Calgary Folk Festival 2005 - Butts Wigglin'

This past weekend was one of my most anticipated events in the city of Calgary...FOLK FESTIVAL. Time for my inner dirty hippy to be released and allowed to run free!!!! As always, I had an incredible time, but I was surprised looking back on it today at what I had selected as my biggest highlight of the weekend. Consistant with the past 2 years, I prefered the side stage work shops to the mainstages shows (Ani Difranco from 2003 excluded), but it was the hip hop workshop on Saturday that stands out most in my mind. The performers included Arrested Development, Buck 65, and K'naan. Going in I had heard of Arrested Development (who didn't love Mr. Wenddle in high school?) and Buck 65, but K'naan was a mystery to me. His story is quite remarkable... I won't even attempt to recap it here, he left his war torn home in Mogadishu on the very last commercial flight ot leave Somalia, if you want to know more, look it up! I have never really listened to much Hip Hop music, but hearing the message and the power behind the words of these men who are so very different I couldn't help but be inspired...and the drum beats, oh the drum beats. I can't help it, I just have to shake my ass to the drum beats!!!





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Love the picture, cutie!
July 27 7:37 AM
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My mother said mind your P's and Q's...

My mother raised me to be polite when dealing with others, as did many mothers around the globe, and I try to live up to this early life lesson as a general rule. However, this seems to be a hard task to manage when faced with akward situations.
Example: I deal with product reps at my job, and generally these reps are super nice and easy to deal with...until recently one of them crossed the line and has made dealings with him very uncomfortable. Now, anyone that knows me will verify the fact that I am a shameless flirt, and it has gotten me into trouble on more than one occation, but I think I do a fairly good job keeping it under wraps while at work. This said, I find myself continually having to deal with unwanted, and unprofessional attention from one of these reps, who I have been asked by my boss to turn on the charm with to get us a better deal. So keeping my mother's lesson of good manners in mind, I bite my tongue and smile, when what I really want to do is yell EEEEEEEeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!

Originally posted at: Twisted Ramblings From The Mouse That Runs The Brain

101 things about me

Everyone has started one of these, I wanted to see how long it would take me to get to 100.
Start date: August 20, 2006
End date: August 25, 2006

