September 2009

Tagged by no one in particular

23 September 2009 By crazymrsnancy 4

Rules:
1. Respond and rework: Answer the questions on your blog. Replace one question with a question of your own or add a question of your own.

2. Tag other un-tagged people.

What's your favorite article of clothing?
*** Hmmm I can't think of anything. My current wardrobe sucks.

Who was the last person you hugged?
*** Steph

What's your favorite dinner?
*** My mom's rice

What was the last thing you bought?
*** Coffees & Breakfast sandwiches at Tim Hortons.

What are you listening to right now?
*** Already Gone - Kelly Clarkson

What is your favorite weather?
*** Bright, crisp, fall weather.

What is your least favorite season?
*** Gray, freezing winter weather.

Who do you admire the most?
*** Everyone. I always find something to admire in people.

Say something to the person who tagged you:
*** I read this on Rebecca & Lori's blogs, and I'll always remember the year that they sent me beautiful flowers for my birthday. No one else had ever given me flowers on my birthday before. (In fact they were my first friend flowers.) 

What is your favorite dessert or cool treat?
*** It depends on my mood, because if it's fattening I probably love it. I love creme brulee, chocolate mousse, authentic cheesecake... gah ok enough.

What did you want to be as a child?
*** A mother, a pediatrician, and a singer (all three) 

What do you want to be now?
*** Successful

What is your favorite song?
*** This changes constantly. It's definitely not my fav song of all time, but lately I can't get enough of Kelly Clarkson's Already gone.

Which is you favorite country/state, and why?
*** Well Canada is a pretty good place to live. But everyone knows my heart is in NY, NY.

If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
*** In his arms.

What are your most challenging goals right now?
*** Oh I won't bore you with that today

What is your 5 year plan?
*** I will be 35 years old. I'm pretty sure that I will have moved on from this job, but I'll probably still be in the administrative field. I'm pretty sure that I won't have kids. I hope I'm happy. I hope I'm thinner. Ambitious huh? woah.

What is your favorite sport to watch?
*** I don't like it at all.

What show would you want to be a cast member on (reality included)?
*** The Biggest Loser

What is your most prized possession?
*** My pets...but they are more like family members than posessions. My passport I guess.

Name one favorite childhood memory.
*** Playing in KB's beautiful backyard.

What is your favorite book of the Bible?
*** N/A

What is your favorite quote?
*** The quote we got from the Vet up home, to have Loki neutered. 480$ Cheaper than in Moncton. Booked!! His appt is Oct 6.

 

Now I tag any one of you who would like to do this...and leave me a comment if you did so I can read your answers :)

The Weekend Tributes

20 September 2009 By crazymrsnancy 3

Friday : AMAZING Pearl Jam tribute at the Oxygen Nightclub downtown. Intoxicated, it felt like a real, intimate PJ show. The singer rocked my socks. He sounds like Eddie Vedder, he mimicks his facial expressions, his energy is awesome. I'm definitely going to be there when they come back in town. Here's their website, but the info is not up to date, and their streaming songs are seriously not doing them justice. www.pjtribute.com They even played The Fixer from their new album coming out today.

Saturday : Awesome Bob Marley Tribute at the Studio 700. What made this even more excellent was figuring out via Twitter that a girl I hadn't seen since college and her boyfriend were going, and reconnecting. We had our own little Bob Marley pre-party for 4. I'm not going to blog all the details.. but the interesting highlights of the night were : a walk in a maze, an unplanned round of limbo, and stepping on an almost frozen bird head. (This was outside, in a secret location, and yes, the rest of the body was missing!)

Sunday : I was supposed to go see Dirty Dancing with a bunch of girls, but everyone was feeling iffy this morning and I had the period cramps from hell, so we are postponing it to this week, making it a dinner & Dirty Dancing. It'll be even better I think :)  So yeah, today is spent being high on Midol and hugging my hot water bottle. But at least it's relaxing.

How the death of Patrick Swayze affected me...

16 September 2009 By crazymrsnancy 2

"Nobody puts Baby in a corner." That's THE most memorable line of the movie, for most people. For me, it's : "I carried a watermelon? " I could so relate to Baby and the way she was feeling in that scene - shy and awkward. When I was finally granted permission from my parents to watch Dirty Dancing, I watched it over and over, never  getting enough of it. I loved everything about it: the music, the dancing, the quaint family resort, the storyline, and of course the gorgeous Johnny Castle.

I found out that Patrick Swayze, my childhood crush, had passed away when suddenly my Facebook & Twitter feeds started going crazy with the "RIP Patrick"'s. I thought "Oh here we go again." Of course I think that it's sad, but I don't get why people let celebrity deaths affect them THAT much!

A few minutes later, I received an email notification for a new comment on my blog. It's from KB, a long lost childhood friend! *shock*  I have been wondering about KB SO MUCH during the years! I regularly searched for her on Facebook / Twitter / MySpace etc. And there she is... here because of Patrick Swayze! I haven't even replied yet.. because all I can think to say is : HOLY SHIT is it really you ?!!

A fun week-end!!

