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4 buckets of pure awesome rolled up into a tasty bite sized homunculus.

Posted in life or something like it, tagged , , , , on February 4, 2010| 3 Comments »

I saw on Facebook tonight that everyone was searching their name in Urban Dictionary and posting the results.  Too fun.  I punched “Jeremy” in and here are a couple that came up.

a pearl jam song in which the young man is tormented at home and school and decides to use gun violence to resolve this situation see columbine
dude jeremy is so jeremy lets not piss him off

news reporter:today in a florida high school dick butin pulled a jeremy by viciously massacring his whole school and on to other news r kelly guilty or innocent

and I like this one:

4 buckets of pure awesome rolled up into a tasty bite sized homunculus. Looks good in drag. When he opens his mouth, pure clever spews out and penetrates all those who dare oppose him. He is the master of the universe.
Other names: Angryman, Flamenco Moronco, Priscilla Antoinette, Harold, Germathon, Spice Rack, Waffle Time.
Jeremy got locked in the cupboard. Hours later we heard “Iiiit’s waffle time it’s waffle time won’t you have some waffles of mine??” emanating from said cupboard.

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On this final day of my Staycation, Coral and I packed up Mads and headed to one of our favourite mini road trip destinations, Jordan River.

As has been the case the past few times we’ve headed out there, the restaurant is for sale.  I think it might have come down in price a bit this time, what just $528,000?  Coral and I always talk about wanting to buy it and moving to this little hamlet.

Actually we have plans to buy all sorts of neato buildings… but man, people keep buying them before we win the lotto max.  Damn you Vancouver investor for buying the North Junk buildings… (well not really, I am happy someone will FINALLY fix up those rad heritage buildings, and I still have the Janion Hotel Building to craft my daydreams to, hello my future lounge called Hotel Bar…).

Back to Jordan River…. Coral and I figure if we won the lottery or something, then we could buy the lot and maybe a couple around it, deck out a sweet surf shack restaurant and then some cottages to rent out.  Put in a pool or a hot tube in a common area looking out at the ocean and we’d live the life.

Coral took some pictures of rocks and drift wood to help find some inspiration for our colours.  And she was thinking of like a ceder shingle to kit out the exterior.  A nice deck or patio, some TLC for the front area and we got it made.

Who knows, maybe one day we’ll have a plan to make this work, and we won’t even need the lottery!

Now, rustling up the $2.48 million needed for the Janion… might need a lotto Max for that project.

But our idea there is a lounge on the main floor called Hotel Bar and my AM radio station’s studio and offices, and then maybe some condos on the next two floors and we gut the top floor and create our ideal urban condo loft with a garden on the roof!  Like in the magazines.  Now that would be nice.  When is the draw, Friday?

Go with yourself.

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West! To Jordan River

Posted in playlist, tagged on March 16, 2009| 3 Comments »

It was a rainy, windy Sunday afternoon.  No better time to slap together some turkey sandwiches, bundle up Mads and load the Jeep full of friends for a journey west, to Jordan River err, River Jordan.

It takes about an hour or so (depending if you stop in Sooke for a nuk-nuk and some peanut butter cups or not) to make it to British Columbia’s wild west coast.  Here is the soundtrack.  Coral and I picked a few of our favourites right now.

West! To Jordan River

01) Maria Taylor – A Good Start
02) Bright Eyes – Devil Town
03) Joe Purdy – Can’t Get It Right Today
04) The National  – Mr. November
05) Glen Hansard – Falling Slowly
06) Sara Bareilles – Gravity
07) Josh Radin – Today
08) The Flaming Lips – She Don’t Use Jelly
09) Jimmy Eat World – Work
10) Maria Taylor – Clean Getaway
11) Jealous Sound – Hope For Us
12) Interpol – Untitled
13) Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
14) Grand Archives – Swan Matches
15) The National – Slow Show
16) Explosions in the Sky – Your Hand in Mine

and would you look at that, the playlist times out at an hour.  This is a pretty easy listening mix and contains lots of standards here at the Baker Homestead.

While we were out in Jordan River we found a restaurant for sale!  Just $635,000! ha.  ONLY!

We daydreamed about how fantastical it would be to live out in Jordan River and instantly double the population operating a surf bar and grill on the beach.

The for sale business is the orangey building three in from the left along the “strip” of Jordan River.  Coral and I have adventured out that way many times in our relationship and have never seen it open.  I guess that goes to show how sound of a business it might be, but still… it sure would be fun.  The restaurant sits on a fairly impressive lot.  There is a house behind the storefront (that needs some work) and a good sized yard, plus, um, you’re almost right on the Ocean!  We\d stock the bar, serve the best burgers, put a hostel (and radio station, that’s my idea, shhh, don’t tell Coral or Alix, I haven’t OK’d that with them yet) in the basement and killer patio to watch the waves.  I guess the mortgage payment on $650,000  would be more than the business could generate… $3,500-$4,000 a month sound right? zoinks!  and no bank would lend me that money anyways.  Better get me a lotto 649 ticket today.

I still think the western areas of Vancouver Island are the final frontiers. The land is empty and it is gorgeous.  Its move west or north of the Malahat and if you asked me, west is best!  Oh well… day dreams over, time to make a sandwich, a salad or soup or something, change the baby’s diaper and get ready for work.

Go with yourself.

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