A Mish-Mash on a Friday Night

I'm having a lazy Friday night tonight, and I am happy for it!  The first week back to school following March Break was a good one, but I am definitely exhausted!  We've been building bridges out of uncooked spaghetti noodles and white glue to launch our structures unit for science... it made for a messy and hectic week!  Very fun little project, though... for the kids, anyway!

So, tonight, I am planning to just veg out on the couch, drink some tea, watch some old episodes of The Nanny on Netflix... I love re-watching old sitcoms, especially getting to see them in order since I used to just catch random episodes back in the day.  Fran may have a super annoying voice, but darn it... The Nanny is very cute and funny.  I've also been enjoying catching old eps of Boy Meets World off of ABC Spark... not afraid to admit it, I will definitely be watching Girl Meets World when it airs... for the nostalgia!  I am loving how "into it" Ben Savage (Corey) and Danielle Fishel (Topanga) are... haha.  I will love Corey and Topanga forever.  Ah, being a child of the 90s.  Loved it.

In other random news, two of my cousins, who are particularly fantastic singers, are auditioning for MuchMusic's Covers contest for 2013.  This is a link to their video, it would be awesome if you'd give it a listen, and then go back and vote for them... you can vote once per day until April 21st.  I'm really quite proud of them!

And then final random thing... which may need to become a post all on its own... is that we emailed Target, which has just started opening stores in Canada, to see if we could potentially set up a donation table outside one of their stores, to raise some money for our upcoming charity walk for The Weekend to End Women's Cancers (a huge charity event for Toronto, for the Princess Margaret Hospital's Campbell Family Institute, a TOP FIVE worldwide research centre).  This sort of thing is called a "tag day" by the charity, and they recommend trying it.  We've bought pre-made pink ribbons and would have some baked goods and pink lemonade available for donations of loose change and such.  Their response was apparently very rude, Quin was the one to receive it.

She said they compared our request to politicians soliciting votes?!?  Something ridiculous... I need to get more details, but to be honest.. I was thinking of visiting a Target this weekend to check out their new Canadian stores... and this has soured that for me.  Even if they don't want "tag days" to happen outside of their stores (places like the LCBO, Walmart, other grocery stores allow them so we just thought we'd ask), they could at least reply respectfully considering we are working to raise money for cancer research for a very legitimate and massive event in Toronto.  Makes me mad when a company can't just speak respectfully back to you, all they had to say was a simple, "Sorry, our policy isn't to allow fundraising at our doors" or something so easy and yet polite.

So, I need a few more details from Quin to hear their whole response, but we are quite upset with Target Canada right now, or at least the person who replied to us who works for them.  It's very discouraging that as a new business in our neighbourhoods, they wouldn't want to build a sense of community through at least respectful communication with their customers!  I for one am not as interested in visiting their new stores as I once thought I was...

Well, have a very nice weekend, everyone!  I'm going to sort a bit of laundry and brew my tea!  Peace and relaxation, and Nanny Fine and Mr. Sheffield, here I come!

Concerts

This summer I have four concerts to go to.  The first two are this week.  One is on Thursday, June 9th and the other is on Saturday, June 11th. (Yes, in the midst of report card insanity... but oh well!  Life is worth living too!).  The next two concerts are on July 9th and July 11th, so it's easy to remember the dates!  (Now I just need tickets for concerts on August 9th and August 11th to round off the summer!)

The two shows I'm going to this week should be super fun, and super hilarious.  On Thursday, it's NKOTBSB (New Kids on the Block with Backstreet Boys).  As soon as I heard they were doing a concert together, it was just a MUST to have tickets to it -- for the laughs!  I don't know NKOTB that well, they were just before I was the age where I was listening to music I liked and not just kid music or whatever my parents liked to listen to.  Backstreet Boys, however, were huge just as I was starting high school.  I was more of an N*Sync girl - in fact, N*Sync was the first concert I ever went to just with a friend, we were in the tenth grade - but BSB is just SO CLASSIC from those years, that I'm definitely looking forward to seeing this insane show.

On Saturday, I'll be seeing "Glee Live!" thanks to Mr. Lock's quick thinking, he bought us tickets as soon as he saw them for sale for Toronto.  It was super nice of him!  I love Glee soverymuch, and I'm really interested in seeing how they do the live show.  I know that anyone who saw it last year had a great time.

In July, I'll be going to Edgefest and then I have tickets to see U2 (tickets I've had for nearly two years!  Last year their show got postponed to THIS July, and they were a birthday gift the July BEFORE last!).

Are you seeing any concerts this summer?  Or, are any musical acts coming to your town that you'd LIKE to see?