Keri, my friend & hot blog babe a.k.a The Canadian Explorer is leaving for the Olympics today. A couple months ago Keri said “man, I gotta get to the Olympics, what kind of Canadian Explorer am I if I don’t get there?”. She was focused and determined to get there and to get some sponsors behind her while she’s at it. I told her she could do it and I had not one ounce of doubt she would.
She’s reporting from Whistler as an official correspondent for Canoe.ca & Sun Media and she’s totally decked out in Canada Goose gear.
Proof you can do it if you put your mind into it. Go Keri & Go Canada!!
I’m not that excited about watching sports, I’m more excited to watch the commentary online, Twitpics from the games and to read Keri’s daily reports. I’m way more into the Internet than sports.
In 1996, on the weekend before Canada Day in my hometown of Cambridge, I was a contestant in the annual 
Miss Teen pageant. Since I was little I had always wanted to ride in the convertible waving like the Queen with a sash and tiara. That year I was in a group of about 18 girls all competing for a chance represent our city for a year at events as the Miss Teen.
I had to write a speech about why I was proud to be Canadian. Before our speeches we had preliminaries and I was the first person to ever get 100%. They asked about Canadian history and politics, good thing Mum prepped me before my interview. I got up on stage in the middle of the mall podium to recite my speech for the audience. I was a natural. The judges scored me the highest and that day I won my first (and so far only) beauty pageant. I got to ride in the convertible for the Canada Day parade like it was my job. That was my favorite Canada Day ever.
Canada Blog friends wrote about me recently, check it out!
The following was posted on the Twitter Blog regarding outgonig SMS messages in Canada:
Canadian SMS service
“Unexpected changes in our billing have forced us into a difficult situation with our Canadian SMS service. We can’t afford to support this service given our current arrangement with our providers (where costs have been doubling for the past several months.) As a result, effective today we are no longer delivering outbound SMS over our Canadian shortcode (21212).
The ability to update Twitter over SMS will still be supported over 21212. But we know that this is only part of the experience and we want to make Twitter work in the way folks want … regardless of where they live.
There is a realistic, scalable SMS solution for Canada (and the rest of the world.) We’re working on that and will post more details on the Twitter blog as we make progress.”
“Movember (the month formerly known as November) is a moustache growing charity event held during November each year that raises funds and awareness for men’s health.”
The Movember Foundation was started in Australia in 2004. It is a not for profit, charitable organization that implements a month long event called Movember each year in the month of November. Movember’s goal is to raise awareness around men’s health issues and raises funds charities chosen by each country involved, focussing primarily on prostate cancer.
These are the facts that scared me most while I was raising my own awareness:
- Every year around 22,300 Canadian men are diagnosed with prostate cancer
- 4,300 die of the disease, making it the number one cancer threat to Canadian men
- Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in Canadian men
- Treated early and effectively, prostate cancer has a cure rate of over 90%.
- 1 in 8 Canadian men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. 1 in 27 will die from it.
Canada’s Movember organization is the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada (PCRFC). They are our main supporters in eliminating and preventing prostate cancer. All funds raised in Canada go straight to the PCRFC.
Upper Class.
Social Class.
A cool class.
A school class.
You can pass,
if you got the cash.
2006 – Me.
I used to know someone who constantly surprised me by their lack of motivation to do anything. To go out, to work hard, have dreams, try, do, any of those type of things that involve stimulus or drive. Their lack of inspiration, inspired me, and for that, I am thankful. This is Lackluster.
dull and boring
uninspired & unmoved
bland and down
uninteresting & unconcerned
spiritless and square
for a matter of fact
that’s just you
