Goodbye landline....

It was not such a hard decision but I finally cancelled my landline and just using my cell phone. I have unlisted and unpublished number and I paid extra for that every month but lately I have been getting calls from telemarketers...as many as 6 a night. And this does not count the ones I missed while I was at work.

So last Saturday I returned the box to Shaw. I don't think I am missing anything without having a home phone. At least it is peaceful without having to hear it ringing and looking at 1-866 or whatever 800 number is calling.

I even have unlimited long distance within Canada for $10/month....a lot cheaper than what I paid for my unlimited on the home phone.

Now I am looking at my tv bundles and will try and cancel bundles I don't watch a lot. I subscribe to the movie channels but the movies are not that great lately and they show same movies at different time in different channels....like recyling them so I might cancel it later as well.

I have to call or email some friends to let them know to call my cell instead of landline. So for those of you who want to call me...call my cell and if you do not have it, email me and I will give it to you.

Enjoy the rest of the week...over the hump now.

Farmer's market...

Farmer's market for the working folks....yes that is what we will have on 124 Street starting this Thursday and going on for the rest of the summer, I hope.

It will open at 5:00 pm and close at 9:00pm. That would be great!!! And there will be food truck there as well. I do not know how many.

It is only about 10 blocks from where I am so I can walk there. I have to make sure to bring a bag or two to carry stuff I buy. I would have to watch that I don't buy a lot as that would be a long walk carrying a heavy bag.

Make sure I do not forget to take pictures as well. The only thing that is going to make it not good...it is raining and the forecast for Thursday is rain. It will be hard to drive as parking would be a real problem.

Anyway, I hope the weather changes and we can all enjoy a kind of night market.

Enjoy the short work week.

Hometown skyline....

I am a contributor to our office newsletter and I present our properties to the rest of the staff. Since our head office is in Calgary, some of them have not seen our buildings in person.

I try to google to see if there is any kind of history about a certain building and when I was looking for news item, I saw this picture of the Edmonton downtown skyline.

That was the time I realized it is a nice kind of skyline and uploaded a picture of it. It might not be as good as New York or some other big cities but I thought it was ok and neat for a small city.

So there it is, downtown Edmonton skyline.

Enjoy Centre....

Today, a friend and I went to the Enjoy Centre in St. Albert. This is the new Hole's Greenhouse but with all different kinds of addition. We went there just to check it out.

Besides being a greenhouse, there is a bakery, deli, wine/liquor store, grocery, home/gift shop, spa, restaurant, furniture store, kitchen tools store and a few more stores.

We went to the greenhouse and saw all kinds of exotic plants, magnolia, banana, bouganvilla, and a lot more. They have an automated hanging plant area where the pots are hung and moves in line and you can check and inspect which pot you like and pick it.

The bakery is good with all kinds of offerings. I bought a rosemary and onion baguette and a regular small french bread which I will use to make french toast.

 I also got red Hawaiian sea salt and saw the Mediterrenean blue sea salt which I will get next. time. I have this small collection of salt.

It was a nice place to see and browse on a weekend when there is nothing else to do. I only took a few pictures, I would suggest to google it and there are lots of things to see.

Hope you are all enjoying the long weekend. 

124 blocks.....

That is the number of city blocks I walked last week. I have decided to walk to work and I started last week. It was nice and a good exercise. I am continuing it this week as well and maybe all summer long.

What a busy weekend...I cleaned my balcony and I am happy that the pigeons are not perching on my balcony ledge. I think the loud music is keeping them away so I will leave my radio blasting loud music while I am at work.

The markets are opening this week. There will be one close to my block which will be on Thursdays and will be open into the night..could be till 9:00 pm. And the Saturday one which is in the central downtown and I can still walk to that one. It is nice to get some really fresh produce and home made breads, jams, pickles and other stuff.

My chairs are in the balcony now and I can sit out there and read. My son is getting a barbecue for me as mother's day gift so it will be nice to be able to barbecue. I have not decided if I will plant vegetables this time since there will be the markets opening soon.

