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VLogBlog 7 ~ The Curling Hot-Seat

The YouTube description: a stimulating, revealing and in-depth conversation between husband and wife where the husband doesn’t know he is being recorded. And I’m apparently accepting chest bumps.

VLogBlog 6 ~ The View LogBlog

Was trying to get cutesy video of Gus acting like a nutter and licking Phaedra’s sock covered feet. Gus, I don’t know why, but she likes to lick things; soap, windows, floors, clothes [clean and dirty]. She’s a licker. You’d think because I like to take a lot of random photos that Gus would be used to the camera but she hates it. It is amusing to watch, she will be doing something cute, I will reach for the camera and she’ll stop, generally she’ll even leave the room. I have learned some tricks with still photos but if she doesn’t want her photo taken that’s it she leaves. No surprise that when I wanted to film her she stopped licking the feet and wanted nothing to do with any of it, she didn’t leave the room, there was TOO MUCH OVER ALL EXCITEMENT happening at that moment. Maybe she was feeling overwhelmed?

C.J had called us on Skype and I didn’t want to get him all excited so I didn’t mention he had caught us within an hour of Phaeds coming over incase she was late or it was one of those just checking in on me five minute chats. Worked out that the three of us were still gabbing away when she arrived. I snatched this video of Gus being Gus I guess, and four people speaking about spicy topics all at the same time. I’m not going to ruin it for you other than to say that Gus is the star and it is cool that Phaeds joined the conversation some of her spicier bits got cut though.

Cupcakes, Owls, a Friend and a VLogBlog

On Monday when I was on my way to see my psychiatrist I walked down Thurlow on the way to the city centre skytrain station because it was pissing rain and although I generally walk over to see the shrink, not in THAT heavy of rain I don’t, anyway I noticed that Cupcakes had a radical Owl display and instantly thought of my girlfriend Tiana who I will FINALLY get to meet in 2011 when she and her husband and a wee Hurricane come to Vancouver and Brent (her husband) will kick my ass at Guitar Hero, bad, it’ll be awesome. I wanted to take a photo for her but didn’t have my camera. When I got home I twittered her to tell her that’d I had been thinking of her and had seen the stupendous window display. She asked me to take a photo for her and I said I prolly would.

There is a small back story here, Tiana likes cupcakes, and I had sent her a re-useable bag from the distributors of the cupcakes at least one year ago now, bit longer maybe.

Today I went out with the sole purpose to take this photo because I’m having the can’t get the fuck out of the house I’m a hermit blues again. Lovely. But I am still trying to make it out and it wasn’t raining for a split second so I thought fuck it, I’ll go get the photos.

owls & cupcakes for Tiana

owls & cupcakes for Tiana

owls & cupcakes for Tiana

I can’t wear my wellies anymore they are shot to shit I got them in 2003 before they were cool to everyone and their mother, granted here it doesn’t really matter everyone should have a decent pair if not even a stylish pair of wellies, I quite frankly want a pair of Hunter wellies to replace my shot pair. I wore my knee high boots instead I have black leggings on today so it worked and with my black you can call it a trench coat if you don’t know what a good one should like I didn’t have to worry about my ass. I get paranoid in my black leggings ever since this happened (link).

When I got home I found myself stuck in my boot, literally, these were tailored when I got them as I have chicken legs and so they have extra lining exposed and the zipper got caught in the lining WHICH in all the years I’ve had them I’m realizing I bought them in 2000, has never happened and so I ended up making VLogBlog Five as well for your viewing pleasure.

Beaver Hunt 2009

Last Thursday my Yoga instructor Sandra told me that there was a new beaver down at Lost Lagoon, a rescue beaver, and that I should go and see it, I asked where it was but she started in on a beaver voice about the beaver because a crowd of Yoga attendees had gathered around to hear about the beaver and left out where around lagoon he/she was hanging or I missed it which I probably did. And of course it wasn’t lost on any of us that said beaver could have already made his/her way over to Beaver Lake, just one body of water north of Lost Lagoon.

swans.

raccoon.

mallard.
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oh honey you're so funny.
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pondering.

us.

Yesterday we went on a mission to find the beaver but we came up short we did not see the beaver. We did see;

  • birds
  • an ant
  • turtles
  • mallards
  • Canada geese
  • swans
  • other types of ducks
  • raccoons
  • a heron
  • horses; and
  • a bald eagle

Sincerest apologies if I have missed any animals that we saw, literally. We realize those aren’t the only animals that exist down at Lost Lagoon.

goose.
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fountain of the lagoon.

BEAVER ALERT.

I am always looking for times to work on taking photos so I did take some standard photos of the regular animals we saw and so did Adam we have to trade back forth on the camera which is a pain in the ass but there are worse things in life.  [his photos in this post will all be credited to abcIV]

swan.

leaves.

flowers.

mallard.

This photo that he took is the creepiest shit ever he said “I knew you’d love it when I took it” well, I do love it but it is still creepy. Just add some night goggles make it night and that is straight out of Silence of the Lambs that IS Buffalo Bill coming for me. And the funny thing is that the photo following I don’t even know he has taken the creepy photo I am just annoyed because I don’t have the camera.

creepiest shit ever you fucking freak.
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steeealth.
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It started to rain on the mission so we didn’t get photos of the baby Canadian geese and the baby ducklings. They were adorable but we were on mission Beaver Hunt 2009 anyway.

melting.

practice

My allergies didn’t bother me till later when we got home it was nice of them to hold off on the inevitable attack. I am SO IN LOVE with my Neti Pot. [more on that at a later date]

my last season Ked.

the edge.

I am not good and speedy enough to catch the good shit yet but the swans are horny fuckers right now and I was running around the Lagoon while one male chased a female down running across the water sort of like Jesus [in movies I've seen] would and tried to copulate with her but she was NOT in the mood he backed off pretty quick which was annoying because I wanted to see them get it on.

creepy DEUX.

swans.

Made another VLogBlog busted out the Guitar Hero and I warmed up on expert to Schism, Tool and I’ve never even passed that song on expert and I fail at 98% but I’d watch it anyway. We’ll film a song I rule at on expert soon enough.