Scaddabush celebrations!!!

Happy Birthday, Dad!!! #scaddabush #shopsatDonMills

The Woman In Me

I both read the online version of Britney's memoir as well as listened to the narration of the novel via Michelle Williams. Even though much of her life is known via celebrity gossip it was still nice to hear/read it through herself/Michelle.

Candlelight: Vivaldi Four Seasons

Miso Salmon bowl dinner & almond chocolate smoothie with Jason before heading to the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto to enjoy an approximately hour long 3 violin & cello string performance at with Mich last night!

Elton John & Bernie Taupin: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song

Off PBS Hosted by Billy Porter Included performances by Garth Brooks, Brandi Carlile, Annie Lennox, Maren Morris, Charlie Puth, Metallica, Jacob Lusk

With appearances from Sir Paul McCarthy - 2010 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song,

Eh…so eventful weekend…

Hosted by Kelsea Ballerini

Butterfly 🦋 miracle

Enjoyed this butterly display at the Brookfield Place /office!

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Much more exciting & unexpected event was the nearly 90 min whatsapp chat with highschool besties this evening!!!! Need another one soon!

Easter Weekend at Deerhurst Resort

The 2024 JUNO Awards

Hosted by Nelly Furtado in Halifax
Anne Murray presents Group of the Year to The Beaches
Jonny Harris and Lu Kala present Album of the Year to Charlotte Cardin - 99 Nights
Kardinall Offishall presents Canadian Hall of Fame Induction to Maestro Fresh Wes Williams
Performance by Charlotte Cardin
Elliot Page presents the Humanitarian Award to Tegan and Sara Quinn (Tegan and Sara Foundation)
Jim Cuddy announces Alexandra Strliski to pay homage to Karl Tremblay
Performance by Aysanabee & Allison Russell
Nelly Furtado presents 2024 Musicounts Teacher of the Year Award to Stephen Richardson
Tate McCrae for Album of the Year and Kyle for Comedy Album of the Year
Josh Ross performs Trouble
The Honourable Pascale St-Onge & William Prince present the Breakthrough Artist of the Year to Talk
Omega Mighty TD Junos submissions welcomes Nelly & Classified presents Maestro Fresh Wes' performance
Crash Adama present the TikTalk Juno Fan Choice Award to Karan Aujla
Canadian Music Hall of Fame performance by The Beaches

Sweet indulgence #demetrestoronto #abbeyites

St Paddy’s Day et etc

Celebrated St. Paddy's day by attending Nicholas' 100 day old (ok, approximately) celebration dinner held by Karen's family in Mississauga!

Granted neither Karen nor Patrick stayed to dine (they'd come a little earlier with Nicholas for anyone who wanted to peer through the protective shield),
I was fortunate enough to have Louie be my ride!
Unfortunately, we left before dessert because (even though dinner was supposed to begin at 7)
the event began so late and most working people need to prioritize...c'est la vie!

