Pride Parade

So Jennifer, Dawn and myself went to the Gay Pride Parade in Toronto this past weekend. I really enjoy it as i find that almost everyone is rather happy and in party mode so it's always good times. Well i suppose everyone except for the one lone redneck protestor. You can check out Jennifer's blog for a photo.

Other than that Dawn and I attended the NIN concert and as per usual we were sitting beside strange people. The two guys beside me were special. One had long long hair in a ponytail and his friend had a mustache. Mustache man insisted on playing air guitar and smashing the back of the seat infront of him to make noise repeatedly. As well, he would do this semi head bang thing but it looked as though he had just gone swimming and was trying to get the water out of his ear. He also had this habit of tapping Dawn or I and giving us the thumbs up and asking if everything was good. Weirdo.

After the concert we went to Jennifer's bf Cottilian party and drank our faces off. We also had the pleasure of watching her neighbour pleasure hehe himself. The blinds were mostly closed, but we got a view of the whole hard enchilada and the hand that was stroking it. Mind you this is the same neighbour that we witnessed having sex with the blinds open and the lights on at her bf's last party. I can't decide if it's he who is the pervert for leaving the blinds open or us because we watch.

No Tailgating LOL

So i'm driving to work through the city today and there is a man infront of me in a small station wagon. We're at a light and all of a sudden his body is hanging out his window and he's yelling something to me. I hang my head out my window and say "pardon", he continues to yell something at me and i can't hear a word he's saying. So i'm like "i can't hear you".....he leans out further, his whole torso is out of the car and he tells me that i'm "following way too close, stop tailgating me!!" He's rather polite about the whole thing while yelling the entire time. I find it all rather amusing as i'm shocked and have no idea what he's talking about, so I smirk, stick my head back in the car and roll my window up.

Big Ben's bad driving must be rubbing off on me LOL.

On a lighter note, great weekend ahead NIN concert, Aaron's Cotillian and Pride festivities. Can't wait!!!

Bridezilla

Woo Hoo it's over. So i wore a strapless tight top with boning infront of 300 some odd people and lived. It really wasn't that bad, and Melissa decided to take a few pics of my back, just to show me that "really it wasn't that bad" as i gave her the evil eye in the Church. So the Bride was 45 mins late for the ceremony, no real reason other than we were late getting our hair finished and the make up lady had too many of us to do in that length of time. I however did get asked countless times "what happened, why were you guys so late?" I guess some people thought she was debating about the ceremony, nope, we were just being typical girls.

It was hot as hell on Saturday, 34 degrees or so. I would know, the one limo broke down and somehow i ended up waiting with the men for the new car to arrive. We barely had enough time to complete the pictures and off we went to the reception. I had a great time, lots to drink, lots of dancing, good friends around it was fun. Not so sure the bride had as much fun however. Here's a small list of things that pissed her off.

1)The limo breaking down.

2)As soon as she walked into the hall she started bitching about the flower arrangements and how she did not pay all that money for this shit. (We continued to hear about the horrible flowers all evening)

3)A fire alarm somehow went off and we were all asked to leave the building. I thought it was hilarious and unique and there was really not much you can do about such a thing, excpet to take photos with the hot firemen. The bride cried and declared "can anything else go wrong?"

4)Oh yes it can. Her cake was apparently nothing like the one she had ordered. Then, in the middle of the evening the cake cracked in half and started to melt into a big pile. I didn't see it but was told they had people with towels trying to steady it and hold it up while they wheeled it out. I told the bride, people were just going to eat it anyway, and she had already cut it.

5)During the speeches she did not speak. People chanted her name as they wanted her to say something. She stood behind us, crying and yelled that now she looked like an asshole, told her new husband she was going to fucking kill him or something along those lines as she thought it was his fault and then proceeded to take the mic and say a quick thank you.

I really can't wait to see the video of this wonderful evening. All the smiles and love that goes along with such a special day LOL.

Blah blah blah

Unfortunately i have nothing interesting to post at this moment. It's been very busy trying to get ready for this wedding that i am in on Saturday. I've been on this insane quest for Spanx and i'm sure Jennifer was ready to kill me these past few days with my million emails regarding the Spanx and where i could get them, as they do not seem to exist in the city i live in. I even asked her to go and buy me a pair and i was willing to drive the hour to go and get them from her. She agreed, cause she's wonderful, however at the last minute i found one bloody store that not only carried them, but would let me try them on with my dress before i purchased them. (Spanx by the way are this wonderful creation built to suck in and smooth your body fat)

So most of my week has been spent at work calling stores and inquiring about their non selection of Spanx, leaving work early to go to a hair appointment and the wedding rehearsal and to get a maincure and pedicure, all the girly shit. I realized on Tuesday that i had not been tanning yet..i always forget. So i went Tuesday and Wednesday and so now of course i am burnt on my back and chest. Not sure if i should risk it tomorrow and look like a tomato on Saturday. I suppose the redness may take away from my back fat protruding and spilling over my top :P

