Surprise I am in Montreal!

After only 5 days at school I was ready for a break and since most of my friends were heading home to put snow tires on their cars and I kind of needed to go to Montreal for some family stuff anyways I bought a ticket on Thursday and on Friday I packed and hoped on a bus.

After 7am hot yoga I had some apple oats with dark chocolate PB&Co

and did some homework, aka decorated a folder I have to hand in at the end of this term.

Then ran to Lulu to pick up some stuff that I was getting altered and went to the bookstore to pick up a book. 

I finished this entire book on the ride!  Thanks so much to everyone that suggested a non-fiction book (or two) for me to read for my English assignment :)  I made a list and will be checking the rest of them out soon.  But everyone should read A Long Way Gone, it was sooo good the 3 hour bus ride flew by.  Thanks for the suggestion Britt!

Just before leaving for the bus I had some tomato soup with feta sprinkled on top

 

and 2 sliced of my mom’s homemade WW bread

and 2 4 min mars bars for desert

on the bus I had a pumpkin non-fat latte

and 1/2 a pumpkin scone I had leftover from a coffee date on Thursday

and then I had some pop chips while I read

When I got to Montreal  my dad and my sister came to pick me up and we went to a great Vietnamese place for dinner with a few of my sister’s friends and then had even more people back to her place for some wine before we went out to the bars.  No my dad did not come with us, he took the 1am train back to the suburbs when we were leaving to go out.  I do love going out here though, its always so much fun and my sister and her friends have really good connections so we never had to pay cover. 

Then yesterday we took the train all hangover and tired (the bars stay open till 3am here) to the lakeshore where my dad met us for lunch at second cup and we went to visit my Grandma for a little bit who is sick with the flu and really grumpy “because she is 89 years old and all old and creaky”  Hopefully she’ll cheer up when she gets better in a week or so.  After our visit with grandma we hit up an all you can eat sushi bar and proceeded to stuff our faces then took the metro back downtown for some much needed sleep.  Today my sister had to give campus tours so I just slept in, did some homework and wandered around the city.  I am definitely not looking forward to the bus ride back to school but its been nice to see my fam jam and enjoy all Montreal has to offer. 

Well I have packing to do, hope everyone had a great weekend!

XOXO

Busy Bee

Just 2 days of being back to classes and I am already super busy with school and life! My days two days here have been pretty similar

Start with a bowl of apple pie oats with Dark Chocolate PB&Co Peanut butter on top

 

Mmmmmm

Have a little snack at school on break, carrots and PB, usually with some green tea. Then after class I head home and have a yummy lunch, yesterdays was sweet potatoes cheetah style on top of some spinach with red pepper slices and goats cheese

 

Then I head off to a coffee shop for some home working with a green tea

and a pre yoga carby snack

Then I meet the girls for some hot yoga and afterwards we hang out watch trashy tv and snack before I head home for some sleep.

In the hot yoga note I am loving practising everyday, I love sweating out all my toxins and stresses from the day and I have been sleeping really well and I wake up feeling refreshed and relaxed.  This is definitely something I am going to continue while I living here.

In other news I am am loving One Note for keeping my life organized!  By using this program I actually know what I need to get done in every aspect of my life right now :)

QUESTION:

I have to do a book review/lesson plan on a non-fiction book that would be good to read with a high school level class.  Any suggestions?

Ok I have a ton of stuff to check off my list so I better go!

XOXO

Halloween Recovery

So my original plans kind of fell through as my entire group got way too drunk during an intense game of kings and only 2 of us were left standing.  Luckily I ran into some friends from home at the bar and still managed to have a blast!Me and my friend Lauren, I was a pirate and she was a coke can.

After the bar there were no cabs to be found so instead of walking home alone I headed back to Lauren’s with her and her roomies where we enjoyed copious amounts of Halloween candy and poutine. 

In the morning Lauren’s roomie made us all pancakes and around 11 I finally headed home… in a mini dress, black knee high boots and a Queens U t-shirt over top of my dress!  Definitely not a good look for the day time… or ever lol

For lunch I had some leftover goats cheese and fire roasted pepper pizza

   

Then I watched several hours of tv on line before heading to the yoga studio.  I signed up for 3 weeks of unlimited classes and my goal for the 3 weeks I am in class this month is to go at least 5 times a week.

My after yoga dinner was a spinach salad, feta, red pepper, walnuts, balsamic vinegar dressing with a slice of my mom’s WW baguette

Desert was some popcorn

AND

a spoonful of PB&Co Dark Chocolate peanut butter, this stuff is amazing!

