I never did get around to posting the pictures from my 27th birthday a few weeks back (hey! remember my 26th?). Cheena was amazing and basically planned a whole Fondue party for me <3 - we had vegan chocolate fondue & a very un-vegan cream cheese/cream & herb creation... mmm... Nigel & I remembered early in the night that we still had two bottles of Absinthe from our trip to Barcelona in 2007 and everyone managed to polish off most of it by the time we left for the bar.. it made for some very drunken friends..



( champagne & absinthe.. )

I don't care if everyone has already seen these. This was a rad-tastic night and I feel like posting pictures...



( Ginkth, Foundation, El Kartel, The Sweatshop.. )
♥ ♥ ♥

Saturday was Coral & Darcy's wine & cheese birthday celebration extravaganza! It was SUCH a ladies night (poor Nigel), Cheena stopped by my place fairly early for hangouts, then Amanda & Keri came over to get dressed, then Bri - then we piled into Nigel's car and headed for the west end...



( twenty somethings.. mostly. )

Good Morning!

Today was the first day this fall that I've had to wake up in the dark for work. It was very.. confusing. You know that feeling where you're not sure if you woke up on your own and it's actually 3:00am and the whole shutting off the alarm thing was just a dream? That's totally what this morning was like. Hello fall '08.

This past weekend felt like summer all over again, all rolled into two days. I went to dinner with Dustin, a comedy show, Library Square for 90's night, I rode my bike all over the city, spent a morning photoshopping, an afternoon in the park drinking Strong Bow with Garret, Dustin, Jordan, Jake & Co., Coral & Darcy's wine & cheese birthday celebrations with EVERYONE (epic car rides there & back), breakfast with Nigel, Jordan & Darcy, then four square in McLean park for the rest of Sunday until haircut time with Tanis and a nice dinner at home with Nigel. Gossip Girl was on and I literally passed out from happy exhaustion around ten last night. Every weekend should be like this weekend.



( photos from the last few weeks... )

There are so many good things coming up this week too - Cherry & Matt hangouts today, lunch with Sacha tomorrow afternoon, L.A. on Wednesday! (art show Thursday, dancing Friday! etc. etc.) Ginks & Bella get shaved Saturday morning and I'll be home Sunday night with more pictures and hopefully a good story or two. ♥ ♥ ♥

July 5, 2008

Our second morning in Ashland. We all got up surprisingly early and lazed around for a while. I finally decided to throw on my bathing suit and get outside to lay around the pool instead of my uncomfortable cot. Coral & Darcy eventually joined me, leaving the boys to finish watching Punked until we all got hungry..
We spent the rest of the day riding up a mountain with Marshall, Risa, Trevor & their friends to the faerie ponds to swim (sit) - we picnic'd, we returned the bottles from the day before and bought a kick ball, we bbq'd more, drank more, did more biking, went bar hopping in downtown Ashland, skinny dipped in a pool none of us owned, hunted for grease for a grease run car, and finally (FINALLY) made it home for 4:00am - just in time to close our eyes before we were on the road again, headed back to ( Canada-Land. )

Friday night I stayed out late. "YOU'RE still here?!" - Jordan 3:00am

( Apparently I am. )

So Saturday morning was mostly a write off. I TRIED to get out of bed and get to Mal & Amandas new place by 11, but I think I arrived there closer to 1:30 - we were supposed to go watch hockey but I'm pretty sure most other people slept in too. Next week. I need some more time outside on the weekends.

I have an amazing picture on my 'real' camera from Saturday of Amanda & Malloreigh jamming Mal's mattress through the rag top on my car, I need to hurry and finish that roll from September, I'm pretty sure there's some real gems on it.

Sunday I stayed in bed ALL DAY LONG. Nigel went to work and then came home and made us breakfast for dinner, then we watched Get Shorty and I climbed right back into bed. I love it. I'm going to enjoy the shit weather the only way I can so when it gets beautiful outside I'll be tired of sleeping.

