Halifax Burger Week 2017!

So Halifax does a wonderful thing every year. Many local restaurants will put on a featured burger where proceeds will go to Feed Nova Scotia! For 2017 there was an incredible amount of amazing burgers.

This year's was March 23rd to the 29th and I managed to grab 5 awesome burgers.

Here are the 5 in order of enjoyment.

#5 The Armview: The Hot Mess

A good start to burger week, beef patty, mac and cheese and onions with a special ketchup... It was missing something I still don't know what but it was missing something.



#4 Clay West: The Smash Burger

This one would have done better but the service at Clay West was less to be desired... They are definitely not used to that sort of traffic.. Double beef patty smothered in cheese sauce and topped with onion rings and pickles... and extra pickles.


#3 Big Leagues (No name)

I good classic burger! Beef patty seasoned with taco spice topped with Monterey Jack cheese, fried onions and a deep fried pickle along with some traditional burger toppings. Very tasty.


#2 Bubba Rays: The Pepperoni Burger

This one looked like garbage on the website HOWEVER the actual burger itself blew my mind! Beef patty topped with lots of pepperoni and cheese with a chipolte dipping sauce for it. The sauce put this one in the rankings for me!

#1 Tempo: The Pizza Corner Burger

TOP NOTCH and the best burger I had all week. It was the second stop all week so all other burgers had heavy competition. This was a donair burger (spiced perfectly) topped with donair sauce on a pizza pun with fried pepperoni on top. Everything about this burger was amazing. They win burger week!



Next year I want to maximize by burger consumption and may even consider taking the week off!

Happy Burger Week everyone!

A Sweet Thank-you and the start of the Campaign!

A little treat for my coworkers courtesy of our GM Karen Evans!! Everyone gets to benefit from her generosity (as this was something she personally purchased for the office) This will also begin my National cupcake day campaign for the SPCA, instead of signing up for the actual campaign this year I will be donating the money I collect from cake orders directly to the Nova Scotia SPCA! Off in the pot is $90! Stay tuned for more!

The original plan was to have a big wedding style snowman cake however the budget didn't exactly allow for such luxury! So we switched gears and went with a nice big slab cake bug enough to feed all 90 of us! (But still equipped with snowmen)

 

Inside we sported vanilla cake with vanilla icing. Some green icing to show the brand at it's best and some candy to really pop the flavor!

 

Goodies included marshmallows, mint chocolates, and chocolate rosebuds.. There was no complaints from anyone!

New Years Resolutions 2017

And yes they are all cliches this year.

De clutter
Be healthy
Feel like I never work another day in my life

I set them up on the chalkboard to remind me what I'm working towards


The de-cluttering has actually been a little fun! I feel like I've given myself the OK to purge and it's so nice opening drawers and going into rooms once they've been cleaned. It's a very stress relieving sight.


Behold my bathroom drawer! Once a place of mystery and junk, now it's possible to see everything! I reduced the makeup collection by quite a bit as well, as I've gotten older I've realized the basics are plenty... Plus half of it was expired anyways!

Memories came through while purging the bathroom, and I couldn't bring myself to throwing out my hair accessories from past proms, so these can be found in a keepsake box now.


Being healthy I know I will have more of a challenge with- working 8 years in a grocery store I took for granted how easy it was to pick up groceries on the fly. Nowadays it's more of a challenge to keep the house stocked of all the good things that make healthy eating so enjoyable- but I got this. Just a little grocery commitment is all we need!

Lastly... The hardest one.... Full disclosure I know I have a great job and I am certainly grateful for it- however I've always dreamed of a life where I can make it by doing what I love- and with the internet I know it could actually be possible! I am looking forward to continuing to work towards it even though I know the odds are thin. There's no chance if you don't try though!

Cheers to 2017 and new hopes and dreams!