Summer

....has seemingly arrived and gone again, without so much as a whisper of "I'm bored" from the 9 year old.

A constant supply of friends to hang out with helped immensely, along with a huge amount of space to wander in and explore.

It would appear that this latest house move was a stroke of genius, unfortunately I cannot take the merit for that and must give the credit to Tattoo man (bugger, bollocks and bitches)

Summer didn't go quite as smoothly as I'm letting on though.

I was unlucky enough to be the driver of my SUV when a young boy ran out from behind a stationary vehicle and collided with said vehicle.

Fortunately he wasn't seriously hurt and it has made me a bit more 'aware' of any movement than I would perhaps like to be while I am driving (and while I am a passenger in any vehicle)

Because of this Shakka had to miss 3 days of summer school at the Theatre, which she wasn't too happy about, but she will doubtless make up for it.

Tattoo man and I managed a whole 2 day break away to attend a fabulous wedding in St. John NB at the end of August.

I have been to lot's of weddings, but never one like this. The whole thing was in the Theatre and it was just unique.

It was very strange being away from Shakka, even for 2 days and she called me in tears on the Saturday with very real signs of homesickness and missing her Mom.

I got up the next morning at 4.30 to go and collect her...yes Mommy was missing her girl too!!

We spent a fabulous day at Riverglade watching the MotoX, resulting in the purchase of a 110cc Kawasaki (pronounced ca wa ski if you are a 9 year old!!), which was ABSOLUTELY necessary, honestly Dad... Tattoo man and me (despite the weight restriction) have had several outings, but alas, Shakka is terrified to ride the bloody thing..is now a good time to say I TOLD YOU SO..

LOOK OUT Kijiji, here I come!!!

Blog has not been too forthcoming, but it`s been as hectic as hell. Not that I'm complaining, this summer has been pretty fantastic.

I will try and step it up a gear once I have completed the final step of my immigration paperwork (citizenship) after the small people have returned to their learning institutions!!

Now I have to apologize, my keyboard has gone funky and is putting the wrong comma`s etc in the wrong places..but you`ll have to live with it!!

HALLOWEEN...bring it on

Waiting...patiently

While I await the closing day on the sale of our house I am a little at a loss for writing.

You see I really need to get down on here a situation SO unreal that I still don't believe it, but I do not want to jinx the house sale and therefore I am forced to wait just a little longer to get down my (now unscrambled) thoughts on the matter.

That said moving day is coming ever closer and I am still not particularly organized.

For the past 5 weeks or so life has moved at lightning speed.

Shakka has been in rehearsals for the production of 'Petcudiac' (which is being performed on Saturday June 6th at The Capitol Theatre, Moncton) at least 3 nights a week and 5 this week!

http://www.capitol.nb.ca/

Tattoo Man has been working ridiculously long hours(and that is NO joke...I'm talking upwards of 15 a day here people) and I have been dealing with financial, removal, theatrical and educational matters on a whole different level than the norm!

Tattoo Man also spent the day in a recording studio two weekends ago and the result was 11 of his song's (YES the man is multi talented) finally down on CD. OK there is tweaking needs to be done, but the overall result was pretty damned fabulous!

A holiday is really needed by all at this point, but there is no time! Tattoo Man has actually booked a week off work for the first time in 4 years. Needless to say at least one of those days is already planned out by the arrival of AC/DC, playing their ONLY outdoor gig in North America on their Black Ice tour.

Mentally, I have already moved into our new home and am planning out a few changes here and there, so I am really no longer interested in the house we currently live in.

School is almost at an end for another year at which point 11 weeks of "when do we go back to school" and "I'm really bored" start a repetitive cycle.. enough to drive even a totally sane person gaga. I am of course half cooked to begin with so what frigging chance do I have?

I want to say that during this mayhem I managed to get a hall pass to attend a gig at Moncton Coliseum on Friday. Disturbed were the headlining band, but I only saw them perform two songs and they really don't do it for me.

However...Art of Dying, from Vancouver (the band featured in my previous blog) were there to open the show.

http://www.artofdyingmusic.com

They kicked serious ass.

Not only are they great live, but they are also a great bunch of guys who really deserve to be headlining their own tour.

Here's a little pic of me with vocalist and writer Jonny Hetherington!!

OK, enough of the free blog publicity!

SO....with everything being so breakneck right now, blogging is on the back burner until we are moved into our 'new' abode.

I'm under no illusion that there will be happenings that will be cause for blogging at a later date. Nothing EVER runs smoothly during a house move, but until that time I shall take the time out to concentrate on the matters in hand...all 45 of them!!