I always feel bad for my brother around this time of year. Maybe it’s because I’m still plump from Christmas festivities. Or the fact that his birthday is at the end of this month. Or it could be all that winter Arctic darkness.
On second thought, it’s definitely just the weather that makes me sympathetic.
I noticed in Darryl’s MSN name today that he had written “I’ve never seen it this cold.” I knew that meant no dice. I checked the weather online; it got to be -58C today in Iqaluit. Feeling a little sympathetic yourself?
Environment Canada issued this cheery warning for the city’s residents:
“A bitterly cold Arctic airmass combined with winds of 30 km/h continue to produce extreme wind chill values between minus 50 and minus 55. No significant change is expected over the next 24 to 36 hours so these extreme wind chill values are expected to persist through Tuesday.
At these extreme wind chill values frostbite on exposed skin may occur in less than 5 minutes.”
Monday, January 07, 2008
Friday, January 04, 2008
I'm not the man with the megaphone.
THINGS OF LOVE FROM 2007 as stolen from Meg's blog (where love listing first originated from)!
Movie of Love:
Across the Universe
Song of Love:
Eric Whitacre’s A Picture (Temuna)
Book of Love:
Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M Joosse
Album of Love:
Timbaland’s Shock Value, just try and hate it.
Place of Love:
STEPHENVILLE. Hehe.
Month of Love:
Hmm, December. School ended. Christmas happened. Saw my grandparents and all other VIPs.
Best Day of Love:
August 2nd
Best Moment of Love:
Goodness, the single best moment? I can’t possibly name a single one.
Word of Love:
TURBO.
Purchase of Love:
Oh, hard one. Those vacuum bags! What a life saver.
City of Love:
I definitely think Iqaluit is the city people need to go to if they want to fall in love. Not that I did. But it is pretty impossible to stay single.
Food of Love:
Special K Red Berry. You were good to me. I ate you several times a day. And then I died.
Beverage of Love:
Orange and cantaloupe juice from the Have Java.
Person of Love (someone who made a difference for you this year):
Sheena! I can’t believe I only met her this year, it seems like I’ve known her forever.
Spot of Love (the best place to go to just be):
My bedroom! My books are here. My movies and music are here. My clothes are here. Clip-Clop is here. MY BED.
Clothing Item of Love:
My handmade purple scarf of course. :)
Random Thing of Love (anything you want):
Hugs!
Now that you've seen this GO DO IT. Post it on your blog. In the comments. Send her in an e-mail. I don't care, JUST SPREAD THAT '07 LOVE!
Movie of Love:
Across the Universe
Song of Love:
Eric Whitacre’s A Picture (Temuna)
Book of Love:
Mama, Do You Love Me? by Barbara M Joosse
Album of Love:
Timbaland’s Shock Value, just try and hate it.
Place of Love:
STEPHENVILLE. Hehe.
Month of Love:
Hmm, December. School ended. Christmas happened. Saw my grandparents and all other VIPs.
Best Day of Love:
August 2nd
Best Moment of Love:
Goodness, the single best moment? I can’t possibly name a single one.
Word of Love:
TURBO.
Purchase of Love:
Oh, hard one. Those vacuum bags! What a life saver.
City of Love:
I definitely think Iqaluit is the city people need to go to if they want to fall in love. Not that I did. But it is pretty impossible to stay single.
Food of Love:
Special K Red Berry. You were good to me. I ate you several times a day. And then I died.
Beverage of Love:
Orange and cantaloupe juice from the Have Java.
Person of Love (someone who made a difference for you this year):
Sheena! I can’t believe I only met her this year, it seems like I’ve known her forever.
Spot of Love (the best place to go to just be):
My bedroom! My books are here. My movies and music are here. My clothes are here. Clip-Clop is here. MY BED.
Clothing Item of Love:
My handmade purple scarf of course. :)
Random Thing of Love (anything you want):
Hugs!
Now that you've seen this GO DO IT. Post it on your blog. In the comments. Send her in an e-mail. I don't care, JUST SPREAD THAT '07 LOVE!
Come on bartender, just a little more tender.
I got a message yesterday from Dave who IS IN THE SAME CITY AS ME saying that we needed to hang out instantaneously.
