Omg it was the best! For the first band i was second in front, for the second band i was third in front! And for MSI i was in front! And i touched jimmy! And i got his glowstick! And the whole time we were right beside the mosh pit and they kept slamming me against the fence, so i had to get pulled out by staff on the last song, but i got jimmy's signature on my hoodie! It was awesome! ... And people were crowd surfing, and they kicked me in the head a few times! But it was awesome! How was your thing?
This was the text I recieved after sending Maddie one that said " How was the concert?" Her first concert without any adults. Her and Connor went to MSI on Saturday night. It sounds like they had fun! "our thing" was John Pinette. Dale, Evar, Dean and me went to see Pinette at the same time. We laughed so hard we cried... he is such a funny, funny man!!! There was a startup comedian who was really funny too, but I forgot his name :-( , anyway we had a great time also, without being kicked in the head! If you aren't sure who Pinette is, you bloggers may have seen clips of him here. Here's a short cute one, and the video from MSI. You tube is a such a great source!!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
1 whole year
Well this past weekend was Dean and My anniversary. ( Where has the time gone?) Anyway, we got to spend time with 2 people who were planning on being at our wedding, but forces beyond their control made them unable to come. So how cool that we got to see both of them this weekend! Dean's uncle flew in from Winnipeg, he had to use up his ticket, so we got to hang out with him for a bit. This was the first time I got to meet him. And Claudia's Hubby Chris, wasn't able to attend either, we were meeting them on Saturday. Plans had been in the works for over a month, so we couldn't change, and then after realized what a perfect weekend anyway!
Another cool thing that happened was the card Dean got me. I wonder what the guys at Carlton were thinking when they made this card. My thought is, that somewhere someone else got that card and were probably arguing right now about how unromantic this anniversary card was.... but the hilarious thing is, it was like it was made for us! It was absolutely PERFECT! If anyone remembers our wedding invite, you will get a chuckle out of this!
Dean and I went to Red Lobster for dinner, ate until we couldn't anymore and had a wonderful night, ( and year ) on to 2.......
Monday, March 9, 2009
I found a Sunday New York Times!
Yesterday night I went to pick up a friend at the airport. I love that place. It is just so fascinating. You can watch planes taxi and take off, you can get Timmys or a Starbucks and just people watch. My friend's plane was a little late so I walked around to see what I could discover. It was pretty quiet and I turned a corner and found this:
A current edition of the New York Times! I know the non-news crowd will not appreciate the find but all of those who do understand - cool eh? Anyway, I have been thinking about the Times lately as Selena and I were in New York and saw the huge building the Times had just recently moved in to right before our visit. But the Grey Lady, (as the Times is nicknamed in reference to its tradition of presenting many words and few pictures-thanks Wikipedia), has been having quite a hard time even before the economy tanked. In recent years, the Times has been through such things as a scandal where their editor had to resign when a reporter, Jayson Blair, just made up news stories and quoted people he never interviewed. Ouch. That just isn't supposed to happen at a paper as legendary as the Times. The Times, once the standard in journalism, has seen it's circulation drop and also its market value. Just how bad are things at the NYT? Take a look at this:
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Take a look at the price of the Sunday edition. $5.00. What is the New York Times stock trading at these days? It closed trading today at $3.90. So a Sunday New York Times is worth more than one share of its stock. Wow. I had heard or read that somewhere so it's cool (for me) to see that fact literally in black and white. On March 12th, 2004, the Times stock closed at $45.32.
Today I read on the web from Yahoo Finance via The Drudge Report:
New York Times raises another $225M in office sale
New York Times raises another $225M by selling headquarters, giving publisher bigger cushion
Monday March 9, 2009, 4:50 pm EDT
NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Times Co. has sold most of its home office for $225 million, padding the newspaper publisher's financial cushion amid a sharp drop in revenue that has forced management to scrounge for more money.
The deal announced Monday covers 21 of the building's 52 floors. That space, about 750,000 square feet (69,676 sq. meters), became the Times' headquarters when the midtown Manhattan offices opened in 2007.
How the mighty have fallen.
A current edition of the New York Times! I know the non-news crowd will not appreciate the find but all of those who do understand - cool eh? Anyway, I have been thinking about the Times lately as Selena and I were in New York and saw the huge building the Times had just recently moved in to right before our visit. But the Grey Lady, (as the Times is nicknamed in reference to its tradition of presenting many words and few pictures-thanks Wikipedia), has been having quite a hard time even before the economy tanked. In recent years, the Times has been through such things as a scandal where their editor had to resign when a reporter, Jayson Blair, just made up news stories and quoted people he never interviewed. Ouch. That just isn't supposed to happen at a paper as legendary as the Times. The Times, once the standard in journalism, has seen it's circulation drop and also its market value. Just how bad are things at the NYT? Take a look at this:
]Take a look at the price of the Sunday edition. $5.00. What is the New York Times stock trading at these days? It closed trading today at $3.90. So a Sunday New York Times is worth more than one share of its stock. Wow. I had heard or read that somewhere so it's cool (for me) to see that fact literally in black and white. On March 12th, 2004, the Times stock closed at $45.32.
Today I read on the web from Yahoo Finance via The Drudge Report:
New York Times raises another $225M in office sale
New York Times raises another $225M by selling headquarters, giving publisher bigger cushion
Monday March 9, 2009, 4:50 pm EDT
NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York Times Co. has sold most of its home office for $225 million, padding the newspaper publisher's financial cushion amid a sharp drop in revenue that has forced management to scrounge for more money.
The deal announced Monday covers 21 of the building's 52 floors. That space, about 750,000 square feet (69,676 sq. meters), became the Times' headquarters when the midtown Manhattan offices opened in 2007.
How the mighty have fallen.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
If you don't believe in Global Warming....
...just look at my shovel!***
I was shovelling for what seemed like the 100th time this winter and the shovel just kind of felt funny. I actually examined it closely and look what I found:
I have used the thing so much this year, it is actually starting to wear down so much I have to replace it. Haha.
Well if Global Warming is true, it sure has not hit Evanston this year as my shovel would attest.
I was shovelling for what seemed like the 100th time this winter and the shovel just kind of felt funny. I actually examined it closely and look what I found:
I have used the thing so much this year, it is actually starting to wear down so much I have to replace it. Haha.
Well if Global Warming is true, it sure has not hit Evanston this year as my shovel would attest.
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