The Vancouver Graphic & Communication Design Meetup

Today I volunteered for the retirement party (for crappy design-summer BBQ) It was held at Trout Lake, I got to meet a lot of people and mingle and chat and ask them what they do (career wise) and of course extracurricular activities/interests. It was a lot of fun! The theme of today's meet was to bring and share with everyone something you've created that is 'less than great, something you've found and kept as an example of what never to do, something that is terrible and should just case to exist.' And at the end we burned it into a BBQ pit. It was quite the ritual. There was examples of bad typography ie. comic sans being used, stretched type, bad cropping jobs, bad color choices etc. I enjoyed my time there and I can't wait till the next meet about typography treatment in tatoos. That should definitely be something interesting to learn and talk about.

My free Meetup t-shirt!

NKOTBSB

I've been waiting for a long time for this concert since I got my tickets back in February. I finally got to see Backstreet Boys in concert. I realized how much they have aged since I was a little girl listening to their songs. I was quite impressed with New Kids On The Block. They are amazing as a boy band especially Joe who has an incredible high pitch voice with incredible volume and lungs to hold notes for an incredibly long time. I was excited to see Matthew Morrison from Glee as well and he is really talented. My favourite songs from him were Sway and Gold Digger. Overall, I enjoyed the concert very much and I'm glad I got to listen to all my favourite songs from both boy bands.

Harrison Hot Springs

Last Thursday, my distant cousins flew from New York to Vancouver to visit us for a one week trip. I haven't seen them before except their mom who is my "biu yee" and my "biu yee's" mom which is my "gu paul." At first when I met them I bumped into them on Denman renting bikes to ride on the Stanley Park seawall. Yesterday, we went together to Harrison Hot Springs to soak in the mineral public pool. Afterwards we walked around had some gelato and enjoyed the gorgeous view there. We decided to go eat at the Lakeside Cafe for their Italian buffet which I think is pretty good for what you get for $25. There was salmon, lamb, roasted chicken, fish and chips, a salad bar, dessert bar, customized pasta bar, etc. Overall, it was a great experience. It was a long drive though from my cousin Kat's house to harrison it took us about an hour and 45 mins to get there. Afterwards, we went back to my cousin Kat's house to play some cards, play a new game a learned called Settlers which I really enjoyed and Banana, which is very similar to rapid Scrabble. Overall, a long night and tonight I'm excited to watch the Backstreet Boys and New Kids on the Block concert featuring guest Matthew Morrison (Will Schuester) from Glee!

Max Interval Plyo

I'm so sore...due to the fact that I decided to go for it and do an insane workout. Insanity is a workout that will push past your limits with jam packed cardio drills and non stop action using intervals of strength, power, resistance and ab core training moves. I would say it definitely makes you feel better everyday. I enjoy doing the workout. By the way if you haven't tried P90X abs you should definitely try it out. For such a short amount of time for the workout you really feel it burn in your abdominal.