I'm verklempt, for all my yiddish peeps..

Seems to me that most of y'all need a touch of class added to your home (I'm not talking about a t-shirt with a rose and sparkly bits on it-AGE ALERT! AGE ALERT!) and we have just the ticket. Feast your eyes on these soy candles minions! Yeah yeah, they are "green", they were shipped here on a puffy cloud, they help young corn niblets growing in organic fields, they capture rain water from your roof, and they work on your compost while you sleep. Ok? The new line of LafCo N.Y is in!!! Once you stick your sniffer into a tester at The WaterShoppe, you will never be the same. And no, I'm not exaggerating. You will need nothing else in your life to find happiness. Well, nothing more than a clean refreshing bottle of Evian water (SPONSOR ALERT! SPONSOR ALERT!).
Before I go further, is it just me or is Perez Hilton now more popular than Louis Pasteur? The world gets crazier by the minute. I mean one man discovered a way to provide children with milk to help grow healthy bones and teeth, and the other gives us by the second updates on the PussyCat Dolls??
Oops, getting sidetracked. Sorry Amanda.
Speaking of Bill Clinton, did anyone see Larry King last night? Man, the guy is smooth.
So the store is ready to be beautiful once again, and the focus is back on great waters. Here is a water fact you might find interesting- Georgians (not the peach luvin state, the country that Russia was attacking) once every 3 months would drink two bottles of their home mineral water Borjomi which we carry at the store (PRODUCT WHORING ALERT!), not eat food for 10+ hours, and lie down on their right side (to affect the right kidney), and place a hot water bottle on their right waist. They stay in this position for 2 hours. This was a home remedy cleanse. I cannot wait to try it out.
Another water fact-Doctors in certain hospitals spread across Italy would give patients who were experiencing kidney stone problems Fiuggi water for both recovery and preventative matters. This is a natural diuretic to break down fat and wash out toxins.
Another cool item about water- Mixing pure pink himalayan sea salt and fiji water creates something called "sole". Many health food stores will tell you that this is a great source of getting 80+ ionic minerals into your body for proper functioning. Fiji is compatible due to it's high PH level. You can cook with it, or just take a teaspoon each morning, which aids your body in absorbing water.
Oh, another water fact-there are a small group of people who believe in solar water . This means that you need to get a dark blue glass bottle, fill it with spring water (NOT TAP), and place a natural fabric like cotton over the lid to keep out the critters while it sits in the direct sunlight for an hour. This practice originated due to beliefs in the power of the sun, and it's effect on waters composition and energy.
Did you also know that if you store bottled water in clear glass bottles out of the sun and in a cool place, the expiry date means nothing? Yes, the FDA had to come up with a way to date water because it became a "food item", and yet Lisa, Sarah, Craig, Rob, myself, and the Water Man himself Michael Mascha drank bottled Perrier from 1959 and it was absolutely fine!
YEAH, 1959. Again, 1959. Um, hey Lisa, Sarah, Craig, Rob, and Michael, drop me a line. I haven't heard from you since that night. Kidding! I'm such a kidder.
Yet ANOTHER water story! - Contrex water from France has been a part of french womens lives for ages, because it has enough calcium and magnesium to not have to swallow that horse pill to get your daily supplement?/ I know, I know, I'm going nuts with facts!!
In conclusion, I would like to say that we should all refrain from believing everything the media reports on bottled water , since the United Kingdom (and other MASSIVE countries we all know well) have privately owned municipal tap water, so they need to keep the attack going in order to promote their own "products". Yup, look it up. If you want tap, drink up. If you want bottled water buy it. Make your own choice. As long as you are drinking lots of H2O, we are happy!!!
p.s-If anyone knows who stole our trees from outside our storefront, please drop a line. It would give me great pleasure to take them back, and steal their sleeping newborn and their new puppie. I'm kidding! I'm such a kidder.

Fall is Special. And we have a fall special!

Hey hey hey!
You know it's fall when you go to sleep with the windows open and it feels great. And then you wake up at 4am with icicles hanging from your nose. No wonder the cat sleeps on the laundry. He would probably get stuck to the tile floor.
We just got in a product that is super exciting, and perfect for the weather-Muskoka Ginger ale. Not only is this a drink that has been made for 100 years, it has nothing artificial, and it's fantastic! Have it on it's own, or make a yummy apple ginger cocktail-shot of vodka, shot of sour apple liqueur,fresh lemon juice, and Muskoka ale. Yum!!
And parents, stir up a gallon of this mixture for when you take the kids out trick or treating. It will make the evening so much more fun! Heck, why not throw on your old Spiderman costume! Come on, you can squeeze into it.
The leaves will be changing soon, and that is my favorite time of the year. Taking a drive to Kitchener is the best. Anyone want to come with?
Know what really irks me? Getting sent notifications from the "social utility" Facebook telling me "Tracey, play bouncing balls today and win double the cash!!". I don't want to play bouncing balls! I don't want to see how much I'm worth if I were for sale, and I don't want to receive hugs and giggles and cupcakes and whatever other stupid things those Facebook kids come up with when they are high!
Another thing that irks me is the excessive coverage of the US presidential election I am subjected to every minute. Oy already. Okay McCain, we all know you were a prisoner of war. Yep, Obama you are one helluva public speaker. Let's make this interesting, shall we? I say we take a page from the 80's and make them run for their lives, like the movie Running Man. Did you see that movie? Classic. Richard Dawson (former creepy hand-up-your-skirt lick your face host of The Family Feud) is the announcer of a game show set in the future, where the contestants are convicts and have to survive while be hunted live on tv. Who do you think would win? I think McCain. Although he can't lift his arms over his head, he wouldn't panic, and would paint his face with mud and hide in some elephant poop for days. Obama would try and reason with his hunters, and convince them "we are the people to form a more perfect union". Blammo.
Anyway, the Muskoka Ginger ale is $12.50 for a 6 pack, and you will love it. See you soon!

REELWORLD TIFF

So we got all gussied up and went to the ReelWorld film festival party last night! Good times. We arrived, and had our photo taken just like celebrities. It was kind of fun. Really fun. And then we schmoozed. And then we (read: me) had two big glasses of white wine and felt tipsy. And then the high heels we were wearing became quite difficult. So we left.
Brian was my guest, and it was up to him to work the crowd, get Watershoppe business cards into hands, and talk about how fabulous 10BC glacial water is. Job well done! It was my duty to talk to other guests about the store, and our waters. I'd give myself a B minus. I will however, give myself a big pat on the back for parking three blocks away in a green P on Wellesley Street. Finding parking in Yorkville on a Saturday night is bad enough, but during the Film Fest, it is easier to find another Hope diamond than a good parking space!
There was a great vibe at the party, it was friendly and not pretentious. And we ran into a man who worked at Bell Canada years ago, and is now starring in feature films. From Bell Canada customer service to successful acting career. Boy, I bet he misses ill-fitting head phones and shift work.
Had a great time, and wish I would have been more of a camera whore and snapped some photos. Oh well, next time.
Tah tah...

Heyyyyyyy

It's been a long time since I've updated the blog, so here is what happened at Taste Of The Danforth: rain. pouring rain. wind. more wind. thunder. lightening. rain. the end.
Yes, our annual big deal sucked the big one.
C'est dommage, considering we had 11 volunteers show up to help us, 96 litres of sticky syrup, 100 bottles of italian soda flavours, 1600 sno cone cups, jazzy new watershoppe t's, we even had a frickin soundtrack!
Mother nature, YOU are one mean mutha....
The good news?
Hang on, it will come to me..
Oh, nobody was injured, and the we all got free calamari!
Oy, vat a veek-endk....