Famous People Christmas Party

So we are going to a Christmas party this Friday at a friends house. You have to dress up like famous people (whether real or not). Justin is not much of a party guy anyway so he was not excited to go initially, then when he heard he has to wear a costume he did not want to go at all. Then I told him that at the start of the party we are going to be broken into teams and have to go on a scavenger hunt through town in our costumes, he was not impressed. He did finally agree to go but only if he could go as Johnny Cash. We tried to do his hair like Johnny and it was a no go. So then I thought maybe we could go as John Travolta and Olivia NewtonJohn from Grease, but again the hair and costumes was not working, plus Justin hates John Travolta and Grease. Then out of the blue Justin suggests he be the Lone Ranger and I can be Tonto. After all the laughing died down we decided that that was actually a good idea. So now we have to borrow a white cowboy hat and I have to find some toy guns and make him a mask. I will rent a indian brave costume from the costume store and use bronzer on my face. It will be very funny. I can't believe that he is going to do this, it should be so much fun.

The Best Thing About Winter Is HOCKEY!!!!!!

Our big beautiful dog and parents little puppy last Christmas

Christmas puppy; last year.

Ready for Christmas

So now it is December and it is finally Christmas season. I am all done shopping for gifts and have all the gifts wrapped. Also I am finished and have sent all my Christmas cards. Justin and I are bad as we have already opened most of our gifts. We likely wont have anything to open on Christmas morning. Justin put up the Christmas lights last week. All we need now is a tree.

My Democratic Rant

This is a copy of a post I sent to my American friends about what is going on in our country and I like it so much I thought I would post it here.

We just voted in our election about 6 weeks ago. We have a very different system from you guys. We have a multi party system, anyone can make a party instead of your 2 party system. Our main parties are the Conservatives (more capitalist, which I support), the Liberal (more socialist), and the New Democrat Party (more socialist and spend happy). We also have the BLOQ(separatist party of Quebec which has a fair amount of power but only in Quebec) and the Green Party (environmentalist, small power), plus many tiny parties that don't get any support like the communist party and the don't want to work party (it is an actual party).

When we have an election you can vote for any party that has a person running in your area. Each area gets one seat in parliament and the party with the most seats is in power and the leader of the party with the most seats is the Prime Minister (like your President). So we don't actually vote for the Prime Minister himself unless he is running in our riding(area), we vote for the individual in our area from the party we support with the party leader we want as Prime Minister. Hope that makes sense.

So 6 weeks ago we had an election and Steven Harper and the Conservative Party won the most seats so they are the boss. But they did not win enough seats to have more than half the Parliament seats, so they have a minority government. But they won way more seats than any other party, close to more than half the seats of the Parliament. The problem is that the loosing parties (Liberal, NDP and BLOQ) have decided to join together to overthrow the leading party (the Conservatives). Which I find as very unfair and undemocratic. We just elected our government, Canadians did not vote for a joined coalition government of Liberal/NDP/BLOQ, Canadian voted for Conservative government. I think the Liberal/NDP/BLOQ should join together if they choose and let us vote as is our right. It is sneaky to quietly go through an election campaigning for your party then afterwards suddenly scrap your party to join with others without Canadians having the chance to vote on it. We will know on Monday what is happening. Because we are a commonwealth of Britain, the Queens representative must decide what is constitutional, to either call another election or allow the sitting government to be taken over. It did happen once before that the ruling party was overthrown in 1928 in the world war.

I feel very disappointed. How would you feel if you just voted and elected your government then they tell you all the voting does not matter that they can pick the government without the people consent. I love my country but it make me feel like democracy has no meaning.

How is that for a rant!

As an update to the previous post about Christmas presents. I was excited when Justin got home from work for him to notice his Christmas presents, he pretended not to care. Therefore I let him, no that is not right, encouraged strongly for him to open them. So he opened all four of his movies that I had carefully wrapped and made a sparkly tag for and then we watched two of them. After he opened them I regretted it as now he has nothing for Christmas to open and it meant we had a whole night of car movies to watch.