27 April 2010 By Jane 2 In Random Stuff
This is the time of the year when my mom and I go look at flowers and plants.
My mom loves to garden. So, we go visit one of the local nurseries here that is just beautiful!
Seriously, there are just too many pictures to take.
This is their bathroom. So cool!
My kind of frog.
I want this tree for my bathroom!
So many cute things. A gardener’s dream!
I’ve died and gone to GARDENER’S HEAVAN.
Dreaming is good.
-Jane, Garden Lover
Jane gives Orchids the Artsy Fartsy Treatment.
By Jane on March 9, 2011
Close-ups of the orchids, so you can fully appreciate their beauty! (NOTE: All pics were taken with my little Canon G11 point and shoot camera.) Enjoy! THE LADY SLIPPERS Lady Slipper Orchids are one of my favorite varieties of orchid. They are just gorgeous!! They are called Lady Slipper due to the slipper-shape pouches of the flower. If you’re a Lady [...]
Category: Artsy Fartsy, Thru My Lens
The Motor City, the border, kilometers versus miles…and finally, Toronto.
By Jane on July 7, 2010
We’re in the Motor City! Home of the Pistons! And my old place of employment, where I lived some 9 or 10 years ago, working for Ford Motor Company. This is a picture of one of Ford’s plants but I didn’t work here. I worked in the offices close to headquarters. After traveling around for a [...]
Category: Random Stuff
Duncan Hines for this sweets junkie preggar.
By Jane on April 14, 2011
I don’t typically have a sweet tooth but pregnancy has changed all that. I’m craving sweets all the time and my girls are constantly ratting me out to my doctor and my friends. “Mommy eats a lot of sweets!” Sadly, I can’t really deny it. It’s true. We were at my parents house the other [...]
Category: Random Stuff
Justice Girls coupons gets us every time.
By Jane on November 13, 2009
My girls LOVE shopping at Justice Girls and Justice knows exactly how to entice us into shopping at their store. They send us these 40% off coupons which my kids look for and find in the mail. Found it! Here it is… “What else do they have there?” You know these genius marketing companies are [...]
Category: Smashin' Fashion
Need a project to do with the kids? How about collaborate on a painting together?
By Jane on January 9, 2011
Louise and I were at home together while Dick took Thelma to her training academy. So, Louise wanted to do something TOGETHER and thought it would be neat to work on a painting together. Normally, since the kids always want help with stuff, I would be like, “It’s more special if you do it by [...]
Category: Artsy Fartsy, Do It Yourself, Thelma & Louise
Laundry, laundry…and more laundry!
By Jane on October 4, 2009
Um, seriously? I can’t seem to ever catch up on laundry. One would think that I would be super-anal about laundry but the exact opposite is actually true. I don’t sort whites and colors. I mix in the linens with the clothes. I try to cram as much into the machine as I possible can. [...]
Category: Random Stuff
Jane makes it out ALIVE after going to Dolly Parton’s SPLASH COUNTRY
By Jane on July 27, 2010
After Toronto, MIA, the girls and I drive down to Metropolis so that she can spend a few days with my parents and enjoy the relaxing pace that is METROPOLIS. Since we’ve never been before, my mom wants to take us to Dolly Parton’s SPLASH COUNTRY. Dick is in Gotham City so it’s just the [...]
Category: Random Stuff, Videos
MUSHED AND STRANDED on the Interstate: The first time I ever ran out of gas.
By Jane on January 25, 2011
The first time I ever ran out of gas was 11 years ago when I was living in Toronto. I was on my way to work at the Ford F150 plant and out of nowhere, my car starts to slow down on the QEW (An interstate in Toronto). At the time, I owned a brand [...]
Category: Random Stuff
JANE’S MOVIE REVIEW: DEPARTURES. Winner of Best Foreign Language Film.
By Jane on January 28, 2010
While Lucy was in town visiting, she rented a movie for us to watch. OKURIBITO or in English…DEPARTURES. Winner of the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, this was an EXCEPTIONAL movie. Moving, tender, loving, funny…it is an emotional-filled movie that is food for the soul!! The story tells of a young cellist who’s [...]
Category: Movie Reviews
Cher comes over for a Persian breakfast at my house, in her jammies.
