It’s my new favourite movie.  My previous favourite is My Best Friend’s Wedding.  My God this movie is good.  It held my attention like velcro.  I couldn’t write a better movie for my own enjoyment even if I tried.  It’s about a spirited young girls’ ordeals with teen pregnancy.  It’s a drama as expected but it’s also a brilliant comedy and has the most pixie perfect music.  I want to own this movie and watch it bi-weekly.  The Oscar for best screenplay is well deserved.

To be fair some might hate it but I tenderly enjoyed it.

I had a wonderful cookie today and needed to share.  The Tim Horton’s at Portage Place my friends is doing it right.  It might be the only on in the entire city that is making soft cookies so take advantage if you can.  I’ve had other Timmy cookies and most are brittle.  The cookie I had today was the most luscious soft baked good I have had in a very long time.   It was a new flavour too.  It’s called Chocolate Chunk.

1751 Pembina Hwy

I love bubble tea culture.  Usually bubble tea places only offer beverages and therefor allow you to bring food from outside.  People usually sit around for hours playing games, hanging out, eating and just enjoying each others company.  This place is fairly new and fairly large and well decorated.  They have normal bubble tea, milkshakes, hot teas and even real fruit ones.  I like the hot teas because they are useful in our crap weather.  I also like the real fruit watermelon and mango.  I’ve been there a few times now.  Once I hung out and had pizza from neighbouring Dominoes and once a group of us had a cupcake party there.  There are lots of great fashion magazines to peruse through.  Good times.

1783 Main Street

Finally got an opportunity to experience this place.  I’ve driven by at least three separate times to find this place closed.  That’s because their hours don’t fit my lifestyle.  How can I be expected to go to a restaurant before 8pm?  Hello.  Anyways, it was worth the wait.  I love Lebonese food and this place does not disappoint.  Tipu had this platter with rice, a pita, hummus, lamb kabobs, salad w/ feta cheese, fatoosh, and two amazing sauces one salty and lemony and the other spicy.  Allegedly the spicy sauce was not strong enough for Tipu but it was good by me.  I found the lamb a little bland.  The hummus there is really good.  It’s got a kick to it, it’s very flavourful and more intense than any other hummus I’ve had.  I had a beef pita pie with four fatires.  Two of them were beef and one was spinach.  I enjoyed the spinach one the most.  It’s tangy.  Truthfully I ate my order and most of Tipu’s order.  I require more food than the common human being.  I’m not sure why this is but it is.  Anyways, this place also includes stuff you can take home like ingredients, drinks and already made pita bread, sweets including baklava, fatires and Lebonese cheeses.  It’s worth the drive for me but you’ll have to make your own decision.

I had an amazing day today.  I really did appreciate the Louis Riel holiday established in Manitoba to offer up a long weekend amidst awful climate conditions and long-weekend drought that occurs in February.  Some have complained that it’s a waste of money and a sign of weakness or laziness.  I disagree.  I think it’s great way to relax and every now and then that’s needed.  Studies were showing that at least for students a break was necessary (reading week) to prevent burn out and even suicides.  I guess the business world can’t afford an entire week but I think everybody can benefit from an extra day.

I had a great day.  I went shopping at Polo Park and checked out their new food court.  FYI, St. Vital’s is still better in my opinion.  They have a lot more beverage options which I think is crucial to the mall experience.  I also prefer the solid food options at St. Vital.  Tipu bought me perfume! And in the evening I got together with my girlfriends to play volleyball.  I can’t tell you how rejuvenated I feel.