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Honeymoon Crashing!

I'm honeymoon crashing! It's O-F-F-I-C-I-A-L. Ben & Charlotte have okayed that Luke and I tag along for their honeymoon vacation.

Where are we going?
Denpensar, Bali!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's going to be off the hook! For 3 weeks we'll live like KINGS in Bali! Eat, drink and do whatever we want. And, all this without worrying about an absorbent price tag. Plus, we'll be sharing good company with Ben & Charlotte. No hassles, no pressure - just pure good times. Let the countdown begin. 8 MONTHS.

I gotta write about this, I'll die if I don't.

It's like the going to the cottage or on holidays, it always equals = Makes Me H.A.P.P.Y !

The one and only. Her Madjesty. The grandmother of paparazzi, trend setting extrodinnaire and queen of media manipulations has announced her next album release date.

Madonna is bringing sexy back on her first single alongside duet companion Timberlake. It's called "4 Minutes To Save The World" and it should be kickin' it on the airways at the end of March.

So, miss madge is heading towards the hippity-hoppity train is she? Yep, she's trying her hand at it.
The new albumn also contains a track produced by Pharell , Timbaland and and Nate "Danja" Hills.

RELASE DATE: April 29th
ALBUMN TITLE: Hard Candy (How do they choose these album titles??)

And, best Madonna song EVER? Madonna: Holiday! .

Wednesday night at the Rusty Gull :: 28th of Feb/08

UPDATE
Want to hear the MOST disappointing thing ever?? The band cancelled. We drank to their absence.

Get ready to call in sick. Pre-plan your work absence excuses now! 'Cause the best wedding band in the world are playing at the Rusty Gull Pub (1st & Saint Georges) on Wednesday night. We're going to be heading down there - if anyone else fancies joining us, we can party hard again with the Band (whose name I cannot remember!!).

IDEAS:
- Your car died.
- You have a migraine
- Your kid is sick.
- You have a sudden bout of food poisoning.

Drink lots of water 'cause HANGOVER THURSDAY is coming right at ya!

WICKA, WICKA!

Creative Commons :: A cool thing.

Share, Remix, Reuse — Legally
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."

And for those of you in Canada, there is CreativeCommons.ca

I choose travel for my children.

I've been thinking about having kids as of lately.

I've wondered what it would be like to take a photo of my two kids, sitting back to back under a tall tree, smiling at the camera and squinting in the sun. I think about how I'll cradle them in my arms after they fall off their first bike, training wheels away, and softly tell them they have to get back on if they want to learn to ride But mostly I've been thinking about how I can give them the most indispensable learning experience I ever had; travel.

Survivor Micronesia :: I love you.

I love Survivor and I don't care who knows it.
Survivor, to me, is the most underrated show in television. I'm scared they're going to cut it. I've noticed the quality of sponsors go down and that scares the crap out of me. What is tv without the cut-throat reality tv show that started it all for me? I love the evil Johnny Fairplays, the scheming Richard Hatch's and the friendly Ruperts.

It's the only reality game that is based on a little bit of luck but a lot of strategy.

Vocals and chill rhymin' :: Pandora Radio

I have this problem. I go running and I need a variety of fairly high energy music to run too. The music on my ipod gets old pretty fast. I listen to the same songs, day in and day out until I get so frustrated I spend a day or so on itunes finding new tracks. Sooner or later it happens ALL OVER AGAIN!

Sun Peaks :: One more crazy weekend to go.

Next Friday at 6pm some member's of the TamEntourage are headed to Sun Peaks! Namely, Chris Coleman (CC), Charlotte, Ben and of course Luke and I. Now, I know it sounds crazy, but I've heard rumors of free accommodation! TamEntourage is kickin' it first class baby.. it might even be the four seasons and I don't think I'm wrong.

Important Community Announcement! [Jack's Day off: Vancouver, BC]

Who want's another day's vacation? (I just found out about this!).

It's the most brilliant form of PR.

They are petitioning the Vancouver, BC government for a provincial day off.
Their asking for February 29th as they day off and I'm not sure how many people they need to sign to make it official. I heard a rumour that they have 10,000 already and need 30,000?
Jack's Day Off

Do it, Do it now! Peer Pressure.

Clove on Commercial :: Din Dins

It's valentines day and I wanted ethiopian but my husband didn't seem to thrilled with that idea. So we made reso's at a place I'd heard about on Commercial Drive called Clove. For some reason I had it in my head that it was East Indian cuisine. It kinda is, but kinda isn't. Clove's restaurant is more asian fusion (Think 'Red Door' or 'Flying Tiger' if you're from Vancouver). Thai curries, pakoras, dahl, paneer, lamb - but with an unmistakable Indian base.

I expected it to be decent considering the place was PACKED and I'd heard about it from others.

Lombardo's Pizzeria & Ristorante, Isn't Italian a little passé?

The crew is headed out on Saturday to Lombardo's Pizzeria & Ristorante! It's Brenda's (my business partner) birthday. She's turning dirty thirty!

Why lie? I think italian restaurants are kind of a sham. Pasta, Pizza, Lasagne.. it's 80's food that you can make at home. It's passé. Why would I pay 15$ for pasta I can make just as good at home!? When was the last time you tasted a tomato sauce that *really* blew your mind? It's tomatoes for god's sake.

Yellow snow, champagne and a white wedding (UPDATED)

Frank Sinatra, Queen, Hot Tubs and Plunge Pools - this was a night worthy of a long, long blog. Brew Creek Bender happened this weekend. Am currently far too wiped out to blog about it. I haven't even uploaded the vids or pictures yet. Stay tuned.

Grammy's 2008

I DIDN'T CATCH IT ALL BUT...
here's my .02 cents on this years show.

New Jack Johnson CD Review

SLEEP THROUGH THE STATIC
Guess who's back?
The king of Chill.

New music I'm diggin'...

I love itunes!

Indo for October?

LET'S GET TO BALI!

• So, you want it all and you want it now? Welcome to heaven. Bali, I'm sure, is much like most of South East Asia. Inexpensive. It's easy to live like a King when you can afford it.

My Entourage & I

I love Entourage.
Entourage is the catalyst of this blog. It inspires me to be who I am.. a self confessed socialite. I can't lie, I have an ulterior motive with this blog...

Brew Creek Lodge Wedding!

CHARLIE AND BEN'S WEDDING
In just three days the entourage and I will be heading up to Whistler for my friends Charlotte and Ben's wedding. Get ready for the English/Canadian bender of the year. The Brew Creek Lodge has no idea what's about to hit them!

Ethiopian Birthday Bash

RED SEA RESTAURANT
Get ready! The entourage and I are headed to the Red Sea Cafe on March 1st for Birthday Celebrations. We've rented out the Red Sea restaurant to celebrate my husband Luke, my sister Justine, her roommate Danielle, our good friend Matt Bellomo and of course yours truly birthdays!

U2 in 3D at the Imax!

ENTOURAGE OUTING!
Next Wednesday night I organized for my entourage and I to check out the U2 3D movie. Did you know it's a National Geographic Film?

Learning to blog, but I don't have wings.

TYPEPAD AND BLOGGING
So learning how to blog is a little bit tougher than I thought. There are so many things to learn here in order to make your blog the PERFECT blog, you know what I mean?