Why do weekends have to end?!

This past weekend was amazing. I'm way too tired to even try to summarize it but it was a great start to concert season 2009. Friday was spent at the New Cities show with two of my favorite people on this planet. We spent hours sitting around a coffee shop before the show just laughing until it hurt. The show was amazing even if the second band was awful. Then we headed back to Jenns where we laughed even more into the night over absolutely nothing. I constantly mention my happy place being the bell center...or new cities shows but I've come to realize that my happy place is when I'm with the two of them. Even if I show up in the worst mood ever, they'll bring me out of it. It's scary how well the three of us mesh together. I don't really ever see those moments ending though and that's what makes me excited for the future. No matter where we end up we're going to have a good time. DAHFA?♥
Then on Sunday I went down to the Hot Streak show with Melissa. Our third was stranded at her home because of the bad weather. We had been trying to make a Hot Streak show since we saw them in August. Something always came up, like Ben Mulroneys wedding reception, so we would constantly have to bail on them. It's a good thing we made it through the snow this time around because we ended up having an incredibly memorable evening. The guys were performing at a Battle of the Bands at Club Soda and they ended up coming in 2nd out of 16 bands. They put on a hell of a show that included some awesome choreographed dancing and some super stylish outfits. After their set Melissa & I sat down on stools at the entrance of the club and didn't move for 6 hours. We spent the majority of the time just hanging out with the guys, enjoying some pretty ridiculous conversation and learning more about where they're hoping to go with this music career. It's really nice to see a group of people so passionate about music and being able to share your love over a certain thing. If they continue in the direction they're going they'll do very well. I have no doubt in my mind. Not to mention it's a nice change to be around people who are incredibly down to earth and just genuinely nice people. We also made friends with the greatest security guard ever who was blowing us kisses by the end of the night and telling us he loved us. We were supposed to leave the venue at 7 but we ended up staying until 11 and I'm incredibly happy that we did. I'm really looking forward to their next show.
The only bad thing about having such an amazing weekend is I have to come back down to reality and go back to work. I only work three days this week and my last shift is tomorrow. Then I'm heading down to Ottawa on Thursday for the SENS/SHARKS game where I'll be sporting my Sharks jersey with PRIDE and arguing with Sens fans, hopefully. Then on Friday I come home and head straight over to Lisas house for a mini girls night in front of her big television for the Habs/Flyers game. On Saturday morning the girls are coming with me to the Bell Center for moral support. I'm hoping to get my Nabokov jersey signed. We'll see. It'll be nice to meet one of my hockey heroes since he's only in town like...once every 3 years. Sunday..well maybe on Sunday I'll sleep?

Oh & Jaroslav Halak..you're a beast and I never doubted that you had serious talent.

If I could make these moments endless

If I could stop the winds of change
If we just keep our eyes wide open
Then everything would stay the same

Marianas Trench

They're baaaaaaaaaaaccccckkkkk!!!!

The new CD has been released on MuchMusic and it's ridiculously good. It's about freaking time though, honestly. It's been atleast 2 1/2 years since I've heard anything from these boys. I'm pretty sure the last time I saw them in concert was all the way back in 2006. I guess it was worth the wait in the end. The actual release date in stores in February 24th and I'll definitely be heading down on that day to pick it up. I'm in love with Beside You, Cross My Heart & All To Myself. Wicked 2nd CD guys. Can't wait until the tour.

Check it out at: http://www.muchmusic.com/music/firstspin/marianastrench/

REEEALLLLYYY?!

How can you tell that the Montreal Canadiens are going through tough times?! The biggest headline in the news is that an ex-coach thinks that a handful of the players have drinking problems.

Well that obviously explains it. I mean Higgins, Kostitsyn & Price are clearly a cancer in the locker room because of their partying ways and are causing the Habs to lose so something MUST be done. I mean REALLY? Why doesn't anyone ever write this crap about the Montreal media? Wouldn't we all love to know who's partying where? You're talking about 3 fairly young players who are ridiculously popular in Montreal and can get in basically anywhere without having to wait. I can understand the team being concerned if it was affecting their play on the ice but there is absolutely no way that it is. It irritates me because someone like Higgins works his ass off every shift, and he might not always be producing but he sure as hell is not lazy or "hungover". I mean if they have a drinking problem then they must be sharing their alcohol with the rest of the team as well.

I'm really concerned about whether or not we make the playoffs. Not because it will immediately shut away the stanley cup dream..but it worries me that we might lose Saku over it. I wouldn't blame him, but how long can one man keep playing for a shitty team. I want nothing more then to see Saku get a cup but I don't see it happening with the Habs. He's said over and over again that he has no intention of going anywhere, but that was also said before the team started stinking it up. He said it back when he thought we were real contenders. I'm not looking forward to the end of this season. I just can't see him in another jersey.

All the single ladies...

