A Very Organized Weekend

this weekend was a far cry from last week's kogon-family adventure, but still quite good. melissa called me on wednesday to see if i wanted to go snowboarding, which i did. however, the warm weather we'd had was not conducive to great snowboarding conditions so we called it off. hanna, melissa and i still wanted to do something outdoors and not in toronto so we headed up to the georgetown area to hike part of the bruce trail. we found a route that had a feature called the "hole in the wall." it involved a rocky crevass and a ladder thus we couldn't resist.

the sudden drop in temperature caused the actual trail to freeze and we pretty much just slid. i was the only one that actually fell over but i didn't hurt myself or anything. we were pretty cold but the hike was really nice and well worth the trip. it would have been awesome to have had a geologist with us for the walk. there was this really cool split in the earth and rock, quite deep and it looked almost like a faultline, that grabbed my attention. i really want to know how it was caused (earthquake? erosion?) and ... and i really am a nerd...

we weren't used to temperatures below zero so we only hiked for about an hour and a half before heading back to the city. we did a quick trip to MEC and lululemon and then i decided to be productive.

weekend productivity generally involves cleaning and laundry, so that is where i started. i wasn't terribly gung-ho at the beginning but one thing lead to another and soon enough i was vacuuming. as a rule i don't, and shouldn't, be responsible for the cleaning of any floor by any means. i hate floors and i suck at cleaning them. but i gave it a go and even in my motivated state i still managed to do a half-assed job. meh.

i was still in a puttery mood when i finished the cleaning so i decided that a cd reorganization was in order. i've been mocked for years about my obsessive-compulsive behaviour when it comes to the placement of my cds. i have no rebuttal. i really like my cds to be in order. i can always find them and i know when i've lost one. i rarely play cds anymore but i still buy them (i guess i'm one of the few).

taryn was in peterborough visiting her sister so i put on my johnny cash: live at montreux dvd and put my system into place. its been a long time since i went through my cd books and it was quite memory-jolting. i still have the first cd i ever owned (rem's automatic for the people) and mostly i was proud that it still plays and that i am not hideously embarrassed by it.

the weirdest bit was going through all my mixed cds. some i threw out because they were total garbage and others i kept but only for their memory value. there was the mix that bryce made me in third-year that, according to my roommates, was just a way for him to profess feelings for me. in retrospect maybe part of what they said was true. i have a cd i made after a summer at elphinstone that ranged from johnny cash to blackstar to christina aguilera and, for reasons even i am unaware of, i have at least three mixes with blue's u make me wanna. i don't even think i like that song.

welsh hip-hop, lesbiotic folk music, gangsta rap, old-school country and loads of other stuff in-between. its funny how i could trace my personal development through my cd collection. from the days of listening to bands because my brother did (yes, king crimson), to being an angsty-sullen teen in the mid-90s (hole, smashing pumpkins), to my brief foray into the world of political punk rock (propaghandi, anti-flag), its been a musical trip. to be honest, i probably had more fun going through this exercise than you are reading about it so i won't take this point further.

i'll leave you with my bruce trail pics: