Posts Tagged ‘Steve Byrne’

Last week Friday Ashley, Dave and I packed up and hit the road to Seattle to see my good friend Steve Byrne preform at Giggles in the U-District of Seattle. Steve did a great job at managing the crowd and his set had us all cracking up a lot. Afterwards we all went out to a couple of places and had way too many shots amongst other things. One thing that I learnt that does not mix is ostrich feather dusters and drunk girls.

The next day we drove home (after stopping at one of my favorite malls first, Alderwood Mall).

Sunday, I can’t even remember what we did.

Monday we went into Vancouver and took the kids on the Halloween Train in Stanley Park. This is where Jett got the idea in his head that he wanted to be a mermaid for Halloween - and so he was.

Wednesday after work we drove into Vancouver to The Farm so Dave could re-record some bass he did for Soul Side In on their song Seventeen. He had added his own twist to it, making the song sound so much more amazing, but unfortunately the band and management has ‘demonitis’ and Dave had to basically dumb down the bass and record it again in its original format.

Thursday morning bright and early we went and picked up Dallas and headed for the airport - we were Winnipeg bound! Default had an arena show with The Waking Eyes, Mobile, The Watchmen and Papa Roach. It was a really fun show. It was just retarded that our “all access” passes didn’t mean jack during Papa Roach’s performance.

Friday I worked from downtown and then after we hit Falconetti’s on Commercial where I won a free beer for picking a random Canucks player (if he scored, I got a free drink). Thank you Bernier! After that we got ready at Mike and Josie’s then headed over to Dave & Carmelina’s place for a little party. After some major laughs there we headed over to The Penthouse to watch Kill Rhythm play.

Saturday morning we packed up and headed back to Abbotsford in order to make load in time for the trip up to Penticton. Dallas, Jeremy, Dave and I drove up in a sweet cheap rental car (Danny & Jay took a one ton up with the equipment). Default had a show with Soul Side In opening for them at The Barking Parrot at the Lakeshore Resort & Casino in Penticton.

Sunday we drove back down to Abbotsford and after Dave and I stopped at his place to change his shirt we went over to my place for a big family gathering with awesome food to celebrate my mom’s 59th birthday (in my eyes she hasn’t aged since she turned 45).

After dinner I flew out of the Abbotsford airport to Calgary where I now find myself completely sleepless. My alarm is set to go off in just over 4 hours in hopes that I will actually go and swim some laps or work out before starting my day of work here.

Happy Monday readers!

C

Last night I had the pleasure of checking out the Kims of Comedy at Washington University.  Oh my goodness, SO funny!  Dr. Ken was HILARIOUS, Kevin Shea was disgustingly funny and Steve Byrne was okay.  Okay, he was more than okay he was fine.  Maybe if there was a word that was just a bit more than fine than I’d use that, but there isn’t.

Actually they were all great.  I had the pleasure of meeting Steve back in NYC at Jakes so it was cool to see him again down in Seattle.  He’s pretty much a gentleman and it was fun just being friendly with him and not having to swat him off me like all the other bees that come to the honey (the honey being me). 

I don’t know what’s up with me this morning.  Maybe it’s the extra burnt shot of espresso in my Starbucks caramel macchiato, or maybe I’m still buzzing from last night.

OH, and for those of you who read my blog, you know that I have this weird knack of running into people I know everywhere I go.  So here’s a story from last night.

We’re all hanging in the back of Earls having some drinks and eating french fries when I look over Steve’s shoulder and there’s my ex, Jordan St. John, standing by a nearby bar looking at me with a giant smile on his face.  I look at him with a puzzling stare and he waves me over.  I excuse myself and walk up to him.

“What are you doing down here?” he asks.

“I was at a comedy show over at the university…” I answered back.

“That you knew man over there?” he asks while nodding his head over towards Steve.

“No, that’s my friend who was in the comedy show.”  I said.

“Justin told me you were here.”

“Justin?  Who’s Justin again?  I didn’t see anyone I recognized?”  I said to him.

“He’s working the door here.”

“OH!  Justin from the Emigrant, I didn’t even recognize him, he grew his hair!”

“Yea, it’s sort of feathered now too.  I was about to go to bed when I saw him calling, I wasn’t going to answer but I did and he told me I should come down to Earls.  I told him I was in bed but then he said, ‘Cynthia’s here, some guy is nibbling on her ear’.” 

I interrupted him, “Whaaa???  OH, I get it; no one was nibbling on my ear!  It was a joke we were doing, since it’s so loud in here I kept putting my ear towards Steve and he would in turn talk really close into it as a joke.”

“OH okay.”  He says and then continues, “I tried calling you but it said the user was unavailable.” 

In a quick panic I check my phone to make sure it was working, the last thing I need is for my boss to not be able to get a hold of me.

“Oh, missed call” I said, and checked the caller ID.  I look at it and laugh and show Jordan my phone, “I still have you saved as ‘Don’t Answer’.”

“You need to change that.”  He says, then goes on to ask how my family is.  I tell him my family is great.  Then he goes on to say how he’s back working at the Emigrant and how he’s finishing school and going for a double major and might apply to law school in California yadda yadda yadda.

“I should get back to my friends.” I said and just then I hear Kevin Shea say, “Hey we’re blowing this joint, you coming with us?” 

“Yep!” I say and chug the last of my beer.  “See ya” I say to Jordan and take off with them.  We then all went to some place called Flowers where Cynthia, some other girl I can’t remember her name and I all had raspberry lemon drops – SOO GOOD!!!

And that was my night.