Somewhere Around Nothing
Wow, I’ve really been remiss about updating. And even now, I’m only updating so my cousin will find the motivation to update as well, lol.
My obsession with Nightwish has led me to discover other bands from Finland (I really, really love that country now, lol) Sonata Arctica and Apocalyptica. Sonata Arctica is an all-male melodic metal band who are friends with Nightwish, lol. (There are some mp3 bits here if you’re curious). Like Nightwish, by the time I’d gotten to love them, I’d missed their concert by a few measly weeks (but, last week, I was happily informed that they are returning on January 21st, yay). The band Apocalyptica consists of 3 classically trained cellists who play metal (lol, I know! If someone had told me that you could have metal music with just 3 cellos and a drum, I wouldn’t have believed them). I’m going to see them in concert on September 16th, weee! And the tickets were only 19$, hehe. If any of you are interested in hearing them, there’s a link to an audio recording of their concert at the Lowlands Festival up on their site here
Got to see David Usher in concert this summer. He was performing at a festival in Sherbrooke (2 hours east of here), and the tickets were only 10$, so of course Ange said we had to go. Getting there was a bit complicated (arrows pointing right, but the street needed is actually to the left, grr), but we finally made it by following the lights of the Ferris Wheel, lol. We got there in time to hear some noise performed by Groovy Ardvark (apparently Quebec’s first French metal band), I was not impressed. There were some nice fireworks to a medley of musical genres. And then it was finally time for David. He was cute as always, good hair and charming attitude. And you gotta love a man who understands that adding a violin is always a good decision.
In July I spent a week at my cousin Genevieve's house helping with the kids. Nicolas always wants to be held, and Vincent never wants to go to bed. Vincent can also say my name now, it's really adorable: "Meeyaam." Eric shared his obsession with the show 24. We’d go to bed at 3am, and he’d get up for work at 7 (if not woken up earlier by the kids). I have no Idea how they do it; I slept for a whole day when I got back home, lol. And while I was there, a momma groundhog had tried to make the front porch her home for her and her babies. I’d never seen one from that close before, they’re actually quite cute when standing on their hind-legs keeping watch.
My cousins Sebastien and his girlfriend Marie-Joelle got married on August 13th. It was a beautiful wedding. There was a lovely violinist playing in the church, and Marie and her mom came down the aisle crying, lol. The food was delicious, there was a huge buffet for the hors d’oeuvres, followed by 5 courses that I could only nibble at because I was already so full. The reception was quite a party, and just like the cliché, the garter got stuck in the chandelier, lol.
And now I’m starting school again in 5 days… sigh, time goes by so fast.
My obsession with Nightwish has led me to discover other bands from Finland (I really, really love that country now, lol) Sonata Arctica and Apocalyptica. Sonata Arctica is an all-male melodic metal band who are friends with Nightwish, lol. (There are some mp3 bits here if you’re curious). Like Nightwish, by the time I’d gotten to love them, I’d missed their concert by a few measly weeks (but, last week, I was happily informed that they are returning on January 21st, yay). The band Apocalyptica consists of 3 classically trained cellists who play metal (lol, I know! If someone had told me that you could have metal music with just 3 cellos and a drum, I wouldn’t have believed them). I’m going to see them in concert on September 16th, weee! And the tickets were only 19$, hehe. If any of you are interested in hearing them, there’s a link to an audio recording of their concert at the Lowlands Festival up on their site here
Got to see David Usher in concert this summer. He was performing at a festival in Sherbrooke (2 hours east of here), and the tickets were only 10$, so of course Ange said we had to go. Getting there was a bit complicated (arrows pointing right, but the street needed is actually to the left, grr), but we finally made it by following the lights of the Ferris Wheel, lol. We got there in time to hear some noise performed by Groovy Ardvark (apparently Quebec’s first French metal band), I was not impressed. There were some nice fireworks to a medley of musical genres. And then it was finally time for David. He was cute as always, good hair and charming attitude. And you gotta love a man who understands that adding a violin is always a good decision.
In July I spent a week at my cousin Genevieve's house helping with the kids. Nicolas always wants to be held, and Vincent never wants to go to bed. Vincent can also say my name now, it's really adorable: "Meeyaam." Eric shared his obsession with the show 24. We’d go to bed at 3am, and he’d get up for work at 7 (if not woken up earlier by the kids). I have no Idea how they do it; I slept for a whole day when I got back home, lol. And while I was there, a momma groundhog had tried to make the front porch her home for her and her babies. I’d never seen one from that close before, they’re actually quite cute when standing on their hind-legs keeping watch.
My cousins Sebastien and his girlfriend Marie-Joelle got married on August 13th. It was a beautiful wedding. There was a lovely violinist playing in the church, and Marie and her mom came down the aisle crying, lol. The food was delicious, there was a huge buffet for the hors d’oeuvres, followed by 5 courses that I could only nibble at because I was already so full. The reception was quite a party, and just like the cliché, the garter got stuck in the chandelier, lol.
And now I’m starting school again in 5 days… sigh, time goes by so fast.