Do you see what I see?

See anything wrong with this picture?


How about now?



That would be my cell phone. I misplaced it in a foggy coffee-deprived state this morning. The battery died. Despite several dozen trips to the pantry throughout the day and countless seconds of searching I could not find it! Kiddo waltzes into the pantry for 1 second and its staring out at her.

How to annoy me - coffee time

Yesterday, 10:30am, in a Starbucks on Yonge Street, on the way back to my hotel room after the most important, super crazy OSCE of my life. (Ok it wasn't crazy, I actually feel pretty good about it, but it was scary as hell, and I have to wait 2 weeks for my results.)

I stood waiting behind a woman who was preparing her drink, or should I say…science experiment. She was carefully measuring, stirring, eyeing, weighing and concocting her coffee… you’d swear one wrong move and the damn thing would explode in her hand.

She would grab two little pink sugar packets a time between her index finger and thumb, and start shaking them to get all the sugar to move to the bottom of the packet then she would flick them with her other hand.

Shake, shake, shake…flick, flick, flick…shake, shake, shake,…flick, flick, flick

I watched her add SIX packet’s to a 8 oz. cup of coffee. Sipping the coffee between each packet to be sure that it was *perfect*.

Then came the milk.... she had to examine each container before opening it to sniff it be make sure it wasn't "off". As she started to pour the milk little by little into her cup, she began the tasting sequence again.

Then came the sprinkle of chocolate shavings....

By the time she shimmied out of the way, my Americano was nearly cold.

I was only waiting for a lid!


- Perhaps its just me, but if I'm going to Starbucks, I want to be able to at least TASTE the coffee! Anyone else drink their coffee black?

10 facts about Tim Hortons

I'm not much liking my yellow hair... its YELLOW, or a variation of yellow anyways. I passed by the mirror this morning, having forgotten what I had done, and did a kind of "what the.." double take, is that me? NO. Couldn't be... The plan now is to wait a few days(until my sister leaves) and then cover it up with a more me shade. BLAH, I am NOT a blonde.... more power to those who can pull it off, I can not.

Easter egg hunt this morning involved a 10 year old plowing through parents, aunt and a dog to get chocolate. Would swear she never saw chocolate before. The bunny did bring cool prizes, my husband has been playing super mario on the wii all day!

I took advantage of the weather and went to Port Dalhousie where I briskly walked the beach for 45 minutes before Tim Horton's lured me in with its promise of fresh happy juice.

10 things I learned about Timmies today:
10)Tim Hortons was named after a Toronto hockey player.
9)It is currently the largest franchise in Canada, after surpassing McDonalds a few years ago.
8)The term “double double” found its way into the Canadian Oxford Dictionary in 2004.
7)Tim Hortons was founded in Hamilton, Ontario in 1964.
6)Facebook has at least 6 groups dedicated to Tim Hortons and over 603,000 fans.
5)For 24 years Tim Hortons customers have been rolling up the rim. (since 1986)
4)Half of the money made by Tim Hortons is brought in from their coffee.
3)Tim Hortons holds about 62% of the Canadian coffee market.
2)Over 31 million prizes are distributed each year.
1)Timbits were introduced in 1976.

AND that 2 Tim Hortons within walking distance of my house, and I have yet to win so much as a stupid free coffee in this year's roll up the rim!