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How Jeff often winds down after work.

13 July 13

Played records, drank gin & tonics, did laundry dyed my hair, made relish, watched The Twilight Zone.

03 June 13

Met with June after work to discuss possibilities for creating a sleeve around my phoenix tattoo. We had some beers and poutine while sketching out ideas, and then I came home and played records & read.

19 March 13

07 September 12

the Muddy Waters record Jeff gave me on our anniversary.

06 September 12

naked bedtime guitar playing.

25 June 12

at sunset, changing records.

23 April 12

Alex's memorial was held in the theatre of our old high school. It was so painful and so beautiful. Mostly it was just friends of his, playing music, telling stories. It was nice for Alex to be remembered through music and in theatre, the way he felt most at home. Above is a friend of his, Chloe, playing a song she wrote for him after his death, entitled "The Good One". It was so soulful and heartfelt; she brought the house down. I don't think there was a single person in that overpacked theatre that wasn't struck dumb with emotion listening to her play it. You can watch a recording she made of the song here on youtube.

Afterwards my family went to the Black Sheep Pub, where a few of Maddie and Alex's friends and teachers had gathered for a drink and a bit of food. Steve Moore, one of my favourite teachers, sat with us and we all had a pretty good time talking about music and things. Maddie was especially grateful to him, because he was the only one involved with the memorial who really asked for her input, and that allowed her to give him a poem Alex liked to read aloud during the service. We were all pleased to see Maddie talking, and eating, and even laughing. I'm sure nothing about life is going to be easy for her for a long time, but sometimes a little distraction can help for a little while.

20 January 12

A tribute to the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers album cover.

22 March 11

Billy Joel on the record player.

16 February 11

Jeff and I were too tired to cook, plus we had no real food, so we had dinner at Burgers Etc. We intended to get groceries afterwards, but forgot that Donald's closes at 8 and not 9. We went to Safeway to pick up the essentials and ran into Val and Sean also doing late-night grocery shopping.

01 February 11

tea, dessert, and 90s alternative.

16 September 10

Jeff and I were invited to a games night at MaryAnne and Jen's, so the two of us met up after work (I LOVE THAT WE CAN DO THAT NOW!) and had burgers & beer at the Speakeasy, and then stopped in at Kin's and the record store on the way to their apartment. I accidentally bought some things - namely, Joe Cocker, The Who, and the Boss. On the way we ran into Suz and then Lucas, and then we all had a lovely time drinking wine and playing Apples to Apples.

06 September 10

60ish cds I pulled out from my collection that I am totally ok with getting rid of outright (no backing up on my computer or anything). Some of them are pretty embarrassing, and some I hadn't even looked at since high school, yet I've been carting them around with me forever.

If you're looking at this going, "Hey, why would you get rid of Dylan?!" It's because I have it on vinyl.

28 August 10

Jimm playing with his band at Breastfest on Saturday. A couple more photos here.

21 June 10

Finally, a place to store my records that isn't an old wine box on the floor in front of my bookcase!

27 May 10

Yoni Wolf of Why? wearing a crowd member's hat at The Biltmore. Excellent concert; they played all my favourite songs. And I got to spend time with my sisters. And Jeff. And Mal and Kaylie were there too.

12 May 10

Random jazz band on Granville Street, on my way to catch the 16 to Dennis's house. We had beer and sandwiches at the pub and then watched some Justice League movie and a few episodes of Arrested Development.

29 April 10

One of my photos was featured in the New Faces of BC exhibit which opened last night at Centre A, and I took Jeff as my guest. We drank some free wine and ate free cheese, listened to some speeches, saw some art, and then decided we needed real food. We saw this while walking to the Alibi Room for dinner, and I almost died.

You can see a couple of photos (I didn't post too many because the exhibit is still showing until Thursday) from the exhibit on my flickr, as well as the original of the photo that was featured.

I may have just set a record for most links in a single post.

26 April 10

I'm not sure if I posted this before, but it is the Christmas gift Jeff and I got from Maddie. She based it on the album cover of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Let Love In and it is amazing.