colour please!

it has been grey in vancouver for too long.  rain, rain, and more rain. i am longing for colour... blossoming trees and flowers, blue sky, and a yellow happy sun please.  is that too much to ask?

this home, full of exploding colour, is gorgeous.



these colourful magnets would look great on our kitchen board.



wearing this bangle would provide the right amount of colour to an outfit.



i would join the colour run in a second; so awesome!





yes, every home can definitely use a colourful moroccan pouf



 

seeing someone wear this pink and white skirt would make me smile.



colour-coded books... love.



i have seen these colourful bunting balls at a number of local shops and want a string of my own.

a rose coloured / flower decorated cake... yum!



have a lovely weekend. hope it's colourful wherever you live!

jessie's girl

did you see rick springfield on ellen?  he sang jessie's girl, his first number one hit, with the director/producer of sound city dave grohl.  rick springfield is interviewed in the documentary along with other famous icon musicians who used sound city to record their albums.  rick is interviewed by the rolling stone here, if you'd like a quick read.  i plan to watch the documentary, you?

anyway... i was in love with rick springfield.  proof?  i cut out his pictures from magazines and stored them in a binder to stare at whenever i pleased; went to his concerts and screamed; memorized his songs; and watched general hospital when he played dr. noah drake.  i wanted so badly to be jessie's girl and i knew if he ever met me he'd fall in love with me too... silly teenage girl stuff, right?! 

and don't get me started on cory hart :) and you, any rock n roll loves?

 





weekend pics

way, way back stefan and i committed to some regularly scheduled date nights... well, we failed miserably at it.  perhaps we were aiming too high? well, this weekend we managed to get out for two dates.  that's right, from nothing for months and months and months to two consecutive dates!

our first date was here, we ate amazing food, chatted about stuff that doesn't get said often enough, and to celebrate i had a kir royale (cassis and champagne is a fave of mine) and dessert!  our second date was a quickie. we dropped kai off at a birthday party in the north shore and we hung out at deep cove walking, window shopping, and ended up at this pub to share some food and have a beer (mine was mixed with ginger ale!).  i didn't realize how much we needed these dates to just hang out and chat and laugh and plan together... we are committed again to date nights.  my fingers are crossed that we succeed this time around.

other news from the weekend includes the last soccer game of the season (a secret yay!), fancy hotdog munching, coffee shops, five km run, attending the pet expo (kai and i want a dog so bad but then those hedgehogs were so cute!), and watching the new scooby-doo movie.  at the end of the weekend kai and i enjoyed the best jambalaya; before going away for work stefan made a big pot of this delicious dish so kai and i wouldn't starve while he was away :)

soccer and hanging out

 









during one of the games, kai played goalkeeper... this was one of his saves







 

 



 














kai practising his goalkeeping skills with stefan









 

pet expo... which pet should we add to our household?

 

a tolling retriever or a hedgehog?

 

 maybe a lovebird? poor loki, he won't want any new pet! 

deep cove



 







the jambalaya... thank you stefan!