Regent Park

This afternoon at the office we had a screening of some National Film Board films about Regent Park in the 1950's and 1960's. Mostly touting how wonderful this housing project is and how much better the area would be. Onenof them was narrated by Lorne Greene.

In the first one they where showing us the "slums" of Oak street that ended up being turned into our modern day regent park.

Didn't quite turn out how they intended now did it?

Several of us who were previewing them commented that these slum building seemed surprisingly similar to the fixer uppers we all seem to live in and that all cost piles of money now

The more sarcastic among us have now named our houses "Slum Chic".




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Location:King's Highway 401,South Stormont,Canada

Yoga Book

It't kind of funny. Last week I ha been looking at yoga books and the one I wanted was a little out of the range I wanted to pay at the moment. It was that iyengar book I was talking about before.

So of course this wee I'm given a lovely gift card for Indigo for my Birthday (which isn't until next week).

So the book has been ordered (yay) and there was enough leftover to treat myself to Season 2 of True Blood when it comes out in May.

Life is good.


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Location:Subway

A Good Sunday

Today was a glorious day.  It was beautiful weather, had brunch with good friends and visits with not 1 but 2 small people today.  They made my day with their giggles and smiles and just general good natures.  Such beautiful girls they both are.

Apparently my blue heart necklace is very very attractive to wee ones.  They both zoomed in on it.

Now I think it is time to attempt to bake something.  I have a sweet craving and nothing sweet hanging around.

Meditation Bandwagon

I'm admitting it. I've been terrible at mediation lately.  I really have to get myself back on the bandwagon.  Meditation is one of those things you know is good for you and you feel better when you do it but seem to procrastinate about.

I think one of my impediments to meditation regularly is my constant need to be doing things and accomplishing stuff.  Intellectually I know I am accomplishing something with mediation, but it doesn't feel like I am at the time.  Or maybe I'm just not looking after myself well enough.

Things to ponder, things to ponder.

Not so much knitting production this week

It's funny.  I have all this knitting I need to do for baby hats and the like and I've done not much this week. Two reasons really.   The first is that I've been doing a lot of very repetitive data work at the office (read drag and drop, drag and drop and repeat) so my right hand has been acting up a little bit.  It does seem to be feeling a little bit better now.  But also one of my cats bit my finger in the midst of a treat frenzy this week. Index finger right where the pad hits the mouse.  So that's been on the owie side too.  

Hopefully this weekend I'll get some in.  I have 5 baby hats to knit before too long.

Anti Gravity Yoga

Ok, I so want to try this. I might even be willing to do a trip to London (Ontario) to try this!! My cousin who lives there was telling me about it and she wants to try it after she has her baby.

Not traditional yoga at all, but pretty neat.

Video about Anti Gravity Yoga

Anti Gravity Yoga Website


I'm hoping that a studio in Toronto will try opening a studio for this.  I know it will be all trendy and the like, but that's ok.  I'll still go.  

Yoga Book

Last night after yoga, one of my friends that goes to the Yoga classes and I stopped of at Indigo to see about getting an Iyengar book as I've decided I really need to start trying to remember the Sanskrit names for all the poses.  We ended up having a chat with an Indigo lady who was asking us about yoga while we looked.   I didn't buy anything because the book I found that I was interested in buying (B.K.S Iyengar Yoga the Path to Holistic Health) was $50.  A little bit too much for me to spend right now.  Although I noticed that it's even more at Amazon.com.  Owie.  But it looked like a really good book.  So I'll think about getting it at some point.  Just not right now.  And there may be another couple of books written by Mr. Iyengar that might be a little more affordable.  We'll see which one I get.

We then wandered about trying to avoid purchasing a ton of books in the store as we both have book buying habits.  Although we did find one book we would buy for someone as a gift:


It was hilarious.  I think we listened to almost all the Zombie translations.  There was also another book on how to defeat your clone.