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Goodbye 2008…2009 Lookin’ Good!

posted by lizvang on January 2nd, 2009 at 12:17 pm 
in Friends, It's All About Me!  

So, 2008 had to have been one of the worst years in recent times for me. Well, maybe not the WORST but it’s really up there in terms of all round blah. There are a couple of highlights including heading down to New York City to meet up with Paul and Ali for four days and a couple of other random family moments and an inkling of some sort of a relationship that fizzled into a heap of uncertainty and then failure. What started out good, ended into confusion and blah. I think I’ll dub 2008 as “The Year of Blah”. Also, the weather really sucked (bad winter, awful rainy summer and then a crappy beginning of another winter).

2009 has already started off fairly decent. New Year’s Eve was pretty good. I got to spend time with Darcie and her husband who brought their friends Michelle and Jake and Darcie’s brother-in-law, Damon. My brother and his girlfriend had some of their friends over and we had a house full of laughing, Guitar Hero, Jello shots, lap dancing and a torn ankle (not me this time!).

January 1st, yesterday, Darcie, Matt, Michelle, Jake, Damon and I headed to the slopes (Blue Mountain) for a day of boarding. Let me preface this next part with stating that I haven’t been skiing since 1992 and I’ve never boarded in my life.

Damon was to teach Darcie, Matt and I how to board. How hard could it be right? After a few hours of barely being able to stand up for longer than 10 seconds I decided that I was going to trade my board in for skis. I had had enough. I was frustrated, as was Darcie who wasn’t able to even stand up, because the physics of it, I got, but the practise, not so much.

So after we had lunch I traded in my board and got skis no problem. Darcie was determined to actually learn to board because her Australian husband who’s never boarded or skied in his life, was making a decent go of it and was actually able to stay up.

We went up the lift for the first time after lunch. Being on skis for the first time since ‘92 I was a bit nervous that I wouldn’t remember but as soon as I got off the chair and skied over to where we all met up to go down the mountain, I realized I was fine. I knew how to stop (without looking like a snow plowing fool), turn, slow down, speed up, etc. Poor Darcie however was defeated. She couldn’t stand up and stay up long enough to actually try going down. She was done and walked down the hill.

I enjoyed skiing down the mountain and my only regret was not picking up the skis when we first got there. But at least I tried boarding. After a handful of times down the mountain, I offered to swap with Darcie so she could at least get a run in before we left. So I stayed at the bottom and off she went. She also regrets trying to learn to snowboard because she didn’t fall once coming down on skis.

It was getting dark and even colder out so we decided to pack it in for the day. It was a long drive home for everyone else back to Niagara Falls and an early start was needed. They dropped me off at my place, we said our goodbyes and I went in to have a hot soak in the tub, crawl into my warm pyjamas and veg with my brother and his girlfriend (Ashley) and watched 4 hours of a COPS marathon on Showcase ACTION. Good times.

Today, I’m heading down to my parent’s place to hang out, then tomorrow it’s down to the city to meet up with a couple of friends, then it’s over to Scott’s place for the night. Sunday Scott, I and a bunch of folk are heading to the Raptors game at the Air Canada Centre. First NBA game ever for me so that should be fun especially since we have a private box to watch the game from.

To my friends and blog readers, Happy New Year and the best of everything good and great in 2009.

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Happy Birthday of the Unconquered Sun!

posted by lizvang on December 25th, 2008 at 12:36 pm 
in Christmas  

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!

Enjoy your family, friends, charity and a bit of drunkenness!

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Holiday Party Photos

posted by lizvang on December 23rd, 2008 at 10:38 am 
in Christmas, Friends, GTA Bloggers, Picture Perfect  

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Groundhog Pub
Toronto, ON
December 20, 2008

Flickr Sets:
1. Mine
2. Paul Henman’s

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Welcome to Winter!

posted by lizvang on November 16th, 2008 at 12:13 am 
in Weather  

Nothing sucks harder than cruising along in the rain at 120 km/h along the QEW -> 427 -> 401 > 410 and then getting slammed just North of Brampton by a winter storm you didn’t know was coming (or how long it has been going on) and being stuck behind some asshole at 20 km/h braking every 10 seconds ’cause the dumbass failed to put on his winter tires.

