Busy, busy, busy!

[lance_sibley]

You know you need to be more creative with LJ entry titles when a little box pops up with the exact phrase you were about to type in...

It's been a busy, but productive weekend. Friday night, I went to a small gathering to celebrate twiddler's 30th birthday. I didn't get to spend much time with the birthday boy himself, and I had to leave at midnight (which is probably when the real fun started, right guys? ;) ) in order to try to get some sleep as I was meeting with gurudata and rockgoddes Saturday morning. Not that I actually managed to get to sleep until about 4:30 in the morning, alas. :(

Said meeting was at the Metro Reference Library downtown; for non-Torontonians, it's a five-story library that takes up about half of a city block in the east-west direction, and a whole block north-south. I arrived first, but not knowing this I guzzled three-quarters of my coffee in about ten minutes (they used to let people bring drinks into the library, but no more - not that that stops people from bringing sealed bottles into the library in their backpacks, but it's hard to sneak a cup of coffee in when you don't have a travel mug) and went up to the fifth floor, where we were to meet. rockgoddes showed up about five minutes later, and we went back downstairs to wait for gurudata. After we waited for a few minutes, rockgoddes called him on his cell, and it turned out he was just turning onto the side street where the entrance to the parking garage is located.

We went back upstairs and worked for a couple of hours, then decided to go find some food. We ended up in the food court of the Hudson Bay Centre, which is undergoing a bit of an image change since the buyout of HBC by an American company. (They'd better not mess too much with it - it's even more of a Canadian icon than the Canadian Tire guy!) We continued to work there after lunch, until the fire alarm went off. We then made our way over to the food court in Cumberland Terrace, the mall across the street (where I once bumped into Randy Harrison from QAF, actually) and worked for a while longer. rockgoddes had to leave shortly before we were done, so gurudata and I finished and then went to meet kaelsu2, as she had also been invited to yellow_freshia's place along with us.

We stopped off first at gurudata's and kanecool's house to pick kanecool up, then went to Appleby's to grab a bite. As we were waiting for a table, who should walk by, but rosemary_ca and hi_co, on their way to yellow_freshia's...

Following dinner (I have gotten so unaccustomed to eating two meals in a day, I couldn't finish my chicken pasta alfredo), we made our way out to yellow_freshia's. A good time was had by all; lots of silliness, as should be expected. Apparently my explanation of why I wear sweat pants to bowl was deemed to be TMI. (Well, maybe it wasn't the explanation so much as the demonstration.) We also watched some of the Muppet Show on DVD; Candace Bergen's episode (my god, she looked young back then) and the unaired pilot - which, for the record, actually wasn't all that good. There was almost no Kermit, no Miss Piggy, and the main character appeared to be Sam the American Eagle. There were two or three amusing bits - they had a recurring bit where various muppets were ballroom dancing. In one bit, Bert from Sesame Street comes dancing into the shot. He says to his partner, "You look awfully familiar." The partner turns toward the camera - and it's Ernie in drag. ROFL!

We left around 3ish, I think it was. gurudata first dropped kaelsu2 off, then dropped me off, and then he and kanecool headed home. I shudder to think of what time they finally got to bed, since it had been a looooong day; even I went to bed within about 20 minutes of coming in the door! *shock* The sun wasn't even up yet! *bigger shock*

And naturally, I woke up around 9:45 this morning... then again at 11... then again at 12... and finally got up around 1:30. I went up the street to grab a coffee, then decided to try Future Shop (again!). I know they had said the other day that they would call when they found their copies of Doctor Who, but they had also said that I should be able to pick it up by Sunday. Since today was Sunday, I thought I'd go see if they had found it despite not having gotten a call. And lo and behold, there it was on the shelf. After a slight hiccup - they had it in the computer as $5 more than the sticker price, and when I pointed this out to the cashier I was told, "They must have put the wrong sticker on" (so how does that explain the price on the website matching the sticker price, huh?) - I now, FINALLY, only a month after it was released, have a copy of the Doctor Who box set. (That being said, last night someone at yellow_freshia's place said that Wal-Mart was selling it for less. If I can find an advertised lower price within the next month, Future Shop has to give me a further 10% off their competitor's price, but Wal-Mart doesn't even have it on their website, and there are no Wal-Marts anywhere near me anyway. :( )

I had a cybermeeting this evening with gurudata and rockgoddes to wrap up some stuff from yesterday, and now am all caught up and ready for tomorrow night's meeting.

Oh, and my thought on the demise of the Canadian Tire guy and his wife from the national ad campaign: last year, John Doyle (the Globe and Mail's TV critic) ran a poll to determine the Most Annoying Canadian. The Canadian Tire guy beat out the host of Canadian Idol handily. But now that the Canadian Tire guy is no more, we need to choose a new Most Annoying Canadian. My nomination goes to the cranky old woman from the cheese commercials... the one who bangs on people's door while they're trying to eat dinner with their adult children who still live at home and shrills, "Can't get your kids to leave home? STOP COOKING WITH CHEESE!"


"You Give Love a Bad Name" - Bon Jovi

An angel's smile is what you sell
You promise me heaven, then put me through hell
Chains of love got a hold on me
When passion's a prison, you can't break free
You're a loaded gun
There's nowhere to run
No one can save me
The damage is done


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I've been tagged for a couple of memes, but I'm going to have to put them off for a bit as they're the kind that require a lot of thought. Maybe later tonight, or maybe later in the week, I'll get around to them.

Comments

[ferrio.livejournal.com]

You think she's annoying on the TV spots? Try listening to the radio spots - they come up an awlful lot on 1010CFRB. In those she goes on past the tagline. UUGGGHHH!!!!!

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear.

Let's not, and say I did. ;)

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Andrew's vote is for Kandaharper, followed by Don Cherry. My vote is for whomever it was at the Sun who came up with the headline "Kandaharper." (Not really. Actually, I thought it was sort of amusing.)

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a fairly clever pun... the photo they chose to run was more annoying than the headline. It reminded me of GWB posing on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier...

I don't mind Don Cherry too much. Then again, I'm a hockey fan. ;)