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He really wants to win those Max Webster Tickets

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He’s a freak, it’s true! Mon mari est un fou! Chris has lost it.

Chris really really really wants to go to a Kim Mitchell and friends plus the 30 year Max Webster reunion concert being held this Thursday evening at the Docks nightclub here in Toronto.

Unfortunately it seems that the only way to get tickets is to win them!

Please tell me you know who Kim Mitchell is? Remember the band Max Webster? Ok well if that’s not familiar to you, then how about David Wilcox, Alannah Myles, Honeymoon Suite, Sass Jordan, and Goddo?

Well, for some reason Kim Mitchell became a DJ at one of our local Toronto rock stations Q107. He’s DJ’ing right now. So Chris decided to make a last ditch attempt at winning tickets by going down there with his guitar to play for the man.

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So if you were in downtown Toronto this evening and saw this guy in front of the Hard Rock cafe playing guitar for Kim Mitchell … well that’s Chris.

Chris is an extremely talented musician himself. If anyone could win tickets by playing for Kim Mitchell it would be Chris.

So Chris took off a few minutes ago. I’m listening to the radio station just in case Kim mentions the freak outside with a big sign and a nice guitar.

Funny thing is, Kim was just mentioning on the radio that for some reason he’s always wanted to learn how to do the Robot. Now that’s something I can do! LOL Yeah … one of my many hidden talents since I was a little kid. So I called Chris on the cell phone – that he doesn’t have turned on – and left him a message telling him to tell Kim that I’ll teach him how to do the robot if he’ll give us tickets to the concert. Ok so that’s my freaky effort.

Update:

He went there and they started howling with laughter. It sounds like they would have given him tickets if they had any at the station. Kim told him to come back tomorrow or Wednesday but that he’d probably have to play live on the air to get the tickets. LOL So it might work after all!

Here’s the sad face he was practicing:

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Pathetic isn’t he!

BTW my venetian plaster walls aren’t that dark! It’s just how they came out in the photo with the poor lighting in the room when I took the picture.





Bob and Doug McKenzie Anniversary show Tonight!

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I should have let you guys know this on Friday or Saturday, but it’s not too late. Tonight, on CBC (The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) is set to show the movie Strange Brew, which will then be followed by an hour long Bob and Doug McKenzie 20th anniversary show. The special will be aired at 9 p.m. Eastern Time.

I wrote about Bob and Doug in a recent post where I talked about Canadian culture and mentioned that they were Canadian icons. They are quite funny.

The special is also going by the name the “Two-Four Anniversary Special”. In a recent post on my home and garden blog I wrote a post explaining what the Two Four weekend in Canada really is, and how it’s traditionally a major camping and partying weekend.

It’s all about the beer and uh so are Bob and Doug.

It really is too bad that the CBC is showing this special on our first major warmish weather long weekend here in Canada. Don’t they know that half of Canada is camping?

Northern Lights

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I just noticed the other day that my Northern Lights Azalea has buds! Yesterday I even noticed that a few of the buds are beginning to open too. In this photo you can see the partially open flowers behind the Azalea buds.


My little Azalea is extremely slow growing. Yes, they are slow growing plants, but I think mine could use a tiny bit more light as it has a rose in front of it that blocks off some of the light the Azalea would get if that rose wasn’t there. I wish when I’d planted the rose and the Azalea that I’d put the azalea ahead of the rose. When the Azalea does finally grow to maturity it should be four feet tall. However, for the past two or so years it’s only been 2 feet tall or less. The rose gets to about 3 feet tall by the end of summer. I may still rearrange these plants.

I got lots of work done in the front flower beds yesterday and of course I took a lot of pictures of the flowers and plants. Hopefully I’ll get some work done in the backyard garden beds later today!

BTW Some people have been asking what kind of camera I’m using, it’s a Sony Cybershot DSC-H5 7.2MP.

Update! I must pay more attention! I knew I was coming up to my 1000th post, but when I wrote this one I didn’t realize that this was it. You see there were no balloons or party noisemakers. So this is it number one thousand. Kind of anti-climatic huh?

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Ottawa Goes to Stanley Cup Finals!

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Current Ottawa Senators Logo

Whooooooo hooooooo!

Go Ottawa Senators!

My original home town hockey team is going for the cup! Bring it home baby!

I’m a Torontonian now, but my heart will always be with my home town of Ottawa. When the Toronto Maple Leafs play I root for them, but when they play Ottawa I’m rooting for the Sens – even if I have to do it secretly because I’m in a crowd of Leaf fans.

If my parents were alive they would be so happy right now.

Original Ottawa Senators Logo The original Ottawa Senators, who played hockey in Ottawa from 1894 to 1934 until the franchise relocated to St. Louis, Missouri after the 1933/1934 season, won a total of 10 Stanley Cups and were generally regarded as the greatest hockey team in the early days of the sport.

My dad was born in 1919 in Ottawa, and my mom in 1923 in the Ottawa valley. I’m sure they both rooted for the first Ottawa Hockey Club / Ottawa Senators. BTW I was a late late late baby in case you are wondering!

The current Ottawa Senators franchise began in 1992. My parents were thrilled when the Sens came back into the league. The new franchise of course is not really associate with the original Ottawa Senators except for a certificate that was issued by the NHL with the new Senators franchise, proclaiming reinstatement to the league.

Now, as ecstatically happy as I might sound I am sorry to say that I’m not the greatest hockey fan who ever lived. I am however Canadian, and hockey is a huge part of our culture. Hockey is also a huge part of both my families and my husbands culture too.

My husbands brothers two boys come to Canada every summer to train in hockey camps here in the Toronto area because we apparently have the best hockey camps around and if they want to play in the NHL some day this is their best chance at getting there. Get trained by the best to be the best.

My brothers played hockey, and Chris and his brother were excellent hockey players (played with the Gretzky brothers in Brantford) and could possibly have been NHL players too if they had pursued that dream.

Sorry if you’re a Buffalo fan.

Hey, a Canadian team hasn’t won the Stanley Cup in years! It’s time to bring the cup back home to CANADA where it belongs.

Go Sens Go!

Lingerie parties and Lingerie sales

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Oh oh! I got an email earlier from my niece and she’s having a lingerie party! She’s holding it at the end of May. That could be interesting!

Thinking about lingerie parties just reminded me that for a very short time I once sold lingerie! It was sometime just before I started working as a nurse. I might even have still been in school at the time. I attended a lingerie party that was being held at a friends and some how I ended up getting talked into selling the stuff myself!

It’s kind of like holding Avon or Tupperware parties. You have your samples and you get a friend to hold a party. You go ahead of time and set everything up. What a pain when you have at least two racks of clothing! Then once everyone arrives you do a little presentation and anyone interested checks out the clothing, tries it on and hopefully orders from you.

I did ok at this, but it was time consuming and I felt like I was using my friends. Plus, you may not realize this about me, but I’m actually kind of shy in public. Especially when I’m around a lot of people that I don’t really know. I don’t think I’m as shy now as I used to be … I mean I’m a nurse – I’ve got to speak to strangers and ask them all kinds of personal details about themselves, and I do my darnedest to get a laugh or smile out of people and you can’t be too shy to do that! However, put me in a restaurant by myself to eat a meal or up on stage to give a speech and it’s not pretty!

Anyway, I don’t know if my niece is selling the lingerie or if she’s just holding the party. I wonder if I’ll end up ordering anything interesting?

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