Despite all efforts to convince my family to join me outside for snow angels and snowman-building, everyone (politely) declined. That left only one option…cruise around and take photos of other people’s snow creations. My sister and I hopped in the car in search of the neighbourhood’s best. We saw everthing from professional snow tigers to...
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Still looking for a centerpiece for your home for your holiday celebration? Look no further. The festivus wikipedia entry, for more info.
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It’s the end of the year, and you know what that means … best of lists! If you have, submit one in the comments. I’ll pull the best ones into the main post. Submitted by Crispy, a list of 2005 albums you should know about. I know of none of them (besides iron and wine...
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That’s right, 6714. That’s how far Shannen and I will be traveling this Christmas on our tour of 3 western provinces.Continento.com is one of the many gadgets that uses google maps for cool things (they’re called “mashups” for whatever reason). Here’s our trip. More mashups here. My favourite by far was Risk using Google Maps,...
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Monday, December 19, 2005 Posted in Photos
So, as Dan mentioned, I (we, but mostly me) received an early Christmas present – a new camera! I’m very excited. The cats are not. I’ve been following them around snapping picture after picture, and they have just about reached their limit of acceptance. Dan is close too. Looks like I’m going to have to...
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This year, Shannen’s mom pointed out that this is the 3rd year in a row that I will be sharing Christmas Eve with the King-Murphys, and all of the King-Murphy traditions that go along with it. She asked whether there were some Fullerton-Sweet traditions that we could observe this year as a change. Christmas Eve...
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- Turkey #1 fell to our voracious appetites last night. Let all turkeys in the land be served notice that it will not be the last! Thanks to Sonja and Mark for an excellent evening. Corn bread stuffing is a new favourite. – Christmas shopping is near completion, but I still need to venture out...
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music has been a focus recently: – shannen and I both saw pearl jam in september; I in montreal, she in ottawa. great shows. pearl jam has been at it for so long that you half expect them to just go through the motions up there. it’s very obvious that they still love performing though....
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Dan put a lot of time setting up this new and improved homepage, so I thought I should throw him a bone. So here I am, making my first post. But I couldn’t just post, I had to one up Mr. Fullerton…So here is the first post with a photo. Ta-dah! (I had a little...
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- satellite radio has launched in canada. I’m having a hard time with the concept of paying $15 a month to listen to something that has thus far been free. It may be because my radio rarely changes off of AM talk radio. I assume there would be *more* talk radio choices, but CFRA is...
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