Attention Barrie-ites

For those of you who live in Barrie this is very exciting news. A dear friend of mine has just informed me that there is now a ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHOCOLATE FACTORY in the Georgian Mall in Barrie. THIS is a very good thing. I demand that all of you head up there this week. You won't regret it.
Here is what I recommend:
rice krispy square covered with chocolate; milk chocolate malt balls; almond bark; and the caramel apple.




Dave and I discovered this store on Robson St in Vancouver and we have indulged in it many times. I would recommend you do the same.
You won't regret it!


Ceeg

ps it is a little pricey $$ but WORTH it!

Happy Gurgayan!

Gurgayan is Kuwait's equivalent to our Hallowe'en.

I thought I would send props to my hermanos as I miss them and I thought they might appreciate something awesome Dave and I did this evening.

Dave and I thought we would buy ourselves a pumpkin for Hallowe'en. In doing so, we wanted to carve something cool on the pumpkin and we came up with this. (see below)
It took a while, but man, it's awesomeated!
Mike, Matt, enjoy! I'm sure others will enjoy too.
Happy Hallowe'en everyone!






Jo

Thoughts on things.

I was watching a show about David Suzuki and how he should be nominated as the Greatest Canadian. It was a very interesting show, actually I'm watching it right now. Anyways, there was this one clip where he had said that we, as humans, are fruit flies.
I need clarification: was he high when he said this or are we actually, in fact, those little tiny bugs that hide in fruit that's lying around on the kitchen counter? If I had known I was a fruit fly 5 years ago I would have done things A LOT differently.






Caryl J Davies

Toronno or Toronto

Which do you say? I will have results next week.

Sauces

I don't know what my problem is, but I think that this Vancouver air is making me stupid or something. Today at work I was filling the coffee sauces (chocolate, caramel, and white chocolate) into their respective containers when all of a sudden I started filling the caramel sauce with the chocolate sauce. Oops!
I'm not too sure what my problem is, but I'm retarded.

CJD

Lame Beatnik

I am required to wear black at work and one day Dave called me a lame beatnik. I thought he should take a picture so I could do a blog entry.

Enjoy!

Caryl

ka-fay la-tay

It turns out that I really shouldn't work. Let me tell you why:

1. I've fallen one and a half times. It kind of hurt, but not really. Mostly, it was uncomfortable - for me and my manager/owner.

2. I chipped a dish, it's now in the garbage.

3. I drop things on the floor, all the time.

4. I continue to overflow the coffee sauces about 3 times a day and not on purpose. Mostly it's because I'm retarded.

5. Yesterday a bottle of Peppermint syrup fell on the floor (you might say that I had placed it on the floor and then I think I knocked it over somehow) it broke and leaked all over the floor and under the fridge. This all happend during a rush. The floor got all sticky and super gross. I had to mop it up later that day.

6. I screw up drink orders like crazy. For instance, I give people whole milk when they specifically asked for skim; a caramel macchiato requires caramel sauce, espresso, vanilla syrup shot and milk, apparently I like to make it with caramel syrup, espresson, vanilla shot and milk. I screwed up a london fog drink, apparently you're supposed to add a shot of vanilla, I completely left out that shot entirely.

7. I thought that I had been setting the alarm incorrectly for the past 3 weeks, but did it anyway. Turns out I was right.

8. OMG, I almost forgot, the funniest. Last week I was filling the sink with water to do the dishes (which I have to do as part of my job) and I left the back to go help a customer. All of a sudden I remembered that I had the water running, luckily for me I was able to catch it in time. I learned a very valuable lesson, or so I thought. That very same day, not even two hours later I went to fill the sink again and I left to go help a customer, sure enough I go back to the sink and find that the water has overflowed over the sink onto the counters, under the meat slicing machine, and onto the floor. What a joy that was cleaning up!

If you ask me these are all grounds for being fired and yet, I'm still working there. This guy must be desparate if he needs to keep me on his payroll.


Lates,

Caryl

Untitled

"So what's your pleasure; is it the salty snacks you crave? No, no, no, no… yours is a sweet-tooth. Oh, you may stray, but you'll always return to your dark master: the cocoa-bean!"


Thus, I have discovered Nutella.



I believe that my mother has deprived me of nutella for quite some time now. I must say that I do not like nutella on bread, but prefer its nutty and cocoa taste on fruit and in delicious crepes at the store up the street from me. Yum!

Always in moderation, of course!


Talk soon,

CJ

Readers, proceed with caution!

Recently I moved to Vancouver, you could say that it was a pretty stressful move, stressful only because I freaked myself out about it like crazy. I guess you could say that I'm settling in, although I'm having a tough time trying to find the job and deep down I secretly know that I'm not going to find it. Anyhoo, the point I'm trying to make is that I stressed myself out like crazy, thereby creating an imbalance to my centre. I guess what I'm trying to say is that my system was out of wack. How you say? I will tell. Basically, I can sum it up with two words: Bloating and Constipation. For those of you who have experienced such problems know how uncomfortable it can be. I first tried Senna. In February (when this first happened to me) I went to the doctor and she told me to try Senna, so I did and it worked. So when it happened to me again here in Vancouver I was like, okay, I'm going to try Senna again and hopefully it will clear itself up. Turns out, not so much. I tried ex-lax, I tried certain Yoga moves to help digestion and IBS, I tried beans, I even tried a fennel seed tea which I had heard could help. NONE of these worked. I even went to the doctor in the middle of this and she was like eat more veggies and exercise. First of all, I already eat tonnes of veggies and second of all I DO
exercise. She was like, follow this plan and you'll be fine. I was like, okay, I'll just double what I'm doing. Guess what...it didn't work.
You can imagine how frustrated I was, or you can't, especially if you've never had such symptoms. Let me tell you, you don't want to feel this way, it's so uncomfortable and frustrating, because all I want to do is poop and it won't take.
I finally decided to go to another doctor and guess this shit sorted out...pun intended, the doctor comes in all relaxed and pretty chill for a doctor and she was like have 2-3 tablespoons of organic flax seeds and it will sort it self out. I was like, okay, are you sure, because nothing has worked. She insisted that it would work. I said, if it doesn't can I come back and can you really help me? Nope, she says, it will work. Off I go to find some organic flax seed. Luckily for me there just happened to be an organic store 2 minutes from the clinic. I bought myself some flax seed and I was on my way.
The doctor said to have the flax seed with orange juice or oatmeal. I do both. Let me tell you things have definitely started to get back to normal. It's amazing, the flax seeds have worked, this doctor is a genius!
My dearest friends, it's flax seed for the rest of my life, no, seriously. I can pretty much guarantee that flax seeds will be consumed each and every day for the rest of my life. My doctor said I could do this if need be and need be!
To end on that note I would just like to say if there are any of you out there that are suffering from severe constipation and bloating try flax seeds it will help. I can guarantee it.



If you would like more information on this subject do let me know, I would be happy to talk about it.

Until then,

stay regular,

Caryl Joanne Davies