Well, I think it’s pretty obvious that the one word I have to describe the dress rehearsal for the Opening Ceremonys is Amazing. Even if I were to described to you what happened, it would be pointless because you need to see it to understand. It was one of the most visual shows I have ever seen and I loved it. Claudia got very emotional during it, but thankfully I had some Kleenex. We were so close to the stage too. It was just awesome.

Unlike the dress rehearsal on Monday, we got to see all of the performers live. They were absolutely amazing, especially the song for Peace, Claudia and I lost it. There is also a lot of audience participation that we were told about, but didn’t get to see, since we weren’t the real audience, so that will be very interesting to see on Friday. They had volunteer stand ins for all the dignitaries and for the athletes. The stand ins were pretty funny as they had to pretend they were the real person giving their speech, or doing whatever it is they were suppose to do, but obviously couldn’t so instead they just took up the allotted time and read us a bunch of random Vancouver trivia. It was very amusing. We didn’t get to see the torch or anything related to that either, as they are keeping all of that a secret.

I can’t wait to see if on TV tomorrow with all the athletes, and the torch.  We are heading over to my Moms to watch it on the big screen in HD tomorrow night. It should be very entertaining. I also need to figure out which events are on TV and when so that I don’t miss out on the action.

After all these years of preparation and all these months of Chad going crazy with his job, it’s finally here. It’s so weird to think about.

Chad won two free tickets to the Dress Rehearsal for the Opening Ceremonies through work yesterday. Only problem is that they are for tomorrow night and hes got a night shift. He said he still wanted me to use them, but for some reason it just felt weird thinking of going with out him. I was so wishy washy about it. To think I was actually contemplating just staying home and letting them go to waste. Luckily he smacked some sense into me.

I’m taking my favoirte Chilean with me tomorrow night. We have to leave work early to be there with enough time to go through security. We can’t bring any cameras (obviously) or any food and we have to wear white tops. I read some news reports of people saying its going to be an amazing show, so I’m quite excited to see it. But, I am going to keep my lips sealed on the matter and not tell you anything about it until after the real Opening Ceremonies. The only thing I am having a hard time with is the no camera bit. Not because I want to sneak pictures of anything, but I want to have my camera with me for AFTER the show, when Claudia and I wonder around downtown. The blogger in me is dying knowing I won’t have my camera with me.

I haven’t figured out exactly what free shows and things I will be attending yet. Alicia is going to be working every day with me during the Olympics, so we plan on taking the bus down town after work most days and just hang out.

Monday, Chad and I, along with Claudia and Elise, plan on going down to the Atlantic House on Granville Island to watch Sloan play and drink some beer. It should be really fun and I’m quite excited about it. I can’t believe it is only 3 days away!!! I’m going to live it up as much as possible.

As for now, I should get my stuff for work ready, so I can go to work early tomorrow. Then I need to figure out something white to wear. This should be interesting since the only white I own is in t-shirt form and that is going to be cold!

Work is so busy. Everything is going wrong. There is not enough time for any one or anything. I neeeeed mooorrrreeee TIME.

I need to get my shit together in life and start to take pictures of things other then FASHION, because if I don’t then this blog is going to get really boring. If only my real life wasn’t so boring. I was pretty sure that with Chad working his shifts, I would have a lot of free time on my hands to go and do things I wanted, have mini adventures and things to take pictures of. Yea, that hasn’t happened at all so far. I’ve been so busy, but with nothing exciting. It’s so weird.

This weekend Chad is actually off, and I was so looking forward to it, but now it seems our plans might not actually happen. Saturday I have a girls night with my cousins, which will be fun and adventurous, but Sunday, which we all know is Super Bowl Sunday, it seems that the party that was planned has now been cancelled because SOMEONE would rather coach 16 year old girls basketball then watch football with his buddies. YES, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!! Ugh. I’m so depressed that the party is no longer. I guess this means we’ll have to find something else to do. LAME.

