On the Lighter Side

These are reprinted from the Prince Albert "Coffee News" paper (a funny paper found in the coffee shop of the Prince Albert Co-Op store.

"On the Lighter Side":

- You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool mom.
- You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
- Thank you for holding your breath while I smoke
- Why can't women put the toilet seat back up?
- Don't question authority... it hasn't got a clue!!!
- Advice is free: the right answer will cost plenty.
- Multi-tasking: crewing up several things at once.
- Are Cheerios really donut seeds?
- Don't take life too seriously, it's no permanent.
- A conclusion is where you get tired of thinking.

In My Garden

A list of plants I'd like to put in my garden, when I have one:
- Lamb's Ear
- Creeping Jenny
- Bleeding Hearts
- Lilac trees
- Sunflowers (red & yellow)
- Irish Moss
- Peonies
- Chrysanthemums
- Daisies
- Bachelor's Buttons
- Hens & chicks
- Blue Bells
- Spanish Moss
- Lavender

Beers of Belgium

Did you know that Belgium has over 450 different varieties of beer? They cover a range of flavours and brewing processes. There are over 1400 individual beer labels, and there are labels for every letter of the alphabet, including Q, X, Y & Z. The alcoholic contents of the beer range up to 9%. Many of the varieties of beer sport their own specialized glasses, specially shaped to enhance the flavor of the beer it is designed for. A bar in Belgium is often rated on its variety and knowledge of the varying beer glasses and varieties.

Some of the choices for beer flavours include: raspberry beer, white beer, chocolate beer, geuze beer, cherry beer, brown beer Trappist beer and lambic beer to name only a few. The Lambic beer being the most rare will run you about $7.45 USD to purchase over the internet direct from Belgium.

Here’s a link to a site with a bunch of Belgium beer glasses on it so you can get an idea of the variety available:

http://www.straubs.net/belgium-glasses.htm

Quote of the Day

“As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from Purgatory springs.” - Tetzel

Westjet In-Flight TV's

I traveled Westjet today from Hamilton to Calgary. I was rather impressed by the new in-flight TV’s Westjet is offering. They are personal TV’s mounted on the back of the seat of the person directly in front of you. They are run by satellite and can receive 24 channels. There are also additional channels to receive movies and a spot to insert a credit card to pay for the movie you wish to watch, although this option was not mentioned nor available on the flight which I took. Each TV is on a semi-adjustable mount so that it can be moved to get the least amount of glare from the windows. Each TV is controlled by a “remote” mounted in the armrest, it had channel up & down, volume up & down and contrast up & down buttons. It was all in all a quite enjoyable and neat feature of the plane, although my TV was a bit frizzy in that it kept going on and off depending how the person ahead of me moved their seat. I probably should have mentioned this fact to the steward but I plum forgot.
I spent the 4 hours of my flight happily watching TV. Although the first show I watched, the Daily Show on ABC was rather disappointing. As yesterday had been eviction nigh ton Big Brother 6 the person evicted was supposed to be on the Daily Show this mooring with “insider information” on the house and its occupants, and although the evictee was on the show I would hardly call his offerings “insider”. The worst was due to the format of the show I had to watch almost the entire thing to find out this information. The rest of the time I spent watching TLC which was far more amusing and educational.

Taking off for SK

I'm heading off 'til the 2nd or 3rd of August. I won't be posting again til I get back, so have a happy end of July. I'm off to a reunion in Saskatchewan near Prince Albert and a stay in Calgary.

Ways to kill the Sims 2

Apparently there are 9 ways to kill your Sims in Sims 2, I can only figure out 8 though. I'll post the 8 and try and figure out 1the 9th.

1. Drowning
2. Fire
3. Starvation
4. Depression (if you don't let them go to work/school and do nothing to improve mood)
5. Viral infection (from the hamster if you don't bathe them)
6. Killer plant
7. Fireworks in the house (works good with lots of rugs on the ground)
8. Exhaustion (if you don't let them sleep)
9. Electrocution (if you have them change lightbulbs in cheap lights)

K now I know that is 9 but I don't know if starvation/exhaustion/depression are the same death, if they are then I only have 7 and if they aren't then I have all 9 WooHoo!!

