5 posts tagged “lydia skinner”
Lydia told me that she had picked out the song for our wedding, the last track on the Magnetic Fields album i called "It's Only Time". Don't worry if you haven't gotten an invite to the wedding yet, we're just talking in the future. Not jet packs and meeting the Vulcans future, but also not next month future.
Don't listen to me, I'm feverish and insane.
I'm tired and there's the chance that I might still be hung over. I had an open bottle of red wine and I felt that I should do my best to try to finish it off last night. Today I woke up with feelings for drinking water that can not be expressed in words. I drove to work because the act of walking for half an hour was so distressing that I had rather upset Al Gore and pump chemicals into the air.
Drinking at home alone while writing an article for eVent! might be one of the signs of a problem. It might be one of the signs that I shouldn't have woken up at 7:30 the next morning for work
Last week Lydia and I went to Kelowna for our days off. We had fun with my family, both my parents and my extended dance re-mix family as well. I convinced Lydia to go on a jet-ski and we had a general all-round good time. The chance to catch up with Chad and Delme, even if just for a round of mini-golf at Scandia, was enjoyable. Sadly I missed Chris whose going to be in Kelowna this week while I'm in Vancouver. He's also in Vancouver, right as I blog this apparently, but his old college friends are holding most of his attention so it's doubtful I'll hear from him.
When we got back we saw both The Phantom of the Opera at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre and the HSBC Celebration of Lights on the last night of the fireworks. I blogged about the fireworks here [mbv] and then here [mbv]. The long and the short of it was though that over 3,000,000 people streamed into the English
Bay area and the cops had to deal with it. There's video that I recorded with my Nokia 6682 phone of the cops plowing through the crowd on bikes trying to get to the scene of a stabbing that had happened about two blocks up from us on the corner of Robson and Denman.
What else has happened since then? I don't know actually. Well okay, I've got a few ideas of what may have gone down based on the black box recorder that I carry strapped to my chest at all times.
Nathan was over one night. We were supposed to go the the B.C. Lions' game but neither of rated our interest in the sport above a 3 out of 10 so instead we went to the HMV and I picked up the first season of The Brak Show on DVD and went back to my apartment to watch that. We realized that it was the first time we'd gotten together in over a month, when he had come over with Krista for my Canada Day gathering.
Lastly I suppose it's worth noting that Lydia and I cooked the other night. Or she cooked while I had to listen to her list off the different cooking tools that I lacked. This ended up as fodder form my next article in eVent! which brings us back to drinking the red wine left over from our cooked dinner late at night while trying to write an article.
Actually where we began was with me hung over blogging about the past week or so. Which is where I am, hung over blogging about the last week in Me-town. Where have you been my tiny little flight simulators?
I had promised to drive Lydia home from work last night because public transporation was going to be a mad house with everyone streaming home from English Bay after the fireworks. Since she was working I didn't have to go and see the fireworks this time, and instead spent my time at home watching episodes of Penn and Teller's show Bullshit on Google video.
However being fairly close to English Bay, just down Robson and up Denman, when the fireworks started I could hear them really clearly from my apartment. The mix of the explosions, the multitudes cheering on the explosions and the police and emergency sirens wailing as they made sure the multitudes didn't move from cheering on explosions to exploding things themselves or rioting, made for a nice end of the world style soundscape.
Braving and parting the red sea of people I drove down to Lydia's hostel and picked her up and then drove her home. Once again I had to drive back through masses of people as they had pretty much swarmed all over downtown by that point. I then went upstairs, climbed into bed and watched one last episode of Bullshit before falling asleep.
No, the story does not end there, because at about five in the morning I was awoken by the sound of thunder. As soon as I got back to sleep I was awake again as thunder sounded once more. The night went on like that for awhile until it turned out that I had overslept and had to rush to work.
Rushing to work included driving in my car, which meant that I got to stay dry because along with the thunder there is the regular dosage of Vancouver rain. Rain, welcome back I've missed you.
The first CDs I ever bought was a compilation of the movie theme songs that John Williams wrote and conducted for Steven Spielberg movies, and the original cast recording of The Phantom of the Opera. For some reason both Neal and I were on an odd Phantom kick, odd because we were like 13 and 9 and because we'd never actually seen the show on stage. But I'd just bought my first CD player, one of those combo home stereo bookshelf systems, and I needed some hip tunes and Andrew Llyod Webber was hip.
I guess.
We ended up seeing the play like five or six years later in Edmonton, and now Lydia and I have tickets to see the play on Thursday at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver. I'm definitly not into the Phantom like I used to, and it's been probably ten years since I've listend to the CD even though I think it's actually on my iPod. I didn't see the feature film version of it that came out a year or two ago either. Still truth be told I'm looking forward to seeing the production that's coming to Vancouver.
Lydia and I went to the fireworks tonight at English Bay. I was skeptical, because well I hate crowds, but she enjoyed it and it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Don't tell her that I enjoyed it though because if she wants to get me to go to the next few she's going to have to be extra special nice to me.
So shhh....
Right now we're on the couch watching episodes from Strangers With Candy's first season. Lydia's never seen them and wants to catch a few before we go see the feature film later this week. Lydia thinks Amy Sederis is keen. I've got a man crush on Stephen Colbert.
