Mika - Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)

Mohawk

Or should I say "Nomo'hawk"? It only lasted for 3 days as Lori made me buzz it all clean.

Big Brother 8 - Episode 7

I think I'm done with quoting the house guests. I'm this close to giving up on the show. I'm slowly remembering why I stopped watching the show after the first couple seasons. Watching a bunch of people, who have no contact with the outside world, live together isn't fun to watch unless there's drama.

I just can't stand the questions that Julie is asking. I know she's asking certain questions in order to help create more drama but I'm finding it all to be more than lame. It's actually kind of funny to see how the house guests react to certain questions. It's almost as if Julie asks questions about something that happened that really wasn't that big of a deal. Then the house guests kind of sluff off the question, giving Julie less than what is expected. Here's an example: During Carol's post eviction interview Julie proceeded to ask why Carol and Jessica were no longer friends. Carol said she couldn't remember and didn't really want to talk about it but Julie kept asking. She also showed Carol a clip of Jessica mentioning that Carol "owed her $5 once". I understand that more drama makes for a more interesting show but it seems that Big Brother is really stretching to make the show watchable.

I don't think I'll give up watching the show just yet. I'm actually kind of interested to see what happens now that Dick is the Head of Household. I'll be kind of surprised if he doesn't nominate Kail for eviction.

Actually, now that I've re-read what I've written I realize that I've been sucked in to the show. I mean, I've been writing more about Big Brother than anything else these days. Lame-o.

Lori's Birthday

Everybody should head over to Lori's blog to wish her a Happy Birthday. She doesn't look a day over 29.

Big Brother 8 - Episode 6

I didn't watch last night's episode. I just couldn't stay up that late so I have no quotes.

I am, however, intrigued by this.

And the message boards/comment sections over here are kind of funny.

Big Brother 8 Quotes - Episode 5

"The door in the tea cup? What a brilliant technicality to bring into the mix. Jen wins (Head of Household) because she just happens to put down the lowest number? Because she has no spacial perception. I'm sick of people being rewarded for stupidity in this country. Jeez Louise!" - Joe

"We should take a drink every time she (Jen) says 'I'". - Zach

"She (Jen) is the most oblivious thing in this house." - Joe

"The sight of her and the sound of her voice irritates the #$%@ out of me." - Dick

"I wanted two seconds with Jen and that's it because that's all I could tolerate." - Joe

"Name that pie!"

"Tuna and Jelly Beans." - Nick

Big Brother 8 - Episode 4

I didn't hear anything worthy of quoting with the exception of a few good lines that were spoken during flashbacks of previous episodes (e.g. "She owed me $5 once.")

I do have something to write here in place of quotes...but I woke up late and have to get to work.

Check back this afternoon.

UPDATE

You're probably going to be disappointed. I'm not sure my "something to write here in place of quotes" is all that exciting.

During the H.O.H. competition...I got all of the questions correct. And then during the tie breaker question my answer was "32", which means the new H.O.H. would be me. However, I was talking with a customer today and she said that her answer was "zero" so I guess she would have been the winner.

Calgary Stampede 2007

It's Stampede time in Calgary. We had tickets for the rodeo this past Saturday. The original plan was to head down to the grounds, see the sights and check out the rodeo. On Friday Emma came home from day camp with a fever and the chills. We think it was a case of heat/sun stroke, or something like that. She didn't really want to eat or drink but we managed to get her to drink some fluids. Because of this unexpected situation we changed our plans. Lori decided to stay home with Emma while I took Oliver down to the grounds.

The first part of the day involved a train ride down to the grounds. I'm pretty certain that this was the first time Oliver ever rode the train. He seemed to enjoy the ride and got a little excited whenever we went through a tunnel.

Arriving at the grounds I expected it to be crazy busy considering we were attending on what I believe is traditionally the busiest day of Stampede. There were a lot of people there already but not nearly as many as I was anticipating.

The first thing we checked out was the end of a show where we saw 5 people (3 adults and 2 kids) inside a giant balloon. That was pretty neat...for about 2 seconds. Next we wandered around and ended up watching the rodeoX which was a bunch of BMXers doing crazy stuff (i.e. back flips and huge jumps). Later we headed to the Coke stage to watch Dr. Draw. By this time Oliver and I were hungry so we went to buy some pizza. Two slices and $8 later we headed back to watch the band while we ate.

Once the pizza was gone it was time to meet Paul with whom we ended up spending the rest of the day. But first I needed to spend more money because Oliver needed a spider man popsicle, complete with gumballs for eyes. If you look closely at the image above (*click to enlarge*) you can see the gum in Oliver's mouth.

Once we met up with Paul (who took all the pictures because I couldn't be bothered to lug around our camera and left it at home) we wandered around and checked out some animals. We saw ducks, sheep, goats, horses and a cow.

For the next several hours we walked around and pretty much just people watched. We watched people going on rides, people playing the games, people walking around. Oliver was getting pretty tired (so was I...did I mention I carried him for pretty much the entire 7 hours we were at the grounds because I was too stubborn to bring a stroller?) and I thought some mini donuts would give him a little sugar rush to keep on keepin' on.

