Seriously the most fun in the whole wide world!

Last night I figured out how to play Wii Mario Kart with friends in Virginia online! It was seriously the most fun I've had all year. If you have a Wii and access to WiFi, please let me know and we can play sometime! And Bickhams, let's make a date!

When did Google become a verb?

Everyone knows someone who likes to email unnecessary amounts of forwards with content that is typically gloom and doom, threaten ultimate death, or grant you a wish. I have one in my extended family. (If you're reading this, it's not you.) Fortunately, I don't feel bad about deleting them without paying much attention to their content. My mom, who is not said person, recently sent me a forward that I actually enjoyed. It was definitely forwardable. But I thought, rather than forwarding it on and being labled a forwardiot, that I would share just a little bit of it with you so you could enjoy a chuckle or two. :o)

Do you know a Grady? If so, jump on that!

I'm not even sure what they meant to write...

Remember Mr. Yuk?

Easy mistake.

Bahaha! I'm reminded of a joke: How do you get a one-armed blonde out of a tree?
Wave.

Thanks anyway.

Yeesh.

I love playing this in the grocery store!

This has small town written all over it.

Good question.

Maybe when he gets out of the clink he could get a job as a plumber.

Definitely in my top 5 from this list.
...mmm Qdoba sounds great for dinner.

I was going to quote my favorite lines... but it's pretty much all of them.
He's offering to pay, but not until we get back. Smart. Thinking ahead. I like that.
What kind of weapons travel well through the fourth dimension? I know, a bow staff.
Safety not guaranteed. Oh, of course.
I find a little bit of comfort in the fact that he's done it before. Clearly he learned that it's too dangerous to go back alone and unarmed.

Creepy Governator.

I have a row of bookmarks across the top of my internet browser window of sites that I check frequently throughout the day including my gmail, Flickr, CNN.com, and (you guessed it) Facebook. I feel quite connected with the rest of the world when I'm able to catch up on things this way. Especially since we live on the West coast of the Great White North, I feel disconnected to my friends and family back home, so I count heavily on Facebook and CNN.com to keep me up-to-date with the latest headlines.

Last night I was checking out CNN.com and saw this headline:

A 10-Year-Old Divorcée Takes Paris

How could I not click the link and try to understand what this very odd title is referring to?

It's about a little girl named Nujood Ali from Yemen who was, until recently, the youngest known divorced person on this planet. My heart broke as I continued to read her story written up in this TIME magazine article. It goes on to explain her escape from a marriage to a man three times her age who beat and raped her every night. Her bravery has opened doors to matrimonial prisons similar to hers and our eyes to a world that has previously been kept under shrouds and sand.

I feel like God has been opening my eyes to this culture. In the last little bit I read The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, Blink by Ted Dekker, and watched Kingdom of Heaven, all taking place in the middle east at various times in history. That area of the world has such rich, deep history steeped in traditions and rituals. I'm overwhelmed at the thought that everything I believe as Truth comes from a Man who belongs in that culture.

Salaam `alaykum, Nujood.

Today, like everyone else, I'm quite interested to get a look at the Superbowl commercials that I missed. Yesterday I was so excited to hang out with friends, watch a little bit of football, and laugh at lots of highly-anticipated, over-priced commercials. But this year Canadian television was filtered so that we got plain old everyday Canadian commercials during the Superbowl. Thank you, CTV. I wonder how much they charged the Canadian Government for the Canadian Forces commercial they played every break? Or how much they charged PetroCan and the Olympic committee for their commercial for the 2010 Olympics Glasses that they're pushing? I do believe... that it's going to be crazy around here in about a year.

Seriously, I scanned every channel from 1-999 before and during the first dozen commercial breaks. All CTV.

But I'm thankful that Fox Sports has them all readily available to watch, and in Canada even! (I can't tell you how frustrating it is to miss a TV show that I follow religiously (The Office) and not be able to catch it online (NBC.com) simply because I live 15 miles north of the border. And I don't feel like taking the time to find it elsewhere in the plethora of "watch TV online" sites.)

What was your favorite commercial? So far, mine is Pepsi Max: I'm Good.

Stuff White People Like

I've been following this blog for a while and found a clip about it on CNN. Thought I'd share it.

It isn't embedding properly, so here's the link:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2009/01/29/dcl.lander.stuff.white.people.like.cnn

new bunny

Lola got fixed today. She's been quite naughty lately. We're hoping that spaying her will level out her hormones and calm her down a bit. We're going to pick her up this evening as a brand new bunny!

Vitamin D

I mentioned before about how foggy it's been here lately. Well, I read in the newspaper that today marks the 19th foggy day. I'm not trying to complain, I've just never experienced this much fog for a consistent amount of time! I thought I'd let some pictures do the talking for me.

Sunset over downtown Vancouver this week as seen from Cypress Mountain.
I knew the sun was out there!

Downtown Vancouver as seen from Mt. Seymour. (Photo by Mike Tranmer)

Here's what you should be seeing from Cypress. (Photo by Static Kitten)

And here's what you should be seeing from Mt. Seymour. (Photo by Gordzilla1)

Vancouver really is a gorgeous place. Too bad you can only enjoy it a few months out of the year.