11:43 - Friday, Sept. 08, 2006
Farewell to My Twenties
Oh My God...
I have only 4 days left of my twenties.
How weird does that feel right now???
VERY!
So the KEG is ordered & paid for. they special ordered MGD (Miller Genuine Draft) for me. Yummmmmm! :)
There are 2080 ounces of beer in a keg, so about 173 12oz beers. I have (including HW & I) about 18 people commited to the keg... there are many more that have not said for sure, and I am sure there will be more, so that is like less than 10 beers a person... for a big birthday bash, and most of the people I know, 10 drafts will go down no problem... plus all the extra people I think that will be in on it...
So we spoke to the vendor & they said they will have extra kegs there if we run out & need to get one last minute. It won't be MGD 'cause they normally don't carry it, they ordered it in for me, but we can get a smaller keg of Moosehead for a bit cheaper if need be. Hopefully someone will be sober enough to drive me there if this happens... which seems likely...
I have the porta-potty ordered too... so that's done & cool.
And my lunch date with Weathergeek for sushi on Tuesday, then hopefully we can hang out for a bit until Wpg Mom & I go for our pedicure at 3. Still not sure what we're doing the evening of my birthday...
I have told HW a good few times to please not disappoint me. I will be very hurt if he doesn't make any effort to get something for me... that will be 3 years in a row... and my 30th feels important to me... I want him to show he cares in that way... I sure hope he doesn't let me down. I don't care if this sounds petty or materialistic, I don't think it's much to ask for your boyfriend (seems to be such a silly word when we're common-law for 2 years+ and talking of marriage, but anyway) to get me a little something for my birthday.
HW's cousin is in town & they want to have lunch with us this weekend... I hope we can squeeze in some time...
Boy I use ... a lot, don't I?
It was damn cold last night. Only like 8 degrees about 9pm, and I guess it got to zero in the early morning. Yuck. Chilly today... 9 degrees when I came to work... high is only gonna be 15 - but it's supposed to warm up again this weekend & next week... I sure hope it is decent for the party. Usually Winnipeg has a nice Indian Summer in September, let's hope it doesn't let me down this year :)
So, Monday is the 5 year anniversary of the tragic 9/11 events. It always makes me sad to think about & remember. I would hate to be the families who have lost their loved ones to this, espcially on that anniversary. Imagining all the children who lost parents to this... it's so horrible... I could just cry thinking about it. I remember when it happened, I had only moved here 6 days prior (another *big* thing in my life in September, moving to Winnipeg to start a new life) and I had stayed at a friends house after a night of partying. We woke up & turned on the Tv and watched the plane fly in to the tower. I seriously thought it was a movie. I asked my friend what it was... and he knew... he knew right away it was real... his eyes were so wide & mouth dropped... "Holy shit, that's the World Trade Centre"... Ignorant me says, "Huh? What's that?" He kinda shushed me and just told me to watch... and then I realized what was really happening. I was horrified... it just didn't seem real... it just had to be a movie... and we see that it's been hit twice... and we see the buildings crumble to the ground and the people running & screaming for their lives... I couldn't control my tears... it was so awful. My friend drove me home to where I was staying... I tried to think of something else, it was so depressing... and it was my 25th birthday the next day! It was on every channel... I sat in my room and watched all day long... and couldn't stop crying. It was a pretty shitty birthay, I can tell you that... how could anyone be happy & celebrate? For weeks after I just wondered when the next attack would happen... was this the end of North America? Would they just continue bombing the entire continent & eventually wipe out our exsistence altogether, I really thought if THAT could happen, what was next? Who and where was next? I was so paranoid, I remember sitting in the tub imagining all of a sudden being bombed and the house exploding, me in it, along with the city around me. Maybe it sounds far-fetched now, but if their lives could be taken so easily, so unexpected as the lead their daily lives, why couldn't it happen to me or people I loved? I still can't quite grasp it... what awful, awful people could do this? And hate SO much they would take their own lives in order to kill so many of us? Ugh... makes me feel sick.
So here's my question... I may have ranted about this before, but oh well. Do any of the proceeds from the films such as "Flight 93" and "World Trade Centre" go to the victim's families? Because NO ONE should financially gain or profit from this... the film makers, actors etc. should be donating any money made from these films to a foundation that would spread out to all of those families. If they are cashin in on this tragedy for themselves, then that is just fucking SICK. I think they must be sharing some of it or something, or I feel that I wouldn't be the only one voicing this, there'd probably be some kind of uproar, wouldn't there?
Anyway, just about lunch time... Talk to ya later... if not, maybe Monday... if that's the case, have a great weekend... if I don't get in here on Monday, then I'm betting I won't be back for my birthday... maybe after... but why am I writing this? What do you care?!? :P
