spoiled chinese girl

I haven’t really been concentrating on decluttering in a while. This stuff has been sitting in a pile at the side of the computer and it’s about time it’s removed from the house.  I’ve completely thinned out my CD collection, really only keeping a few artists… too bad I have so many from those few artists!

Here are the albums from big name/major release labels that are being donated away (since I can’t find any store to purchase them from me, even if it’s the paltry sum of $0.25/disc)

Since this list (of 36 albums) is going to be kind of huge, I’ll install a click-through.

Right….

Here.

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Well what about now?

Cutting done by Efix Roy (http://efixroy.com) while he was visiting Exotix Studio in Toronto Canada. Photo taken about 4 hours after the procedure, after my first shower.

I’ve wanted a Take That logo somehow immortalized on me ever since I was 13, it was 1995, and I was watching the black and white music video Back for Good on YTV’s Hitlist with Tarzan Dan.

15 years after first discovering the band I finally took the plunge and have my own personal proof that I really really really love that band.

Because flying to London England (in July 2011) just to see them play in concert three nights in a row isn’t quite enough proof. (It is, I just really wanted the scar to go along with it!)

P.S. The cutting is not crooked. I’m just at an awkward angle because I’m trying to photograph my own leg. Seriously. It’s not easy.

Since it’s Monday morning (when I write this) and I’m lazy I’m going to simply copy/paste my list and add comments…

Friday night:
17:45 – Body Attack gym class.
DONE! Was a good class. I really enjoyed it. Tried to go shopping afterward for purple t-shirt or some kind of gym pants but nothing appealed to me.

19:00 – Go home. Farmville. Sleep.
DONE DONE DONE!

ALSO, before going to bed I ended up purchasing the flights for my epic Take That journey next June/July. I will be leaving YYZ June 26, arriving at LGW June 27. Then Leaving LGW July 4th and arriving back in Toronto the same day. (Technically only 3 hours later!)

Saturday:
09:30 – Demo(nstration) class for martial-arts cardio at gym. We get sticks!
DONE! It’s called Bokata, and my a$$ really hurts! I showed up late which was a bit horrifying. But that’s okay, especially when the class ran long and ended about 15 minutes after it was supposed to. It was a super duper challenging class with the person who invented it, and she didn’t offer any “low impact options” so I did what I always do which is make up my own. I was in the far corner at least. And I could definitely see why the class limit was necessary!

??:?? – Demo(lition) of a house for Wayne Manor music video shoot.
DONE! It took FOREVER! I told the guys earlier I would be there when I could. Which would be after the above class. So I would leave Markham around 12 noon. (Time to go home change etc.) Txted them around 12:30 to say I’m leaving, the dude told me “Perfect! We’re still in Scarborough!” which lead me to think “Screw that, I’m staying home another hour” and did just that. Showed up around 14:00 along with the guys & did some shooting, did some painting & general mayhem. Also the band may or may not be called Wayne Manor anymore.

ALSO after driving back from Wick Ontario straight into downtown I was invited out to cuddley-boo’s best friend’s birthday dinner thing at some downtown restaurant. Where we both ordered rare steak. And he’s beginning to realize the irritatingness that is two people who always order the same thing. Haha.

??:?? – cuddle with my cuddley-boo.
DONE! This I was definitely expecting to be done.

Sunday:
??:?? – Sleep in while Cuddley-boo goes to work.
DONE! Also Farmville’d from when I got out of bed around 10am til about 2pm when I finally left the house to venture out for breakfast/brunch/lunch/food. At Timmies.

12:00 – Sell off excess CD’s/DVD’s at Sonic Boom
DONE! Sort of. For one thing I didn’t hit the stores until about 15:00.Also, I sold 2 DVD’s + 16 CD’s for $8.00 at Sonic Boom, then another dvd for $4.00 at BMV

16:00 – Bondage/Fetish photo shoot with photographer I met on okC
DID NOT HAPPEN! First off we changed photo shoot to “meet up for coffee” because there wasn’t going to be enough time to get photos done before football.  Also he apparently texted me around 14:30 to let me know he would be running late & needed to cancel. However my phone failed to notify me about this (it normally beeps & continues to beep until I check it and will tell me “1 New Message”) so I was sitting outside Spadina station from 16:00-16:30 until I gave up & called up Football boy instead.

ALSO because of the now completely cancelled meeting with photographer from okC, I called up Football boy to see if he wanted to hang out. And he was okay with the idea. So we hung out where he threw a football at my head while we were sitting and watching a DVD about the Edmonton Eskimos. Was interesting. But not very tutorial-ly for what I was hoping for.

18:00 – Flag Football game – Grapists vs Sunday Football Team 5B
DONE! During offense I just kind of run around like a chicken with its head cut off. During defense I count steamboats and try to block the visual of the quarterback. Not that I really know what I’m doing. I also need to get gloves or something if I ever want to really catch a football. Those things are mighty slippery! Oh, and the Grapists won 6-1.

19:00 – Flag Football game – Grapists vs Illegal Contact
CANCELLED! This game was actually cancelled Friday afternoon after the list first started. So we all headed home an hour early. And there’s 9 weeks left of play.

