I think the most important thing in life is to be acutely aware of just how fantastic everything is. There’s no reason to find fault, stress and disappointment in the smallest things; you’re just bringing yourself down. There’s so much around you that’s beautiful…with that said, I think I’ve finally started to appreciate life for what it is.
There’s more to living than being alive.
Chin up, today’s the first day of the rest of your life. =)
Well, I’ve been made a fool of again. Thanks, Alex.
…this is the last time. I’ve probably said this before, but this really is the last. I am going to finish the mural because I want to do it, for myself, not for him, and then I am doing fuck all for that jerkface.
I haven’t slept in thirty hours because I stayed over at Jenn’s last night, and I work 5 to 11:15 tonight. Haaaaahahahaha, this is going to be great.
Last night was freaking awesome; I was so glad to see hubby ♥ and everything was so badawesome.
Monday is Montreal day! Huzzah!
So, tomorrow, HUBBY IS BACK, but that, despite its massive epicosity, is not the only thing making this the most epic Friday. It is booked off, so the Rog cannot steal me away…
1. I wake up, go on a bike ride, shower
2. Bake cookies. Lots and lots of cookies.
3. Bring cookies to Alex’s house somewhere around noon so that I don’t forget them this evening, and the drunkards cannot appreciate their massive deliciousness.
4. Get dressed, pack stuff for the sleepover/BSG/BSG Lite (The Hills…oh god, please don’t judge me)/champagne/pizza night with Jenn and Maja
5. Run a couple of errands, return home
6. Accost Clare some time after she arrives home
7. Meet up with all the ladies; head to Zaphod’s
8. Somewhere around 12, head back to Alex and Jonzo’s partay, drop in, mingle a bit, leave
9. Go to my house, pick up all my sleepover goodies; walk back downtown
10. Meet up with Maja and Jenn; go meet up with Maja’s friends for a bit
11. Possibly drop by Pier 21 to see Jenn’s boy and his friends completely smashed
12. Go to Jenn’s condo to begin the pizza and champagne consumption and awesome show accompaniment.
13. Die sometime in the late morning.
What’s awesome is that a) I close tonight and b) I close on Saturday.
I am so, so, so, so excited for this, holy craps.
I LOVE LIFE.
Also, yesterday was the best day ever…for so many reasons.
Cheers!
That’s what the last few weeks of summer always feel like; finishing up things we’ve started, preparing for the return to our daily grind, taking that last inhale of free air. I don’t know, I’m still super-stoked for it to finish. Hubby is back in a week, alt 101 begins soon, classes are then going to get underway. There is still time for some dilly-dallying, a trip to Montreal, paying a visit to the gallery (The New Man exhibit, ooh), watching an unnecessary amount of movies and one more major impulse buy. I’ve nearly hit my weight goal with the 170 lbs I weighed this morning, so all in all, as the final few grains of sand fall, I can say I’ve accomplished practically everything I’ve wanted to.
I feel like I have aged 15 years over this summer, and am now ready to be uncorked and served with a fabulous meal. I’m rich, with nutty undertones. Tee hee.
I’m watching the fourth episode of 24, and I think I see why people are addicted to this. It’s suspenseful and intriguing, but I’m not quite as drawn in as I could be. It could also be that I’m preoccupied with other stuff, so I’m not entirely into the watching experience, but you know.
Tomorrow is a training shift at the Stittsville location of the Rog, which is going to be pretty lame, but at least I get paid for it. Oh well.
I’ve also begun pre-pre-marathon training so that I can actually become fit and capable of running more than 100 metres before I collapse, dead.
I weighed in at 174 lbs this morning, and indulged in a serious amount of ice cream; however, I walked for about 4 hours with the ladies and on my errands, so I think I burned all of my snackings off. I think. In any case, I’m fast approaching a decent weight, and I feel really good. The only thing that I have yet to get rid of is my aggravating eye twitch. Boo.
Alt 101 meetings are becoming more frequent, and things are really picking up in preparation; I’m so excited to be a guide this year, and to see ALEXISONFIRE at Fedstock! Holy shit. I’ve booked off my work time, and now just need to make sure to sign up for the right activities at the next meeting, in addition to finishing up work on the survival guide and planning snacks for the hike. It’s nice being a part of something, for once!