Oh and on a wonderful, yay for me note, i got the job!!!! I now finally at 28 years of age have a full time permanent position that i love, WOO HOO!!! Now comes the decision making about moving as i hate the commute, it's far too long for me, I'm not a fan of leaving at 7:30am to get to work. However my co-worker just went looking for apartments and she had quite the stories. One landlord met her and her parents with his shirt wide open, big belly hanging out, smoking a ciggy, and told them stories of how he used to beat up the tenants and how it would be great to have a female around as the building is only full of men. She also saw an apartment with many many cats which quel surprise reeked of cat piss amoung other things and had piles of shit in the corner. Wish me luck LOL

Awkward Men

Why is it that when a bunch of us go out.....never seems to fail there is someone lurking around us, generally an unattractive/old yucky man with a number of horrible qualities that i shall not care to list at this time as there are too many to choose from. Let me just describe the 3 from this past week.

1) I am out with a male and a female friend chatting, having a drink when all of a sudden i hear a whisper in my ear. "you are the most beautiful person in this whole bar." Ohhhh i hear an Irish accent, can't be that bad right. He offered to buy me a drink, i declined, thanked him for the compliment and went outside with my friends. Well, Mr. Ireland followed us out, proceeded to tell me all evening how beautiful and lovely i was, told us how he owned cottages in Spain and of course went to school and was friends with Colin Farrell (yeah right). He bought us all drinks, dropped them all over himself and bought us more. He was alright to chat with but I was not interested like that. He bought me a rose, tried to kiss me at our next location all the while i was barely talking to him and told him to get his face away from mine. My other female friend was polite, talked to him and by the end of the evening he was telling her that God brought him to me to meet her LOL. Our male friend just smirked and told him we were both single.

2) There was a group of us out on Thursday evening for a few bevies. This random guy comes up and starts belting out "Sweet Caroline" to us. Oh no, we thought. Inside our suitor was then on the dance floor, oh what a sight. He was so awkward and did this strange jerking shoulder movement, one of us would turn around and there he would be smiling away, and there we would go to the other side of the dance floor. We also saw the same gentleman on Saturday night. My one friend engaged him in conversation so i could take a picture of him, he told her he loved Karaoke and guess what his favorite song was "Sweet Caroline" He was alone at the bar and i imagine he will remain alone at bars for a very long time to come.

3) I did not have the pleasure of chatting with this particular gentleman although he was passed among three of my friends. One would go up to try and save the other and the 1st person would leave the 2nd chatting with him. He apparently worked for Shania Twain, did not want his picture taken because "people know me" and his sister was married to someone in Alice Coopers band....rock on!! He had glasses, this terrible bushy bushy beard and his shirt was unbuttoned. Melissa told him to do it up cause his nipples were showing and he proceeded to push out his chest and show us all his nipples...i think he rubbed them as well. He looked like a 60 year old roadie and said he was single and looking for love.....

Oops!

So i think i may have made a terrible mistake. I decided to give up my cushy underground parking at work as the building was going to charge an obscene amount of money starting June 1. I only work in that building 4 days a week, so i figured i could use the exercise and try to fight the other 2000 people that work in my area for the 15 free parking spots outside of a homeless shelter on the street. I had my 1st experience the other day, i pulled onto the street noticed a few open spots and thought how wonderful. Then i noticed the 10 cop cars, police tape and CSI type of RV blocking off the remainder of the street. I got out, started to walk to work and asked a man sitting in the grass if someone had passed away. He told me someone had been stabbed to death the evening before. I told him to make sure and take care of himself and went along to work.

I've only parked on this street a few times this week, but it's so sad when i park and when i return. There are all these homeless people milling around, lying on blankets in the grass hanging out like lost souls. Some surely have mental health issues and drug addictions. I watched the news that evening at my friends house to see if they had a name for the deceased, in case he was one of my clients. She told me it was just a vagrant person anyway....i disagreed, he was a human being, someones son, perhaps a father or a brother. He was a person like you or I.

Videos

I have these hilarious videos from the wedding reception, however i won't post them without permission from my friends in the videos. With that being said, i did take a few small snippets of Vegas. Check these out, they are quite short.

This is the Fremont Street light show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyvb_7eESEY

This is a bar called Tao which was in the Venitian. This clip does not do the place justice. It was this Asian themed bar with Buddhas lining the bar, candles, very cool decor and a great atmosphere. They had various rooms that all played different music. The only clip that turned out was this one, taken in the big dance club part
of the bar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDynWNQt4kU

This was one of the rides ontop of the Stratosphere that i wanted to go on...that is until i actually saw it dangling over the side of the hotel...no thanks!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMEPJBvvclY

This was our favorite corner with the convienience of a liquor store. I couldn't help but take a snippet of this gentleman yelling into his cellphone...this went on for like 10 minutes;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsvlE_5FPUw