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The coupon code is ONPOT-1N5N1-0517. The bar code on the coupon is PADXX-MILLS PKGX but I am not sure that you will need that.
Enjoy!
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That’s right, lately I’ve been pretty lazy. I haven’t wrote anything in the blog since I left for Ottawa so I will begin from there. (You better get comfy, it’s long)
The Ottawa trip was a lot of fun. This time we got to stay longer than a couple of days. We left on Friday June 30th right after work. By the time we made it to Ottawa it was past 3AM. I don’t speed much anymore since my record is now clean (I learned the hard way).
Canada Day was lots of fun. We went downtown, there was a gazillion people. There were people setup on the streets playing music, doing tricks, selling crap and trying to talk to you about Jesus. I still can’t believe how much money some guy made by taking a step ladder and doing a back flip off of it. The crowd around this guy was huge. When he finally jumped I was like “that’s it?”. I thought something cooler was going to happen. He could of set himself on fire or something. Then I would of paid money to see that. Apparently there was about 300,000 people in that part of town that day.
After we walked around the crowded streets we went to the Aulde Dubliner in the market to drink some beer.
We ended up taking over the patio and drank beer for over 6 hours. We saw all kinds of people in those 6 hours (just look at the guy in the blue latex suit). I also got a funny video of a bum doing a cartwheel. Of course since it was Canada Day they had special menu’s out. To give you an idea how special, some chicken nachos were $17. It made for an expensive afternoon (new home owners). It was nice an sunny pretty much the whole day until the fireworks. It started to drizzle when it was time for the fireworks but they turned out good anyways.
On Sunday we did what we usually do when we go to Ottawa. We hit up Ikea and the Costco’s. Yeah I know but we don’t have those stores here. We needed some stuff for the new house so it turned out good. Last year when I went I only bought a brush to wash the dishes (best damn brush though). On Sunday night we were going to check out Barrymores for 80’s night but after waiting in line for close to an hour we decided to leave. We went to Social and sat in the courtyard for some drinks instead. It was a perfect night for patio drinking.
On Monday we went to the Museum of Civilization. I’m not big on museums but it was alright. The main feature was Petra - Lost City of Stone. They also had expositions about the history of Canada, First Nations People, Canada Post, Nursing, and Ice Skating. We also saw “Kilimanjaro - To the Roof of Africa” in the huge Imax dome. That was pretty cool. Later that afternoon I helped my cousin build a deck off the back of his house. It turned out pretty nice. I can’t wait to drink beer on it now.
On Tuesday we headed off to Sudbury right after eating breakfast at Denny’s. I’ve been to Denny’s twice now, it’s great. In Sudbury we went out for supper with Jenn’s friend Anya since it was her birthday not too long ago. Then we did some more shopping.
Wednesday was back home!
So in the last week I ended up spending quite a bit of money on shopping, restaurants and beer. It was alright though because we are on holidays. It could of been worse, we could of been in Calgary at the stampede spending way more money. I think buying a house was a better choice though.
Tomorrow I start eating better, exercising more and getting stuff done. We have less than 2 weeks left until we have to move. I still have so much packing to do, I am not looking forward to it.
Mini-putting, batting and bowling. Those are all things that I haven’t done in the longest time. Well except for Saturday.
We started off by hitting up the mini-putt. I did pretty good and ended up beating Jenn. After that we tried out the batting cages. I remembered why I don’t play baseball, I can’t hit worth shit. Jenn was smart and tried the soft ball instead of the hard ball.
We went to see Nacho Libre for the matinee and I was rather dissapointed with it. I figured it would be a lot funnier but it wasn’t. If you haven’t seen it yet, wait until it comes out on DVD or even better, wait until a friend rents it and go watch it there.
After supper we went to a friends, drank some beers and went bowling. Bowling is really not my thing. I usually can’t hit 100 points but this time I was really drunk and I think the beer helped. Our first game everyone was laughing at me because I only had 26 points after the 5th frame. At the end of that game I got lucky and got 2 strikes in a row and ended up beating my good friend. He was pretty mad because I beat him and I suck. The funniest part was I killed him again the next game. Out of 10 frames I got 5 strikes! I finished with a 184! I warned him that when I hit my 8th beer I am an awesome bowler but he didn’t believe me. The best part is I have the pictures to prove it! I don’t think I will ever let him forget how much he sucks at bowling now.