Le Shopping

Yup more shopping!  I just got back to school after 4 weeks of teaching placement and spent some of my hard earned tip $$$ from that time I worked a wedding a few weeks ago!  Please note the ghetto fab background that is my student house

some new mocs since my old ones got destroyed last spring

wine and beer for tonight’s Halloween festivities and up coming dinners

dark chocolate PB&Co!!!!! I can’t wait to finally try this stuff and yes I have no food at school besides 11 jars of nut butters!  Definitely need to hit up the grocery store tomorrow

and my new Marmot soft shell ski jacket, I can’t wait for it to snow so I can break out my skis and try this baby out!

all right I need to go get my costume on for the party, have a great night everyone!

XOXO

Pumpkin Fries and Recent Purchases

I can’t thank all my bloggy friends enough for all the support and sweet messages you have sent my way in the past few days :)  Thanks a bunch your comments really cheered me up.

Moving on to what you are all waiting for: The Pumpkin Fries!

So apparently there is a cute young girl selling crazy pumpkins at our local famers market and that is the reason my dad is keeping our side porch is covered in hybrid pumpkin-squash just waiting to be eaten.

One night last week when we were running out of the normal ways to eat pumpkin and squash my dad suggested pumpkin fries and that's exactly what happened.

 

We just sliced it in half and gutted it before cutting the ‘meat’ into fry sized strips. 

Then we roasted it in the oven with some sweet potatoes fries for 30 minutes at 425 degrees with a little canola oil and pepper

Those pumpkin fries were amazing! We enjoyed our pumpkin fries with one of my dad’s lentil burgers on a WW bun with hot sauce and cheddar.

 

Now on to the shopping!!!!!!

blue plaid shirt from Roots, super cute and makes my eyes look really pretty and I apparently have a plaid shirt addiction!

New thermal top from Sierra Designs

And a sweet new running water bottle that even has a little pouch :)

yup that price tag is right just $3.95 for the water bottle, such a good deal!

XOXO

Gloomy Days

On Monday night a very close family friend passed away expectantly and our family’s close knit community is shocked and devastated.  My mom has been a rock through this whole ordeal she was with our friends wife at the hospital and stayed there all night until their children got to town and has been going non stop ever since making food, baking, arranging funeral details and comforting everyone around her. 

Today I took a personal day from school and tomorrow I will be doing the same thing.  Right now looking back on Tuesday and Wednesday I don’t know how I made it through the days at school.  I was devastated and sleep deprived, the students could tell I was upset but they were all very sweet asking if I was ok.  All I could think about each day was getting home to be with family and friends.

This morning I laid in bed for a few hours just reading and have spent the day relaxing and cleaning just taking the time to absorb everything that has happened.  Enjoying the little things in life that comfort me

magazines

 

my favourite cheese on my favourite bagel with smoke salmon

Our dark chocolate stash

crunchy flaxseed dark chocolate

rubber boots on rainy walks

XOXO

Busy Weekend

After teaching all day I drove straight to the golf club where I work in the summer to bartend a wedding.  10.5 hours later I left with some mad $$$ in my pocket and completely exhausted after being out of my house for 22 hours straight! 

Then next  morning my mom finally dragged my exhausted self out of bed at 11am just enough time to shower and grab a quick brunch

 

Then I got dressed and headed to…

  

no not a sweet Saturday morning yoga class like my outfit of Lulu gear might indicate but to work the bar of the golf club.  Luckily it was pretty dead since it was so cold out so I didn’t have a lot of work to do besides clean up from the night before and do some lesson planning for this week of teaching

the back room is almost clean here!

hey mr dj… please don't hide your gross almost finished rye and gingers  and half eaten cake in the back of the building, its gross the next day!  There was 1 big group of golfers out so I still made some sweet tip $$$ with out doing too much work which was nice.  Then I got dragged out by some co-workers to the bar against my will in a tshirt and uggs… I still danced up a storm in my casual outfit and a lack of anyone at the bar besides us!

Then on Sunday morning I finally had some time for me and luckily the weather was co-operating so I got all bundled up in my fav gear and headed out for a bike ride with our cycling group!

I got to wear my lulu scull cap I bought last spring and hadn’t worn yet! The sun was shinning the whole time and we did a casual 50km ride. 

Well I have more lessons to work on and boot camp class at 430 (its a new thing I am trying)  so I better get cracking!