Free Museum Day is Not a Piece of Cake...and Pie!

Here is the picture of the raw, vegan, apple pie as promised!

Yesterday was Sunday, May 31. It was also Free Museum Day here in Montreal. Each year I gleefully imagine all the fantastic (free) things I will witness on this day. Each year I strategically pick out which museums are the most worthy of not receiving my hard-earned cash. This years honoree was the 'Irish O'Quebec' exhibit at the McCord Museum. Ange came along to experience her first Free Museum Day. Just like every year, the museum was absolutely packed. We fought the crowd to see perhaps a quarter of the first floor of the exhibit. Reading each sign required a valiant effort as did each attempt to move through the crowd without getting bumped off course. As I do every year, I gave up after half an hour and left...

As Ange put it, museums just aren't the same when they are over-crowded. To really enjoy them you need enough room to proceed at your own pace and read as much or as little as you please.

Today's song is The Smiths 'Bigmouth Strikes Again'.

Ttfn darlings
xx

Hooray for Vegetables!

I have not uploaded new pics as planned so here is a picture of cake. Mmm cake. I bought that at Pekarna in the Old Forum (Atwater metro station). I love cake and that is one of the best places. Their prices are decent and they always have a nice selection of tempting treats. You can usually buy an entire cake or just a slice, whichever you prefer.

Today was Victoria Day. I’m usually very clever yet I don’t really know why it is significant. Queen Victoria’s b-day perhaps? I could simply google it to find out but I am feeling rather lazy this evening. In any case, most people that I know just think of it as an extra day off of work.

Since I was free all day, I went to the bookstore with Ange. I have been dying to get my hooves on a book called Rawvolution. It is an (un)cookbook with raw vegan recipes. If you are unsure as to what a raw vegan is, the really simplified explanation is that it is someone who is vegan (does not eat or use anything that comes from animals) but also does not use cooked food. If you want a better and more complete definition then check out Wikipedia! I am neither vegan nor raw vegan but I really want to try a couple of recipes that I heard about. I am intrigued by the raw vegan diet and how it makes me re-think food. I did find the book but decided it was too expensive. I am really feeling the pains of the starving artist lifestyle. If I had bought the book I would not have had money left to buy groceries! That would be silly. Instead, I shall try recipes I find free online. BTW, the cakes in the pic are most certainly NOT vegan…just delicious.

Whilst at the bookstore I also took a little looky-look at Russell Brand’s My Booky Wook. I have already read it (twice) but I got my copy in the UK. I like the UK cover better but the American edition has more pictures. Perhaps I have mentioned this book before? If not, it is an interesting read indeed.

Tonight’s song is Morrissey ‘I’m Throwing my Arms Around Paris.’ I love Morrissey’s music and the fact that he is such a curmudgeon in interviews. Also, see how I managed to mention two fellow vegetarians in this post? While I’m at it, Russell Brand is a fan of Morrissey and named his cat after him. My leap in logic has lead me to think of singing cats and now I have that damned ‘Jingle Cats’ song in my head…

Sweet dreams darlings!

End of Week? End of Weekend? Indeed.

Greetings all two of my faithful readers! I have been keeping busy as usual. I still haven't finished the buildings painting.(I love the word bildungsroman. hehe. Yes, that is random.) I have modified some of the colours and added new elements-four to be exact. The work progresses.

On Friday I hung out with Ange. We went for $5 Veggie Chili and shared a pitcher of Sangria. Outings can be cheap if you know how to prioritize! Nicely buzzed we went to the Old Forum to watch Rachel Getting Married. It was an interesting movie but I don't think I would watch it again. I liked the music and it had a very eclectic wedding in it. (I hate weddings though.) In some ways the movie just seemed pretentious, from the over-the-top wedding to the handheld camera work throughout... As well, the movie was full of all these characters who are supposed to be worldly open-minded creative types. It helps that they all seem to be independently wealthy as well. (It is much easier to fully indulge creativity when money is not an object.) Anyway, as you may have heard, Anne Hathaway plays Rachel's sister who leaves rehab to attend Rachel's wedding. The same open-minded, worldly people mentioned before have trouble accepting Rachel and her relapses, drama etc. I guess maybe that is the point. I just felt that the movie wanted so badly to be good, deep, meaningful and give a message that this self-consciousness leaked through and ruined it for me.

Yesterday Miss and Mr. Dish came over for stew, Caribbean Sunsets and hockey. I don't particularly like the hockey but had a delightful evening nonetheless. Today I must tackle the post-fest mess. Yippee.

Music:
Death Cab-I'll Follow You Into the Dark
the Strokes-Juicebox