1. I'm 5'-8" tall
2. When growing up I always wanted to be 6'-0"
3. I was born in Labrador City, Newfoundland
4. I have moved 15 times in my life
5. I have lived in 3 provinces in Canada
6. I have attended 10 schools from Kindegarten to college
7. I have had the same best friend since I was 7 years old
8. I have had the same boyfriend since I was 19 years old
9. I have one brother (younger) and one sister (older)
10. My parents are still married
11. I bit my finger nails regularly until I was 26
12. I am allergic to penicillin
13. I am allergic to codeine
14. I am allergic to Ivory soap
15. I am allergic to Tide laundry Detergent, Downy fabric softener and Bounce dryer sheets
16. I am allergic to ginger
17. I hate brussell sprouts
18. I drink my coffee with milk and sugar
19. I am afraid of doctors
20. I am afraid of moths
21. I don't know how to swim
22. I wanted to go to art college, right up until I was accepted
23. I am a shutterbug...
24. actually I fancy myself a photographer (shhh...don't tell anyone!)
25. I am a serious audiophile
26. I have a very large collection of music (over 500 CDs at last count)
27. I played clarinet from grade 4 to grade 12 (haven't played much since then - BAD SUSAN!)
28. I played flute for one semester...poorly!
29. I received a very poor quality acoustic guitar for Christmas one year which I never learned to play
30. I bought myself a djembe which I play regularly
31. I want to learn how to play the banjo
32. I spent my formative years in a "small town"
33. My High School graduating class in that small town was 72 students
34. My parents moved me across the provence half way through grade 11
35. My graduating class in the new (much large) town was almost 300
36. I attended both graduation ceremonies (small town for me, big town for the folks)
37. I left home when I was 19 years old
38. I have had 3 roommates...all family (sister, boyfriend, brother)
39. I took 5 years between high school and college before I decided what to do with my life
40. 5 years, and a degree later I still don't know
41. I finished my degree in in Interior Design in August 2004
42. This is more than just picking paint colours!
43. I have worked at an Architectural firm since September 2003
44. My middle name is Jodi
45. My sister picked it because there was a little girl on Sesame Street named Jodi, and she liked it...she was 4
46. I really like old cars (1955 Bel Air is my dream ...)
47. I don't have a driver's license
48. I have had my learner's permit for since I was 15
49. I want a Vespa
50. I clapped my hands and said "woo hoo" because I reached #50...no really, I did!
51. I still have my wisdom teeth
52. My dentist says they need to come out
53. she wants to put me under and that freaks me out!!!
54. I wear a lot of black clothes...for no particular reason...people say it makes me look designerly...
55. that makes me want to wear colour
56. I want to go back to school
57. I don't know what I will study when I do go back
58. I wear a size 8 shoe
59. I wear a size 36D bra (tmi?)
60. I cried the day I went from a C cup to a D cup
61. At one time I weighed 202 pounds
62. I cried that day too
63. I weigh less than that now...no, I'm not telling!
64. I never felt that my parents were proud of me growing up, it wasn't until I was an adult and confronted them about it, did they say they were
65. part of me still has trouble believing it is true
66. I don't believe in "God"...not in the he who created the Earth sense...
67. I believe that "God" can be something different to everyone...and if believing brings you comfort than there must be a "God" for you...
68. I don't like religious debate
69. I don't believe traditional marriage is right for me
70. I will gladly celebrate the marriage of any two people that believe it is right for them
71. I don't want children of my own
72. I am a dog lover
73. I don't have any pets
74. My apartment is perpetually untidy
75. I hate talking on the phone
76. I used to play competitive softball as a teenager...I played pitcher, catcher and second base over 5 years
77. I have minor arthritis in my knees from playing ball
78. I was a band geek in high school
79. I was also an art nerd
80. Je parle en Francais un petit peut
81. I was told in Grade 12 that my French was good enough to get by living in Quebec...I remember barely any of it now
82. Hablo pocito espanol
83. Any Spanish I know has been picked up through interacting with friends and co-workers
84. I tried to learn some Greek...yup...tried being the operative word
85. I like dark chocolate over any other variety...the darker the better
86. Mr J once described the younger me as "a ball of insecurities covered up with bluster and bravado" ...this is still true I think, but I don't know what he thinks
87. I am critical of myself
88. I think I may be lactose intolerant
89. I love dairy products
90. I talk to my house plants
91. When I was 5 years old, I punched the neighbour boy in the nose over the fence because he wouldn't be my boyfriend...he was only 4.
92. I 'dated' a boy for 2 weeks when I was in the 7th grade because I didn't want to hurt his feelings...he turned out to be really creepy, he didn't talk to me ever again when I broke up with him (we went to the same school until I moved, half way through grade 11)
93. I am a pack-rat
94. I have the ugliest sofa of anyone I know
95. I love t-shirts with unique prints on them
96. I hate the way t-shirts look when they have been washed a few times...I like new ones better
97. I have over 40 pairs of shoes
98. and about 40 pairs of underware (I haven't actually counted them...)
99. I hate wearing socks and shoes
100. I don't know what my favorite colour is...is that weird?
101. I finished this list in 4 days...and could probably come up with 100 more useless bits of stuff about myself...

Life List

Things I aim to do before I die...this is an ongoing list...in no particular order

• shave my head bald (for my own curiosity, but could double for cancer foundation too)
• take a ride in a hot air balloon
• travel to:

o Ireland - completed August 2007
o Greece
o France
o Egypt
o South Africa
o India

• Become a published Photographer - Had a photo in May 2008 issue of Where Calgary Magazine

Consider yourself warned!

You've likely reached this post because you followed a link from my msn spaces blog...

Thank you for following me to my new corner of the internet, but this is to serve as a warning to friends, co-workers, and esp. family, that you may see things on the new blog that you could find shocking (i.e. nudity etc.), in addition to my regular rantings. If you are not comfortable with this, I understand, but please do not rake me over the coals about it.

I have made my choices, and I have given you fair warning...that said, follow the link bellow if you'd like.

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