weekend highlights package

What amazing weekend of music, food, random adventures and sleep deprivation! It’s all these unplanned moments of random joy that remind me I’m alive! This is the highlights package...
1. Buying a chequered shirt for 20 bucks, donning a cowboy hat and sheriffs badge and kidnapping Pocahontas
2. Playing the most competitive game of musical chairs I have ever witnessed.
3. Buffet breakfast at the Botanical gardens for an old friends birthday (wasn’t allowed to eat bacon yet, I swear hell is a buffet breakfast where you can’t eat bacon!!!!)
4. Sister bonding time: driving in repeated circles, blasting Queen’s greatest hits and taking 1 ½ hours to find our way home from the gardens. (Should have been a 10 minute trip- I’m gonna be topping my Christmas list with a GPS this year...)
5. Going to watch the orchestra (list #83)
6. Hearing Bach’s ‘Brandenburg concert Nr.3’ played on classical guitar and oboe. Mind blowing. Seriously: Ka-boom. Splat.
7. Spending the evening playing pool, drinking coffee & beer and chilling with the principle violinist. Yep, I know peeps!
8. Hitting Mc D’s at midnight, oreo mc flurry’s and laughing our heads off till 2am.
9. Being stopped by the Popo for driving around a traffic circle the wrong way. (I wasn’t driving. Promise.)
10. Lazing in our lounge, drinking tea and jamming acoustic guitar...bringing us to about 4am
11. Cooking a full Sunday lunch for a good friend while listening to him coax magical sounds out of my guitar
12. Eating CHICKEN after 40 days of fasting meat. My tummy had a party.

life is good. the end.

Oh St. Paddy's day...how I love thee

St. Paddy’s day check list:

Went to Irish pub (10 points)
Wore green (20 points + extra points for tying a big bow in my hair!)
Caught up with a favourite friend (30 points)
Sang drinking songs (20 points + bonus points for knowing the words!)
Drank Guinness (20 points: list #33- Oh yeah!)
Impressed a genuine Irishman with our Guinness drinking skills (100000 points!)




And there’s no St. Paddy’s without bringing home some mementoes, last year I stole,erm...found... a sign off a street pole.
This years loot:
1x Guinness advert
1x coaster
1x bunch of green balloons
1x green bowler hat (this took particular skill to convince the waiter to get me one!)
The loot would have included a Guinness draft glass but Amy convinced me that stealing the glass would be wrong and shady. Damn.




The hat says it all...on St. Patrick’s day: I’M IRISH!!!!

Veggie tales...

My latest adventure is number 53 on my list: Be vegeterian for a month.

This has been a tough one... I started towards the end of last month when pay day seemed a million miles away. Let me tell you, the only thing harder than being a veggie kid is being a poor veggie kid!

But thankfully salvation has come and my pay cheque has been deposited! Which means the fridge is stocked with a grand assortment of...well...er..leaves and roots. Is'nt that a joy?

I'm going to go eat a bowl of sprouts now...