Songs That I Am Liking

Crash Years by The New Pornographers......has a upbeat pop sound and cute and colourful video.


The Rabbit By Miike Snow gets me groovin' with its catchy choruses.


Sarah McLachlan new single Loving You Is Easy is a departure from her usual sound. While I like the tune the official video bugs me for some reason. I much prefer her live rendition here.


Fire with Fire By Scissor Sisters is n uplifting, euphoric, anthemic, true-to-life tale about rising up against the odds and fighting "fire with fire".

Kids Movies That I Could Watch Again & Again

As an adult, you may enjoy kid movies for different reasons than you did as a wide-eyed youngster, but that just proves their timelessness.

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Back To The Future

Where The Red Fern Grows

Big

Elf

Home Alone

Mary Poppins

The Lion King

Up

Adventures In Babysitting

Toy Story

Karate Kid

Matilda

Holes

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

My New Favorite Blog:Stuff No One Told Me (but I learned anyways)

I love this blog by illustrator Alex Noriega.

Song Of The Day: Your Love Is My Drug By Ke$ha

I have to admit it.........I like this song. It is my guilty pleasure.

Around The World In 80 Seconds

This is cool but a bit of a visual overload.

Happy Fathers Day

Did you know that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the first Father’s Day? According to the YMCA, the very first Father’s Day was celebrate at the Spokane YMCA in Washington on June 13th, 1910. Of course, today it is celebrated worldwide in more than 80 different countries.
Out of the mouths of babes......I can relate to may of these children as they share what their dad means to them.

I often feel like I am the luckiest person around most days. On Father’s Day & Mother's Day it especially hits me. I have 2 beautiful daughters and a husband who couldn’t be a better a father to them. I love to watch him with them..... he loves to play with them, snuggle with them, help them clean their bedroom and playroom (ok well maybe not that… let’s not get carried away right?) He is loving, caring and always supportive of their needs.

Then there is my Dad… I again feel so blessed to have him in my life and have him be such a huge part of my daughters lives. I cherish the time we are all together and love to watch every minute of it.

Happy Fathers Day. I love you both.

30 Questions

1. It’s 2AM and you are not home. You are more than likely:
Working

2. What’s the last thing you spent more than $100 on?
Kurig Coffeemaker

3. What do your bank checks look like?
They are conservative and plain.

4. Where did the shirt you are currently wearing come from?
Roots

5. Name something that will be on your Christmas wish list.
A sewing machine


6. What color is your toothbrush?
Red and White

7. Name something you collect and tell us about it.
Do sunglasses count? No, seriously, I don't currently collect anything.

8. Last restaurant you ate at. Who were you with? How was it?
Hancs. I was with family and neighbourhood friends. I had Chicken Parmigiana. It was PHENOMENAL. How can anything with cheese be bad?!

9. Who was the last person you bought a birthday card for?
Brooke

10. What is your worst bad habit?
Potty mouth.

11. Name a magazine to which you subscribe?
Shape

12. Your favorite pizza toppings?
Bacon, Tomato Slice, Pineapple, extra cheese.

13. Whose number were you looking up the last time you used a phone book?
Watson Farms.

14. Other than family, who is the person that you love most?
All my friends.

15. What is the last thing you cooked?
Tortellini.

16. Name something you wouldn’t want to buy used?
Underwear

17. Which shoe do you put on first?
No preference.

18. What is the last thing you remember losing?
Other than my mind? Umm, that would be my car keys.

19. What is the ugliest piece of furniture in your house?
A floorlamp my husband bought.

20. Last thing you bought and ended up returning?
I don't usually return things.....so I can't remember.

21. What perfume/cologne do you wear? If none, why?
Right now, it's primarily Shower Fresh By Clean. Sometimes I wear Adidas Natural Vitality.

22. Your favorite board game?
Trivial Pursuit.

23. What was the last board game you played?
Scrabble

24. Where did your vehicle come from?
Japan

25. If a movie was made about your life what would the theme song be?
This is a tough one.



26. You’re sad, who can cheer you up easily?
Alley


27. What was the color of the bridesmaid dresses of the last wedding you went to?
Black

28. What house cleaning chore do you hate to do the most?
Cleaning the fridge and oven

29. What is your favorite way to eat chicken?
Catalina Chicken


30. It is your birthday. You hope the cake is?
White cake with Seven Minute Icing. I also hope the middle is filled with a strawberry glaze or a pineapple upside down cake.

