I'm well on my way to appreciating these brisk mornings and the snow way up on the mountains, so long as it's a safe distance away from the soggy park I walk through. This morning was beautiful.
I've had an eclectic week, starting off with the 1 year anniversary party for
our website last Friday. I took the ENTIRE day off work to run around with Amanda & Lindsay, picking up cake, projectors, balloons, decorations, baby duck & dresses. (I'll post about a million photos from the party below) Generally I'd say it went really well, I think I need to learn how to calm the fuck down, but I wanted it to be special and Lindsay & I put a hell of a lot of work into it. Other then the Saturday morning cleanup (nothing like empty glasses, beer stench, panties, pill bottles & some else's puke to start off your morning), I would say it was a success. I ♥ my friends.
Saturday night Nigel & I met up with my Dad at Moxies for dinner, he'd been staying downtown all weekend working on the Santa Clause Parade. I haven't seen him in close to a month a least - I'm embarrassed at how few times I've been to Maple Ridge since Halloween (NONE!). I'm hoping I can make up for it over Christmas.. I plan on having the mellowest of holiday seasons.
I spent the better part of Sunday doing absolutely nothing other then refreshing facebook and .. you know, I don't even know what I did. But Sunday night Nigel & I met up with Neil, his mom, Anil, Amanda (his sister), etc. etc. for dinner and then a cultural adventure at the QE Theatre for 2007 KPOP! (check out the
poster) It was actually pretty amazing and apparently (Amanda loosely translated for Nigel & I) the girl preforming, Ivy, had just been involved in a sex tape scandal in Korea and was a hair away from not coming to Vancouver, but had PROMISED, so she came anyway. She actually cried on stage and tried to explain everything (I think) and yeah.. drama drama. I totally just found the story online
here - blackmail, male models, sex tapes, cheating and vandalism.
So, the rest of the week has mainly been trying to catch up on some much needed sleep, but last night
anorexic_a &
cherryvega came by for ANTM & Cherry b-day celebrations.. and we discovered just how amazing Nigels new video game was... OMG
ROCK BAND. I think we only paused briefly to refill our wine glasses & grab some sushi when NIgel got home from work. I really like playing the drums. I need someone with Guitar Hero for Xbox to come over with their guitar so we can have Bass AND Lead in the band. :/
Cherry & Amanda trying to set the projector/my laptop up mid-afternoon when we went to the venue to drop the decorations off..
So after we'd finished running around and sort of setting up (we left the balloon inflating until way later in fear of them deflating before 2:00am) we all headed to Lindsay & Louis' place to get fancy, have dinner & get our make up done ♥ GUS ♥ ..
Adrienne broke Louis' computer.
We got back to No Tofu by 9:00, I hadn't had nearly enough to drink... we inflated.. then we opened the doors...
the guy on the left is one of the bus boys at Hys, where I go for lunch with my boss all the time - I was so surprised to see him there!
This guy was.. I don't even know.. I wish could have taken video.
I got home at about 4:30am, FROZEN, my feet about to fall off, sober and happy. So yeah, that was our party.
XO