How do you say, "I’m going to stab you in the heart with my pen" in French? I have no idea.

Can we talk about the awful state of French education in this country.  I lived in New Brunswick, the only bilingual province, for 15 years of my life.  I still can't speak French.  I took French for 9 years, I can say Bonjour, and various other crap but I could not hold a conversation.  Much of my French education was focused on writing in French.  How on Earth is going to help me in life?  It isn't I could write a horrible French sentence but I couoldn't talk to someone in French.
The French education in this country needs to be more focused on conversation French, not on playing Bingo and making horrible posters.
It's a sham.

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Did you know that the gold medal game from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics is online?  Well it is and you can watch (and cry) here.  There's no commentating though.  So no breathtaking Golden Goal call but still amazing.

This was one of the best moments of my life.
Just so you know I'm not a psycho...John Furlong said the title not me.

So I looked up the roster for the 2010 team and all the goaltenders are from Quebec...

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Whoops I talked about hockey again, I was like, I'm not going to talk about hockey.  Then I did....

More hockey ranting

If I see one more person compare the Chara/Pacioretty hit to the Pacioretty/Letang hit I am going to scream.
Let me adress this.  These hits were completely different. They happened in 2 different seasons under 2 different Head Disciplinarians.  The hits were also different.  The only things that are consistent are, both blindside hits, both involved Pacioretty. One hit resulted in a bloody nose, and the other in a concussion and broken neck.  People actually thought Pacioretty had died for a bit, he was not moving.
People are also mad that Pacioretty shouldn't have recived a suspension.  Why because Chara didn't get one? Pacioretty does not automatically get a free blindside hit card because he suffered one.  If anything, Pacioretty should be one of the main forces advocating the headshot suspensions.  He's been there.  I could mention Crosby here but I won't.
The hits were different, they were both bad, both deserved suspensions.  Pacioretty was the one that received it.

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James Reimer( Toronto Maple Leafs Goalie) is a Mennonite.   This makes me laugh so much, and I have no idea why.

Oh look a hockey rant.

I think Montreal has the best fanbase in the league.  We’ve been around forever.  We know we’re the best.  We have crazy strong  rivalries.  We’re incredibly arrogant, because we have 24 cups.

I love the fanbase.  

I know the Pacioretty hit was dirty, it was bad. I kind of freaked out when I saw it.  I knew it was bad.  I know he deserved a suspension.  Am I still mad?  Yes, because he took the hit, and hence is gone for 3 games. It was stupid on his part.  I’m glad he apologized, it was good on his part.

It isn’t fair to bring up the Chara hit, the league was different then.  And that hit sucked, it was bad.  But every time there is a hit of any kind, completely different we can’t bring it back up.  It’s just wrong.

That is all I have to say.

Remember this post?  We'll I've now done two of the things of the list!  I made the smores brownies a while ago. And today I bought red Toms!
I am very excited.

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I also changed my log design a bit.  It wan't Christmasy enough.

It's snowing, a lot.  I'm warm in my room listening to Christmas Carols and writing a Poli Sci essay.

Triple low five

Subban and Price have this adorable Bromance going on.

We coo' with Tory

This article is very interesting.  Manitoba and Saskatchewan just hate on Quebec.  Halifax is most hated by the Atlantic Provinces...for obvious reasons.  The most hated city by the Maritimes is Toronto...also makes a lot of sense.  Apparently no one out here hates Victoria...

CBC has made a Love, Hate and Propaganda about the Cold War.  Best thing ever.  George, narrating a documentary about my favourite part of modern history.




And part one about WWII is online now...

There's a Camaro right outside my window guys!!!!!!!

In which I list every Christmas hymn and movie ever made.

1. What do you like about Christmas?

Everything, I absolutely love Christmas.  I love all my families traditions, I like Christmas parties and burning my fingers with wax and lobster rolls and Santa bags and everything.

2. What is your Christmas smell? 

Summer Savoury because my Nannies house smells like it on Christmas day because of the stuffing.

3. Do you miss Christmas as a child?

A little bit yes, I live away from the majority of my family now and it’s hard traveling up to see them every year.  It disrupts everything and we have to have Christmas early at home now.

4. Wrapping paper or gift bags? 

Wrapping all the way, gift bags are for birthdays.

5. Real tree or artificial?

I like the fact that you can put a artificial tree up really early but I love the look and smell of a real tree.

6. When do you put the tree up?

After November 11^th

7. When do you take the tree down?

Sometime in early January

8 .Do you like or drink eggnog? 

Yes but not very much, I have some in my fridge right now.

9. Favorite gift received as a child?

Hmmmmm…I got this super cool play kitchen when I was 4.  It rocked.  Not as a kid but as a 17 year old I got the best Christmas present ever.  From my Aunt and Uncle a set of 3 Fire King vintage bowels with polka dots on them  I actually cried when I opened them.  I had given up hope that I would ever own them.

10. Do you have a nativity scene?

We used to.  Funny story actually, I was babysitting my pastors kids a few years back and his oldest son came into our living room and turned over the manger with baby Jesus in it, apparently he felt it was a graven image of God.  It was kind of adorable.

11. Hardest person to buy for?

My Grandparents, they have everything.  Also my best friend because I always want to give her something super cool and sweet and special and I can never find it.

12. Easiest person to buy for?

My mother and my sister.

13. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?

Um….I’m easy to buy for so I’ve never gotten anything I’ve hated.  My nannie did once give me a set of Bratz lip-gloss though, they all tasted horrible and made my lips weird colours.

14. Mail or email Christmas cards?

Mail, actually I give them out by hand because I only give them to people  I like.

15. Favorite Christmas movie?

Most of my favourite movie list are Christmas movies.  I love Elf, Eloise at Christmas Time, The Polar Express, both versions of Miracle on 34^th Street, Home Alone, National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, The animated Grinch, A Charlie Brown Christmas and the Santa Clause, the old school Rudolph the red nosed Reindeer.

16. When do you start Christmas shopping?

Novemberish

17. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present?

Nope I don’t think I have.

18. Favorite things to eat at Christmas?

Do not even start.  Turkey Dinner, Shortbread cookies, chocolate, cherry cheesecake, cinnamon rolls, various things wrapped in puff pastry.

19. Clear lights or coloured on the tree?

I really don’t know.  I’m into clear right now.

20. Favorite Christmas song?

Silent Night, O’ Little Town of Bethlehem, We three Kings, Angels we have heard on High, God rest you Merry Gentlemen, Away in a Manger, Joy to the World, What Child is This,O Come O Come Emmanuel.  I think Go Tell it on the Mountain is my all time favourite though.

21. Travel at Christmas or stay at home?

I would love to stay at home but we just can’t right now.  I love going back to my hometown for Christmas.

22. Can you name all of santas reindeer?

Nope.

23. Angel on the tree top or a star?

Star, we used to have this super sketch angel that had a flasher bulb in it, it actually terrified me as a kid.

24. Ugliest Christmas decoration ever invented?

I don’t know.  I hate Santa ornaments.

25. Which looks best, theme trees or homey trees?

Homey, the trees that families that are covered in hand made ornaments from years back.  I love trees like that.  Theme trees are really pretty much they have no character.  Half the ornaments on our tree are missing limbs.  We have an ornament that I made, when I was 6, that is just a clothespin covered in strips of tissue paper and has pink yarn as the hanger.

26. Gingerbread or sugar cookies?

Gingerbread cake with lemon sauce and sugar cookies but I love shortbread with all my heart.

Yes because your stupid misspelled thing wasn't posted that is communism.

People and their non-understanding of Communism  it cracks me up.
To most people communism = Totalitarianism.
Which it's not.
Having your voice censored is not because the government is communist.
I just sit there reading those things going?  Really you think that?  Well, that's not true, and you understand nothing about politics, or economics, or communism.
Oh my goodness I just saw a poster  that said "remember everything Hitler did was legal too"  Are you kidding me!?  Hitler killed 6 million Jews, why yes murder is legal.
People who are allowed on the internets...it's hilarious.
Not hilarious at all.

Eddie Belfour did decide to put on a tie and jacket.  He must have heard me yelling at him.
Seriously he was wearing a check shirt, jeans and a leather jacket at the ceremony on Saturday night.

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Gordie Howe hugging Mark Howe on Saturday Night was one of the cutest things I've ever witnessed at a hockey game.

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The Self Sustained Hobos of Canada do not have an interest group, and aren't even affected by the consumer interest group.  The things you learn in Poli Sci.

"and the great barista have us plunge into the espresso machine of the sun.”

Rex Murphy is a genius.  This absolutely perfect and true to the very core.

Really? huh.. Um no.

I saw this on my internet travels, and it made me come impossibly close to tears.  Some people are so ignorant and heartless.

Ya so our budget didn't get passed.

What are you doing? you are 18 feet out of your net!

Marty Brodeur has the most losses out of any NHL goalie, he's been playing for 20 years so it makes sense.(he's also 39, which is really old for a goalie, Tim Thomas is the same age, and they don't play him every game, though these guys have nothing on Gordie Howe)  He's played for the New Jersey Devils for his entire career.
I love watching Marty Brodeur play,  actually I kind of hate it.  He doesn't play in the Butterfly position, so he's always standing, which makes him look unprepared.  It scares me to death.  Also he loves to puck handle, he's never in his net he's off skating around and people are skating toward the net.  I always yell at him.  So when other goalies are not in their net I scream at them,"You are not Marty Brodeur get in your net!"
He's the best goalie the league has ever had so we really can't really complain.
I just love watching him play because he's so good and has such a different style.

The budget is done.  It was really hard, and gruelling, but we pushed through.  We had the final thing done in 20 minutes.  Then we talked about how the press were going to attack us...and how messed up China is.
We'll see on Friday if it gets passed.