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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Couple Communication 101:

Jerry Warriner: In a half an hour, we'll no longer be Mr. and Mrs. Funny, isn't it.

Lucy Warriner: Yes, it's funny that everything's the way it is on account of the way you feel.
Jerry Warriner: Huh?
Lucy Warriner: Well, I mean, if you didn't feel that way you do, things wouldn't be the way they are, would they? I mean, things could be the same if things were different.
Jerry Warriner: But things are the way you made them.
Lucy Warriner: Oh, no. No, things are the way you think I made them. I didn't make them that way at all. Things are just the same as they always were, only, you're the same as you were, too, so I guess things will never be the same again.

Five Minutes later:

Lucy Warriner: You're all confused, aren't you?
Jerry Warriner: Aren't you?
Lucy Warriner: No.
Jerry Warriner: Well you should be, because you're wrong about things being different because they're not the same. Things are different except in a different way. You're still the same, only I've been a fool... but I'm not now.
Lucy Warriner: Oh.
Jerry Warriner: So long as I'm different don't you thing that... well maybe things could be the same again... only a little different, huh?

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

It's no Kauai but YVR's a pretty amazing place!

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Believe...

On a cold wet night in April, I started to sink into feeling sorry for myself. When in need of life coaching, don't forget Yoda...

Saturday, March 13, 2010

What I've learned this year... as a Writing Student.

That I am where I am supposed to be. This is my purpose. I love story. And learning the craft of story telling is the most amazing, challenging, frustrating and satisfying experience I've had to date.
That my most productive hours for writing are the first 4 hours of my day.
That my least productive hour of the day is between 2-3pm. I look forward to the day when I don't have to caffeinate myself to get through this time, and I can have a siesta.
That in the evening, after dinner... I'm pretty much brain dead and love to just turn off and be entertained. Not entertain others, big difference. Which is why I have been more unsociable this year more than any.
That what I am paying for most in school is the deadlines, so I no longer complain about them.
That not ever idea, thought, story is worth telling.
That as an adult student, I work harder than I ever did when I was in college twenty years ago. That said, I don't know if I recommend the practice - in general - of kids going straight off to school without any life experience. That said, there certainly are some gifted souls who know their path, and I only wish I had had such foresight.
That being overloaded with classes is not conducive for quality work. Hence I have reduced my electives, which is unfortunate but realistic.
That lounging is a luxury. After having only two realities - sitting in a chair writing or laying down sleeping. Having the in between - a couch, or lounge chair is a future goal.
That you can go to school full time and work, but it is the last thing I would ever recommend.
That I don't have time to grocery shop or cook when juggling this schedule. Pre-packaged meals are the way to go, (thank God for Deli's), to not break stride or burn up time that I don't have to waste.
That when in school time flies, when out - it crawls.
That I can't have a social life while juggling school, homework and a part time job. I really can't, if I am not doing one of those three things, I am sleeping.
That sometimes I just need a hug, and I am thankful that between school, work and life, there are more than enough people to oblige me :)
That vitamins are crucial when you don't have the luxury of time to be sick. I tend to be one of those people who stores up my colds. When I have time, I will be bed ridden :{
That the people who know me well, don't take my absence personally. I am thankful and grateful for offers to connect, but hope they understand that while I am writing my stories for the masses, I can't be the "story teller" I once was. Mostly, I hope they will still be around when I surface from this year.
That seeing friends when my view of the world is a "glass half empty" isn't good for anyone. I've been on such a roller coaster ride this year that I tend to hibernate when things aren't going well - better for everyone involved :P.
That shifting gears mid life is not for the faint of heart. This has been the hardest year of my life to date, and I am thankful for my reality of few responsibilities to afford me the opportunity to take on this challenge.
That though I do not have a home, I will never be homeless.
That if you ask, you shall receive. I have made so many requests of those in my life this year, and I am still surprised when people have generously been available with their time and spirit.
That it takes a village. I have several people in my life who have supported me this year - Financially, Physically, Emotionally and Spiritually. Some of who have even been kind enough to share a meal with me, when I've had a rare moment off to enjoy their company. Heaven!
That the rain doesn't last forever and neither will this reality!

A note to those in my life... I don't know what I would have done without you all. I feel blessed to have you in my life and enrolled in my dream. I hope to make you proud sooner than later, and share any successes that may come. To my friends and family, I thank-you from the bottom of my heart!

Xo P.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Tofino - Surf Capitol of North America!

For beginners, that is...

