Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Hi there,
Well this the day before the eve of the New Year and tis getiing God damn cold in this city of Calgary. We were walking around yesterday in about -13 cold, and its supposed to get even colder at the weekend. We go around wearing coats, gloves, scarves up to our eyes, and our hats (or "toques" as they are called here!!)....so all you can see is our eyes!! You can see your breath through the scarf and the other day it was so cold that the steam rising from my breath was hitting the air and it was condensing into water as soon as it hit, and we came home with beads of water lodged in our eyelashes!! It is really cool to see, but just wait until those beads freeze...then we'll be in trouble!!
So, Sinead went to the chiropractor yesterday we finally made it to Captain Jacks for our 19cent miniburgers. They are so nice. We got 5 each and they were enough to fill us up. Sinead tried to convince me that I had 6 and she only had 4 but I'm not believing any of it!!
Sinead got a call yesterday too from Jacob, where she worked on Boxing day so she is working there again today and Friday. Boxing Day sales is actually Boxing "Week" Sales so its still a bit crazy in all the shopping malls (centres!!!) I don't envy her task!! But she has a couple of leads on lab work that might come her way, but she needs her individual results of all the subjects from the college and all of the email addresses for the lecturers seem to be broken at the moment. It sucks!! Hopefully the job can wait til she sorts something out to get her results.
Well, we have no real plans yet for New Years but Erin has invited us to go for a drink with a few of them and the gang from the church choir etc. who we go out with every Sunday night mentioned a party some time ago but we're not sure if that will materialise...but we are going to enjoy it anyway.
Happy New Year to all and I wish I was there to celebrate the "Anything but Turkey" New Years Eve dinner at home. I'll miss ye!
I don't have any idea how I could get the recipe for those parogies that we had at Christmas....bloody gorgeous. They take a good while to make though, apparantly. I'll have to try to bribe Erin's mum to give us the recipe!!
I don't know if I told you already but this Christmas I experienced my first "Caesar". Kinda spicy but not too bad at all! The ingredients are kind of scary though!!....
1 Lime
Tabasco Sauce
Worchester Sauce
Clamato Juice (Preferable Motts, if not substitute..Tomato
Juice with clam juice)
Celery Salt
Celery
Ice
Vodka
Method:
Rim glass with use of the lime....and dip glass into a plate filled with celery salt.
Put ice in glass.
Next, measure 1 1/2 ounces of Vodka and pour into glass.
Fill glass with Clamato Juice (leaving 1 inch on top).
Add 3 twirls of Worchester Sauce (or measure your degree of Heat!)
Now add, the Tabasco Sauce (I use 1 drop, but you can use to your taste)
Add a slice of lime (squeeze into drink).
Salt, Pepper to taste (I don't personally use any plain salt or pepper)
Add a stock of Celery (Makes for a nice decoration, or if you are hungry
you may eat it also).
ENJOY!!
Milestones: This Drink is the creation of a Canadian from Calgary,Alberta, Canada. Walter Chell lived to be a ripe old age...maybe because of his invention? Ode.....to Caesar!! He lives!! Forever!
Another Canadian experience had to be the "Yule Log". Ok, so they have a program on Christmas morning on the TV which is just a picture of a log of firewood burning in the fireplace and they play this recording, the same picture, for about two hours with just Christmas tunes in the background....quite an experience!!!
Hope you all have a great New Year. Take it easy
David
Well this the day before the eve of the New Year and tis getiing God damn cold in this city of Calgary. We were walking around yesterday in about -13 cold, and its supposed to get even colder at the weekend. We go around wearing coats, gloves, scarves up to our eyes, and our hats (or "toques" as they are called here!!)....so all you can see is our eyes!! You can see your breath through the scarf and the other day it was so cold that the steam rising from my breath was hitting the air and it was condensing into water as soon as it hit, and we came home with beads of water lodged in our eyelashes!! It is really cool to see, but just wait until those beads freeze...then we'll be in trouble!!
So, Sinead went to the chiropractor yesterday we finally made it to Captain Jacks for our 19cent miniburgers. They are so nice. We got 5 each and they were enough to fill us up. Sinead tried to convince me that I had 6 and she only had 4 but I'm not believing any of it!!
Sinead got a call yesterday too from Jacob, where she worked on Boxing day so she is working there again today and Friday. Boxing Day sales is actually Boxing "Week" Sales so its still a bit crazy in all the shopping malls (centres!!!) I don't envy her task!! But she has a couple of leads on lab work that might come her way, but she needs her individual results of all the subjects from the college and all of the email addresses for the lecturers seem to be broken at the moment. It sucks!! Hopefully the job can wait til she sorts something out to get her results.
Well, we have no real plans yet for New Years but Erin has invited us to go for a drink with a few of them and the gang from the church choir etc. who we go out with every Sunday night mentioned a party some time ago but we're not sure if that will materialise...but we are going to enjoy it anyway.
Happy New Year to all and I wish I was there to celebrate the "Anything but Turkey" New Years Eve dinner at home. I'll miss ye!
I don't have any idea how I could get the recipe for those parogies that we had at Christmas....bloody gorgeous. They take a good while to make though, apparantly. I'll have to try to bribe Erin's mum to give us the recipe!!
I don't know if I told you already but this Christmas I experienced my first "Caesar". Kinda spicy but not too bad at all! The ingredients are kind of scary though!!....
1 Lime
Tabasco Sauce
Worchester Sauce
Clamato Juice (Preferable Motts, if not substitute..Tomato
Juice with clam juice)
Celery Salt
Celery
Ice
Vodka
Method:
Rim glass with use of the lime....and dip glass into a plate filled with celery salt.
Put ice in glass.
Next, measure 1 1/2 ounces of Vodka and pour into glass.
Fill glass with Clamato Juice (leaving 1 inch on top).
Add 3 twirls of Worchester Sauce (or measure your degree of Heat!)
Now add, the Tabasco Sauce (I use 1 drop, but you can use to your taste)
Add a slice of lime (squeeze into drink).
Salt, Pepper to taste (I don't personally use any plain salt or pepper)
Add a stock of Celery (Makes for a nice decoration, or if you are hungry
you may eat it also).
ENJOY!!
Milestones: This Drink is the creation of a Canadian from Calgary,Alberta, Canada. Walter Chell lived to be a ripe old age...maybe because of his invention? Ode.....to Caesar!! He lives!! Forever!
Another Canadian experience had to be the "Yule Log". Ok, so they have a program on Christmas morning on the TV which is just a picture of a log of firewood burning in the fireplace and they play this recording, the same picture, for about two hours with just Christmas tunes in the background....quite an experience!!!
Hope you all have a great New Year. Take it easy
David
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