People…this happens every year. I luckily didn’t bother to take off my winter tires from last year so I was good and after half an hour of following this idiot, I caught a break and passed him. Granted I was going 60 km/h up Hwy. 10 into Orangeville, still way better than breaking UP hill at 20 km/h for the next week ’cause that’s how long it would have taken him to get anywhere close.

Yay! A map!
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2396471

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A for America

posted by lizvang on November 5th, 2008 at 1:59 am 
in Newsworthy, Opinionated Much?, US Politics  

I’m so very happy and proud of my neighbours today.

Tonight was like a scene from one of those awe inspiring, make you weep movies where a natural disaster has wiped out half of the country and you see the President instill hope and promises of a better future. Yes, like Deep Impact or that other one, The Day After Tomorrow. Although half the country wasn’t wiped out by any tidal waves, but wiped out by stupidity. The stupidity has receded and now Americans can rebuild the respect the rest of the world lost and America will once again be a place that people from all over the world will look to for inspiration instead of laugh at or pity. I do believe the economy will get better there soon as more people now that they may look differently upon Americans after tonight will want to travel to the USA again, to invest their time and money on a nation and especially on a people that rose up and demanded a better life for themselves.

With my experience in travelling and living in Europe, Americans were not looked upon with any sort of respect when encountered overseas (democrat or republican). It didn’t matter that I was Canadian, I was thought of as American because we talk the same (TV english!). I was embarrassed. Others, embarrassed for me and apologized for the ’slight’. “Ohhhh, I’m so sorry, I should always assume Canadian first shouldn’t I?” Now, with a newly elected government and not a win by a hair but a pretty damn good number, I don’t think I’ll be as embarrassed if at all if I am mistaken for an American. I can only hope that one day Canadians will be as energized by a politician and by change as my neighbours to the south are by Barack Obama.

America! Fuck yeah!

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John McCain Gets BarackRoll’d

posted by lizvang on September 8th, 2008 at 2:36 am 
in Funny, Geriactics, Ha Ha!, The Elderly, The Internets, Video, YouTube  

The pitfalls of having a giant green screen behind you! Whomever’s idea that was…FAIL WIN (for most).

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Podcast 002 - 1st Spanish Lesson

posted by lizvang on August 7th, 2008 at 6:40 pm 
in Education, Español, Podcast  

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Learning a new language…

posted by lizvang on August 7th, 2008 at 2:18 pm 
in Education, It's All About Me!  

Ich glaube, ich möchte Deutsch lernen.

Ya estoy tratando de aprender español si puedo dejar de procrastinating el tiempo suficiente.

Jag vet redan hur du räkna till tio på svenska.
En. Två. Tre. Fyra. Fem. Sex. Sju. Åtta. Nio. Tio.

Decisions, decisions!
http://translate.google.com/translate_t

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The Easy Way

posted by lizvang on July 30th, 2008 at 11:44 am 
in Health, It's All About Me!  

I’ve been reading the book The Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr on a recommendation of friends from the past few years. I kept hearing about this book and how those that read the book, quit after they read it with no problems.

I have a date in mind and I know I’ll stick to it because I’m excited for that day to come. Well, I’m excited for two reasons. One, that I’ll be free from a 16-year drug addiction (yes, you read that right) and feel amazing for doing it and the second reason is that it’s my 30th birthday.

I would have chosen an earlier date but my 30th birthday seems fitting. For the first time I don’t feel scared to quit smoking. I’ve never really made any serious attempts before and anything I have tried in the past only lasted a day or two. I don’t feel dread which is amazing. I feel only relief.

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Set to high gear…

posted by lizvang on July 29th, 2008 at 2:18 am 
in It's All About Me!, Nothingness  

The last two nights it has taken me forever (not exaggerating) to fall asleep. My mind has been constantly racing. Lists, scenarios, plans, what ifs, tomorrow, today, yesterday. It’s all tiring but yet I can’t sleep. When I try to stop thinking about thinking, I think of random crap from childhood like The Wuzzles (OMG I can’t believe it only ran for 13 episodes and it’s still ingrained on my mind!) or Strawberry Shortcake (not the new fancy one, but the old skool series). Hell, even Steve Guttenberg made the bloody cut tonight.

WTF?

I’m half tempted to OD on gravol just to get some shut eye too. Too bad the bottle’s in my Mum’s room and I’m not about to walk in there right now.

Oh well, here’s to round two.

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