A friend at work sent me this last week:
Mike O'Connell – What's It Gonna Be?
Something someone sent me a while back, or I found randomly:
Casino Royale II
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Category: Movies
Yesterday was a detox day. Kelly and I got up around 11am, made cheese & red bell pepper omlettes (I added a bunch of jalapenos and hot sauce to mine, naturally), and sat around a bit before going out to my folks place for my Mum's birthday. Kelly prepared a delicious chicken parmesan dish (despite the fact she's vegetarian and couldn't eat it herself) for dinner, ate some cake, and then came home to watch Stranger Than Fiction, which was really good. I ate way too much, but felt all the better for it.
Tonight I met Snooks at Kennedy School after work for some beers and some manly/nerdy conversation about Battlestar Galactica, life, the universe, and everything. Kelly met us later as she headed home from a happy hour hang-out with her soon-to-be ex-coworkers. Fun evening. And yes Aaron, this is for you, since you made such a big deal about me not blogging over the weekend 🙂
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Shoes
Yesterday a coworker sent me a link to a funny video titled Shoes, by comedian Liam Sullivan. Thought I'd share it, and a couple of the other Liam Sullivan videos I found on YouTube, though you can download them from his site (even in iPod format) if you want to keep them around. Enjoy!
Shoes, Muffins, Hard-Hitting Questions, and Love Letters
Oh my gawd, shoes.
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Company party, and more sick?
The weather today was fantastic (60 degrees and sunny) so I finally spent some time in the yard, doing some much needed pruning of the roses. Lots more to do, but at least I've made some headway.
Tonight my place of employment threw a big party at a downtown club called Aura, to both celebrate the launch of all the new products, as well as to celebrate the company's 6th anniversary. Happy news all around. I've been recovering from my cold, and felt pretty well ready to party the night away. The company provided taxi vouchers so Kelly and I could be safe and have a paid ride to the party and back. Excellent.
For the party, the company rented out Aura for a few hours, where we would have food and drink provided. Kelly and I arrived shortly after 7pm and were halted at the door "this is a private party" … to which I replied "yeah, I work there"… I think the girl at the door wasn't quite sure how to ask "are you with the private party?" SuperSweetCo should have provided employees with a password or super secret handshake or something. Oh well. The place itself was pretty "hip", with lots of modern stylings. The music was blippy and loud, the lighting was low with bright, focused lights and trippy video displayed on a large screen dividing the space in two, a seating towards the front and a dance area towards the back. Pretty interesting spot, though nothing I'd likely go to normally.
Kelly and I got a couple drinks (bottle of Guinness for me, blueberry martini for Kelly) and wandered towards the back where all the food was set up. They had many of the things on their menu out on a few tables, and Kelly and I snacked a bit. I tried their mini chicken burger, and both their beef and chicken skewers while Kelly had their gigantic prawns with cocktail sauce. Spent a bit of time chatting with coworkers and then suddenly started not feeling so well. "Great" I thought, while I tried to ignore it, continue hanging out, and having another 2 beers (an Amstel Light and another Guinness). Finally, at around 9:15pm my stomach wasn't feeling well at all, and Kelly and I left. I was very bummed, because the party was really just getting going when we left.
We got home just after 10pm, and Kelly and I took to the sofa and watched some TV (a NetFlix disc we'd recently received, Black Books, a hilarious British comedy) where I found myself freezing cold. I went to bed at around 11pm, shivering violently until I fell asleep. I woke up today (sunday) feeling mostly fine, but still taking it easy. Not sure what happened, perhaps it was the food, but either way, I'm none too pleased.
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Tolkien Day at Kennedy School
Tonight McMenamins Kennedy School held their annual Tolkien birthday bash, in celebration of the famous author's birthday (which was technically January 3rd). It's an all day event (from 11am to 7pm), with food specials (like Shire Stew, and My Precious Onion Rings), readings from Tolkien's work, people dressed in costume, and the theater playing all three Lord of the Rings films back to back. Because of my poor memory, if it wasn't for the email I'd gotten from Snooks I'd have forgotten about it completely (I'd forgotten to add it to my calendar, oops). Kelly was in school all day, and I had some errands to run, but I met Snooks and L there around 4:30pm, grabbed a beer, and then went exploring. The hallways contained a number of people dressed in costume, including a very impressive Ring Wraith and a girl in a beautiful Elven costume. I also wandered into the theater (which I'd never been into before) and caught about 5 minutes of Two Towers. Most of my time was spent hanging out in the Cypress Room with Snooks and L (and later Kelly, once she finished with her day of classes for school), learning to play rummy (and kicking ass for the few hands I played, heh). Fun evening. Had I showed up early enough I'd have loved to seen all three movies in the theater, but as it was, it was just fun hanging out, soaking in the Tolkien-esque atmosphere.