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Here’s a looksie back on the first 25% of the year that is passing by oh-so-quickly.
2009
January
Well the New Year started in a snow-storm, and included ‘House’ and chickpea casserole and cuddling with Gina and Lesley. Shabby? Not at all.
LEARNED: All about being a gym-rat. I hired a personal trainer. Like, for actual. My quest to not being so scrawny began last year.
DISCOVERED: ‘Bringing Up Baby’…Joan Baez…ok I’m a few decades behind here. And I was taken to the magnifique Comedy Bar.
SCENE STUDY: 2-part series of ‘DOGFIGHT’…I got to cuss a lot in the first one. And make-out a lot in the second, which also marked my first ‘good-bye’ scene.
SAW: ‘East of Berlin’ at the Tarragon Theatre. Droool.
FACEBOOK STATUS OF NOTE:
-meghan’s favorite customers are the charming gentlemen who pay for the newspaper and then let meghan keep them. the papers, she means.
-meghan accidentally ate the sticker off of a kiwi. twice.
-meghan is going into cardiac arrest because she just fucking talked to JUDITH THOMPSON omgomgomgomg what the what?!?!?!?!!??!?!?! FANGIRL OMG.
NEW YEAR’S EVE!
FEBRUARY
LEARNED: about my bio-siblings! Well, MORE about them.
DISLIKED: North York Hospital.
DISCOVERED: Just how difficult class was going to be on my heart.
ADVENTURED: To UTM where I was puked on by my dear Alison. No one had ever puked on me before nor have I been puked on since!
SCENE STUDY: A BEAUTIFUL MIND.
Also…’50 First Dates’…my second good-bye scene. There is about to be a trend in class of me crying and kissing.
FACEBOOK STATUS OF NOTE:
-meghan is stock-piling for her life!
-meghan is dick van dyke’s valentine
-meghan read once that craving spicy foods is a sign you are emotionally empty and need the spice to fill up. meghan eats a lot of curry after acting class
siiiiiigh
MARCH
“don’t go fighting against the spring”
LEARNED/DISCOVERED: The difference between ‘theatrical’ and ‘dramatic.’ And ‘art’ and ‘entertainment.’ Or how I personally would express this. Now when I go to see plays I think about the theatrical aspects, sets costumes lights physicality…and dramatic, the innate mythic (hopefully) STORY. Story story story. And ART, an expression of feeling, taking us to places and emotions we have been and felt before, and entertainment, which in contrast is an escape from reality. Escaping versus facing.
SAW: ‘Ubuntu’ at the Tarragon…which is what got the conversation of theatre vs. drama going in the first place. ‘Poor Boy’ aka Zuppa Theatre came to Toronto and brightened my life.
ALSO Rebecca Higgs at the Horse Shoe…epic frigging fantastic amazing.
DISLIKED: Epic nights of insomnia. TORONTO. I got reeeaaall mad with the city. And real home-sick.
ADVENTURED: To ImpromTuesday, a drop in class at the Second City. Kayla Lorette was teaching, fucking rad. It was my first time doing any sort of improv in a long time. I liked.
SCENE STUDY: 2nd pass of ’50 First Dates’…first work of ‘AMERICAN BEAUTY’…finally, a FUN scene and I don’t have to kiss anyone! Plus this lead to the friendship of Bianca and I. Rad.
FACEBOOK STATUS OF NOTE:
-meghan is trying to figure out what pair of underpants to wear in front of her scene study class today
-meghan – oh soy bacon, you are my only friend
-meghan is wishing for the dick van dyke to her mary tyler moore
here’s something that happened in march!
APRIL
SAW: Fiona Reid improvise a Tennessee Williams play with 2/3 of The National Theatre of the World. Pardon me? Your life sucks and my life is amazing? Yes. That’s what I thought you were saying. Oh, Fiona Reid, no one can compare to your Martha in ‘Who’s Afraid’.
