on Thursday 4 February 2010
…8 more days to pile the mountains around Vancouver with snow…
…8 more days until I spend Friday night glued to the TV watching PVR’d daytime programming…
…8 more days to clean out a certain clothing section at the Bay…
Yep, 8 more days till the Winter Olympics in my hometown, Vancouver! I’m so stoked that I just bought the “I believe” theme song soundtrack on iTunes – English, French, instrumental. Yay!
I’ve always liked Winter Olympics better than the Summer games, because the sports in winter are much more, for lack of a better word, exotic. I mean, watching four people shoot down a giant ice slide for hours is just much cooler than watching a sport I actually understand, like basketball.
This time around, not only is it better than it’s taking place in a city I love, but I’m also going to be at one the games! We’ve had the tickets since round-one bidding, but recently just finalized…We totally lucked out (completely, utterly, one of the luckiest things ever to happen to me) and got tickets to the MEN’S GOLD MEDAL HOCKEY GAME!!!! Okay, everybody now, HAPPY THOUGHTS towards seeing the Canadian boys win on “home” ice!!!!!!!!
We’ll be making a whirlwind trip (this is what I get for traveling with people whose work revolves around “Q1″…bah). We’re flying in on Friday and leaving on Monday for the weekend, and I hope to leave in a state of exhaustion from celebrating all day on Sunday :-)
Anyone else excited about the Winter Olympics? Just slightly? ;-)
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on Saturday 16 January 2010
First of all – if you’re in a position to help out, please give generously to those in Haiti who need all of our happy thoughts.
My charity of choice was the Canadian Red Cross, and it made me happy when the server crashed when I tried to donate – thanks, other donors who crashed the system with me!
Alright, Christmas is over, but somehow I’m still sitting next to my Christmas tree. This clearly shows that 2010 hasn’t officially started for me. The first couple of weeks have been busy catching up and finishing up some loose ends from 2009, so hopefully this weekend we’ll get around to taking down the tree, distributing the last of our presents, and on with 2010.
Lots of trips coming up, so I’ll be updating on those as I go! I’m heading down to NYC again in a week for a long weekend, and then to Vancouver for a, um, low-key hockey game during the Olympics. I’ll be back for a couple of months before heading up to Vancouver again for my bff’s wedding on May 1, and then who knows, I might actually squeeze in a REAL vacation not long after that.
I swear I won’t turn this blog into a starry-eyed, all-about-weddings discussion because that’s just so rude to those expecting me to continue to gush about food. However, because everyone’s been asking me casually (or seriously, haha) when we’re thinking of getting married, I’ll just say this – WOW weddings are expensive! Therefore, I have no conclusive plans/ideas, because first, I have to get over the big hurdle of setting a budget that we can actually live with. If I won’t spend $1,500 on a pair of awesome Louboutins that’ll last me at least a couple of years, why would I spend double that amount on a person who’s supposed to take photos of me for a couple of hours?? I’m not even photogenic!!
Alright, enough with the ranting, and on with 2010! Happy new year/happy 15th day of the year!
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on Monday 28 December 2009
Fill out memes.
And watch Gus sleep.
• If I were a month, I’d be September
• If I were a day of the week, I’d be Saturday
• If I were a time of day, I’d be 7:30 A.M.
• If I were a planet, I’d be Earth (because The World Is Just AwesomeTM)
• If I were a sea animal, I’d be an otter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• If I were a direction, I’d be South
• If I were a piece of furniture, I’d be a large rustic dining table.
• If I were a historical figure, I’d be Coco Chanel
• If I were a liquid, I’d be water
• If I were a gemstone, I’d be a giant chunk of unpolished emerald
• If I were a tree, I’d be a Rainier cherry tree
• If I were a tool, I’d be an Allen key. Go IKEA!
• If I were a flower, I’d be lavender
• If I were a kind of weather, I’d be sunny
• If I were a musical instrument, I’d be a harp
• If I were a color, I’d be vintage pink
• If I were an emotion, I’d be giggly
• If I were a fruit, I’d be a mango from Taiwan
• If I were a sound, I’d be the orchestra tuning – bunch of A’s
• If I were an element, I’d be Gold
• If I were a car, I’d be the Batmobile
• If I were a food, I’d be a sweet potato
• If I were a place, I’d be a cozy backyard with twinkly lights
• If I were a material, I’d be yards and yards of organza
• If I were a taste, I’d be sweet and tart, like Sweetarts
• If I were a scent, I’d be mainly fruity, slightly floral, and a dash of baby powder
• If I were an object, I’d be an ice cream scoop
• If I were a body part, I’d be a shoulder
• If I were a facial expression, I’d be a toss-your-head-back kind of laugh.
• If I were a song, I’d be any Christmas song
• If I were a pair of shoes, I’d be mary janes
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