matt nathanson

i have a few of his cuts but this one is complimets of jp-
thx ..its a gooder

lost your shirt in the credit crunch? buy plain white

watching the noon hours news, they aired a piece on a trend thay say is driven by the credit crunch...the return to the plain white shirt. and just when you thought this was a better way to go as most men are challenged when it comes to fashion...voila! more choices than ever... thomas pink of london has a " white shirt bar". a nice beaded fitted one costs a mere L250 , while a simple version at L75. see gq.com

they actually tried to make a correlation between being less flashy due to the credit crunch and as a financial advisor; people see men who wear basic white as more trustworthy .

2009

as we enter the next year i love to look for a glance into the future. the greatest thing about the internet is that you can search and find exactly the opinion, attitude, proof or disproof on any subject. so this morning i went in search of my 2009 destiny...i like these two the best.
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It s time to celebrate yourself, Taurus! You are pouring yourself into your life s mission and rejuvenating yourself with abundant thinking, which attracts great things to you. You re diligently creating a public arena where opportunities will emerge for you to be a teacher or messenger. Engagements for speaking, writing and sharing your thoughts will open up. Other people will be inspired by your enthusiasm and insight, and will support you in accomplishing your goals.

Taurus s excitement radiates more than ever this year, bringing with it a magnificent energy the world has been lacking. As you embrace the power of your heart and spirit, you are allowing yourself to transform and align with a universal energy source. You discover the space for your creativity to flow and abundantly bring the truth of your being into the world. Your focus on your connection with a higher purpose brings out the best in you and refines your self-expression.

You appreciate all the expansive shifts that are taking place in your life, and you are learning to break up routines and old patterns of rigidity. This allows you a new level of awareness and acceptance of your ultimate purpose. Pay attention to what has heart and meaning. Express your truth and you will advance. You will find avenues to bring your talents and belief systems to philanthropic endeavors. By the end of the year, you will be able to slow down a bit and find more time to enjoy the new you that you have created.

compliments of yahoo.com
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TAURUS
Ruling Planet: Venus
Symbol: The Bull
Element: Earth
Color: Blue, pink

In 2009 ambitious Jupiter will move into your work and career sector, expanding your professional and personal horizons. This planetary transit is an agent for achievement, advancement and professional recognition. However, disciplined, no-joking Saturn is laying down the ground rules and will demand hard work and focused determination. The combined energy of these two power planets will gently nudge (or force) you into a new lifestyle, career or relationship. Your reward? Stability, new horizons and growth.

The year begins on a chaotic note and life may seem like a traveling circus with you trying to juggle everyone's changing moods and your own work load. Your organization skills will be one of your tools for success, and when your ruler savvy Venus starts to kick down doors in June, you will be ready to step through.

Because the Bull is endowed with style and substance, a true heart and trustworthy soul, this year stay true to your nature and friends will line up seeking your wisdom, company and sage advice. You are a demanding perfectionist with the soul of a mystic. This year your mantra should be: Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

2009 Taurus Love Match: Because demanding Saturn is directing the show in your relationship sector until October, this is a serious year for love. In a secure, committed relationship, you can reach a deeper bond through communication and thoughtfulness but do expect Saturn to bring up any weakness or flaws which, once recognized, can be overcome or repaired.

If you are single this year, a Virgo or Scorpio could share your serious mood or a fiery Leo or Aries could awaken your passions. But until September, watch out for a few irrational planetary surges. Otherwise, you could mistake a new infatuation for true love or vice versa. This year, give yourself time to test the mettle of yours and another's devotion.


compliments of lavalife.com

bollocks really! all i want is to wake up each day to good health and the occassional hot forecast.

ready for spring

xmas snow, too much food, family hugs, wii pain and tipsy-ness

ok, so boxing week shopping...ughh i say...crowds, more ugghs...but the girls wanna go..so we go.. hit a few of my favs like mexx, la senza and golf town. go up to jp's house to suit up ...and well, here are some of my scores! ...new golf threads ...picked some great deals up...and now so looking forward to spring! right after i ride, which is this next weekend for sure.

the gloves and pink clubs are jp's but they did match...lol.

bring on the new year, a new life and change that is positive.sending good energies to all. please send only back the same.

river road sightings

each morning i drive river road. this boat has been a constant in my daily commute. i keep waiting for it to dissolve and sink below the surface. not today tho, it is beautiful as it sits cradled by the icy fraser river.

as i stood on the edge to take the picture i could hear the sound of the ice creaking and moving as it fights the strong current that pulls it west. it was a surreal moment. death of a vessel and the life of the river.

the craziness of it all

the snow, OMG the snow. the city is covered in a blanket of white. figures stumble through the snow trapped sidewalks as if they are drunk. they wobble, they toss and do a version of the chicken dance just to keep from falling!

and the streets...the streets became greasy fun. but the vision is so darn pretty!
the rest of the country giggles and points..but a white Christmas is worth the hard times here on the west coast.
there are others who live in the sun, or visit the desert at this times of year. they are jealous for sure.

