im back in vancouver after my 10 day breakneck-speed holiday in ontario, trying to see as many people as i could. i didnt get to see some (megs, call me), but all in all, a great trip. it pretty much had to be though, i only packed red, green, and white clothes. i also got a glorious christmas sweater from value village. advice for next-mas: when you start and finish your christmas shopping in a single trip, everyone is so much friendlier when you have a stupid sweater on. behold, the power of the sweater. behold it!

i also went to this skateboard industry christmas party before i left, with burlesque dancers and sweaters and free-flowing alcohol. still cant take a focused picture in low-light conditions though, little help from anyone who takes pictures? (cartwright or haffie, im thinking of yous)

santa got me sweet new gigantic headphones and scene-it! movie edition which i proceeded to destroy alicia in two games in a row. my gift to you is my favourite songs of 2006 in tidy zip file.

christmas party with the high school gang including nog-a-saki’s which were actually really good! warm up the nog and the saki, it’s glorious. we also played some sort of ice cube drinking game, dan what was it called?

first day back in vancouver i slept-in big time, went to bon’s off broadway (it has a fantastic 3 dollar breakfast special and a myspace page!) and a pitcher of the lager, some more drinks till the tiny gang – including the long-lost sioned – arrived, and we drank a bunch of those knock off energy drinks and whiskey and then owned the stage at some bar downtown. i accidentally pushed sioned into the cage, it was almost disaster. but not quite as disaster as the drunk young women: “[cross word puzzle question:]The ’70s had the hustle, the ’80s the moonwalk. We’ve got the faux lesbian dance.” in this case, to the song “rock around the clock” by bill haley and the comets! fuck!

new years eve, i dressed up as a nerd for the “nerds, cheerleaders, and jocks” (?) themed party. i was definitely in my element as a nerd, awkwardly dancing to the 80s jams. first house party ive ever been to with a a draw bridge in front of the house, it was lowered for each new guest. it was quite an advanced pulley system, they also had a really good dj who had crates and crates of terrific records, there was some sort of freeform jazz funk jam band in the basement, eggnog and skittles were bought in the post bar grocery store trip, and i finished the night by waking up my roomate (who stayed home on new years eve by herself cause she’s a huge loser!)

happy new years!