With Canada Day, and American Independance Day last week, I was certainly well surprised to learn my blog has been bestowed with another award. Not only is this award a very cool award, this one is named after me too. . . . .
The Joey: A Star-Spangled Maple Leaf, For Tirelessly and Intelligently Promoting Canadian-American Relations.
I guess I feel since I secretly devoted more time to American Idol than I should have or even admitted, I feel an obligation to start to watch Canadian Idol.
So far I’ve actually seen two people who I know on the auditions show.
Adam from “The PAC” and Shannon from my home town, both I knew from dancing. Shannon got a gold ticket, Adam – well – it was a golden effort!
Congrats Shannon. . . .if you get onto the show, I’ll vote for you every week! Way to go girl!
Today I was invited to a FaceBook group called “The Amazing Race:Canada” – the idea of this facebook group was to get as many Canadians to join, there are similar groups for Britian and the USA. The goal was to reach X amount of people in the group by a certain date, and ahead of the other countries participating.
On the ‘wall’ of the group, there was a link to the story below. It is ‘thank you’ to Canada, who is always a thankless participant in many of the world’s conflicts. Please take a moment to read it. Thank you.
A Fracas Project! You’re invited to participate. Get details and see the participant list here.
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The Monday Melee Questions:
1. The Misanthtropic: Name something (about humanity) you absolutely hate.
People who insist on solving problems with medication, rather than communication. I don’t not believe in mental illness, but I wonder how much could be fixed, solved or at least put under control if we took the time to really talk and commincate to one another.
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2. The Meretricious: Expose something or someone that’s phony, fraudulent or bogus.
I hate hate hate scare tactic & false info email forwards – I received the same one (again) like 4 times over the weekend about being able to unlock your car door via a spare remote at your home if you can call someone at the home on your cell phone.
Read www.snopes.com here: http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp
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3. The Malcontent: Name something you’re unhappy with.
How messy my house is right now. I’ve been a meal-lean-sewing machine and I’ve made a mess. . . .its far more fun to make the mess than clean it up.
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4. The Meritorious: Give someone credit for something and name it if you can.
A HUGE congratulations to Ian D’Sa & Billy Talent for winning two Juno Awards, Canada’s Top Music Awards. They won one for Group of the Year, and the other for Best Rock Album. I wrote about Ian and Billy Talent earlier in the year here when we went to see them in concert in February.
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5. The Mirror: See something good about yourself and name it.
I’m good with my customers. I can make a no sound like a yes. I get alot of positive feedback from customers. People like to deal with me.
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6. The Make-Believe: Name something you wish for.
A bigger bed. I want a California King. Marty, Minou and Manny take up more room on the bed then they used to, and Colin is a bit of a lump too! 
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Congrats to Ian D’Sa & Billy Talent on your Juno wins!!!!
BEST GROUP 2007
BEST ROCK ALBUM 2007
Billy Talent has also won JUNO Awards for New Group of the Year (2004), Group of the Year (2005) and Album of the Year (2005).
Recently I’ve been having some fun with Brahnamin with the good ‘ol Canada versus the US of A debate. Source. Source.
Just for the record, I love Americans.
I think its easy (and often funny, see here) to point out the flaws of Americans. But lets be honest, would the world be the place that it is now without the loud and boisterous cousin to South?
Shakespeare said “All the World’s a Stage” and that being said wouldn’t you prefer to have America as an agent, because certainly you’d get more time up in the lights. 
Now, I adore Canada, and in truth I can’t imagine being anything other than Canadian. This is one heck of awesome country to be citizen of and I can say that as I’ve tried my hand at being an immigrant, (and that didn’t really suit me).
I remember once doing tours of the Embassies in London England on one of my trips there, and when I was at the US Embassy there was a wall of pamphlets. One in particular caught my eye, (and somewhere squirreled away I still have it), it was called “Backpacking for Americans”. The first thing, as recommended by the government of the United States of America for Americans to do when backpacking
1. Sew a Canadian Flag patch on your bag. Canadians are often treated with more respect than Americans.
I’m not sure where I was going with that. . . . anyways. . .
I don’t always agree with their policies on war, or their playground bully mentality towards other countries (Poor France), but I respect their patriotism and their continued strive for freedom for all. They are a proud group of people, and perhaps that is something other countries could take a page from. I also believe that Americans drive for total consumerism puts food on my table. Both my husband and I work in industries that without Americans purchasing our goods our companies would not flourish, grow and be profitable. So for that, I say Thank You America!
I might not always agree with the US, but I love them like family.
Recently on Skywindows & on Juggling Cats both highlighted a farce Environment Canada Wildlife Federation video. . . .
And I thought I would defend my great land by poking fun at my neighbours to the south, and my friends in historic Virginia. . . .
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