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Timas, Diplo, Monokini: the awesome & hilarious digest for july 25th 2010
Jul 26th
Me: *grumble grumble* Can I add “lame” to the awesomehilarious post today? Just this once?
You: “No you can’t, because the whole darn thing is about maintaining a positive attitude in the face of adverrrsity or something stupid and idealistic like that. Remember?”
*sigh* Frick.
Let’s start with “hilarious” then…
- Getting slapped with a $220 towing fee + a $60 ticket after my car mysteriously disappeared from the street. Apparently, I was partially obstructing some crochety old loosah’s driveway with the nose of my car. This would have been a “c’est la vie! live and learn! at least I still have legs!” moment had I not already been towed 3 times this year and running late for work.It’s not cute, it’s not funny, it’s not blonde - this stuff is expensive and it’s holding me back from doing better things with my hard-earned cash.I normally try not to refrain from using off-colour language on my blog, but my word am I angry! BEIGE Toronto’s lame parking rules, EGGSHELL the surly tow truck driver and TAUPE this overpopulated city’s lack of spaces to park.Adding insult to injury, when I got to work and tried to park in the lot that usually charges me $10, I was asked for THIRTY because there were “lot of special event in city today” – so I drove down the road and paid 20$ instead. *grumble grumble*
From this point on it’s mostly awesome. Outside of parking woes (and some surrious sleep deprivation) life’s been pretty gravy lately:
- Friday’s TIME Festival at Sound Academy. Y’all know I love me some dubstep, right? My week was already jam-booked but I could NOT pass up a chance to see Diplo spin in my backyard so I scored some last minute tix and danced my face off until 5a.m. I made a video, too… one of my buddies grabbed the camera at some point and shot me shaking my thang (thanks MP!). Please don’t mind the falling down shorts or the sweaty blonde mop on my head.
- The Toronto Independent Music Awards were earlier that night, and that was fantastic as well. Got a chance to chat with so many sweet local bands / rappers / singers / rockstars. Still processing videos from the event for work (when I’m not at other work), but I dooo have this picture of yours truly interviewing m’boy Sean Ward – TIMA host / blogger / comic artist / vlogger extraordinaire:
- This article on the top 5 web pranks ever pulled by moot and the 4chan gang = also awesome.
- I ordered my new laptop last night
Did I go Mac or PC? All will be revealed in due time my friend, but I WILL tell you this – my new baby has been custom engineered with an i7 processor, 6 Gigs of RAM and a whole TERABYTE of storage on the HD. She looks dammmmn good too - hilarious: I’ve come close to buying this dress three times now, but after seeing no less than 5 girls rocking it around the city have decided that I just can’t do it.
As much as I adore it (and I do – so, so, so much) I just can’t stomach shelling out for something that everyone else has. I’m not one for uniforms. Jeez, you’d think Douglas Coupland could have designed more than ONE dress for his roots collection.
- awesome: The Cotton Candy T monokini by Zeugari. Actually, EVERYTHING by Zuegari. Maybe, just maybe, you’ll see me rocking one of these masterpieces at WakeStock…
Yummy. - Signing a lease for my shiny sweet apartment – FINALLY! I’ve been living in Toronto now for over 2 months – I figured it was time to put my name on a piece of paper and unpack my bags for good. The big move with all the furniture coming out of my storage locker in London goes down at the end of August. I hate moving (ie; watching my male relatives and friends move my stuff up and down stairs), but it’ll be so nice to have my entire wardrobe up here with me. And like, my bed and computer desk and stuff.
- Annnd finally, I can’t get this song out of my head which is awesome because I’m in love with it at the moment. So sassy!Hate Hate, Hate Hate Hate…
All eyes on me, I took the night…
The awesome & hilarious digest – live from Montreal!
Jun 12th
Bonjour mes amis!
Je suis dans un petit cafe en Montreal, Quebec. Non, c’est un grande cafe. Tres grande est TRES belle. La service est bon, est mon cafe, oooh mon cafe… c’est magnifique. Ce la ma premier solo voyage en “French Canada”. Ma Français est pauvre… regardez vous?
If you speak fluent French, I’m sure that sounded just atrocious, non? The last time I had to actually use the language was in France and even then, it was mostly Franglish. I opted out of French class after grade 10 in favour of drama and computer science.
Consequentially, I’m able to lie my way out of sticky situations undetected with relative ease and code in a multitude of obsolete programming languages — but I can’t communicate in both of my country’s official languages without sounding like a total couch tard.
As you can see, my sense of humour hasn’t matured all that much since Grade 9 french class.
I remember getting a detention after my teacher asked a yawning student “Est tu Fatigue?” and I burst out laughing with “HAHAHA – FATTY-GAY! It sounds like you just asked him if he’s FAT AND GAY!”
