Saesa omentien lle!

I always thought November was too early for people to start getting ready for Christmas. I mean, as soon as Halloween is over, stores start putting up Christmas lights and start advertising 3-pack Santa hats. Commodification? Right there. Good for businesses though, a lot of people are already halfway though their Christmas shopping. I'll probably do mine like a week before. As much as I enjoy shopping, shopping for people is just not my thing. See, I never know what people will like. And say I do know, then I'll probably wish I didn't cuz it'll most likely be something really expensive or really ridiculous. ("I want a pet salamander!" Uh....no.)

Today is probably the earliest I've ever gotten "Christmasy". I've gotten really fed up with staying home all day, so I now have a new job. I'm one of the photographers at Santa's Village at the mall. I guess you could say that I now get paid to take photos of (screaming) kids with Santa Clause. I also get paid to wear a silly Elf costume.

Mind you today went by smoothly. It was Santa's "big arrival" into the mall, and he was joined by Mrs.Clause and a band of carollers. Fortunately today's Santa was a good one. We've had a previous Santa who was some 20 year old dude who didnt care about kids or his beard falling off, but kept calling 20 year old girls to sit on his lap.

I was searching for an image to put on this blog, so I googled "Elf." Let's just say I didn't expect half the images that popped up. So that made me wonder, "what on earth is an elf?" Here's the definition:

Elf: n, pl: Elves.

1. A small, often mischievous creature considered to have magical powers.
2. 1. A lively, mischievous child.
   2. A usually sprightly or mischievous or sometimes spiteful person
      

Ah. Those German legends. Suits me at the moment. Let's just hope I don't get too Harry Potter elf-ish.

Saesa omentien lle! (Pleasure meeting you!)

Yes, you can find Elven (Elf language) sayings here.

That's Canada

I just looked out the window two minutes ago and this is what I saw. Yup, that's my front-neighbor's house (shh, don't tell him I took that pic!). There wasn't even that much snow on my road yesterday. It's snowing cats and dogs and was already dark out by 4:30 pm. Can't you just feel the coldness? *Shudders* I'll take better pics later.

(Not so )Simple Life

It's another typical Saturday night- my sister has turned to her weekend crime of clubbing while my parents are-who-knows-where, leaving me to figure out how to avoid going crazy with boredom. So... time for a post!

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I don't know if anybody heard this on the news a few weeks ago - two robbers held up a pharmacy in the States, but were arrested minutes before the actual hold-up because they stopped and asked for directions to get to their destination. Hel-lo?! not even the guys on Dumb and Dumber are that dumb!

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Speaking of dumb, a friend made me realize tonight that not only are there so many dumb people in this world, there are different levels of dumbness. Let's see if I can diffrenciate them :

The Dumb Blonds: You know the type - the Paris Hiltons who can't do simple things such as put a sign up and think they need liquid paper to to erase their computer mistakes. Very easy to mess with these kinds of people and fool them.

The Smart Dumbs: Those high classed business people who should know everything about their business, but don't. Politicians are smart enough to know how to get elected, re-elected and talk politics...but when it comes to talking about humane issues...DUMB! (I don't categorize George Bush here). The unfortunate thing - they are VERY stubborn people, therefore getting them to understand anything is unlikely.

The Dumb Dumbs: Those thieves I mentioned above? Dumb dumbs. Basically, my favorite kind of dumb because they are so friggin hilarious!

The Psycho Dumb Dumbs: The people who know something is dumb, but still proceed to do it anyway, just for the hell of it. Like the guy who knew that he couldn't do this crazy jump on his bike but tried to anyway just to see what would happen, or equally, engaging in a case of "accidental infidelity."

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Now where was this when I needed it?? The site www.DontDateHimGirl.com allows women from all over the world to get revenge on men who cheat on them (dumb dumbs) by posting his photo and story on the site's free searchable database for the whole world to see. Genious. A search on "Montreal" only produced three cheaters, but I expect this site to become more popular soon. Beware guys!

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It's not Metro, it's Subway!

I'm back from a nice, sunny week in Toronto. Spending most of my time there alone, I learned to get around North America's 5th largest city, and Canada's largest undersground city. Montreal's underground is nothing compared to their's.

Maria, Kevin and I spent the weekend shopping at a huge outlet mall and touring Toronto's Harbour front, downtown and Chinatown. We were lucky to get great weather - it was around 15 degrees all week, and the day before I came home, it went up to 19. 19! T-shirts outside in Canada in November? You bet.

I stopped by the mall to check out the Much Music VJ search. No, I didn't actually audition, but I watched a few people show off their skills onstage. Some were good, some were bo-ring and some were downright ridiculous. As one girl started to strip and undid her pants, I was thisclose to shouting "They're looking for a VJ, not a whore!" Apparently they loved her and she's even mentioned on the MM website.

I spent the rest of week at my aunt's (huge) house in the suburbs and learned to commute and explore the city. I tried job-hunting, but had no luck. (Yeah yeah guys maybe I will make that VJ video).

And yes, Mac's is the English version of Couche-Tard.