Dance Dance Revolution

Have y'all played this game? It's outstanding! It's an arcade game that they often have at Galaxy Cinema arcades, it come to us from Konami in Japan (as all good video games do.) The game works like this: There is a game pad that you stand in the center of with a pad in front, behind and to either side of you. You watch a screen in front of you and you have to dance along with the man on the screen hitting the appropriate pads at the appropriate times (like glorified Twister/Simon Says.) There are different skill levels and music levels. $1 Cdn will buy you 2 songs and a 3rd if you do well in the 2nd. There is a ton of remixed oldies songs plus a whole bunch of new ones. My favourite is called "Step Over Beethoven" and it's a remix of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. It's awesome! You work up such a sweat playing that it's gotta be good exercise. Good job for Konami for thinking up a video game that causes kids to exercise while having fun! I'm definitely going to buy this one for my PS2 as soon as I have the extra $130 Cdn or so I'll need for a pad and the game that has the Beethoven song (unfortunately it's Extreme 8 and currently $70 shipped from Japan).

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory

The new movie starring Johnny Depp is quite off the deep end. Not to say I wouldn't see it again, but it's a whole lot different than either the first movie or the book.
There is a whole subplot surrounding Willy Wonka's relationship with his parents that Roald Dahl never wrote about. It was implied that Willy's father was a horribly cruel dentist in that he never allowed his son to eat chocolate so Willy runs away from his father and when he returns home the house is gone. At the end of the movie when Willy Wonka gives the chocolate factory to Charlie, Charlie asks if his family can come with him and Willy says no because he thinks family stifles creativity. Charlie goes with him to see his father who apologizes for being such a brute and then Willy allows the family to live at the factory. It's all very odd, none of it happened.
The movie itself is quite cool, it is very computer-generated at times though, the great glass elevator scenes are well done, there are tubes that speed them through the factory. Also the nut sorting room, wherein this version Veruca meets her end in the incinerator (don't worry she's not really hurt) is neat, all the squirrels are computer generated but they look very lifelike.
The songs the Oompa Loompas sing throughout the movie are the original chants Dahl had written for each character, not the Disney-fixed ones from the previous movie, but other than them and one song about Willy Wonka there is no singing in the movie which is a bit of a disappointment.
The whole movie feels as though the plot travels faster than in the previous movie, although it is 2 hours long, it doesn't seem as in depth as the last one.
The character of Willy Wonka himself seems very mentally deranged and possibly gay, not that there is anything wrong with that, it's just an interesting choice. He has long curled under hair and lots of eyeliner, as well as large dimples and a high girly voice. He also is very pale and there is a slight resemblance to Michael Jackson that I am unsure was intended or not. Willy Wonka also seems to be not all there, more so than in the previous movie, he looks off into space and makes odd comments at odd times, he carried cue cards to ensure he says things properly in speeches and all in all he seems very un self-assured and I find that a shame as the other Willy Wonka was so confident and almost cocky.
Despite all its quirks as a movie it was quite well made, not near as terrifying as I've found some Tim Burton movies to be, and Danny Elfman does the music so you know it's gotta be good! (He also did music for Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Spider-man, Men in Black, the Simpson and many other great shows)

Predictions for Big Brother 6

Another season of Big Brother recently went up on CBS, my family watches it quite regularly, although with my upcoming move I don't foresee myself watching it this season as often as others, but nonetheless here are my predictions for Big brother 6 "the Summer of Secrets":

- Beau is by far my favourite character, although I don't think he'll win it all, I think he'll make final four
- I think Howie will get to final four
- There will be some huge explosion between Eric & Howie before the end of the show
- Yivette will reveal to everyone she's gay and they will take it as her being untruthful for the previous part of the game
- Janelle will slip and reveal she was Ashlea's partner thinking it won't hurt her as Ashlea is gone, but it will
- Sarah & James will get caught and be revealed as partners and a couple


