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should be vs can’t stop & am

Published on December 14, 2007 by Corinna Carlson | 0 Comments

I should be:

  • making sock monkeys
  • AT LEAST mailing cards and writing letters to our Grandparents
  • sending cards period
  • light cleaning
  • reading Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • reading The Time Traveler’s Wife
  • returning DVDs
  • getting the Christmas box out of storage
  • catching up on my iGoogle blog feed
  • compiling a detailed list for packing
  • contacting the Greeper sitters
  • compiling a detailed list for the Greeper sitters

I can’t stop:

  • eating seedless mandarin oranges and sweet and salty peanut butter bars
  • playing Guitar Hero III. I FINISHED ONE, Metallica ON HARD TODAY
  • watching Dr. Phil and Hot Topics on The View
  • loading my pipe with Christmas cheer
  • playing on TWITTER. I have asked C.J to pimp my Twitter, it will be awesome, I know it
  • playing on Facebook, even though I am sucking at responding to Facebook mail lately
  • being hyper
  • being in a good mood
  • being excited about going TO THE LAND OF COLD AND SNOW next weekend

I am:

  • slowly catching up on my blog feed
  • going to watch Blazing Saddles tonight

weekend update almost a week late

Published on December 13, 2007 by Corinna Carlson | 0 Comments

I hurt my back again and had to come home from work again like a pussy last weekend and have been off all week. I go back this weekend. Work are being so good to me it is awesome. I haven’t put my back out like this in YEARS as noted by my chiropractor who always has to flip back through his notes and ALWAYS asks have you seen anyone else since you were last here and I always answer with, this is the only place I go, every few years when I need it. I do not know exactly what I did to it. I obviously didn’t let it heal right when it first started to bother me because this time was just like last time which was I guess two and a half weeks ago now. I wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary I was sitting with Adam drinking coffee and BAM all of sudden searing back pain. I even said to my boss I had been out the night before but again I wasn’t doing anything out of the ordinary as I was playing Guitar Hero III at Tanya’s, I was not rocking out any harder than normal in fact I’d say less hard considering how much I suck playing in front of ANYONE, even Adam. If I was ever a real rock star I could never play live. UNLESS it was Air Guitar because that is hard to screw up so I think I would keep public appearances to Air Guitar.

Check out this seriously awesome photo that Reilly took of me, click on it, seriously, there are more awesome shots by him and some taken with our lacking camera (DON’T GET MAD MOM AND DAD YOU DIDN’T MAKE IT (NOT YELLING)) on my flickr. We met some more rad people [as if we hadn't met enough this year already] at Tanya’s place, some bloggers, some not, it was great fun. I’d have to say I think I am getting over my social anxiety issues with a vengeance.

Money Shot

While I am on the subject of Guitar Hero [and don't you dare say when are you not!] I’ll need to mention that the Kramer is a piece of crap. The green button is sticking and making it *almost* unplayable so I went back to the SG with the cord and although I can play better, what would you know the fret board on the Kramer does allow for better finger sliding. SO I feel like I am stuck between a rock and a hard place and don’t know which guitar to play with. I know I know cry me a river on that one. BUT secondly, Jennie Roth is coming BACK for another visit as some of you already know. NOW at first it was just going to be Jennie and I somewhere I am sure with other blogging nerds, but also nerding out together in our matching ‘Sneaky Brim Toques’ mine in brown hers in green taking a million photos for shits and giggles, trading toques me giving her my Canadian germs her passing over some American ones but NOW a gauntlet of sorts has been thrown down by a guest poster named ‘Charlie’ he writes and I quote:

I’m going to start Jennie on a rigorous guitar hero training program, so anyone that has any thoughts of taking her down had better think again. When I’m done with her, she’ll be rocking so hard she could make unicorns cry blood. That’s right….I said it.

Jennie and I have already been involved in friendly blatant trash talk, I think this is going to be worth waiting for.

Ok well screw me I was going to write about Christmas and other things keeping me busy at present but this is long enough already. I’ll be back!

