HUGE!

This spider is HUGE!! I caught him in my apartment after he gave me quite a fright. He jumped out from behind my laundry basket as I went to take the clothes from it. I did not want to kill or squish him. I released him outside. How did I get him to pose for the photo? I caught him in a cup and put him in the freezer for a minute. He'll defrost outside and live to terrorize another day.

CAPYBARA

Unfortunately this picture doesn't have a reference to show the size of these creatures. From the photo they could easily mistaken to be the size of a Guinea Pig....but that would be wrong. These guys are actually HUGE! They are about the size of a baby Hippopotamus, or a big farm pig. These 2 capybara where photographed at the Biodome in Montreal.

package coincidence

I ordered a shirt on ebay. It came from Ohio. I was about to throw out the empty package when something caught my eye. First it was the address where it came from. I blocked out the number in the pic above, but you can see the street name STONEYBROOK. My girlfriend is about 2 weeks away from doing her defense and getting her PHD at STONYBROOK UNIVERSITY on LONG ISLAND NY. The second thing that caught my eye was the name of the sender. M. GILL. Whenever Nefta, my girfriend, comes up to Montreal to see me, we pass by a university here and joke that she will never teach there. That university is called Mc Gill. What does this all mean. I don't know, but it is clearly an omen of something.

Gangs of New York....

Dr. Seuss would be jealous.

Gangs Of New York

I threw myself into the role of the "BUTCHER" in GANGS OF NEW YORK. A quick photoshopped moustache and voila! I am "more handsome than 10 movie stars." Wouldn't you agree?

CURTAINS!!!!

These brand new, super-rich, luxurious curtains in my bedroom were made today with lots of love and the two little hands of my super-fabulous girlfriend. Thanks Sweety! The pictures do not do them justice, they look absolutely amazing. The curtains were made with fabric we purchased in New York, lugged across the border by my girlfriend, and sewn with my newly-purchased sewing machine, by my girlfriend also. My bedroom is looking like it was designed by a professional interior decorator, or any of the gay guys on TLC.

WATER TOWER

I saw this really cool looking very old rusty dark water tower in Montreal. So Nefta and I stopped the car to snap a few pictures. Unfortunately the pics just look like silhouettes, you can't see all the rusty details. I need a new digital camera.

Beading Coincidence

My girlfriend was bragging about how great her bead work is. You can see the very first ever pieces she made on her blog. She is rightfully proud of her work. She was going on about her new hobby, and I listened.
That very night Nefta and I were throwing out the garbage. On the way back in, on a lamp post at the entrance to my building, she sees something completely out of place. There, hanging from the lamp post for some unknown reason is some bead work on an earring. We don't know where it came from or who it belong too. But I take it as a sign of something.

Padma Lakshmi coincidence

My girlfriend gets the Food Network at her place. So whenever I am there, I love to watch that channel because I don't get it here...that is until NOW! I ordered the Food Network channel a few days ago. The other day Nefta and I were watching one of the shows on my new channel. It is called Top Chef and it is hosted by Padma Lakshmi. The Canadian Food Network is showing an older season of the show. A season that we watched at Nefta's place in New York half year ago. But as we watched it here at my place, we noticed a huge scar on Padma's right arm. We never noticed that before. The next thing I know, Nefta is on the computer researching Padma's scar. She tells me that Padma is married to author Salman Rushdie. He is about 25 years older than she is. I tell Nefta that she only married him for the money. We'll see how long that lasts.
THE NEXT DAY, I turn on my computer as soon as I wake up. And what is the first thing to pop up on my computer screen? Yahoo news with a picture of Padma and Salman with a headline saying they are getting a divorce. I read that and told my girlfriend "You see what you have done?" Our powers of coincidence are scary indeed.

INTERESTING BUG

I have never seen a bug like this before. I have no idea what it is. Perhaps I discovered a new species. I knew I shouldn't have listened to my girlfriend when she told me to toss it outside. Good thing she snapped these photos before I put it out. That is my hairy wrist that the bug is attempting to navigate through.

*UPDATE*

My girlfriend thought it was the larval stage of a beetle. I was skeptical of that. But after some research, it turns out her assessment appears to be accurate. It does indeed seem to be a larvae of a beetle.