SAW: UM OH I ONLY JUST SAW KRISTEN THOMSON PREFORM ‘I, CLAUDIA’…fucking…unreal…
ADVENTURED: To ImpromTuesday once more. This time we did long-form. Matt Baram sort of kicked our asses. I improvised giving birth to Frederic’s still-born baby.
APRIL was also the month in which Amanda, Skye and I sat in Fran’s for 10 hours.
DISCOVERED: SYLVIA PLATH POETRY. I had read a few before but in April I bought her complete poems…Life hasn’t been the same since.
LIKED: Kim visiting me!!! There was never more wine drank in my apartment than that glorious 4 days. Best night of all: Frederic and Raquel coming over while she was there. Good good night. ALSO LESLEY CAME TO VISIT…so many shades of necessary! (Necessary?!)
SCENE STUDY: First work of “White Oleander”…and then my partner left class. I’d love to do that scene again…OH! YEAH! Then I did “Hard Candy” which was my first POWER SCENE. Oh…and the GOOD-BYE SCENE FROM HELL…”Good Will Hunting.” The flightiest fight for my life. When I think back on that scene I just see Kit’s arms, his back, his angry angry eye…glass shattering, a shoe flying, and then I stop remembering and feel like weeping all over again.
FACEBOOK STATUS OF NOTE:
-meghan – torturing pedophile, brb
-meghan gets weepy about a club foot, laughs into her wine glass thus the wine explodes into her eyes, then gets on the street car really late
-meghan is the only person who could show up at the gym having forgotten her socks.
The Stones
By Sylvia Plath
This is the city where men are mended.
I lie on a great anvil.
The flat blue sky-circle
Flew off like the hat of a doll
When I fell out of the light. I entered
The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.
The mother of pestles diminished me.
I became a still pebble.
The stones of the belly were peaceable,
The head-stone quiet, jostled by nothing.
Only the mouth-hole piped out,
Importunate cricket
In a quarry of silences.
The people of the city heard it.
They hunted the stones, taciturn and separate,
The mouth-hole crying their locations.
Drunk as a foetus
I suck at the paps of darkness.
The food tubes embrace me. Sponges kiss my lichens away.
The jewelmaster drives his chisel to pry
Open one stone eye.
This is the after-hell: I see the light.
A wind unstoppers the chamber
Of the ear, old worrier.
Water mollifies the flint lip,
And daylight lays its sameness on the wall.
The grafters are cheerful,
Heating the pincers, hoisting the delicate hammers.
A current agitates the wires
Volt upon volt. Catgut stitches my fissures.
A workman walks by carrying a pink torso.
The storerooms are full of hearts.
This is the city of spare parts.
My swaddled legs and arms smell sweet as rubber.
Here they can doctor heads, or any limb.
On Fridays the little children come
To trade their hooks for hands.
Dead men leave eyes for others.
Love is the uniform of my bald nurse.
Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
The vase, reconstructed, houses
The elusive rose.
Ten fingers shape a bowl for shadows.
My mendings itch. There is nothing to do.
I shall be good as new.
Filed under: halifax, toronto | Tags: artists, beginnings, femfest, halifax, luna/sea, magnetic north, mauralealee, mirv, vulnerability, win, winnipeg, work
This afternoon I had a very unique and interesting experience. I sat in on a forum discussion/focus group between what I believe to be many prominent Winnipeg theatre artists and Ken Cameron of the Magnetic North Theatre Festival. It opened up my eyes to how similar Winnipeggers and Haligonian writers, directors, creators, feel. We’re from small cities that DO produce great work, yet are clearly underrepresented when our country’s theatre world is being defined. The sense I gathered was, artists feel isolated and unappreciated by larger cities. Example: If something amazing happens in Toronto, everyone knows about it. But what about exciting things like FemFest (did you know women can write plays, too??) which is all Female, Canadian work (not just Peggers) or Luna/Sea’s BRILLIANT “To Capture Light” in May 2008? Ask someone in Toronto about THOSE!