Speaking of the future (what a poor segue), there are suddenly a million awesome shows coming up that I've bought tickets for. Bon Iver on March 25th, Vampire Weekend on March 27th, Why? on April 16th, Cut Copy on April 29th and Vetiver on May 3rd!

This week is going to be busy. I'm getting my hair did this afternoon, then Lindsay & I have a million things to do in preparation for the show on the 19th (I can't believe we're actually getting this done). Wednesday is still being figured out, Thursday is that art show with Nicola.. Friday Amber is coming out and her, Mal & I are going to have a sleepover before driving out to Maple Ridge Saturday morning to pick up Carly and hopefully *fingers crosses for the weather* shoot a new SG set for Amber. Right now the forecast says Cloudy with Sunny Breaks, 8 degrees. (what's the plan if it's raining ladies?) We'll see how it goes.

I really enjoy annual events, especially around Christmas. I missed it this year, sadly, but usually my family goes to the Christmas train, then there are work Christmas dinners (a drunkenly awesome tradition), breakfast donation dates (or non-dates), present opening on Christmas Eve.. all that. Last Friday we had a second annual(!) Christmas gathering at my apartment and despite Rock Band, I think it was a good time..



( 6 more sleeps.. )

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In other news:

Lindsay & I were invited by the lovely Miranda (and Ryan!) to do photos for a night they're putting on and playing at 1/2 alive comes to Victoria on January 19th. I'm stoked! You should come!



Oh - and New Years will also be amazing (see here! - Miranda are you & Ryan coming for that too!?)

Cherry posted the photos she took at my birthday party a few nights ago on facebook and I am absolutely in love with them.. they have such a good feeling to them. I'm all inspired now to actually post more photos and write a little about what was possibly the best birthday to date. ( Cupcakes & pretty girls (and boys).. )

I got back from Penticton a week ago, but spent most of the time since then doing absolutely nothing and loving it.. that is until I saw the photos that malamaca had put up on our site (lindsaysdiet.com)and figured I better start photoshopping. (make sure you look at the other set of Japan photos too because they are absolutely surreal!)

So back to Pentitcon, for those of you who aren't familiar with the Okanagan, Penticton is a city in south central British Columbia between Okanagan Lake and Skaha Lake (at one time known officially as "Dog Lake"). Its 2006 population was 31,909 (41,574 in the greater area). The name Penticton is derived from a word in the Salish language, and it is roughly translated as ( a place to stay forever )
*caution - 100+ photos*

It's Wednesday, you know what that means -

ANTM, my house, 7:00ish!! nikala, malamaca & I are having a grilled cheese sandwich party, I think Amanda will be there as well - you all should come too!

Boo - re-cap show!
"With the finale only five weeks away, never-before-seen footage includes Dionne and Renee going toe-to-toe in a heated argument. At the house the girls stage a mock fashion show, complete with impersonations of the top model judges. This episode recaps the process that the six remaining girls have survived in hopes of becoming "America's Next Top Model"."

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( my re-cap week! )

8:00am - no one is in the office yet except for me.

This morning I was checking my email and wasting time on my computer while waiting for Nigel to get out of the shower... I have this widget on my computer that tells me the wireless networks in my area and I noticed something kind of weird... Usually there's like four or five networks, mostly my neighbors, but this morning - in BIG GREY LETTERS, it said 'CIA Mobile Surveillance'. Half an hour later, the signal was gone. Does the CIA really check stuff out in Canada? How about the West End? More importantly, if they were watching someone, do you think they'd actually broadcast it? Yeah, I didn't think so either - but it's fun to speculate.

