Unpopular opinion.

I am going to say this, Your the Word of God the Father sounds better at camp.  There is so much more emotion behind it.  When we sing it at camp I'm nearly moved to tears, out here in real life, it seems to lack a certain amount of...oomph.

Land of Orchards, Vineyards and Tides

3 years ago today my family set off from our small city to a microscopic town.  These three years have been among the best of my life.  I've made friendships that I know are going to last forever.  And I know I want to live here for the rest of my life.  I never thought I would leave my home town, and now I'm okay with not going back.

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Tomorrow marks the 3rd year of me doing horrible on Reformation day quizzes.   So about 5 tomorrow everyone is going to look up TULIP and the dates of Calvin's life, right?

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Oh and Montreal beat Boston...again. For their 3rd win in a row.  Good job boys.

Cloud 67

You could say I'm happy.  My Boys(The Canadiens) have won their last two games.  Over my most hated teams, Philly and Boston.  It's been a good week.  They're playing Boston again on Saturday night. That is going to be emotional.  I guess the Boston fans were cheering "USA, USA" after Marchand and Subban fought.  Marchand is from Halifax...guess no one told them...We'll they cheer for Boston so...the brain power...not really up there.  Also Winnipeg won 9-8.  What is that?  I don't ever remember seeing a score like that in a NHL game.
So this mean Montreal is ahead of Boston in our division and Montreal is no longer 2nd worst in the league.
I love my boys.  Even when they suck.  But right now...I love them a lot.

As regards to the title Pacioretty is number 67.

The Sweater.

I'm blogging like crazy today.  I love this short film.  I remember the first time I saw it, it was on the Mr. Dressup Christmas Special.  This video also breaks my heart as a Habs fan, the poor kid.  3 dollars for a hockey sweater from the Eaton's catalogue.  
I remember going to Eaton's I've been a round for a long time.
The story and production of it are so purely Canadian.

"Would you rather people die in the streets of AIDS or in the hospital?"

It is extremely hard to argue for a 100 million dollars you don't believe in in real life.  I can't do it.
Poli Sci simulation started today, it's going pretty great so far.  The press are harsh.

"And the word "awkward" is way over rated......you're not even saying it the "cool" way."

I wish Mr. Rude Anon would stop bullying my sister and her cool friends all over  her blog.  It's just mean a rude and uncalled for. I go all defensive older sister on them.  I pull out my ghetto slang.
And just on a side note, how does one say awkward in the "cool" way? Does it involve air quotes?
Yes the quote is from the Anon, being rude.
Rant over.

The number one thing bringing people to my blog this week.  making fun of Montreal loses, Montreal losing etc.  Not cool.

So for the next 2 weeks I'm Minister of Education in a parliamentary cabinet of a fictional country.  This is exciting.

NHL:Day Three

Day 3. Your favorite Atlantic division team

Hmm…. NY Rangers I guess.  I don’t really have a team in that division.  I hate Philadelphia though, so not them.

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Open house at my University.  Poor high school kids running around with red bags.  They look confused and lost.  It's funny.

Andrew and Lauren this is for you :)

Source: someecards.com via Jennifer on Pinterest

NHL:Day Two

Day 2. Eastern or Western conference?


Eastern for sure, I live on the east coast so I barely ever get to see west games because they start at 11 out here.  Plus Montreal is in the Eastern.

People whine about hockey too much, this coming form me, seriously.  There are strict lines in the NHL. You're a habs fan?  Then you must hate Boston.  There are certain teams that deserve the cup.  If you are a Habs fan who likes Boston, you are not a true fan.  I said it.  People will continue to cheer based on Original 6 and History.  That is how the NHL works.  If you can't deal with this you need to stop watching hockey.
This seems to be the new thing in hockey.  To get rid of all the old lines and start new with a whole new everyone loves each other, no fighting or checking or contact.  This is a whole load of crap.  Hockey is violent and brutal and historical.  You need to stop whining and deal with how the game works.
The people who say this must also be the ones who hate Don Cherry.


Oh no my Hockey rants are starting early this year.  :)

NHL: Day One

So I'm going to give up on my old 30 days challenge....but I have a new one
NHL 30 days challenge!
Yay!


So here we go

Day 1. Which team is your absolute favourite?


This is possibly the easiest question I have ever been asked a 30 days challenge.

The Montreal Canadiens.  Or as I call them. My Boys.

