10 People, One Kitchen

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Pictures and a video from the party

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Barn Burning 2.0

Last night was the 2nd (maybe annual?) Barn Burning.

This all started last year when our barn fell down and my brother got the great idea to have a huge party with bands and shit like that. It was a huge success last year and therefore we decided to do it again this year.

Now, before I start explaining, let me say one thing... when we talked about doing it again this year we had planned on splitting the profits 50/50... however, that appears to not be the case, which kinda pisses me off, but oh well.... truthfully I didn't do much to prepare for the whole thing, so it's fair I guess, but at the same time the whole point of doing it again this year was to cash in... but anyway...

This year we had 4 bands playing up on stage (which is a flat bed truck trailer) and a big baseball diamond light to light the yard. We had security people running the door, making sure people paid their $10 and got wrist bands. They were also making sure people didn't have glass bottles and that kinda thing. There were kegs for the bands/hired help...

The only "problem" we had was around 10pm when the fire department showed up with 3 firetrucks. Then the cops came because the firetrucks were there. We had a burn permit for the fire, but apparently we never should have got it. They were concerned that we were feeding the fire and it was going to get out of control.

It was hilarious, people were still coming down the laneway AROUND the fire trucks...

Over all the whole thing went off awesome. We finished the night with $4400, which means 440 people paid... and there was probably 60 people on the "VIP" list that didn't pay. However, it didn't look like there was that many people on the lawn... but from the sounds of it there were little tailgate parties happening everywhere off the lawn. I overheard someone say that someone was bbq'ing by one of their trailers!

Clean up this morning sucked, it was raining. Most of the work was done by me and 2 other girls, going over the lawn, picking up bottles, cans and garbage, all in separate bags. I'm not sure how much we'll get back for empties but at 10c a can and bottle it should be at least $150.

This day has been going on forever. I went and picked up pizza for the people still here at noon and then got chinese food for the people still here at dinner...

Tonnes of pictures and videos to come...

My Product Review

Nair No-Strip Wax Kit

This was something I really wanted to try... I'd heard it worked well, and considering the way my legs have been looking lately I figured anything was worth a shot.

The stuff itself was an interesting situation. It's a little pot of hard wax in a little pot. There is a HUGE sheet of instructions that comes with it warning you not to overheat the stuff and blah blah blah. I followed the instructions perfectly down to the only heating the stuff up for 10 seconds after the initial 2 minutes to achieve the proper consistency.

I went to my room, telling my roomies that if they heard screaming not to be worried. I stirred the goo, which smelled great and looks kinda like yellow plastic and prepared myself to smear it on my leg.

I smeared it on, waited for it to cool and rolled up the bottom like it told me. I pulled it back, anticipating pain, but it just broke off like taffy. Rolled it up again, went to pull, it broke off. Argh!

When i actually was able to pull it back, hardly any hair came with it. This was not what i was expecting at all. I've used other waxing kits and never had so much difficulty.

I tried different parts of my legs from the spots around my ankles to the back of my thighs. But no difference, the hair just doesn't pull off.

I don't know what is supposed to be so great about this stuff. I'll maybe give it another go sometime, but right now I"m just disappointed that I spent $15 on something that gave me nothing but sticky clumps on my fingers of some substance similar to plastic. Hmmm.

Canada Day Weekend

It's been an awesome weekend!!

Trishelle and Sartaj arrived on Sat night around 7... we spent some time "getting pretty" and then went out for dinner and drinks in the market. We didnt stay out too late, we're getting old or something... haha. Came back to my place, inflated the air mattress and pretty much crashed by 1am.

Yesterday we got up, ate some breakfast and went out to partake in the Canada Day festivities around town. There were buskers around town and stuff going on at Parliament. We wandered around for most of the day and then came back to my place to have a nap. (Told you, we're getting old). We ordered some pizza and then went to watch the fireworks afterwards. It was kinda a pain to find somewhere to watch the fireworks, but it didn't matter once they started. They were awesome!!

We went for Cora's this morning, that too was fantastic!! Now I have all the rest of the day off and all day tomorrow... only 3 days of work this week before going home for 4 days! Whoot!

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