Weekend Warrior # 37

by Tish MacWebber | Nov 7, 2017 | Weekend Warrior

Another late entry.  Good news is that I think things are going to slow down for a week or two. I sure hope so.  I am trying to write a book this month, and I am falling behind.

Not to fear, tomorrow is a new day, and I will start making up time and words when I have less going on in my social life.  Busy, busy, busy.  I never had such a busy year as I have this past year.  I am not sure of the exact date, but my original blogging journey started in November 2016. I am working on the website, writing a novel this month, writing down thoughts and ideas for my fantasy trilogy.  Thinking about all of that makes my head spin.

I had things that needed my attention this past weekend. I was doing a little extra time at work late last week.  Then I started my weekend at Houlie’s with a friend.  He was helping me out with some rides, and I thought he deserved a thank you meal. We enjoyed the food. It is always good there.  There has been a long stretch of road construction in the area, and it had been a while since I had my favourite Mozza sticks. They did not disappoint.

My friend and I ran errands, and then he left me for a viewing of the Silver Wave Film Festival 2017. I needed to be at the Midnight Madness showing of killer ducks and zombie movies.  There were two short films and a 78 minute long movie.  Short film 1 was called Duck Duck Noose. It was hilarious.  I laughed all the way through it, with the rest of the audience. The title was a dead give away.  Killer ducks indeed.

The second short film was described as a trailer.  It was called Turned. It was a serious fictional documentary zombie movie trailer. It was filmed in Cape Breton (Horray for Cape Breton!) and it started with someone waking up after being bitten by a zombie.  It followed her journey home, and her change from being a human to a zombie. It tackled some deep concepts in a few short minutes, and it was enjoyable to see a different perspective on the zombie apocalypse.

The headliner was Anonymous Zombie.  It was filmed in New Brunswick, and my friend Kadi Oram was the Special/Visual Makeup Artist for the movie.  I wanted to go to the movie premiere to support her and to see the movie.  It was great.  It was funny, gory, and almost spooky at times.  There was a lot of action and clever plot twists from the start to the end.  I was glad I made the effort to go and see it.  It is the first time I was at the festival or any official movie premiere.  I had not been home after work before going, so I was in my casual Friday work clothes.  Kadi looked fantastic! I didn’t have a lot of time to chat with her, but I made sure that I told her husband that I enjoyed the movie.  I sat right in front of the director.  I wondered if he thought that I laughed in a few parts that weren’t supposed to be funny, or not. I have a wacky sense of humour, and I laughed lots while watching the movie.  It was meant to be funny, so it wasn’t all serious, but sometimes I felt like I was the only one laughing at certain parts.

Onward to Saturday.  I volunteered at the Pet Expo with Boston Terrier Rescue Canada. I was a part of a team, so my presence was only required for 3 hours. A piece of cake. or in this case, a cookie by donation.  🙂 They had the giant chocolate chip and Skor bits cookies again.  Fantastic investment of $2.00, and it goes to the rescue.

They were huge and delicious.  I went back for more on Sunday, and they were sold out!

I was glad to help, and knowing that it was just a few hours made it easy to pitch in and do my part. Here is the booth.  They have a lot of variety!

I then went home, after the volunteering shift was over, and I was hungry. So Roy and I went to Houlie’s. (twice for me on the weekend) We got wings and nachos.  I didn’t forget the Mozza sticks, I never miss them. It was good, and Roy decided that he likes the breaded wings better. We got 2 flavours, and one breaded, and one not. Now we know.  The trick will be to remember.

We met up with the friend from earlier in the story to go and see Thor Ragnarok.  If you like this type of movie, it will be a great choice. Stan Lee had a speaking part, and was unexpected character-wise, even though he is expected to appear in all of his movies. There was a new character that was a lot of fun, too. No spoilers here, just go see it. You will be glad that you did.

Sunday had a few errands and an online write in. I did some NaNoWriMo writing in the write-in. It was a way to get back on track. I am falling behind again, but the night is young.  I am going to sign off for now.  I am sorry it was a little late this week, but that is a wrap. What did you do this weekend?

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