"Coach Melody Davidson has announced Canada's Women’s Hockey roster for the 2006 Olympic Winter Games"

"Today on Politics, sports"- Don Newman.

Take that Elexmas! In Vancity they finally made the big announcement. Very exciting. They had a moment of silence for Super Hockey Mom Phyllis Gretzky, and then Kevin Lowe actually spoke in 'French'! I felt so nervous for him.

They had kids dress up in the players jerseys and walk out as they announced each team, except for Cassie Campbell and Hayley Wickenheiser who wore their jerseys. That was strange. Did anybody else notice any actual player wear the jersey?? I'd hoped we'd see Jovanovski, Bertuzzi, Smyth and Pronger, seeing as they were probably in the building...but no.

So everybody else will be talking about The Men's Canadian National Team, you'll be all, "Oh my god Crosbie didn't make it and holy crap they cut Cujo, and hmmm...I wonder who will play the 44 if both Pronger and Bertuzzi play?"

I would like to bring up the Women's Team . So Delaney Collins made it as an alternate. She used to be a Panda and I thought she would make it. The age difference is interesting: The oldest member born in '66 and the youngest in '87. Does anybody (Jake) know who Meghan Agosta is?
(oh and note the absence of the hyphenated Pie at the end of Ms. Collins' name...I guess we can stop calling her Delicious now that she is single again)

I could rant and rave about the fact that there are 21 members on this team and 3 are from western Canada. I guess you're just screwed if you don't live in Upper or Lower Canada. Whatever. Can these ladies defend the cup? Hells ya, it will be great to watch. With the exceptional athletes in this country it's not only the Men's team that has enough talent to make another contending team the women would have enough depth to do that too.

At this moment though, I can only think about Gilles Duceppe and his vow to create a Quebec National team. Many were shocked by this because it would steal away hockey talent from Team Canada. Maybe if that did happen some of the exceptional talent west of Ontario might get to wear the red and black for this nation.
I'm voting Bloc. Allez Les Duceppes!!

Song Du Jour: In a Little While ~ U2

New Poopers!!!

Auntie Maris and My Cousin Danielle surprised my Uncle with puppies for christmas! Over the last year and a half both our Willy and Bruno passed away and my uncle loved those dogs, well, we all took the loss pretty hard.
They adopted our new wee buddies from The Second Chance Animal Rescue Society. (Theses two boys are litter mates with Junior, Ace and Good-Boy at SCARS) The Brownish puppy we named Murphy (I picked that) and the wee black pup needs a name. Suggestions?

We've already said no to names like:
Milo, Jack ,Zack, Pearson, Champ, Hunter, Cooper, Hudson, Henry, and no we're not naming it Vick...or Luke or Robataille.

so wee....

Rough-housing with Danny...

Happy Birsday to Lina!!!

Song Du Jour: High ~ James Blunt
(I got to listen to his whole cd, Back to Bedlam, last night and it sounds pretty good.)

Most Adorable Oilers Fan

Drooling, eyes filled with tears, yep, you bet, he's an Oilers fan...Don't worry Little Duke, Mac T has to trade a goalie soon enough...

Song Du Jour: Revolution ~ The Beatles

"We calls 'em Moose Knuckles where I come from"

I wonder what they call this um..er...phenomenon, in other countries? Only Canadians call them Moose Knuckles? That can't be right.




Song Du Jour: Lady ~Kenny Rogers

"When you're done the dishes, can you start the laundry, please?"

Merry Christmas, Little Buddy

Mmmmm...

"I would find you wings to fly, and I would catch you, I would catch your fall"

With the release of a new album people are talking about INXS, one of my favorite bands. I just heard Never Tear us Apart and I had forgotten how sweet that song is.
It reminds me of Grade 10 and when I pulled KICK out to listen to it, I never thought I would still know all the words.