2ma

way back in feb, i had a nasty sinus infection doubled up with a beauty of a bronchial germ war. well since that day i have been unable to smell anything! ok, not entirely true- some colognes and perfumes can get in but very few. it has been a weird run. no turkey baking or fresh pie smell, no summer breeze from the ocean, no scent of clean sheets or skin adversely no nasty smells either.
today i saw the e.n.t. doctor finally!
after the lovely sinu-cam experience...next steps:
prednisone
mri

not good.


perhaps this explains a few things of late, ya like how i spent some time in stupidville...

note*if i am going out now or later in life, then all who read this should know , i expect to be unplugged by one of you if i end up in a coma . that is not a quality of life i would enjoy
if i want to die; i hope one of you will honour my request and assist

heather nova-london rain

wtf flavour is that?

blue candy canes...have you tried one? wtf...what is that taste?

kinda like "grape" really
zero food reference to actual food

cause does the grape actually taste like any grape you have either eaten or drank? how about the blueberry? not me!

blue tastes like, well blue and grape, well tastes like grape
and who decided this anyways?

winterscape

ok, today is one of those fab days where all around you the world is a new. i love it when is snows here in vancouver. the air smells different, the scene is transformed and people are more friendly. i started my morning at about 630, brisk walk to the far side of town for a vente latte, read the local rag while sitting outside and walked home to the sound of crunching snow.

the pic is from my balcony looking east .....

amos lee..

colours

and so this is xmas

on the day that snow is predicted to fall in vancouver...



i am in the xmas mode:
lights on the jeep...
belly full of eggnog lattes...
ear full of holiday music..
warmth of a fleece scarf
pleasant thoughts of family and very special friends...

and my fav part of the season...
handfuls of mini mandarins!

betty page

Betty Page, the brunette pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has died. She was 85.

Page, whose later life was marked by depression, violent mood swings and several years in a state mental institution, died Thursday night at Kindred Hospital in Los Angeles, where she had been on life support since suffering a heart attack Dec. 2, according to her agent, Mark Roesler.
A cult figure, Page was most famous for the estimated 20,000 4-by-5-inch black-and-white glossy photographs taken by amateur shutterbugs from 1949 to 1957. The photos showed her in high heels and bikinis or negligees, bondage apparel -- or nothing at all.

Decades later, those images inspired biographies, comic books, fan clubs, websites, commercial products -- Bettie Page playing cards, dress-up magnet sets, action figures, Zippo lighters, shot glasses -- and, in 2005, a film about her life and times, "The Notorious Bettie Page." Her willingness to portrait female sexuality with power and with kink has made her a pop culture icon for the fetish community.

Then there are the idealized portraits of her naughty personas -- Nurse Bettie, Jungle Bettie, Voodoo Bettie, Banned in Boston Bettie, Maid Bettie, Crackers in Bed Bettie -- memorialized by such artists as Olivia de Berardinis. "I'll always paint Bettie Page," De Berardinis said Thursday night . "But truth be told, it took me years to understand what I was looking at in the old photographs of her. Now I get it. There was a passion play unfolding in her mind. What some see as a bad girl image was in fact a certain sensual freedom and play-acting - it was part of the fun of being a woman."

"The origins of what captures the imagination and creates a particular celebrity are sometimes difficult to define," Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner said Thursday night. "Bettie Page was one of Playboy magazine's early playmates, and she became an iconic figure, influencing notions of beauty and fashion.
In 1967, she married for a third time. After that marriage ended in divorce 11 years later, Page plunged into a depression marked by violent mood swings. She got into an argument with her landlady and attacked her with a knife. A judge found her innocent by reason of insanity but sentenced her to 10 years in a California mental institution. She was released in 1992 from Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino County to find that she had unwittingly become a pop-culture icon. A movie titled "The Rocketeer" and the comic book that inspired it contained a Bettie-esque character, triggering a revival, among women as well as men, that continues unabated. It has been estimated that over 20,000 photographs of Bettie have been taken. To date, she has not received ongoing royalties for her numerous photos and other merchandise. This is still in process through her estate and family lawyer.
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"I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn’t trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn’t think of myself as liberated, and I don’t believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn’t know any other way to be, or any other way to live."