NAACP Awards et etc

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture - Taraji P. Henson, The Color Purple
Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series - Quinta Brunson, Abbott Elementary
NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame - New Edition
Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series - Damson Idris, Snowfall
Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series - India Ria Amarteifio, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUEEN LATIFAH!!!
President's Award - Usher
Queen Latifah presents the Queen Collective to Imani Dennison, Director, "Bone Black: Midwives vs. The South"/Vashni Korin, Director, "Negra: Yo Soy Bella"/Contessa Gayles, Director, "Founder Girls"/Luchina Fisher, Director, "Team Dream"/Jenn Shaw, Director, "Gaps"/Idel Ibrahim, Director, "In Her Element"
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture - Coleman Domingo, The Color Purple
In Memoriam with comments from President Barack Obama and performance by Andra Day
Clarence Avant, Executive/Carl Weathers, Actor/Richard Rountree, Actor/Ron Cephas Jones, Actor/Lance Reddick, Actor/Keisha Nash, Actor/Sandra Reaves-Phillips, Actor/Hinton Battle, Actor/DJ Mark The 45 King, Hip Hop Producer/Wayne Shorter, Saxophonist/Andre Watts, Pianist/Magoo, Rapper/Grace Brumbry, Singer/DJ Casper, Disc Jockey/Marlena Shaw, Singer/Dorie Ladner, Political Activist/Charles Ogletree, Scholar and Author/Joe Madison, Activist/Randall Robinson, Activist/Gail O'Neill, Model/Kendall Minter, Entertainment Lawyer/Gregory Allen Howard, Screenwriter/Mike Williams, Athlete/Jim Brown, Athlete, Actor, Activist/Homer Hogues, Tuskegee Airman/Captain David Harris, First Black Commercial Airline Pilot/Bertie Bowman, Congressional Staffer/Dexter King, Civil Rights Activist/Hughes Van Ellis, Tulsa Race Massacre Survivor/George F. McGinnis, Athlete/Vida Blue, Athlete/Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Musician/Maurice Hines, Tap Dancer and Choreographer/Les McCann, Pianist and Singer/Amp Fiddler, Funk and Hip Hop Producer/Ahmad Jamal, Pianist/Bobby Caldwell, Singer/Rudolph Isley, Singer/Jean Knight, Singer/Bill Lee, Composer/George "Funky" Brown, Musician/Tina Turner, Artist/Andrew Braugher, Actor/Julie Robinson Belafonte, Actress, Dancer, Activist/Harry Belafonte, Actor, Singer, Activist
Chairman of NAACP presents Chairman's Award to Amanda Gorman
Indris and Sabrina Elba presents Outstanding Actress in Motion Picture - Fantasia Barrino, The Color Purple
Taraji P Henson presents Outstanding Actor in Motion Picture - Colman Domingo, Rustin
Delroy Lindo and Kerry Washington presents Outstanding Motion Picture - The Color Purple
Oprah Winfrey presents the Entertainer of the Year Award to Usher

Love and courage, man - the two most important things. I don't move forward with fear anymore - I move forward with curiosity. I have an incredible support group around me, and they save me every day, because I have known hell. Hell has definable features, and I want no part of it. But I have the courage to face it, at least.
. Who am I going to be? Whoever it is I will take it on as a man who has finally acquired the taste for life. I fought that taste, man I fought it hard. But in the end admitting defeat was winning. Addiction, the big terrible thing, is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. But together, one day at a time, we can beat it down.
The one thing I got right was that I never gave up, I never raised my hands and said, 'That's enough, I can't take it anymore, you win.' And because of that, I stand tall now, ready for whatever comes next.
Someday you, too, might be called uponn to do something important, so be ready for it.
And when whatever happens, just think, What would Batman do? ...and do that.

Team Connection! ☝️

Always open to treats!!!

#BOA

Happy Women’s Day!!!

#greysanatomy

Anejo reso catchup with a bestie! #Anejo

It's been muuuuchhhh too looooong since we last met up last night, Wins-bella!!!

Spent this evening multi-tasking watching the SAG awards (hosted by Idris Elba) on Netflix and King Richard (fyi I found watching King Richard on mute but with the subheadings on a pleasant treat using my different senses!).
div class="separator" style="clear: both;">CONGRATULATIONS OPPENHEIMER on the many lovely outcomes especially with such stellar competition!!!!

Christina Wong: Denison Avenue

Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 7:00 PM 60 min Location Lillian H. Smith Room A/B/C Author Christina Wong discusses her CBC Canada Reads shortlisted novel, Denison Avenue, with former mayor of Calgary and Canada Reads champion, Naheed Nenshi. Images by the book's illustrator, Daniel Innes, will be displayed throughout the event. Denison Avenue is a moving story told through visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable elders. The book follows an elderly Chinese-Canadian woman named Wong Cho Sum who lives in Toronto’s quickly gentrifying Chinatown-Kensington Market neighborhood. After the death of her husband, she begins to collect bottles and cans to fill her days and keep grief and loneliness at bay. In her long walks around the city, she meets new friends, confronts classism and racism, and learns how to build a life as a widow in a neighborhood that is being destroyed and rebuilt, leaving elders like her behind. A poignant meditation on loss, aging, gentrification, and the barriers that Chinese-Canadian seniors experience in big cities, Denison Avenue beautifully combines visual art, fiction, and the endangered Toisan dialect to create a book that is truly unforgettable. Q&A and signing to follow. Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes and Christina Wong will be available for purchase by The Beguiling.

