Picture this...
...'cuz I haven't nabbed the pictures yet, but I think Baby Sis had a wonderful debut.
As I had mentioned before, everything pretty much came together at the last minute. That meant that none of our preferred hotels had any banquet halls available for us. Still not wanting to have to stress/slave over food preparations we didn't want to rent out a hall or gym, either. So we ended up at Sakana Grill since the birthday girl adores sushi. Plus, with all the current family parties going on we'd rather not have another Chinese food buffet on our hands *groans*.
Another problem with the whole last-minute thing of it all...a significant number of family members were away on vacation or simply not available that night. So it was just a small party, I think it ended up being 72 people. Not as big as my "debut" at all . Practically half the size, actually.
Since we were at a restaurant there was no "program." That meant no cotilli...
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The final countdown
For something that wasn't going to be a debut (due to time constraints) we've run around like crazed fools and, in my opinion, it has come out more formal than we had intended it to be. It's definitely not a debut by normal debut standards. But then again, mine wasn't either.
But now the house is clean, the karaoke rental has been picked up (yes, I know we have one ourselves, but somehow baby sis decided to make a bid on a rental during a silent auction one night and well...obviously she won. May as well use it.), the little debutante's nails are done, she now has 3 dresses to choose from instead of just a simple nice shirt. All that's left now is to get dolled up, hair and makeup, pick up the cake on the way to the restaurant, decorate like a fiend, and from there on in it should be smooth sailing.
This whole planning everything at the last minute is getting completely out of hand. I swear that if this is the kind of organization ...
"My ox is broken!
I'm an Amazing Race addict. I mean, how can anyone who loves to travel not love this show? They really should look into producing an international season of the race. Like, take a team from Canada (of course), perhaps a British team, a team from Mexico, a Japanese team, Australians...you get the picture. It would be an Amazing Amazing Race (haha). Each team has different language/cultural barriers to overcome. Now THAT, my friends, would be quality reality tv.
I've also been thinking, to be a shoo-in for the show, you should pair-off with some random person off the street for your audition tape. Oh the drama that would unfold! Trying to get to know and deal with a complete stranger while scooting around the globe with them. Insanity!
Last week the racers zipped from Dubai to Rotorua and then Manila! My brother and I realized, that although we've been to the Philippines several times in our lives we've never done the "touristy...
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The Asian Persuasion
Time to expose myself as a hypocrite, full force.
I'm shamefully one for making generalizations. I realize they aren't completely accurate but they're usually in the "more-often-true-than-not" category. Like how, for some reason, I have the bizarre "skill" of attracting dirty men much older than yours truly, or dirty men of Middle Eastern or African-American descent.
Actually, I take back the dirty African-American bit. A great many of the black guys I've come across have been absolute darlings to me. But the Middle Eastern ones? Tasty Iraqis? A girl should only be so lucky.
Yeah, my love of Lebanese food probably doesn't help me avoid such situations, either.
Anyway, I digress. I want to talk about my perception of asians. Asian women, in particular.
Whenever I meet a new guy and he admits to having "yellow fever" (a preference for Asian girls) I always back off and have to wonder why. Unfortunat...
"Time is the wisest counsellor of all." ~ Pericles
It's really late at night, but I just had to point out that my blog baby turned two years old on September 10th. Wow, I've been doing this gig for 2 years now. And you know what? I still love it.
I've met a lot of great people on here. Not literally, of course, but I feel as if I've gotten to know some of you very well from your own blogs. Wonderful souls like Ronnie , Mare , and Des . Then you have the terrific reads like Ryan , Bing , xtx , and sahalie . I'm also glad that I have some real-time friends in blog world like Ang and Joe . (I doubt Daisy will do much with her blog until she travels again.)
But more importantly, I've also gotten to know myself a lot more through blogging. I received an anonymous comment the other day, but Haloscan doesn't tell me which entry the comment is pinned to so I went through the crazy process of going through all my archives looking for where th...
Not just another pretty face
Of course the one Canadian game I've missed so far in the World Cup of Hockey and it would be the one where my hotcakes Iggy breaks out of his scoring slump and scores two, TWO, all in one period. *sigh*
Ah Iggy, I love you.
Strange phone numbers keep calling my celly. What's worse is they don't leave a message. That is one my biggest pet peeves, unknown numbers calling and then not leaving a message. If you're my friend and you're trying to get a hold of me, then I apologize for not answering my phone but you ought to know that I rarely answer strange-numbered calls but I always check my messages.
And checking the numbers in reversephonedirectory.com doesn't help me much on this one. Yeah, it tells me who the numbers belong to but their names don't ring a bell with me at all.
What was dumb was the one time I decided to answer an unfamiliar call and it was World Health Club saying I had won a two week membership for...
Hit me off
Since my blog template isn't one of those standard ones offered by Blogger I decided to add in my Blogger profile manually onto the sidebar over there ===>
I don't remember when I wrote the "About me" blurb, but I'm guessing it would have been when I first started this thing almost 2 years ago. (It'll be 2 years on the 10th, this coming Friday, can you believe it?) Anyway, good or bad, it's kind of interesting that my "About me" piece is still relevant after 2 years.
"I'm a 20-something girl living in Calgary, Canada. A cancer survivor (Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma) and dance addict who can't stay still if her life counted on it. Read about what my friends and I find to do around here...'cuz there's no point in staying home unless you're sick."
I mean, just these past couple of days, I've been a trooper heading out with my friends despite being in a state of serious malaise. "I'm just ...
Would you like to take a survey?
First name: Leah
Single or taken: Single
Sex: One would hope that it's very obvious that I am a female
Birthday: March 26
Astrological sign: Aries
Siblings: One brother (Weird Kid) and one sister (Baby Sis), both younger
Hair colour: Black
Eye colour: Brown
Shoe size/height: 8.5/5'6"
*-;-* R e l a t I o n s h I p s~*
Who are your top 4 best friends? Posie, Daisy, Mijo, and Civic
Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend? No on both accounts but just for your information I'd never have a girlfriend.
Did you send this to your crush? Uh, no.
Did your crush send this to you? Uh, no again.
*-;-*F a s h I o n S t u f f *-;-*
Where is your favourite place to shop for clothes? The U.S. I always love having different things from everyone over here.
What do you have pierced: Just my ears, one in each.
Any Tattoos? Nope
*-;-*E x t r a S t u f f *-;-*
Do you do drugs? No, but I've tried it a ...