My blog is so boring that...

I check everyone else's blog before my own.

I almost didn't post this because it's just so boring.

I went in to school on Monday but didn't accomplish a whole lot. They're not really ready for us yet. I think that there will be another hire at the school; so, our timetables, class lists, and room assignments could still change. But I did catch up with Peter and got started thinking about the upcoming sport seasons. I also moved my desk to the far end of the Physics office, which means the desks are staggered and we won't always be backing into each other or needing to squeeze through.

After school I got a bite at Fairview and picked up a thank you card for Kevin's parents. I did want to let them know how much I appreciated the work they put in to host the wedding and I gave them copies of the photo CDs. I got to drop it off at their house before the Litter game at Parkway Forest. Ann and I spent more time talking shop than warming up before the game. I thought the game was pretty good. Horizontally Hip is a nice team and we lost 12-9 but that's okay.

I didn't do much during the day on Tuesday but I took care of a few phone-errands, including signing up for curling, and tidied up the apartment. Gina and I went out for dinner, which was great. We haven't seen each other in real life for a couple of years so we had a fair bit of catching up to do. Hopefully, we'll do the same thing next week.

Oh! and congratulations to my cousin, Jennifer, who is recently engaged to Gordon.

This week/end

Thursday, I went to lunch with Leigh, Dan, Derek, Rob, and Becky. Then I headed over to Spadina and College to pick up CDRs for the wedding photos. I happened to run into Jaclyn, who took me up to office to show me around and she gave me the most recent copy of Abilities. I am quite impressed by the amount and quality of work involved.

I had to make two CDs of photos for each major stakeholder. The 300+ highest quality images completely filled one CD. I put unretouched images and email-sized images on a second CD.

I think we played Scrabble. I won a very close one. There were three bingoes. We haven't had such a good battle for a while.

Friday, Dion and I had lunch with Janelle, which was good fun. Before we knew it, it had been a two-hour lunch.

We played Scrabble again Saturday afternoon. Only one bingo this time. Dion took this one handily but I brought it back to respectability near the end with AVAIL through a triple and turning BLAZE into ABLAZE. I still didn't have much of a chance but the result was much closer.

Saturday, Dion was raiding and working on a google coding challenge and decided that his keyboard just wasn't working well enough (CNTL was giving very strange outcomes) so we skipped down to Future Shop just before closing. We ran into Steve Ho there. We spent a couple of hours catching up and showing each other our new apartments. He owns at the Polo 1.

When we came home, I started playing GAMES, in the magazine, and Dion was WOWing. Then in the wee hours of the morning I happened to look out the window and noticed that there was a bunch of smoke and a few emergency vehicles over at Bay and Wellesley. Fifteen minutes later, there were more emergency vehicles than I could count (I count very badly :) ) and the power went out. It didn't come back on until about noon.

So this morning when the power was out we decided to go over to Plaza Flamingo for brunch and then we stopped by at Manning to see if there was any mail for us or other former roommates. We also go to see Melissa, who weighs about as much as a box of Kleenex. I exaggerate but she really is small. We were informed though that she has been adopted out. I hope she'll get her pills as a result.

Billy Joel has occupied our CD player all weekend.

other thoughts on the wedding

Monday, during ultimate warmup Rebecca asked if I had found the weekend emotional, or whether it was just her. I said, "uh yeah! I believe you heard me crying at the drop of a hat." Friday night, I did spend a lot of time contemplating everything and didn't fall asleep until well into the night. I hadn't realised how close the emotions were to the surface until during cake decorating I started to say so out loud. Kevin's mom reminds me a lot of my mother, although a little less so now that she has forgone the blonde. She is such a sweetheart, too. I'm glad I didn't spend a lot of time crying. It was a terrific time.

Kevin and Susanna Wed.

It was a perfect day and a remarkable wedding.

Here are some of my favourite photos. I was a back-up photographer, so I have an odd assortment of photos. I was looking for moments and angles that the delightful Yeung (sp?) could not get due to space-time constraints. I had a hard time selecting this set of photos. Vanity made it difficult to set aside the technically and artistically pleasing in favour of the photos of substance.


Susanna did not exactly walk down the aisle.
Proud parents of the bride await her arrival.
And she was having trouble getting through her vows.
Kevin had trouble starting his vows.
But they both made it.
See?
Poor Kevin! The photography was endless. A little levity is needed; so, Linda got "cheeky" - if you know what I mean.
No really, poor Kevin. It looks like he's escorting Susanna to the dance floor, which at this point might have been preferable. But no, he's escorting her to the deck for more formal photography.
A little refreshment between poses.
And some rest before the formal photography resumes.
Becky really outdid herself. If she had only made one cake, maybe someone would have eaten the tiramisu (sp?)

midsummer

Yikes, summer is past half over now. Although a couple of days ago I was starting to get the feeling that I'm ready to go back. If I had to go back next week, I think it would be okay by me.

I have a project that I'm supposed to be working on for the board but I just can't get into it. I'm constantly procrastinating. It's amazing how much of nothing I can do. memories of grad skule.

Dion is going to be quarteting again. There was talk of his singing tenor with Kevin on lead, Jordan Travis on baritone, and Dave McEachern on bass but it sounds like they switched Jordan and Dion back to their "natural" positions. Dion's having fun with it.

The apartment is pretty much put together now. The computer is out of the kitchen and I've purchased a dozen or so storage pieces. spice storage. shoe storage. bathroom product storage. baskets, baskets, and more baskets. Once I get a couple of big things down to the garbage, it'll be fine. Everything else can wait indefinitely. Some more lighting maybe and a microwave would be nice but whatever.

My friend, Andreas, was in town for a couple of days this week. We had a very nice time catching up but it made me miss the crowd I met in Switzerland. A great bunch of people, really.

Dion's off at Kevin's stag right now and we're having a brunch for Susanna tomorrow. I hope it's a nice day so that we can go out to the island. I should remember to take my camera with me.

Oh. And today is our fifth anniversary. Hard to believe, isn't it? Five years ago, I had just started my masters, Dion hadn't quite finished. Kern and Kristin still lived here. None of our friends had kids. We hadn't even met Mark yet. Becky and Rob hadn't started dating. But Kevin and Su had been together for four years. Plus ca change....