Monday, March 01, 2004
An Eventful Weekend
I took Friday afternoon off so I could drive to Halifax while it was sunny. Colin and I piled up the car and we left Saint John by 12:30. We were looking forward to a nice relaxing drive. Little did we know - it was storming from Moncton through to Shubenacadie. Yarr. It was quite the fight with the wind and visibility. We got to Dartmouth (where it was clear and there was barely a breeze) a little later than I'd hoped. There's still tons of snow there - even though it's melted and compacted a lot over the past week. Here is a small pic of my parent's driveway:
Friday evening we had a fabulous dinner with my folks, and then headed out to visit Sue and Jed and Jessie (who's growing like a weed). It was great to see them! While we were there, I got "the" call from Stephen that I'd gotten the part of Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (May 27, 28, 29 at the Imperial). Yay!!!!!!!!!
Saturday morning, Colin and I met up with my folks at Costco. As I expected, I found a few treasures there and spent a bit more than I'd intended to. My folks gave me a very nice bracelet that they'd picked up there - I felt extrememly spoiled!
Colin and I continued to do a bit of browsing at some other shops around Bayers Lake and I was on the hunt for a digital camera. Well - I am happy to say that I found one! It's an Olympus Stylus 300: 3.2 megapixels, and 3x optical zoom, with a lithium battery and a recharger, and I got a free carrying case with it. Yay! Finally!! The small pic above is one of the first shots from it. Super-easy to use!
Colin wanted to check out a hot sauce store in Lower Sackville so we headed out there. This guys runs this hot sauce business out of his basement and sure knows his stuff. He's quite the entrepeneur too and was totally trying to upsell Colin on buying one of his other businesses. And - to top it off, he had some pretty stylin' Kenny Logins-type hair.
We got back with enough time to show my folks the DVD of The Doomsday Clock and then have another huge and delicious meal. I took a short nap and then Colin and I headed out to see Twisted - which was HORRIBLE! Don't bother to go see it - don't even bother to rent it. One-dimensional characters, terrible script, boring, predictable, all around bad, bad, bad.
Sunday, we got up faily early and had a huge breafast with my folks (yes - they love to feed company) and I gathered my stuff (included my laundry which my mom did for me - feeling spoiled again). Colin and I left at about noon, and we stopped in at Starbucks on the way out of town. The drive was WAY better than it had been on Friday. It was sunny and clear and rather warm. Around Shubenacadie there were lots of cars lined up and parked on the side of the highway in the middle of nowhere. We looked to our left and saw a huge backhoe excavating the side of a snowy hill. There, piled deep in the snow, was an 18-wheeler almost on it's side. It was facing the same direction as us - which was opposite to the traffice on that side of the highway. An amazing site to behold! It has been there since the big storm last week, and just now they're trying to dig it out. It looked like a toy that had been casually tossed aside.
We kept driving, and as we got to Truro, we saw a hitchhiker - and recognized him! It was John! He'd decided he needed to get out of SJ for a break so he'd hitched to Halifax for the weekend and was just trying to get home. It was the weirdest thing to see him there. Of course we picked him up and gave him a lift home.
By the time I got home I was pretty tired - and I was craving a nap. I forced myself to unpack though, and by the time I was done that, Colin came over and we had leftovers from the weekend for supper. We watched Ben Kinsley on Inside the Actors Studio, then the last hour of Spaceballs (which Colin had never seen), and then the Oscars. It was a fight to stay awake to watch them. I was really looking forward to hitting the hay - especialy since it didn't finish until 1:15 AM. Yarr. Colin had gone home - and he called me to remind me that I needed to move my car to the other side of the street (ah - the joys of uptown parking). So I went out and moved my car, and bumped into Lisa and Anthony on the street. Anyhoo - it was a late night. Too late for my tastes. I somehow managed to get up early this morning and for the first time in a long time, made it into work a couple of minutes early.
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