Visit from the OAK

Kyle came down to visit!

It was the worst thing that could ever happen to my liver.

Night 1 - I saw Drake - So sick!!! Then I went home and Kyle was there which excited me in so many ways. We spent the evening at la maison (hopefully my future place of employment), with Kyle and Lukas. We ended up meeting up Rick, Seb, Tanya, some other girl who i forget her name, and Seb's super french, super nice mom!

She taught me some of the greatest french drinking songs of life. i really enjoyed it :)

Night 2 - SO MESSY!!! It hurts right now because of it. 2 mega bottles of wine. A lot of flip cup. And some amazing Keith Urban.

As a result, the roommate bonding has happened and i'm dying in the living room right now!!!

I'm no longer a Vampire

I just let all my nocturnal living out of my system. Starting tomorrow, I have a "big boy job" and by big boy job, yes, I'm making reference to my summer camp. I didn't know how I was going to be able to deal considering that I had been going out on random days while I was unemployed. Now, I have to smarten up, so how does one get the party vibe out of their system - Well, by overdoing it! I went out Every night since Sunday and had the greatest time of my life. Recap:

Sunday - I wasn't going to party, but then Adam calls me and tells me he's sneaking back to Ottawa for the evening. I mean it's Adam, let aside that he's my best friend, I haven't seen him in the longest time (2 weeks - which is a lot considering that I used to live with him all last year and crashed at his house almost every night the year before that). So he calls, says he's arriving at midnight, I go to babylon and MOST of my friends are actually there and none of us knew we were going, so we got REAL drunk together. It was messy. I ended up arriving home at 6am, no big, I don't work lol.
And the rest of the week wasn't any better. It's so bad that my recap ends there because I can't even piece the week together :s.

Long story short, tonight is night #8/night #final! I'm going to dunk my friend Emma in a dunk tank, and then proceed to have drinks at a remote bar (hopefully not alone). After that, hello working world and goodbye fun summer. It was great while it lasted.

My Summer so Far

Like I just said before, SHITTY, I can't remember my life because things just keep passing by me.

So here's the deal; It's the end of June, so I'm almost 2 months into my summer. What can I tell you has happened:

- Ritual is now open on Mondays and they have these buckets that remind me of when I was a child making sand castles on the beach (or every summer when I'm working at my kick ass camp);

- Sundays are amazing in Ottawa - The Standard is a great place to start the night and babylon is the greatest place to end it. Or my room, depending on how the night goes.

- I really like bike rides. Great exercise and it's just sweet considering I live between the Ottawa river and the Rideau canal. I have been biking to the beach also; so great, nice weather, some water to swim in and a beach to sleep on while people attempt to match my skin tone.

- Jeopardy brings people together. Getting together with friends has been a given every night now since we all watch jeopardy together monday to friday at 630. I have been killing it! I haven't lost in a while, and it makes me feel good, but at the same point, I'm realizing I know a whole lot of useless nonsense. Either way, some people think they're amazing at it and when i beat them it makes me happy :)

- Cherish your friendships - My friend Emily is becoming a big girl and getting a full time job... in Toronto :S. I spent this last week hanging out with her so that i don't end up missing her too much, but it's making it worst. We only drank once in those hang outs. All the other times, the tv's off and we're just talking and it's great. The thing that makes it suck is I end up noticing that there's a great person who I had as a great friend for 3 years and I never acted on it, and now it's too late. SUCKS!

Therefor, I'm making sure I enjoy everything and everyone thoroughly and never make this mistake again. i will keep myself posted. :D

I end this with my favorite quote, which is so appropriate right now:
Life goes by fast, if you don't take a second to stop and look around, it may just pass you by."

Life goes on... But you don't have to forget it

If you know me, I exercise the right to party and forget my nights. It's always a blast, I see friends, I make decisions (not always good, but they are decisions none the less, I see great things, etc.)

I feel very fortunate! I am blessed with great friends, an amazing family, and opportunities that most can only hope to receive. So what's the shitty part of all this - I can't tell you what I did last week. Disappointing, I know, but such is life right!

I now have a lot of friends that use blogs and have gotten in a phase where I read what they talk about. It now makes me went to write one, the only thing is, I don't have anything that's my "thing."

My friends all right about popular culture focusing on fashion, music, videos, and news. What do I have? I have useless knowledge and a book's worth of examples that parents can use to show their kids why drugs and alcohol are bad.

Well parents, your lucky day - I'm going to just write what's on my mind! I hope people enjoy this, but mainly it's just for me. I just want to remember my life and in a few years, I will come back and either hang my head in shame, laugh at myself, or delete everything and practice the good old American method: "out of site, out of mind."

Hope this works out.