To be honest, no one has ever set me up on a blind date.  Before, the idea would have petrified me.  I mean it seems like such an awkward experience.  Now, I guess still being single, I’d consider it, but I’d really have to trust the people setting me up.

Have you ever been set up on a blind date?  How was it?

Listening to these lyrics broke my heart, as they are exactly how Dad feels about Mom.  He will forever be falling in love with her again.  Love you Dad!

Now if only I could stumble upon the man that love me like Dad loves Mom.

Kisses,

Emme xoxo

PS Imelda May is live this Saturday at the 2011 Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival.

Damn, my weakness for musicians and chefs!

At 36, I gotta say that love is more important than work, and I say that after just having spent my entire Sunday working (and not on purpose).  I do love my work, but would happily put the love of my life first.  Guessing that at the end of the day that person would support me having both.

My two cents worth.

Emme xoxo

… like why I’m home alone on a Saturday night.  FUZZIES!!!!

Thinking a trip to New York might be in order to see if I can find some of these delectable creatures in the wilds of Central Park.

You see for me the Olympics weren’t really about the games or sport at all. They were about the people I met, both local and from around the world and in sharing in our traditions from music and celebration to food and beer.  Oh and there were some fine beers – thank you Saxony House, I get teary eyed just thinking about those tankards.  I’m happy to provide you with an address for a care package.

Saxon-Canadian Relations (aka Being a good Canadian Diplomat.)

So we all need goals, especially around games, and that I had, just like any of the athletes.  My goals were two fold.

1. Enjoy as much food, drink and music from all around the world, as possible.
2. Encourage International Relations by hosting a little competition of my own against my darling hummingbird604.  How you ask?  Well, our own Olympic Sport of seeing who got more Olympic dates.

Now, this really set a great purpose and tone to the Games as things got off to a roaring start in our Olympic Event.  The Opening Ceremonies alone I had three dates.  Needless to say, despite the odds, I was leaving Raul behind in a white wash.

Olympic Dates 2 & 3 (Yes, they happened at the same time, as did Date 1 - he's taking the pictures. I'm not a girl that wastes time.)

That was until this Saxon fellow got in the way, and turned me head over heels in a hunt for unrequited love.

Stealing a Kiss

Not wanting to lose though, I tossed my heart aside and still managed to get in a kiss or two:

Thats when Raul pulled off the mittens and started playing dirty, deeking me out and landing me a very real Olympic romance and case in International Relations in my lap.  Now, I’m not one to smooch and tell, but lets just say that that German accent yesterday was all I needed to take me right back to Vancouver 2010 and turn my face as red as a beet.

Faced with nostalgia, I think I’ll dig up a bit of our unused footage to share with you in the coming weeks.  Who knows it might even help to me cure of this past year’s weakness for foreign men.

Clearly I needed Anjelah Johnson in my life sooner to shine a little light on my love life or lack there of.  Nails chewed to the quick augmented by an earlier faux pas pointed out by my cousin, of actual books in my house.  Surprised I haven’t been dubbed the crazy cat spinster yet by the neighbourhood kids.

John (Sam B. Barnes) and Fay (Megan Phillips), as shot by Brian Campbell.

So what was the show?  Norm Foster’s Here on the Flight Path at the Metro Theatre, a good light hearted comedy about navigating your way through life and relationships from the perspective of one man and three very different women. Kind of like the story I’m writing, only I don’t have quite so many voices in my head.  Had to chuckle at myself as I often talk to my audience, but when Samuel B. Barnes did as John Cummings, at first I wasn’t quite sure how to take it. It didn’t take long, however, for me to look forward to John’s little asides and insights to the audience.  Oh and how I felt for him with the loss of each new neighbour and the anticipation of what could be with the next, laughing at their quirks and that much harder when I saw one (or to be honest, a few) of my own in them. Well played by the entire cast – Samuel B. Barnes (as John Cummings), Megan Phillips (as Fay), Sarah Szloboda (as Angel), and Robyn Daye Edwards (as Gwen). They left me wanting more. And my girlfriend, who has never reviewed a play before, decided this was the perfect date – dare she even say, a first date. Although maybe not for the freshly divorced, unless a good laugh at your predicament would be therapeutic. Not recently divorced myself, but certainly in the foibles of dating, and therapeutic is exactly what this was for me.

John (Sam B. Barnes) and Angel (Sarah Szloboda), as shot by Brian Campbell.

The Metro Theatre is interesting unto itself.  I’d love to know it’s history.  From the pictures on the wall, it appears to have been acting as a theatre for longer than I’ve been alive, but it also has the look of an old cinema. Just be warned, give yourself an extra few minutes to find yourself a parking spot, if driving, although there is a parking lot just under the bridge that had plenty of empty spots.

As for our dinner, that was at Shota Sushi and Grill in Kerrisdale, which while not cheap, was very tasty and satisfying.

If this sounds like a good date or evening out to you, then you can catch Here on the Flight Path at the Metro Theatre now until February 13, 2011.