The weather has been really great...warm and a lot of golfers in the driving range across the street.
Another work week.....and a long weekend coming up.

Mother's Day....

To all the mothers out there.....Happy Mother's Day. I hope you enjoy this day and that you get the royal treatment from your loved ones.

It could be breakfast in bed, brunch in a nice restaurant, barbecue, flowers or any other way they see fit to honour the mothers out there.

I think I will be getting a small barbecue for my balcony. I hope so.

This will be a short post. Have a great weekend!!!

The winner is.....

I said the winner would be Chris or Jermaine. And Jermaine won. I think his performance last week is what made people vote for him. I chose Javier last year too.

Now I would have Monday nights free unless America's Got Talent works out to be good. But I do not like Howard Stern at all and can't stand him so I will most likely not watch it this time.

I would rather go for a walk or do laundry than watch him.

It is almost midweek, how time flies. It was another warm day and a bit cooler than yesterday. I almost wanted to stop by Ssecond Cup to get a cold drink and sip it while walking home.

I just noticed that there is a noodle house opening 3 blocks from me and they would be selling bubble tea. That would be a place I would frequent to try different flavours. I hope they open soon.

The performances of the two singers I like.



The Voice.....

It was a good show and all four deserve to be there. But I think it is between Jermaine and Chris.
I will be surprised if it is one of the other two but then again I could be wrong.

It will be exciting tonight. I was switching between The Voice and DWTS. They have more shows before the finals.

And then there will be America's Got Talent and Duets which is a new show. I will watch the first shows and see if they are interesting and go from there.

The weather here has turned really nice. I walked yesterday and on the way home it was too hot. I have noticed that the outdoor patios of most restaurants were open and people drinking cold drinks more than coffee.

I am sure the driving range across from me will be full this afternoon.

If you have warm day like us, enjoy....it might turn nasty again.....

What's baking?.....

I have not posted anything I have baked or cooked lately. Mainly because I forgot to take pictures which is such a problem.

So the last week or so I have baked a new banana muffins recipe and corn bread which is a lot better than the corn muffins recipe I got a while back which is quite dry. I also made banana toffee tart for our pot luck at work last week. The tart turned out really well. Another thing I made two weeks ago for an impromptu party was mini croissant stuffed with dill cream cheese and smoked salmon. The croissants I bought at Save-On and they just came out of the oven.

Of which now I shop early in the morning on the weekend and the baked goods are just coming out. This morning I bought bagels, hotdog buns and unsliced loaf of bread for french toast.

The banana muffins was so easy to make and came out really moist. The only problem is that I am back on my diet. This will be my last one before seeing my doctor next month.

I hope he does not put me on insulin as I am petrified of needles.

As you can see I have already sliced the cornbread when I thought of taking pictures.

A tray of banana muffins. They were really moist and so easy to make.



Food....

This is from the previous post I did about Johnny Reid where I mentioned the food at Rexall. Place. I understand they are fast food item but my complaint is how salty the food was.

I had the chili french fries. They salted the fries and then put on the chili which was so salty, my tongue was sore and then there was the cheese sauce.

I don't know if they ever taste them but I think they should. I did not finish it, just ate the fries which were not smothered with the chili. Next time, I will get popcorn, of which my son said is the only one he gets whenever he is at Rexall.

Next, we went to Koi which is the new Japanese restaurant on the 149 Street shopping area. It used to be Moshi, Moshi which was good and inexpensive. Well, Koi serves the same kind of menu except double the price of the old place and again the food was salty.

I have not experienced really salty Japanese food....will never go back there. Will not pay the price they are charging either so another lesson learned.

Another bad experience was Le Shish at Mayfield Common. I was telling the waitress, I wanted grilled and she explained the chicken shwarma was and not dry and I should have just ordered the kebabs. I only ate a bit although they were willing to give me another dish but after that I just did not feel like eating anymore from there.

Just a bit of ranting about restaurant expereince. Maybe I should just go where I am sure the food is good/great.

Almost Friday...enjoy the weekend.u