Jack and I recently celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary (10th anniversary as a couple) and he surprised me with a limosine ride to the Calgary Tower, where we had dinner at the revolving restauraunt. It was such a surprise, totally amazing, and not to mention, crossed TWO things off of my Life List: 85. Ride in a [...]
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We are only two weeks into 2011, and I’ve already managed to cross something off of my Life List, and I am half-way though a second item! It’s shaping up to be a productive year. Jack got me a wonderful dehydrator for Christmas, which made it easy to make our own beef jerky! 325. Make [...]
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Things I learned over the weekend: Metal shoehorns will leave bruises with hardly any effort at all People get kind of excited when you serve Cornish hens and leave them whole. Like “We get a WHOLE bird? Each?” Kolach, while the most beautiful of breads, is less like bread and more like a giant pretzel [...]
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I think I may have mentioned last year, here in the Gibson house, we celebrate Christmas twice. First on December 25th, like most everyone else, and then again today, which is Ukrainian Christmas. When Jack and I got married, there was some sorting out as to how holidays should be observed. We combined our separate traditions into [...]
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Some months back I was on the hunt for an egg poacher, after we melted the plastic cup parts of our last one. Wanting to find something a lot more durable, I went to my favorite kitchen supply store to poke around. One of the clerks pointed me to these awesome little silicone poach pods, [...]
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Last night, when the clock struck 12:00am V and I celebrated the end of February (and our month of raw eating) with glasses of gin and pineapple juice, a bag of chips, and a rotisserie chicken. Yes, I went and bought one of those pre-cooked chickens because I’d been dying for meat and that was [...]
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Do you know what is awesome about raw foods? Totally guilt-free indulgence. And by that I mean ALL THE DESSERT YOU WANT! That’s right. When you are eating raw, you can have cheesecake for breakfast and still have room to spare in your skinny jeans. In fact, I would say that most days, at least [...]
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I’m having a difficult time today. I feel resentful and deprived. I wish that I’d not committed to going quite so raw. I wish that I’d built in an allowance for even one cup of coffee a day. If not the coffee, then maybe one cooked thing a week. Why don’t I just go ahead [...]
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Eating raw has become much easier since my last post. V and I have discovered a number of tasty recipes, and we’ve begun getting accustomed to the methods and ingredients involved in raw foods preparation. Here are a few of the tasty things we’ve been eating recently: Veggie Sandwiches On Raw Onion Bread Raw Gardenburger [...]
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Don’t people always say that the third day is the hardest? I certainly hope it is. Today has been a struggle for me. I’m recovering from a bout of the flu, and all I’ve wanted since Sunday is a cup of coffee and a hot bowl of soup. While it would be easy for me [...]
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On Saturday, around noon, Jack and I departed for our anniversary over-night in Niagara On The Lake. We weren’t in any rush, since our dinner reservations were for 6:30pm and we wanted a very laid back weekend. Jackson-Triggs was our first stop of the afternoon, where we enjoyed a pairing of cheese and a flight of [...]
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After a somewhat disappointing weigh-in on Tuesday, we’ve thrown ourselves into eating better and working out with renewed fervour. I did lose some over the 6 weeks since our initial weigh-in, but the holiday season took it’s toll, and the numbers were not what I hoped. I skipped the gym for two weeks in a [...]
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Montreal is just such a grand old city. We didn’t get to see as much of it as I would have liked, but the parts we did see, I fell in love with. I’d consider moving there, even though I can’t read or speak a word of French. Have you ever stood outdoors, in the frigid [...]
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Montreal was a series of fantastic restaurants, pubs, bars, fetish stores, and strong drinks. In short, it was everything I hoped it would be and then some! We left semi-early on Friday morning and arrived in Montreal sometime around supper. We checked into the hotel and got our bearings before I called Esined and made [...]
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We’ve had some interesting WTF? moments here at Chez Gibson. Fortunately we’ve managed to capture a couple of them on camera, for your viewing pleasure. This first photo may not seem unusual, except that we could find NO possible explanation for how that little ice stalagmite. It was in the top tray of cubes, and [...]
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I know, I know, I am woefully behind on the blogging front. I’ve been devoting a great deal of my time to other projects, none of them related to sex or this blog. Speaking of sex, that’s also taken up a fair bit of my recent attentions I’ve missed writing here, and I am [...]
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I haven’t allowed myself time to blog as of late due to wanting to make the most of the final week of summer, not to mention my birthday weekend, which was all kinds of fabulous really. Tickets to Bedouin Soundclash and Blue Man Group for September comprised part of my birthday gift from Jack. He [...]
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Despite my serious bout of the flu, we decided to go ahead with our trip to the states over the weekend. I was feeling mostly better, and I didn’t want to pass up the chance to see more of America, and to cross a thing of two off of my bucket list. After some discussion, [...]
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On the morning of Friday, July 25th I found myself on the back of a motorcycle, headed east of Calgary towards Bragg Creek. A friend of mine had offered to take me for a ride out to Elbow River, followed by lunch somewhere together. Since I’d already seen the Elbow Falls, he took me a [...]
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I feel totally overwhelmed by the amount of writing I need to do to catch up with everything that has happened to me over the past week, so bear with me if it takes a while to get it all written. Also, some of it may seem brief, since I am over a week ‘behind’ [...]
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