Favorite parts of Winnipeg.

There's always something to love about any place you're living.

Now that I live in the geographical centre of Canada: Winnipeg, Manitoba.

I figured I'd share things I enjoy about Winterpeg:

A. the first snowfall of the season. Gorgeous white tipped trees. Pristine white sidewalks unscathed by dirt and foot prints.
B. Skating at the Forks is the BeeessssT (insert Nacho Libre accent)

I always love going. the Forks is like Granville island if you're from Vancouver, B.C.
A cool trendy market place, with clubs, restaurants. The Forks is the 'fork' where the Assiniboine and Red River meet.

During the Winter in the -50 C the rivers freeze...creating the world's longest outdoor skating rink.

Often they plow the rivers creating skating trails and line it with trees and lights. It's a beautiful way to enjoy the evening air.

When I was single i loved skating hard by myself for a few hours and 5-6kms...now it's even better to enjoy skating holding Julie's hand gliding on a romantic evening skate.

C. Summer time: Farmer's Market
- .50 ear of corn
- spring rolls
- apples that taste like candy.

D. It snows then it's plowed. It's a blessing to have clean streets to drive on unlike Vancouver.

E. Living across the street from a chinese market (WenKai) and the best pizza parlor in Winnipeg. (Romani's pizza)

I'll keep adding to the list.

The smoking man.

A title I stole from scraps of my memories x-files.

I’ve lived in my building 2 years now. And only 6 months ago we got new downstairs neighbors. No they aren’t loud, and they seem like decent people when we catch each other in the elevator… But the yellow teeth, the twitching stained index and middle fingers clearly reek a message: we are smokers and suck on my 2nd hand smoke.

They smoke all the time! So much so that the 3rd hand smoke seeps into our apartment through the bathroom and kitchen pipes… and those all too familiar apartment holes that run the entire height of the building.

The stench is sickening, not to mention my phobia of lung cancer every time I breathe. This world is so unjust! Not only is it death by puff it’s also murder to any others that are within breathing distance.

RANT!
I wish people who smoked lived in bubbles like the infamous ‘bubble boy’. Where smokers could infinitely be drowned in what they pollute. I believe it’s only fair for them to be subject to hazardous effects of 1st,2nd and 3rd degree smoke inhalation.

Yeah I know… what a sob story? Insert “poor little bunny” here.

Sad but i have so little compassion for these people... i think it's because i brand them smokers and not people. Wow how unjust of me.