbands was past and Kim had to pay $26 for her double. No-where to hang out. Music not good.
Clubs: Marquee
Pros: amazing amazing venue, outside partying on roof-top with pool and views of the other hotels and their bright lights. Venue not so stuffed that you were cheek to cheek with strangers.
Cons: nowhere for the women who didn't pay $$$$$$ to reserve a table to sit, forcing all the women, who, in their real lives, I'm sure are completely decent women with scruples, to whore themselves out flirting with groups of men in order to secure a seat at their tables to rest their weary feet (which are all in 5 inch heels).
Clubbing in general
Con: dressing up like a ho makes you feel really dirty
Pro: dressing up like a ho can make you feel quite pretty. hahahaha.
And I think it's a record that I managed to snap at only one person, but he really deserved it. Douchebag towncar driver was trying to rip us off by charging us $40 to go from Caesar's Palace to Excalibur, claiming that two taxis would cost us $20 for each taxi at least. Knowing full well it doesn't (it costs $11 for each) I refused to deal with him and proceeded to wait 15 minutes for a taxi because we weren't at the busiest taxi queue for Caesar's. While we were waiting, he could tell that we were getting a bit antsy because we were trying to make it to Excalibur in time for a show, he had the nerve to come up and taunt me by remarking "if you had taken the car you'd be there by now". To which I responded reactively "OH. THANK YOU. That's VERY HELPFUL". Then proceeded in my head to punch him in the face and revise that response to a more venomous "Wow, thanks for that, you douchebag, and we'd also be ripped off by you right now you enormous scumbag". But I can never think that fast! Why can't I ever think that fast???
Here is my review of some of the delights Las Vegas has to offer:
Mirage: an older hotel but the rooms were fairly updated.
Pros: staff were fairly patient with drunken girls spilling bottled water on their lobby floor at 6am in the morning
Cons: black streaks which Kim guessed might be mould found on one towel
Pool Parties: where no one swims, the men gawk at the women, and official hottie contests are held
Pros: Mash lent me a hat and I didn't get sunburnt. Too early in the day for the men to be drunk enough to get grabby. Tossing beach bawls around keepy-uppy style actually kinda fun.
Cons: missing the guest list by 2 minutes = $20 entry fee.
Restaurants: amazing steak at Joe's Seafood and Steakhouse, frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity 3, champagne buffet at Mirage
Pros: YUM YUM YUM and not that pricey! I think I devoured 25 prawns with cocktail sauce at the buffet. I even wasted space with a barbecue pork bun from the dim sum table but I couldn't help it - those are my favourite!
Cons: none. but i was so stuffed after the buffet I needed to lie down for 2 hours
Behold the 4-cheese mac and cheese from Joe's and the frozen hot chocolate from Serendipity!
Clubs: Tao
Pros: none
Cons: snooty bartender getting snippy with us when we stood on the wrong side of the cut-off point at the bar where the waitresses pick up table orders, then proceeding to completely ignore us and not serve us, until such time that the cut-off for free drinks from our wristbands was past and Kim had to pay $26 for her double. No-where to hang out. Music not good.
Clubs: Marquee
Pros: amazing amazing venue, outside partying on roof-top with pool and views of the other hotels and their bright lights. Venue not so stuffed that you were cheek to cheek with strangers.
Cons: nowhere for the women who didn't pay $$$$$$ to reserve a table to sit, forcing all the women, who, in their real lives, I'm sure are completely decent women with scruples, to whore themselves out flirting with groups of men in order to secure a seat at their tables to rest their weary feet (which are all in 5 inch heels).
Clubbing in general
Con: dressing up like a ho makes you feel really dirty
Pro: dressing up like a ho can make you feel quite pretty. hahahaha.
And I think it's a record that I managed to snap at only one person, but he really deserved it. Douchebag towncar driver was trying to rip us off by charging us $40 to go from Caesar's Palace to Excalibur, claiming that two taxis would cost us $20 for each taxi at least. Knowing full well it doesn't (it costs $11 for each) I refused to deal with him and proceeded to wait 15 minutes for a taxi because we weren't at the busiest taxi queue for Caesar's. While we were waiting, he could tell that we were getting a bit antsy because we were trying to make it to Excalibur in time for a show, he had the nerve to come up and taunt me by remarking "if you had taken the car you'd be there by now". To which I responded reactively "OH. THANK YOU. That's VERY HELPFUL". Then proceeded in my head to punch him in the face and revise that response to a more venomous "Wow, thanks for that, you douchebag, and we'd also be ripped off by you right now you enormous scumbag". But I can never think that fast! Why can't I ever think that fast???
Saturday, 1 June 2013
Las Vegas - why are you full of douches?
To be fair to Las Vegas, I guess, I'm not actually there yet, so these douches I speak of are merely on a flight to Las Vegas. Why must I be in the seats next to them?
Case in point - two slimy dudes macking on a group of Indian girls on their way to Sandys hen do. Both groups in this situation are working my last nerve.
How do I know it is Sandy who is getting married? Well, it might be their insistence on screaming, in unison, ARE WE GETTING MARRIED ? HELL NO! IS SANDY GETTING MARRIED? HELL YEA! I didn't want to know, bitches, I didn't want to know. Also, I already knew that because of the tiny matching tank tops stretched across all your impressive racks. Damn Indian women and their enviable figures.
But their most annoying trait has got to be their insistence on blaring and singing banghra music, complete with whoops and shit.
The two men, of course are loving this display an buying them drinks (like they are going to sleep with you on the plane). Also, spending their time asking the flight attendants if the US sim cards they are selling will fit into their IPhone 5. When informed that no it won't but that they can buy a cheaper phone for $50 to use with any US mobile carrier, they douchesomely inform her that switching from an iPhone 5 to that phone is "like switching from a plane to a... horse." Ok, Douchebag McDoofus and your douchebag iPhone 5. No one is cooler than you now. Wooooo.
Argh - just over an hour to go in theist horrific flight ever.
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