Crash Karma

Met the Canadian Rock Band Crash Karma today. Band is made up of guys from four other Canadian bands, including Our Lady Peace, The Tea Party, and I Mother Earth. They were really nice guys, and their music is some of the best new Canadian rock music out there.

From left to right Jeff Burrows (Tea Party) Amir Epstein (I have never heard of his former band...sorry!) Me, Mike Turner from Our Lady Peace and EDWIN ( I Mother Earth) I had a huge crush on Edwin when I was in college, so it was pretty cool meeting him.

I'm off to the concert tonight! Going to be TIRED tomorrow!

The Panty Covered Car and the Red Island Run Kitchen Party

Friday Night--Walking to the Red Island Run Kitchen Party (Red Island Run is a motorcycle rally that is taking place all weekend that is raising money for the Heart&Stroke Foundation--a Kitchen Party is traditional mixed with non traditional island music)down Prince Street. Walk by car covered in panties, thongs, bras and saran wrap.


I think someone is getting married or something. Made us laugh.

I was emcee of the Red Island Run Kitchen Party. It took place at a great venue called the "Seaport" however barely anyone was there. Bikers and traditional island music didn't go over well in this case. Someone yelled out to the Chaisson Family Band that they sucked. While some woman also yelled at the band to play something that has "words" with it. She was so rude, and looked like something of off the Trailer Park Boys. I felt awful for the band, they were SO good. Fiddle, snare drum, guitar, keyboard--excellent!

When the Chaisson family wrapped up their music, the "Boys in the Kitchen" were on the stage. They sang traditional songs like "Whiskey in the Jar" and some others that I have no idea what the songs were, but they also did some Johnny Cash, Jimmy Buffett and other covers.

Saturday-I did a remote at the Rogers store. They had 30 IPHONE 4's and all of them sold within a couple of hours. It was pretty crazy. This afternoon I went for a run, did some housework, and then I went out for supper with a friend.

Sorry the photos are so small & dark in this blog!

Flooding

The rain started yesterday afternoon, and didn't stop until almost midnight. It was raining so hard at some points that you couldn't see very much. Where you see a reddish brown colour in the photos, is actually WATER.

Luckily, living on the second floor of my apartment building, I had nothing to worry about!

SportsCentre Visits Abram-Village & Wellington

Last night I went to the live broadcast of SportsCentre in Wellington PE. Got to meet Jennifer Hedger and Darren Dutchesyn (I think I am spelling his name wrong--whatever--nice guy) There was a big crowd there, and we took the radio station vehicles to do some promotional appearance. Basically so people would see our logos and whatnot. I had to wear a large t-shirt, it looked like jammies.

Our washing machine has been broke for a couple of days in the apartment building, so all of my K-ROCK clothes were dirty--that's why I had to wear the big K-ROCK shirt. Oh well--everything is going great, the weather has been beautiful. Low twenties, breezy and sunny. I am working straight through the weekend, which actually is great for the blog, because that means I will have lots to talk about! Friday night-Red Island Run Kitchen Party. What is that? It's a motorcycle event, (poker run) and after they have a traditional island music party (and booze) I am the emcee. Saturday morning I have a remote at Rogers. Saturday afternoon I have off! :) However I will have work to do getting ready for ratings. Sunday I am on air in the afternoon--filling in for a guy who needs the day off. BUSY! Must go do laundry now!

A Work Out Weekend

Thursday night, I went to see Sketch 22. A co-worker is in Sketch 22, he has been for 7 years. It is a brilliant "Kids In The Hall" meets "Trailer Park Boys" meets "Second City." I was laughing so hard I had tears streaming down my face. Nothing was untouchable to these guys, including "Scary Fox" and a hillarious bit with a man dressed up as "Tippy Toes the Cat Burgler" which was a guy, dressed in tights, a cat costume (think the Broadway show) and tap shoes. Awesome night. Parts of it were in 3D. Paris was made to wear the glasses.




