Day One: Transformed

Note: The following mysteriously appeared on my blog. It appears to be a blog entry about Carmen’s holiday. I had absolutely nothing to do with it. It’s a mystery. A mystery dammit! And we just shouldn’t enquire any deeper into the matter.

—B

I awoke this morning (or more correctly, late last night) tired and a bit confused. What was I doing? Just what was this holiday thing?

Through all the fuzzy thoughts, only one thing was clear… I needed to blog my days off so all and sundry would be able to vicariously follow along. But how was to do that, how could I use technology and still be able to relax? They almost seemed antithetical concepts to me. Le sigh.

But after a stern talking to from Pete, I realized I must find a way. I must reach out with my massive mental power of persuasion and make it so. So, here we are… The Official C-Notes.

Today I awoke and ran in the wee hours. After a relaxing 30 minutes of worrying and fretting I wandered upstairs to try and explain to Pete that she might have to share a bit more in the coming weeks.

Later I tried to ignore the amusing email from Bruce, but it was too amusing so I gave in and responded. That set off a chain of thought that made me realize it was time to get out and about. So I out and abouted. HomeSense makes so much sense.

Upon my return I considered working on my unfinished magnum opus so I started to do laundry. After not putting away my lawn furniture I realized that the boxes in my garage weren’t flat yet. Later I plan to watch a bit of tv, but for now I will try to ignore the strange girl in my kitchen.

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I noticed the snow mysteriously disappeared from my back stoop. Stoop is an odd word. Squirrel!

And now it is night, or at least dark. Day One has gone so well except for those pesky emails; good thing I at least deleted my work account. wouldn’t want my boss to divert them or something.So maybe tomorrow or Monday I will meet Taryn at 8:20 and walk around the lake. The lake is round and thus it is a perfect shape for walking around.

All I know is I absolutely, positively will not be in bed by 6. Absolutely not. Oh wait… … sigh.

Dance dance (in his pants)

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Back at the Haar to see Brian Webb dance in Prairie Dance Circuit. First time I’ve seen him dance here in 35 years or so. Hopefully he won’t be naked this time…

It’s 5 short dances from artist across Canada. Brian’s is entitled 30% Gone and it’s about his heart attack last year and about home being 60 now. Which makes me feel pretty damn old too.

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Well it’s pretty good stuff and yes, Brian took his clothes off. Some things never change,

Howl at the moon?

Studio Theatre: Yellow Moon…

And I have the new iPhone. Let’s see how the pics go.

Flash off, HDR on…

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Not sure what the play is about, buy the set is pretty funky. Tonight is also Wonderland at the Ballet, a dance version of Alice in Wonderland. Akemi and Carmen are there.

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Stunning, stunning, stunning. Massive script, convincing delivery, left me awestruck. Literally. I wanted the audience to sit down, shut up
and let me absorb.

Bravo!

Overtired and underdressed

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Edmonton Opera’s Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci at the Jube. Two shorter operas. The first as your typical tragic ‘girl falls in love with a jerk, jerk gets stabbed’ story. Very sad. The second one has clowns… What can you say…