TOFINO, B.C. — The Canadian Press
Published on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 3:17PM EST
Last updated on Tuesday, Mar. 09, 2010 4:35PM EST
Tofino, B.C., has been ranked the best surf town in North America by an influential U.S. magazine.

Outside Magazine handed the Vancouver Island locale the top honour as part of its inaugural Editor's Choice Awards for 2010.

Peter Devries, Canada's number one surfer and winner of the 2009 O'Neill Cold Water Classic Canada, says Tofino is a great place to ride the waves.

He says the beautiful town's only drawback is its cold water.

Outside has previously named Tofino's Chesterman Beach, specifically the area around Frank Island, as one of the best on the continent for beginner surfers.

Tofino was chosen from among 20 beginner surf spots the magazine named across North America. (Westcoaster.ca)

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Word Play

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone ( n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon(n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic Fit(n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug(n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

A Thank-you Note...

Brian Williams, NBC anchor and managing editor.

After tonight's broadcast and after looting our hotel mini-bars, we're going to try to brave the blizzard and fly east to home and hearth, and to do laundry well into next week. Before we leave this thoroughly polite country, the polite thing to do is leave behind a thank-you note.

Thank you, Canada:

For being such good hosts.

For your unfailing courtesy.

For your (mostly) beautiful weather.

For scheduling no more than 60 percent of your float plane departures at the exact moment when I was trying to say something on television.

For not seeming to mind the occasional (or constant) good-natured mimicry of your accents.
For your unique TV commercials -- for companies like Tim Hortons -- which made us laugh and cry.

For securing this massive event without choking security, and without publicly displaying a single automatic weapon.

For having the best garment design and logo-wear of the games -- you've made wearing your name a cool thing to do.

For the sportsmanship we saw most of your athletes display.

For not honking your horns. I didn't hear one car horn in 15 days -- which also means none of my fellow New Yorkers rented cars while visiting.

For making us aware of how many of you have been watching NBC all these years.

For having the good taste to have an anchorman named Brian Williams on your CTV network, who turns out to be such a nice guy.

For the body scans at the airport which make pat-downs and cavity searches unnecessary.

For designing those really cool LED Olympic rings in the harbor, which turned to gold when your athletes won one.

For always saying nice things about the United States...when you know we're listening.

For sharing Joannie Rochette with us.

For reminding some of us we used to be a more civil society.

Mostly, for welcoming the world with such ease and making lasting friends with all of us.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Robson Square - Never Looked SO Good!

Final Medal Count

Monday, March 1, 2010

Olympic Host - Last Day

Sunday, February 28, 2010

New Patriot Love!

By Stephen Brunt, The Globe and Mail Posted Friday, February 26, 2010 2:22 PM ET
Perhaps we are really looking into a funhouse mirror, and the country reflected back to us, bold and loud and overtly patriotic, is a thing only of this time and place. Perhaps from here at ground zero, surrounded by the happy, face-painted Maple Leaf-bedecked mobs, perspective is skewed.

To read entire article- follow this link: CTV BRUNTSCORNER

Hockey Night in Canada!!!

This prayer must have been heard:

Our Father, who art in GM Place, hockey be thy name. Thy will be done, GOLD to be WON on ICE as well as IN THE STANDS. Give us this day, our hockey sticks, and forgive us our penalties, as we forgive those who crosscheck against us.Lead us not into elimination, but deliver us to victory,in the name of the fans, CANADA, and the HOLY PUCK.AMEN! Go CANADA Go!!!

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Olympic Daily Host Highlights!

Olympic FEVER! Robson & Granville 11pm.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Olympic Daily Host - Day 14

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Tom Brokaw - Canada 101

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Olympic Daily Host - Day 12

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

For My American Friends

Tom Brokaw explores the close relationship between neighboring Canada and the United States.

Follow this link to NBC

Monday, February 22, 2010

Olympic Daily Host - Day 10

Sunday, February 21, 2010

"I Believe" Nikki Yanofsky

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Olympic Commercial - Michael J. Fox

Friday, February 19, 2010

Olympic Daily Host - Day 8

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Spring Olympics! Nine Days to go... no snow :{

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Olympic Daily Host Videos - Day 6

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Poet Shane Koyczan - We Are More

