Happymerry Jollyberry Part II

[ltmurnau]

New Years was OK, Lianne and I spent it at my Dad's fortified compound on Pender Island. We saw a procession and show down by Magic Lake put on by local people that featured giant puppets, stilt walkers, fire spinners, and a giant glowing dragon floating around on the lake steered by darkened kayaks. It was pretty impressive! I'm sure there were a couple of Burners in the crowd.

[EDIT: It's called the Magic Lake Lantern Festival, and these are the people who put the event on each year:
http://pendercreatives.com/threeonthetree/index.html}



I liked the giant owl best: he looked just like Craig Oliver the CBC correspondent.

The next day there was a windstorm and the power went out for almost nine hours. It went off halfway through cooking a turkey in the oven, so we cooked it the rest of the way in the barbecue outside, and cooked up vegetables and gravy on a Coleman propane stove inside. It was all really good, then we sat around drinking by candlelight and talking over each other really loudly until midnight, when the power suddenly came back on. So we went to bed.

My New Year's resolutions, such as they are:

- cut out sugar
- eat the same food, but less of it
- try to be more productive in all things, even "meaningless" arty ones
- have some worthwhile fun, dammit!

Comments

[emmabovary.livejournal.com]

Bonne année, cher ami!

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Toi aussi.
I was glad to get shut of 2005.

[emilelagieux.livejournal.com]

Hey LM,

What an absolutely wonderful holiday! It was so BMan. I'm jealous. We had power throughout the entire holiday and I think it would have been better otherwise. Maybe a Coleman stove and candle light are the answer to some of this crazy holiday commercialism.

ps. Would you be terribly peeved with me if I nominated you for the BRB Council?

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Well, you can always cut the power to your own house. And stop fiddling with that thermostat; put on a sweater! That's what I always tell Lianne.

BRB Council: thanks very much for the offer to nominate me, but I would like to decline. As we discussed, Lianne and I will work to produce and distribute the Beacon, as well as contributing whatever we have to write, but getting involved in the Council is a bit much for us.

[xplodingsilence.livejournal.com]

- cut out sugar
- eat the same food, but less of it


Those were my New Year's resolutions for the past 5 years.
But I always gave up after a week.

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Well, I think I can do this. The problem is that I am getting rather overweight (I need to lose about 10 kg) and I need to do something about it. I can at least cut back on the sugar, I've done that before, and since I do all the cooking I can resolve to make smaller portions (the problem is that I've been cooking too much food, and I am core-programmed to clean my plate since childhood). My leg won't let me do violent exercise but when it warms up I can bike around, and fortunately I can walk as far as I want to now.

Congratulations on your baby boy! I missed the announcement as I was on vacation and offline.

[xplodingsilence.livejournal.com]

Thanks!!!
Having a baby is so much work (more then I expected). Don't have time for anything at the moment.

On january 1th, Peter went to a "Throbbing Gristle" concert.
Hope you get the change of seeing them to, they were brilliant.

[xplodingsilence.livejournal.com]

Forgot to tell you. If you like those big puppets (the one in you're picture), you should check out: http://www.plasticiensvolants.com/

They are great. I've seen them twice.

no such thing as meaningless arty things

[emilelagieux.livejournal.com]

Lt.

Apologies. Your nomination was cancelled as requested. However, before I could say "uh", Alianne was nominated and seconded and gosh, voted upon. If the post (as I suspect it will be) is offered to her... she will have to decline it. Sorry for that! Ugh. American enthusiastic puppy-dog-ism. Wag.

Also, because it seemed fun to do... I added flash to your non-web-page. Check out Mao now! Wow! (That sounds good, doesn't it?)

Also also, Tivity found this great beverage for us to try out next time...
Something called "Bruichladdich". Pass that on to Alianne, will you? Good man!

Big, Dusty, Squeezy (no pinches!), Hugs.

Re: no such thing as meaningless arty things

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Please don't feel bad about nominating us. We talked it over and we really appreciate the gesture, and we know why you want us there, but we don't think we would do that great a job with everything else we have gonig on. There's the cross-border issue too.

Mao now, wow indeed! Thanks so much for doing this, I appreciate it. Can you animate his arm to wave back and forth, as the real watch does? I agree that my existing webpage could be spiffed up a lot. When I switched ISPs I just stuck in a bare-bones front page and transferred the rest, and haven't bothered with it since.

We will be down Seattle way in early February for a concert and McPhee pilgrimage; I think we will see you then.

Big Hugs to you too! Remember that tickets go on sale next week (1200 hrs PST Wed Jan 18). This year's theme has definite possibilities.