20:30 – Cuddle with my cuddley-boo.
DONE! Although this was about an hour earlier, we also went to grab take out Pho and drank beer while watching the Animation Domination halloween specials that were all a week late. Which is slightly amusing. We missed about half the Simpsons halloween special though. Also, take-out pho is extremely difficult to eat because it comes with some assembly required.

Anyone who knows me, and really KNOWS ME knows me, knows that I am/was in love with a British boy/pop group called Take That.  It started with Tarzan Dan on YTV’s “The Hitlist” weekly countdown show and ballooned from there.

Their first popular song in North America was Back for Good, there were 5 really hot blokes in the video in black and white dancing in the rain. And I was hooked. I was also 13 years old. So I was obviously their demographic target market.  Sadly they announced their break up in February 13, 1996 (I found out in April 1996 when it was announced on the HitList) and I was devistated.

Tried to follow Gary Barlow on his solo career quest (He visited Toronto once, I never got to see/meet him)

Tried to follow Robbie Williams on his solo career quest (He visited Toronto a few times, I saw him at Much Music (Skipping school!) before his scheduled performance in Alberta for Much Music’s snowjob’99 festival, and I saw his debut Canadian concery May 1, 1999. (I swear I know all of these dates off by heart)  I did not see him again when he visited later that year or the next year.

Take That announced they would be reuniting (without Rob) November 2005 (This date I had to look up) and I started downloading albums again. (Since I can’t buy them retail and haven’t been fussed to buy them on ebay)  Still dreamingof the day to see them live in concert.

A few weeks ago I found out two things:
1. Take That were doing another European tour in support of a new album that is releasing today (“The Flood”)
2. Robbie Williams has re-joined Take That and has been recording with the rest of the lads, and will be on tour.
3. Tickets for the tour go on sale October 27, 2010 at 9am GBT

I immediately decided I will be flying to Europe and seeing this concert.
I then realized I would have to be awake at 04:00 EST in order to be online to buy tickets.
I finally thought to myself that I must be absoloutely bonkers.

October 27, 2010 my alarm goes off at 03:55am. Thinking to myself “WTF?!” I run out of bed (topless mind you, in a freezing cold house) and jump online to start looking up websites to buy tickets from.  And on the TTAP webpage to check with other fans.

Every phone line in London seemingly crashed.
Every ticket agent’s website has crashed.
TT and RW twitter feeds announcing apologies and “Please keep trying” messages from Ticketmaster et.al
Started considering locations other than London Wembley Stadium in order to get tickets. I would fly anywhere at this point.

At one point I could only confirm I had one ticket to one concert, and waited too long buying it because I wanted to confirm at least two concerts in order to justify flying to another continent for a band.

Suddenly the website I was having the most luck with offered me tickets to 4 shows.
Couldn’t justify buying so many tickets. Dropped one. And made my purchase.

At 06:03am EST I received an email with the following information into my inbox:

Fri, 1 Jul 2011 – TAKE THAT PROGRESS LIVE 2011 : WEMBLEY STADIUM
GENERAL ADMISSION UNRESERVED LEVEL 1 SEATS AND PITCH STANDING    1    £ 60.00

Sat, 2 Jul 2011 – TAKE THAT PROGRESS LIVE 2011 : WEMBLEY STADIUM
GENERAL ADMISSION UNRESERVED LEVEL 1 SEATS AND PITCH STANDING    1    £ 60.00

Sun, 3 Jul 2011 – TAKE THAT PROGRESS LIVE 2011 : WEMBLEY STADIUM
GENERAL ADMISSION UNRESERVED LEVEL 1 SEATS AND PITCH STANDING    1    £ 60.00
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Your tickets must be collected from Stargreen Box Office              £  0.00
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TOTAL                                                                 £180.00

I squee’d silently. Went back to bed. Tried to sleep.
Alarm went off telling me it was time to go to work.

I never told anyone until after I bought the tickets.  I didn’t even tell my mom until her birthday (Nov 2nd) when she told me she was going to Hong Kong over Chinese New Year. She… surprisingly didn’t seem that bothered by it. Almost like it was expected, once I told her it was for Take That. Sweet.

Since it seems all I do is complain about work, or laugh at myspace marriage proposals, or the occasional weekend recap, I think that the weekend recap should be a thing that I do all the time.  And it felt pretty fun to do what I did at the beginning of the week, by posting both my expectations and posting what really happened.

I think I’ll try to make this a trend.

Friday I’ll post what I plan on doing over the weekend.
Monday I’ll post what actually happened on the weekend.

So here’s what I’m planning this weekend:

Friday night:
17:45 – Body Attack gym class.
19:00 – Go home. Farmville. Sleep.

Saturday:
09:30 – Demo(nstration) class for martial-arts cardio at gym. We get sticks!
??:?? – Demo(lition) of a house for Wayne Manor music video shoot.
??:?? – cuddle with my cuddley-boo.

Sunday:
??:?? – Sleep in while Cuddley-boo goes to work.
12:00 – Sell off excess CD’s/DVD’s at Sonic Boom
16:00 – Bondage/Fetish photo shoot with photographer I met on okC
18:00 – Flag Football game – Grapists vs Sunday Football Team 5B
19:00 – Flag Football game – Grapists vs Illegal Contact
20:30 – Cuddle with my cuddley-boo.

Check back Monday to see what really happened!