While waiting in line for our sugar with donuts (I'm not kidding...I measured the remaining sugar mixture from the bottom of the bag once we got home and there was at least 1/4 to 1/3 of a cup...nasty) a kind woman offered Oliver a large stuffed monkey that she no longer wanted. It took a while but the donuts finally cooled enough for Oliver to handle them and it was time for him to eat. He barely took one lick and decided he wasn't interested in eating them. So I stupidly went and immediately purchased a bag of cotton candy which resulted in the same reaction from Oliver - one lick and he wanted "something else". By this point I was too frustrated to even bother getting "something else" so I ignored his requests for quite some time and we walked around some more until I found a place with fries. He ate those suckers, no problem.


Although we didn't go on any of the rides, Paul decided it would be fun to see how tall Oliver is. Actually, what Paul really wanted to do was to stand his 6'3'' frame by the sign to show how tall he is. I don't have the picture of that but I can honestly tell you that it exists because Paul handed me his camera and I took the picture.

After all those spicy fries Oliver had eaten he was pretty thirsty. I had a couple bottles of water in my back pack but by this time the sun had finally come out (it was overcast for most of the day which actually made for a great day because it wasn't too hot) and it was starting to get warm. I decided to buy Oliver some apple juice. Do you know how hard it was to find apple juice? I was only able to find apple juice at a vending machine. And, yes, I paid the $3.50 for the beverage. I'm just glad Oliver doesn't like slurpees all that much ($9.00 for a large at the grounds).

We ended the day by just barely finding seats at the Superdogs show. The show, surprisingly, ended up being an hour long. It was entertaining but Oliver began to get bored with watching dogs do the same thing over and over again. Dogs running and jumping and running and spinning and running and catching Frisbees and running.

Finally it was time to head home which meant another fun ride on the train. I'm sure Oliver had more fun on the train than he did at the grounds. And, no, we never ended up going to rodeo. Maybe next year.

Big Brother 8 Quotes - Episode 3

"I will absolutely die if she's (Carol) not evicted before me." - Jessica

"I feel that I got off scotch free. Is that right? Scotch free?" - Kail

"I had a tear running down my cheek and we had this heart to heart right in the middle of the strip bar." - Dick

"I think Nick's cute."
"I think Nick's hot."
"Nick's so hot it's ridiculous." - Joe
"I don't like muscles."

"All the girls are like 'Has Nick been flirting with you? Yeah. Has he been flirting with you? Yeah.' Which one's gonna be the lucky girl?"
"Or boy? Question mark!" - Nick

"So we're gonna try to not let Dick touch us."

Diet Pill Has Unpleasant Side Effects

"Stray too far from your low-fat diet and you just might poop your pants."

Be sure to read the whole article, especially the section entitled 'Cheaters share cautionary tales'.

Big Brother 8 - Quotes - Episode 2

"We all put our hands in the middle and we were like 'Go Blue!'...because we were the blue team." - Jessica

"I was going to be rubbing butter off of Nick's body, I might not be able to concentrate on the competition properly. - Joe

"Just lube yourself up in as much better as humanly possible and..." - Eric

"I don't think there's one person that was looking at everyone covered in melted butter and thinking 'Oh, yeah I wanna get with that tonight.'"

"I was looking around and I was thinking it was like Baywatch or something."

"And I was like 'Booyah, we won', like who can get more than 37 pounds of butter?" - Jessica

"They completely 'buttered', instead of 'creamed', us." - Joe

"You cheated and gave me gonorrhea." - Joe

"I did not give you gonorrhea!" - Dustin

"I have a valid feeling that I spoon fed you your life." - Joe

"Hey your tag is sticking out of the back of your pants there. Just thought I'd let you know." - Dick (to Daniele)

Mysterious White Box

For two days there was a strange wooden box sitting in the middle of the sidewalk in front of our neighbours house. I barely paid any attention to the box until this morning. I became extremely curious/concerned when I noticed the spay painted stencil on the box this morning. It read: "Contains secret test samples. Do not disturb box." Now the box is gone and I've missed my chance at taking a picture (to give you all proof).

Big Brother 8 - Quotes - Episode 1

"He (Joe) has really big nipples." - Dustin

"She (Caril) owed me five dollars one time." - Jessica

"Maybe it's just Jesus watching us."

"I'm not incredibly flexible in my nether regions." - Joe

"I immaculately conceived gonorrhea." - Joe

"Talk about airing your dirty laundry. I'm mean it's the first night in the house and you're already dropping gonorrhea."

Shooting in Deer Run (Calgary)

A Calgary man is in custody after a shooting in the community of Deer Run.

Police were called in at around 7:30 a.m. after reports of a man firing a gun from his second-floor balcony at an apartment complex at 13531 Deer Run Boulevard S.E.

Neighbours heard about six shots and called 9-1-1.

After police arrived, the man jumped off the balcony and started running through the parking lot where he was arrested.

Kind of glad we don't live in Deer Run anymore. Although, I believe several years ago a kid was stabbed to death just down the street from our new place.

Avril Lavigne is being sued

Canadian pop sensation Avril Lavigne is being sued by U.S. songwriters for an alleged copycat version of an original song.

The 1970s band, the Rubinoos, have claimed Avril Lavigne’s hit single "Girlfriend" is a ripoff of their 1979 song "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend."

I found an mp3 of "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" by the Rubinoos. I'm sure we've all heard "Girlfriend" by Avril. This whole thing brings back memories of the days when there were issues between Queen and Vanilla Ice.

I'm particularly fond of what was said near the end of the article:

Although four words are similar, McBride pointed out “‘hey you’ has been used in so many other songs, you could say they (the Rubinoos) ripped off the Rolling Stones lyrics ‘Hey! You! Get off of my cloud.’”