I’m not meaning to point fingers at the Tdot because I live there now and I thoroughly enjoy heading out to shows and festivals there. It is an inspiring and exciting city. I am pointing all of my fingers at all of us, I guess? I had no idea the theatre community in the Prairies so closely resembled the one by the ocean’s shore…because I have never been here obviously and have never met anyone from here in Halifax, or Toronto. (Save Hope, AD of Sarasvati Productions, who pretty much rocks my world for giving me the yes my show needed and bringing me here and putting on a kick-ass festival…OH and Lee and Mauralea who taught me in Halifax, but by the time they taught me they had been away from Winnipeg for many years and living in NS.)
Blather, I am rambling. YES we all need to embrace our individual cities, cultures, provinces, etcetera. But my GOD it is just THEATRE can’t we all get along, and be friends?? Our challenge now is finding a way to perhaps tour more shows, or generate audiences from across the country, bringing people to where they would love to be, …or maybe more time can be spent workshopping and delving into pieces, brightening them up, polishing them off and getting scripts mounted across the country…
‘Hey Ottawa, check out this cool show out of Sackville, NB! Hey Calgary, check out this amazing Toronto improv group! Whaddup Winnipeg, here’s a pretty rad show from Halifax. Oh hey, St. John’s, have this new-age technical experiment piece from Vancouver.” ETCETERA ETCETERA.
How, how, how can we stop pitting cities against each other, and instead transfuse theatre from one place to the next? To CONNECT our whole COUNTRY, to stop feeling immobile, or like we all have to be in Toronto, or shunning out other cities or isolating ourselves to one spot like an angsty teenager who locks themselves in their room? IT’S ART, IT’S THERE TO MAKE LIFE LESS BLAND AND DULL AND HORRIFYING. Do we not create theatre to connect, to escape, to reflect, to FEEL LESS ALONE? I felt today that the artists in Manitoba want to share their work with other people (not just other artists) the same way the people of Nova Scotia do, the way many small-but-mighty groups probably feel. And shouldn’t we be open and welcoming to the things that come from far away?
Dear everyone in Canadian Theatre,
treat others the way you would like to be treated.
Dear Winnipeg,
you guys rock my world.
Dear anyone who read this,
I realize it’s just a lot of questions and pretty non-sensical. I’m running on tofu and peanut butter m&ms and so not enough sleep.
82 QUESTIONS ABOUT SOMEONE FAR TOO MICAELA-ISH.
1) What’s their name? Micaela
2) Does he/she have a boyfriend/girlfriend? Mais oui
3) Do you get along with this person all the time? Pretty much always and whenever, except when I don’t mention her in one little vlog so I have to dedicated a whole blog entry to her face.
4) How long have you known each other? 4 years.
5) Has he/she ever cooked for you? OH BABY OH BABY OH BABY.
6) Is this person older than you? Nein.
7) Have you ever kissed this person? On the cheek!
Have you ever swore at him/her? All the fucking god damn time mother licker.
9) Are you related to this person? In our hearts.
10) Are you really close to him/her? Si, but not physically 😦
11) Nickname? Mica. She-Sheppard.
12) Do they have a nickname for you? She calls me lady a lot. I wonder if she knows my real name 😦 😦
13) How many times do you talk to this person during a week? As much as I can.
14) Will this person re-post this? NO
15) Do you live with these people? WE LIVED TOGETHER for 2 or 3 glorious weeks in July. There was much 30 Rock and J-Lo and Hippie Jugs and Nutella.
16) Why did you pick this person? To soothe her pain.
18) How long have you been close to this person? Like, 3.75 years.
19) Have you ever been to the mall with this person? Oh yeah, we both used to work shitty jobs there in grade 12.
20) Have you ever had a sleepover with this person? Many. One time I slept upside down in her bed…I was pretty illin’…it was my 1st 4:20.
21) If you ever moved away would you miss this person? I have and I do.
23) Have you ever done something really stupid or illegal with this person? ALL OF THE ABOVE APPLY a lot. Someday the Metric concert will be funny…some day…
24) Do you know everything about this person? Lots????
25) Would you date this person’s siblings? HAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH awwwwkward.
26) Have you been to this person’s house? Yeah.