Ticket registration for this event is required. Register for free tickets now! *** Note: This is an in-person event inside the auditorium of Lillian H. Smith Branch. Tickets are only guaranteed until 15 minutes before the show starts, at which point we will start opening up available spots to the rush line.

Family Day long weekend

Great Falls, MT - Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos and a Tale of Come Home Again

- Reggie Watts

Quote takeaways:

'So far in my life, I'd always been able to develop hacks to deal with all my problems. Clever ways to game the systm, to short-circuit the simultation I was stuck in to make sure the odds were constantly in my favor. It turned me into what I liked to call a "practical optimist." Life would always serve up obstacles, of course - that was the nature of existence. But if you tried hard enough, if you acted smart enough, I believed you could always find a solution. Real life really could be one long summer at a friend's house on the shores of a Montana lake. You simply had to make it happen.
. But my worsening situation with my dad, the alienation I experience in Cleveland, it all made me start to question that faith. What if some problems were too big to solve, too intractable?
What if some barriers were so high you didn't even want to overcome them?'

'But I understood something else too. From here on out, I wouldn't run from the darkness in life. I would embrace it. Reality wasn't all summers by the lake. It wasn't all smiles and positivity. Sometimes there was no good solution. But that was okay.
In fact, it was that darkness that made life more interesting, more compelling.
Darkness, sadness, disillusionment - there was a power to it. A strength that came from simply embracing the role of the outsider.
I had never shied away from being different. If anything, the opposite. But I had typically tried to be the goofball, the entertainer, no matter which clique I was embracing. My new understanding of what it meant to be odd had a depth to it, a thoughtfullness, an openness to fiscord and disharmony. And a growing confidence in myself.
Perhaps in my excitement to try all those different groups at school, I had forgotten just how much I savored being the other - all its shades, light and dark. But now I was ready to finally find my true home in Great Falls High. A real family of friends.
A bunch of weirdos like me.'

'I have no idea. But I do know that I just discovered my two favorite drugs.
Weed and tongue.'

I really love Reggie's musical interludes (like 'She Stands', included in his novel!

'I accept my first recurring role on TV, playing the bandleader of a spoof late-night show called Comedy Bang! Bang!, and a couple years later, in 2015, I'm invited to be the real late-night show. And I'm skeptical, because I hate schedules and I'm excited about pursuing my solo career, but before I know it I'm in Los Angeles sitting in a business meeting across from a guy I just met.
He has blue eyes, dirty-blond hair, and this purs, youthful, innocent face. He's almost cherubic.
"Hey, man," I say. "You want an edible?"
He doesn't even hesitate. "Absolutely. Thank you."
He takes the weed chocolate right out of my hand and plops it in his mouth. And that's when I knoe I'll be moving to LA and working with James Corden on The Late Late Show.

From Reggie's 'Thank You's': Conan O'Brien, thanks for taking a chance on me to open for you on your Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour. I loved getting to know you and bonding with you, and I feel like we made history together. You are a good king.
Thanks to Jimmy Fallon for my first big TV appearance. You didn't know what I was gonna do, but you were cool with it, and I'm happy I didn't fail you. And a huge thanks to Toddy Levin for convincing Jimmy's show to take a chance on me.
To James Corden, thank you for trusting your instincts about hiring a Muppet for a bandleader. People were uncertain, but you let me do whatever I wanted to do, so I did, and it all worked out. I'll always remember your incredible generosity.
Special thanks to Ben Winston, the show runner of The Late Late Show for being cool in the presence of madness.
Huge thanks to Karen , my Late Late Show band: Guillermo, for being a dynamic and powerful, jovial, rhythmic force; Hagar, for your incredible musicianship and your uncommon brilliance as one of the best bass players I'll ever play with; Tim, you already know how I feel about you, but just so everybody else knows, you are one of the greatest ever; and Steve Scalfati, for taking a chance on moving from Seattle to LA for an unknown television gig. Your abilities are limitless. Thank you for being a great longime friend.
Last of all, I'd like to give a special shout-out to all the artists out there struggling and striving and thriving through it all. This book is especially for you. I know how it is to put yourself on the line for your work, and that perspective is something I'll always operate from.

Year of the Dragon

Dinner at Moon Palace #AtriumOnTheBay

Shangri’la arvo tea

avec fayewood...

I AM ALL IN #gilmoregirls