Gill and I are off to camp in about half an hour... four days of cold-cabin fun! At least we'll know most of the girls there as we went to the same one last year, too...
Anyway, I'll be back on Thursday, and (depending on how tired I am) will probably be back to blogging then. So, you know, if I don't answer your comments for a few days, don't think I hate ya... cause I don't :P (that was a wonderful sentence)
Anywho, better go get dressed and such :)
So on Thursday after the LIT wrap-up party was cancelled :( we went to hang out at Gill's house where we decorated her folder avec a very funky collage. This reminded me of my binder I decorated last year, and it inspired me to make another...
"Vegetarians are nice people, like you. Anyway, you live longer."
Funny how someone saying something so small but kind can change everything... and all you can do is be a complete jerk (but not on purpose, you just realize it two years too late).
By the way, you were right, it was Toni Tortillini, not Tinotoni :P
But enough with the personal stuff I've been dealing with lately...
There was a huge thunderstorm last night, and there was a thunderstorm warning for the whole of central and southern Alberta... the sheet lightning made the sky light up like the sun was out, it was crazy! I stayed up reading old stories and journals I've written in, thinking... stuff like that. I guess one of the results is the paragraph above this one :) another is the fact that I didn't get to sleep until about two in the morning, so I'm about to fall over from exhaustion.
Made some pretty awesome buttons today! Some of the ones with the nicest designs on them broke though, so once I fix them up I'll take a picture of them all so y'all can see them... the button making "machine" on campus is an older one, so it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. It was fun anyway, though! My dad and I figured out that we could make a killer profit from selling them (we are also constantly figured out the newest and most ingenious products for infomercials... watch out Miracle Blade! We'll show chef Tony and his drywall-cutting, shoe-sawing sidekicks :D). Anyway, I say we start a business!
Better get going, I think we're going to watch the special features from Syriana and All The President's Men tonight... Woohoo! Nothing like George Clooney, Deep Throat (the guy, not the movie) and popcorn... all rolled into one enjoyable evening!
See ya!
Just watched 'Syriana'... man, it's moving.
I started watching it thinking that it would be a confusing movie, just like the critics said.
I did find it confusing- to a point. It wasn't like you didn't know who was doing what, it was just difficult, in my opinion, figuring out who worked for who.
And I had to skip the end of the torture scene (the one in which George Clooney hurt his back).
Hey there! Typing this at Scona library, just got in from the Fringe (I do believe it is the biggest one in North America). I usually check out a couple plays, but I'm not really one to plan ahead. My eldest sister writes for a local magazine reviewing the plays, so she usually gives me a heads up if there's a good one. This year one of her reviewees (is that a word? Oh well, it is now) was called "A Road Less Gravelled"... ouch.
It's crazy hot out, and my youngest older sister (only ten years older than me) and I were looking for booth that one of her friend runs, when this creepy guy comes up and gives us these small rocks that say "Cute Women Rock Edmonton". He then goes into this small speech about how someday we should introduce him to his mother. We thought he was just off his rocker, but then when we did find my sister's friend's booth, we found out she and another girl she knows had gotten them. Eew! I am going to take a picture of the aforementioned pebble and upload it when I get home. If you see this man, kindly hurt him for us. Thanks :)
The post I wrote on my birthday (yesterday) was put on The Hour's blogtracker! I couldn't ask for a better blogger birthday surprise!
So, while my Mother's away in Alaska, my father (the soap opera expert, rivaled only by Shelly) has exposed me to Train 48. Did you know Global has about 3 hours (if not more) in a row of re-runs? And not even recent ones, I'm sitting there watching old Christmas '04 episodes... it's addictive! Ahhh!
Anyway... HAPPY BIRTHDAY BARBARA! I know I've said it about a thousand times everywhere else, but I felt bad not putting it on my blog.
Ok, must go watch more of the wife-just-got-out-of-a-coma guy and Johnny (the stereotypical Canuck) fight over who was supposed to dress up as Santa. Fun fun!
