Thanks to Kara for the link in Facebook. Justin Bieber, Michael Bublé, eat your hearts out.
On the seventh day of Christmas
7 December 2011 By 1 Comment
Are you getting all kinds of traditional carols on the radio yet? My parents tell me there is a lot of snow in Whitehorse. It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas there at least.
Myself, I bought a string of coloured lights. My Christmas decoration investment for the year. I hung them up on the side of the window. In the morning, the J-man goes over to investigate and starts gnawing on them.
Today’s Christmas song is from one of my favourite all-time Christmas movies: Love Actually. I can’t seem to embed it, so you will have to listen to it over on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSmT4nNEkQ. It’s when the young girl sings “All I Want for Christmas is You” at the school Christmas concert.
I could probably post a Mariah Carey version, but really, do all women in the music industry have to be naked and pole dance? I guess that is jsut a sign of me getting old. Yes, I think there is too much sex and nudity in the media. Old media. New media. Television. YouTube. Doesn’t matter. I originally liked the Love Actually version, I will link to that one.
Anyway, regardless of media and women 2011, here is a young lady who isn’t pole dancing.
Pbbbtttt
6 December 2011 By 4 Comments
Yesterday morning, the J-man was playing on the kitchen floor. He has started standing up on anything. In fact, he crawls somewhere and pulls himself up, and he prefers to stand there even if he has nothing to do. He just stands there and babbles.
He had pulled himself up on his walker chair (the chair we bought to put him in to start to walk). He doesn’t go in it anymore since he started pulling himself up and walking forward with it. I am pretty excited. Anyway. Yesterday, he had pulled himself up on the side of the walker, not behind. The walker was sort of edging away from him before he could get into a standing position.
I squatted down to hold the chair and to be at his level. “Pbbbttt” Some, uh, some air escaped in the process.
He looked at me: “Pbbbttt” he said and blew a raspberry at me.
We laughed our heads off.
Announcing CanadianNativeProducts.com
4 December 2011 By Leave a Comment
I am excited to introduce CanadianNativeProducts.com, Canada’s first international marketplace for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit artists.
The purpose of this site is to market and promote Canadian First Nations, Métis, and Inuit art and designs online and around the world through selling products designed, created, or produced by the First Peoples of Canada.
As a Canadian expat for over ten years, I noticed the one thing that is truly unique to Canada is our indigenous art and designs. I thought I would like to make that uniqueness available to my fellow expats and colleagues around the world in products they could use every day.
Voila, CanadianNativeProducts.com! So, go ahead. Check it out.
I would love to know your thoughts so far. Better yet, get 10% off your first order and be entered to win a $25 gift certificate.
On the third day…
3 December 2011 By Leave a Comment
It is really quite early to be playing Christmas carols all of the time. They are everywhere anyway. Here is a video that makes me laugh each time I see it. I Skype alot with my family and I have been peering in and out of the webcam frame from different angles saying: Menaw menaw…
I am now teaching J-man about it. I chase him about the kitchen shouting: Menaw menaw. And we laugh and giggle. And we repeat the chase and the mantra until we are sore from laughing. And when we Skype-call home, my dad says into the webcam: Hi J-man. Menaw menaw.
And everybody laughs.
On the second day of Christmas…
2 December 2011 By Leave a Comment
To start setting the mood, I present Vince Guaraldi playing Linus and Lucy from A Charlie Brown’s Christmas.
A Christmas carol submission from Blake Harvard of Vancouver
1 December 2011 By Leave a Comment
I think he must have stumbled on a blog post from 2009 when I asked for people’s favourite Christmas carols. I had a few of my own favourites that I was sourcing from YouTube (which I will probably repost this year). Grace, Kara, Peter, and Ludo submitted their favourites. Fawn wrote her own.
Anyway, I would like to post Blake’s submission as a kick off to the 2011 Christmas season:
Merry Christmas everybody. I miss you already.
I like this bib…
30 November 2011 By Leave a Comment
Meta over at LausanneMom.com posted my recommendation on her blog: LausanneMom.com.
I am tempted to deface a billboard outside my apartment
25 November 2011 By 5 Comments
Instead, I photoshopped.