After bowling we did the mistake of going to get poutine at the worlds best poutine place. It’s always so tasty (loaded with cheese) but you always end up feeling like you’re gonna die after. I’m sure there has got to be over 1000 calories in one poutine. We went back to my friends new house and drank more beer. I got to bed it was past 3:30am.
I found this on the internet this morning. I wasn’t able to embed it into this post for some reason. You have to check it out. Happy Easter!
Last night was amazing! That was definately the best Matt Good concert I’ve ever been to. I was also very impressed by Melissa McClelland. Her performance was excellent and she even went back up with Matt to perform a duo at the end. We lucked out and got some pretty sweet seats right in front of the stage. I think we were about 15 feet away, look at the pictures.
As you can see from my last post I got to meet Matt after the concert. I was so damn nervous. When it came time to talk to him I couldn’t spit out the words. I got my Loser Anthems B-Sides and Rarities promo disc signed, it’s one of the rarest Matt Good item I have (still haven’t found Lo-Fi B-Sides EP). On my way out of his bus I turned around and thanked him for the xmas gift (signed picture of him and Jenny) and told him I was Paul from paulyblog.com. He remembered who I was at that point. Then I shook his hand and told him it was nice to finally meet him. Don’t ask me why I shook his hand, I know he hates shaking hands, he’s mentioned it in a podcast or online at one point before but I was nervous as hell and forgot. I’m sorry Matt. Don’t worry though, I’m not sick.
Not only did I get to meet Matt Good, I also got to meet Lauren White a.k.a. Raymi. My friend Ashley mentioned Raymi was on tour with Matt so I checked her blog to see if she was going to be in North Bay. On her blog it only showed the Kingston, Waterloo and Ottawa show so I e-mailed her to see if she was going to North Bay. By the time I got to the hotel Ashley messaged me saying Raymi was going to be at the show. About 5 minutes after that I got an e-mail from Raymi saying she was already in North Bay so I told her I would see her at the show. When Matt hit the stage I saw Raymi off to the side of the stage. During Matt’s encore I managed to get there and introduced myself. She’s really down to earth and nice to talk to. She’s awesome (and better link me to her website)! We talked for a while and she told us if we wanted to get anything signed to meet her in the back by the tour bus. It was really nice to meet you Raymi and thanks for the info. That made my day.
I uploaded a few of the many pictures I took. Enjoy!
I’m so excited!! Tomorrow at 1PM sharp I am leaving for North Bay where I will see Matthew Good live at The Wall. For those of you who don’t know, Matthew Good is my favorite artist. His music is great, he is creative and he is Canadian! The last time I saw Matthew Good was in April 2003 at the Metropolis in Montreal. That was the best concert I ever went to, except the fact that I got a speeding ticket on the way there (140km/h in a 90km/h). Tonight I’m packing a travel bag, recharging the batteries in my digital camera and trying to think of the songs he will sing tomorrow night!
I will post the pictures when I get back on Friday.
It’s 8AM and I am getting ready to go for a haircut. After my haircut it’s off to the camp where I will bring my snowmobile for the summer and bring back my four wheeler to town. I loaded the sled into the truck last night. I wanted to get that done before all the snow banks melted. There’s no way I could get the sled in there without driving it up some kind of ramp. Way too heavy. I will stay at the camp for supper but not overnight because I want to make it to my running clinic tomorrow morning. We are running 12K. Should be fun.
On our Ottawa trip last weekend I took some pictures of….
Jenn drinking on the bus
Us drinking some green beer on St. Patrick’s Day
Me and Jenn at the Sens game (in which they won 4-2!).
Our visit to the Parliament where we saw some protesters
And other pictures of us having fun
I got this joke via e-mail this week and thought it was pretty funny. I had to share it.
Martin, Harper and Layton are flying on the Executive Airbus to a gathering in British Columbia when Martin turns to Harper and says, chuckling, “You know, I could throw a $1000 bill out the window right now and make someone very happy.” Harper shrugs and replies, “Well, I could throw ten $100 bills out the window and make ten people happy.” Not to be outdone, Layton says, “Well I could throw a hundred $10 bills out the window and make a hundred people happy.” The pilot rolls his eyes and says to his co-pilot, “Such arrogant asses back there. Hell, I could throw all three of them out the window and make 32 million people happy.”
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