Favorite Magazines

Sometimes I am in the mood to peruse through some magazines. Here are a few of my favorites.

1.) Shape

2.) Real Simple

3.) Fitness

4.) Budget Travel

5.) Taste Of Home

6.) Prevention

7.) Toronto Life

8.) Womens Running

9.) More

10.) People

Good Summer Camp Movies

1.) Indian Summer.......I actually attended this camp when I was younger.
2.) Meatballs
3.) Parent Trap
4.) Dirty Dancing
5.) Friday The 13th

Song Of The Day: Arkansas By Damion Jurado

Damien Jurado is an indie rock singer/songwriter from Seattle, Washington. He is signed to work with the Indiana-based label Secretly Canadian.

Cool Paper Dolls

Paper Dolls used to keep me entertained for hours. I love the Spiderman one.

Mary Tyler Moore

Claire Huxtable

Rosanne Barr

Clay Aiken

Tobey McGuire as Superman

Elvis

Song Of The Day: Holiday By Vampire Weekend

Although the video and sound of the song are cheery, once the lyrics are examined it appears to have a deeper meaning, possibly an allusion to the Iraq War.

Lets Be Thankful For Mr. Wind

What a great concept for an advertisement.

Song Of The Day: Alive By Goldfrapp

I like this infectiously happy song.

Soccer Players Flaunt Their Stuff

While I am not a die hard fan of soccer and the World Cup I am a fan of Annie Leibovitz who photographs some of the reigning gods of the stadium.

Let's Move To Iceland

If this is, in fact, an accurate representation of life in Iceland....I love it. What a great travel ad.

I Love 'Jays STAT'

Want to know how the Toronto Blue Jays did last night? Who performed and who didn't? You can check the boxscores if you want to. Or, you can visit Jays STAT. With a quick glance, you know the score and you know who to praise or who to blame. STAT. Sooner Than Already There. Lens flares? Yeah, we got 'em. Happy cat? Yeah, we got him too. Don't forget the Angry Little Girl. If we see her less that 80 times this season, consider 2010 a success.

Breathe, Pause, Relax

My father recently sent me a sweet Email noting the fact that my blogging was on the decline........


"Hi Jill,
Is your computer broken? (if it is you wouldn't see this anyway). You haven't put anything on your blog in over a week. You have never gone this long before I think. I even phoned Garth the other day and he said that you were just busy. I miss it.
Love, Dad."

Lately I have felt like I have so much coming at me, so many possibilities, so many self-imposed “commitments” of things to read, listen to and watch. Then there are people in my life that I want to be familiar with....to interact with however the quality of relationships and activities has the potential to suffer when I spread myself too thin.
Being a nurse means that I interact with people approximately 40 hours a week and then there is the family time and social activites I engage in. I sometimes begin to feel overwhelmed and it is during this time that I tend to disconnect. I try to manipulate my envionment to carve out some Solo time.

Even during these time of solitude I tend to make mental lists of all of the things I can and should do..... laundry, clean, weed the garden, read a book, blog, do nothing, do everything. The choices themselves then begin to overwhelm me.

Lately I have been doing what is most beneficial for me. I have been spending time unplugged and away from the computer. I have been spending more time outside in my lounge chair daydreaming.....resting my mind and body. Taking time to pause, to breathe, to sit and just be.

Breakfast At Gingers

Mood Music

Thanks to inventions like the iPod, we have the ability to compose our own personal soundtrack for everyday life. But for those of us who don’t have the time to create separate lists for every feeling or activity, there’s StereoMood, which provides excellently created and free playlists that should suit just about any mood you may be in (or hope to be in).

There are certainly lots of options, as the site goes beyond basic emotional states (though it does include the requisite “Happy” and “Sad”) and into specifics, like “Feel Like Crying” (a 260-song list that includes Tom Waits, the Pixies and Blonde Redhead) or “Hopeful.” It also supplies lists for particular occasions or activities, like “It’s Raining,” and “Spring Cleaning.” So just sit back and let the site program the day’s soundtrack for you.