Clare is back in 17 days!
I have Friday off and am getting my hair done, again! Yay!
Things are still great! Huzzah.
Yesterday, I tried one of the recipes from my new cookbooks, the corn fritters and salsa, and went over to Katrina’s to consume them with her Finn hot milk cake (with fruit…mmm). She and I then watched the Mudkip movie; rather, three mudkip episodes on one disc. It was a hoot and a half, let me tell you. Lunch was also very delicious, despite the fact I had way undersalted the fritters. On our way to the Alt 101 meeting on campus, we got caught in a downpour, and my freshly-styled hair got annihilated…boo. Oh well.
Later, I went to the Rog to return a movie, and I then rented out the entire second season of Sex and the City to numb the brain; I was so tired that I couldn’t focus on anything with substantial plot or intrigue. I watched 7 of the episodes, 4 with my mom, and fully intend on continuing the marathon today.
I weighed in at 175 lbs this morning! I also made a second round of (properly salted) fritters for my family today; I hope they enjoy them…I’m off to meet up with Jenn at 1 to wreak havoc downtown, as is our general modus operandi. I may actually end up going to see The Dark Knight on IMAX tonight, though…so stoooooked! =D
1. I’ve been closing a lot at work, but it’s been fun (minus the exhaustion factor).
2. I weigh 177 lbs now, and am eating much better and exercising more; like today, when I took advantage of Sunday Bike Days and went on a nice 1 hour bike around the canal.
3. The new Story of the Year album, The Black Swan, is my new love; it’s even better than I had expected, based on the live performance. A review will follow in the coming days.
4. I’ve been watching a stupid amount of movies, thanks to the free rentals I get. The movies that will be reviewed in the coming days are: Becoming Jane, Penelope and Never Back Down (worst movie ever), plus whatever movie we decide to see on Tuesday.
5. I found an absolutely divine little cafe (XPRESSO, it is called) that I may just move into very soon; the atmosphere is great, the seating is cushy and roomy, the staff is friendly (it’s table service!), and most importantly, the espresso is very good, and served with biscotti! I am beyond ecstatic. A little corner of Europe downtown, and it’s also all organic and fair trade coffee. Not like this is the only thing I’m concerned about, but it’s nice. Luckily, the prices aren’t sky-high; they’re very resonable.
6. I bought four cookbooks (for $30) and have been itching to try them out; I can’t wait for our dinner parties this year! We still need to make a schedule for that, the ladies and I…
7. MONDAY IS HAIRCUT DAY! Yussssss…time to get this mane under control, yo.
…that’s everything of significance right now, I will be back with heavily review-and-detail-padded posts in the next week or so.
Last night, I went shopping with my mom, and I ended up getting some (sweet) new clothes; however, this is not the really key point to the story. What I was really shocked by was the clothes I was trying on, and what I ended up buying. I’m slowly making the transition from jean-and-tee to put-together, classy casual. This is probably tying in with a sudden urge to stop hanging around downtown and irritation with childish behaviour (not in children, though). Maybe it’s about time; my dad was all gushy and “aw, my little girl’s all grown up now” when he saw me in my new ensemble (for the record, I was wearing olive skinny jeans, a burnt orange button-down with half-sleeves, and a thin, black, boat-necked sweater). Hell no, I’m not ditching my band merch entirely, but it’s time to just take everything up a notch. This includes some of my less attractive habits. Read: the excessive swearing and occasional obnoxiousness. Ah, baby steps.
Why am I not scared of this?
Hm.
So long, childhood, you were fun. I’m going to play with the big kids now…
Sidenote: THE DARK KNIGHT WAS SO AWESOME. SO. AWESOME. SO. SO. SO. AWESOME.
WARPED.
SO.
GOOD.
Right, I have to speak English now. The trip there was fairly uneventful, but when we got out of the bus, the ladies and I ran into Jonzo, Mart and Alex. We joined them in line, and waited among the scenest bunch o’ chillun I have seen in a long time. So much awesome happened, but I will just summarize the sets of the bands I saw and other things worth mentioning.
