"Life is 10% what happens to us, and 90% what we make of it."

A Green Business Panel featuring some of the City’s Green Entrepreneurs and end of year celebration. Speakers include, Green Dream Productions Inc., Change Advertising Inc., Small Potatoes Urban Delivery (SPUD)

 Wednesday, April 25, 2007. Registration: 6:00pm.  Panel presentations begin at 6:45pm

Century Restaurant and Bar.  Downtown – 432 Richards St.  (upstairs room)

So I did it! I booked my European adventure! I also now have a friend coming with me (Christianne) and we are going to have a blast! We leave September 16th flying into Glasgow and are in Europe until November 28th flying out of London. I can’t wait! I have been looking up places to go, things to do, people to see.

That's what the polar bears are doing - running on thin ice. During a conversation at work the other day one person on staff was amazed to hear that the ice caps are melting. She honestly had not heard a word about it. That's one person on a staff of twenty. If the world was divided into groups of twenty and one person in each group is totally uninformed that equals millions of people out there who know nothing and THAT is scary.

a special welcome to the 1000th member of the ChangeEverything.ca community!

maureen o joined the site today, and if you are anything like me, you are probably eager to see what kinds of changes she gets up to!

there are some truly remarkable changes happening here, and we hope you are enjoying ChangeEverything. Keep it growing by inviting your friends, families and coworkers to join!

this beautiful shot was taken by flickr user esperanzajenn

So I have come to the decision that I am going to be going to Europe in September of this year for 3 WHOLE months all by myself! It’s something I have wanted to do my whole life and I am finally going to do it! The past month I have been looking into it and seeing if my money situation would allow it to happen and it looks like it’s a go! It all started when I wanted to go for the month of September to visit my friend Candice in the UK where she is staying with her dad for 6 months but then turned into, if I’m going to go, I’m going to go all out! So it is not going to be from about September 12th to December 12th, days may vary but that’s the general plan.

Social Tech Brewing Vancouver is this Wednesday, March 21 at 7:00 PM at WorkSpace which is located at 400 - 21 Water Street

If you work at the intersection of technology and community-building, you'll probably really enjoy Social Tech Brewing's Vancouver chapter. Social Tech Brewing brings together folks from social media, nonprofit organizations, community service, social activism, social ventures and technology to share ideas -- and beer!

Well this is going to be just a quick update but...I GOT THE AGENT! I went for the meeting on thursday and we did a little talking and I found out everything I wanted to know and TADA! I officaly have my own agent. Now all I do is wait for her to get a call saying somebody wants me and then she gives me the call and I go to the job! So my career is getting of to a great start! I am doing everything I wanted to be doing so far this year and it's only February! I can only imagin what the future has in store for me but whatever it is I know it's going to be great because i have my mind set on it, and when you think it and write it down and work your hardest to make it work, great things can be achieved! I am living proof of that. Well until next blog, this is Calan!

So it's been a while since my last post but that's a good thing! I have been working hard on my New Years Resolution! Before I go into any of the new stuff I will continue on from the last post. So my friend I was talking about who wanted to go to England to visit her dad bought her plain tickets and leaves June 27th! It’s that exciting!? She’s going to be there from then until January 9th, so I have plenty of time to save up and go visit her for a month. I’m thinking maybe the month of September would be good because nothing really goes on in that month. Now on to new things about me and my career goals. So, I have been trying hard to make contacts in the entertainment industry and so far I have done quite a good job if I do say so myself! A week or two ago I worked on a commercial for Dell computers as a location production assistant and had a great time doing it. I met lots of people who work in the industry and made a few contacts and got a few names. The major one was the lady who runs all of Coquitlam’s filming locations, aka if you want to film anywhere in Coquitlam you have to ask her first. I also found out that she’s my friend Laura’s mom! I had no idea but it was great to find out and now she can refer me to people if they ask if she knows any good location production assistants. Isn’t that awesome! Also even newer news then that is on Thursday I have a meeting with an acting/modeling agent who I know is completely legitimate through a friend. My friend Paige is represented by her and says she gets her tons of work and is an awesome person. I checked it all out and I have plenty of questions to ask on Thursday but if all goes well I will have an agent and can FINALLY start doing what I have always wanted to do, and that is to act. Oh, I also forgot about the part where I auditioned for this music group called Encore! By James productions and got in. It’s 3 guys and 7 girls and we are a singing/dancing group. We have a live band that is amazing and we are rehearsing like crazy because our shows are one May 31st and June 1st, COME TO THE SHOWS! They are at the Michael J Fox theatre in the tri-cities area, look it up! We will be singing with a live band with hugely talented players, dancing around the stage and having an all around great time. There is also another group similar to ours that will be doing a half hour show before us and we do the last half hour or hour of the show but it will be AMAZING! I guarantee! SO to say the least I have been sticking with my New Years resolution of putting myself out there and finding the career I want to do for my life and I have been slowly working towards it, because you know what they say, “Rome wasn’t built in a day!” I love being on stage for anything and I love acting and I am finally doing something with both and I couldn’t be happier right now. Even if the acting agent doesn’t go through (cross my fingers it does) I will still work toward that goal and in the mean time I have my music to concentrate on. Well until next post (I will try to do one after meeting the agent) Calan!

I have always wanted a sock monkey. I don't have one. I think I have been secretly hoping that someone would just guess that I wanted one and give one to me as a gift. Sadly this has not happened. So today I decided to take monkeys, ahem: matters that is, into my own hands. I am going to make my own.

If you are interested, here are some sock monkey links for you to peruse

sockmonkey.com

the elusive red heeled sock monkey

So Christmas has come and gone for yet another year and it went WAY to fast for me. I enjoyed spending time with my friends and family but I also worked over the holiday so it seemed to have gone by really quick. Well for Christmas I got a gift that helps out my New Years resolution! Since I can remember I have always wanted a large map of the world to put up onto my wall. My plan for the map is I was going to laminate it and then put it on corkboard so I could put pins in where I have been in the world and pins in where I want to go in the world.

So this is my first blog of what I hope to be many to come. I started it because there was this link on the Vancity web page about “Your New Year's resolution” so I thought I would check it out, now I’m glad I did. I’m not one for new years resolutions myself but I do believe that change is inevitable and if someone wants to change something about themselves then they should just go ahead and do it.