Friday, December 31, 2010

2010

top list for 2010

4 day road trip may long
cute little motel and winding roads of awesome

finishing upstairs renos
meeting the ladies with bosman


OMG IS SO FLUFFY I'M GONNA DIE!
(dars)

the mini one meeting the gso's mini ones

random walks to aspen heights



getting my photo taken with my favorite snow man

dancing with bosman on his bday

tasty's cake

sneaky hugs from TnA

screeching weasel and chixxdiggit with a super cute boy

floating down the river with the mini one

after work coffee with serfx

new roommate

every moment of my job

finding out kandar got me wow time

making the decision to go back to school

picking dandilions in the back yard

kaigiepoo

watching the twins graduation ceremony

aprikat beer

mario macaroni parties

swimming at the dawe with the lil ones

having such a supportive family and friends made the tough moments bearable

NetFlix and wow on the couch with the gso

bleep bloop

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

I stole this news piece but thought it was super interesting






The Emirates Palace Dubai hotel, has apologized for displaying a lavish $11M Christmas tree. (Image: Getty)

Abu Dhabi hotel apologizes for $11M Christmas tree

21/12/2010 8:30:00 AM

by Daniela Syrovy
Emirates Palace hotel in the United Arab Emirates erected a 13 metre Christmas tree adorned with $11 million worth of jewels. They now regret it. Is the tree in bad taste or should we loosen up and enjoy the elaborate gesture?


The folks in Abu Dhabi have received international attention after luxury hotel Emirates Palace decked out a 13 metre Christmas tree with $11 million worth of jewels. The government news agency has now issued a statement saying they regret the "attempts to overload the tradition" of decorating a tree for the holiday season. The statement was issued after critics condemned the tree as being in bad taste.

At first this story did not compute for me. Emirates Palace, a hotel in a predominantly Muslim country, has erected a giant, jewel-covered Christmas tree?! Something has gone awry in the world. It turns out that in the United Arab Emirates many hotels follow the tradition of putting a tree up in the lobby, to make visitors from abroad feel welcome.

I can appreciate the gesture though the irony of it leaves me wondering if extreme cultural sensitivity only occurs in Canada. Here, schools are removing ‘Santa' images and have replaced the term ‘Christmas concert' with ‘winter concert,' leading some to speculate about our country's cultural compassion and its ability to kill Christmas. Meanwhile in the Muslim country of UAE, publicly displayed Christmas trees are commonplace.

That said, this particular tree - described as the most expensive tree in the world - is a gaudy, tacky, tasteless PR stunt. I understand an ambitious attempt to get into the Guinness Book of Records, but if you were decorating a tree to truly show your holiday spirit, perhaps you'd be better off with a tree that is dressed by the community and not an overzealous jeweler.

A more modest tree might have done a better job of not rubbing in the fact that you're one of the wealthiest cities in the world. Abu Dhabi holds 9% of the world's oil reserves. We get it. You're rich. You're really rich. No need to shove it in our faces, especially not during a time when the emphasis is meant to be on giving. There are so many better ways to spend $11 million.

If the hotel and the country truly wanted to draw positive attention to themselves they should have donated a large portion of the $11 million to the countries starving labourers, who for twenty years have worked tirelessly to build the UAE up to its current state of metropolitan glory.

http://news.sympatico.ca/oped/coffee-talk/dubai_hotel_apologizes_for_11m_christmas_tree/b9756dd2

pics that i've been trying to post up for the last bit, are finally done, blogger isn't being fail tonight cuz its 4am















kandar showed me this

its pretty rad
it's a site with a 360 video

Saturday, December 11, 2010

i can't sleep, i was so dead tired i passed out on the couch and now i'm so freaking tired but my mind keeps circling. i keep thinking of all the things i have to do before christmas and this weekend and so on and so forth. i hate leaving things until last minute. i feel like i should have way more done. so instead i'll post stuff that i totally found on the internets instead.

Friday, December 3, 2010

SO entertained

I hate cable, there's nothing ever on and you pay for a service that is rarely used. What I do love is movies, and the ability to watch a TV series without commercial breaks or having to own a pvr to watch them (i work when all the good tv is on).

Then comes this great invention called NETFLIX

this now allows me to watch the greatest series of television shows ever! RED DWARF, INVADER ZIM (my favorite comic book dude made him and jthm)

not to mention rescue me and a ton of awesome movies, documentaries and kids shows like PINGU!!!!!

i have a hard time going to bed after work cuz there's so much awesomeness on here, and cable has totally lost its shine and luster. (not that it really had a lot to begin with....Diners Drive ins and Dives was awesome that's about it)

too bad my interwebs would cost more if i canceled it. bah.

late night

between bugging someone to start an online dating profile/playing wow/watching a movie and eating a pizza pop i found time to remember how much i love this track....

late night

between bugging someone to start an online dating profile/playing wow/watching a movie and eating a pizza pop i found time to remember how much i love this track....

GODZILLA

rulezors