Starbucks Ice Cream

My new favourite ice cream that is only available in the USA! (Rumour has it that Starbucks will be coming out with chocolate dipped ice cream bars and Mud Pie ice cream). Warm up the car, I'm heading South!



Also comes in Hot Chocolate, Vanilla Bean Frappuccino and Strawberry Creme Frappuccino!





My Favourite!



A Piece of Heaven in H-E-L-L!

I had one of those days where you contemplate if this planet is another planet’s hell… so I went to Purdy’s and bought myself a little treat- the whipped marshmallow chocolate heart. WOW! Its like LOVE wrapped in chocolate, like happiness put into food! Try it! You will LOVE it!

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I haven't been able to find these locally...but they are my next Ugg purchase!  Love them!!!

Shhh… it’s a secret…

I bought my first pair of Ugg boots at Browns last year, right before the 2010 Winter Olympics. I think I paid about $325 for them. Kinda expensive for a pair of boots that were on the ugg-ly side and made my feet look like Yogi Bear’s paws. But they are fashionable and also very warm and comfy especially during Vancouver winters.

Fast forward to January 2011 and my trip to Seattle with my cousin, Jocelyn. She needed to make a quick stop at Nordstrom’s to pick up a pair of Uggs that her best friend ordered from Texas. We proceeded to the children’s shoe department…but wait… hold on?!! Why would we pick up a pair of Uggs for an adult woman, in the children’s shoe department? …And this is where the secret lies:

Children’s Ugg boots fit adult women up to a size 8! And they are only $109 at Nordstrom’s. The same shoes upstairs in the women’s shoe department sell for $149.

I know what you are thinking… are you sure? How can that possibly be? Noooo, she must be mistaken. Trust me, I am sure. I tried on a pair of children’s Ugg boots in a size 6, and they fit perfectly. I was thrilled at this discovery… and then horrified that I spent over $200 for the same pair of shoes at home. C’est la vie. You win some, you lose some.

Now you know my little secret…but shhh….we don’t want the whole world to know! *wink*

A Little Bit Country

On my birthday this year, my cousin Jocelyn and I went to see the new Gwyneth Paltrow movie, Country Strong. The critics panned it and Rotten Tomatoes gave it an 18% splat…but I LOVED it. I loved the acting from the ensemble, the fashion (of course!), *the music* (surprising!) and the sadness (?!) . Oh yes… how I loved the sadness… so haunting and beautiful.

When the stars line up/
and you catch a good break/
and people think your lucky/
but you know it’s grace/
it can happen so fast/
or a little bit late/
timing is everything

*Hold your breath girls* (and the odd boy that will read this)… but I LOVE the soundtrack; in fact I LOVE both soundtracks. This is a shocking revelation because… it’s country. I’m not even a little bit country; I’m a city girl…I go to high tea and my drinks have umbrellas in them, I don’t own a cowboy hat and I certainly don’t listen to the twang of the steel guitar…until now. I love every single song, I relive every single heartbreak and wallow around in the sadness of this melancholy music but the amazing thing about it is: its uplifting.

Try out Summer Girls, Timing is Everything, Coming Home and Give In To Me…you’ll be humming along in city traffic daydreaming about Texas and a boy named Beau. *sigh*