♥ Going to a foraging documentary film presentation with Esther on Thursday
♥ Jeff getting really passionate about making a lasagna
♥ Permaculture, cheese and yogurt making workshops for $5 Saturday
♥ 1st grader kids waving hands in hallways
♥ The weather
♥ Being able to knit some awesome patterns!

I need to get things done.
I need to go to places.

♥ My life, as of late.
♥ Fabulous weekend coming up with weather in the upper 80°F and a Jeff done with his winter semester = lots of potential adventures.
♥ Mud season almost over = hiking with blooming trees!
♥ Another month before the apple trees are in bloom but I can hold onto it since the daffodils are going to pop out tomorrow!
♥ Sugar, lots of sugar and maple and not caring at all about the calories.
♥ Canvas shoes at Tigre géant for $5.94, yes!
♥ Anarchist bookfair coming up! I love this fair and go each year.

Friday: workshops about peace in 2 classes + invitation for an environment based workshop in one class by one of my favorite teacher.

Saturday: Went to a foraging workshop with Esther, the most amazing this ever.

Sunday:  Made dill hummus and went on a small hike with Jeff around the waterfall / Missed the guerilla gardening party / making seedbombs with the girls

Monday: prepared our ecological lunchbox challenge with some girls at work; talked about reducing and environment / received a phonecall and went to the sugar shack with some of my best friends ever. It was more than awesome, I an full of sugar and content.

I seriously wouldn't change my life with anyone else right now. I am deeply happy.

While I go crazy about wanting that birch mug and refusing to see the Habs getting smashed by the Bruins, I want to tell you guys about two things.

1) I really hate the fact that the cashier at the drugstore is a male. I REALLY feel bad buying really girly girly things. I seriously think I am going to come back next time when he's at the cash and I need to buy something like Monistat. Boo! Men shouldnt be allowed at the cash at drugstores. Period. I'm just glad the only thing I bought was organic popcorn, and organic oatmeal on sale and a magazine.

2)  I want to tell you guys about Sylvie. Sylvie just turned 50. She's a special care counsellor at one of the 9 schools I work at. She is awesome no makeup gray hair kind of gal, always happy and soooo warm and welcoming. She bikes to school each day, even cold and rainy ones. When we don't have kids in the office she gladly share with me, we sip on green tea and chit chat a little. She told me her "boyfriend's" mom has a huge farm and they are pretty much self suffisent, with her own eggs, chickens and huge garden, that she was producing her own organic honey (but a terrible bug was killing all the bees so they stopped it for a few years.) We talk about life and projects all the time and I always look foward to seeing her. She's going to Corsica at the end of May, so we talked about our future traveling adventures.
We also talked about the same mountain we went hiking on this summer in la Malbaie! She rules so much! She's very much the most awesome person I've met so far in the 9 schools I work at. I mean, she could be my mom! (My mom turns 50 on the 21st of April) but I feel closer to her than most people around me.

HURRAY for cool people.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=23750608

Will someone in the US buy me this???? They dont ship internationally and I am MAD for it. I really, really want this mug. I just picture myself drinking hand picked labrador  tea on the porch with it. I cannot justify playing + 30 dollars for it but I have a crush and its priceless how much I want / need it.

Please please please. :(((((

What color should I use for my knit / crocheted throw? The choice of colors at my knitting class are pretty bad. I was staring at the colors yesterday and I was completely clueless.
I'm using "clapotis" for my samples and its a crazy ugly baby blue.
I will be putting the throw on the couch or on the bed. My bed quilt is green and beige. The sofa is a dark burgundy leather. I don't like leather but its an old sofa my parents give me that will be covered with natural linen. And the rats don't eat leather. Yes. Reuse > new one. Gaki's reign is over! :)

Help me!
http://www.bergeredefrance.fr/catalogue/fiche_fil_col.phtml?id_qualite=31#

Oh Hi livejournal long time no see.

I went to see a habs game. I'm a hockey nerd.
I also redesigned the ratties cage, but they just throw the bedding out of their litter so it was half useless.

And I'm going to this with Esther, while Jeff is studying for his finals:

18 April
Foraging Montréal
Nance Klehm leads a foraging expedition and makes tea with found ingredients.


That is my life right now.

http://listography.com/dearyou

Best site! I love lists. I will make an infinite number of them!

The lady that works there is a sweetheart. She's the one who reffered us to find the foster home Tara was at.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2009/03/25/mtl-murder-suicide-laval-0325.html

The 10 years old little girl? Well she was at the school I worked at today. We have an emergency debriefing / meeting tomorrow morning and I had to cancel 3 presentations as we have to speak to over 500 kids tomorrow in order to calm them down.

I am exhausted. I started my pattern 3 times in my knitting class. I am drained and tired.

As much as yesterday was amazing because of our Amenesty International project and all that jazz, today is canned poop.

Tomorrow I'm going to eat with my friend Max and we're going to see the Weakerthans with Jade. I'm also going to see Lysandre annnnd my friend Phil from Vermont. Tomorrow night should be better than the last 12 hours and the next 21.

So I am calling Jeff, asking him to comfort me a bit, and then SLEEEEEP.


Also: This was my last public entry too. Friends only from now! Random people do not need to know what toothpaste brand I use and my plans on weekends. Flickr is enough exposing. I'll have a blog if I want to share more general stuff from now on!

