July 19th 2010 - Jack Johnson "To the Sea" tour!

Yesterday, I finally managed to head over to Sunrise and pick up two tickets for Jack Johnson's "To the Sea" tour. This year the concert is being held at The Molson Amphitheater in Toronto. When I saw his "In between Dreams" tour it was held there and it was amazing, however I really dug the "Sleep through the static" tour venue in Oro when it was a "green tour", it was six hours in a sunny field and being under a canopy of stars while he played gave it an even better vibe. Although, I can imagine the reason it is NOT being held there this year probably has something to do with the single lane dirt road to get out of the venue - as it took a solid three hours to get out of the parking lot.
No matter where he plays I know it will be a fantastic show, I am really looking forward to it!
The plan right now is to hit up Burlington on the Saturday and Sunday prior, checking out some new places to live and taking Chirssy's kids to Wonderland, then on the Monday night, hitting up the Concert! SO EXCITED!

Pour Vous mademoiselle Conroy

This is for Jenny. I saw it and remembered how much you love rubber ducks! (maybe all ducks? not just the rubber ones). I totally forgot about that fact about you, until I saw this picture. I said I would tumblr it, but since I now have followers that are not you and Colin, and I don't remember where I got this, I don't want to get internet yelled at for not crediting it, so blogger it is! Enjoy.

Even Fairy Tale Characters Would be Jealous

After our date night on Friday the weekend continued to be pretty fun filled!
Saturday we trekked on over to Coco and had a giggle fest with Kuba as Colin got his hair trimmed, then swung by Starbucks for a quick breakfast before traveling down to White Oaks. Made a sufficient amount of jokes about the scary people on the bus, teen drinking and being shanked, just in time to arrive at Olivia's 2nd Birthday party!
The moment she opened her present, made spending an hour in build a bear stressing over ever detail totally worth it!
After the party we hit up White Oaks mall for a quick shopping date, then met up with Darcy! Colin hit up some Saturday Baseball, while I stayed home and dyed my hair a few shades darker. ( I know, super exciting! ha ha)

After Baseball we decided to head to Winks for some drinks, met up with Krystal, Jackie and Ellerby for some singing (more like singyelling) and drinking fun times!
Sunday we slept till nearly 1pm, then spent the day eating pancakes and watching movies!

Already looking forward to this Saturday, we are going to Yuk Yuks. We already checked out the comedians and they actually seem awesome!

In other news we have made solid plans to head up to my parents for the May long weekend, which I am totally thrilled about.

We ARE the Triplehorns.

Friday night, we decided to have a date night. Western was having an open house at their observatory.
The open house started out with a slide show and sort of lecture about the popular misconseptions associated with astronomy, I went in thinking it might be a little dull, but the lecture turned out to be very interesting, and I learned some pretty neat facts (yeah, I said neat, and now you love me more for it.)
After the lecture we were invited up to the observatory patio to view various telescopes directed at the moon. But the best part of the evening was using the GIANT telescope inside the observatory to view Saturn. It also added to the ambiance of the evening that the professor that showed us Saturn was EXACTLY like Christopher Walken circa "Back to the future" give or take 50 pounds. (More give than take, so maybe not exactly ha ha.)
After our sweet evening of viewing the stars, we headed to Prince Al's for some greasy diner food and strawberry milkshakes!
Definitely a wonderful date night!

As we sway, the music is playing our notes

I said I wouldn't write posts simply outlining my weekend, but who really thought that was going to happen?
I will try to do a quick run down, instead of outlining every moment in exquisite detail ha ha.

Friday: As I mentioned was the Bad Ideas show. Tina, Jenny, Jen and Leslie met us at Call the Office and together we rocked out to a pretty kick ass performance. I thoroughly enjoyed cameo singing performances from Nick, and the cover of "Run Around Sue"
Weird side note, Jenny went to High school with Alex - the lead singer.
Saturday: Took in some fine Saturday shopping, checked out some new beds and did some questioning as to why we keep coming to the mall on Saturdays. Went to see CHLOE at Silvercity, it was not nearly as good as we were expecting. Since we had taken a mid day nap for about three hours, we were wide awake and starving at 1am and ordered in some PIZZA!
Sunday: Finally got to have a nice long sleep in together. Headed out to Smitty's for brunch and met up with Darcy for some more bed hunting and grocery shopping. Hit up the laundry mat, and came home to relax and prepare for another long week.

Once again, another spectacular weekend with my favorite person on the planet.

Dirty Little Looks

So excited for this evening! Tonight is The Bad Idea's CD release party at Call the Office! I feel like we have waited forever and ever for them to finally release this album. Well a year and one month minus a day ha ha. Part of the reason we love this band, aside from the fact that they are awesome, is that we saw them play for the very first time, on our very first date. Our very first date happened to be St. Patrick's day 2009 - We went to Black Shire and sipped on White Russians while bobbing to the sweet tunes of our soon to be favorite band, (well, favorite local band anyway). Tonight they play on our 1.1 anniversary, which is one year and one month - oh yes, you can expect me to count each month.
I am also pretty pumped that Tina, Leslie and Jenny are going to come out with us tonight!

The album is called "Dirty Little Looks" and as always I suggest you check it out!

