My niece is a bad influence now this has been playing in my head constantly

That time of year again

I've officially checked out. My stress is at maximum levels which means that I'm gradually less productive. I have at least been keeping up with the deadlines of my in class assignments and starting to cook quite a bit again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrfUXuBaJ1E

I love this. Basically jersey shore spoofs will never get old to me.

Nutrition ftw

I'm ashamed to admit but out of the last four days I have eaten macdonalds food four times, potato chips twice, greasy western asian food, and a instant soup. Now I'm not fanatical about having to eat healthy constantly but this seems a bit excessive, perhaps because I've been reading this blog, http://www.choosingraw.com/ , where Gena talks about her vegan with a focus on raw food diet. I feel inspired to try to eat healthier and also cheaper! Meaning I probably should stop obsessively buying roll up the rim drinks from tim hortons and bringing some homemade lunches to school. I remember when I did the wild rose cleanse I ended up really eating healthy and also having to really plan and watch what I ate. Now I don't think I'm going to go to that extreme but perhaps something similar.

so there are a lot of great things happening this week, my friend's Elyse and Melanie's birthdays on wednesday and thursday respectively. I'm also headed off to edmonton to visit my favorite frenchie Charlotte this weekend. But to be completely honest I'm most excited for this, http://www.downtowncalgary.com/dineoutcalgary! I'm taking my baby sisters for sushi on sunday at blowfish sushi and then I hope to go for many more lunches throughout the week.

My favorite picks for restaurants are:
-CHARCUT roast house
-Farm
-River Cafe
but really if I was not a poor student I would go to them all!

This week

I have been fairly sick for the past week and also have a lot of schoolwork to do, and also have a lot of social activities in the next while, so in theory I should be trying to get
a) get rid of my sickness
b) doing some schoolwork
c) getting organized for my social events

So of course instead I am watching house online and reading food blogs. My new favorite being

she is funny, honest, unpretentious, and talks about delicious food. What's not to love?

Oh Canada

I consider myself to be a good normal Canadian. I love bacon, maple syrup and poutine. I enjoy winter and don’t bother wearing a winter coat unless it is colder then minus ten. I often wear red plaid and been called a lumberjack more than once, (I’m hoping this is due to the red plaid not my burliness). I have traveled across this lovely country of ours and have been too all the territories and provinces besides the Maritimes, (which I hope to visit in the near future). My bestest friend is a French-Canadian. I am a polite, nice, and fairly socialist, although I have never bothered to vote, which brings me to another thing that makes me a normal Canadian, apathy. I dare to infer this is normal since only 59% of our population voted in our last election. Perhaps apathetic is not exactly the right word, basically I’m not very competitive, the only sport I consistently follow is hockey, (again look how Canadian I am!), and my favourite team is currently last in the league and it honestly does not bother me that much, sorry Oilers. So when the winter Olympics rolled around I figured it would be like every other four years and I would hear a bit about it here and there and it wouldn’t really affect my normal lifestyle. To be honest I always found loud patriotism a bit disconcerting and made fun of those who jumped hard onto Olympic bandwagons, like my lovely roommate Sarah. Well I ended up watching a lot in the first couple days which can be explained that the fact that my aforementioned roommate Sarah and other roommate Karla are nuts about these types of things. Karla the crazy foreigner that she is even had the audacity to tell me she is teaching me to be Canadian, which I thought was hilarious, but it could just have been her funny south African accent. Anyways more days went by and I continued to watch, I mean I love gingers so Jon Montgomery was an obvious choice, but it hit me last Wednesday when I was sitting on my couch, the men hockey quarter finals had just been won by Canada and I was watching the women’s bobsled racing with my heart in my throat as the USA team raced down the track trying to beat the Canadians first place. I realized at that moment that I had gotten sucked into the whole Olympic trap. I LOVED it. No wether this means I should check myself in for an MRI or just accept the fact that a little competetive patriotism never hurt anyone I'm not to sure.