Betty Page

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because i am really a geek

okay. so xmas decorations at my place is limited to one string of amber led lights on my balcony. oh and of course.. lights on the jeep again this year.
and well today i dug through the overcrowded unmatched sock drawer to find these lil gems!
xmas socks..no other apparel thank you! but these are too funny and go with my black patent shiny shoes.

"theres no place like home, theres no place like home"

great lake swimmers - your rocky spine

a good listen

amy macdonald - mr rock and roll

catchy tune...

the river

It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on

But it don't snow here
It stays pretty green
I'm going to make a lot of money
Then I'm going to quit this crazy scene
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on

I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
I wish I had a river I could skate away on
I made my baby cry

He tried hard to help me
You know, he put me at ease
And he loved me so naughty
Made me weak in the knees
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on

I'm so hard to handle
I'm selfish and I'm sad
Now I've gone and lost the best baby
That I ever had
I wish I had a river I could skate away on

Oh, I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I made my baby say goodbye

It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
I wish I had a river I could skate away on

spirts that surround us

had a conversation at lunch today with a friend...we talked of ghosts and spirits..and how most believe that they exist if they have unfinished business with you or the place you share...

got me 'thinkin..is it possible to have such spirits that are part of the living world..the ones who walk close with you daily...arrive in your thoughts without permission...these too may be the ones with unfinished business?

how do you send them away in peace? or find peace in ones self?

interesting...i would think you would need to allow those spirits to speak in some form in order to find peace? if the spirit is unable to speak then does in fact walk the world with eternal internal unrest? and how does that affect ones aura? and the host to which the spirit seeks solace but is unable to find it...how do they find peace and reconciliation?

dunno, just a crazy thought really...or one that needs more thought..i know my thoughts can be very crowded at times.

josh radin-closer

couldnt get the official video...but worth a listen

how the day sounds- greg laswell

shared music is good

ok i caved

yes, it is true..i just bought my first game system...seems odd considering i am such a techno geek really, to be such a late conformer..but i must say wii fit ROCKS

i am sore today from boxing, yoga, running, tennis, balance exercises, stretching and all other manners of physical challenge

but man is it fun. they really are on to something here...the way that we interact with technology today is quite remarkable...

the good:
my BMI is great- height and weight proportioned for my age
the bad:
wii age which is a combination of current age, weight, agility , stamina and balance..my wii age is 63! i will be so working this asap!! stay tuned
the ugly:
my batting average

so, i highly recommend this unit as an alternative to running in the morning in the rain. i will continue to run when it is ok outside but am liking this new way to build my flexibility and balance.

because wanting is just as lovely has having

your world.right now

today we lost a Canadian icon; Ted Rogers Jr.

now may of you may not understand the depth of the rogers influence on todays wireless world...

his father, ted rogers sr :
In the early 1920s, radio transmitters and receivers ran on large and expensive batteries to provide the high voltages needed for the vacuum tubes used. Early attempts at producing a radio receiver to operate on household alternating current were unsuccessful, since tubes designed for the direct current supply from batteries were unsatisfactory when operated on 25- or 60-hertz alternating current. The batteries were also extremely large.

In April 1924 Ted Rogers Sr travelled to the United States and saw experimental AC receiving tubes at the laboratories of Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. He purchased the patent rights to the experimental alternating current tubes of Frederick S. McCullogh. After further development Rogers produced a design of vacuum tube that would operate on alternating current. By 1925 Rogers had introduced not only a complete radio receiver using the new tubes, but had also produced a "battery eliminator" (power supply) that could be used with other manufacturers receivers to eliminate the expensive batteries. By August 1925 the Rogers Batteryless radio was in commercial sales, the first radio receiver in the world to operate from household current (and thus the introduction of the radio into the home). At a time when a schoolteacher might earn $1000 per year, the top-of-the-line Rogers radio sold for $370. Rogers formed the company "Standard Radio Manufacturing" (later Rogers Vacuum Tube Company) to produce radio receivers using the new design of vacuum tubes."

one mans vision is now the Canadian face of communications to the world!
impressive really...the biggest wireless network in canada
5 tv stations
52 radio stations
theshoppingchannel
the blue jays baseball team
70 consumer and trade publications
260 video stores
250 communication stores including fido
cable company
rogers center and sportsnet
200 dealers

i know those of you who will still use me as your personal rogers whipping boy when your cell bill comes in..and i am ok with that...