If you want to check it out here's the website: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/bigbrother6/

Beauty & the Geek

The WB has had a reality show running for the past month or two entitled "Beauty & the Geek" it is a "social experiment" thought up by Ashton Kutcher where 7 "geeks" and 7 "beauties" are put in a mansion together, paired up and made to learn from each other, the geeks to learn social skills, fashion, shopping smarts, how to dance, the art of the massage, etc. and the beauties to learn automotive repair, rocket science, history/geography/math smarts, etc. They compete in these areas and every week a team is eliminated until only one team was left standing the winning team got 250 thousand dollars.
The runner-up of the geeks was Richard Rubin, he is a totally out there, spastic, guy who seems utterly hopeless is a cute, geeky sort of way. So in tribute to Richard I give you the top Richard sayings of the show:
1. "Gadzooks!"
2. "Howdy do Chuckaroo?"
3. "Time is ticking, tick tick tick."
4. "Is this the butt floss?"
5. "I go down with honour"
6. "Top of the morning to ye"

HP

Harry Potter The Half-Blood Prince came on sale yesterday in hardcover!! I'm so excited because I found ou that the printing in this hardcover is bigger print than the previous hardcover books, which had miniscule print and were practically illegible as far as I was concerned. So I of course bought a copy, at Wal-Mart and I got it on sale for $22.80 Cdn. So now all I have to do is find the time to read thing thing. LOL I'm off to Calgary in a few days though and will have a 4 hour plane ride and then an 8 hour car ride over to Kinistino, SK shortly thereafter so perhaps they'll be time. LOL

6teen

My sister and I have been watching 6teen recently. It is an animated show on Teletoon every day around 5. It stars 6 young teenagers who all work at a mall. That is where the show itself is set, in the mall. Being it is a Canadian show the mall resembles West Edmonton Mall with an indoor amusement park, huge food court and hundreds of stores.

"6TEEN is an animated situation comedy for tweens set entirely in a gigantic shopping mall! It's minimum wages and maximum laughs as we follow our ensemble cast of six sixteen-year-old friends trying to make it through their first part-time jobs and life as a teen. 6TEEN is about the important stuff - firsts. First crushes, first jobs, first bank accounts and most importantly, that first taste of freedom - of course, not all firsts are positive. Nikki finds herself stuck (in what she considers a sick twist of fate) working at The Khaki Barn, a store that she wouldn't be caught dead shopping in. Jen's scored her dream job at a sports shop, but her meathead ex-gym coach boss, Coach Halder, keeps throwing her in the penalty box for messing up. Jonesy manages to get his butt fired from a new store in every single episode, Wyatt's hopelessly in love with his older co-worker, and Caitlin endures the daily humiliation of working in the lowest store in the mall's hierarchy of cool - The Big Squeeze, a giant lemon. No "most embarrassing moment" in these teens' lives will be left unturned, and at times it can seem like there's an evil boss, awful customer or "frienemy" around every corner. But through it all, our group of six best friends learn to lean on one another. From stumbling through relationships to dealing with hideous uniforms, the larger-than-life mall provides our characters with the perfect venue to spread their wings - and totally crash and burn trying. Tune in to 6TEEN - because life begins after school." - From IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439341/plotsummary

Check out their website at Teletoon:
http://www.teletoon.ca

Humour in Air Canada

My uncle lost his luggage on his visit to us from Saskatchewan. He lost a bag and had to file all this paperwork to get the money from his travel insurance. The humourous part is that they gave him $100 towards essentials until the luggage was found, the $100 that Air Canada gave him was $100 American.

Quote of the Day

"Love like you've never been hurt."

