College Pro?

I have finished a week of working as a painter now. I love it. There's nothing more satisfying or relaxing than stroking that brush or rolling that roller in order to finish your masterpiece coat. Plus on fridays I get let off an hour and a half early but still get paid full! Brilliant. Also, it is easy to strike up a conversation with my boss/the only other guy I work with because he is a music and sports fanatic just like me! I still need to go out and buy my white painting attire though.
Now that I'm working I can finally say what I'm doing for the summer. When people ask you what you're doing for the summer, all they really want to know is where you are working (for some sociologically based reason probs [probably]). When I'm unemployed (most of the time) I feel uncomfortable or embarrassed during a "What-are-you-doing-for-the-summer?" conversation because I don't have a job and therefore say: "Playing soccer, hangin' out... you know".
So anyways, during the past week I have had at least 5 episodes where the same conversation has played out. Here is the basic dialogue pooled together from all 5:

Opponent - "Hey Manny, what are you doing this summer?"
Manny - "I'm actually painting for a couple months and then working at Prov Sports Camps!"
Opponent - "What are you painting?.... Portraits?! Hahahahaha!"
Manny - "I wish. No *chuckle* actually interior/exterior residential houses and some commercial buildings as well."
Opponent - "Oh cool, for College Pro?"
Manny - "No, actually I work for Chromatic Painting."
Peter K. - "OH so like traumatic painting..."
Manny - "Yeah... *chuckle* but we do a really good job."

There you go. I'm not fed up with it at all, College Pro is just more popular and I am in University so it is the first thing that comes to mind (again another sociological reason)!

p.s. The woman at the house we are now at shockingly resembles Renee Zellweger! Unreal.
p.s.s. TMP youth lock-in tonight! Stay tuned for an 80's rockin' blog.

Cowbells and Tambourines

I went to a sweeet show this evening at the Park Theatre. My cousin's band played first and they're literally amazing; shout out to his band: Effect & Cause!! Unfortunately I was unable to make their set, but I know they can rock out and my friends who witnessed their face melting riffs were definitely impressed. The headliner however belonged to The Ripperz which was a delightful surprise of a band to me. Might I add that they have such a strong friend fan-base because all of them were standing and swaying singing along to the melodious verses (quite loudly infact). It was awesome.
Now this brings me to a life lesson for all drummers, people who tap their feet to the beat, and those who love or care for drumming or the drummer. The Ripperz drummer happened to have a cowbell fastened to his kit and a tambourine at his side. These two musical items happen to be essential. Even though I do not own a cowbell or a tambourine at this present moment does not make me a bad drummer (just like any other who is in my same sitch [situation]). However, these two essential music makers automatically deem you amazing. Therefore I will now go out and add these necessities to my ensemble. With 'em there is so much flavour you can add to your music!!! It's actually unbelievable and I witnessed this tonight. So remember, the cowbell and the tambourine addition boosts your arsenal of beats as well as your status of awesomeness. Rock on.
p.s. Here's the myspace links for both the bands I mentioned.
http://www.myspace.com/effectandcausemusic
http://www.myspace.com/theripperz

Packed Day

This day (May 23) was quite an interesting one. I am one of those people who if is offered last minute plans for the day tries to find a way to fit it into his schedule... this does leave me in a rush to get places most of the time! Today I went golfing with what started out to be one buddy and then finally two. Now this course is pretty bad and a lot of learners play at this particular place (meaning that most of the time today we stood around waiting to play; we created mini competition games to subdue our boredom). To make a long story short we ended up not finishing our golf game but at least we got to drive around the course in our cart.
Next on the agenda was Terminator Salvation. Which was a last minute add on to our schedge (schedule). So we finish our golf game, violated some seatbelt laws with the three of us squashed in a small hyundia (sp?), and sped off across the city to the theatre. Now Terminator was such a confusing movie and the five of us buds debated the plot for maybe five minutes during the credits. One thing to note, is that tonight was the first time I bought a poutine (fries consumed by melted cheese and gravy; Americans are deprived) to eat during the film... Thomas and I both agree: bad decision. I could not see what I was eating and at the same time was worrying about dripping grease/gravy on my nice white shorts. Not to mention it distracts you from understanding and seeing the movie! Well at least I can say I've done it... that's right!
To cap off the night Josh and I attended a Wine and Cheese shindig. I love the classiness of such an event. By the way Wine is the only alcohol I will drink these days (well not true, but definitely my favourite at this present time). Have you heard of Couch Surfers? Well we met some and it sounds like some crazy times. It's travelling across the country and staying at random people's houses and sleeping on their couches and having them show you around. It's fun to meet new people, it should happen everyday, but alas it does not.
So today was interesting enough to blog about... at least I think so. I've now decided to host plenty of wine & cheese parties. Get ready.

Profesh Painter and Coach

Yo, so I'm gonna try and keep posting stuff about interestin' events that are happenin' and I guess try to give some of my life lessons as well.
Well, as you can see from the title of this blog, I love to abbreviate words. It's actually really fun to speak in the language of abbrievs. A good friend from Holsby Brunn got me hooked. Anyways... this next monday I'm gonna be starting a minor summer job as a professional painter (I like to think it is going to be professional). I'm pretty excited because when I think of painters I think of almost a Mr. Clean kinda guy with a nice white cap. It seems like a fresh job to me. So hopefully I enjoy it for the almost two months. You may be wondering why only two months??! This is because I got a call a couple weeks ago about counselling/coaching at Providence Sports Camps! I almost forgot about this opportunity because I applied about a month and a bit prior to their phone call. I'm pumped though, I went as a camper twice and it was a blast. I will be coaching three weeks of Volleyball and one week of Soccer! Booyah. Then it's off to St. Paul, MN for a very special occasion: Thomas and Laura's wedddding!!