My parents must have been so proud…
Anyways, here I am in Montreal – just for the day – working. My first legit business trip! I flew in this morning and I fly out tonight. I felt all grown up and profesh riding a plane with makeup on in my bizznass threads next to the fanny-pack toting tourist moms (*cough* Annetski!) and sleepy Lulu clad university clan that I used to be a part of…
Maybe next time, I’ll go all out and rock some Gaga style airline attire…
… or perhaps not.
Anyhoo, a few hours to kill = MAD BLOGGAGE TIME for this kid! I’m tempted to explore the city a little bit, but exploration usually (nay, ALWAYS) leads to shopping and my bank account has been hit hard enough by the city of Toronto this week (scroll down for more on that sitch).
Here’s my not-so-weekly digest of awesomeness and hilarity for June the 12th…
A whole lot of awesome going on these past couple of weeks – and a fair bit of hilarity too… if you consider multiple parking infractions and epic kitchen fails hilarious.
Normally I don’t, but since life can only be one of two things (awesome or hilarious) and said incidents don’t fall into the former category, they must be hilarious… right?
Serenity now… serenity now…
- AWESOME: Starting my new job and realizing that actually working in a newsroom is about a trillion times more fun than pretending to work in a newsroom at J-school – especially when you’re focused exclusively on city news in a bomb ass city like Toronto. No wars, no earthquakes, no foreign politics – just straight up, good ol’ pedestrian fatalities, jewelry store serial robberies and… black bear attacks?
Seriously though, I am absolutely loving my summer job at The Star. Here I am signing my contract -awww…
(photo credit: the fantabulous iPhone of Mr. Roger Gillespie)
- HILARIOUS: A scheduling snafu that messed up my entire week. I happened to jot down my work schedule completely wrong and then entered it into my Google calendar completely wrong and then scheduled my social life and other work around this completely wrong schedule and thennnnnn showed up at work Tuesday morning at 8:00 am like “HI! Oh… I don’t work? Oh, that’s right, I AM an idiot...”
- AWESOME: Getting to witness Ashley Tisdale shoot a scene from an upcoming High School musical spinoff about Sharpay or something…
Pink. Blonde. Disney. Loves it.
- HILARIOUS: Breaking my gracious host/best friend/ruler of all things good’s microwave. Sorry boys… you know I suck at kitchen. I should probably just eat out until I get my own place and place-related kitchen things to break.
- AWESOME: Hitting up my cousin’s wedding last weekend. What a lovely day! Gorgeous venue at the University of Waterloo (whoodathunk?), beautiful ceremony, rockin’ reception and such a sweet couple… they are seriously too precious for words. The love was just bouncing around that room the whole time. I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house when Britton and Stephanie said their vows…
(totally jacked that picture from my new cousin-in-law’s facebook, btw. Thanks Steph!)
I now have TWO married cousins – one on my mom’s side, one on my dad’s. Both are vegans, coincidentally – which rulllles for me as a vegematarian wedding guest. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve been forced to eat lettuce and potatoes at weddings while the other guests stare at me like an anorexic rabbit. The food at this wedding was, in the words of the honourable Ms. Rachel Ray, “YUM-O!” (and never had a face! huzzah!)
Five years ago, you couldn’t have PAID me to write the following sentence, but I actually had fun hanging out with my little brother on Saturday. Now that he’s stopped stealing the remote control from me and razzing my boyfriends on the telephone, he’s actuall ya pretty cool kid. Sheet… not even a kid anymore I guess. 21! Time… how she flies…
Here are a few photos of us with our dates (SDubz and Laura) on Satty.
Stop making that duckface…
w/ Frikshun…
The O’Nizzles… (um, we’d had some wine…)
- HILARIOUS : Having my car towed away 15 minutes before I was supposed to be at work yesterday. That was AWESOME (If I had purchased the sarcasm mark, I would have put it riiiight here.)
I’m not going to go into a detailed history of my car troubles in this city because I’ve blogged extensively about this issue in the past. I will simply note that I am a F*CKING IDIOT for failing to read the sign and getting myself towed again. Fool me once, shame on you – Fool me twice, shame on WU!
- AWESOME: Covering Strut For a Cure in Toronto.
Not only did I get to party with Toronto’s most fashionable, shake the hand of Miss Jeanne Beker and watch Dragonette perform live (so. fierce.), I got to meet and interview THE Coco Rocha. I know. I still can’t believe it myself.
Check out my interview with coco and blogpost about the event for vitaminwater canada if you so desire.
BANANAHAMMOCK: I don’t know if this is awesome or hilarious… perhaps both. Either way, it’s definitely blawgworthy. Behold, my old friend Mr. H. rolling his shorts up into sexy euro-trunks at the beach. Posing in a creep-lean when families with small children walked by made this all the more golden.
AWESOME: The premier of The Hard Times of RJ Berger was DEFINITELY awesome and hilarious. Some people accused it of being a bit crass , but I loved it nonetheless. It was clever, cute, and very very funny. TWO PIGTAILS AND A PONYTAIL UP!
C’est tout for now!
I’ve got to run off now to do what I’m here to do…
Au Revoir, baurevoirs…
Laurên EauNizzle
