LOCAL FASHION NEWS

WEDNESDAY - PART 1
RIDEAU CENTRE + ZARA

We may not have an H & M, but at least Zara has caught on.
Here more of H & M's excuses (I don't believe them for various reasons) for not opening in Ottawa here.

Also if you want a taste of European retail, Vero Moda is being sold at The Bay!

OTTAWA SENATORS GIRLFRIENDS

SATURDAY - PART 8

LOCAL STUFF Hilary Duff is a bitch sometimes, and now all of Ottawa knows it! In case you haven't heard Hilary Duff is dating Ottawa Senators player Mike Comrie and Carrie Underwood is dating Ottawa Senators player Mike Fisher. As for Mike Fisher, I have it on good authority (Though people I know that knew people that dated him) that he is or was a player, but him and Carrie do seem happy.
Carrie was spotted shopping with Mike at Rideau Center last week and she was at the game last Thursday with Hilary Duff, but apparently the two did not talk. Carrie was very nice to fans and took lots of pictures with fans while Hilary rebuffed everyone was was throwing tantrums. She apparently had a professional photographer taken away by security and yelled "What the fuck! why is he so close?! Get rid of him!" Um listen Hilary, your in an arena with 15,000+ people, what do you expect? If you don't like it then stay in your hotel and watch the game on TV. If your going to date a Sens player, then respect my city and sign your autographs that's why you get paid millions of dollars for. Gees! Hilary had her body guard with her while Carrie was Solo. Looks like Carrie could teach Hilary some manners.

Mike Comrie / Mike Fisher

by the way, Mike Fisher scored the winning goal.

BARACK OBAMA COMES TO OTTAWA

THURSDAY - PART 1

LOCAL STUFF
Yes he came! Snipers, police, bus detours, road closing crazy traffic, it can only mean one thing Barack Obama was in Ottawa for his first presidential visit. I can honestly say this visit went a lot better then the last time Bush was here when he said he wished we had greeted him with 5 fingers instead of one ;) I still can't believe Barack was only a ten minute walk to my apartment and he didn't come for tea.

10:30 AM - Barack lands in Ottawa.

Barack is greeted by The Royal Canadian Mounties AKA the RCMP. For those of you that don't know that's our version of the FBI.

Barack is officially greeted also by the Governor General Michaëlle Jean.

Whatever he said made he laugh hard.

11:00 AM Barack and Michaëlle have a chat.

11.:45 Barack Obama arrives at Parliament Hill.

Barack signs the guestbook.

Barack and 'the other guy' (Prime Minister Stephen Harper or Lego man as I call him) discuss important stuff. Obama thanks us for cleaning up the mess they left behind in Afghanistan (Which we are still doing).

4:25 PM Barack surprises everyone by stopping by The Moulin De la Province bakery in The Market to get some cookies for his daughters. He also gets a Canadian beavertail, the girl that served him could not stop freaking out for 5 minutes.

A crush of fans in the market. Wow those people were so lucky to be in the right place at the right time.

5:17 PM Obama takes off. The American media didn't really cover this too much, which is strange since it's his first trip as president. Apparently they are looking forward more to his trip to Mexico, oh well I guess apparently we really aren't important.

Source & Source

SHOPPING

02.02.2009
MONDAY - PART 2

LOCAL STUFF

I took this picture walking home the other day, by the time I leave work it's just around twilight, but it's starting to lift slowly. I have the feeling spring is going to come earlier this year considering we suffered through -30 to -40 Celsius weather throughout the most of December. The news was on not long ago and the presenter was pretty much laughing at the people in London because apparently the city is paralyzed due to a little bit of snow. It was -12 the other day I was so hot that I didn't need gloves! It's kinda hard to snicker, we can have snow up to are waist here and life goes on as normal. Though I can understand that people there are not use to it, but it is winter...what is is there to expect? On the news they also said that we've apparently offered to fly some of our mayors over to teach them how to deal with snow. I guess us Canadians can be a little smug and uncaring when it comes to this stuff, because it's just another day here.

THE GOVERNMENT IS

BACK IN SESSION

Finally! The Governor General Michaëlle Jean read the throne speech last week and the opposition seems to be agreeing on the budget, so Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority Government is safe for now. He should be kissing her feet right now since she decided against disintegrating parliament. I guess she or her advisers knew well enough that the collation stuff was all fluff.

