For Tara

I caught some serious shit from Tara last week:

"I think it's time you up date your blog, I'm tired of reading about the soprano's!!!"

Well, I think that was her giving me shit... I guess.

I have been too busy having a life to blog about it. For starters, Easter kinda sucked. Instead of having the traditional family dinner with ham or turkey, Handsome Hubby and I had, Get ready for it, KFC. You heard me right. KFC. The Colonel made my Easter supper. The really strange thing (to me at least) was that the place was packed with family-type people and loads of peoples picking up things for take-out. But on the up side, I did get to spend the whole day with Hubbie all to myself!!!

Then, the next weekend, my parents were here in the City for the Co-op buyers trade show. I helped them set up the booth on Friday afternoon and had a blast helping out at the show. There were loads of orders placed for my Dad's product and I have a feeling that it will be featured in your local Co-op store soon. :-) Yay Dad!!! There was a cabaret on Sunday night and the band that played was the Canadian 70's supergroup Chilliwack. This had my Dad in his element.

In the early 70's (1972-ish I think), my Dad and some of his friends moved from my small-town hometown, to Downtown Vancouver. Dad and his cousin were in a band called Twitch. Twitch actually recorded a couple of 45's (for those of you who are either young, or simply unfamiliar with vinyl, a 45 is a "single" on a record. They held only two songs, one on each side of the record). Anyhoo, the studio that they were recording in was also being used by both Chilliwack and Nazereth.

Chilliwack had finished a set for the afternoon, and being the 'bigger' band, they had left their amps and drum kit out. Twitch was heading into the studio and had the opportunity to record using that equipment. That is my Dad's claim to fame.

The following weekend was dominated by a visit from my sister Christine. She lives in Lethbridge, and I rarely see her. She has dropped almost 50 pounds since Christmas, and while she looks FANTASTIC, I am just as jealous as I am proud of her. She came for a visit, and to throw a spa party. It went well and everyone had a lot of fun. I was really sad to see her go. I never get to see her enough now that we are older, and I appreciate her. [The sister who lives here in Saskatoon is not really one that I get along with yet, although it is getting better. I love her, but I don't always like her :-) ]

On April 19th, The Husband and I celebrated a strange milestone. I was bored one day while at guest services (like a year ago), and I came across a website that calculated the time elapsed since a certain date. I cannot remember where it was, but I calculated that from the day we went on our first date to April 19 was 2000 days! (Again, further proof that I am a tard.)

I have made it official. Becky and I ARE INDEED joining a gym. We're taking advantage of a two week free membership and then we'll have to fork over some cash. I know that this will be a good thing. I'm gonna get so hot, you are all going to be JEALOUS!!! Oh yeah, all hot and shit!

Tara, is that good enough of an update? Oh and BTW, Tara (and anyone else who is interested), you are a food goddess, so please email me any HEALTHY recipes that are easy to make, and are tasty! On a scale of 1 - 10, one being Craptastic and 10 being Julia Freaking Child, my skill is a four, so keep that in mind. Along with this gym thing, I am going to make a VERY concerted effort to cook better things for both of us to eat. Healthy fuel, healthy bodies, or something lame like that! :-)

The Sopranos Season six begins to end...

The Sopranos just aired the first of the last episodes tonight. This begs the question, "How will it end?"

Here are my top 3 answers:

1) My guess: Tony will die. Somehow, I feel a violent and painful ending this way comes. I don't like it, but I think that is what is in store.

2) My Husband's Best Friend Noel's guess: Tony will take over Carmine's territory in New York. Right now this area is being horrifically mis-managed by Phil Leotardo, while Johnny Sack is in the big house.

3) What I would HATE TO SEE: Tony getting busted by the Feds on the RICO case that they have been building for a long time. I would rather see Tony dead than in Jail.

What do you think will be the end of Tony Soprano? Or will it even be an end?

Hoppy Easter!

Yah, I'm a dork, but that's why everyone loves me!

Here is something that my Dad sent me to cheer me up because I couldn't go home for Easter. I hope that you all are having a wonderful Easter, whether you are with your families or with friends, I hope you are with people you love!

Rock and/or roll is EXHAUSTING!

Thank the good Lord that the Junos are OVER!

That was the most exhausting, and thrilling two weeks of my life!

I met Dallas Green, Patrick Watson, DJ Champion, Karl Wolf, Chris Murphy, Bob Rock, Sass Jordan, and many other people in the Biz.

I have no photos (I thought that it would be tacky to take pics while I was 'on the clock') so I'll just have to bask in the glow of the memories. :-)

One question/comment to the Juno Organizers and to CARAS in general... Why make the host of the show a nominee? There is so much incredible talent in Canada, this year, it made us look Silly to have the awards turn into the Nelly Furtado Show. I mean have someone like Jim Carrey, or Joni Mitchell host. It just seemed like too much Nelly... And I like Nelly!