29) Have you gone skinny dipping with this person? And by skinny dipping, I mean SEX.
31) Is this person on drugs? I couldn’t tell you, I’m too fucked up for this!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SLUG!!!
33) Have you ever worn this person’s clothes? Sometimes.
34) Does this person wear your clothes? Sometimes.
35) If it was “freaky friday” would you switch bodies with this person? Oh hell yes, she be slammin’.
36) Have you ever heard this person sing? Yeah and me likey.
38) Do you and this person have a saying/word? Now I may be blind, but I can hear somethings loud and clear. Glug glug glug. Getchersexyon.
39) Do you know this persons Facebook password? No.
44) Have you and this person gone clubbing? Once. More times plz.
45) Do you know how to make this person feel happy? Pizza. Dope. Disney. Snuggles.
46) Do you and this person talk a lot? I wish more.
47) Do you like this person as a friend? Hate.
48) Has this person yelled at you? I think???
49) Have you and this person got into a fist fight? Not that I remember.
51) Do you want to be friends with them forever? PLZ.
52) When is the last time you talked to this person? Via fbook yesterday.
53) Do you text this person? Yep, probably too much.
54) Do you and this person talk on the phone? LONG DISTANCE 😦
55) Descibe this person in one word – delightful.
56) Does this person like anyone? Me.
57) Have you ever played a sport or watched a sport with this person? IMPROV. Hahah wait…
58) Have you met this person’s family? Yeahyeah some of ‘em.
59) Has this person been to your house? UHYEAH.
60) Do you and this person have a special song? OOOH BABY DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT’S WORTH? OOOH HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH. … among others…<3
61) Have you told this person you loved them before? Yes.
62) Did they say it back? In her way.
63) Do you think this person still loves you? I do!
64) Can they make you laugh alot? Like no other…
65) Do you hang out with this person on weekends? When we are in the same city.
66) Would you consider this person your best friend? DEFINATLY one of them. If this was Myspace she’d be in my top 8. And by Myspace, I mean bedroom. And by top 8, I mean PANTS.
67) Do you miss this person? All the time.
68) Is there a song that describe the relationship between you and this person? Oh so many. WATERLOO KNOWING MY FATE IS TO BE WITH YOU
69) Have you danced with this person? oh fucking hell. We are made of dance.
70) Do you think this person is going to be surprised you wrote this about them? Tell your gay mom I said thanks.
71) How many siblings does this person have? 0.5
72) If so, brother or sister? 0.5 sister
73) Have you ever cried in front of this person? yeeeashhhh????
74) When is the next time you will see this person? in my dreams
75) Do you tell this person secrets? Sorta. Yeah.
76) Do you trust this person? so much!
77) Does this person trust you? Mehopes.
78) What is this persons middle name? Commonworthy.
79) What is this person’s full name? Kenneth Ellen Page.
80) Where does this person live? New Zealand.
81) Have you ever seen them cry? Probably????
82) Does this person speak another language? Body language.
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Filed under: halifax, neptune, toronto | Tags: adventure, alice in wonderland, artists, brunch, dancing, family, femfest, honey&jupiter, hugs, joni m, kaypee, kelin, metric, neptune, shakespeare, sinclair, tea, vulnerability, winnipeg, work
life has been bundles of confusion, energy, mud, airplanes, pot, shakespeare, ginger ale and madness. there are not enough bicycle rides or journal entries or dance classes (yet!), but there are a lot of people to see and a lot of things to talk about.
biggest and best would probably be; Honey&Jupiter , my first play that I directed at the Atlantic Fringe Festival last year, is going to be preformed in Winnipeg this fall at FEMFEST. I am elated…first professional production at a festival run by the President of the Playwright’s Guild of Canada! I get to work on the script with a dramaturg and everything…so, so excited…and scared…and excited…
I am now home in HALIWOOOOD teaching me some Shakespeare. The students are two 15 year olds and four 14 year olds, all girls. They are all on very different maturity levels and theatre levels but they are all keen and hungry to learn, they make me well up with happy tears on an hourly (yep, hourly) basis.