14 September 2009 By crazymrsnancy 1

Friday we ran a few errands and then rushed home to meet with Jason's mom Barbara, who was adopting the first two puppies! (Jason's uncle adopted the other.) Awww, I had a hard time not crying, seriously! Shortly after Liette & Jim came over and we had a freakin' delicious BBQ. Liette & I had secretly planned to ambush the guys with board games.. but we ended up talking the night away. The boys one that one hehe. Two other friends also popped by for a little bit, but I'm not allowed to name them. OOooooh the suspence! hehe.

Saturday we slept in, lounged and relaxed during the day and went to see that outdoors Metallica tribute show thingy around 9pm. Clearly they hadn't advertised this well, because there were only maybe 60 people there! It wasn't bad. It was free. But it was cold and there were mosquitos. I know! Shouldn't they be hiding when it's cold? Anyway... I don't know what was more awesome : Seing all these kids walking to the recycling garbage cans 50 feet away to throw away empty drink containers, or that couple of kids who walked to our bench and told Steph : "You're the dude who was playing guitar for the opening band right?" And wouldn't believe Steph when he was laughing and saying NO! It wasn't me man!  Oh yeah and another cool thing was seeing all these really young people sporting metal head wear just like we wore in the 7th-8th grade! WHERE do they find those clothes today? I wouldn't even know where to find a jean Metallica vest these days... At some point Guylaine came down to invite us to go with their group on Don Cherry's terrace, but our bench was in an excellent spot so we stayed there.

Sunday We relaxed and vegged some more, and mom came by after supper to pick up her dog that we were puppysitting. She told me that she could hear me singing 2-3 houses away!!! HOLY FRIG! This was NOT my first time belting out Bobby McGee! Caught up on some laundry and other boring Sundaisies.

Today : The fun parts of my day today include, but are not limited to : Going to Future Shop to find Steph a new computer since his died over the weekend and we all know that he can't possibly live without a computer. My finding some work pants at Reitman's. Can I get a HELL YEAH for the awesomeness that are the comfort waist stretchy, bootcut pants at Reitman's? And JL&M visited and my brother also popped by.

Anticipating a heavy dose of FUN!

09 September 2009 By crazymrsnancy 1

Today I was browsing a local message board and found some AWESEOME information! 

- Sept 12 : FREE Metallica tribute outdoors show in my hometown!! 

- Sept 18  : PEARL  JAM Tribute Show at the Oxygen club!! (Oh I'm SO THERE!) 

- Sept 19 : Bob Marley Tribute Show at the Studio 700! 

Under normal circumstances, I would have informed Steph of these events and he would go "pfft" and that would be that. But since he knows I'm having a 30-itis crisis and suffering from extreme fun deprivation, he didn't say "pfft" or "No", so that means he's coming. YEAH!!! 

In other news, my physiotherapist kept begging me to do my prescribed heel exercises at home, and it's not that I didn't want to do them, it's that I just forgot all the time! Well I finally started doing them sporadically, and the more I do them (stretches), the more it hurts like hell all over again! To make matters worse, I don't have an appointment this week because she's off to New York City this week! Lucky!! She would ask me at every appointment to tell her again, where to find the good knock offs hehe. Anyway, should I just friggin chalk this up to getting older, swallowing advils, and getting on with my (fitness) life? I'm so tired of waiting! I.am.tired! She keeps telling me to be patient but patience is not a virtue that I possess. (Don't worry though, I'm just thinking out loud and positively itching to get back to Zumba! I'm not really feeling down about this anymore. Not right now.) 

Question of the day : You've seen my recent pictures on Facebook.... should I cut my hair ? 

Random Holiday Monday Chats

07 September 2009 By crazymrsnancy 2

***Disclaimer : If you don't specify that we're having a 'confidential conversation', our conversation might just end up on my blog :P 

KT: http://www.superflash.org says (2:04 PM):
 you NEED to see blue rodeo
 especially if you don't know thieir stuff
 you'll fall in love ;)

Nancy says (2:04 PM):
 what makes them awesome?
 aren't they like a country band ?

KT: http://www.superflash.org says (2:04 PM):
 alt/country / rock

Nancy says (2:09 PM):
 do you know what's funny? One time I got an email (like 3 months ago) sent to me by mistake, it was meant for someone else clearly, because it was asking me about going and volunteering to some seniors dance with a blue rodeo tribute band hehe

Nancy says (2:10 PM):
 so that's why I thought they were 'old music' lol

KT: http://www.superflash.org says (2:10 PM):
 hahaha
 omg
 that's awesome

Nancy says (2:10 PM):
 I don't know why the old people of the universe keep trying to recruit me..
 like last year when I started receiving somehow a magazine subscription to "Geezer Jock"

KT: http://www.superflash.org says (2:11 PM):
 hahaha weird

Voila - Look around!

05 September 2009 By crazymrsnancy2 7

This wasn't supposed to be THE design.. but I got impatient and maybe I'll use THE design later, maybe I won't. Let's see. I kidn of like this one. If I kept a real paper diary in real life, it would probably look scruffy l ike this. It's me. Give me a beautiful notebook and I won't write in it for years, because 'it's too pretty to write in'. Because the pressure of writing something beautiful-book-worthy is too much. So I'm starting to like this temporary design...

