30 Day Happiness Challenge! Day 20!

Spring has sprung and the end of the week nears!  You can't really ask for more than that, right???

This is interesting.  Found photography is a cool thing and this is an event that happened just up in North Vancouver.  I wish I paid closer attention to these things when they were happening!  I always like going to museums, but I'm kind of picky about the exhibits I go to and I'm not in the habit of seeing what kinds of "cultural" events are happening in my city or the surrounding areas.  There is always time to improve on that though!!!

30 Day Happiness Challenge! Day 19!

Oh goodness.  It's starting to feel like I'm running out of days!  Oooh nooooo!

Favorite blogs?!  Check!

My lovely friend Lindsay has a super blog where she posts about her awesome vegan food creations.  Sometimes she posts about other things, but it's usually about food and food is the best!  

This one isn't so much a blog as it is a blogging community...and does anyone ever even still use Live Journal?  No one knows...but what I do know, is that this community called Behind the Lens always inspires me to take my camera out!

Food.  Check.  Photos.  Check!

Makeup?  

Check!  Viola's blog, Killer Colours, is greatness.  She focuses on a lot of cruelty free products (but not everything, sadly) and her tutorials are lovely.  I envy her nail polish application techniques and her posts about her daily life always make me nostalgic for Europe.

Yay blogs!

30 Day Happiness Challenge! Day 18!

Hiii hello!

Day 18, what topic whilst thou bring us?

Ah-ha!  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.  I have a few songs lately that make me pretty happy.  I'll link y'all to some of them:

The drums and the bass here make me all kinds of happy:

A couple of years ago I made a New Year's Resolution to become a better whistler.  Every time this song comes on, I feel like it makes me an *awesome* whistler!

And Okkervil River *always* cheers me up, even though the theme of their songs isn't necessarily "cheery".  I really should see them live again sometime as it has been a while since I have!

Mhmmmm!  I'd love to know some of your happy songs!  :)

30 Day Happiness Challenge! Day 17!

Oh boy!  We've made it past the halfway point!  I guess technically that happened yesterday, but blogging from an ipod does not lead one to wax poetic.  Not that I am feeling particularly verbose today--having had gotten up at 4:45am this morning and not really sleeping all that well (I think I've been awake since around 3:30am...but who is keeping track?!!).  Oh well though!  I got off work while they sun was shining and I meandered home along the seawall so I call today a success!

It also does happen to be March 17th and for a lot of people, this is cause to wear green.  I didn't actually wear green today.  Oops?

It's Monday night--I don't care of it's a "holiday"!  Ha ha...Here's what I'm about to crack open:

The orange one, the one in the middle!  Cyoni makes *the best* orange juice in the world.  I could drink it every single day.

What'cho drinking?

30 Day Happiness Challenge! Day 16!

Ooon no!  I turned off the computer for bedtime before I wrote my blog!!  *gasp!*. I have to get up at like 4:45am which is already only 8 hours away from right now!!!  Gaaaah!

I can't get the little picture to upload for today's topic, but I will edit this post tomorrow to add it!

Edit!  Here is the topic of the day!

I know the topic is to google "dream" and post your favorite find...

Here is mine:

Maybe because that is about to be me at any moment......

I hope my iPod typing didn't cause a billion typos...until tomorrow!!

30 Day Happiness Challenge. Day 15!

Today's topic perplexed me.  I had a rather trying day and then it ended in a trying way so I was feeling rather...ambivalent when I walked in the door when coming home for the evening.  Thankfully I had a bottle of wine in hand and I knew the night was looking up, even after the long week and long day!  

But then!  I had a surprise waiting for me for dinner.  GRAVY!  I had been talking about how I wanted to have gravy for the potatoes we were planning to eat and then I was surprised with wonderful gravy which I proceeded to pour over the entire contents of my dinner plate (fried tofu, steamed kale and roasted potatoes).  Gravy can turn any sub-par day into a WONDERFUL and very happy day.

+1 for Gravy and for the people who make it for us!  :)

30 Day Happiness Challenge. Day 14!

It's almost the "weekend".  Hooray!  Although this weekend I only get one day off.  One day off is better than no day off in my books, however!  So hooray just the same!  Do you have any fun weekend plans?  I'm not sure what I'll be up to on Sunday, but likely not too much as I have to get up at 4:45am on Monday so I can walk to work.  Oh boy!

Anyways.  On to today's 30 Day Happiness Challenge Topic!

Mmmmmmm food.  Eating is probably my number two favorite thing (just after sleep.  YAY SLEEP!)!  Are you curious to know what Lizzy's favorite foods are?  She was able to make her list very specific whereas I think mine might end up being a bit more general....

1. Soup!  I LOVE SOUP!  Spoons are my favorite utensil and soup is the best!  I love vegetable soup, creamy (using coconut milk and whatnot) soups, lentil soup, tomato soup, mushroom soup...you name it!  Soup is in!
2. Pasta!  I could eat pasta for days and days and days and days.  I love fresh pasta noodles, especially.  Although they are hard to come by in the vegan variety--unless one actually makes one's own noodles--but that is time consuming as hell...Yay pasta!  I like tomato based sauces, sauces with tofu, creamy sauces (using vegan roux, etc.), peanut sauces.  Pasta salad.  Mmmmm pasta!!!!!!!!!  Also.  Pasta IN soup!  2 in 1!
3. Thai curry.  Especially green curry.  Or red curry.  Or Panang curry!  Curries give me a great reason to eat one of my other favorite things: rice!  I'm having a very real craving for spicy things right now and spicy curries are the best.  
4. Stuffing and mashed potatoes with gravy.  Gravy is good on most things, but especially mashed potatoes.  And baked savory bread is always good in my books!  I wish I could eat stuffing ALL OF THE TIME and not just around the holidays.
5. Perogies.  I grew up eating perogies and now that I'm vegan I don't get to eat them very often--but I make pretty bad-ass vegan perogies if I do say so myself.  

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What's your favorite food???