462. Recent Life / Christmas Week

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and happy new year!! The chocolate in the photo above are from Nadege..the images are printed on the chocolate/not on the wrapper btw.

& Here are some more photos from my Christmas week:


Watching The Nutcracker! 3rd year in a row (& counting) we've seen this..

My festive Christmas outfit! Matches the Williams Sonoma bag. It was my favourite place this year for Christmas gifts and food. I kept going back there for more stuff, including:




My favourite drink for the winter = apple cider!

An early new year's dinner with my mom a couple nights ago. We ate at a restaurant called Day and Night. It's really good. We went there as well last year for Christmas dinner. It was a 5-course meal. I forgot to take a photo of the soup but I really loved it. It was a lobster bisque. Above is the caesar salad.


The butterfly garlic shrimp is so delicious..it's my favourite.


I got the salmon as the main course.


Dessert. I didn't really like it but they didn't have any other options for dessert.

Nadege is my other favourite shop this Christmas season. I bought a lot of their Christmas chocolate there as gifts and even some for myself. Most of their things look too good to eat. We got this large praline cake:



Niagara Falls on Christmas Day



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461. Merry Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas Eve, everyone! I can't believe how fast this month has flown by. I'm actually looking forward to the holidays being over now..I really enjoy it but it definitely makes me spend a lot more/too much lol. As I'm typing this, it's currently raining outside. I really want it to snow soon..hopefully it won't start too late so that winter ends late as well.


New moon boots! My bf & I planned a short getaway next week. That's what I got these boots for but it looks like we won't be getting much snow..which is going to be really unfortunate because I was also looking forward to doing some of the winter activities there. :(





Present I got for my mom. The stuffed penguin and penguin bag because she likes penguins, and I got her a necklace from Tiffany & Co.

I love Williams Sonoma food..especially their Christmas stuff! I went there today and unfortunately most things were already sold out. Next time I'll know to buy them in advance. I already planned to get everything weeks ago but kept putting it off/thinking there will be lots more time. Didn't realize they would sell out so fast.



Dinner with my mom yesterday for the Winter Solstice or "Chinese Thanksgiving"



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460. Recent Life

I seem to be doing better with updating my blog this week. I finally have all my Christmas shopping done (I think). This year I put the most effort and spent the most on gifts for everyone. I didn't have that many people to shop for, but for each person I got like 2-3 things. & wrapping each gift is also a huge task. I wish I could post everything on here but I can't risk them seeing!

For this upcoming year I want to get back into blogging more, and I'm also working on a new travel website/blog. I had everything set up last year (2014) and registered the domain for 3 years (so it expires in 2017). But I never ended up doing anything for it..besides 2 test posts lol. So now I'm getting back into it and I actually really enjoy it. I will reveal it maybe in a month or so when I have it officially launched.

Lastly I need to get a custom logo/header designed for this blog! I think I may try out 99 Designs for that. Will start working on that this week.



Dog-Sitting this Chihuahua again. I posted about her once before if you remember..


This is how Hennessy slept last night, right above my head


Love my Christmas nails! It is Formula X "Pyrotechnic" with a top coat of "Wham!"


Macarons from my sister





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415. Recent Life

I can't believe Christmas is only a couple days away!! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and best wishes for 2015! What are your New Year's plans?


Christmas decor in my lobby




Nadege Patisserie just opened a new location in the PATH. I was really excited about this and went a few days ago to pick up some marshmallows and macarons.

A few nights ago - dinner at Bloor Street Diner before watching The Imitation Game at the theatre above. We decided to try out the VIP theatre which I thought was not worth it at all. The screen and room are a lot smaller than regular theatres. The movie was amazing though and I definitely recommend it. I may be biased as I love all war movies..



Hennessy has an adorable new friend (just for a week though)




Lunch with my mom at Dragon Legend today. I LOVE the decor in the restaurant..it's very unique.




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317. Nadege, Bosk, iQ Food Co, PDAC!

Picked up some macarons, rose + lychee marshmallows and apple + hazelnut pastry/croissant the other day from Nadege Patisserie. I am on a never-ending hunt for the perfect macarons in Toronto and so far I still haven't found them. Nothing comes close to the texture of Laduree's (or my favourite - Sadaharu Aoki). The Nadege macarons were way too sweet for me. The marshmallows were good but not sure if they're worth the price..& the pastry was DELICIOUS! Here it is:



& here is a very very random mix of photos - recent & not so recent..



Guess where I'm going again soon?!! Just booked these a couple days ago..so excited to be there again!




Bosk at the Shangri-La Hotel







View from the penthouse of the Shangri-La! My dream view. (more here from a post I did awhile ago)


View from the very very top!

Rosewater for the McGill University MBA event last week - a friend invited me to go along..I was most excited for the hors d'oeuvres. Robert Deluce, the CEO at Porter Airlines was a speaker there!



Here is my new favourite food place - iQ Food Co!! I have NO IDEA why I haven't tried this place sooner..they have two locations in Toronto right by my place (connected to the "path" of course). Their Hot Boxes are amazing! I really love this one, called the Blueberry Crunch. It has fresh blueberries, roasted chicken, green apple, feta cheese, julienned carrots, roasted pumpkin seeds, & chopped mint on a bed of brown rice/quinoa. Perfect combination.

This one is also good, called the Sparta Hox Box. Roasted chicken, grape tomatoes, cucumbers, feta cheese, basil, extra virgin olive oil on a bed of brown rice. It looks like a Greek salad but it tastes soooo much better than any Greek salad I've ever had.


Hanging around beer drinkers is making me drink more beer than I'd like to these days..

One of the events I look forward to the most each year has finally arrived, and it could not have come at a better time - the PDAC convention! It's the biggest gold mining/mineral convention in the world with delegates from all over the world in Toronto..lots staying at my hotel. I don't work in the industry but have some friends who are so I just go along to all the parties..so much fun. Especially the Royal York suite parties. (if you want to read about it/see photos I took from previous years)

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