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

[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.