Random Saturday Conversations

05 September 2009 By crazymrsnancy 2

Setting : We're watching "Woodstock - Director's Cut", and I love it. I've always been completely fascinated and mesmerized by Woodstock. Despite having attended personally, my parents always talked to me about Woodstock with excitement in their eyes. Especially  my father, we have so much in common.

Me : Isn't it completely unfair that I was born in the wrong decade ? 

Him : *puzzled look* Why? 

Me : Because our generation is so boring musically. All my life, I've wished that I had experienced Woodstock. Don't you think our generation is boring? 

Him : No! We have TV's, and computers ? 

Me : Figures!! Your damn screens again! 

Him : Yeah yeah Mrs. so addicted to her Blackberry that she checks it compulsively.

Me : *shocked* Does it bother you ? Seriously? 

Him : No, I just think you do it often... . *pushes the dog off the pouf with his feet to have the whole pouf to himself* as he says that..

Me : I think it bothers Loki when you push him off the pouf for no reason.

Him : It doesn't bother him, he just thinks that I do it often.

LOL! 

Random driving to work conversations

02 September 2009 By crazymrsnancy 5

Me : If you had to be either a hairdresser or in the army, which would you choose?

Him : The army. Is that a gay question? Because I picked the non-gay answer.

Me : Noooo! haha! It's a gay-slash-lazy question.

Him : Being a hairdresser isn't lazy! 

Me : Yeah but an army bootcamp is the epitomy of non-lazy! Okay, what if you had to choose between being in the army, and being a banker? 

Him : Being a banker. Hmm. Well, Maybe being in the army...

Me : But then you'd be away from me from long periods of time...

Him : Okay I'll be a banker just for that reason.

Me : Between a hairdresser and a shit eater? 

Him : There's no such thing as a shit eater! You're just trying to make me a hairdresser!

Me : *cackles*

Him : Okay bye, Love you, I'm off to eat shit.

Fall: September 22nd 5:18 P.M. EDT 2118 UTC

01 September 2009 By crazymrsnancy 8

I have 22 days left to complete the rest of my "Summer 2009!" list. Want to help me do it?

Would you feel disoriented if I changed my blog template and tucked my heads away? Would it influence your answer if I told you that I might feel more inclined to blog if I didn't have to see myself on my blog? I know blogs are natually narcissistic, but honestly, I've never gotten used to this. It's a little too much. Plus, I always have to carefully load my blog at work white crossing my fingers that my PC won't freeze before I've gotten the chance to scroll down to hide my heads. It's very annoying.

I had a really great weekend! Friday Steph had the day off. I got home exhausted and grumpy, and he tells me that the in laws had called to say they were going to spend the night the next day. So we sent Friday night cleaning our asses off. The house was that bad. I hadn't done more than the minimum in the bathroom in weeks. Maybe even 2 months. (oh who am I kidding, definitely 2 months.) I even cleaned the air vent and everything. And I could still clean it. I'm really really craving that 'new house smell' we had when we moved in. And how everything was just brand new and still smelled like the raw materials it was made from. I stayed up until 3h30 am cleaning. Slept in on Saturday, then got ready and went to Crystal Palace for my niece G's birthday. It wasa lot of fun watching the kids so excited about the rides, but standing on concrete all afternoon was hard on the feet. At some point Steph asked me : do your feet hurt cherie? I said : Yes, and also my soul hurts. It's true, the place was absolutely packed with happy kids, reminding us how we don't have any.

Around supper time we drove to my sister in law's sister's place for a birthday BBQ, gifts, cake, the usual bday stuff, but it was pouring rain so Plan B : Pizza party. She got loads of clothes, including all the clothes, a pair of shoes and a pair of boots that matante here went nuts on. It's so much fun buying clothes for a little girl, I couldn't stop! Around 8pm the kids were all positively dying to meet the little puppies. So we all drove to our house and the puppies were a huge hit. After a while the others left but sister/brother in law stayed behind and while the guys got their computer fix, Chantal and I had shots. And more shots. Then we went to Storm's to see Tanya's husband David and his band play. I was prepared to be polite and say they were good, but holy shit, they really were fucking good man. The singer has a great voice and this cute washed up star quality to him. (he only looks washed up, because he definitely needs a rockstar makeover. He looks so 1989!)  Oh and at some point I went to the bathroom, looked down, and realized that I was wearing a brown shoe and a black shoe! We laughed SO hard! Photos are on Facebook of course.

I was drunkity-drunk-drunk, and I had loads of fun! We went to bed at 6am. I wish we did this more often. I love seeing live bands. I love trying new things and doing shit that doesn't involve staring at a screen (computer/movies/tv/games/etc.) My fun batteries are depleted and I feel like I can't settle with the boring routine and suppress my wild urges anymore. I have to find a balance, but there's two of us. Everything kind of has to be a joint decision. Especially since we share one car. One budget. One house. One love.  Ah well, when I get the courage I'll write about this more...  Thanks to those of you who know all about this and are there for me lately.... I think the worst is over, now we just have to work on things and I definitely not letting go of this : I NEED SOME FUN! (regularly.)