THE BAD IDEAS

The art of language

I had my first ASL class tonight and it was INCREDIBLE! There are not enough words in the English language, or any language for that matter to describe how great it was.
One of the best parts of this class, is that my teacher, is actually deaf. From the moment class started, he started to immerse us in sign language, and when the only choice is to figure out what he is signing, you learn, and you learn fast. I mean of course he is incredibly patient and an excellent teacher, he didn't just walk in acting like we should be able to just catch on or anything, his methods are pretty great, not to mention his sense of humor makes everything feel a lot easier and more comfortable.
However, if we struggle or there is a lot that needs to be said, we have to result to spelling out the words we don't know (signing of course) SOMETIMES, it needs to be brought to the board and actually written out, it is pretty amazing, to basically have no talking in the class and be totally over taken by the art of the language itself. I am so excited for next week, I wish that I could go every single day. Really I wish I knew someone else that signed, I am going to have to use my free time to find a hearing impaired friend, which I am sure I could if I looked hard enough on Kijji I could ha ha.

They stabbed a Chicken McNugget with a Sharpie...These are not good people!

Also for those of you that have not checked out my tumblr blog, or just prefer not to, here is my new hair! For those of you that want to also see my other blog click here

Present day? Any time of day.

Smoothies are delicious and nutritious!

When we went grocery shopping this weekend, we were determined to work in some healthy food, and decided to make smoothies a way to cram in some fruit and even a vegetable!
A VEGETABLE!?! You ask...how is this even possible?
Well my little blogger friends, I will tell you. I recently read that putting spinach in your fruit smoothie was an excellent way to add a vegetable into your diet, and the best part (for Colin) is that you can't even taste it, so long as you add a banana to the blend.
At the store, we had trouble distinguishing the spinach from other leafy greens, BUT we were able to find it in frozen form - it comes in a bag like the mixed frozen berries, the spinach is even portioned into cubes for easy use!
Side note spinach i s also a wonderful vegetable option because it is so high in iron - especially for the ladies, as we are always running short on iron for some reason. ANYWAY, we tried this out, and created a very healthy vitamin, antioxidant and other good stuff rich smoothie! Here is the recipe we are using currently

1 whole tray of ice cubes
1/2 cup orange juice (we use the kind with vitamin D and Calcium added)
1/4 cup (ish) of mixed frozen berries
1 cup nonfat yogurt (we like the blueberry pomegranate option, more antioxidants this way!)
1 banana
1 cube of frozen spinach

Blend

Ta-Da a yummy smoothie - this recipe makes two very large servings!

This is just our first shot at smoothie making, I am sure we will find other ways to sneak in some other healthy things that we don't usually get in our regular diet.

Sex Part Deux

I know I am a giant wiener and I promised myself I wouldn't even WANT to see this unnecessary squeal, I don't even LIKE squeals, but the trailer is just so shiny and pretty, and I have to admit, I want to see it. I am going to see it. In fact I am excited to see it. In fact I can't WAIT to see it.

Ugh! I am such a huge nerd. Don't judge me out there in blogger reader world. We all have vices, and this just happens to be one of mine, that and I am judging myself enough for all of you.

Thoughts of a Plan-o-holic

In other news, I have another blog - because I am just THAT nerdy.
Anyway, feel free to follow it. This blog is mostly random posts of pictures, quotes and links and less talky talk.

Enjoy!

Thoughts of a Plan-o-holic

Jenny, I stole this from your Tumblr

Because it is so radtastically awesome, and makes me happy. As radtastically awesome things generally do.

I like to move it move it

Back in the work out saddle again!
I thought it would probably be good for my mind and body to get physical again..."let's get physical, physical...." alright I digress, like I said I wanted to get back in the gym, not for any weight loss reasons, I am actually pretty satisfied with that area of things, but I want to be healthy and not a fat kid in a skinny body, SO I started back yesterday and did the most insane work out of my life - alright that is a lie, however I was surprised, that an aqua fit class could actually be beneficial, and for more than just rounding out my social circle with some elderly adds. I am probably going to try to work in an aqua fit at least once a week along with some other classes that are a little more intense as well as a lot more hot yoga.

ABC... easy as... 123...or simple as...Do re mi

As of yesterday, I am officially headed back to school!
By fluke Colin brought a Fanshawe course calendar for the spring home on Tuesday evening and there it was, the beginning of my future just waiting for me to accept it. So that is precisely what I did. The next morning I went straight to the registrars office and signed up for the first American Sign Language class (of many) that I will be required to take on my journey to becoming a interpreter for the deaf and hearing impaired. I head back to school starting April 15!

Sugar Pie Honey Bunch...

On Tuesday I went to the spa and had my eyebrows waxed, during this treatment, the very blunt, esthetician informed me, in her exact words: "You dry skin! You need exfoliate more!"
At first I was a little offended, then I realized being offended would be silly, because on that particular day, I did in fact have dry skin. Fortunately for me, she did not stop there, she proceeded to give me a recipe for a homemade scrub, she swore it was the very best and also very inexpensive - she shared this recipe with me, and now I will share it with you, blogger world, because I believe, sharing is caring!

Face and Body scrub:

1 tablespoon white sugar

3 tablespoons honey (more or less, it is up to you)

a few drops of water (just to make it easier to mix)

Mix together with a spoon. The consistency will be fairly thick. Rub this on your damp face and massage in small circles, leave on for about 15 minutes (this is where the thickness is handy.) Rinse off, then wash your face as you normally would.

I did not attempt this full procedure on my body - only because I didn't want to have to stand covered in goop for 15 minutes, I just applied it in the shower and rinsed off.

Volia homemade scrub = an incredibly smooth you!

This recipe really didn't take a lot of convincing, since I use a similar leg scrub in the bath after working out to sooth acing muscles only replacing the sugar with sea salt and water with olive oil Anyway, I tried this yesterday and it is by far the very best scrub I have ever come into contact with, give it a try!