When defining Canada

you might list some statistics

you might mention our tallest building

or biggest lake

you might shake a tree in the fall

and call a red leaf Canada

you might rattle off some celebrities

might mention Buffy Sainte-Marie

might even mention the fact that we've got a few

Barenaked Ladies

or that we made these crazy things

like zippers

electric cars

and washing machines

when defining Canada

it seems the world's anthem has been

"been there done that"

and maybe that's where we used to be at

it's true

we've done and we've been

we've seen

all the great themes get swallowed up by the machine

and turned into theme parks

but when defining Canada

don't forget to mention that we have set sparks

we are not just fishing stories

about the one that got away

we do more than sit around and say "eh?"

and yes

we are the home of the Rocket and the Great One

who inspired little number nines

and little number ninety-nines

but we're more than just hockey and fishing lines

off of the rocky coast of the Maritimes

and some say what defines us

is something as simple as please and thank you

and as for you're welcome

well we say that too

but we are more

than genteel or civilized

we are an idea in the process

of being realized

we are young

we are cultures strung together

then woven into a tapestry

and the design

is what makes us more

than the sum total of our history

we are an experiment going right for a change

with influences that range from a to zed

and yes we say zed instead of zee

we are the colours of Chinatown and the coffee of Little Italy

we dream so big that there are those

who would call our ambition an industry

because we are more than sticky maple syrup and clean snow

we do more than grow wheat and brew beer

we are vineyards of good year after good year

we reforest what we clear

because we believe in generations beyond our own

knowing now that so many of us

have grown past what used to be

we can stand here today

filled with all the hope people have

when they say things like "someday"

someday we'll be great

someday we'll be this

or that

someday we'll be at a point

when someday was yesterday

and all of our aspirations will pay the way

for those who on that day

look towards tomorrow

and still they say someday

we will reach the goals we set

and we will get interest on our inspiration

because we are more than a nation of whale watchers and lumberjacks

more than backpacks and hiking trails

we are hammers and nails building bridges

towards those who are willing to walk across

we are the lost-and-found for all those who might find themselves at a loss

we are not the see-through gloss or glamour

of those who clamour for the failings of others

we are fathers brothers sisters and mothers

uncles and nephews aunts and nieces

we are cousins

we are found missing puzzle pieces

we are families with room at the table for newcomers

we are more than summers and winters

more than on and off seasons

we are the reasons people have for wanting to stay

because we are more than what we say or do

we live to get past what we go through

and learn who we are

we are students

students who study the studiousness of studying

so we know what as well as why

we don't have all the answers

but we try

and the effort is what makes us more

we don't all know what it is in life we're looking for

so keep exploring

go far and wide

or go inside but go deep

go deep

as if James Cameron was filming a sequel to The Abyss

and suddenly there was this location scout

trying to figure some way out

to get inside you

because you've been through hell and high water

and you went deep

keep exploring

because we are more

than a laundry list of things to do and places to see

we are more than hills to ski

or countryside ponds to skate

we are the abandoned hesitation of all those who can't wait

we are first-rate greasy-spoon diners and healthy-living cafes

a country that is all the ways you choose to live

a land that can give you variety

because we are choices

we are millions upon millions of voices shouting

"keep exploring... we are more"

we are the surprise the world has in store for you

it's true

Canada is the "what" in "what's new?"

so don't say "been there done that"

unless you've sat on the sidewalk

while chalk artists draw still lifes

on the concrete of a kid in the street

beatboxing to Neil Young for fun

don't say you've been there done that

unless you've been here doing it

let this country be your first-aid kit

for all the times you get sick of the same old same old

let us be the story told to your friends

and when that story ends

leave chapters for the next time you'll come back

next time pack for all the things

you didn't pack for the first time

but don't let your luggage define your travels

each life unravels differently

and experiences are what make up

the colours of our tapestry

we are the true north

strong and free

and what's more

is that we didn't just say it

we made it be.

-Shane Koyczan

Monday, February 15, 2010

Olympic Daily Host - Day 4

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Olympic Daily Host - Day 2

Friday, February 12, 2010

Opening Ceremonies - WE ROCK!

To see more AMAZING photos...

Click this LINK

Opening Ceremonies Video

Click here to watch the entire Opening Ceremonies.

Sorry, this link is only available in Canada.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Olympic Commercial - Come Together

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Olympic Commercial - Believe!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

"One Dream" Sarah McLachlan

Monday, February 8, 2010

Olympic Commercial - You Gotta Be Here

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Don't Close Your Eyes...

Grand Prize Winner of VANOC Sustainability National Video Contest

Jessie Mao, 16, Markham, Ontario

Jessies animation begins with haunting images of how climate change could affect the future of winter sports. She transitions from helpless to hopeful and uses images of ways people can Do their Part to fight climate change.