Coral and I just got back from our holiday to Kelowna and the Shuswap. Waiting for me in my email inbox was this most excellent highlight from the website, Texts From Last Night:
(601): Here’s my recipe for happiness. Go get a pen. 1. smoke a bowl 2. put on explosions in the sky 3. take a bath. Do this for about 1 hour or until all your problems go away.
That is nice… maybe less nice (but I watched the trailer anyways) while trolling TFLN, I came across the website for the movie I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. I wonder if a Tucker Max movie is really necessary for modern society? ahhh, who am I kidding, of course it is.
The big story ’round these parts (aside form Coral’s recent fascination with old Felicity episodes) is that… Coral was laid off at the government. boooo
There is hope that she might get placed in another department before December 1st. Thou, to be honest we’re not sure what would be better? Working for the government is a pretty cherry gig. Coral makes a good wage and the work is well suited for a mother…. however the job contributes to a lull in Coral’s energy to seek what she wants in life. The layoff might be the necessary to put her on track to go out and get her dreams.
Coral and I were sitting on the deck of her father and future step-mother’s house in Westbank over looking Lake Okanagan and thinking that one day we’d like to live on a lake and have an out door kitchen and I’d cook and grill food for us all day. I’d have a rack filled with different woods for their smoke properties to infuse into the foods. And we’d have a boat, Coral wants one of those ski boats with the speakers that shoot overtop where you attach the toe rope and have your wake boards mounted. As comfortable as our life is now, that fantasy can never happen. But it COULD happen… it does seem to happen for other people.
The one major wrench it has thrown into our plans is that we were thinking about having another baby and that will have to be shelved for a bit as we decide how we’re going to live. I am also going to have to find some really steady additional work and/or step up the launch my mobile disco business.
I am confident that we’ll be able to work something out, until then we’ll keep trolling MLS for that perfect ocean/lake front and buying lotto 6/49.
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I’d like to end this blog post talking about the band Oasis. I saw on Mike Devlin’s facebook a link to an article that published the results of an international poll asking modern rockers, what the best song of all time is. The answer, Oasis’ “Live Forever.”
SWA?
Its a good song, but the BEST song ever? for shame.
The Morning After 
okay first, that picture is awesome. obvs coral is a total babe, but her hair looks gorgeous. and yer family is too cute.
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that sucks about coral getting the shaft from gordo and co. but it could indeed be opening doors to new opportunities. you guys are young… having to shelve new baby plans for another year or two is okay. it's not like you're racing against the clock, so that's a good thing.
i also share the dream of living on a lake… i love the water. an outdoor kitchen is definitely a life goal for me too. it'll happen. i buy lotto tickets every week 🙂
yeah be lotto tickets too… but in theory at least, we should be able to earn the goods needed to make it happen. We were in Kelowna and someone has to be buying all those rad houses (Coral’s folks live in one of them) and the boats… so what do they do to make it happen and what are we not doing?
That pic. It’s a framer for sure!
I always like to say to myself in times like these, “Good things fall apart so better things can fall together”. I live by that quote because in most cases, it’s true.
Col and I have those living on the lake visions, too, but for now, it’s the major city EA hubs – Vancouver/CA/FL that we have to be if he wants to forward and up in the same direction – dreams and moments on the deck are good though.
I like that you guys are solid though in that Coral can now direct her energies to more career stuff or persue her education/dreams, etc. I agree with vancityrockgirl about the baby making thing though – you are young. It’s so nice to have a playmate lil bro/sis for the kid though. It’s a tough call but one that really just comes from the heart rather than the ideal circumstances.
oh for sure, the first one came from the heart 😛 we were kinda hoping the next one could be a little planned…
Planned schlanned. Imagine finding out you were having two at once. Nothing happens according to plan – but you make it work and go with the flow man.
BTW, I think I might have a side money making venture for you and your music ear that can be done from the comfort of your own home – will fill you in on the genius once I have more details and demand for this kinda thing.
You just gotta be patient really. I can promise you most of the people out on the lake aren’t in there mid to late twenties.
babies!!!!!
our baby plans are on hold as well until we can more comfortably live. But I have baby envy like you wouldn’t believe.
You’re such a lovely family and I love how much ambition you both have.
Huckdoll, my true skillset is generating demand!
Obviously, I’m outta the loop cuz I didn’t know the education plans had been shelved. WHAT HAPPENED TO GOING BACK TO SCHOOL?
I might still do, but I need to focus on earning some bux if Coral gets laid off… then she’ll go back to school and I’ll work. we’ll just reverse the order on who goes where, when.