I saw my favorite band live for free yesterday. METRIIIIIIIC. Yeah they are my favorite. I have been an anxious crazy the last week or so (lack of working out makes me want to cry all the time. No, but really…) and i feel like listening to Metric is one of the only things I can do to manage the blues. I love them bigger and badder than anyone else who loves them…yep, I went there. Unfortunatly me and Mic made some unwise choices we feel we’ll laugh about in 20 years before Metric played, so I spent the first half of their set paranoid, lost in the crowd, and with a ghost-white face&blue lip combination. But by the time Sinclair found me and we rocked our faces off together, I was rejuvenated by the magic that is besteverbandever.
tell me you aren't blown away by how fucking brilliant they are
Today I had brunch with Kim, who gave me a very Alice dress. This was perfect as I then went to dirty Dtown for a tea party at Kelin’s. Kelin is like every Joni Mitchell song blossomed into a beautiful blonde artist in a white dress and pearls, who gives the best hugs and makes the best cookies. Like that. I needed to see both of these ladies really bad, so it worked out well.
ANYWAY. I wrote a poem tonight called EDGE and it is going to speak for me now. Read and enjoy.
On the verge of on the verge of
Somethings on the verge;
Pain.
Words fester…
Silence,
Blank pages disguise pain,
It’s white noise.
On the verge of
Screaming tears.
I wish with all my made-up might
To uncloak the sorrow
Dig my nails in scratch off the mask
Uncover the words
Unbury the words
Scratching the surface
Where I sit so square
Play so safe it hurts.
Keep so quiet I choke.
Sit so still I ache.
Unable to
Get off the verge and
Dive in
Crash
Rinse refresh
Instead I let my mind rot
Words fester; Tangled language.
A rat’s nest sits where my heart used to wheeze.
Filed under: halifax, sbux, toronto | Tags: adventure, alice in wonderland, fosse, paper journal, red hair, shakespeare, skye, sparling, video, work
1. put gym membership on hold.
2. read more shakespeare than you could shake a speare at (see what i did there…!!)
3. see ‘awake and sing’ at soulpepper…and ‘the glass menagerie’ at red barn theatre and ‘school’s out‘ at the bathurst street theatre…
4. (re)learn original Fossee Choregraphy to ‘All That Jazz’ (I drunkenly tried to learn it when I was 15…)
finding these videos are making me totally into CHICAGO once more…15 year old Meghan is fangirling the hell out of Ann Reinking.
5. eat the most indian food as i can before going home to white old halifax.
6. debate getting tattoo…i kind of want something alice-in-wonderland-esque, which sounds SOOOO cliche and hipster and blahblahblah but alice is actually so dear to my heart, for so many nostalgic and psychological reasons…oh wait, do i sound like a crazy person? anyway i found my acting journal from 2005, and it;s an alice notebook with gorgeous illustrations and quotes inside. i stumbled on the following quote and it spoke to my heart so strongly i almost cried upon reading. (but didn’t…because the quote told me not to!!) one of those moments when the universe knows you need something, and so you get it:
Consider what a great girl you are.
Consider what a long way you’ve come today.
Consider what o’clock it is.
Consider anything, only don’t cry!”
-The White Queen (fr. ‘Through the Looking Glass & What Alice Found There.)
The universe has been offering lots of things I really need the past 2 or days. A night out dancing to sixties music with Skye, many a jolly jaunt with my visiting Ginger sister, late-night playground adventures, lovely people to give free cappucinnos and crispy marshmallow squares to, hugs and kisses galore, I’M BACK IN FILM CLASS uuuuughhhhh and will miss the hell out of it all summer….and two other huge exciting things that are not official or the details are not finalized yet so I shall not broadcast them on the world wide web yet, but let’s just say, my soul is going to melt and my mind is going to explode.
7. MAKE REAL TO DO LISTS THAT I DO INSTEAD OF POSTING ON THE INTERWEAB.
Here is something I will miss about Toronto, a huge amount:
Rexie, KCan, Ryan, Fletchface, &Edder. I will not miss looking like a tipsy baby dinosaur in photgraphs with them, though. Oh heck, yes I will!
