Things I Did This Weekend Instead Of Doing My Taxes

Day One: Friday. On this day, I put off doing my taxes in favour of (a) Women's Olympic curling, and (b) a night out at The Paragon to see a few pretty great local acts (them being Sleepless Nights, Tomcat Combat and Dog Day). Was this more or less fulfilling and worthwhile than doing my taxes? Well, (a) despite the loss, yes, and (b) absolutely. Sleepless Nights were sloppy and fun; Tomcat Combat were head-bobbingly great, as expected; and Dog Day, well, Dog Day were just kind of sloppy - although Happiness was pretty killer, and their closing cover of Drain You was somewhat redemptive. Tomcat owned the night for me though, and was worth missing the Men's Hockey Semi for (but only because we won).

Day Two: Saturday. After getting home and in bed at 3:00 AM on Day One of my tax evasion weekend, much of Saturday was spent sleeping, which is automatically more fulfilling and worthwhile than 85% of anything else I could possibly be doing. Most of the rest of the day was spent in a state of mild worry for Terri's Dad, who was vactaioning in Hawaii, which you may recall was under a tsunami warning that day. The worry was somewhat relieved by the comical, live, fear-mongering, disaster footage on CNN - showing swimmers and surfers in the likely-less-wavy-than-usual-surf. Then the warning was lifted, and no one died got their ankles wet, and I watched the Men's Curling finals.

Day Three: Sunday. Angst. Stress. Elation. Shitty pizza. Stella. Cake. Madness. Crosby scored to win Men's Hockey gold, and Lydia bawled after having the living shit scared out of her when everyone in the room jumped up and screamed at the same time. And now I'm watching endless loops of slow motion Olympic montages, which, frankly, I could watch for hours.

Annnnnd I think that adequately sums up the weekend - most, if not all, of which was far more worthwhile and fulfilling than doing my taxes. Yay Canada! Yay me!