Should Christians use the term "Amen" to agree with things?  I'm not talking about Amening during prayers.  That is okay.  It just seems off to me.
Ex:
 A:That is the cutest thing I have ever seen.
 B:Amen.

So I just got an email from Bob Rae.  It was a formula fill in someones name email but still it's pretty exciting.

"It's potato, Roland."-Josiah

There's an ongoing battle on whether the roll in the I Got It Game is a potato or a roll, it's a roll.

"That makes way too much sense."

There are so many good quotes during that game but I can't remember them, I need to video record it when we play.

I am currently taking a very short break from my Psychology studying.  I took a break awhile ago to put away laundry, you know you are studying way too hard when you stop to put away laundry.

Vote Swapping.  Vote swapping is when a die hard Liberal lives in a predominately Conservative riding( Like Peter MacKay's riding)  swaps their vote with some one who is a die hard Conservative in a Liberal riding.  So as that their vote isn't wasted.  The only thing with this is that you don't end up with a Liberal MP in your riding.  You are voting for the party, not an individual.  I think it's very sneaky system, but very useful.
What do you think?

This is brilliant
This one is even better, but it might be because Queen is far better than Mylie Cyrus.

By Blues collection is just too big for someone my age and gender.

iTunes game

type the word in your iTunes search engine and see the first thing that comes up

happy- Something to Make you Happy-Derek Trucks Band

sad- I would be sad-The Avett Brothers

love- Lovesong-Adele

hate- Day Old hate-City and Colour

light- Blinded by The Light-Bruce Springsteen

dark- Darkness on the Edge of Town-Bruce Springsteen

good- Makes good sense to me-The Elms

bad-Badlands-Bruce Springsteen

smile- Returning the Smile you had from the beginning-Emery( I have never listened to this song)

girl-  Pretty Girl from Chile-The Avett Brothers

boy- Little Drummer Boy-David Bowie and Bing Crosby

god- Dear God-FM Static

devil- After the devil beats his Wife-Emery

kiss- Kiss with a Fist- Florence+the Machine

red-Red Light-Jonny Lang

blue- So I typed this in and got 110 songs because of my blues collection.  

green- Forget You-Cee Lo Green

white- blank white page- mumford & sons

black- Long Col Woman in a Black Dress-The Hollies

yellow- Big Yellow Taxi-Joni Mitchell

orange- I got nothing.

purple- Also nothing, this is where Jimi Hendrix comes in handy.

mother- Motherless Child-Eric Clapton

father- My Father's Eyes-Eric Clapton

brother- brother down-Sam Roberts, first non Avett Brothers song.

Sister-sister wisdom-Gaurdian

That isn't the CBC

I don't understand why everyone gets so up in arm about the CBC.  Yes the CBC is government funded.  But Hey have the best news programming right now, they give us Rick MErcer and Rex Murphy and Terry Milewski and probably most important, George Strombolopolous( I can spell his name now, that took years)
At least CBC provides us with Canadian programming,they hardly bring in anything from the US.  Do they bring in anything from the US?  If CBC no longer existed part of Canada's identity would be lost.
Can you imagine a Saturday night between October and June with out Hockey Night in Canada and Don Cherry.  We did that one year and it absolutely sucked.
I do recognize that some of the programming on the CBC is...less than... wholesome. 22 Minutes really needs to leave the airwaves, and why did we let Da Vinci's Inquest survive so long? Nicholas Campbell is just creepy.
So the cries that CBC is socialist are partially true, the CBC is funded by the government but they bring the voice of Canada, to Canada with no compromise to American sway.  This is why we need the CBC.


Also the beginning of this video makes me miss the old CBC announcer.  There are lots of old school commercials before the video too.  The video starts at 3:40  sorry
Ironic enough the title of this post comes from CTV's Corner Gas.

Camp Quotes Part 3

"I just saw a whale get eaten by a boat"-Isaiah

"But does she have asthma?"-Alison, it's really all we want to know about your kid.

My very snarky motto for camp this year.

"Why are we camping in the passing lane?"-Casper

"It's called man driving with hunk of dashboard"-Casper on the wonderful picture he took of Roland.

"We are going to die"-Samarah

Roland:"People are going to think, what are you doing?"
Casper, out the window:"Having fun!"

"Life is really like a bowl of jelly beans at least the black ones make it out"
I really do not understand this quote, at all.

