I went to see.....

.....Céline: Through the Eyes of the World!! It's a movie that was released last Thursday allowing her fans an in-depth view of her Taking Chances World Tour in 2008. Now, there are 2 reasons why I really really wanted to go see the movie. 1. I am obsessed with her. 2. I had a chance to see her on her World Tour in Montréal on August 15, 2008, her first time back in Canada after not being here for 7 years. Let's just say that Montréal went a little crazy, (me included).

Since most of you know about my obsession with Céline this won't be news to you but I'm going to reminisce about my Céline experiences anyway....

I was living in Halifax at the time, with Clarisse and Lori on Inglis St. and in my 3rd year of university at Saint Mary's. Louanne, Cla's sister was also living in Halifax at the time and has a tiny Céline obsession as well. I don't remember exactly how and when I found out that Céline was going to be in Vegas for a few years but when I did, I told my mother I was going to see her. I think her exact words were: "Oh, yeah, must be nice." I think, scratch that, I know my parents were thinking I was being selfish hence they were paying for ALL of my university expenses at the time...I don't know why they would think that...
So I kind of put it in the back of my mind all the while knowing deep down that I was going to find some way to get there...

It's kind of strange how the world works. My grandfather passed away during my first year of university, in 2001, leaving everything to my grandmother. After he passed, she began to go downhill slowly from there and my mom was appointed power of attorney. Mom told us that Grammy had $1000 set aside in her account for each one of her grandchildren. Not only did she have that money set aside for us, she told Mom that she wanted the grandkids to spend the money on something they really wanted and nothing like school or loans, you know, stuff young adults should be spending their money on.

You can see where this is going....I took the $1000 and booked my flight to Vegas with Louanne and Marie-Belle!! (After some serious coaxing with phrases like: You only live once, you guys are going to get married soon and your lives will be over (haha), there will be kids to think about, blah, blah, you know, the normal make people feel guilty and want to come with you kinda stuff...

We were there 3 nights and 4 days and we had a blast! I think we were the poorest people there but it didn't matter! And then the big night came.....I couldn't sleep the night before nor eat the day of. I would post pics but they are in a photo album back home.

As you can imagine, the show was AMAZING and I bawled my eyes out the whole time. Thank god cameras were not allowed in the auditorium because Louanne and MB would still be blackmailing me with those today. Imagine someone smiling, singing, and crying at the same time.....not cute. Louanne and MB were pumped after the show and wanted to go downtown but I was emotionally exhausted! When I woke up the next morning all I wanted to do was go buy another ticket for that night's concert. I thought that after seeing her once in concert it would satisfy my urge, but it has done the exact opposite....it's like a drug!

So I find out she is planning a World Tour. She announces she's coming to Montréal. I lose it. I ask Joel if he will come with me cause he's the only person I know that will pay $300 for a ticket. He makes a deal with me: He will come see Céline with me if I go watch Iron Maiden with him. Agreed. Concert #2 is booked. Back in Moncton, all my girlfriends are super jealous that I have tickets and really want to come. Since Joel totally doesn't mind giving up his ticket, Steph and I head to Montréal. Here are some of the pics of that concert!

This is the morning of the concert...I was sporting the required paraphenalia


The crowds at the Bell Centre waiting for a glimpse of Céline


The red carpet


Montréal was very happy to have Céline back!


Steph and I patiently waiting for the concert to start!


And there she is!!!


Again, this show was fantastic and left me wanting more.....

So, Céline is returning to Vegas....I wonder how this trip will pan out?

"It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it's mostly holes." - Mary Wilson Little

Since I didn't have time to post yesterday's quote...here it is:
"I've always thought any sane woman would be a lover of women because loving men is such a mess. I have always wished I'd fall in love with a woman. Damn." - Germaine Greer

Today's quote is:
"I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are." Diane von Furstenberg

"I have the height of a model, the breasts that people pay for, and the lips that everybody wants, so why would I change?" - Jennifer Hudson

"Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends." - Shirley MacLaine

"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes." - Clare Boothe Luce

Technology.....

is great when it works like it's supposed to. Today was NOT one of those days. As most of you were probably on the receiving end of an e-mail sent "from me" this afternoon, so was the rest of my contact list, including my boss. Yeah, that's right. He thought I was trying to sell him Viagra. Well, I don't actually think he clicked on the link so he doesn't know I was secretly trying to sell him Viagra. But seriously, do these spam people actually think this is funny? Cause it's not. It all started when I got an e-mail from my brother this morning. He almost never sends me e-mails so I thought maybe he wanted to show me a link to something important. I checked the other people that he had sent it to and it made sense, he had sent it to some of his close friends and my sister. Wrong. The second I clicked on the link I got the virus in my hotmail and everyone on my contact list was e-mailed. I don't pretend to understand how spam works and how people actually corrupt other people's computer but then again I just figured Monday how to comment on people's blogs (and it wasn't even me that figured that out.) I have also been trying to install Internet Explorer for the last 2 weeks and although I know I have downloaded it, it's somewhere on the outer space of my computer and I can't connect the outer space to the earth of my computer. Anyway, that's probably enough ranting about technology but let me just say that the only thing that consoles me about my mass e-mail sent out today is that everyone has received a piece of spam mail at some point and knows it goes with the technology territory.

In other news, my Valentine's day was very uneventful. I might even go as far as saying that it was the most uneventful day in a very long time. I napped from 2 until 4 and went to bed at 7pm for the night. Lianne and Sara came up Friday for the weekend and stayed here with me. On Friday night we have some wine and watched the Olympic opening ceremonies. They were awesome!! I was thinking of you when I was watching them Terri! My favorite part was right at the beginning when the snowboarder jumped out and the fireworks went off. We missed the torch lighting ceremony at the end cause we were off to bed. On Saturday morning we went to the market. I heart the market. Being 4 girls and taking our time getting ready we only got there around 11am and I've discovered that that's the best time to go! There was wayyyy less crowds and still a lot of food and stuff left. I have a tendency to always buy too much at the market so this time I only bought some gluten-free samosas for Mom.

We went out Saturday night for some drinks and dancing and as always we had a blast!

We even saw Ricky from the Trailer Park Boys at the Split Crow! The bar wasn't too too packed so there were a lot of people asking for pictures with him but we didn't dare...I know, we are lame.






So back to getting 13 hours sleep in a day...I wonder if that's normal and needed once in awhile? I actually think that I could handle 13 hours of sleep every night. It doesn't matter what time I go to bed at night, I still can't get up in the morning. And it doesn't help that I get a boost of energy every night at like 9:30pm. I especially like this bit by Jerry Seinfeld:

JERRY: I never get enough sleep. I stay up late at night, cause I'm Night Guy. Night Guy wants to stay up late. 'What about getting up after five hours sleep?" you say oh that's Morning Guy's problem. That's not my problem, I'm Night Guy. I stay up as late as I want. So you get up in the morning, you're exhausted, groggy, and you say oooh I hate that Night Guy! See, Night Guy always screws Morning Guy. There's nothing Morning Guy can do. The only thing Morning Guy can do is try and oversleep often enough so that Day Guy looses his job and Night Guy has no money to go out anymore.

Hope everyone else had a great Valentine's Day and remember that I love you all!