Sheumais!

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Here is my new baby boy!

I've been using blogger for a couple of years now and with the move to Goggle, and Google decided to move any photo's I've uploaded to my blog, to Picasa, I'm thinking it's time to move away from Blogger.

Just a thought, but if you're the bartender at a venue hosting a bartending competition, don't under pour. You should never under pour, but in a room full of people that know what the hell you're doing?

Fuck off.

Announcing the Arrival...

I would like to take this opportunity to annouce the arrival of a 8 lb, 10 month old, baby boy into Zerly Estates. He has been named Sheumais Ainslie.

Pictures to follow once he stops hiding behind the toilet.

After two weeks of not being allowed to tell anybody because I knew before the parents knew, I can finally openly congratulate my best friend and his lovely wife on the impending arrival of their first child!

I am going to spend my entire summer knitting.

Sing, sing, sing!

So for the last few months I have been feeling like crap. I have been fairly unbearable. I couldn't stand to be around me. I was constantly tired, and not just a bit, but really, bone tired. More than once I needed to put my head down on my desk and nap. I was sleeping about 18 hours on the weekends and I would have slept that much during the week if my job hadn't been in the way. I really don't know how anybody put up with me.

Anyway, much bloodletting later and I have a clean bill of health, the tiny fact that my iron count is down in the mid-single digits (not good) not withstanding. So I'm on iron pills, and I'm eating a hell of a lot more meat than I normally do, and I’m drinking more juice with the meat (vitamin C promotes the absorption of iron), and generally being really hyper aware of what I’m eating. Now I normally eat well but meat is something I rarely cook, I’m just not so good at it. My goal for this year is to master the art of cooking meat.

Anyway, long story short, it’s like my body has gone from 0 to 160 over night. I’m feeling more than a little crazy. I went from having zero attention span to suddenly paying attention to everything. I’m blaming my current obsessive behaviour towards music on this influx of iron and energy. I figure once my body levels out things will start to settle down but man, until it does I’m feeling more than slightly crazy.

I’m so restless that I load my iPod up with the music I am obsessing over and head out into the streets and wander around. I don’t go far because it’s been pretty chilly here the last few days. The other night I was out and it started to snow, out of nowhere, and not a little. It was pretty hard to see. It was awesome.

Oh, and to give you an idea what I’m talking about when I say that I’m dealing with some obsessive issues, I have an example from last night. I was sitting here listening to “Clown Prince” by The Hilltop Hoods, and there are four lines in the song that I love the sound of, just the way they fit together. I swear I listened to just those four lines about 30 times. I wish I was kidding.

Crazy talk, I know. I live in the House of Madness.

I can hear a number of people saying “Well duh” to themselves. Shut it.

I am super in love with Skinny Puppy's "Mythmaker". When it came out last year I never got around to listening to it and now I'm sorry. It is now in heavy rotation along with all the other music I've become obsessed with.

I've been listening to music like I'm back in high school. Back when I was able to listen to the same song over and over and over again, back to back, and not get sick of it. It's been a very long time since I've been able to listen to music like that.

I am simply mad for bagpipes and pipe bands.

In the days when I was living in The World's Greatest Apartment I could hear a piper every so often. I wasn't sure where they were but it was awesome when I would be in the middle of something and suddenly notice there was the faint sound of the pipes. And it was none of that Scotland the Brave or Amazing Grace crap you always hear.

One of my favourite sounds in the world.

Carbon Kid - Alpinestars
Sons and Daughters - The Decemberists
In One Ear & Out The Other - Fujiya & Miyagi
Free Until They Cut Me Down - Iron & Wine
The Crane Wife 3 - The Decemberists
Running Up That Hill - Placebo
World Shut Your Mouth - Julian Cope

These seven songs are running through my head constantly these days. To the point of distraction.

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing

Tonight was a huge night for me. I managed to head out to a bar, where I wasn't totally sure the people I was supposed to meet were going to be there, and I actually managed to walk in the door.

I am so glad I did.

It took me a couple of tries. I got about half a block away and I turned around to leave. I ended up going around the block instead and just did it.

I had a great night.

When the shadows fall

I knew that moving to Calgary was going to be good for me. I also knew that living here was going to be a temporary thing. I haven't even been here a year and I'm already planning my next move. I also know that my next move is only temporary. I most likely, when all is said and done, end up back in Vancouver.

I'm not ready to go back yet, but I feel like it's inevitable. Who knows, I could be wrong.

I am sure that I want to leave Calgary one day. I can't spend forever here. As much as I love it, I can't be here forever. I can live this far away from the ocean forever. I am not meant to live inland.

Over the next two years I will be saving and plotting and planning.

I don't know exactly what I want, I don't know where I want to be, but I'm finally, at long last, starting to figure it all out.

Dear Minnesota Public Radio

Please make your network not suck.

90% of the time I try to access your website I can't. I try every method of listening to your wonderful station and I still can't get a steady connection.

Thank you.

Dawn Z(ed)