Homemade!

Homemade eggs Benny!

This was delicious, and not as difficult as I thought it would be (though I did have a low-level freak out mid-way through making the hollandaise). I would do it again!

Bicycle Thief: UPDATE

I got my bike back! I was riding down the street on my brother's old bike, on the way to the shop to fix it up, and ran into a man riding my bike. I screamed "That's MY BIKE!!!" and he was super nice and gave it back without a fuss. Thanks dude!

I bought an expensive new lock, but the other night someone stole my seat, post and all! It was not a quick release, it required an allen key. Now that I've replaced that, I will be keeping my bike on my back deck, even though it means carrying it up and down a very narrow flight of stairs all the time. Damn thieves!

Bicycle Thief

My bicycle was stolen from outside my apartment, and I'm devastated. I loved my bike so much. It looked cool and it just worked perfectly all the time, even when I left it out in the snow on my deck all winter (sorry bike!). Since I am terrible at photos and never take any, I don't have any pictures of it, but my friend Sarah and I found some of the same bike online. It's actually a pretty rare model that was only made for a few years.

It was this model, but without the chain guard.

Also, I recently got a nice new brown leather seat and awesome cork grips. Poor bike.

Sarah made this post for me: http://toronto.en.craigslist.ca/tor/bik/2539453412.html Tell your friends!

A friend had a bike stolen recently and saw it around the neighbourhood and managed to get it back. I am really hoping that this will happen to me. I will be keeping my eyes peeled, and let me tell you, if I see somebody riding around on my bike I'll be on them like a cast member on The Challenge who has just been thrown into the jungle. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you really should be watching more MTV.

Haw Cheese

Yesterday my friend offered me a candy, sort of. It was called "Haw Cheese" but my friend assured me that it was not made of cheese.

"Haw Cheese"

Andrea & Zach's wedding!

Ok, I am super late on this but I am finally putting up a couple of photos of my friend Andrea's wedding. It was in Kincardine, Ontario (on June 12th! see how late I am?) in a pavillion on Lake Huron, with the ceremony itself on the beach. The wedding was beautiful and also a lot of fun (the Royal Crowns played; they're a blast), and Andrea and Zach looked fantastic (my photos do not do them justice).

Andrea and Zach, walking to the beach for the ceremony.

So lovely!

This is my favorite of the pics i took. Andrea looks so cute!

I bet this would be a really nice photo of Moira and Mark, if you could see their faces.

and here's a nice photo that the wedding photographer (Johnny Lam) took of the cupcakes (with our flags!)

It was too dark inside for me to take any good photos with my iphone, but the photographer has pics up on his blog, and they're all gorgeous. You can check them out here.  Beautiful, right?

Did I mention that there were illegal fireworks at the end of the night? So much fun!

This is amazing

Have I mentioned that I love books? This event, featured on Design*Sponge, is full of amazing book art.

jellyfish, made of book pages, in a bell jar. awesome.

Check out more here.

Free Stuff...

I want it. But only if it's REALLY free—I don't want to do a long survey or have a conversation, I just want to be handed something and allowed to leave. I have discovered that I'm willing to whore myself out a little if the free stuff is good (Hi Kiehl's! Thanks for the samples. I  commented on facebook; where is my $15 gift card?). In this spirit, I really like to take the free music download cards that they give out at Starbucks. Usually the music is terrible or just not to my taste, but sometimes it's good. So this afternoon when i saw a sign telling me that if I bought a frappuccino I would get a free "10 Song Summer Mix" i was all "Hey Barrista! I just bought a frappuccino! Can I have my free '10 Song Summer Mix'?" 

so summery, Starbucks!

"Oh sure," she said and as she handed it to me she whispered "it's not very good. I don't even know these bands."

So, is it terrible? We'll see! I like a few of these bands. Let's see what else Starbucks thinks should be on my soundtrack this summer.