Go! Tickets

Haven't heard anything more from the CBC producer I talked to the other day, but I just checked the Go! website and they have a show location and time:

Refinery Arts and Spirit Centre (I believe this is near 12th St. and Lansdowne)
Thurs. Oct. 11/07 7:00-8:30 pm
Free tickets are available through the show's website ticket order form: http://www.cbc.ca/go/tickets.html

The show airs on CBC1 at 10:00 am Sat. Oct. 13. It's a fun show to listen to and I'm looking forward to being involved in a live show. I'll be teaching a dance class downtown at 9:00 so I won't be able to hang out after. :-( Could be a really fun dance class if I'm still full of adrenaline!

Complete Strangers

Well, this morning I was contacted by 2 complete strangers.

Stranger 1: A female bisexual Saskatonian poked me on Facebook. I felt really odd about that, but just ignored the poke.

Stranger 2: A producer from the CBC Radio show Go! e-mailed me about being part of a geocaching-oriented competition when they record a show here in October!! I'm so excited!!! I'll keep the details posted as I find out more. You can request free tickets at their website. I'm still trying to figure out how they got my e-mail address...

On the Web again!

On the weekend my dance troupe did some advertising at a bridal show. A blogger from the StarPhoenix mentioned us on her blog (nice photo too). You can see it for yourself at: Wedded Diss

New Zealand's 4th Most Popular Folk Parody Duo

I have to thank Mike for introducing me to Flight of the Conchords, a very funny duo from New Zealand. They write hilarious lyrics and have genius comedic timing. Here are some my favourite clips of them:

Business Time

Albi the Racist Dragon

Jenny

I'm on YouTube!

Here's a video where I'm one of the people dancing in the basement of the Refinery this spring. I think it was posted by a friend of a fellow dancer...

The Clip

If you were a Jane Austen Character, who would you be....

It says I'm Elinor Dashwood, but my score for her tied with that of Elizabeth Bennett.

You scored as Elinor Dashwood, As Marianne's older sister, Elinor lives at the other end of the emotional spectrum. She rarely reveals her intense feelings and is more concerned with being honest and loyal than having what she deserves. Even though her intentions are pure, she sets herself up for loss by constantly placing other people before her own needs. Overall, Elinor is gentle and rational but is just as capable of radical emotions (despite her withholding them) as her sister. Elizabeth Bennet 69% Elinor Dashwood 69% Emma Woodhouse 66% Jane Bennet 59% Charlotte Lucas 59% Marianne Dashwood 47% Lady Catherine 38% Which Jane Austen Character are You? (For Females) Long Quiz!!! created with QuizFarm.com

The New Wheels

In early May Jay and I made a trip out to Star City, a little town between Melfort and Tisdale, to purchase an '86 Honda Civic sedan. A few months previously we had purchased an '84 Civic hatchback to fix up. The two previous owners were all friends of ours, so we knew this car as Agatha. However, there would have been a lot of repairs to the interior required to make Agatha comfortable to drive, and Jay thought it would be cheaper just to buy this other car and put Agatha's engine in instead. So that's what we did. Here is the report on the progress of the new car over the last couple of months:


1. So I mentioned that we went to Star City to get the car, but I didn't mention that none of Jay's trucks are fully assembled or plated. This meant towing it with Jay's Civic as I sat in the new car and steered! It actually went pretty well - the tow rope busted once, but other than that it was quite uneventful. Since there wasn't a battery in the car the radio didn't work, so I had lots of time to think about things. While I was steering I thought of naming the new car Goldie. Only later did Jay point out that it was Goldie Honda!


2. Here is where the transplantation happened - putting the heart of Agatha (i.e. the engine) into the body of Goldie. Those are my feet you can see below Goldie's driver's door. There was so much dust in the car from all the gravel roads it had driven on! It has been vacuumed several times and still smells of it. I must get the interior shampooed soon!




3. Here's Goldie with her new guts, but missing a windshield. The old one was super cracked up, and Jay got a great deal on a new one. Then we installed it ourselves!






4. This is the driver's side back door well. Both rear door wells had large rusted out holes in them, so Jay had to weld in new metal then cover it over in fibreglass and bondo. He did a great job.






5. Here she is, body work finished, ready for painting.








6. Driver's side all painted!












7. My hero, hard at work. (I taped on all that paper...)











8. Ta daa! All done and ready to roll! We've done a little tinkering since then. We had to put in a new ignition switch - which was good because now the car doesn't backfire anymore. And Jay installed a double 12-volt power outlet, because the car didn't have one and I need it for my GPS receiver!

New Endings, New Beginnings

It's pretty much all over now. It's been about nine years since I decided I wanted to become a physical therapist. Now I'm pretty much there! On June 5th I received my degree. We celebrated our grad on the 9th, and today we completed the clinical component of the Physiotherapy Competency Exam. This exam is the culmination of all my learning and clinical experience. And it cost $1100 just to have the priviledge of doing it. I did awful at a few stations, I'm sure, but I was so happy to have a station that I did really well at to finish off the whole 5 hour exam. Yes, 5 hours of quickly reading questions, then rushing into examination rooms to complete the assigned tasks in 5 or 10 minutes.... My brain still feels petrified from the experience, but at least it's over. Now I just have to wait for the results! It could be up to 12 weeks before I find out... which totally sucks.

