I can’t believe it’s been over two months since my birthday.
You know what that means? Soon it’ll be Christmas!
My birthday is exactly halfway to the holidays and somehow I think that makes it even more special.
So two months later, I’m here to tell, and show you in pictures, how I celebrated my birthday with cake and macarons… (Marie Antoinette would be so proud!)
Also I wore a sweatshirt to work…. because it was my birthday and I could, plus it’s a nice sweatshirt.

So basically I took too many pictures at Pride, 383 to be exact.
I edited them down to 174, it’s still a lot but manageable.
I can’t post them all at once, and you probably don’t want to see them all.
I culled ten from the lot, I call this set ‘hotties of the parade’.
Enjoy…

Don’t you sometimes wish superheroes were real? Or that we could dress up in costume all the time?

I really want to be friends with this woman just so some of her fierceness rubs off on me.
Here’s another fierce shot, Grace Jones comes to mind. I imagine she has fun all day long.

Now I want gold granny panties and a bra, and orange hair.

That’s BC CTV’s Perry.

I know this picture is blurry but it’s the only one I got.
This is Candis Cayne, if you ever watched ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money you probably remember her as Carmelita.
Here’s a better picture of her, she’s very pretty.

This was my favourite Pride moment!

Hands!

Christine is great and an amazing singer, you should check out her Myspace page

This young man was so sweet and nice to my mom, I hope his parents are proud of him.

And here’s Miss BC…

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This past Sunday was Vancouver’s Pride Parade.
And with Pride comes a sad realization that summer is creeping to an end.
About 700,000 people lined the parade route this year to take in the show and we weren’t disappointed.
It was fun, euphoric, colourful, risqué and above all amazing.
Here are some pictures and two videos;

Yesterday was the last night of the fireworks, a few hours before the start, the sky let out a round thunderstorms and rain.
This was our first rainfall in almost thirty days.
Same thing happened last year on the last night of the fireworks, it rained heavy and hard with lighting briefly after we’d gone weeks without rain.

Tonight’s theme was “The Butterfly Lovers Legend”, a tribute to China by Canada; it wasn’t part of the competition but it was pretty spectacular.
The crowds were huge and went on for miles and miles, we were lucky to find a nice spot at the last minute.

Here’s a video of the final thirty seconds of the show shot with the iPhone 4.
The picture quality here is way much better than the one I uploaded on to TwitVid last night.

This video is from the first night, two weeks ago, the theme was ‘In The Mood’ a tribute to the big band era by the US.

The fireworks start tonight!
It weird because just realized that it’s summer and I haven’t done any of the things I said I’d do!
This time last year, I was out and about getting into all sorts of trouble, and this year it feels like the most exciting thing I’ve done so far is plan my Parisian vacation.
I think I sat around so long waiting for summer to come that I didn’t notice when it did.

I’ve had a weird ‘in a not good way’ past couple of days, it feels like I’m having an out of body experience.
I take these instances as life’s prompt for change; a nudge to try something different or break free and try something out of character.

Outfit Details: Skirt – Gap, Shirt – Uniqlo, Sweater – H&M, Shoes – Clarks

Ok, I’m off to see the fireworks – I’m making a production out of it, I’m bringing the camera, the tripod and ‘an assistant’