Why we should never judge!

Just across the street from our house there is a giant antique shop. Giant Antique Shop is it's name or at least that is what I like to call it.

Just down the street from us there are two other sketchy antique shops which feature a series of goods just sitting in the shop window and collecting dust. One of the sketchy ones is only open from 14.00 to 18.30 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The other is open "quand j'ai envie."

Why am I telling you this?

Well I am telling you this because for the first time in my life I just bought something from an antique shop. A nice mirror in a wooden frame which has a Stella Artois label drawn on it.

And let me just say that it is awesome!! But still quite ironic seeing as how I don't drink. Yet awesome nonetheless.

The most awesome thing about it was the fact that it fits so perfectly with our things, it truly seems like it's been here forever. I mean between three empty walls it fit so well in the middle.

Now back to the initial point. Can you guess which store I bought it at?

It had to be the giant store in front of our house right? I mean they have about 70000000 times the merchandise of either sketchy one.

Well wrong! I bought it at one of the sketchy stores, where the woman appeared to begrudingly come out of her apartment to take my money.

The lesson as always is to never judge a book by its cover or a store by its sketchiness.

So here's the jonathanism for today: Never let the sketchiness of a store affect your pursuit of great value or an awesome Stella Artois mirror!

Oh, and one last thing for those of you in the 613 region: the world's greatest bookstore is located on Metcalfe at the Ottawa Main Public Library - go downstairs and check it out. You will thank me.

A way of looking at things

When we first broached the idea of starting a new blog I spent plenty of time trying to decide as to how I would want to present ourselves. Did I want to be cool and irreverent or did I want to be deep and philosophical? Did I want to simply detail every instances in our lives in order to make them known?

Did I need the aggravation?

Simply put I needed to figure out what it was that I wanted to say.

After a lot of thinking, a lot of sleeping and a lot of building ikea furniture, here is the best I could come up with: all I want to say is what's on my mind. I want to let your brain explode with jonathanisms. Not only am I about to drop some serious knowledge but I may alas drop some serious emotional and philisophical stuff. So be prepared. I don't know what I may talk about from one day to the next but I can guarantee it will be varied.

Be it leather jackets or my newfound "interest" in them, be it sunday afternoons in Europe or as I like to call it "the day when everything is closed", be it the lack of NFL football on TV or the rudeness of our neighbour (he put his garbage in the stairwell on SATURDAY and still hasn't taken it downstairs... oh I don't like that guy!!!), I shall try to write what is on my mind and what I feel.

It will take time for me to develop any sense of what I should be saying and how I should express it, but eventually I'll reach a juste milieu.

So here we go, onwards and upwards. Because we believe, we will acheive.

Oh yeah and my femme will be writting from time to time so be aware of that.

So long for now.