I went shopping and broke the bank and am suffering from a guilty conscience.

I was forced onto the road because of a quick but important errand and it was quite the drive. My car got stuck in a snowbank (created by plow trucks that had just gone by) in the middle of an intersection. Long story short, I thought I could make it over the snowbank because it didn’t seem that high – at the time, I was about a meter away from it and without a lot of time and space to react, it seemed like the better choice was to try and drive over it than switch to another lane with all these slipping and sliding cars. Call it bad judgement but it happened. So next thing you know, I’m completely stuck in it and have caused a bottleneck at the intersection. Then came all the angry and honking cars from all directions – nothing makes me panic more than angry drivers (lol). I had no idea what to do. I got out of my car and examined the snowbank to see if I could somehow diffuse it and also to appear helpless so that maybe a good samaritan would come around and help me out of this mess. No luck. I sat in my car for bit thinking of what to do, when suddenly a fire truck pulled up beside me and 4 firemen jumped out, ran to the back of my car, shouted “step on the gas!”, pushed the vehicle over the snowbank, and shouted again, “have a great day!”. And there I was, over the snowbank and completely rescued by firemen… from snow. I thought it was amazing.

I captured this bird from my balcony this morning. Quote by Frida Kahlo. She’s fabulous.

Tons of snow out there. Took me an hour and a half to get home from work – that’s outrageous considering my home and my place of work is in the same city.

I was checking up on my blog yesterday and found these strange advertisements half hiding underneath the images in my posts – mostly pharmaceutical ads. I freaked out a little bit but then calmed down and started investigating. Sure enough, I had somehow been hacked – a ‘Pharma hack’ script had been injected into my source code. Impressive yet completely mortifying. WordPress security has failed me. Worst of all is that I just don’t understand how companies could actually convince themselves that hacking and invasively planting ads of their products on people’s blogs is an effective (nevermind ethical) way of conducting business. It’s just absolutely bizarre.

I had Wendy’s for lunch so I went to the gym this evening. All is well in the world again.

I woke up to blue skies and got excited to go on a photo excursion today, but first wanted to get through chores and errands. Two hours later, my blue skies vanished and grey skies took over. Should’ve procrastinated.

I saw The Impossible last night and it tore my heart out. The film was based on a true story about a family’s miracle survival of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster in Thailand back in 2004 – a microscopic view into the sequence of events that took place and the horrific experiences they went through. Dragged around underwater and swept away by a ferocious 30 ft. wall of water, this family of five (three of whom were just little boys) was split up, severely wounded and injured, and barely hanging on. Yet at the end of it all, they managed to find each other and survive. Love is so powerful and the human fighting spirit is incredible. What compelling performances by Naomi Watts and up and coming young actor Tom Holland. Read about the story here.

I say ignorance really is bliss because when I watch films like this, it infects me with sadness and I can’t stop thinking about it. I find myself completely entrenched in it and wanting to read more about it and other survival stories. Then my heart starts to feel heavy. These people have lived, loved, lost, and fought – they are heroes. There isn’t much I can do other than appreciate my blessed and fortunate life and be grateful.

TGIF and happy February! It’s a dinner and a movie date night. Think we’re going to see The Impossible.

Who knew it would be next to impossible to find a bird’s nest with birds in it?
I’ve been trying. As a consolation, at least this turned out kind of cute.