Grouse Mountain

Jet Lag

There will be a lack of writing today as I feel quite jet-lagged, so instead there will be a picture of a pretty flower... ahhhhhh

End of the Holidays

Stupid Head (taken by Dean)

Stupid Spanish Student Hair

Spaceboy 

Kidzone aka best money ever spent

Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese

It's over now.. It was fantastic while it lasted.. couldn't have been better, but back to the grind now. No more slacking on the blogathon.. honest

Vikings and Rebels...

My Irish Life

And there was eating and drinking...

Fish n Chips Friday... for real

yumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyumyum

Mammy's Fish n Chips = :)

This is a mirror in Geoff's. I want one like this.. have no place to put it but I like it very much...:)

Waterford Trekkin

The ducks were incubated in their eggs, and raised by my parents' neighbour's hens. They are so lovely and cute. Awwww..

This is Dee, she's one of my favourite people.. in my FAVOURITE pub Downes of Waterford!  

It is VERY dark in there... I kept having to remind myself that she is NOT the caped crusader (eye shadows cast from above).

Long Slog Home

Hold On..

... I'm comin

Waffly Wasteful

This guy was making a right pig's ear out of making waffles. I'd say they'd eat him alive on Dragon's Den. "So where exactly are ALL your profits from 2010?", "Oh, I see. They're pouring out the side of your waffle iron and flowing onto the floor."

They did smell pretty good though...

Food with Low Self-Esteem

The Roots

I am currently listening to their new album.. I fear I may become obsessed by it, listen to it at a high level of repetitiveness, grow sick of it, ruin it for myself.. I have done this to a large number of albums. I think it began with Radiohead's "The Bends". I wish I could show more restraint when it came to music..

Here comes the sun

Finally a glimmer of hope that summer has at last arrived in the 'Couver. The heat got turned up today, and I found myself needing sunglasses for the first time in quite a while.. Of course I shall be absconding in a week...

Don't let me down Ireland

Enter the Dragon

Saturday Shoop

Tonight we went for a walk on the seawall. We took a little break on one of the logs overlooking the shore, and were serenaded by the PARTYBOAT pulling in.. they were pumping out the old school hits.. Salt n Pepa, Blackstreet, Skee-lo, Montell Jordan.. I wanted to swim out and join them..

City Hall

This is Vancouver's City Hall.. I pretty much love this building. It never fails but reminds me of this... well except for the flag.

Courtesy of Oscar Boxcar

Today I have borrowed a picture which Oscar took outside our apartment at lunchtime. There are 2 clothing bins outside our place. One of them gives its proceeds to the Diabetes Foundation... this is the one where the "ladies" of the night/crackheads pull out the clothes and try them on. The stuff is obviously a hot commodity, because now they've set up their own buy and sell posting on the side of it. I like the part about the 3/2 inch heel.

Once, just as I was heading to bed, I saw a woman shimmy her way into the bin. I waited for about 10 minutes to see if she'd come back out.

She didn't.

I went to bed.

Ernest Hemingway

Apologies for the lack of blogging yesterday... I was feeling about 50% so I went to bed instead! So today one of the other girls at the hospital brought her new kitten to get her first vaccines. She'd been abandoned in a box by the side of the road. Do not adjust your sets...

She's a polydactyl cat (congenital condition where the animal has more digits than normal. Ernest Hemingway was a BIG fan of them, and would only have polydactyl cats at his home in Florida. They are the only cats allowed to live in the preserved building to this day.

This picture is for free :)

Plug for Eimhin

Want to get your hands on some grrroovy, unique, dotey artwork? well get yourself here and you too could be the proud owner of such works as...

Go onnnnn, be the envy of all your friends! :)

Hamburger Mary's

There are some good diners around this city. I accompanied a couple of lady friends to Hamburger Mary's after a get-together last evening. It's not a bad spot, and pretty busy considering it was 1 in the morning. I'm a sucker for a good 50's interior.

I was especially enamored with the jukebox roulette lamp hanging over our heads... WANT!

Gotham

Exclusionary Signs

Most of the Chinese restaurants around here (of which there are LOADS), have sandwich boards like this outside... I don't really feel like I can go into a place when the only thing I understand is "Parking at Rear"... I'm fairly certain it says more than that.

Street Heart

Goats that get spells of dizziness...

Vertigoats

Canada's Next Top Chef

Yep, that's me. Dee Dwyer I hope you're reading this.. I am somebody who would rather live on popcorn than prepare and cook myself a nice meal. Laziness plain and simple. I don't have the passion for food that others have. So I usually go around to their place for my dinner! That, and rely on my poor shackled-to-the-kitchen partner in crime..

But today that ALL turned around. I made a D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S mushroom risotto for dinner, and just now have completed making homemade chocolate covered honeycomb!!! I seriously couldn't be more proud.

This is the honeycomb before I smashed it into bits... I almost wept I was so happy. Then it became this:

There may be some hope for me after all......

Happy Joy

Sad Face Used Furniture? That's on the other side of town.. next to Monkey Queen.

SJDK (O.M.G)

Just been to see Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings at the Commodore tonight.. It's the second time I've seen them and at the same venue. She is UNBELIEVABLE. Actually the word isn't even strong enough. I've had a feeling of missing out on something wonderful since I never got to see James Brown before he passed away. But honestly I think she comes a seriously close second to him in his hayday.

This is the view from our friends Mags and Kenny's new apartment. It's quite the scenic spot.

Evening Barbies and Cats

So this evening after work I went over to my friend Jodie's place to visit with her, our friend Sandy, a bottle of wine and her cats Tia and Baxter. Her cats are skinny but super healthy.. they just eat what fills them and then leave the rest for later. They make me feel inadequate in my care of Leeroy... he's like the Vegas Elvis to their young Mississippi Elvis days.

Tia loved my shoes.. bless her. They stink to Bejesus but she made me feel more than welcome.. Unfortunately Leeroy was at home stuffing himself with an opened and unattended can of catfood...

He was later outrun by a mouse in our flat.. true story.

Easside

More east side cross action.. this time in wood, also featuring the ubiquitous East Van hipsters in the background. Painfully cool.. I don't care, it's hip to be square.

Treme

Have I mentioned New Orleans before? I can't remember if I've discussed (at length), my probable love for it... but I think I love New Orleans. It's only probable because I've never been there, but have a raging desire to go... for as long as I can remember. The HBO series, written by those responsible for 'The Wire', is pretty great in my opinion. As for the music.. well it's second to none.