By Jane on December 13, 2011
My friend, Cher, is always inviting me to come over to her house and I’ve turned her down so many times because she lives “so far away” (about 30 minutes) and because I am a lazy friend who doesn’t want to leave her bubble. However, to make up for it, I instead have her come to [...]
Category: Food, Random Stuff
We break in June’s new crib for Halloween: Great food, great friends.
By Jane on November 2, 2011
For Halloween, we went over to my friend and partner in crime, June Cleaver’s new house. You may remember, we spent last Halloween together too. June is in the midst of making some of her super yummy Chicken Bacon Chowder and Cheddar Biscuits. Also here is Confuscia, a dear friend that I met through Benz [...]
Category: Random Stuff
DICK: Daddy Day at Ballet, Tutus and all.
By Jane on January 19, 2010
The girls have been taking ballet since they were 5, taking off a year here or there. Louise was excited to start ballet again but since Thelma was crazy about ice skating, she wasn’t feelin’ ballet as much and decided not to take lessons this year. And ever Louise started up again this last fall, [...]
Category: Dick, Faves, Thelma & Louise, Videos
Laguna Beach: No, I’m not talking about the teeny bopper show.
By Jane on December 30, 2009
We recently were down in the OC…that’s short for Orange County if you don’t know or watch those teeny-bopper reality shows on MTV. We decided to head to the Laguna Beach so the kids can play. I’m so excited because I got a bunch of great shots. Enjoy! There’s a photo shoot going on so I [...]
Category: My Big Fat Persian Family, Thru My Lens
Mean Mommie makes Louise cry while practicing piano.
By Jane on November 16, 2010
Thelma and Louise have started up piano lessons again. They have been taking lessons since they were 5-6 years old but hardly ever practice. And because we have so many things going on and a million other lessons, I haven’t enforced the practicing. However, I remember being a little more self motivated when I was a [...]
Category: Random Stuff
By Jane on July 26, 2010
One thing that I ALWAYS do when I’m in Toronto is go eat DIM SUM. Actually, we go to this great DIM SUM place in Mississauga. It’s Ron’s favorite. Ron comes here so often that the management knows him AND can even speak some Chinese to them. There are many Vietnamese who can speak Chinese and [...]
Category: Random Stuff
Men making beds: Now that I know you know how to do it correctly…
By Jane on February 16, 2010
Of course, I’m always the one making the bed. I like a made bed and hate it when I get ready to go to sleep at night as see a messy bed. Plus, when I sleep, the sheets hardly move but when Dick sleeps, they’re ALL OVER the place! (Which makes my job oh so [...]
Category: Jane Rant
My eclectic sister-in-law finds herself a beautiful African dress at Ross.
By Jane on September 10, 2011
After coffee, we stopped by Ross as we were walking home. My sister-in-law has a great eclectic style. She spots these African dresses and just loved them. She decides to try them on right there in the aisle instead of the changing room. Sometimes one is just too lazy to go to the changing room. [...]
Category: Random Stuff
By Jane on November 25, 2009
Remember how I told you I fall asleep easily? (No? Click HERE.) Yet another movie that I’ve only seen the first half of. Victim to falling asleep while watching a movie at home…again. When I’m physically at the movie theater I can usually stay awake. I’ve only fallen asleep during 2-3 of those. Anyone else [...]
Category: Random Stuff
ODE: For Intelligent Optimists. My new favorite magazine.
By Jane on September 13, 2010
The other day, I biked out to Starbucks for some ME-TIME and was reading my book, Learning from Salmon, and my new favorite magazine…introduced to me by my dear DICK. “You’re so lucky to have me. See how I expand your mind and make you so much smarter?” Ugh. He makes it so difficult for [...]
Category: Random Stuff
By Jane on November 4, 2009
I just tried this for the first time the other day…Fried Pickles. Actually, it’s really good. If you like pickles at all and if you like fried food, then you need to try this! -Jane, New Fan of Fried Pickles
Category: Random Stuff
27/04/2010 at 7:36 AM Permalink
Too fun! We’re still waiting for the snow to melt off the back porch here. Have fun planting.
Awesome bathroom too.
03/05/2010 at 8:49 PM Permalink
Oh absolutely beautiful! Next time I come to town we should go there.