my own personal "crocs-oseum"

the addiction continues...


i ordered via telephone a week ago, and the shipment arrived today...yah, that means i can wear them in vegas, baby! my newest additions are: capri (hot pink & white), cleo (like my pedicure?), and the sassari wedge (seafoam & white).

i'm also very excited because there are crocs stores in vegas! whoo-hoo :-) mind you, i think i've bought everything i wanted... nonsense! a girl can never have too many shoes!

my shadow

nugget...a.k.a. nunu...a.k.a. nuggers...a.k.a. nugz...a.k.a. my shadow.

for the past week chris and i have taken care of nugget while he's recovered from the neutering. the first 24 hours was pretty low-key...nuggers was still fighting off the effects of the sedation. once the drugs wore off, we got to see nuggers back to his normal self (if there's such a thing when your manhood is taken away from you). asides from having friends over on tuesday night, we had a pretty quiet week. i didn't plan to do anything while he was with us, since his activities were pretty limited due to the stitches. by saturday though nugz was bouncing around and playing with his toys. well, destroying his toys is more like it :P

one of his curious little habits was to follow me around all week. it didn't matter if i was moving 2 feet away or leaving the room completely, he hauled himself up and plunked himself down at my new location. it was really awkward when i had to cook dinner...condo kitchens aren't meant for a person and a big-ass dog at your feet. we had a few confrontations, but nuggers was not going to be detered...he was sticking by me through thick and thin :-) such a loyal dog. or lonely dog. when i left nuggers with chris for 10 minutes, apparently all nugz could do was run from the door to the windows and back again. he was absolutely desperate to find me! i left them alone on another evening for 30 minutes...but this time i thought a new toy would distract him. not so much. when i came home, nugz was waiting for me at the door. it was the same deal at work...everywhere i went, he went. which i guess is a good thing...but when someone else is able to watch him or play with him, i thought he'd stay put. no such luck.

when i returned nuggers today, i did talk to the instructors about his unusual behaviour. seems as though nugz could be suffering from separation anxiety. he was in the kennel when he was a puppy, then he went to a raiser, then he was back at the pads (big dog) kennel, then he went to a sitter, then he went to the spca for his operation, and then i got him. poor guy just needs some stability in his life! hopefully he'll get a puppyraiser soon :-)

spa utopia

further to my list of spa's (from way back in september 2006), i've now experienced spa utopia (at canada place). on friday night i went there for a french manicure/pedicure. i arrived the standard 15 minutes early, got the tour of the spa amenities, and then i changed into my robe. as i was waiting for my esthetician, i sat back and caught up on my tabloid reading. there were snacks available for munching and a wide variety of beverages to enjoy.

anyways, on to the treatment. unfortunately, i couldn't do the french pedicure since my toenails were a bit too short :P so i ended up getting pink polish on them, but i got the french for my digits :-) the 2 estheticians working on me were the right combination of friendly, but not too chatty. after the standard small-talk, i got kind of sleepy and chose to rest my eyes. i thoroughly enjoyed the treatment and the parafin dip. it's strange, but my nails actually DO feel different....healthier (?), stronger (?), i'm not sure what it is, but i'm liking it! and then as i was leaving the spa, i discovered that they do make-up touch-ups after treatments, so i got my eyes done up all sparkly :-)

so i did get the mani/pedi for 2 reasons. on friday night, the girls hit chambar to celebrate selena's 30th birthday! now that i've discovered i actually like mussels very much, i ordered the (ocean-wise) moule frite - coquotte mussels cooked with white wine, bacon, vegetables, garlic and a touch of cream. and to finish the evening, i ordered dessert...creme et peach - peach almond frangipan pouch with rosewater creme brulee. delish!

then on saturday, i hit the road to surrey for my cousin's bridal shower. i went, i saw, and at least i had kick-ass nails :-) that's it.

so hot!

nothing beats having homemade ice cream on a hot summer night! i whipped together a batch of creamy strawberry ice cream yesterday. yum!

now, back to the heat...we go to vegas in 3 weeks and the temperature there is over 40 degrees. currently in vancouver, we are hovering in the high 20's. needless to say, i don't fair well in the summer months, and find this almost intolerable. i might melt in vegas! i guess that just means more time will be spent indoors...perhaps more gambling and shopping?! hahaha!

anyways, back to the heat...pet owners should be taking extra care of their little critters. PADS had an incident last week w/closed windors and doors, and really hot puppies inside the kennel. fortunately they were discovered before any harm was brought upon them, and they were quickly rehydrated and cooled down. preventative measures are now in place so this isolated incident is exactly that, an isolated incident. on a happier note, chris and i will have nugget back w/us for a week. should be interesting because nugs' is having "the operation" done on monday...i imagine he'll be pretty lazy on tuesday :-)

meet linus!

it's not very often that a chocolate lab crosses your path, so i jumped at the chance to puppysit this guy while his raisers went away for the canada day long weekend.