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YAY! It's that time again. Yup - FOODIE PENPAL TIME!!! I know the last few months you've had to hear me rant and rave about how amazing I think this is and this time will be no different. I came back from Las Vegas and had a package waiting for me. A package full of FOOD! I love food and I love mail. You can't go wrong. Why haven't you joined up yet!? Here's the deal...visit Lindsay over here to sign up and then follow these fool proof instructions. Here’s a detailed explanation of the program: -On the  5th of the month , you will receive your penpal pairing via email. It will be your responsibility to contact your penpal and get their mailing address and any other information you might need like allergies or dietary restrictions. -You will have until the  15th of the month  to put your box of goodies in the mail. On the  last day of the month , you will post about the goodies you received from your penpal! -The boxes are to be filled with  fun foodie thing

Happy Saturday Everyone! It's my first day back to reality and well, it's sort of sad. Jana and I left "Sin City" yesterday and really didn't want to! We had way too much fun! The weather was incredibly beautiful, the company was good and we had a very much needed get away. I'd like to tell you that we saw some crazy shows....or that we shopped our brains out....but in all honesty - it was a lot of relaxing by the pool, reading our smutty books (50 Shades of Grey - I cringe when I admit that) and then heading out on the town in the evenings for some good food and some drinks. I would also like to tell you that we have pictures, but we had a phone casualty where all of my pictures were housed. There are no pictures save a lone one of a martini I drank at the Wynn. I was trying to be fancy. :P So on the menu today after 4 solid days of drinking and eating to my heart's content was soup chalk full of vegetables. It's uber healthy and I'm hoping it r

Good Evening 11 Followers! What a great weekend! Thank you to everyone who was a part of it. I had a bit of a kickoff on Friday - yoga class, sushi with Andi & then a few pints at the good old Ship & Anchor! Had so much fun with everyone there, and even stayed out a little late for a girl who was running her first 10.5km trail race on Saturday! Saturday - Jackie and I grabbed some coffees and headed to Canmore for our trail run. OMG. SO FUN. I mean, hard but FUN. WOW. You should do one! For real - check it out! In terms of challenge - the half marathon was the most mentally challenging thing I have done but in terms of comparing a road run like that to this trail race - I'd say physically in the same sort of caliber. At the time I was doing it, I was cussing Jackie for making me do 10.5km but at the end, I was happy to have done that distance. If it wasn't for another event in July that coincides with the next race... I'd be all over it. Then, Jackie and I met her

Good day to you! I've been pondering this blog project. I was even narcissistic enough to go back and read through my own  blogs. Yeah - I did that. I saw some spelling mistakes and some poor use of grammar (Ceara, I know you teach English - so please nevermind... :P), and I realized that holy sh*t I talk about my friends so much. I talk about myself and I talk about my friends. I talk about my friends SO much that you might think that I just got friends or something - you know, like getting a new puppy or a new car and you're so excited that you can't not talk about it. OK - to set the record straight, the large majority of my friends are "long term". There's no f*cking around when it comes to friendship. I've had some friend break ups which are, almost worse than breaking up with a boy; and still mourn the loss of those friendships from time to time. I've had tiffs with friends, we've made up. Some of you who read this and who have been my bigges

Wow. I've been on a roll lately! Writing lots which is great! I've found this whole exercise to be a bit therapeutic if you will and I'm actually really enjoying it! :)This kitchen blog has found it's way into a combo deal of kitchen stuff and Kyla related ramblings when I think I get snippets of profound wisdom to share or when a light bulb goes off upstairs (that's my head in case you're wondering what the H I'm referring to). So I have a few more updates about why this week was cool! 1) I had a date with Stacy. FACK. Love that girl. We've been friends since we were 12. We met in Grade 8 Social Studies class. She thought I looked like I was crying all the time because my contact lenses were always bugging me and I was far too cool to wear my glasses. I thought she was short. Then we thought we should be friends. And we are. She's going to be a DR. Yeah, no big deal. One of my BFFs is going to be a motherf*$#ing DOCTOR. She's in her second ye

Well hey there, hi there! So my apologies for the lack of enthusiasm in yesterday's post. By the time I wrote it, I had been up for about 14 hours and was waiting to catch a plane which ended up being delayed, then had a rather adventurous cab ride home. The upside to all of this was that I met someone new(ish) at work and had a super good chat on the plane ride home. I got the name of a few books to read and some new music to check out - both of those things always make me happy! I'm still tired today but feel a renewed sense of productivity and happiness! :) So, I read this post  today and it really made me sit back and go, "hmmmmm.....". I feel that it's articulated some of the things that I've really been thinking about when I've been looking at my life and how it's changed in the last year. The guy who writes this fancy little blog says, "What seems like horror, terror or really bad luck is the event that we needed in order to heal our woun

Oh man, it's only Tuesday!? Ok, I shouldn't complain because I only have 2 more days of the work week left. I'm TTTTTTIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEDDDDDD today. I had to get up at 4am and catch a flight to work this morning. The flight got delayed. I was late for everything. It's exhausting running around like the Tazmanian Devil all day! Anyway, time to make good on my promise and post another thing I experimented with this weekend. I was trying to make things that would cater to my gluten free, egg free & dairy free friend for Sunday's brunch. I made a fruit dip thing that I wasn't crazy about and I also made "ice cream" which I ate before I shared. It was so good. I found the fruit dip recipe here . I think I got a little overzealous with the coconut milk, so this could be why it never thickened like I hoped it would. It tasted ok, but it was like dipping banana into banana. WEIRD. I ended up freezing the leftovers to see if it would work as

Wow Kyla, that title sure is bossy.... Yeah, you're right! It is. I emailed my friends a couple days ago and asked them politely to read my blog so that I could feel cool. Faye (you're in my best blog reader/friend books) has been reading it. She's awesome and now she knows it. So this weekend - pretty good stuff happening! Friday I wrote on here that I went for coffee with my work grandma, man...that lady is SO cool. Seriously, big beautiful smile, active - I mean she hikes, cross country skis, belongs to a square dancing club, is going to China this year, does yoga and swims....just to name a few! Plus, she's just go t this positive energy that just radiates off of her - she's wonderful. I might cry as I write this. She shared her Peru pictures with me and it was a damn good thing because it super pumped me up to go again. I was feeling a little lack lustre on the subject, but nope - back to excited!!!! :) Saturday - I sat in class allllllll day. It sounds lik

Happy Friday people! You know what that means to me!? I've had the day off. Yes, Fridays off! Sometimes, I have it so good - ok wait, I have it good a lot. I really do. So, I'm feeling pretty joyful today. I know you're wondering why, so I'll tell you: 1) The first person I saw today was my hot chiropractor. Yeah, he's hot. And nice. And smart. And hot. As I once told my friend, "You'd get injured just to be able to see him." He made my hips feel a little better. Yay. 2) I drank another one of those smoothies that I can't get over. I added some spinach for good measure. 3) I visited my friend Rebekah for a massage. That b*tch put me in all sorts of pain but lubricated me in oil and we laughed, so it was good. I'm sure I'll feel a lot better tomorrow! It was VERY needed. 4) It's sunny out! LOVE sun. 5) Jana and I booked a trip to Vegas and going to the Passport Office made me 10X more excited for it. 6) I'm meeting my wo