Happy Halloween!!!

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Happy Halloween!

How come it is already October 31st?!?! This is crazy!!!

I had a great weekend! On Saturday night, we had that big Halloween party planned (in an old church turned into a community center) and it was really fun! There was about 30 people and we danced the night away!

My costume was really simple and it cost me nothing (my mom had all the things I needed at home!)!

I was dressed as a Crazy Cat Lady!

We were pretty lazy on Sunday (the boyfriend was really hangover haha!). I had to run some errands and after that, I went to my parents house to help my mom to put Halloween decorations outside the house. It was so cold! I also did some cooking with my mom (like a wonderful pumpkin cake!) My boyfriend came over for dinner and we had a great time.

Today, I am working on my thesis and I hope to be done with my introduction and my conclusion before my birthday (which is in 3 days, November 3rd!)!!! I can totally do that!!!

How was your weekend?

Have a great week!!!

Friday Confessions!

• I confess that I don't feel good if I don't wash my hair everyday. 

• I confess that I like to stay home on Friday and Saturday nights.

• I confess that when they meet me for the first time, people often think that I'm shy.

• I confess that I have a hard time respecting my budget.

• I confess that I dream about winning the lottery. (But I don't buy any tickets haha!)

• I confess that I can be pretty selfish sometimes. (Hard to admit but it is true.)

• I confess that my birthday is less than one week away and I'm not excited at all to turn 27! (Way too close to 30!!!)

What's your Friday confessions?

Have a great weekend! 

Do you have any plans for this weekend?

(I'm going to a big Halloween party tomorrow night and I'm so excited!)

I Am Hungry!

And our fridge is pretty empty (at least, I have beer haha!!!) There is nothing in the freezer! And no more snacks in our pantry! I hate days like that! When I am hungry, I get cranky!

I definitely need to go to the grocery store tonight to get some good food!

Menu for this week:
Tuesday: Chicken and vegetables
Wednesday: Souvlakis and brown rice
Thursday: Egg salad
Friday: Pita pizza

And I'm looking for new snacks! I'm getting tired of eating chewy bars, yogurt, celery and apples!
Do you have any favorite (and healthy) snacks? Please share!

Friday Confessions!

• I confess that I'm a very picky eater. 

• I confess that I can be very judgmental. (That's bad, I know!)

• I confess that I'm addicted to sugar. (I can't say no to cake! Or gummy bears!)

• I confess that I'm a perfectionist.

• I confess that it takes me forever to get ready in the morning. (If my hair and my makeup are not the way I want it to be, I don't feel good for the rest of the day!)

• I confess that I have a phobia of veins.  (I can't even look at my own arm!)

• I confess that I miss living in my university town. 

• I confess that I sometimes wish I would have chose something else than literature as a major.

• I confess that I really want to do some shopping right now!

What are your Friday confessions?

Happy weekend!

Who Loves Wine?

This is what my boyfriend got at the liquor store this weekend! He had some gift cards to use and he got a lot of alcohol!!! He even got one free bottle! (He also made a mess when he left the store because he broke a bottle of red wine and he spilled it all over the floor ha!)

I love me some wine!

Do you have any favorite wine?

Fabulous Friday!

It is Friday people!!! I'm so happy that the weekend is finally here!

What is fabulous for me?

• Date night! The boyfriend and I are having a date tonight! Dinner at a restaurant and a movie! We have not been to the movies in ages, for real!

• A walk in the woods. We are going for a walk this weekend outside the city for sure and I will try to not forget my camera to snap a few fall pictures!

• Baking! I'm planning on baking a lot this weekend! Pumpkin muffins, peanut butter cookies, chicken and roast beef are on the menu!

• Halloween decor! I will be getting some pumpkins and I will hang a fall wreath (that I have made last year) on our front door!

What's fabulous about your Friday?

Enjoy your weekend!

Blogiversary!

One year ago, I wrote my first post (October 6th 2010).

In 12 months, I think I have made great progress in my English writing skills.

Like a lot of you may know, English is not my first language and every time I write a new post, I have to switch from my French mind to my English mind!!! It's sometimes hard to find the right word when I have a French word in mind! This is not always easy people!!! I know that I do grammar errors and that my English is far from perfect but I'm happy to be able to communicate in an other language!

Reading blogs and writing my own have help me improve my English skills! (As well as watching English TV shows) I have learned new words and new expressions that I have never heard before (well, we didn't learn those in English classes!)!

I have the chance to be able to speak/understand/read/write two languages, isn't amazing?!?! I know that's not everyone who gets that chance!!! I am proud of that!

DIY Project: IKEA Drawer Chest Makeover

I have never showed you the DIY project I did a couple months ago for our upstairs living room!

I had an old white drawer chest (bought at IKEA like 20 years ago!) from my childhood bedroom and I had the great idea to give a second life to it! 

I put a black/white damask wallpaper on each drawer (3) and I had to be really careful because of the damask pattern, I wanted it to be perfect! It took me like 6 hours to do it! I painted the top and sides with black paint. I also purchased 6 silver knobs and I think the final result is great! And it looks really nice in our grey living room!

Total transformation cost:  $50 (approximatively)

Unfortunately, I didn't think to snap any pictures of it before the makeover!!! But you can figure that it was a really old piece of furniture, it used to be white, but it was more like a pale yellow color ha!

Here some pictures of the final product:

There is a lot of storage to put all my DVD!

I just love that damask pattern! And this is an unique piece of furniture!

Did you do any DIY projects recently?

Keeping It Real!

This is how our office/guest room looks like right now. 

This is where I write my thesis on a daily basis, this is why papers are all over the room!!! This is an organized mess ha! 

The important thing is that I actually got a lot writing done in the past days and this is going well! I have to keep up the inspiration and the motivation! I have a lot of edits to do. Can't wait to be done!

Miscellany Monday & Menu Monday!

• Once again, the weekend was not long enough!

• Saturday, I baked 2 pies with my mom: an apple pie and a blueberry-almond paste pie (with fresh blueberries that my mom picked out by herself in the woods! In October!) Those pies were SO good!!!

• I did a big cleaning of the house and it feels so good! I love when things get done! It was a very productive weekend!

• This weekend, I watched Season 1 of Gilmore girls (2000)! I can't believe it was 11 years ago!!! I have all the DVD and I love watching it! 

• It looks that this week, we will finally be getting a check from the insurance company for the water damages we had back in May (almost 5 months ago!!!)! Finally!!! It was about time!

• Saturday morning, I woke up with a big bruise on my left ankle and it still hurts! I don't know how I got that! I can't workout for a couple of days because my shoe hurt my bruise!!! I want to work out so bad because I have not worked out in the past week!!!

Menu Monday

This week is a short week because we are heading to Montréal on Friday for the long weekend!

Monday: Chili con carne

Tuesday: Partridge meat, brown rice and veggies

Wednesday: Macaroni and roasted brocoli

Thursday: Pizza and cucumber salad

I have already cooked the chili and the macaroni yesterday, so two dinners are ready for this week! I don't have to worry about getting those dinners done! The boyfriend will be cooking the partridge meat and the pizza is a frozen pizza! 

Have a great week everyone! 

What's cooking in your kitchen?