The Advent Conspiracy

I figured I'd blog about it right away since the shopping season is still a month away and I'm likely to forget by then. I think this idea is cool, but Orthodoxy pretty much teaches that anyways to begin with, so kind of a moot point for us :) Although it would be fun to answer questions as to why my Christmas tree is upside down XD (although not sure if that's a requirement of adherents to the Conspiracy, I didn't read the whole site, but would be fun to do anyways :D)

I found that website through an awesome blog I just discovered thanks to my mom called The Blind Cook, who anyone who watches cooking competition shows might know about already since she won one this year :) Go check her out!

This weekend I'm going to my parents place in the country with my friend Tiffany. It's supposed to rain tomorrow and Sunday but we'll make a campfire tonight and spend the rest of the weekend watching movies and cooking :) I can't wait!

No time?

I came across this article just now, about a scientist that says time does not exist. This clicked with something in my memory, I remembered reading somewhere something about God and the saints existing outside of time, God is everywhere present always at once. Something about when the world ends there will be no time maybe, or that after we pass away we exist outside of time? Anyways if anyone could link me to any useful articles regarding Orthodoxy and non-existence of time I would appreciate it to refresh my memory. A quick google search of "Orthodoxy and time" didn't really bring up anything relevant. It would be awfully funny/ironic if this was another one of those cases of "Science proving what we already knew"... in this case the "we" being Orthodox Christians :P And here some people are saying science and religion are mutually exclusive!

You should be Orthodox

When asked to describe Orthodoxy in the future I'll refer to us as "the hipsters of Christianity" :P Some funnies, part 1 and part 2.

The Finer Details

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Humilifiers

I've coined a new term to describe a string of unfortunate events in one's life: humilifiers. On Saturday Carlo's computer broke (motherboard fried, big $ that we don't have to fix), then on Sunday he got conked on the head by a fan that fell from the top of the tv he was moving, hard enough to make him dizzy. Then today he crashed while biking and had to go to a clinic for a pomegranate-sized hard lump on his hip that appeared afterwards and is nearly preventing him from walking. Thankfully that was the only real damage he had, just a scrape on his arm and a cracked helmet besides that. Like he said though, things could be worse, we still have a roof over our heads and good jobs and eachother :) Thank God!

Old cooking shows

They don't make cooking shows like they used to. I remember my favourite was the Frugal Gourmet, and I also watched Jacques Pepin, Julia Child and Delia Smith. 1980's cooking shows ftw!

Captain Awkward on #322 & #323

This is something a friend of mine posted on Facebook, this is why I unfriended x after he (a friend of a friend) randomly grabbed me and kissed me on the neck, why I can't laugh about those "make me a sandwich" jokes. Because they make me uncomfortable, give me a sick feeling inside.

Brief Hiatus from cooking

New post on my other blog here.

Longanisa and Palt

The longanisa turned out great and the palt too. The longanisa will have to be remade soon though with some adjustments.

Cell phone camera + binoculars = improvised telephoto lens!

I took these from my balcony yesterday. Here's the Champlain bridge:

The south shore and some part of the St-Lawrence River:

I forget the name of this mountain:

The entrance to Guy-Concordia metro:

The view down Maisonneuve facing west: