First off: THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU  to Zulu Records (making us legit by helping us sell tickets); Pacific Cinematheque, (the people working & volunteering there are gods and saints); Videomatica (giving us a way cool prize pack and a much needed high-five); Jordan’s mom’s (baking supplies trip or should I say mission?) and the friends who iced cupcakes late into a Friday night, with no bottom of the tub in sight.

Our house the night before the fundraiser, icing 144 cupcakes. Thank god my friends are artists, or the decoration would have consisted of a blob of icing on top.

a close up!!

the most important part to making cupcakes...(don't worry this was a staged event and no real icing dipping or licking took place).

The duds

We raised $968 in ticket/cupcakes/50/50 draw sales and $200 in donations!! That’s $1168!! Bumping us up to 32% of our total goal!  We threw in the price of the theatre and insurance and gave a little speech before the show.  We were so amazed to see people come out. That we even gave out prize packs consisting of a dinosaur, fake tattoos and a $5 gift certificate. (So, if you were wondering whether or not you’d wanna come to our next event -may the prize pack sway you over-  because we’ve got two more to hand out for next time!)

We were a little nervous first time around that we only got pictures of the cupcake table before people arrived and the film started. hahaha. So, there’s no pictures of the actual turn out or how good the movie looked up on the big screen. And let me talk about the film for a second, holy holy, how grateful we are to The White Stripes, B-side entertainment, Emmett Malloy for letting us do our own screening of the movie that turned my heart into a six-string guitar and made it weep and howl.  A few years back one of my best friends and I took a greyhound bus to try and follow the White Stripes around for a few shows. Afterwards we stood waiting beside any vehicle that looked like it could be for them just to catch a glimpse of the band that brought our souls back. I didn’t even feel foolish. I was old enough to be the mom of the kids waiting with us. (Well, a responsible teenage mom at least). I love that band and everyone who showed up on Saturday loves them too. Even Jordan’s mom left the theatre raving about the mystifying/electrifying twosome. So, heck yah!

Me really hoping people will show up

One of our two tables at Pacific Cinematheque

These swirly goodies raised us 70 bucks!

Yay white stripes loving, cupcake selling friends!

We’ll post soon about our next event on Monday, April 19th. Just know this: it’s gonna bust your case of the Monday’s wide open and pour some bowling balls’ worth of fun right in till Tuesday. 5-pin style.

CBC Radio 3 scarf I received for telling a secret to Appetite for Distraction host Lisa Christiansen

Yes, the CBC Radio 3 scarf (and there’s a toque too!) are much, much better than fruitcake, even the kind with brandied nuts!  But the real gift of xmas to me, was who I was with when I got this scarf: two friends that have seen me cry, laugh, panic and lose at any trivia board game I’ve played even with creative  answers such as “the one who always wears pink and walks with a hop” or “the year Amelia Earhart started her period.” (c’mon that last one should have gotten a bonus point).

These friends are fellow radio graduates Kristina Mameli and Chris England.  Two people I know will be rocking the mic at CBC sooner than you can down a jug of soy-nogg, (ok, a lot sooner than that!)

Our collective dream is to all meet up for slurpees.  And in between that make great radio.

So in the spirit of friendship, I want to share some photos we took at the recent CBC Open House in Vancouver. Congratulations are in order as CBC employees, listeners and fans who raised $568,607 for the food bank which computes to over a million dollars worth of groceries.  And to the thousands of fans who took a tour of the new building (Myself, Kristina and Chris among them). We are a testament that in CBC all of us Canadians can find a friend.

Freelance broadcaster and writer, Kristina Mameli and broadcaster Chris England having a little fun at CBC Radio 3.

Kristina and me with Scotty. We all stood in line behind him for the "guac and talk" segment on Lanarama's Foodie Friday. But Scotty was too good to follow so we got this picture instead.

Where art installations live forever: Chris and Kristina inside CBC Vancouver. I really hope this shot wins the ipod!

The archives on display were really cool. Here's a close up of a camera.

Kristina pointed out this mic right away. Reminds me of David Letterman's, you know you have a show when you have a mic like this on your desk.

Along with these items, a film was put together showcasing some older programming. We hummed along to the theme of the cooking show "Wok with Yan". I can see Chris with his own cooking show.