Yearly Archives: 2013

“Leafs get stonewalled by Miller yet again but pushed to the bitter end and made it an exciting game for the home fans. “That’s tonight’s hockey report brought to you by my boyfriend (lol).

The beautiful Canon Experience Centre. It’s called the Image Square and the lucky Calgarians got to have their first dance with it at the grand opening event on Tuesday. If you’re ever in Calgary, this is the latest must-see.

Driving through a cloud forest. GORGEOUS. Off to a dinner party!

I’ve accidentally disappeared for a week. Just when you think you’ve knocked something off your list (like the GMAT) and life is about to slow down a bit, it doesn’t. Between the new (and awesome) job and graduate school applications, rest is nowhere to be found. I will make a point to say that I love my new team – a good team is more than half the battle.

I will be in Calgary on business next week to see the first ever Canon Experience Centre. It’s going to be amazing – the team has worked so hard for over a year on this baby, and she is surely going to be a beauty. I will bring my camera and post photos.

Tonight I’d like to leave you with Stubborn Love by The Lumineers. Their music melts my heart – I’m too tired to explain something that’s as difficult to explain as the beautiful nostalgic sound that flows out of this band. But I urge you: check them out (unless your taste in music is that of mainstream top 40 tunes that I don’t like. Then we may not agree on music. But that’s okay.)

I have just completed a project at work on the paperless office phenomenon. My team did such a stellar job that I actually convinced myself that a paperless office would be the greatest thing in the world. Then I stopped by the Paper Shop at Chapters this evening and am reminded all over again of how much I love paper and stationery. Say no to a paperless office! I picked up a new Moleskine notebook for my new job that’s starting on Monday because God knows it’s all about a good notebook to write in and a good pen to write with. For me, a good notebook and a good pen are the seeds of inspiration. The two together could make me write forever and ever. There was a gigantic Moleskine wall at the Etobicoke location of Chapters, you can barely decide which notebook to go with – a problem I don’t mind having.

While at Chapters this evening, I spotted pretty little things like the ones below and of course, got a little photo-happy with my iPhone. (Disclaimer: Although sometimes guilty of it, I do not promote photographing with mobile phones. Must photograph with real cameras. And they must be Canon cameras.) Anyway, who would’ve thought that one could package a set of pencils so beautifully that you struggle to walk away from them? And twine, I love twine! I could spend hours and hours at the Paper Shop, feeding my eyes with beautiful stationery and lusting to buy all of them.

By Mother Mother. On replay. Support your Canadian indie rock bands.

Happy new year to all – 2013 will be a year of fabulous, even though I’ve started it off with the worst cough and cold.

I’ll also be blogging more consistently again now that I am no longer a slave to the GMAT. Such music to my ears.