I’ve Gone Cordless and I’m going to a party – a Guitar HERO Party.

Published on December 8, 2007 by Corinna Carlson | 0 Comments

RIGHT NOW I am sitting here with the Kramer cordless plastic guitar resting ON MY LAP – the one that comes with the Guitar Hero III bundle for PS2.

Basically, Adam almost never plays and I sit there staring at the thing constantly while I’m stuck to a cord and have to take my guitar off for EVERYTHING. The other day I’d had enough and strapped the sucker on, Adam calls his guitar Lil’ Awesome. The first thing I noticed about Lil’ Awesome was that it had a completely different feel on my person and while playing. Adam said that was because it was different guitar. He is a smart one that Adam.

Things I love about playing with the cordless plastic Kramer Guitar [in no particular order]:

  • I can walk around the apartment while pressing the buttons to skip all the crap at the beginning, in layman’s terms I can now multi task.
  • This may be TMI but I can go pee and wash my hands all whilst still wearing the guitar and not touch it until my hands have been dried off. BUT Adam went pee with it on too when we first got it and I remember I was jealous.
  • Technically, I could turn around stand up off the exercise ball we use as a computer chair and play from here. This may sound awesome but it isn’t. The T.V is at one end of the room and the computer the other, this in actuality shows how small our apartment is or how good of range this thing has but I think I’m going with the first one on this.
  • The fact that I am typing this post wearing the guitar.
  • Being able to refill my coffee, adjust the heater, answer the buzzer, check de email, Twitter, Facebook… the list just goes on and on… but did I mention this is all while still wearing the guitar?

Sorry Adam but good luck getting the guitar back now. Maybe when you FINALLY get a band together and get to hard level we’ll chat.

Now, it is a really good thing that I finally decided to pick up that cordless guitar because I find myself with a seriously sweet invite tonight to attend a Guitar Hero party at- ten years of blogging extraordinaire – Tanya aka Netchick’s place, I can’t wait to meet her! Yes, I feel special. I am excited but nervous because she has the XBox 360 and I have never played one, I just know they get cooler guitars.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Published on December 1, 2007 by Corinna Carlson | 0 Comments

I love Vancouver when it snows. I miss the snow. I miss not seeing pavement except on the highway until March. I miss the smell it brings to the air and I even miss the glisten it gives to my peachy fuss face.

It was cold last night, really cold [for Vancouver] and I was shivering waiting for a cab that took over twenty-five minutes to arrive and I KNEW we’d dropped below minus two. So I told Adam that if all went well it would snow down town over night. BECAUSE I KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT SNOW. I obviously don’t or I’d have Tamara Taggart’s job. But I do feel very comfortable in making fun of Vancouver when it snows and to be honest I look forward to it. It is a time I get to tell stories that aren’t even exaggerated about my driving skills because snow in Vancouver means one thing and one thing only to anyone who drives and many who don’t drive: Chaos. Complete and utter Chaos and it only takes a centimeter.

It slays me that people don’t realize how similar it is to driving in heavy rain. But ‘road sense’ is few and far between in this city.

I also find myself very irritated by people who use umbrellas when it snows. Those are for RAIN. I know that umbrellas are designed as devices to keep any kind of PRECIPITATION or sunlight off of you and therefore I shouldn’t really have a problem with it but I do and that is that. To me it is a faux pas wear a bloody toque. Winter is sexy, don’t mess it up with a stupid FALL umbrella.

The snow is one of the only things that truly makes me feel connected to my roots, my Northern roots. Not to mention I can’t stop picturing this massive snow storm from when I was a kid still in Ontario mind you living in Thorold and we had to dig the side door to our house out, and there are pictures somewhere at my parents house and the snow is WAY taller than moi. You see THAT warrants a school closure. The kids here get so spoiled when it comes to snow days, I don’t remember there being many snow days from where I served my primitive years.

Well, screw this because it has already stopped snowing so I am going to play Guitar Hero before I have to get ready for work.

SLOW DOWN, drive safely.