Well duh.
I’m pretty sure I drove everyone absolutely nuts this year by commenting every four seconds that I either missed Dave or wished he was here to do whatever we were doing with us. Up until yesterday I hadn’t seen him since the day before I had left for Iqaluit IN APRIL, wtf? He left for British Columbia shortly after and then Uruguay.
So we agreed to meet at Second Cup (aw, S’ville love) for a coffee and loving. When I walked in I immediately saw Joey. And though I knew the guy sitting next to him was Dave, my brain did not compute.
Where was beatnik Dave?
Hippy Dave?
Dressed like a squeegee kid complete with a goatee Dave?
In his place was: MODEL DAVE. “What the hell,” I said while I gave him a giant hug “You’re hot now?” And of course in total old-school-Dave he cheerily replied “I’m a model now!”
He’s a model now.
I told him that I couldn’t believe his whole beatnik image was gone, in its place was a South American tan, hi-lighted hair and sassy clothes. “Do you remember my old hat?” Of course, THE HAT. “I’d still be wearing that if I hadn’t forgotten it in the police car.” Dave is full of stories like this, even more now than before.
We tried to catch up as fast as we could, but between both of our lives we had just too much to cover. So I went over to the boyz’ house tonight and we cooked some loving chicken/rice dish (can you tell I was invited?) to continue the happy chatter.
And of course model poses ensued.
Matt asked me to take a family photo of them. So I did.
Well duh.
I’m pretty sure I drove everyone absolutely nuts this year by commenting every four seconds that I either missed Dave or wished he was here to do whatever we were doing with us. Up until yesterday I hadn’t seen him since the day before I had left for Iqaluit IN APRIL, wtf? He left for British Columbia shortly after and then Uruguay.
So we agreed to meet at Second Cup (aw, S’ville love) for a coffee and loving. When I walked in I immediately saw Joey. And though I knew the guy sitting next to him was Dave, my brain did not compute.
Where was beatnik Dave?
Hippy Dave?
Dressed like a squeegee kid complete with a goatee Dave?
In his place was: MODEL DAVE. “What the hell,” I said while I gave him a giant hug “You’re hot now?” And of course in total old-school-Dave he cheerily replied “I’m a model now!”
He’s a model now.
I told him that I couldn’t believe his whole beatnik image was gone, in its place was a South American tan, hi-lighted hair and sassy clothes. “Do you remember my old hat?” Of course, THE HAT. “I’d still be wearing that if I hadn’t forgotten it in the police car.” Dave is full of stories like this, even more now than before.
We tried to catch up as fast as we could, but between both of our lives we had just too much to cover. So I went over to the boyz’ house tonight and we cooked some loving chicken/rice dish (can you tell I was invited?) to continue the happy chatter.
And of course model poses ensued.
Matt asked me to take a family photo of them. So I did.
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Come and see, fall to your knees.
One of the CDs I received for Christmas was Young Galaxy’s self-titled album. I had only heard a couple of their songs but I knew it would be an awesome album because they are on the Arts & Crafts label AND EVERY BAND SIGNED ON THAT LABEL IS GOLD.
Obviously I was not disappointed and another Canadian band made it to my roster of great music.
I’d tell you to go buy the album, but I doubt you’d find it in any store around here. I’d tell you to bitorrent it, but I tried and failed at that. I’d say iTunes it, but you guys have a hard time legally downloading music.
SO! Imagine my happiness when I looked at iTunes today and saw that their free download of the week was my absolute favourite song by Young Galaxy, Outside the City (which for the record, I totally played over and over again while I was leaving St. John’s like a noob, get it? Outside THE city).
It’s free. No excuses. Go download it.
Obviously I was not disappointed and another Canadian band made it to my roster of great music.
I’d tell you to go buy the album, but I doubt you’d find it in any store around here. I’d tell you to bitorrent it, but I tried and failed at that. I’d say iTunes it, but you guys have a hard time legally downloading music.
SO! Imagine my happiness when I looked at iTunes today and saw that their free download of the week was my absolute favourite song by Young Galaxy, Outside the City (which for the record, I totally played over and over again while I was leaving St. John’s like a noob, get it? Outside THE city).
It’s free. No excuses. Go download it.
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