Snowflakes
This morning, it was -12 c degrees and snowing, so I went out and took some photos.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a macro lens, but I took photos with the biggest resolution possible and cropped them.
There are really beautiful arts of nature.
It’s the 22nd week of my pregnancy now and I feel the BB moving. She seems she’s awake when I’m up and she’s in sleep when I’m in sleep. I’d like to apologize to her for the shocks and noises of my coughs… Finally, I’m better.
I bought this dress a long time ago. But I realized or someone told me that this dress make me look pregnant. I think I wore it once or so, and then kept it to wait until I get pregnant. I think I’ve been keeping this dress for a decade…
OK, now I’m pregnant and my belly is big. It’s time!
Oh no! It’s already too tight around my belly! It’s not a stretchy kind of material and it’s uncomfortable. When am I going to wear this?
Google AdSense
I heard the top (5%) Google AdSense earners are getting about $300/month or more.
I also have its ad on the bottom-right of this blog, and I only earn about $100/year… hahaha so little. But it’s still nice to get some allowance in my pocket once a year.
To earn that much you not only need to write many high-quality articles but also do so with the theme of your specific blog. But that’s not what I want to do. More variety of topics are better to include in my life. So no specific themes. My blog wasn’t made to earn cash from Google AdSense. (Too bad…)
The keywords that bring visitors to my blog those are Tim Hortons, Vitamix, Aska, travels (specific destinations), music (specific artists), and recently words related to pregnancy. I can write more on these topics (I just don’t have enough time), so I will try!
Originally I just wanted to write my life down for my record and to show it to my family, and to say what I want to say. So it’s my easy-going journal.
If you tell visitors to click the ads, or click the ads yourself, it sounds like you’ll get a big penalty from Google, so be careful if you are thinking of starting this service.
Digital Box
Now our TV channels have been reduced to about 20 from about 50!
Shaw TV reduced the number of channels. If we still want to continue watching what we had before, we need to pay money for an update. That’s what they say.
From a few moths ago we had a warning message on the TV screen. So I asked my landlord if we needed to worry about losing anything. He said if we want to watch more channels with better quality, we, the tenant, can personally buy a digital box to install to our TV to watch. Otherwise, we can ignore the message. We didn’t want more channels for an extra fee, but wanted to simply keep what we had. So we ignored it. But about a week ago, a half of the channels were gone! CNN and BBC are also gone!! As a result, now we watch Canadian news more…
The landlord was a bit wrong and we had to loose half. He suggested watching CNN on the internet.
According to him, it cost $118 to buy a Digital Box, and is possible to install it by ourselves. Rental is also possible with a contract of 3 years or longer, which costs $4/month. x 3 years = $150.
We are anyway planning to move. So we’ll just do without those channels for a while and watch them online.
Sounds like satellite and the Telus TV continue to give the same number of channels!
Only Shaws….
For details:
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/digital-conversion-causing-shaw-confusion-1.689935
Glenbow, Metropolitan Grill & Wa’s Japanese in Calgary
Feb 16
Glenbow (a museum) on Stephen Street sounded interesting for a visit, as one of the features was an exhibition of the street photographer, Fred Herzog.
Fred Herzog was a Canadian immigrant from Germany. He took a lot of nice Vancouver street photos in colour.
The generation of our parents would love and miss those days by looking at these photos.
We can appreciate the neon on Vancouver’s streets – it was really cool and bright.
By the way, it sounds like he referred to the “so-called holocaust” in an interview with the Globe and Mail and it became controversial…
Stephen St in Calgary:
Glenbow:
University of Calgary:
Where is everybody? Indoors? It’s a Saturday morning, but no people hanging around?
When we entered a mall, we found some.
A metal horse. This was here when we were here 6 years ago:
My hubby joining in the conversation:
Late lunch at the Metropolitan Grill:
Calamari was good and the salad with real chunks of smoked salmon was really good!
Metropolitan Grill (403) 263-5432 Stephen Avenue, 317 7 Ave SW #150 Calgary, AB
Walked down the 4 St, peeking in shops.
Central Memorial Park:
A weird crow tower in front of Shelf Life Books:
We took a rest at our hotel and then went for dinner @ Wa’s Japanese.
I was actually looking forward to having ramen, but at this moment, I wanted to have udon. They’ve got a variety on the menu and the service was good. We’d love to come back again.
Wa's Japanese (403) 277-2077 1721 Centre St N Calgary, ABTagged with: Fred Herzog, Glenbow, Metropolitan Grill, Wa's Japanese
The Coup in Calgary
Feb 15
We went to Calgary.
Last year, we passed by a few times, but we hadn’t made any actual visits to the city for 6.5 years!
This is 6.5 years ago:
We stayed at the same hotel, Best Western, this time as well. I remembered the hotel when we got there.
I caught a cold just before this short trip. So I was making uncomfortable noises… very bad.
Why would you go on a trip when feeling sick? Well, it was already planned and we were looking forward to it, and this trip could be the last trip before having our BB. So why not? We departed Edmonton praying my cough would go away soon…
The weather was nice and so was the drive. In Japan, we have highway stations. It’s a rest area with toilets, gas and snack/souvenirs along the major highways. There is no such thing in Canada, even though the distances are so vast, compared to Japan! There are a few towns or gas stations along the way, but too few. We have to drive off the major road to get to a small town to get what we need. It’s sometimes 2-3 kms away. This is important as I need to go to the washroom often in my pregnant condition and my hubby also as he is a coffee lover.
We packed a lunch from our fridge-left-overs and when we finished eating, we arrived in Calgary! It’s about a 3-hour drive (it’s 4 hours if there is snow on the road or a snowstorm).
I think Calgary has a similar temperature to Edmonton’s, but on this day it went up to 12 c degrees! So warm!
We went to the Consulate General of Japan in Calgary to pick up the official translation of my Japanese driver’s license. A lady at the counter explained the related matters in details for me. It was a nice visit.
That was the only thing that I had to do in Calgary. Now we were free here for 2 days. We spent time hanging around the city.
This night, we went to a organic restaurant, The Coup, for dinner.
They have a bar area too. Beer is also local and organic. We arrived at 7:00. It was already full.
We had some drinks and an appetizer at the bar until a table got available for us.
My hubby’s beer on the left, and my mint lime lemon iced tea on the right.
This was great. The dip which looks like a snow man consists of some beets, peas, and soft nice cheese on the bottom. I didn’t read the ingredients, so I’m not too sure what they are, but it tasted very nice and healthy. The presentation was also cool. We really liked it.
We moved to a table and ordered mains.
The place was really dark and I couldn’t photograph my hubby’s dishes. Too bad! He had a soup of the day and the grazer burger (some kind of tofu burger). He said it was really good too.
Mine was beachfront hot pot, which I had already decided to have by looking at their website before coming to the restaurant. The soup was coconut and tomato soup. So I was imagining a thick laksa-like soup, and it was like that. The vermicelli was a bit so-so, but I liked that it had a lot of root veggies as its topping. It made me so warm. We got really full!
He was happy! And of course me too as you can see. Happy together!
The Coup (403) 541-1041 924 17 Ave SW, Calgary, AB
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