Spicy juice

Dayna brought home some ginger beer today because she knows I like it, especially a spicy one. This Grace Ginger Beer certainly passes the spicyness test, let me tell ya. I poured it out into a glass and as I was drinking it, my exhalation pushed the fume out from the glass and it headed right into my eyes. For a split second, I felt like being pepper sprayed... what a great ginger beer!

My obsession with Mario Brothers continues

This guy, Jean Baudin, totally puts my Mario Brothers ring tone to shame. First of all, I didn't know a 11-string bass even exist, never mind playing it like this.

Weekly Awards

• Survivor of the week: Can you imagine being the lone survivor of a plane crash?
• Photo of the week: Canada Place (photographer: Kori)
• Freebie Site of the week: www.redflagdeals.com
• Blog of the week: The Tuscan (especially Erin's "quotes of the day" from her kids)
• Sermon of the week: Winning in Times of Loss; Pastor Lorne Tebbutt (52:07)
• Quote of the week: "I'm using my manners because Jesus doesn't want us to throw bread on the floor." Matt W, age 3 (see blog of the week)
• My Martha Moment of the week: making Cranberry Pear Lemon Jam and Blushing Peach Jam (peach jam with strawberries and nutmeg)... It passed this morning's taste test... and even Michael agrees that it ain't too much for him...

And BINGO was his NAME-OH

So, do you ever come out with some random line from a song or cartoon or commercial from your childhood, and then your friend or husband just gives you this...strange...blank...stare? Well, it happens to me a lot... I venture to say more than others, due to Karl being born and raised in Hong Kong.

Anyway, today Karl came home from work holding a scratch-and-win BINGO coupon flyer thingy that was jammed in our door. So, of course, I bust out with, "There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his NAME-OH: Bee-Eye-EN-Gee-OH! Bee-Eye-EN-Gee-OH! Bee-Eye-EN-Gee-OH! and Bingo was his name-OH" (insert blank stare here) "...oh, you've never heard that one?"

So, help me out here people, tell him that I'm not crazy and that I am NOT making this up.

Probably even funnier was a couple of weeks ago when Karl was astounded at his own memory, reciting to me every lyric of a fairly complicated chinese cartoon theme song. So I amazed him with my memory too, and recited the main chorus of "The Smurfs" for him: "La la lalalaLA, La lalala LAAA..."

Seriously, I crack myself up.

practice makes perfect...

I caught Karl practicing his new skill...

Practical skill of the week

I will never have my laundry piled up anymore... have a look at this.

I wouldn't describe myself as an animal rights activist... but I feel sorry for anybody that is and buys this product. It's my new favourite... but reading the fine print under the list of ingredients cracked me up...

So, it's okay that rats eyes were burned out testing the methlyisothiazolinone that goes into the shampoo, but as long as the finished product was never tested on animals, well phewph, that's okay then.

Isn't it kind of like stating on a can of tuna, "No dolphins were injured in the process of labeling these cans..."

weekly awards 3.1

• photo of the week: Jasper Daisy (photographer: Melissa Forsyth)
• freebie of the week: www.flickr.com
• blog of the week: Seth Godin
• how-to of the week: How to solve a Sudoku puzzle (a new hobby of mine. And if you know me, you know any hobby of mine won't involve math!)
• Canadians of the week: Silver medalists!
• type-o of the week: Just when you thought you won the lottery...
• life skills tip of the week: 10 new uses for vinegar (if you're like me and by 10 litres of vinegar at a time with your new costco card!)
• Gadget of the week: Time Fountain

Flickr

More Kudos to Scott, you got me hooked on Flickr. Did you go pro?

Can!

Scott showed me and Ed this video yesterday. Scott was right, I almost needed some tissue paper; and it makes me feel pretty small too.

It amazes me how this father-and-son team has turn around a disability and uses it to inspire millions of people. The video is aptly titled "Can" as they could have given up so easily; and yet, they find ways to achieve excellence. Truly inspiring.

See here for the full story of Dick and Rick Hoyt.

Who needs a bomb?

Forget about liquid explosives, you may not be allowed to bring a Dell laptop into the cabin next time you fly. I didn't exactly think twice about it when I saw this about a month ago. I better check that my laptop is not on the recall list.

milliondollarama

these guys can buy 10.8 million things!

penpig

So, I cleaned out the junk drawers in the kitchen this morning. You know the ones. Among the scotch tape, batteries, orphaned keys and expired coupons I also found 39 pens. THIRTY NINE?! who does that? freaky. You don't have to wonder who has yours now when you can never find it.

it won't last

okay, so the new look is a bit artsy fartsy victorian for my tastes, but don't worry, it won't last.

daily awards

• pacman high score of the day: 83,650
• "how to" of the day: How to detect liquid explosives
• word of the day: Animus: as in, "the terrorists' animus against the American citizens motivated their attempted attack."
• Picture of the day: my nephew Joel in the mouth of a T-Rex in Drumheller.

high score

• pacman high score of the day: 69,890
• best meal of the day so far: nellies cinnamon bun french toast. yum.
• most anticipated meal of the day: supper at Boston Pizza with the fam. hmmm... maybe thai chicken pizza?
• pasttime of the weekend: Karaoke. Karl has mastered "Walk the Line" and my new favourite is "Wide Open Spaces"... look out world. Can you believe they added karaoke to the Calgary Corporate Challenge games this year? tee hee. I think Karl should enter :)

weekly awards

• Interior Blogsigner of the week (also inspiration for my updated look): Kori's House: www.korishouse.blogspot.com
• Blog of the week: www.juliaofarabia.blogspot.com
• "How To" of the week: How to make a duct tape iPod nano case
• Retro game of the week: Pacman
• Investigation of the week

The FAM :)

I'll link to my sister's album when she gets one up, but had to post some of these pics from recent family parties... it was a strangely quiet day Monday after hosting and attending one or more daily events on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday!

This is what we were wearing when I picked up Melissa from the airport. Like our friends that are twins...

Karl and I swiped Melissa's camera and took this one of ourselves...

Our family has some mixed generations, Melissa's kids are close to the ages of some of our cousins... My mom bought some "twin" outfits for my niece and cousin... which is funny and a bit ironic, because she never never ever dressed Melissa and I like twins. She wanted us to have our own identity... which I'm thankful for... but I guess it only matters if you're REALLY twins, and if you're cousins, it's cool to be like twins...

Friends, Family, Food & FUN: pics to come when Blogger quits being a pain...