You know what I hate? Selfishness. I'm really quite bad at dealing with it. It always seems like people are always getting one step closer to my goals than I am myself. I always get jealous, though I know it's not their fault, it's my own. If I wasn't so shy I could get places. Places that I'm not going right now.
I just need to get all caught up.
So, now I shall talk about my life other than EFMF and George's birthday.
Today I got a magazine from Earth's General Store called 'Shameless', it's a really cool mag for teen girls who are sick of the celebrity-centered-gotta-be-skinny magazines...
It talks about how to start up your own podcast... hmmm. Something to think about, perhaps?
My sister headed back up to Alaska today (she goes to the UAF there) and my mom went with her to help out with all the driving... it's just me and my dad in the house, can you say Panago? We've already planned our eat-out route down Whyte ave... yum.
Ok, I'll stop making your eyes into little squares... go watch TV or something :)
See ya!
How appropriate that my sister's cat George (named after Curious George, the cat's a girl... gender warrior!) came home after being accidentally locked into a neighbours house for three days on Georgie S's birthday yesterday!
See, I do know his b-day was yesterday, but I wasn't feeling well and the Stroumboulopouli put up the awesome-possum pic that Alana created (gotta lurve the paint program!).
Anyway, if you're reading Georgie (which I know you're not... a) you're somewhere in the south U.S., and b) you've probably never looked at my blog :P), just wanted to say thanks, you're awesome. (And to Bob, I don't know when your birthday is, but you're awesome too :))
Ok then, better go type that one last post!
I plan to post three times today, so bear with me, please!
Ok, so I've been lazy lately, but I've finally decided to post the pictures of Sunday...
Sunday was a pretty slow day, we mostly saw people we'd already seen... so let's skip to the evening :)
Here are the Blind Boys Of Alabama on mainstage, as I said a last post, they had everyone moving to the beat, including me, who inherited the family-I-can't-dance gene. (The awesome Journal photographer was there taking random pics of people madly dancing.)
Ok, so today was fabulous (apart from the 5 minute hail storm...)! I saw Feist, Bruce Cockburn, Sarah Harmer, Hawksley Workman, Jason Collett, to name a few. It was crazy!
Since it's getting late and I have to get up early tomorrow to work (have to be there at 8:30- Yuck.) I have decided to put down a few quotes from the artists that I found humourous.
"My father always said 'Son, it doesn't matter who you vote for, the government always gets in'... After living in Alberta for most of my life, I've had to change that to 'It doesn't matter who I vote for, the damn Tories always get in!'"
-David Ross MacDonald
*Hawksley Workman starts to play his guitar, rainwater off the speaker spills all over a guy in the audience*
Hawksley: "Oh no! Look at that... Sorry guy and his water... Shower time!"
Feist: "So I really cut my teeth in Edmonton."
Guitarist:"I lost my virginity in Edmonton..."
I liked Feist's guitarist :P
Anyway, better get going! See y'all tomorrow, perhaps?
Oh hello there!
Unfortunately, I missed K'Naan while eating my volunteer supper, but he's on again tonight at 7:30. Bedouin Soundclash was on and they were fantastic. We were right to one side of the stage (if you sat on the volunteer tarp you created a puddle), and we had a pretty good view (you can't really see it in the picture, though. So sad.)... They had really awesome bags for the band in the music and merch tent, but the girl infront of me got the last one... c'est dommage.Just woke up... I really do enjoy sleep :)
Last night I stayed up and watched the documentary 'Comedian', following Jerry Seinfeld and (the rather conceded) Orny Adams around. It was pretty good, but since half of it was filmed in various bars and comedy clubs, with people talking in the background, the fact that you could hardly hear them got kind of annoying.
Going with the kids from the park to see 'Tallaganda nights' this morning. The movie looks horrible, but I haven't gone to the movies in forever, so I guess I'll suck it up and go. Hanging out with all the kids from the park will be fun, though.
After I go to the movie I'm heading over to the folk fest (quite the switch, eh?). K'Naan and Bedouin Soundclash are going to be there tonight, I'm very excited. Yesterday I found that, because I'm a volunteer, I get to go to the after parties with the musicians! Ahhh!