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The past four or so days have been exactly what I needed. On Thursday I went to malloreigh's house for dinner and to show her all the photos from my trip (and get some Mal lovin' in.) She made the most amazing cous cous/tomato/chick pea creation (which I plan on making myself this week) and we gossiped until late (my idea of late) and nikala came home. Nicola shed some light on a roll of slide film I'd stolen from her room about three weeks ago, thinking it was half mine, and had developed - only to find a picture of someone I didn't know, sitting on a chair, in my own house! ( This beauty was also on the roll.. )

Friday night was the usual debauchery. An impromptu party at Louis' was followed by a short cab ride to Mod Club and an even shorter walk to ( the Columbia.. )

I woke up Saturday feeling a lot better then I should have. Nigel & I were out the door by 11:00 and headed down Granville to Urban Outfitters to do some serious shopping. Unfortunately, it was only Nigel who got serious. Like Joanna said, I'm just not feeling the 'Spring & Summer 2007' Collection... I'll probably go back and get some shoes though at some point.
rijjer's Housewarming/St. Paddy's day party started at 3:00, we went over to decorate & check out here new pad early.. braving the ants (and then the aunts). I'm not sure if I ever mentioned it, but I booked my trip over the Meatloaf concert I'd bought tickets for (for Nigel, for christmas). Erica went as the replacement girlfriend and she had some amazingly sneaky footage to show me of Nigel singing to Paradise by the Dash Board Light (thank you!).
Mid-hockey game Nigel & I headed home to relax and watch the rest of the game, mostly I just wanted to edit some of the photos from Wednesdays Fake Shark! Real Zombie! show at the Lamplighter.

SUNDAY:
I didn't even leave the house Sunday. Nigel & I spent the entire day watching missed episodes of LOST, drinking tea & making food. ♥

So there's my weekend.. It's an hour later and everyone has made it into work so I guess that means I have to actually work too.. xo

Last night was ctrl_altaira's birthday party - wine & cheese in east van and dancing out pants off at Mod Club.

First though, Lindsay & I needed Cheese... and Wine vodka in my case, and of course, dinner at Red Robin.



(a very image heavy) ( Super Valued Night )

Back at home I made noodles and rambled on to Nigel about what a great night I'd just had... he said this morning I was the happiest drunk he'd seen in a while.

and today has been a lot of sitting around, watching HOCKEY DAY IN CANADA and eating breakfast foods. Tonight I'm off to the Media Club for a mini high school reunion and hopefully early'ish to bed.. cause tomorrow I've got things to do and places to go and people to see :D

xo

I ended up with an extra jacket (already claimed by Angry Alex) and an orange scarf after the festivities Friday night at my apartment - it's a nice scarf.. so let me know if it's yours :)



This weekend was my most Christmasy weekend yet. My Christmas shopping is mostly done, my work lunch was Friday afternoon, there were FOUR christmas cards waiting for me when I got home (thank you Miranda, Tanis, Malloreigh & Nikki!) and I got to wear a santa hat for the marjority of Friday night. It was a good Friday night, ( I took pictures )

It's SNOWING!!!

I hope that the first-day-of-snow-excitement NEVER goes away.

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Last night was Dustins show at Pats Pub. I really do love that place.. it's so.. bizarre. Lindsay & I got ready at my place then cabed down there around 10:15( ... )

There really was a point last night where I thought I might be mugged. Sometime around 2:00 (?) I stumbled out of Limerick and headed back to MC alone. Probably not the brightest idea to wander past 'Save-on-Meats' in the middle of night with a purse full of cash and a few credit cards... I ignored the man who seemed to be following a little too close behind me.

Remind me to bring a buddy next time okay?

( pre-drinking, KD & too many cameras )

I woke up on Saturday morning, dazed.. picked up my camera and checked the count. 400 photos. Confused, I checked again - thinking how impossible it is to have taken 400 pictures in one night. Apparently, it's not impossible.

I've whittled it down to 100 with the help of the lovely malamaca (we spend yesterday eating sushi with our boys and sizing pictures, old & boring or completely awesome? I dunno)

( ModClub - Friday, October 21, 2006 AND FSRZ do Video Inn. )

I am sitting in my pink ruffled underwear on my couch. It's raining, I'm full and that makes for an almost perfect kind of day.

I have pictures from October to post and stories about Malloreigh and her vomiting on cars, photographers from New York, Arinn in Vancouver, Why? and purple t-shirts (conversations & perogies), haunted basements and nudity.

( .. but where to start... )


♥ as always ♥

( Why? )