Friday was my first time in the Gold Cup Parade. This parade is really long, 2 hours-and a lot of quality floats. We had a float with our morning show teams singing, and we also had the rest of us dressed up as letters. It was a great time. Prime Minister Stephan Harper was there. But get this. He showed up for the first few minutes before the parade started. Had a photo op, and then left before the parade even started. Then his press people send out a release saying he "took part" in the Gold Cup Parade. Friday night I had a remote (were I go to a business and do live commercials) at Reebok/Rockport. They had a huge tent sale, it was a crazy sale, really cheap and it was crowded. I mean really crowded, people thought they were going to faint crowded.

Saturday my friend and I went mountain biking. Problem was, we couldn't find the bike trail. Eventually we found a Woodlot Demonstration outside of Souris, that had trails, (some tough trails actually) so we had a great time going through the woods. I slammed my bike into a tree root, and it stopped me completely. That hurt my back, but I felt better on Sunday.



Sunday(this morning) was great. Beautiful day. Not a cloud in the sky. My friend and I walked to Victoria Park, and played tennis. It was a load of fun, and the weather was perfect. I had a blast and lost 6-5. It was a good game. The tennis courts here are in prime condition, the nicest I have ever played on, and you don't have to pay. They even have a tennis clubhouse, lessons and there were 8 courts. Excellent feature in Charlottetown.

PEI Certified, Snakes, Beer and my cat being naughty!

Friday night-Went & ate lobster at the Water/Prince Restaurant. Same place Kelly Ripa ate when she was here. Very simple fun little restaurant. Toured the Gahan Brewery. Went to see friends play in band MuddyBuddy. Sat with Sir. John A Statue and gave him big kiss.

Saturday- Went to North Cape. This part of the island has a lot of French people, very beautiful, very bare bones. Seriously, there isn't much there. You hit North Cape, and it is lovely. Got a certificate that stated I have now crossed the island. Saturday night had a very bad headache and went to bed.

Sunday-Put together computer desk. Went to the Great Canadian Bagel for breakfast. Sooo good. Went to the downtown farmers market. It was alright. Nothing special. Came home and put up curtains. Did a lot of laundry. Watched ParisFrances squeeze her head into my glass. This cat constantly gets fresh water. Mine obviously tastes better. Went for a bike ride. Visited Old Home Week. Think Harness Racing meets Norfolk County Fair. A lot of fun, held onto a python. Python was very freaky, and very cold feeling. Biked home and had nachos. Watched the Runaways (the movie about Joan Jett's life--great show prep) took a bath. Had neighbor come up and say bathwater was leaking into his apartment. Plumber is coming tomorrow. Going to bed now! Crazy busy week ahead!

More Photos from the Weekend

No pictures of fish, because my friend who was with me was too busy not catching fish when I caught my mackerel. I learned today that mackerel is best eaten if you boil the oil out of it first, bread it, and then panfry it in garlic butter. I am not boiling oily fish in my apartment. Even the thought of the smell makes me want to yack.

Today was another crazy day at work. We are sponsoring a concert (Crash Karma) (that's a rock band mom, that you would not like) so I am looking forward to that, it will be a lot of fun!

Also we are getting ready for the Gold Cup Parade. http://goldcupparade.ca/ This parade is about race horses, having a day off, tied in with Old Home Parade and beer. I'm still trying to figure it all out. I am in the parade though. I will be a K in the KROCK. We have to make sure the R stays in place.

Weekend of FUN

So a lot went on this weekend. Friday night went out for lobster/mussels/ and for the first time clam chowder (wow-very good) Then a visit to Cavendish beach. Saved two jelly fish that had washed up and were still alive. Did my part for the environment. Also--MOM saw a bird didn't know what it is. Black body white head, BIG bird, had a nest on a big stand. I have no idea what kind of bird it is...it was as big as a bald eagle, but was not a bald eagle. If you can identify the bird, let me know. I could see the little babies heads peaking over. Quite an experience. ****ok after further research, it was a North American Osprey! First time I have seen one of those!

Saturday was a busy day. Went to the local farmers market (will go next time at lunch, there is a lot of food there, Thai, African, and great stuff like perogies and mini donuts. All really healthy. :( lol. There is a lot of organic food there, and of course vegetables from local farmers. It's a small little market but it's really good. Next weekend I am going to check out the farmers market that is downtown.

