Monthly Archives: April 2007

Art Culture

cezanne to picasso

April 29, 2007 – 12:17 pm

We visited the Chicago Art Institute which featured a special exhibit on “Cezanne to Picasso – Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde.” Vollard was a French art dealer from the early 20th century, who exhibited many artists who were struggling for a reputation at that time, including Van Gogh, Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso. On our read more »

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Good eats

happy friday

April 27, 2007 – 9:11 pm

we celebrated the end of the week with dinner at an italian restaurant, where we ate monster sized scallops. yum. so full…need to sleep.

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Culture

canucks 4 – stars 1

April 23, 2007 – 10:44 pm

there was once upon a time when i thought i would marry trevor linden…i guess i can’t anymore, but i still love him. thank you canucks and cable tv. we’ve been able to catch most of the playoff games so far: if we’re lucky, we sometimes get the cbc hockey night in canada telecast with read more »

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Friends & Family

picnic at the point

April 22, 2007 – 2:38 pm

today was tank top weather. after church, we joined the mcCatherns, the mackays, and tom for a picnic lunch by lake michigan, only a few minutes walk from our apartment. it was a bit windy but still good fun, especially for asher who discovered acorns and barefoot walking on grass.

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Work

healthy living

April 21, 2007 – 10:04 pm

i spent yesterday and today 8am-6pm at a conference on women’s health. i LOVE a good conference! call me a nerd, but it feels so good to learn something useful. AND it only cost me $35 after getting a huge discount, which is crazy cheap for a medical conference that included lunch and education credits!! read more »

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Friends & Family

good boy tayden

April 16, 2007 – 3:33 pm

last week before flying back to chicago, i was able to visit with baby tayden. he had a cold, but was still behaving well as usual.

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Good eats

the art of eating shiao long baos

April 14, 2007 – 11:52 pm

my family in vancouver found this restaurant which in my opinion makes the perfect shiao long baos. super thin skin that very rarely breaks. and check out that juice!! i like to eat mine carefully: 1. gently pick up with chopsticks. 2. nibble a small hole on one side. 3. carefully pour the precious juice read more »

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Friends & Family

hockey night with the chen’s

April 12, 2007 – 9:04 pm

i went over to kim and angie’s place to watch the first canuck playoff game. what i nice home! but if you look more closely you’ll see something else… for more pics of this canuck fan, visit her daddy’s blog. i watched the game until the end of the third overtime, and then drove home. read more »

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Friends & Family

(happy sigh)

April 11, 2007 – 4:31 pm

i’m having a good day. i didn’t have any work scheduled, so there was time to go get my very loud and dysfunctional car alarm taken out. then i baked a couple cakes with my mom. then we met my dad for a fish n’ chips lunch, after which we had a nice walk around read more »

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General

phone tag

April 10, 2007 – 11:31 pm

today i tried to call ‘rogers’ to get more information on wireless plans. the first call was to a digital voice called melanie, with no option to speak to a human. the second call was to a human, but since the phone was under joe’s name, i had to be transferred to somebody else to read more »

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