Remember how I mentioned in my last post feeling like I'd been donkey punched? Well, turns out I might have been. I mean,
something happened, because the stabbing pain turns out to be a bruised or cracked rib, and it hurts like fucking hell. It managed to put a bit of a damper on an otherwise wonderful weekend. Seriously, After the week I had I
needed to have a good weekend, or I was gonna lose it.
Things started out a little slow, I was still feeling like ass on Friday night so unfortunately I had to decline an invite from Mike B to hang out and watch a movie. I was bummed that I had to beg off, but I still had a lot of catching up to do in the rest department.
We had company coming over on Saturday night so the early part of that day was spent on cleanup, grocery shopping, and the dismantling of the Christmas Tree/Decorations. It was kind of sad. Our little tree had become quite the fixture in the living room, but unfortunately, adoption was not an option as the little fella was becoming more flammable with each passing day. We were making good time on getting things ready, or so we thought. We walked the tree over to the park, where they had the recycling dealio going, dawdling a bit, because it was a beautiful day and it's such a nice park, and in the 30-40 minutes we were gone Roo decided to pull the large curtain rod off of the wall, bringing the heavy draperies and curtain rod crashing down. So we came home to quite a mess (And a freaked out dog) We were lucky the curtains didn't catch fire because they came to rest on a lamp and were already super hot by the time we got home, I can't imagine if that had happened while we were at work. We'd have a burned down house and barbecued dogs.
So we've got the clock ticking on company arriving, I'm already in lots of pain, and now I've gotta fight with a curtain rod that weighs a ton, trying to re-attach it to the wall, where it was mounted in such a half assed fashion to begin with by the previous owners of the house (Thanks a million!) Believe me when I tell you, the last thing you want to be doing when your ribs are fucked up is reaching over your head to screw in these dainty little pussy allen screws, especially when half of the hardware is missing and you're thinking the things is barely strong enough to support the heavy drapery even when all the parts are there. I developed a severe case of temporary Tourette's Syndrome for a while there, cursing Roo, cursing the curtain rod, cursing my ribs, and cursing Dick Cheney while I was at it (For good measure)
I did manage to get the damn thing re-attached to the wall and get myself bathed before our company arrived. Elizabeth, a Canadian expat, and Christie were joining us for spaghetti dinner and Hockey Night In Canada. Elizabeth, who hails from Edmonton hasn't seen a HNIC broadcast in a long time due to her cable situation and last year's lockout, so I invited her over to watch her precious oilers get beaten by the The Maple Leafs (Though I think I phrased the invitiation more diplomatically) Christie also joined us, which made for a nice get together for everybody. The only downside is poor Elizabeth had to listen to me blathering on and on about whatever random subject popped into my head while we watched the game. DC and Christie were off talking in the next room for much of the game, so Elizabeth was a captive audience. Poor thing. Get a few Canadian beers in me and I'm going off about the state of the world and the evil nature of Beagles before you know it. Despite my babbling, everyone appeared to have a great time, and the party didn't break up until around 1 in the morning ...
Since we'd gotten so much accomplished on Saturday, DC & I spent the rest of the weekend in full-on relaxation mode, which is the perfect way to spend a Sunday.
AZ Mike sent me a piece of music to work on, and I'm pretty excited. It's a nice piece of music, so I should be able to do something with it..I'm hoping that we can recapture some of the success we've had with past collaborations, and with todays technology, Geography is no longer an impedance, we can just send mp3 files back and forth via e-mail. We never sat down in the same room and wrote anyways, he's always been the music/hook guy and he's put the tune down on tape and pass it off to me for lyrics and arrangement, etc ... Usually we'd get it hammered out in 2-3 exchanges and voila, a song is born ..Some of our best stuff has been done that way, most notably
Privilege of Youth, World Won't Change and
Firecracker. I'm doing a similar style of collaboration with Brandon from
All Right Tokyo as well and hopefully something good will come of it. Even if it doesn't though, it's good to be working two of my good friends again anyways. I'm also tryign to get together with Mike B again to work on some of his heavier prog rock/metal stuff, I totally suck at playing it, but it sure is fun !
Shuffle mode's first 5 of the day:
"What I Deserve" Kelly Willis
"A Slow Divorce" Boo Hewerdine
"Miami" Counting Crows
"Eastern Bloc" Thomas Dolby (The excellent sequel to "Europa And The Pirate Twins")
"Private Conversation" Lyle Lovett
And finally, as if I don't plug
All Right Tokyo enough, here is a picture of me in a very hip and fashionable
All Right Tokyo T-Shirt. Makes you wanna buy one doesn't it ? And why buy only one, when you could buy two and give one as a gift ??
While you're at it, buy their CD, it's excellent (Do I get a free one for saying that Brandon?)
PS: I actually had a good week in Fantasy Hockey, I smoked my opponent 9-1. Take that, Ice Stooges, YOU SUCK !!!
