11.29.2006

things that make me feel ... (not exhaustive)

looking at old pictures of good times - striped shirts -music - warm banana bread - frienship - tea - karate - conversations - roomate bonding - recycling - 'vive la revolution' - leonard cohen - couch surfing - lopsided grins - french braiding - self sufficient bioregions -apple pie - beer at breakfast - boats - spanish - turning the heat on - basketball games - basketball players - reunification - anticipation - crono trigger - kindred spirits - stitch - coming clean - dreams - theories - hot chocolate - caffeine - reactions - fresh - turning off the tv -communist commune - crisp weather - grandma warms - familiar phrases - when songs that used to make me cringe don't anymore - red wine - asparagus - ace ventura - the owl and the pussycat - reading words that I've had read to me before - phone calls - random smiles - helping strangers - wool socks - oatmeal - cats - brick - moberly lake - the rockies - christmas - blankets - halo - gin and tonic - tetris - martin luther king -
wood heat - reading - comfortable sweaters - home - snow - skiing - postcards -

11.27.2006

Just because I've Been Thinking About it!

And how could I not?

I just thought that everyone might appreciate this, probably some will more than others (but really, who doesnt appreciate humor, Penny Arcade, Star Wars, pizza bagels, oh yeah romance, love and marriage?!) Is it bad that romance, love and marriage were the last things that I thought of?!)



Im sorry, I have no technical expertise on how to make things bigger!

11.26.2006

Just to let you know!

I might be a bit psychic.

Congratulations Karyl and Jenna!!
All the best

And now Karyl, a word from our Norweigan Forefathers!

"Hip hip hoorah, for i dag er det Karyl og Jenna's dag"
[Hip hip hoorah, for ee dog aer de Karyl oh Jenna's dog]
Hip hip hoorah, for today is Karyl and Jenna's day

"Må deres kjaerlighet bli moderne nok til å overleve de skiftende tidene og gammeldags nok til å vare livet ut"
[Mow deres shaer-lee-het blee mood-aerne nok til oh over-laeve de shiftende teedene oh gammel-dags nok til oh va-re leevet oot]
May your love be modern enough to outlive the changing times and old-fashioned enough to last a lifetime

I found them on a Norweigan phrase sight, I thought the first was sort of funny, and the second was romantic and hopeful!
Hip Hip Hooray for lutfisk and jhetost (oh yeah, and congratulations!!)

11.23.2006

Marriage

Sorry Vince, I thought this picture was hilarious! In my defense, I was looking for a really nice poem or picture of something to that effect!!

Mostly, I hope that I can stick to the point and just post a little note congratulating Vinny on his engagement to the girl of his dreams!

As I'm sure at least all of us have at least thought, the sponteneity of it all is very romantic. It seems like an insane thing to do, to jet across Canada to see if your love is truly the one for you, but if I can imagine anyone doing that, its Vince. It seems like he was always the one up to coming out to my house for an improv bonding session at 3 in the morning when he worked at 9, or going for a swim in mid-May in the Pouce River!

Vince also seemed likely to be the first married out of this group. Well, either him or Karyl for some reason (Karyl, if youre reading this, you always seemed like the person that shocked me the most, and it would be suitably, pretty shocking...) Anyways... I think Vince has all of those innate characteristics that will allow him to be a very good fiance and husband including kindness, compassion, a good sense of humor and some endearing addictions to internet gaming!

I wish you all the best Vince and Meghan, and am excited to see where this new path takes you!
Cheers!

11.19.2006

Geeky Pictures!

I wish that I could remember the themes to all of these photos, I will do my best though!! This one is just a general "Megan fell off the bandwagon" one!



We thought that Emma sort of looked like Quasimodo in this one! Image search him, its striking!
Note how far Emma can stick her finger up her nose! Lots of practice?
What we look like when we are sleeping? Except for me, thats what I look like when I am rocking out with my eyes closed!
Some people "get their eyes from their Mother," some inherit kindness from dear old Mom, but I, I got my greatest skill from her!
Possibly the only nice one that we took!
In my mind, I might not go towards the white light when I die, but instead this picture!
Megan must have said something really geeky!
Pensive to our hidari-kanji-left! (Am I right?)

Wish us luck getting A+'s on the tests that we should be studying for!!
Just as a post note, the other day Greg said that finding a BC girl on the east coast was like finding a hill on the prairie. So, the chances of finding three BC girls on the east coast in the same house would be comparable to finding?? (I cant think of anything funny, can you?)

11.14.2006

Montreal

Oui-Allo?

Well, we went to Montreal for the concert last week! Amidst all of the homework and tests and the time that I should have been learning what a reflexive verb is for Spanish!

We had almost 2 days in all on a bus, so that was a bit excessive! And Im still discovering strange pains, busses and bus people are strange.


These are the binoculars that we bought to go and see him! (We were overtired and hungry in a huge "underground city!")

Bon Dylan was fairly amazing. In my mind he is this amazingly passionate man, who would espouse some maxim that would change my life, but instead he just played his music, which was still out of this world! He had beautiful accompaniment!


David "les filles, les filles" Aubut in Old Montreal!

Otherwise we did some pretty sweet touristy things, and some pretty sweet 'locals only' stuff. We ate poutine and Schwartz and made it out for beer and chocolate a couple of times.


Poutine with Marie-Pierre (Say it like a cheesy frenchman, its much prettier!)



Megan and Guy-Jill (The corniest french names combined for the best cat name ever!)

It was such a great time, and I cant ever do great things justice on the blog. Sigh, if only I could write my adventures like Blake!! Now, there is a master and a half!


Becks, as it turns out, you will appreciate this one! This is the wooden tower that he is speaking of!! This was one of the prime tourist stops for us all!
"And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
(Leonard Cohen, Suzanne)

11.06.2006

Random Lyrics

And you want to travel with her,
And you want to travel blind,
And you know that you can trust her,
Because she's touched your perfect body
With her mind.
-Leonard Cohen - Suzanne