weddings and pedicures

Hi Folks,

Well a couple updates are in order. Mr. and Mrs. Sharon Janzen finally tied the not! OohRah! Haha,...I gave her a bone there cause she's decided to keep her last name- Ballbreaker to the alter,...keeping with Shar styles, nice. Ok, ok....so onto the wedding. Despite all the weather forecasts calling for rain,...rain and more rain,...the respectfully quaint and peaceful ceramony was under a dry sky at jericho! The ducks made a few complimentary quacks in the background while Pike-ah most gracefully showed his true feelings to Sharon while saying 'i do.' Translation,...he shed a couple tears,...kinda Coldplay, "The Scientist" styles. Sharon lapped it up,...and knew for certain, now 100% that it was on like donkey kong.

Oh yeah,...just a quickie to our boy CT upstairs,...I knew his wonderfully skilled hands, and eye coordination would assist in keeping the clouds at bay at the raindrops on hold just until the ceremony was done,...and the groom, bride and whole crew had enough time to get in the Trolley bus and head over to Main St. for the reception. I, on the other hand had driven in a wonderfully powered S-Class Mercedes Benz and trolleyed myself,...equally fun,...because newly employed New York City cab driving skills were employed to bust German steel rage on Vancouver drivers caught in the Twilight zone of: I think i'm still from the old school driving in 1952, or wait,...is this 2007 and time to haul ass. Ah, bravado in Daddy's car,...yer f'in rights!

The wedding ceremony was superb,...nick monohan and gargee gave exceptional speeches respectively to the groom and bride,...and Jeff mccracken and i (wellllll lets face it, Jeff M) kept the MC clean and we managed to make it through the evening without making Sharon cry. I've done enought Psyche in my life,...not the class at Uvic i skipped relentlessly,...but in my own readings in the last decade,....and one thing i've learned is that people secretly bring drama into their lives,....why? because they want the action dodo,...why else? So in true form,....after travelling to buck-ah luck,...and living in somalia and sudan,...sharon hires Jeff McCracken,...and her secretly admired Republican advocate, McCleery to MC her wedding. Hahahahaha.....yes, she rides the edge,...because she can,...and with skill. Cracko, much more so than me,...pulled off a decent MC performance and kept the show clean.

Oh yeah,...back to the ceremony,...I have one picture taken from my cell phone which i anticipate will show well on the interenet,....here goes!

And now, for another topic,....today was gay pride parade, day in NYC. No big thing, unless of course your peno and piller. haha, kidding,....ahhhh bout kidding. Ok,...no big thing,...but how funny that today mark chan says to me today (after doing the Modern Museum of Art no doubt),....hey Ryan,....have you ever had a pedicure before? I gotta say,...this is kinda my earlier wiseguy life,....but keeping to honesty i said,...yeah mark,...of course,....and massage and facials and manicures etc. Whoa, he said,....just one thing at a time,....but Ryan,,...i think i want to get a pedicure today. Dont ask,...what will be will be. So we walk one block from his house and i'm warming mark up to the experience. Like for instance,...you'll have some mags to read while sitting in massive lazy boy chairs that have built in massagers. Not like some radioshak stiff brand either,...but i mean massagers. The kind so strong with rolling balls that you thing they have a little person inside using the balls of their feet for real!

We round the corner and true to form we see a salon with exactly the picture i just implanted in chan's mind. And ladies and gents,...pictures to prove it. Here all, here all,....witness mark chan getting his firts pedicure. An awesome man to man experience,....all done with our masculenity in check on gay pride day in Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Yawwwwwwwk city. Oh,...he's goin back next week. loves it.

Me,...im a chef now,...that shyte is for pusssies.

Hmmm, on the cooking front,.....i wont bore you, .....i'll dial it up when in person,....lets just say for starters that i made an apple galette and gluten free chocolate cake last week that made the instructors feel a little nervous. then i was like eh! ...you know the trick about using a cold bowl and cold blender blades for making whipped cream! sort of like a really obvious statement just to bust their balls. The give me a look of like,....damn you are a funny son of a bittch slash,....im desperately going to fail your next assignment you snooty prick. All in fun,...Love is the name of the game. Wow, now that sounded a little pedicure'ish.

ciao all