:)

News flash:
-We are meeting the landlord next weekend to sign our lease for end of August! Soooooo excited! I'm very happy about this.

-I just had my "job review" as of today and the 9 schools principal are satisfied with my job, but they say I am too shy and I have to talk more to people... hopefully I can kick myself in the butt? I can talk a lot, but I fear meeting people. For some reason this makes me feel miserable and I just want to cry. I know I am shy,  I don't need to be reminded.

News.

1) Jeff & I are going to meet  the apartment landlord soon for the apartment I visited two weeks ago. Hopefully it works! Less hassle. I really liked the apartment, the light, the location, the fact its 10 minutes walk from the farmer's market, etc! *cross fingers!*

2) I am going to focus on natural / organic / homemade things as much as I can. Esther talked about this himalayan toothpowder and it was on special on etsy. I bought some this morning!  I will try to get rid of my regular Tom's of Maine / Sensodyne toothpaste. We will also try to go to the farmer's market as much as we can and go with natural, natural natural. Slightly going more hippie than I actually am. Hehe.

3) Tara had her first rat bath  today. Poor thing! They really smelled like pee and their tail was getting pretty dirty. Sometimes things have to be done! I love it after we're done though, their fur is all fluffly and nice. We use a natural herbs soft roden shampoo.

4) I found the best yarn + knitting store in Montreal. I went on a haul on Thursday. So much organic cotton with beautiful natural dyes, wool and alpaca of all kinds. A huge variety of bamboo needles. My teacher made me buy metal needle and I just hate it so much!

5) I have a lot of dishes to do.

6) I want to go and buy local goat cheese and herbs to eat with the loaf of sesame bread I made this morning.

7) I also want to start cilantro, basil, aneth & such herbs seedlings. I am afraid I might be a month late. We'll see!

Happy happy! I love him.

Knitting class #2 tonight. I am so tired, I wonder if I will be able to fallow.
Sight... work is crazy this week and I need some rest, some holiday. I've been emotionally very fragile and insecure.

I find pleasure in collecting pinecones popping out of the snow melting, the bright sun and trying to see peeks of green here and there. I cannot wait for the crocus to peek out of the snow and feel the spring.

This is one of my favorite picture I've ever taken. IAccording to flickr, its only been viewed 4 times. I love my hidden secrets.

It represents one vision of what I call paradise.

The other version of paradise I have would be this.


Oh how I want to live far, far away from the city.



And the worst part is that I am moving in it! (The city.)
Two years, we say, 4 at max. Then we're gone. I want a still life. I want a life where I can wake up and drink hot tea and watch the ducks on the river, instead of a newspaper.

I just come back from my first knitting class! I can now make a scarf with 3 different designs! In 4-5 classes I will know how to cable knit.
Its all older ladies so I didn't really bother. I was so bad at first but I think I picked it up quite okay!

I will practice all weekend.

Okay. While I really appreciated Sunday's weather, the daylight saving time and all the birds chirps and all those things, I really want it to be back now.

NO MORE GRAYNESS!

I want light, flowers, buds, birds, gardens, green grass, sunglasses and fresh raspberries with local farmer cream and brown cane sugar sprinkled on top.

I want to wear many dresses and shoes and sandals and flipflops. I can even deal with the fact that this will require me to shave my legs 3 times a week!


I want to go at Sara's family cabin with my friends and play board games and drink rhum & cokes. I also want to go to my aunt's cabin and cook veggie dogs on the campfire and explore the woods and take a nap on a rock full of moss like the old days.


I want to play in the water, jump over waves. I want to draw messages on sand, see the sun set at 9PM...






I even want to go see La Ronde's fireworks from a friend's apartment balcony!

I am craving summer like a kid craves cupcakes and ice cream. :(

My parents know how to use emails for a little less than a month now, and I must say their emails are always the most hilarious things I read each days.

They are amazing. I don't know how I will do when I move out. I will probably email them every day. I havent seen them since Saturday morning and I miss them already. I'm a dork who still loves to watch tv with her head on my mom's shoulder at night.

Ahem, hurray for being 25!

Jeff made me french toasts with pears slices & maple sirup this morning. There is bread dough waiting to be cooked (tomorrow.) The girls are always grooming each other and are sleeping together pretty much all the time now.  Together is a small word. They are literally  spooning or under one another.

Life is good. Life is very slow this week.


I am doing a project about recycling and using juice containers instead of buying small individual juice today. Its a part of our Healthy school project. I am planning this one school nurse and social workers. This workshop is for kids in kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade. So I am drawing, cutting and making things! The nurse is talking about vitamins, and I am talking about recycling! It can't wait to do it. Its one complete day at the end of march, in between another serie of presentation for kids going to hich school. March should be very busy.


I was able to watch a movie with an alien abduction scene yesterday. Aliens are totally my phobia. I cried until the age of 19 when I saw E.T... so just picture how it was when I saw a "real alien big black eyes" sort of thing. I call it a small victory.

For our third anniversary, I think Jeff & I will go for a photobooth session! Its been too long!

Tara & Gaki have been sleeping all cuddled up on one shelf on the blanket for 2 hours. Awwwww. I think we can call it victory?

Tara was actually JUMPING on Gaki to play earlier. Like, I could almost hear her say "play with me!! play! play!"  I think they're buds now :)