rockin’ like i’m seventy-three

after spending the weekend with my mom in downtown dullsville, i came home to a new time, a full day back at the office and a trip into deep, dark surrey to attend the symphony.
now, i’m sleepy.
friday, i picked up the boy after work and we blitzed over to north van and scarfed down fatburgers before my dad picked me up to take me to the ferry boat.  i didn’t know quite what to do with myself on the trip over as my usual m.o. is to get a crispy chicken burger and nurse my fries for 90 minutes while sitting the cafeteria.  luckily, i snagged a computer station (i like tables), read & played games on my phone all the way over.  it was all good until the couple three seats away decided that it was totally acceptable to play something really loudly on their laptop and the stinky, drunk guy sat behind me and started drunk dialing people on his cell phone after cracking open a couple of brewskis.
i hate technology sometimes.
mom picked me up on the other side and we zipped up island, catching up on giggles and promptly going to bed upon arrival at her place.
saturday, i spent some time playing with her new 40″ lcd television.  holy crap, that thing is HUGE.  and shiny.  and crisp (on hd channels, that is).  i don’t know if i could put a tv that big in my apartment.  it’d just dominate the living area!  but, i can just imagine playing wii or watching dvds on it… *drool*   after my aunt came for a whirlwind visit, mom & i headed down to nanaimochuk for a little shopping and to see the new Alice in Wonderland in 3D.
go see it.  it’s awesome.  Avatar wasn’t nearly as good as Alice is.
after the show — which was almost ruined by the frigid arctic air blowing on us in the theatre, brr — we zipped home and i made yakisoba for dinner, followed by hockey in hd.  holy hell.  hockey in hd is… well, it’s so good, i didn’t mind watching it.  that tells you something right there because i’m almost entirely off the bandwagon.   after the game, we changed the clocks and went to bed; but, not before i caught the new Iron Man 2 trailer.  mm, robert downey jr.-y goodness.  i cannot wait for that movie to come out!
sunday, was lazy.  chilled with mom, packed up and headed home.  once i got there, i had some pizza with the boy, did some laundry and got ready for work on monday.  btw, there are bunches of people retiring this year and i’m SO JEALOUS.  c’mon lotto max!  come to mama!
yesterday was pretty okay, too.  work was work.  my boss is back from vacation, so the energy level got bumped up a notch or ten from last week, but i got my vacation requests for the year approved so i’m happy.  afterwards, i had an awesome roasted chicken dinner at christopher’s before we headed out to newton – not just surrey! – to see the VSO perform Holst’s The Planets at the Bell Centre, which is a theatre attached, no IN, a highschool.  how weird.  we took our very back of the balcony seats, adjusted to the vertigo induced by the view and settled in for some culture with the grey hairs.
i’ve loved The Planets (especially the fourth movement: Jupiter) since i was twelve years old.  it was on a cassette tape my sixth grade music teacher made each member of our band with a whole mix of different musics with the thought to expose us to new and different things.  ever since hearing it that first time, i’ve had a strong emotional reaction to it.  last night was no different.  as soon as the first few notes were played, my eyes welled up with tears and my whole body tensed up with anticipation.  i must have looked like a dork with my nose running and tears streaming down my face, but i didn’t care.  i was entirely overcome by the music.  ahh!
the long, long drive back home was totally worth it just for those two hours of awesomeness.   i love the symphony!
i got home about 11:30, glad i’d had that pre-concert latte or i might have fallen asleep at the wheel and died in a fiery crash somewhere in burnaby.  by the time i got horizontal it was after midnight.  have i ever mentioned that i get up at 5:30am?  yeah, not a lot of sleep last night.  on top of the time change, i’m a wee bit knackered today.
luckily, i only have to go home, cook the biggest stirfry in the world and then go see my doctor to discuss all the other things which are wrong with me now that my lungs are clot-free.
see?  i really am a party animal!  *snarf*