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It’s going to be a busy summer!

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Last summer my husband and I decided to try to go to as many local events as we could manage. Luckily we live in Toronto and there’s a lot of events and festivals happening throughout the summer. Pretty much every weekend actually!

We had so much fun last year that we decided to do it again this year. I think there’s a jazz festival beginning this week and then later in the month we’ll go to WoofStock (biggest dog festival in North America) and a few Ribfests.

That should fill up the weekends in June! When July and August come around we’ve got Carribanna (with cool stainless steel drums ) street festivals, Taste of the Danforth, more music festivals and so on.

Since we’re not planning a “real” vacation this summer I think this is the best way to get out and do things and have fun in the city. Most of the events are free or fairly inexpensive so it won’t cost us much at all.

What are your plans for the summer? Do you ever go to local events?





This Summer feels more like Spring

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Well I guess it’s summer here in Toronto … if you want to call it that. So far we’ve only had one week of “normal” temps. Otherwise it’s been cooler than normal. Last night it went down to 13 c (55 F)! That’s cold … that’s early spring temps!

It is supposed to warm up by next Thursday … but I hope that once it does get “summer” warm it stays that way. Weird weather!

Anyway … now that it’s supposedly nice out I’m getting outside more and taking the dog for long walks. I’ve been thinking about looking at the various types of ipods so that I can have some music while I walk.

Yeah yeah … I’m behind … don’t even have an iPod or any kind of portable music player. Sad really, isn’t it?

So for those of you who have an iPod already … which one would you recommend? I’m not really interested in one that plays video. If it happens to have that as an extra feature so be it, but I probably wouldn’t use it much. I’m purely interested in an ipod for the music. We also don’t have much spare money so an inexpensive ipod suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks!

Here’s hoping for a warmer summer around here soon! BTW is it cooler than normal in your area too?

My Husband is NOT a Guinness World Record holder – unfortunately

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I was hoping that I’d be able to announce that I’m married to a Guinness World Record holder this evening, but I’m afraid that I can only say that my husband attempted to break a Guinness World Record and unfortunately failed because enough people didn’t show up. Shame.

Sp what am I talking about? Well, earlier today a large group of guitarists gathered at Toronto’s Dundas Square in attempt to break the record for the largest guitar ensemble. They needed 1803 guitarists to break the 2007 German record of 1802 guitarists playing Smoke on the Water, but they were apparently short by about 123 people.

My husband was disappointed when he came home, but he still said he had fun playing Neil Young’s Heartless and meeting several other guitarists. Oh well, maybe they’ll try to break the record again next year. He was so excited too … he even wrote a post about the attempt to break the world record on his guitar blog.

I was going to go to watch the event, but I wasn’t feeling all that well. Remember I have Crohn’s and it’s acting up lately. To tell you the truth I kind of feel like I’ve taken a colon cleanser today. That’s what life with Crohn’s is like.

If Chris had only been going downtown for an hour or so it wouldn’t have been that bad, but registration was supposed to start at 2 p.m. and he heard on the radio at noon that people were already starting to gather so he left at about 12:30 pm. All the guitarists didn’t start playing the song Heartless until 6 p.m. so that would have been a lot of standing around for me. Still … I would have liked to have gone as I’m sure I would have taken some cool pictures of all those guitarists.

Trying to decide what to have for a late dinner

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Chris and I went to an afternoon concert today. No it wasn’t a concert in the park … it was in a legion hall. LOL Now that was different.

The bands were really good, but I felt sorry for one of the lead singers. You could tell that he’d had really severe acne as a kid and his cheeks were pock-marked as a result. I always feel bad for people who’s faces are scarred like that when there are so many good treatments available to treat severe acne these days.

Anyway … now we’re going to have a late dinner. I’m trying to decide whether I should cook something or if we should continue to treat ourselves and order something out? Maybe Chinese food? I’ve kind of had a craving for Asian food lately.

What would you do if it was already 9 in the evening? Make dinner or order out?

I can’t thank my brother enough for a special gift

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I don’t think my brother has any idea how happy he made me last week. He gave me a gift that I’d been wishing for, for years without even knowing how much I had wanted it.

So what did he give me? Two free passes to the Canadian Golf Open this past Saturday. Now that wasn’t what I’d been wishing for years. I’m not a fan of golf. It’s interesting I guess, but the best part was after the Open semi-finals on Saturday there was a Tom Cochrane and Red Rider concert. That was what I wanted!

I’ve been a fan of Tom Cochrane and Red Rider since I was a young teenager and I’ve always wanted to see the band in concert.

When my brother got in touch with me about two weeks ago to tell me that he might be able to get my husband and I passes for either the Saturday or Sunday I thought that was very nice of him. I thought my husband would enjoy watching the golf. However when he got the passes and told me that he’d picked the Saturday pass because ther was evening entertainment and told me what the entertainment was I nearly fainted.

So last Saturday we went to the Canadian Golf Open for a little while in the late afternoon (it had rained a good portion of the day and play was delayed by over two hours) then we set up our double folding chair right in front of the grandstand. We had primo seats for the concert!

It was amazing! Tom started out by singing Victory Day, then followed up with Big League, then Sinking like a Sunset. After that he did a song dedicated to his daughter Cody which I believe was called Northern Star, after that they did a slowed down version of Good Times, followed by Human Race, White Hot and Life is a Highway. They came back for an Encore and did Lunatic Fringe and ended with Boy inside the man.

I love each and every song and believe me I was singing along and moving to the music. It was fantastic!

I’ve already thanked my brother profusely and I’ll be thinking of him as he attends a seminar about corporate performance management this week! Ah, he doesn’t mind the work related courses or travel that much … heck, this past Friday he was able to attend the Canadian Golf Open by volunteering to man a booth there for his company.

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