Tonight I am spending the evening locked in my parents basement scrapbook pictures from our Honeymoon. I’ve been meaning to do it for a year and have finally got my act together. Plus Chad is working a nightshift so the timing works out well. There is a tiny TV in the basement and last week I watched Wayne’s World using the VCR. OMG, I had to rewind the VHS. I felt so retro.  For some reason it is so weird for me to think that a VHS Tape is now so oldschool. I think tonight I will watch Father of the Bride.

This week has become very, very lame.

With Chads wacked out work schedule, he has been going to be earlier then me quite a few nights during the week. This has allowed me to be witness to some strange behaviour.

It must be the stress of everything piling up and the none stop movement of his brain waves, but it seems to me that at night Chad turns into his true self, a cat. In the last few weeks this trend has started where he kicks his feet really fast a couple of times, as if he is a cat dreaming about chasing a mouse. We’ve all seen out PETS do this while asleep, but imagine a grown MAN doing this as he sleeps. I can feel and hear the rustling of the sheets, but I can only imagine how cute it actually looks.

Add ‘has cats dreams’ to the list of strange behaviours.

On Sunday I woke up to him talking. It was 10am and he was asking me if he had to get up and shower. I asked him what he was talking about and he mumbled something and then rolled over. Later on I asked him what he was talking about when he woke up at 10 and thought he needed to shower, turns out he wasn’t awake at all.

Add ‘talking in his sleep’ to the list of strange behaviours.

Last Thursday, after coming in at 4am from his swing shift, he curled up (like a cat) right beside me and passed out. I was wide awake because I had Brittany Spears stuck in my head, and I could hear his teeth moving, like he was chomping on something. I turned over to make sure he wasn’t eating my hair and all of a sudden he started to grind his teeth. OMG it was the worst sound I’ve ever heard. I quickly woke him so he would stop doing it. He was oblivious to all of it.

Add ‘teeth grinder’ to the list of strange behaviours.

As for me, I use to sleep through the night with no problems at all. Now I find myself waking up in the middle of the night to change sleeping positions, and then as soon as I’m awake I start to think about all the things I could be doing if I was at work. That’s always fun!

Then, in the last month, I’ve begun to wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. This never happens to me.  This so never happens to me that the two times it did while I was living at home, my Mom woke up thinking there was something wrong with me, because I never use to get up in the middle of the night. Lately, I’ve woken up with the ‘I have to PEE!’ sensation, but of course, I ignore it, because I can’t actually believe that my body has to pee. Plus I’m so warm, and cozy, and LAZY, that I don’t actually want to go up to pee. So I lay there and try and get comfortable, and then I press down on my bladder to see if I actually have this feeling or if I’m dreaming it, and then after 15 minutes of trying to figure out if I should get up or not, I finally do. So annoying. I blame this whole ordeal on my Mother who Pees 12 times a night. Clearly I have begun to inherit this trait.

I can’t wait to see what other weird things Chad starts to do at night.

I’ve been meaning to post these pictures for EVER. But you know me. Lazy + Too much going on + Lazy = LATE POSTING!

So, back in December I was the very first person who’s hair Miss Marlee J cut! Woot Woot! She did an amazing job as I’m sure you will be able to see in the pictures.

Peek-a-Boo face!

Cut, Dried, and Styled. Pretty damn hot if you ask me.

I love that I now have an amazing hairdresser at my finger tips!

Then…

A couple of weekends ago, Marlee asked me to come in and be a model for a day so that she could practice doing up-dos on a real person instead of her Judy Doll. Humm, have my hair played with and styled for free? SOLD!

Marlee curled it all out and played with it a bit. We weren’t sure what to do with it all until we watched a styling video and were inspired!

The hair style they showed was done on straight hair, but Marlee compromised.

The Stylist.

Rock Star Hair.

I absolutely ADORE the hair style she did.

There were so many great ones on the styling video we watched, I can’t wait for her to do my hair for the next big event I have to go do.

If there is anyone looking for an amazing hair experience I HIGHLY recommend going to Marlee. You can tell this was her calling in life. She is amazingly talented with a pair of scissors and a comb!!!

I can’t wait to go back!