Song to the Siren

So I missed my last blog and had to face the awful picture my awesome bandmates posted...

I don't have anything exciting this week, so here are a bunch of songs I rediscovered listening to a mix CD I found in my car.


Fun fact, that song was written by this guy's dad:




Have a great week!
Diana

Mamma Mia

Hey!

Hope you're all having a great weekend and keeping warm! Despite the icy Montreal roads, my mom and I ventured downtown yesterday to watch the musical "Mamma Mia" at Place des Arts. In case you aren't familiar with the musical, it tells the story of a girl in her twenties trying to find out who her father is. She reads her mother's diary looking for answers and narrows the search down to three men - all of whom she invites to her wedding. I won't say any more for fear of spoiling the story!

The best part of the musical? The fact that all the songs featured in it are ABBA SONGS! Who doesn't like a little "Dancing Queen" and "Take a Chance on Me" from time to time? I forgot how much I enjoyed ABBA until hearing the songs live :) Here are some songs featured in the musical that'll hopefully get you dancing!

Dancing Queen:


SOS:


Here's a song I wish they would have incorporated into the musical:

  

Anyway, if you have a chance to catch the show, I would recommend it! Have a great week!
Vanessa

The Good Ship Lollipop

The holiday week has come to an end and I can't breathe.  It's wonderful.  It was a week full of eating, drinking, sleeping, seeing friends and family and baking goodies for all events and people who would take them.

Here are some things that I am especially proud of this year:

Candy Cane Cheesecake                                  Red Velvet Balls covered in White Chocolate

               

Oreo Chocolate Balls                                    
                    

 My cousin brought a giant cannoli to dinner!        My Christmas "Candy Cane" Nails

Finally, it is the start of a brand new year, and while I'm not one to make crazy resolutions, my goal for this year is to actually use all the amazing cookbooks I have (I tend to get lazy and use google, make a recipe and then it disappears forever).  I've started writing some of my own recipes and transposing recipes that I've made onto little cue cards for my own little collection of my favourite recipes.

Any crazy resolutions?

Have a great week :)

<3 Kathy 

Diana The Snowman

So once upon a time Diana forgot to blog and then Vanessa and I got to humiliate her.

This little gem is from a dollar store adventure. Diana wanted a snowman hat. It looked awesome.

Have a safe and happy New Year's Eve everyone! I'm up to blog tomorrow so hopefully I don't forget, as there are plenty of humiliating things of me in existence.

<3 Kathy

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Hey!

Ok, so it definitely isn't looking like Christmas. It's raining outside! Where's the snow? Anyway, I guess that means less traffic and easier times parking... which are always good if you're doing your last-minute shopping this week!

Seeing as Christmas is right around the corner, I thought I'd post some fun SNL, Christmas-themed videos:





Remember this one?!



Merry Christmas everyone!
Vanessa

Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

1) I'm finished school for the semester!!
2) The holidays are right around the corner!!!

In order to celebrate, a bunch of us went out to celebrate with some Wednesday night karaoke at The Bull on St. Catherine's street.  Let's just say after a little bit of liquid courage, this young lady was ready to siiiing!
Songs of the night included: "Go your own way", "Love in an elevator", "Californication" and "Let her cry" by good ol Hootie and The Blowfish.  Apparently I have the same vocal range as Darius Rucker (just kidding, I totally knew that already).  Most importantly though, there was a magical duet to the Bruce Springsteen version of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"

Here is the wonderful video of the E Street Band. All the favourites are there: Max, Patti, Bruce and Santa Clarence on sax.  If these guys did it this good, you can only imagine how great it was when I sang it!

Enjoy the rest of the weekend :)
<3 Kathy

Sweet Euphoria

Last Tuesday I took the afternoon off work to sneak off to Burlington, Vermont to check out the Chris Cornell show with our good friend Chris from Luther Higgs.

I've been a big fan of Chris Cornell since Superunknown and still remember watching the video for Black Hole Sun on Much Music back when they played music videos...

The show was Amazing! Probably one of the best vocals I've ever heard live. Good mix of Soundgarden/Temple of the Dog/Audioslave/Solo stuff. Only low point of the night- Scream!

I'm a terrible concert reviewer...so I'll post some videos asap and let you see for yourself..

Have a great week!
Diana