Ben & Jerry

Not too long ago our friends Ben & Jerry were giving away free ice cream! Of course, us Tupper gals caught wind of this wonderful news and met up at the nearest store to campus. It was a wee bit chilly that day but that's no excuse to turn down a free yummy treat! We all enjoyed our cones, including our dear friend Paula who joined us and snapped this beauty shot: 

Thanks Ben & Jerry! 

Last Day

Tomorrow marks our last day of school. After exams Emily and I will be finished our third year and Katie will be graduating. This semester Katie and I took crime together (with our dear friend Catherine, hi girl!) and after our last class we felt it only fitting to take a picture on campus. Why we look so happy I'm not sure...Tears have already and will continue to be shed as our time in Montreal together is all too quickly coming to a close.

Spring Oasis

Last week I spent a day studying at the Westmount Library. Attached to the library is a beautiful greenhouse where the sun streams in and is soaked up by beautiful flowers. Also inside the greenhouse are fountains, ponds and places throughout for people to sit and enjoy. There were women with babies, couples, and students studying. I was lucky enough to be one of those students and it was lovely.

Strange Combination

It was after dinner on a cold Montreal night. We (Kinsey and I) needed to eat our broccoli (otherwise it was going to rot, alone and forgotten in our fridge), but we had already committed to our magical maple drink.

Heaven in a mug

Heaven in a mug + broccoli

No matter. We just enjoyed both. :)

Thumbs up.

The Story of an Empty Frame

In September when Kinsey brought a lovely photo frame for Tupper I volunteered to get pictures printed to fill it.

October passed.

November passed.

December passed.

...I had gotten used to seeing the stock images. Why fix something that ain't broke?!...

January passed.

...Then I began to sense the embarrassment mounting...

"What lovely four-identical-paintings-of-sailboats you have in your bathroom," our guests would comment.

February passed.

Then March happened.

With my moving out looming ever near, I was determined to get some nice pictures in our frame.

Indecisively, I printed out a bunch. Then played with arrangements on our couch.

Finally we settled with this - ta da!

Now we are no longer embarrassed.

The end.

New Kid in Town

Last August my mom gifted me with an old coffee grinder, informing me it was on its last legs and so "I could just have it." Well. Every time I ground my morning beans I was certain it would be my last grind. The machine would sputter and fritz and occasionally refuse to work altogether. With a gentle shake and a massage of the button, however, I could always magically reinvigorate it. I faithfully enjoyed this sputter-shake-massage routine until one fateful morning last week when my coffee grinder let me know it had had enough. No matter what I tried I could not get it to restart. And I tried for nothing short of fifteen minutes. I had a midterm that afternoon and was des.per.ate. to get some caffeine in my veins after a late-night cram session. So I marched over to Canadian Tire and assessed my options. I settled on this spiffy Black and Decker model. 

Get phenomenal flavor and aroma from your coffee with a precision burr mill grinding system. With burr mill grinding, you get more uniform results while preserving the delicate natural oils of the beans – for a better cup of coffee. A grind selection dial lets you automatically adjust the texture of the grind – from a very fine grind for espresso to a coarse grind for Turkish coffee and percolator brewing.

My new Burr Mill Grinding System features...

• Grind Selection Dial
• Slip-Resistant Rubber Feet
• Removable Grinding Container
• Push-Button Control
• Removable Grinding Assembly
• Cord Storage
• Cleaning Brush
• 2-Year Limited Warranty
• Lid Locking Security Feature

International Pillow Fight Day

Today's post comes to you courtesy Lynn Moore at the Montreal Gazette. The girls of 1900 Tupper did not participate, though it seems it would have been an event in which we could have excelled. And with de-stressing benefits! Who knew.

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MONTREAL — A prolonged frenzy of fighting erupted in Montreal’s Phillips Square on Saturday afternoon.

Strangers struck strangers repeatedly with wild abandon, often laughing manically as they did so.

No police presence. No arrests. No property damage.

It was a feathery fracas, a pillow fight and part of International Pillow Fight Day, which had feathers flying in cities and towns around the world.

“It’s fun,” John Fotheringham, a fight veteran with four of the annual events under his belt, said Saturday.

“It’s held outside on a spring day. It’s positive. And it has this energy bolstering feeling that is really good.”

About 125 people, many dressed in pyjamas, participated in the pillow fight, while about 250 people with cameras and smartphones recorded the event.

“It’s a really good form of de-stressing,” said Solene Troussé, a French national who recently arrived for a one-year stay in Montreal.

“I’m fighting, but it is with the spirit of love,” she said.

The fight, which periodically generated plumes of feathers as pillows burst their seams, started at 3 p.m. It was still going strong an hour later.

The Montreal band Motel Raphael used the occasion to shoot a music video with a production team from Moving Mind Studio.

Singer Emily Skahan helped kick off the Montreal version of International Pillow Fight Day, an event largely organized ad hoc using social media.

This year’s fight included a DJ and participation by Kigurumi.ca, the folks who produce one-piece jammies that look like animal costumes.

Fight rules can be found on a website that advises would-be organizers not to seek permits from authorities.

The rules include:

1. Soft pillows only.
2. Swing lightly, many people will be swinging at once.
3. Do not swing at people without pillows or with cameras.
4. Remove glasses beforehand.
5. Wait until the signal to begin.