Question of the Day

Do you suppose the seagulls on Georgian Bay are actually Bagels? (bay gulls) LOL

Thought of the Day

Time heals all wounds / Time wounds all heels

True Love Exemplified

This particular blog post is a tribute to my Mumby & her Hindy, who after about 30 years apart found each other. My Mumby has always been someone wonderful and special to me, but she never seemed genuinely happy. At least in comparison to how she is now that she has her Hindy. In no way to I mean to put down Muk or Daddy, in their time she was happy with each of them... Just not as she is now. I say this only because I feel both Muk & Daddy would agree with me.
Mumby & Hindy are meant to be together, they are soulmates separated and re-united after a lifetime apart from each other. Each grew up in their own way, making their own life choices, having their own friends, their own events, their own things that were important to them. Neither with any idea their paths would cross again. Although on some cosmic level in retrospect perhaps it was always secretly known, in that deep down heart of hearts we rarely admit to others, or ourselves that we posses. Perhaps there they both had an inkling. Growing up I knew who Hindy was, I'd never met him, but I knew of him, a friend mum had when she was 14, a boy she dated over a summer at the beach, a boy whom she named a stuffed bunny after, a bunny she still had when I was old enough to remember it. Then there was Hindy, a man who after a lifetime without Mumby signed up to Classmates just to see if by chance she would sign on, so he could catch up with her, someone he'd wondered after all these years apart.
They met on Classmates on the internet, and chatted on msn, each with their own lives and families, a million miles apart from one another, neither happy in their own existence, but finding something in their existence together worth giving up everything else for. That's what they did. They gave up their own families to come together and forage a new family together after 30 years apart, they are now married, perhaps as destiny would always have had them be. They are truly happy together and will be for the rest of their lives together... soulmates united.

Now the part of the blog where I express my gratitude to them for finding one another. If they had not found one another and come together against all odds, giving up everything for the chance to make it together I never would have known true love. I never would have known that fairy tales come true. That love can happen like in the movies. That people do have soulmates. That sometimes the wait is worth it. All lessons I've learned because of their love, and because of their love I can try and find my own love. I know now that I don't have to settle for whatever is at hand, whoever will take me at the time, that God destines people to be together, people who are perfect for one another. Also that if I screw up along the way that with true love there is always a second chance, even if it comes 30 years later...

The 3-Day Diet

On this diet you can lose 5-10 lbs a week, it's apparently chemically balanced which makes it work. You do it for 3 days on and then the rest of the week off.

3 day diet

Instructions:
Drink 8 glasses of water per day. You can have tea or black coffee, but nothing else to drink.

DAY 1
BREAKFAST
1/2 Grapefruit or Juice
1 Toast with 1 Tbsp. Peanut Butter
LUNCH
1/2 Cup of Tuna
1 Toast
DINNER
3 Oz. any lean meat or chicken
1 cup green beans
1 cup cooked beets (or 1 cup carrots)
1 apple
1 cup regular vanilla ice cream

DAY 2
BREAKFAST
1 Egg
1/2 Banana
1 Toast
LUNCH
1 cup cottage cheese
8 regular saltine crackers
DINNER
2 hot dogs
1 cup broccoli (or cauliflower)
1/2 cup carrots
1/2 banana
1/2 cup regular vanilla ice cream

DAY 3
BREAKFAST
5 regular saltine crackers
1 oz. Cheddar cheese
1 apple
LUNCH
1 boiled egg
1 toast
DINNER
1 cup tuna
1 cup carrots
1 cup cauliflower
1/2 banana (or 1 cup melon)
1/2 cup regular vanilla ice cream

Cheesybobs

You know those funny little potato bugs that live in the grass? They are small and brown and when you poke them they roll up into a ball. My family calls them Rolly Polly bugs. I was at my Auntie's house today and the relatives from England were visiting and as I caught an especially large Rolly Polly bug I had to take it to mumby to show her. On the way I showed my one Uncle from England and he said it was called a Cheesybob. My aunt, who is also from England, declared it was actually a Grassjigger. So now these funny little brown bugs have 4 names, which is quite amusing. LOL