3OH!3
Two white boys rapping and doing choreographed dance moves. Do I need to say any more? Well, I will. Basically, it was hilarious dancing and everyone I know that hadn’t heard them before was completely amazed with how rondo they were. Good times.
Every Avenue
Fun, generic, powerpop that was great to dance to; this is the set during which the frontman pointed at me and said ‘look at that one go!’ I laughed…and kept dancing around.
Cobra Starship
DANCE FUCKING PARTY! HOT MEN STARING AT ME! AWESOMENESS AND A VERY CRACKED OUT GABE SAPORTA. Also, Ryland has a lovely voice. That’s basically how it went down.
…here was a little gap in which we went to the hill to just hang around because no bands we wanted to hear were playing. Across from there is where the most AWESOME band ever played:
FAMILY FORCE 5!!!
A powerhouse of a 5 foot tall scene dude with silver hulk gloves and pants, a batshit crazy, dancing drummer/backup vocalist, two mostly-sane other members and a dude with curly metal hair playing the tambourine…but here’s the greatest part - their music is screamo-infused hip-rock. Yes. Yes. I enjoyed this set SO MUCH. For serious. I downloaded a bunch of their stuff right now, and am most definitely going to pick up the CD asap. Holy crap, I was so confused for the entirety of their performance; it was wtf-awesome-wtf-awesome-wtf-awesome in my mind for the full 30 minutes.
Anberlin
Stephen Christian has never failed to make me smile with how much he enjoys performing. The rest of the band is into it, for sure, but he has the biggest grin on his face whenever he looks out over the crowd, and that just makes me so happy to see. They opened with Godspeed, then played The Feel Good Drag, Adelaide, Hello Alone, Dismantle. Repair, and A Day Late (not necessarily in that order) It was a fabulous performance and I was absolutely beside myself with joy and thrashing about. Huzzah!
Every Time I Die
I wasn’t really in the mood for ETID at this point in the day, but I was hanging out with Alex, Mart and Jonzo at this point, so I hung around. They put on a pretty solid performance.
The Johnstones
They showed up onstage in diapers. Yes. Yes. Yes. I stayed for a few songs, but then left with Mart to go watch Story of the Year.
Story of the Year
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHMOTHAFUCKAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MAN. Damn, things go batshit when these guys hit the stage. So much energy, and they played a lot of stuff off of Page Avenue, like In The Shadows, UNTIL THE DAY I DIE (!!!), Falling Down, The Hero Will Drown, and two songs off of The Black Swan, which I still need to get. I screamed along until I lost use of the upper register of my voice, and then I screamed some more. Their frontman is big on crowd participation, so he gets everyone to scream along to the chorus, pump their fists in the air and jump as high as they fucking can. They put on one of the BEST live performances ever, and to top it off, exactly like it happened the last time I saw them live, it started to rain in the middle of the set. AHHHH, SOOOO GOOOOD. The amount of caps and unnecessary punctuation in this paragraph is indicative of how much I enjoyed myself.
From First To Last
I only heard them play 3 songs, but they played two old ones and Deliverance (which I danced to, I’m not going to lie) They sound so much better performed by Matt Good than Sonny Moore. Man, that kid had a tragic voice.
Just Surrender
These guys were lively, and very inappropriate. All the ingredients necessary for a good set. Awwwyeah. I also bought their EP, cos they’re great.
We The Kings
These dudes closed up a beautiful day with Check Yes, Juliet, Skyway Drive, All Again For You, Secret Valentine, Whoa and Stay Young. Much dancing and singing happened, as did major Travis-lusting on my part. Damn, that boy is fine. They’re all so gloriously inappropriate as well, so the onstage banter was amusing and they’re so much fun onstage. Oh, WAK, how I love thee. Also, the merch dude hit on me while Eleni was trying to buy her shirt (which led to her taking about 15 minutes to get a shirt…where there was no lineup). Mind you, as per usual, I didn’t realize he was flirting until she told me, afterwards. Haaaaa, I fail.
Fuck, yesterday was so great; I had a fabulous time and picked up 4 shirts (WAK, Anberlin, Every Avenue and Warped ‘08), a bandana, an EP and some buttons and stickers for $90. I think that’s a pretty solid deal, if I say so myself. Now I’m off to listen to some SotY and be joyous.