"What a cute little place to live."-Casper

Andy:"maybe we can get famous people to wear them"
Evan:"Like Mylie Cyrus"
Andy:"I'm sending some to Ellen Degeneres and she'll promote them and we'll get famous"
Andy-creator of Andy J travelles

"Is is necessary for you to have your window open Roland?"-Casper

Josiah:"She doesn't know what Angry Birds is!"
Andrew:"Cameron!?"

"Did you see that woman looking at us?  I am really scared."-Casper
There was actually a woman who kept passing us and staring at us, what a creep.

"They give out ale at church camp"-Josiah

"If you look at life in short term it looks glum. but if you look at it in the long term it's beautiful"-Casper
This one is really nice.

"Hey look at all those people crossing the road with flags making total dorks out of themselves"-Casper.


That's all the quotes I have from camp.
Until next year.

Look look, a purple challenger.

I bet if I talked about cars I would get a lot more comments.
:)
There are no purple challengers in this post.

I love the 2012 Volkwagen Beetle, it looks like the old ones.  They make me happy.  I would totally get my licence if someone gave me one of these, or an old non Dodge truck, or a hippie bus.

Done my Essay :)

It's Thanksgiving weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YAY!

"I wish politics didn't exist and we had no money and no political parties and we just traded"-a girl in my poli sci class
Guy next to her""That is anarchistic communism"

The Jets.

So the NHL opening was last night! Yes my boys did lose, not impressed.  Just not cool.  I get your strategy though, let the Leafs win their first game at home, give them a bit of hope this year.
Anyways CBC had a big shindig in Winnipeg.  When I saw George's tweet about sound checks my heart became so happy.  I just sat back and smiled.  Winnipeg has their team back, it never should have left.  Canada has another NHL team.  I was so incredibly happy.  I may have had a few tears in my eyes.
I am such a sap when it comes to hockey.

On a side note Phili my 3rd most hated team defeated my most hated team, Boston.  But the Canuks lost.  It was a weird night.

This blogger will not be around for awhile because she is writing her first university essay ever.

Camp Quotes Part 2

Josiah:"Do you know what stinks?"
Casper:"My breath?"

"Do you actually get to ride a flying fairy?  Because it says ferry landing over there"-Josiah

"The Bridge was lined with Bears" right as we got onto the bridge.

"We're so close" hugs Isaiah" I can see the children playing"-Casper.

"I'm in yo cabin I saw yo teddy bear"-Evan

"Say it with me..."  No when then says it "I know most of you are ARP, but come one"-Pastor Savile.

"I can't play soccer, I'm wearing a shopping bag"-Rachel on how horrible the pinnies were.

"Hey look at me, kids that are about to fail"-Evan, taking pictures of people at the egg drop.

"Oh you put it in a nest, clever"-Evan,  Samarah's team wrapping their egg in grass.

The Shaun White/Ke$ha wig

"Just put special needs, the truth hurts"-Evan

"Do you think I'm smart?  No you're just saying that because I'm Asian"-Borum

"Cacaw, Cacaw"-Alison and I, secret signal if Boot Strap Bill and Elton John were not making room for Jesus.

Camp Quotes part 1

Do you know what this is?
Camp quote day!!!!!
Samarah already posted all of our pictures so I'm posting the words.


"I don't even know why moo is an option"-Jesse on why the GPS was mooing.

"I have 5 dollars!"-seth, when we thought we wouldn't make it to camp because we had no money.

"When you're going to camp you do not think about the future"-Casper

The guy in the Airstream trailer with a neck brace.  So we're driving along, we see a nice airstream trailer, pull up next to it, guy is wearing a neck brace, all of us lose it.

Kaitlyn:"give Jesse the peanuts and drive"
Jesse:"I will handle the peanuts."
This made me laugh because Kaitlyn was verging on panicking because Roland was struggling with a bag of peanuts instead of driving and Jesse just took hold of the situation so quickly.

"Those green army men are gross"-everyone who ate them, seriously we were like dominos.

"You want to drink out my my water bottle? That is fine by me"-Casper

Screaming Rolling in the Deep

Singing Christ Alone, every single one of us.

"How does this camera work? I have it under control"-Casper like 3 seconds after each other

"We could take him, I think he was just a skinny little Asian guy"-Jesse on the guy driving some vehicle we wanted.

Opening the bag of chips right on the NS/NB border like pros.

"When this song is done can we go back and listen to Mean again?"-Casper