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So the move is seriously stressing me out. But I have come up with an excellent solution to the root of all this stress... delay the move!! Then i get an actually summer, and more time to organize the shear chaos of it all. But in the end i know it will all be worth it (Fingers crossed AND knock on wood!) Of course the best therapy is... CBC radio!! They've got their '7 wonders of Canada' thing going on right now. Sure sure, the east has glorious contenders, but the thought of the West is just so exciting! And the scenery is bar none, simply the best.
The nominations are all amazing but here's just a few

Do you watch that VH1 show 'Best Week Ever' - it's fabulous. and i should have been on it last week. The week started off with Holiday Monday (Patriots Day - only in Massachusetts!). Tuesday came with the Nora Jones and M. Ward concert. Nora was stunning and artistic, as usually, and M. Ward reminded me why i wanted to learn to play the guitar (he has the ability to make grown men cry). Wednesday? Ummm, there were cookies and meetings all day at work, which minimizes stress. Thursday was the John Legend/Corinne Bailey Rae. This show was very entertaining, but the theatre was disgusting (the Tuesday night show was in an exquisite theatre in Providence, and the later in dirty downtown Boston). The week finished with a girls weekend in the sunny (but very windy) Miami. Ariba! After next to no sleep and some beach time, i'm back, and looking forward for this exhausting week to finish... just in time to go to NYC/Brooklyn for the Cherry blossom festival, Coney Island and birthday cupcakes at Magnolia bakery. Yum!!

What exactly are Easter traditions? It's been a topic at work, and i really couldn't think of much. I decorated eggs a la Martha Stewart and made an amazing poppyseed papparadelle (goulash) from my rebar cookbook (a cup and half of red wine sure makes anything taste good!). The best Easter tradition was the outrageously good chocolate i got from L.A Burdick's in Harvard Square. They had roosters, bunnies, eggs - but i got the baby duck...and the chocolate was definetly the best chocolate i've ever had. This place really is gourmet (And fair trade!)
The weekend ended with a drive along the beach - that's a tradition i think i'll continue...

Easter Eggs
Step one:
wrap eggs in fun fabric - boil!


Final product:


If you were Martha:

The trick is wrap to the eggs TIGHTLY!!

And the cutest Easter Chocolate ever!!

Talking about 'the move' is an everyday event. So naturally, it leads me to think about what i will miss about Boston. I few times i got misty eyed riding the T over the Charles. And running along the Charles, looking at the Beantown skyline... But, the one thing i know i will miss the most? Dance. I feel like i've been born again. Finding me: personality and spirit. Lately, i've really been loving it. It's not akward, but a real expression of myself. The dance company i'm a member of have been working on a new piece... i get a solo! And it feels to good to move!!

What's great about Boston and the dance scene here is it's close proximity to NYC. There's a master's dance class coming up with local hereo Kenny, from DanceLife. And the amazing ALVIN AILEY is holding auditions here, the day before my birthday! Although i love treating myself with dance on my birthday (Lion King and Mama Mia auditions in previous years), i think i'll leave this one to the real professionals...and get geared up for my day trip to NYC!! My sis is the best city tour guide (shops to visit, sites to see), but this time i wanna see Coney Island!

The amazing Revelations...saw it last year on my Birthday (Thanks Khris)

After the mass media attention given to the whole Pet food recall, i thought i should just make sure that my darling little kittie wasn't eating the tainted (rat poison!) food. Luckily, Fancy Feast was NOT on the least, although she does eat the dry brand of Science Diet (I'm surprised the wet variety was on the list). What i find intersting is that Menu Foods is based in noneother than Streetsville Ontario - just a hop, skip and a jump away from the T-Dot! Sure, the food was produced at its facility in Emporia, Kansas (between December 3, 2006 and March 6, 2007) and the source of the poison, aminopterin, was in the wheat gluten produced in Asia, but i never suspected a Canadian connection. Take a peak at the specific brands to avoid from Menu foods

i often post about the features on CBC radio or other radio stations i love... today i followed the links to CBC radio 2 and their featured concert "Joel Plaskett live" with Symphony Nova Scotia. The best thing about live music is really hearing the music, the lyrics and the personal feeling the artist brings. And on top of that, i love that FULL sound. Not over whelming load drums and guitar, but nice orchestra sound. This show brings all that together. Plus, it's all Canadian..

I had to do an IQ type test in high school, and when i tried to redo it years later, I couldn't come up with the same right answers! Now that i'm back viewing CBC, i noticed the 'Test the Nation' contest was in the Top Ten. Some of the results are really interesting...Go Prairies!! Also, note to the Vegan's out there... This is even more amusing since CBC also did a story about dumb American Game shows. Sorry for the awkard spacing, i'm not a programer! You'll have to scroll ALLLLL the way to the bottom to see some results.. Check out cbc.ca and the Test the Nation link for more fun results!

REGION
</td>	Total Respondents</td>	Lowest IQ</td>	Highest IQ</td>	Average IQ</td>	Estimated IQ (Avg.)</td>
Atlantic	12349	29.0	154.0	109.07936	106.579315
Québec	5028	29.0	156.0	109.44093	110.065834
Ontario	51081	29.0	156.0	109.396645	109.12735
Prairies	24702	29.0	156.0	110.53348	108.834625
British Columbia	15735	29.0	156.0	109.642265	109.363205
North	645	36.0	145.0	109.646515	107.04651
Outside Canada	2051	29.0	153.0	109.435394	115.36714

This weekend we rented "Fast Food Nation". The primary colour scheme on the DVD case lead me to believe it would be a feel good movie. Based on the book by Eric Schlosser, there was an emsemble cast including: Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Greg Kinnear, Wilmer Valderrama, Kris Kristofferson, and Avril Lavigne, to name a few. So when i sat down to watch it on a snowy Saturday afternoon i was in for a shocker.

No - not a feel good movie or comedy. Don't get me wrong, i totally loved the film. Back on track on feeling pasionate about not supporting big corporations, and saving the little man (plus the environment and all the cute little cows too). Dubbed 'the most essentional political film from an American director since Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11..." by the New York Times.

Needless to say, we couldn't watch the last 15-20 minutes, even for us 'meat eaters', it was pretty gruesome, and i didn't cook meat all weekend. In fact, I couldn't go near the meat department in the grocery store. I don't think our friend 'in this corner' or my sis could watch the end either...

I've been away, and the office radio has been DJed by somebody else. Today i got to control the radio waves again. It's been so long since i've listened to:

a) News and
b) CBC Radio!!

I got a little teary eyed! I have so much Rich Mercer to catch up on!!

Does anyone else find that 'news radio' style shows have the strangest features? Like Monday afternoon gardening tips? Everything about West-coast Borst? Chain saws?!?

The minute i saw the spine of the book hidden in the shelf, i just had to have it. Here's a review of it



Lately, i've been buying and reading graphic novels...one in French too! The only media i don't quite get is film. Like experimental film. But i never really attempted it, and only few it occasionally. BUT, i found out one of my fellow knitters is none other than Guy Madden's (distant) neice! And yes, she does film here in Boston.