OBAMA SAVES OTTAWA HE IS COMING ON THE 19TH! (His first offical presidential visit) After 51 days of no transportation to nearly a million people, the bus strike is finally over and 2,300 drivers have been ordered back to work. I can't believe they made us suffer through Christmas and horrible weather. I've already heard people threatening to attack them verbally and non verbally when they get back to work, so I'm sure they will have to put security (plain clothes or not) on every bus.

They've ruined a lot of peoples lives and Christmas not to mention students that have had to sleep in libraries because they couldn't get back and forth. Traffic has been horrendous around the city taking people 2-3 hours to get home and business had dropped by 30%-40% around the downtown core. I've heard of some people walking 2 hours to work, lucky for me I live and work downtown so it's taken me half an hour each way. I've lost 5 pounds since the strike, so good on that retrospect haha.

Well the strike may have ended last Friday, but were only going to have some service coming back on Feb 9th because the mechanics have to fix all the buses (Although full service won't resume till May apparently). I think the Union is ridiculous these drivers are pulling in 40-50 thousand a year base and most make 20-30 thousand more in over time just to drive a bus! They make more then some cops and doctors and it's not like you need much of an education. Anyway, the mayor asked everyone to move and and get over it, so now I'm over it. I'm happy that I'm going to have to luxury of transportation again. I miss our car, but it's 16,000 kilometers away in Melbourne, Australia...

MY MOM HAD STYLE --------------Pictures Removed, it was only temporary sorry if you missed it---------

The key word definitely is HAD. I got the dreaded phone call the other day from her, "Want to go shopping?" I did hesitate, but then to make her happy I agreed as this only happens about two, three times a year. I hate sopping with my mom as she is always questioning all my purchases, she doesn't understand modern day trends at all. I find it hard to believe how hip she was in the 80s, and these pictures (sorry about the low quality) don't even do it justice. I always tell her that she should have kept all her clothes from back then and she tells me that she had no idea they would become trendy again. She still loves fashion and to shop, though she's dresses more classic and corporate now. I find myself dressing that way to, I always have to consider work when I buy something since I spend most of my time there.

I went shopping at Aritzia the other day and I never noticed this note written at the bottom of their bags, too cute.

While I was out thrifting with my mom at Value Village I found this large travel bag. I know it's totally granny and vintage, but I fell in love with it. My boyfriend kinda raised an eyebrow when I brought it home, but I love it.

I love this very loose long cardigan while thrifting too, I'll probably wear it with a belt around the middle when the hot weather comes.

This may look like a child's cardigan, but it's not. The inner girly girl child in me could not resist.

I got this shimmery scarf at Winners while I was out with my mom too, I plan on wearing it when I go to NY in a couple of weeks.

I got this fab (wrinkled, yeah I need to iron) 3.1 Philip Lim dress, unfortunately it's not appropriate for the winter, but I can't wait to wear it when the weather warms up.


BEAUTY PRODUCTS I saw an infomercial for these on TV, and being the sucker that I am I could not resist. I actually bought them on eBay because you get a lot more bang for you buck. My legs have honestly never looked better and it does what it says it does. It gently sort of breaks down and sands your hair down as well as exfoliates your skin at the same time and it's pain free. I can't believe how smooth my legs are, it's insane. This has to be one of the best beauty products I have ever used, highly recommended.

I also wanted to share my favorite lipbalm with you guys. I had a friend who I went to college with that always use to use this stuff. I remember wanting it because I liked how big the jar was and well she always had the coolest things because she use to travel to China a lot to visit her family. Well I finally decided to get a jar of my own and I love it, I put it on like 10 times a day. If you live in Ottawa I think you can get it at Holt Renfrew, otherwise I bought it at the Keihl's store in Montreal.

TODAY'S SONG:

RANDOM POST

LOCAL NEWS

No more going to Montreal or Toronto...

According to Danah from Ottawa street style, H & M will be opening at The Rideau Center in August. Can we say it's about time? They are going to get to know me very well there, no doubt I'll be popping in at least twice a week. I feel so relieved I don't have to travel anymore, though I'm sure the store will be quite small.

Other openings:

Lacoste - October 2008
Sephora - May 30, 2008
Nike - July 2008
Starbucks - July 2008
Coach - August 2008
Marciano - December 2008
Lucky Brand - September 2008