pretzel mania.

i received a visit today from a lovely, new client.  bronwyn, and her german baker husband andreas, own oestreich soft pretzels here in montreal.  she brought me a whole box of their delicious pretzels and i've already eaten 3.  there's one left and it's all i can think about as i type this.  i have zero self-control.

if you've got a hankering for a yummy treat, i highly recommend them.  they also deliver so you don't even have to leave your house!  and they make mini-pretzels!  how stinkin' cute is that?!  next time i have a party, i'm totally ordering from them and having a pretzel table.  they come in all kinds of yummy flavours.

bronwyn was telling me that they cater to bachelor and bachelorette parties, showers, oktoberfest parties, christmas parties ...  you name it, they've got it covered.  so basically, my point is: pretzels are the new cupcakes.  you can quote me on that.

notable quotables.

marcel.

a second one!  yay!!!

space.

source

musical OCD: jill barber.

sweet as cherry pie.

notable quotables.

blogiversary.

guess which little blog is one year old today...

happy birthday, bright red hoodie!

not a picture of me or of anyone i know

also, if i may, ...  i just want to take a second to thank you for sticking around, for being awesome, for leaving comments, which i haven't always responded to but which have always totally made my day.  there have been so many lovely words from so many of you, and it never ceases to amaze me how much the same we all are.  and i guess, if anything, that is what i hoped you and i would both get out of this whole blog/sharing thing.

we all have shitty days/weeks/months.  we have have awesome days/weeks/months.  we all get annoyed at stupid stuff.  we all get excited about fun stuff.  we all want to be better people.  we all are trying our best.  we're all looking for ways to improve ourselves, our lives, the lives of those around us.  we are all on our little paths but, when it comes down to it, we all just want the same thing: happiness, ... and maybe also to laugh 'til our cheeks hurt.
i find great comfort in this.

so thank you, you.
and happy blogiversary!

musical OCD: worried shoes.

watching people cover other people's songs on youtube is still one of my favourite internet time-wasters.

i want to see this.

... even though i'll probably just ball my eyes out through the entire thing.

notable quotables.

source.

hatching a plan.

if you knew how hard it was for me to stay positive about life in general right now, you'd be like: "here, nadyne, have a xanax, or three".  truth be told, i don't actually know what xanax is or what it does but it sounds right, doesn't it?

it's not so much my life that's the problem, it's november, which, i'm realizing, is in my official list of top 3 least favourite months of the year.  right next to february and march.

so, between clients today, i was hatching a plan for myself wherein i take a month off and go somewhere warmer than here.

basically, i want this:

i want to live in a treehouse, smoke cigarettes, write songs, drink wine at noon, and leave the treehouse only to go swim in the ocean

care to join me?

high jump.