Bono contributed vocals to a Michael Hutchence solo album, on the track "Slide Away". The album was incomplete at the time of Hutchence's death, and Bono was approached to finish the song by composing additional lyrics and contributing vocals. Slide Away is one of my all time favorite songs:

Slide Away
Are you gonna wake again?
Are you gonna take it down?
Oh babe, I don't wanna deal it
Oh, make it alright
Gimme some, my love
Away, away, away

I just wanna slide away and come alive again
I just wanna slide away and come alive again
I will see that love again, and find a life again
I just wanna slide away and come alive again

I wanted to let it go
Just couldn't let it go
I wanted to let it go

Just couldn't let you go
I would catch you
(Just couldn't let you go)
I'd catch you as you fall
(Just couldn't let it go)
I would catch you
(Just couldn't let you go)
I'd catch you if I heard your call
But you tore a hole in space
Like a dark star, falls from grace
You burn across the sky
And I would find you wings to fly
And I would catch you
I would catch your fall

I just wanna slide away and come alive again
I just wanna slide away and come alive again
I will see that love again, and find a life again
I just wanna slide away and come alive again

Song Du Jour: Original Sin ~ INXS

"The quiz is a lot of fun, but anybody who thinks it's actually a useful indicator of how you should vote should be shot, or re-educated" - Half-pipe

Well if you have about ten minutes to waste at work or somesuch then I suggest you have a little 'Elexmas' fun with this quiz produced by the CBC.

My results say that I agreed with:
~Stephen Harper on 1 issue (Parliamentary Reform)
~Jack Layton/Gilles Duceppe on 9 issues (I know, shocking!)
~Paul Martin on 8 issues

That's out of the 12 issues they have listed on their quiz...what's really funny is there is some awesome malfunction at the junction because where all the photos of Paul Martin should be on my results, instead there are pictures of Creepy, Smilin' Jack.
I'd love to hear the results of your quizes, especially you far-flung friends.

Half-pipe has already given his opinion on basing your vote on such a quiz over in the comments section of Colin's Blog (where I stole the idea for this blog post).
Good Times.

Song Du Jour: The Boxer ~ Simon and Garfunkle

"he must be mad to speak of giving away countries that do not belong to him" - Atahualpa, On Pope Alexander VI declaring Peru a possession of Spain

My friend Stina went to Peru recently on a mission to fix the teeth of some Peruvians. She went with her boss and the ladies from her office but had a chance to go to Machu Picchu, the ruined ancient Inca city, in the Andes in southern Peru.






Ahhhh, the local beer called 'Pilsen' and she's in her new Peruvian sweater, super cozy...




Hello Llama's!! Is this what Stiner's new cozy sweater is made out of?
Sorry Llama's...

Song Du Jour: Imagine ~ John Lennon

"Let's see...I'll take some fries, a soda, two scorpian's on a stick and one sea horse...on a stick..."

Of course. Why wouldn't you eat those things, they look delicious. *shudder*.
My Cousin Joe apparently didn't have enough Yen to buy one of these...yeah sure Joe, not enough moola...thank God his special lady talked him out of it and, I can only assume, hid his money.
What would it do to your insides?

Song Du Jour: Champagne Supernova ~ Oasis

"If the opportunity presents itself, I'll look at it. But if not, life goes on." - My Cousin Danielle

So there was an article in The Edmonton Journal yesterday about My Cousin Danielle so I thought I post a link here just in case any of you missed it. Imagine my surprise when I opened the sports section and there she was.
It's basically an article about why Danielle is not playing on the Canadian National Team. Sadly the reason she's not has very little to do with her talent and a lot more to do with politics. Stupid Politics. Oh, and the photographer made her bring all those awards and medals up from her room, Auntie Maris doesn't usually have a shrine devoted to Danielle in the living room.

Happy Birthday GT!

Song Du Jour: Bette Davis Eyes ~Kim Carnes

"I went to China, I didn't want to go, and I went to see the Great Wall. You know, you read about it for years. And actually it was great....

...It was really, really, really great." ~ Andy Warhol (1928–1987)

This marks the 4th time in about 6 months I have been sent photos from The Great Wall of China...how cool is that? Looks so, well, great! Just great...


Hi Winnie and Joe!