From there I went to work, we had a motorcycle show and shine. I didn't stay long, as I know nothing about motorcycles, but I did say hi to some of the folks and I did some office decorating while I was there. (trying to make my office feel a bit more like my office)

Then, I wandered downtown where I checked out the HMCS Moncton. They were giving tours. It was pretty cool to get that close to a machine gun.

From there, I travelled with my friend up to East Point. It was beautiful. We stopped at Wood Islands and did a tour of the lighthouse, then we were off to Basin Head for the singing sands (because the grains of sand are so big or something when you scuff your feet on the sand it makes a squeaky noise) and then to East Point. Gorgeous. Couldn't have had a more beautiful day. Then back to Hunters Ale House in Charlottetown for supper and met the owner. He had some really positive things to say about KROCK and the changes to music I have made. I was asleep by 10:30. Was going to stay at Hunters to watch Arrows in the Air (a local band) but I was just too damn tired.

Sunday morning up at 6 to go fishing with Aiden's Deep Sea Fishing. http://www.peifishing.com/ We went out and right away spotted two bald eagles sitting on the shore. We fished for mackerel, I only caught one. The people around me caught lots. It was a lot of fun though. Saw two seals, and a couple of pilot whales. Then we fished for cod. ( I will put more photos on tomorrow--I don't want to bog down people computers that don't have high speed in Norfolk) The cool part about the cod fishing was a bird I had never seen before called a gannet. These birds kicked the crap out of the seagulls fighting over fish scraps and are expert divers. I have also seen several sharp shinned hawks while here. This weekend was amazing! (p.s. trimmed ParisFrances's butt fur--tired of clingies and let me tell you she was NOT happy. She now has Mullet like fur on bum, short where it needs to be short and then layers out to longer. Very stylish bum fur. Very angry cat.)

Crabs

This is the poor little crab who didn't make it. Lots of dead crabs on the beach last night.

It was a lovely night for a walk on the beach, warm with a breeze. I am looking forward to this weekend. Lobster dinner, fishing, going to the beach, one work event, and lots of exercise.

I'll take lots of photos!

Security Guard Carl and a Beautiful Church

Kind of cool here at K-ROCK/OCEAN in the Atlantic Technology Centre. We have a security guard. His name is Carl. I wouldn’t want to mess with him. Sort of neat to have a security guard, I mean at the other place I worked at all we had was a giant hog at the front. (I am talking about the giant fibreglass hog that was decorated and the station bought in an auction)

I have cable! Didn’t watch it last night though. Instead went for a long walk, and discovered an incredibly beautiful church complete with gargoyles on Great George Street. To think that this gigantic, incredible building was constructed in 1919, when horses and carts would have been used to haul those giant stones. I didn't take the picture of the church, I took it of off google images.

Busy day ahead! Hope your day goes great!

NORM!

George Wendt visited the K-ROCK studios today. Mom---he played Norm in the t.v. show Cheers. Very nice man. He was at the station promoting the play "Hairspray" that starts at the Confederation Centre in September. He plays the mother. (Like John Travolta did in the movie) He was very nice and funny. I was starstruck again. I mean I grew up with Norm! He was a beer drinking guy just like my dad!

Where Everybody Knows Your Name

I get to meet someone from Cheers tomorrow afternoon! I’ll put photos up. I can’t tell you anything more than that, because my boss would kick my a$$ if I said anything more until tomorrow.

Various Things Happening

-cable is installed Wednesday. FINALLY! Cable guy is coming between 8am and 5:30pm. I luckily now have someone I trust who can hang out and wait for the cable guy.

-Pine kitty litter is amazing. Seriously, she poops, and you can not smell it. The pee does not smell. Now I clean the box every day. But the clay would sometimes still smell. This masks it, and it’s environmentally friendly.

-Ate mussels Sunday night. Delicious!

Shot a t.v. commercial today. It was ridiculously fun. All of us, Colin, Zack, Myles, Danny and our boss Jennifer had a blast. I think you guys will like it. I will try and put up a clip-because we are going to do a “making of” video for the web site.

-Had a great day at work today, however my friend and fellow program director at OCEAN 100 is sick. He has back problems (serious, serious-as in surgery and he is off work for weeks) and I really miss him. He is a great person to bounce ideas of off, and he bounces stuff of off me…so it’s a good working relationship. I hope he gets back soon