Filed under: halifax | Tags: adventure, amanda carol, artists, beginnings, family, party, quessica, slane, work
this summer i will be teaching for 8 weeks at theatre school!
these are my classes;
SHAKESPEARE (Ages 14-18):
Shakespeare’s plays were written to be performed. Students will learn the skills to make classical text come to life in this intensive two week camp. Using scenes from the Bard’s scripts students will gain an understanding of classical verse and how to bring it to life. Join us and make the world your stage.
CENTER STAGE (Ages 14-18):
This advanced theatre camp is for students who want to perform. The two week camp will consist of morning voice and body warm-ups, exercises in acting technique and ensemble building. Afternoons will be spent rehearsing a play which will be performed for family, friends and the rest of the camp on the last day. Get ready to take centre stage!
GIRLFRIENDS (Ages 7-9)
In this camp we will use theatre games, art, poetry and a whole lot of fun to explore the world of being a girl. Using collaboration and imagination we will create a short play to share with family and friends on the last day of camp.
THEATRE JAM (Ages 7-9)
In this camp students will create an original piece of theatre in a collaborative setting. Students will become actors, playwrights and directors as they jam on ideas and are guided through theatre exercises, creation, rehearsal and the presentation of their very own performance project which will be shared with friends and family on the final day.
Expect updates of hilarious student quotes, exhausted and emotional me, and PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE of how amazing the summer will be.
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the detox has come to an end!!! hello, peanut butter! hello, feta cheese! tonight, hell-oooo samosas and chutney!! i feel totally kick started and energized. i still haven’t had coffee, or substance. i wonder how long that’ll go?
so HOME; let’s discuss home.
thursday lesley and i landed and mom, dad and irma were there at the airport. had dinner with mom, dad, irma, my god-mother, her daughter, and my grandparents. hilarious. Allison came over later, for at midnight she turned 19 and we got all drunked up and went dancing at Tribecca.
KATE joined us as well to do some damage.
highlights include epic photo taking with allison, and getting in trouble for dancing on a chair.
friday after a bike ride where i almost wept because it felt so, so good to cycle again, and a massage/chiropractor apointment (my neck is a rock. thanks, toronto.) i hosted our first druncheon. “our” meaning the bestest of ladies, claire, jessica, lesley, slaney and falvey. (missed out on gina, though…)
i just adore them. what a festival of cupcake sandwiches, meatless balls, hours upon hours of drinking sangria…and classic conversation ranging from john mccain to kittens inspired by kittens.
friday night was rhys and andrea’s house-warming party which means i got pretty faded and marveled at all of the wonderful people i missed who seemed happy to see me. (valentina and i decided we needed to make up for all the hugs we missed out on while i’ve been away so throughout the night one of us would yell “SPONTANEOUS HUG!” and we’d embrace. decadent!!)
saturday i biked to meet lesley at the market where we saw mary-dan playing the fiddle, robyn selling vegetables, and jackie torrens being awesome. wired monk for muffins, then to the theatre school where i grew up to sit with jessica and loiter as we have done for the last 6 years of our life. saw many a familar, beautiful, smoochable face.
then i biked to the ferry and went on the ferry to dirty dee to see INTO THE WOODS and got to watch beautiful people on stage and laugh my fool head off with keelin. sushi with dad followed, then to KERRI’S, who was one of my room-mates last year. her cousins and friends who i became friends with last year came over. claire came, too, and kate leth with david bowie make-up. adrian brought tequila.
i would tell you about the rest of the night but i honestly don’t remember much and it freaks me out. i know once we went out to RETRO NIGHT we met up with some of my friends from high school, lesley and her cousin, and i danced the night away with a stranger. but seriously. i was a wreck and don’t think i’ll be drinking for a long, long time.
