that canadian girl

Latest adventures…

  • 30-hour Famine

    Support Darren in his attempt at fundraising $1000CDN before the end of March! This will be enough to feed three children for a whole year and save them from malnutrition and famine. And you don’t have to be Canadian to donate, just check his post for more details!

    Make sure you visit his blog on April 1st and 2nd for some light-headed posts and a few laughs, I’m sure. Best luck Darren!

    Also on the fundraiser front, Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day last Friday has raised over £37 million! And the money’s still coming in! That’s $85.5 million dollars in Canadian money, or nearly 7.5 billion Japanese Yen! But most of all, it’s money that will help people both within Britain and all over Africa. If you haven’t donated, it’s not too late! (Are you telling me that Little Britain sketch with Robbie Williams as a “laaayyydeee” wasn’t enough to convince you to donate?!)

  • Dear Canadian Friends

    It’s 17 degrees celcius here today! SUCKAHS!!!

    (for the non-Canadians – it’s -10c over in Ottawa today! Mom had to defrost the car before work!)

    *revels in the sun on the office’s roof terrace*

  • Woah! My Broadband Connection is so fast…

    It downloaded all of the Internet!

  • Montage-A-Google

    OooOooOOoo nifty little thing, but still debating it’s usefulness…

    Montage-A-Google lets you type a keyword in the search box, and click Create Montage to get a funky little montage using 20 images that fit that word… Why do I have a feeling Andrew’s going to search “boobies” or something equally as intelligent as soon as he sees this? 😉

  • Cookies? (I hope they're the chocolate chips kind!)

    Oi! This isn’t my food blog!! (this way for the chocolate chip cookies recipe – will post it later tonight)

    Seth brought up a study containing stats I remember seeing elsewhere too – “17 percent of Internet users delete cookies on a weekly basis”. Total bolloooocks, if you excuse my French!

    I consider myself to be an uber-geek, but I don’t even really do it that often. I should do a survey around the office tomorrow to see how many people a. know what cookies are, b. if they know how to delete them, c. how often they delete them. My office is full of people who use computers at work, but either don’t have one at home or have one in a closet and have at most a dialup connection. So the average British user or above, really! Outside of technology companies and big cities, most people have priorities other than getting a wonderful green tan from a computer monitor (wonder what shade this LCD monitor will give me?) every evening.

    So even in the US, I highly doubt 40% of web users would know how to do it and most of all find it important enough to do it at least monthly. As Seth says:

    The echo chamber effect on the Net is stronger than it is anywhere in the world. Yes, professional women in New York think that lots of women keep their maiden name when they get married (it’s actually less than 5%). Yes, people who work out all the time figure that most people do (they don’t.). People who run wineries figure that lots of people care about wine (they don’t.) But on the Net it is at its worst. The heavy users figure that everyone understands what we understand. (They don’t.)

    The day people are that good with computers, there won’t be a need for the “Any Key” question on the Compaq FAQ!

  • Narcissism

    Who Links Here

  • Introspective week

    This isn’t an apology for the lack of posts. It’s just an attempt at understanding where my mind’s been over the past week.

    Of course, there’s been my grandpa’s passing away, a completely unexpected event that left me feeling rather helpless so far from my family. But it goes beyond that. I’ve been re-evaluating what I’m doing in life now that I’ve been back in England for nearly a year. Because I haven’t lived in the same place or done the same thing for over a year for the best part of the past few years, it’s like my mind’s getting itchy feet and looking for something to do.

    Needn’t worry, I ain’t getting itchy feet about being married, I couldn’t be happier as far as that goes! It’s just my little grey matter that’s feeling like it’s been asleep. I’ve started reading more again, getting a bit restless when watching tv and drifting more towards the Travel and Discovery channels if I do have the tv on. I’ve been feeling somewhat less sociable and happy to spend time alone in the warm and cozy cocoon that is our apartment.

    Hopefully, I’ll manage to do a Spring Cleaning in my head the same way we did in the apartment. There’s a lot of dust to clear off and some synaptic networks to wake up. Once the hibernation period is over, I’ll be back to my true colours!

  • *waves*

    Yes I’m still around… Just had a bit of a long week, so this weekend I’m just taking it easy. Back to our regular programming tomorrow.

  • À mon grand-papa

    Je sais pas quoi dire, je sais pas ou commencer… Comment dire aurevoir quand on s’attendait pas à un départ si tôt?

    Y faut que je te dise merci. Merci de m’avoir appris à aimer les gens, me rappeler de leurs noms et de leur dire qu’ils sont appréciés. Merci de m’avoir appris à faire mon lit, même si à 16 ans, c’était frustrant de me faire dire ca. Merci pour ma première job sur le petit train touristique Hull-Chelsea-Wakefield, Welcome Aboard!

    Merci pour les boîtes de Smarties en dessous de mon oreiller, pour les déjeuners impromptus ou tu cognais sur la porte patio et même Maman en revenait pas que tu passais juste pour déjeuner avec une boîte de muffins! Les paroles improvisées sur des airs d’opéra en voiture, personne faisait ça aussi bien que toi! Tu plantais des sourires partout ou tu allais, surtout quand tu nous laissais te maquiller en chat, ou quand tu portais tes pyjamas comiques avec des grands bas aux genous pour nous faire rire. Pourquoi jouer à coller le nez sur le clown quand c’est bien plus l’fun de coller le nez sur Grand-Papa?

    Je peux pas croire que t’es parti comme ça. J’avais tellement hâte de te voir en mai, j’avais plein de chose à te raconter, des photos à te montrer, un mariage à te décrire…

    Jamais je me serais rendue ou je suis aujourd’hui sans ton encouragement ou sans tes leçons sur le Mac. Au début, tu me donnais des leçons sur l’ordi. Plus tard, tu me donnais des leçons de patience quand je te donnais des leçons sur l’ordi.

    Alors, il est temps de dire aurevoir. Jamais tu sauras combien de gens tu as marqué et inspiré. En 4e année, j’ai écris que tu étais mon héro. Quinze ans plus tard, j’ai pas changé d’idée. Merci pour toute ton influence positive dans nos vies.

    Puis surtout, merci de m’avoir appris à faire des noeuds dans les pyjamas.

    RIP. Raymond Jolicoeur aussi connu sous le nom de Grand-Papa Rémout par ses petits enfants.

  • Now that's brand loyalty

    From Seth’s blog:

    “I was scared, but I was desperate because he was trying to steal my bag with my precious Louis Vuitton wallet inside”

    Edited: Let me correct, Seth wasn’t the one fighting for a LV wallet – It’s a Yahoo News article!