Walk Off the Earth

I've discovered this group through a friend. They are quite something. They mostly do covers but their videos are amazing.

Check them out!!

Salads

I don't like making salads. I like eating them but I despise making them. It's all that chopping that doesn't even lead to a hot meal...

But I receive an organic fruit and vegetable basket every two weeks and they often send me lettuce and cucumbers and other salad worthy veggies.

So I decided to try and eat more salads. Just for the sake of avoiding throwing out those yummy veggies.

Let's call it the salad challenge!

Best Compliment Ever

Marley & Me

A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water log stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if your rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?

I watched Marley & Me because I was in the mood for an easy romantic comedy. But I actually enjoyed it much more than I expected. There may have been tears...Yes, I'm an emotional sap! But still, overall, that movie exceeded my expectations, especially for a Jennifer Anniston movie!

Deal Breakers

I was asked recently what my deal breakers were. So I decided to list them:

• Smoker
• Allergic to cats
• Lives with his mother
• Intolerance (no gay or jew jokes allowed)
• Undecisive
• Constantly late
• Overly dramatic personality (i need someone to balance me out!)
• Lack of sexual chemistry
• Dishonest/untrustworthy
  

Being Erica

Being Erica is a show I strangely just discovered. It's canadian, simple and lovely. The main actress is such a sweetheart in a completely genuine way that she just sucks you in.

The show revolves around regrets and how to accept them. However, the premise is that Erica, a woman in her thirties who feels she made the wrong choices in life, is given the opportunity to go back in time and faces her regrets and change them.

Obviously, her time traveling therapy becomes not so much about changing the past, but realizing and accepting that some things are meant to be and that mistakes makes us who we are. Yes, cheesy. You will not gain a new perspective on life watching the show.

However, it is highly entertaining and Erica is such a beautifully written heroine that you will forget the 'time traveling therapy' nonesense.

The Kindness of Strangers

The kindness of strangers always amazes me. There's something magical in how a total stranger can sometimes step up somewhere where even a friend might not have.

Last week, we had a pretty big snowfall. The next day, I'm trying to go to work and my car won't move. As in at all. I can't go forward, I can't go backwards. I've shoveled the snow from underneath the tires and in front of them and I finally get out of the car, stare at it and sigh.

Some random man walks by and simply says "well I'll push you and you'll be on your way!". He was so optimistic and timely! He then did just then, pushed me out (which still require a few minutes of pressing on the gas and him pushing with all his might) and once I was out I opened my door to thank him, he nodded and kept on his way. In the ephoria of the moment, I forgot to ask him his name.

Isn't that wonderful? If it wasn't for him, I don't know what I would have done.. Call a friend? Who would really want to get dressed, get out of their apartement and meet you on your street to help you push your car out of the snowbank? It just seems like a lot to ask. And yet, this complete strangers offered it. While yes, it was more convenient for him as he was already in the location, it is still quite something that I didn't even have to ask.

This isn't the first time someone pushed me out of a snowbank. And I've never asked.

And everytime my heart fills with hope in human kind.