sunday mother’s day so OBVIOUSLY had brunch with my hero martha irving and my other hero maddy, psuedo sister poet. (martha’s daughter.) hero-licious. falafel and eggs, pancake good size, a fort of menus and salt shakers, um, and probably the classiest gift i have ever received. a clutch that held a beautiful painted bracelet and hanky!! i love them so, so much.
mom and irma and i went to see a play in the early evening that was soooo nova scotian i hurt from smiling at it. then mom and i had thai food, and i hung out with my soul mate kelin in the second cup on spring garden with tea and mike&ikes. i got home and convinced etta to come over for an impromptu hang-out at 11pm, and fell asleep happy and heart warmed, my last night of 19.
monday; my birthday! rode my bike to dartmouth with sarah dee!
we went to see the house her & her boyfriend just bought, then we had tea at the papier chase because it’s not halifax unless i go to the paper chase, people!! i proceeded to visit citadel high, even though i didn’t go there…but they closed my high school and so people who taught me are there now. before i even got into the building i was hugging mrs. cowan, pretty much my bff in grade 12, and mr. coats, my drama 10, 11, 12, dance 11 and poli sci 12 teacher slash improv coach (when he showed up) slash school father…siiiigh. i missed them too much! falvey met me because she goes there. how i love her.
that night was the most hysterical dinner of all time.
my mom, my dad, irma (my mom’s partner), nancy (my step-mom), pat (step-brother), both sets of grand parents, my god-parents (who are now divorced), and their daughter/my life-long friend. i am so blessed that these people can all come together despite how awkward it sounds, to be with me. and it’s not even that…everyone gets along and laughs and shares and talks and is a family.
that night i met up with gina and lesley for martinis and swedish berries at the bitter end. beams are gonna blind me. being apart from them physically hurts. it was short but (bitter) sweet. we’re all away together though…gina in the states, me in toronto and lesley in rome. (jerk.)
tuesday was my last day…micaela came over for breakfast and we made eggs and had cornbread and jam, coffee and hot chocolate and gelato. we made up for lost time and put on stupidly funny accents and she made me a huge list of bands and singers to check out. i asked her to live at my mom’s house with me in july if i go home for the summer because mom&irma will be at the cottage…we’d have a pretty wicked home together. maybe i should just marry her?? elle oh elle.
halifax ws really good for my self-esteem. it reminded me i have so many people who love me, and who i love back completly. they are all different, different people, different loves, but they are my family. i remembered how much fun i am capable of having no matter where i go. i came back to toronto feeling way less meek, way less silenced. i am pretty smitten with toronto right now, but halifax will always be home, and i am so proud.
Filed under: halifax, toronto | Tags: 30 rock, artists, birthday, druncheon, elle smith, family, frederic, hero burger, kajayjay, party, rain, skye, slacker, video, wine
i effing adore sitting in hero burger with skye and being mesmerized by rubix cubes and ketchup.
i effing adore skye and
you know whats funny?
i’m really going to miss toronto while i’m away!
things like class, and the gym, cee bar…
but holy god
i am so overwhelmed to go home!
i am micro-managing for realsies.
plans as i know them are:
bike ride and dinner on thursday, then out for allison s’s birthday.
massage on friday morning, druncheon with the ladies, rhys and norwood’s house-warming party.
saturday the market and wired monk with lesley, matinee of into the woods with alison b, potentially paddling with my dad on the lake in waverley, gins at kerri’s then retro night.
sunday is mama’s day…we’re seeing a show at the supernova festival then probably getting sushi. sunday day/late sunday night remain free. i think gina gets home that day so i hope i see her.
monday is my actual D.O.B., so i know in the evening i’m having dinner with mom, dad, and both sets of grandparents.
tuesday i fly back to toronto but hope for an epic brunch before i leave. definatly need to see martha & mads while i am home.
oh god. don’t ask me if i’m packed.
i’ll tell you about 30 Rock and how frederic just skyped me from china!!!! (ooooh.)
and wine i am drinking…
PS: my ring tone is DEFINATLY “everyday” by buddy holly.
check it;
Filed under: halifax, toronto, video | Tags: birthday, elle smith, frederic, video
saturday night’s alright for rambling.
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