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
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.
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
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
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
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
the view of the mountains when you fly into the city; i’m always a bit surprised at how big and impressive they are. cherry blossoms; they make me smile and want to prance around.
meet stella, a one and a half pound maltese-yorkie puppy (and her lovely owner julie!). about the same size as a stuffed animal, except cuter. she could sit in my hand, and we all know how small that is! i’m generally not a big dog person, but lately i’ve been meeting the sweetest canines. i’ve read more
we had a great time shoe shopping in hong kong. we splurged. i’ve always thought the reason i can never find shoes is because my feet are gorked. it turns out they’re only partially gorked (love my orthotics); i just have unusually small feet for north america. i bought a pair of super cute but read more
Jet-lagged but hungry, we made our first stop for food. The restaurant had autographs by various Hong Kong celebrities all over the walls. On our first full day, we started with exploring Kowloon, found jumbo size lemon Vita and hung out with Charlie over coffee and Bruce on the Avenue of Stars at Victoria Harbour. read more