Bestie’s birthday!!! 🎁
Occupying my time...
Never a moment to be wasted, this weekend's original plan of visiting the dentist and having a games party at my place had to be rearranged/rescheduled therefore the weekend time was spent watching Michelle Obama's Netflix 'Becoming' as well as continuing on the cleanup of recorded shows, the oldest was Jan 19, 2020's 26th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards.
Tots 💕Eugene & Dan Levy’s opening & closing show routines, they represent the Canadians so well!
It was during the SAG Awards cleanup that Leonardo DiCaprio presented Robert DeNiro the Life Achievement Award.
It was through hearing about the motion picture parasite as the first foreign language film in the history of SAG to win this award that motivated us to go and see the film at the closest theatre by Ames' place! At the time, I had no idea about the premise of the film. Afterwards though, I fully understood how this could be a possibility and it's scary that it IS a possibility!
I've also been watching Celebrity IOU with the Property Brothers and have seen the episodes where Brad Pitt and Michael Buble have helped to give back to their most loved ones. Heart-warming!
Closing out the weekend, I watched the last taped episode of KidsSaytheDarndestThings with TiffanyHaddish, the funniest moments of the season (the closer). It was a fun show but I've heard that it is one of the shows that will NOT be renewed. So that is that.
Also, the Canadian Screen Awards have begun! (check it all out at https://www.academy.ca/)
The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, in partnership with CBC and CTV and with the support of Telefilm Canada and the Canada Media Fund, are live-streaming virtual presentations on the Canadian Academy Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube channels taking place Monday, May 25, 2020 through Thursday, May 28, 2020.
Narrators will include Eric McCormack, Herbie Kuhn, and Lloyd Robertson.
Due to the training sessions that were mandatory for employees, I learned soooooo much information about the locations we were going to with the students and their teachers as we were the main tour guides on the route (except for when they had signed up for actual museum tours such as the National Gallery of Ontario where we could actually take part in learning from the tour). We actually even literally had thick binders that we carried with us on the trip to help us (like a cheat sheet) when we were guiding.
Sadly, especially due to the new environmental situation so many past teaching methods are now bygone. I've seen through many of my past piano teacher colleagues that they have now turned to online teaching via zoom/skype-ing sessions. I mean it's lucky that our society has become so able to take on this type of challenge but I must say that due to my past teaching experience it would definitely be a change in teaching methods with all this change.
Teaching and piano also leads my thought process over to the arts side as I see that already many performances have online as well. Sure, it seems more intimate for the viewers but as a past performer, it definitely leads to a very different performance vibe for artists. shame...
However, even though I've been out of the travel game for some time, it hurts to see the hit all of tourism has taken. It's such a tragedy...Mais, c'est la vie, non?
Time to get with the times...
I watched an Instagram chat between Sandra Oh and a representative from Elle Magazine as well as took some amazing photos of a beautiful robin shot from a discreet location in the garden yesterday afternoon!
There were many performances and celebrity appearances including Leslie Odom Jr., Brad Paisley, Rachel Platten, Pierce Brosnan, George Clooney, Taye Diggs, Michael Douglas, Jodie Foster, Brad Garrett, Hugh Jackman, Allison Janney, Ken Jeong, Ray Romany and Wanda Sykes to name a few.
However while we’d almost just arrived, mom was helping her with chopping some onions for her upcoming hotpot cooking session when she’d accidentally cut herself with the knife.
While she was quietly inspecting the ‘damage’ (no one noticed), Ames came to review...and as soon as she noticed the injury, panic ensued!!! The panic involved the suggestion of calling 911...(unnecessary)
Outcome is that even though mom did injure herself...however, a couple bandaids (more than one as dad apparently contaminated the first one 😉) did the trick!
If anything, Ames was much more traumatized by this than mom!!! (Mom’s fine! Dad & I were simply spectators...)
Crisis averted...whew!
Happy Mother’s Day!
Gas price a mile from home was $0.70
School cancelled - yes cancelled
Self-distancing measures on the rise.
Tape on the floors at grocery stores and others to help distance shoppers (6ft) from each other.
Limited number of people inside stores, therefore, lineups outside the store doors.
Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed.
Parks, trails, entire cities locked up.
Entire sports seasons cancelled.
Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events - cancelled.
Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings - cancelled.
No masses, churches are closed.
No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, now 10 or less.
Don't socialize with anyone outside of your home.
Children's outdoor play parks are closed.
We are to distance from each other.
Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers.
Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill.
Panic buying sets in and we have no toilet paper, no disinfecting supplies, no paper towel no laundry soap, no hand sanitizer.
Shelves are bare.
Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks, hand sanitizer and PPE.
Government closes the border to all non-essential travel.
Fines are established for breaking the rules.
Stadiums and recreation facilities open up for the overflow of Covid-19 patients.
Press conferences daily from the President. Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths.
Government incentives to stay home.
Barely anyone on the roads.
People wearing masks and gloves outside.
Essential service workers are terrified to go to work.
Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families.
This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, declared March 11th, 2020.
Why, you ask, do I write this status?
This will be a reminder that life is precious and not to take the things we dearly love for granted.
We have so much!
Be thankful. Be grateful.
Be kind to each other - love one another - support everyone.
We are all one! ❤️
“This is my favorite/hardest project that I’ve ever worked on. It has always been a dream of mine, as I grew up singing in different languages, to find that perfect song, with the perfect message, to connect us all globally and then record that song with several other artists around the world in their native languages. We have put a lot of work into this as a team and decided to continue with our release date of this project because we feel like we all couldn’t be more connected right now across the world, and maybe this message will bring a little hope in this sometimes dark, and isolating time. Thank you so much to all the artists that worked on this with me. We hope everyone out there connects with this message and chooses love instead of fear. I dare you.”
The tiger's out catching some vitamin D!
Hello rhino's! This was the best weather for them!!!
Showing off his own Colin hand puppet!