I just have a few more things to do before it's officially official that I'm a physical therapist: get my license or temporary license (paperwork, application fees, malpractice insurance, blah blah blah), find out that I passed my exam, and get a job! Whew!

My caches

So I don't know if anyone bothers looking at the little profile button I have on the right hand side of the screen here, but if you do then you will have noticed that I have been on a caching frenzy over the last few weeks. I now have 115 finds!

Last night I hid my first caches in Saskatoon. Both were containers that I won for finding other caches. They were published this morning and have already been found! I'm pretty excited. I have plans for two other caches, both which will be placed outside of Saskatoon. One of them is ready to go and just needs to be planted. The other I need to retry getting my items together - had a bit of a glitch when I was trying it out before. I also have one or two more containers that I'm currently accumulating trade items for, but no plans yet on where to hide them. We'll see how long it takes me to get these ones going.

Movie trivia help please

I haven't seen either of these movies and couldn't find the answers online. Please give me a hand with these last two questions:

1. In 'Men With Brooms', what animals did they have to clear off of the road?
   *Cows
   *Deer
   *Beavers
   *Bears

2. L. In 'Napoleon Dynomite', what does Napoleon toss out of the school bus window?
   *toy wrestler
   *his glasses
   *Pedro's lunch
   *a cake

For the last question I suspect the answer is a toy wrestler.

How white and nerdy I am...

I'm surprised I'm not more nerdy... take that Cory!!! ;-)


How White and Nerdy Are You?

Lebanese Belly Dancer

I found some cool belly dancing videos on youtube tonight, and since Debbie wants to be able to find them again I'll put them here!

The first ones are of Rindala doing a really amazing routine. It takes 3 videos to see the whole thing (for some amazing back bend moves see the 3rd one) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0SFcIfdz7w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ubj_hjLdVc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqbv_gFkDTQ

Lebanese belly dance has a bit of a reputation for being experimentative... and a little out there at times.

Here's another lovely Lebanese dancer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBncb92rz70

Facebook

I can now be found on Facebook.


That is all.

International Travel

1. Go to google.com
2. Click on Maps
3. Click on "Get directions"
4. From New York
5. To Paris
6. Read line # 23.

Easter Weekend Doings

I was fortunate enough to have a 4-day weekend for Easter, so I took advantage of the situation for an outing to Edmonton.

On Friday I drove there with Debbie's friend Brian. He provided interesting conversation and I drove. We stopped in Grande Prairie for an hour: Starbucks, unsuccessful hunt for a geocache, then grabbed some grub for the road. Next stop was in Whitecourt for gas. That was the second full serve Petrocan station I've found since I got my discount credit card for that company. First one was earlier in the morning in Dawson Creek. (While the guy pumped my gas and washed my windows, I checked the oil... Guess I wanted to show off I wasn't dependent on full service!) Anyway, the next stop was Edmonton to find Brian's hotel downtown. No problems there. Then I drove off to Fort Saskatchewan to the hotel where Jay and I stayed. The GPS receiver sent me down the first street that would get me to Fort Sask from Edmonton. It wasn't the way I had intended to go, but I got to see an LRT station so if Jay and I stay in the same place in June we'll be able to avoid crazy parking for The Police concert. Anyway, I made it to the hotel without problem. Jay wasn't in town yet, so I went off to buy a few things to put in the fridge in our suite. Then when I came back he called me on my cell phone. I met him over at his sister's apartment and we visited with her and his nephews for a while as they decorated Easter eggs. Then we returned to the hotel room and . . . watched TV . . . all night . . . honest . . .

The next morning we 'rested' some more. We spent pretty much the rest of the day at West Edmonton Mall. It was the first time I had been there in about 21 years. Man, I still can't believe I spent nearly 9 hours there! Jay and I wandered around, I did a little shopping, we watched kids at the petting zoo, we watched the sea lion show, I did a little more shopping, we went to Booster Juice, then we met up with Brandi and Michael to go mini-golfing. It was fun to hang out with them again! After the game we went to their place and played on their Wii for a while. It was cool to play video games standing up and moving around! Eventually it got late and we went back to the hotel where I crashed pretty much immediately.

On Sunday we slept in a little, ate breakfast in the lobby, cuddled a bit, checked out then we went to Sobey's to visit Jay's sister and I bought a few groceries. We had a prolonged good-bye in the parking lot and then I was off on the road again. I left Fort Sask around noon and made it to Dawson Creek about 10 hours later. It is not a 10 hour drive, but I decided to geocache on the way! I found 6 caches, drove by 2 others without trying because of deep snow, and couldn't find 3 more. Those 3 were in Grande Prairie, making me 1/5 tries at caching there. It just doesn't seem to be my town. One of the caches I found was an infamous lampost skirt cache (although technically this was a flagpole skirt cache). Some posts have a part around the base that can slide up, so people have been known to place small caches inside of them. People who have been geocaching a long time tend to hate these, feeling like people who placed the cache there have no imagination because they've seen so many. It was okay for me though... only my first one. I guess they tend to be all over larger urban centres in the States. Anyway, I made it home safe and tired.

Monday I did basically nothing but hang out on the computer logging my geocache finds and planning for more geocaching! No wait, I watched a movie too!