Ok, breathing.
So, now that you know my entire schedule (I have nothing else to post) I shall now leave you to get ready to go.
Have a good day! (I don't say that enough. Hmm... I'll have to make a habit of that :))
Had a party in celebration of my upcoming birthday yesterday/today. Just hanging out, my friends are waiting to be picked up from my Aunt's house, where we had a sleep over.
Yesterday we (Gill, Sheilagh and I) went 5 pin bowling (we also killed terrorists in the arcade... guess who the video game was by. Fox, correct). We then rented and later watched 'Confessions Of A Sociopathic Social Climber' (not the best movie I've ever seen), watched 'Lazy Ramadi' (which I now regret) and had a dance party (we had the viking wedding disco inferno dance down!).
They got me awesome gifts- pickles, a best buy gift card, Almost Famous soundtrack and a zip-it purse (not to mention Smarties and a joke book on perfect hair from my sister), they all now me too well :)
Anyway, after that we basically stayed up until 3:00 AM and talked.
This morning we had a pleasant breakfast and went to the park (where I discovered Nic has a crush on Jo, the leader (weird much)) and found a friends house after much confusion of the back alleys (when we did find it we shouted 'Hanks house!' and then realized that all the windows and doors were wide open, Oops).
After a while we all got sick of eachother (we're all tired and grumpy and it's really hot out), and now everyone's going home (I plan to sit on the couch in a vegatative state and watch old episodes of 'Friends').
I shall do that now, see ya!
Yesterday I went down to Heritage days at Hawrelak park with two of my sisters and my one niece. Due to the heat, it ended up being just my one sister and I exploring what is apparently the largest Heritage festival yet.
I've always found Heritage days a bit odd. The way I see it, if I lived in a different country and was asked to make a booth about Canada for their version of Heritage days, I wouldn't make it all Mounties and beavers and maple syrup. It's not that I think that these things aren't a part of Canadian history, I have deep roots with things like the fur trade and the RCMP. I just think that I would want to show people something new and different about our country, instead of reinforcing the stereotype they probably already have.
The festival was fun, though, don't get me wrong... just a little awkward.
Above: The Scandinavian Viking ship, the Hawaiian hut and its dancers and an adorable little boy from the Ecuador tent (reminded me of the book 'Startled By His Furry Shorts')...
Just finished watching the movie at my aunt's. We started watching a British film called 'Wonderland', but after about half an hour we discovered that was crap, so we surfed my uncle's DVD database and discovered 'Almost Famous'. Gill had lent it to me about a month ago, but I'd never gotten around to watching it... I knew she adored it (and I lent her the soundtrack I found for her at the library... good music), but we don't always like the same type of movies, so I didn't think too much of missing it.
My God was I wrong! This is definitely one of my new favorite movies! Not only does it deal with the 70's, rock and roll and a slightly mad family, but also with a kid trying to find the right balance between being a journalist and being a friend... if you haven't already seen it, watch it now, I'm not kidding.
By the way, if William Miller ever existed, I would marry him in a moment. He is the sweetest guy ever! I think I can really relate to him because his goals and my goals are the same, and we both are a bit unsure of how to reach them... I think Will's character has about ten times the courage I have though :)
I now have 'Tiny Dancer' stuck in my head! I don't even like that song! Argh.
Okay, it's after midnight... gotta sleep! Can you tell I haven't slept in a while? :)
So I got back last night, and started to blog, but my computer (as usual) hated me. I tried again this morning, but the photos aren't uploading properly... I'll get to it eventually, promise.
Went to the park today, luckily it was nice weather. I hung out with all the regular kids while enjoying my non-LITingness (no more oversized t-shirts and sneakers for me, oh no! Indie rockers tees and flip-flops all the way!). I once again attempted to figure out how 'Magic' worked, but I think that I'm not really capable of willingly joining something so cultish...
Anyway, I'm at my Aunt's house now (well, my sister's house sitting), and we're having a barbeque (vegetarian, of course). After supper I'm staying over to watch a movie (sisters night out... er, in!).
Better go, See ya!