I needed last night. I needed an excuse to laugh for hours on end. I needed to get away from everything and be with some of the important people in my life. I had some of the ladies, and James, over last night for a single ladies dinner. None of us did anything on Valentines day so we decided it'd be nice to get together and hang out as 4 single people. It kind of helped me realize that I really don't need to be in a relationship right now. Yeah it's nice every once in awhile but at this point in my life I love being single. I told the gang to dress nicely and we had a nice big meal followed by chocolate fondue. It's amazing how easily entertained we are. We laughed a lot, listened to some music and then Mel yelled at the Habs which did not help them win the game. All in all I think it was a successful night and if we're all single this time next year we'll have to get together and do it again. This upcoming week is going to be absolutely ridiculous. After having done nothing remotely exciting since the January 24th show, I have a week of concerts planned. Friday night I head to the New Cities show with Jenn & Mel. It's going to be neat to see all the changes made to the music and their fanbase since we first started going to their shows. It should be a super entertaining night. Then we're heading out to Foufs for a girls night out. Sunday Melissa & I are finally heading out to a Hot Streak show. We've been telling the guys for about 5 months that we'd go to a show of theirs and we constantly bailed for one reason or another. This time we're actually going and I couldn't be more excited. Battle of the Bands is always a good time.

Oh & I'm still madly in love with Josh Groban(reeeeeeaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllyyyyyy?♥)

ADORE HIM.

He's the only person in the music industry that I'd pay a crapload of money to see live in concert. I don't think I've ever listened to one of his songs and not cried. Yeah that makes me sound really sappy but this mans voice gives me serious goosebumps. I wish he'd come to Montreal...

So many decisions

I have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my life. Why is it that at the age of 19 I'm stressed out of my mind over this?! I'm so used to having my life planned out for me from elementary school to high school to cegep...and now I'm just confused. I know I want to go into the music business. That's where my passion lies and where my heart will always be but getting there just seems to hard. I'm willing to do whatever I possibly can to make it but I have such limited options compared to other people. There's nothing offered in Montreal that can help me at this point and all the schools specializing in music business management are further away. I don't know if I'm ready to leave the province yet. I know my future isn't here. My french isn't strong enough for me to live out my career in Quebec.

I'm just so overwhelmed right now. It's not a pleasant feeling. I've officially decided that I won't be going back to school until atleast 2010. We'll see what the next year and a half brings. Maybe I'll travel a bit and maybe the time off will allow me to figure everything out. Rushing myself to make a decision won't solve anything. If I'm going to do this, I'm going to do it right.

Thank You

Thank you San Jose Sharks for restoring my faith in the sport of hockey.

My god I needed that..and to do it against the Boston Bruins..? I'm getting so excited for their little roadtrip to Montreal and Ottawa. Thursday the 26th I head to Ottawa for the Sens/Sharks game for FREE thanks to Athena who's the biggest sweetheart in the world. I've always wanted to go into another teams arena while sporting the rivals jersey. I mean the Sharks aren't REALLY a big rival of any Eastern team but I know I'm going to stick out like a sore thumb and I'm beyond excited. The only weird thing is going to be standing up when they score..I'm used to doing it alongside 21,273 deliriously crazy fans. Everyone says it's not possible to have two favorite teams. I can argue that.

It's about time

There's going to be some big changes made in my life when I come home from Cuba.

Mainly two.

2 For 10

Maybe it's because I'm not much of a team player. Maybe it's because I've never in my life played on a sports team. It just baffles me that a group of people can come together and all suddenly decide that they're going to stop caring at the exact same time. It makes me so sad to admit that there's no one on my hockey team who shows any heart..ever. Where are the guys that are supposed to be stepping it up? Where the hell is the Kovalev of 2007-2008? How is it physically possible for someone to be such a bi-polar player!?! For someone who claims that he wants to bring the cup to Montreal because he loves it here so much he's doing shit all to help out the team.

Last year it broke my heart thinking of trading anyone on the Habs but this year I'm ready to ship a good chunk of them off for a player with some heart who will make a difference during a slump. I wish we had an Ovechkin on our team. Someone who played for the love of the game and stepped out onto the ice every night with the goal of winning on their mind. If his team is having a shit game he steps up and motivates the team vocally and through his play. Where is our guy like that? Why does NOBODY stand up and make a difference? It disgusts me that we're allowing 5 goals in almost all of our games.

I'm not a bandwagoner fan. I've never been that way and I will NEVER be that way. The Habs are my team no matter what but there comes a point when even the die hards fans step back and go "Okay a loss is a loss but to not even try?". Why should I spend hundreds of dollars cheering in the stands if my team doesn't even show up? I might as well just be watching center ice for 2 1/2 hours. I guess it's always a positive that I still have the Sharks who hopefully CREAM the Bruins tomorrow or else I'll be incredibly depressed.

That was my rant of the night & I absolutely had to get it off my chest. The habs & I are not on good terms right now. I'm a hockey fan before I'm a Habs fan but it would be fantastic if my favorite team would..gee...I dunno..TRY?

Mike Boone:"No life on the bench. No life on the ice. They've packed it in"

New Year. New Me.

I'm on Day Two of my eat healthy diet. I'd noticed over the past few weeks that I'd been eating horribly and I started to feel really gross because of it. Cuba has been a huge motivational factor for me because I don't want to look heavy and out of shape in a bathing suit. I decided to start eating purely healthy food, with one junky item every three days. It's funny because I've already felt a difference. I've tried to avoid starch altogether, aside from rice. I've also started up an 8 minute ab & leg work out and I've started walking 20 minutes each day. I think I can do it. For some reason this time I'm really trying and I really want to see results. A little over a month until Cuba.....!!!