Winter song, spring song

March has been a good month of friends. I've had visitors three weekends in a row: Theresa, Lisa, Kaeli, and Trixie.


Additionally, my brother and his wife moved into their snazzy new house. My brother has been working like a...hard working man building it for the past year and a half. They had a very large and very warm housewarming party last weekend to celebrate and got Colleen Brown (our talented cousin) to play a house concert. I took a little video of the show just for fun:

As I mentioned, my friend Trixie is visiting us from Vancouver this weekend and we started the day yesterday with this video: Winter Song but then we went outside and it wasn't really very wintry after all. The next thing we did was enjoy an excellent breakfast at the Mill Creek Cafe with Dave, Jamie, Joel and Trixie. I had a fried egg sandwich and orange juice and found a sweet photo of a man riding a lion in the Edmonton Journal. You can't ask for a better breakfast.


As a first bonus, we ended up walking down Whyte on one of the first days that felt like spring. And as a second bonus we discussed oxford commas and other similar delights as we walked in the sunshine.

The weekend continued with pizza, Balderdash, church at King's, coffee with Scott (and Francis and Geneva), Guinness wings at O'Byrnes, and a movie night.

I freaking love weekends.

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Several people have asked me what I have been up to lately and I keep not delivering a very good answer. I'm not so good on my feet sometimes. So, I'm going to make a little list here for my inquisitive friends.

• I have been on Global, The Sun Online, and on City TV Twice in the past 10 days as a media spokesperson for various work events. I definitely never would have predicted that in my future (especially in light of my claim that I am not that quick on my feet), but here I am.
  
• On that note, I am starting to enjoy my job more and more in a lot of ways. I don't know if would go so far as to say that me and my job are soulmates, but I think we are starting to like each other. Or at least figure out that we both have a lot to offer each other. A symbiotic relationship of sorts. It's a good feeling.
  
• I still don't really have any friends at work. I had one, and then she quit. Sucks. I miss my old work friends a whole lot. They are gems.
  
• My computer has been broken for a couple of weeks. I guess Dell really sucks at power cords. That's the word on the street at least. But the good news is that they were really good about replacing it in a timely manner, so that was nice.
• I cleared out some of my old/ancient crafty supplies the other night. The thing about never moving very far from home is that it's easier to take all your crap with you. I have some seriously vintage craft supplies. Furry monkey stickers, for example.
• Joel has been really busy getting ready for the Synchotron which means I haven't seen him a whole lot lately, but he had some down time this weekend finally where we got to go to the Sugarbowl and sit at the bar and eat copious amounts of excellent Huevos Rancheros. It was exactly what I wanted to be doing.
  
• I went and saw 'The Reader' last week with Kim and Caylie. It was a random little movie-watching group, but a very good movie. I am a Kate Winslet fan, which is sort of a new realization, since I had been holding Titanic against her for quite a while. Not that she was actually terrible in it. Just because it was Titanic.
  
• Luke Doucet and the White Falcon played a concert at the Myer Horowitz that I had tickets for as a Christmas present from Joel. He put on a really great, long show to celebrate his first time headlining in a soft-seat theatre.
• Francis greeted me this week with an enthusiastic "HI. I LOVE YOU!" It is the first time he has ever done that and it was completely awesome. I love him too. Nephews and nieces are good, good things.
• Karen, Bri and I discussed the whats/whys/hows of marriage around my kitchen table. It was interesting. And then we watched "On a Boat" ft. T-Pain and had a good laugh.
  
• I fit a ham sandwich into a plastic lemon. It was a highlight of last week, let me tell you.

That's all for now, folks.