tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16089670340074432682024-03-13T02:47:54.381-03:00Crazy with a Side of VanillaI could have called myself "Crazy with a side of Bologna", but I decided to stay classy for once.Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.comBlogger229125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-52205966223396666272016-02-10T13:38:00.000-04:002016-02-10T13:38:10.752-04:00Surprise, I'm still invisible!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hey all! Let's pretend I haven't been gone for a couple of years. </div>
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Remember when I was repeatedly called Courtney back my co-workers a few years ago? (See <a href="http://crazywithasideofvanilla.blogspot.ca/2011/10/welcome.html" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://crazywithasideofvanilla.blogspot.ca/2012/10/two-days-before-my-blogiversary-it-all.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://crazywithasideofvanilla.blogspot.ca/2012/10/in-case-you-thought-i-was-joking-about.html" target="_blank">here</a>.) Wasn't that funny? </div>
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Guess what happened when I opened up an email from my insurance agent this morning?</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you didn't guess that it happened again, you might want to<br />download the Luminosity app and work on your brain power.<br />I basically spoon fed the answer to you.</td></tr>
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Either I've got an evil tw<span style="font-family: inherit;">in or doppelg<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.84px;">änger that enjoys confusing people and eliciting exasperation from me, or m</span>y</span> self-importance got too high and life decided to knock me down a few pegs. Again. I'm going to turn into a small blond girl and go find myself my own Aibileen Clark now.</div>
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CourtneyChristinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-45903351685230644772014-06-11T20:51:00.000-03:002014-06-11T20:51:16.073-03:00Storytime with AndrewThis past week, I have learned two valuable life lessons. Not so major that Oprah can make a Master Class out of it, but apparently signficant enough to write a blog post. <br />
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First lesson: if you're lactose intolerant, do NOT EAT A BOWL OF ICE CREAM. Seriously, just don't. No matter how good it taste, it <u>will</u> still give you stomachaches and nausea for three days straight. The fact that it tastes delicious does not magically remove the lactose from it. <br />
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This bad decision led to the discovery of my second life lesson: don't let Andrew tell fairtales to little children. He will confuse and scar them. Case in point, this is the bedtime story Andrew made up for me when I was feeling sick:<br />
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<em>Once upon a time, there was a fair princess who was sometimes a bitch, and an ogre.</em></blockquote>
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So basically he's telling a story about Shrek. </blockquote>
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<em>The ogre loved the bitch...I mean, the fair princess, so much that every night, Shrek would-this go to her castle and peer through her window.</em></blockquote>
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A really perveted Shrek.</blockquote>
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<em>Then one day, the fair princess saw the ogre peer through her window and was surprised to find that he was tiny. Not a big, angry, brain-smashing hungry ogre, but just a wee little man.</em></blockquote>
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Sidenote: If you type "Shrek" into Google, the first thing that it suggests is "Shrek is love Shrek is life". Don't click on it unless you want this face to haunt your dreams for the rest of your life. The pun "It's all ogre now" will have an entirely difference meaning afterwards.</blockquote>
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-74448876039158549712014-06-05T10:35:00.000-03:002014-06-05T10:35:25.001-03:00I Love YouThis is a love story. It's kinda similar to <em>The Notebook</em>, only involving booze and heaving. <br />
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This all happened at a friend's camping party, months after I had a <a href="http://crazywithasideofvanilla.blogspot.com/2011/11/this-moment-is-brought-to-you-by-dental.html" target="_blank">bug in my teeth</a>. It took place in a backyard where everyone could get hammered, constantly fall in the ground's natural potholes and go pee in the woods. We had Christmas lights decorating the laundry line and patio, a bunch of tents and a boombox playing dance music. It was obviously a black-tie kind of affair.<br />
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Andrew and I had been dating (which for us, was mostly composed of four wheeling and making out) for a while, but we were still in the phase where I wanted to impress him. And so how did I attempt to astound him? By downing half of a quart of "French Kiss", a vanilla liqueur, in thirty minutes. (Yes, I now know that being drunk is not actually impressive.) I thought it wasn't a big deal, since I had done it before. It was only later that I remembered that the first time I drank half a bottle of Kiss, it took the entire night to do so, rather than half an hour.<br />
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Result? Me, in my tent, laying in the fetal position, as the Earth spun <em>a lot</em> faster than it usually did. I had never felt so nauseous, dizzy and disgusting. I hadn't told anyone I was in the tent, but after a while, Andrew came looking for me. He entered the tent with a goofy smile on his face, probably thinking he was going to get some action or something. He was <em>so</em> wrong. <br />
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Andrew ended up holding me and rubbing my back for hours as I cried like a little baby. He tried to tell me stories to take my mind off of my misery, but trying to ignore the feeling that your insides are playing Twister can be difficult. <br />
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And then he said it, those three magical words.<br />
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"I love you". <br />
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Even in my haze of torture, I thought to myself "He has to be joking. I am the most revolting mess right now.". What I said outloud was "Now is not the time, Andrew." But after convincing me he was completely serious, I said it back. I then lunged my upper body out of the tent to heave on the grass.<br />
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I do want to state that though there was heaving, there was no actual vomiting. And for that, I am proud. <br />
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Fact: I have never actually vomited due to drinking. I like to add that to my list of accomplishments. I may have gotten so drunk that I hid under a table during a party, eating popcorn with nacho cheese (which is <em>amazing</em>), I may have also been so inebriated that I thought I was so ghetto that I challenged my Black friend to a dance-off (which I thought I won, but later came to realize that there was no dance-off, since I was just dancing by myself), but never have I puked. Take <em>that</em>, sorority girls! </blockquote>
The next morning, I felt bad, but it was nothing that a Tim Horton's Breakfast Sandwich couldn't cure (seriosuly, a Tim's Breakfast Sandwich is THE best cure for a hangover.) When asked why the hell he had picked that time to declare his love, he responded with "When I realized that I was willing to hold your hair back if you puked, I realized that I love you." <br />
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While not conventionally romantic, that sentence fits him and our relationship to the T, and I love it.Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-86622495102501887792013-10-21T09:00:00.000-03:002013-10-21T09:00:00.862-03:00My French Family Reunion<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Towards the end of the summer, Andrew, my parents and I went up North of the province to go to my mother's family reunion. It only happens every four years, so it's exciting when it finally comes around: we get to pay tribute to the members of our family that have passed on (by choosing one person from each family branch to fight the others to the death. But we're trying to change that). We also like to celebrate all the recent weddings, births, and knocking ups, as it means our plan of world domination can expand. We do all of this celebrating by partying all day and night. <br />
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As much as I roll my eyes as Andrew's love for camo and hunting, the French-Canadians of Northern New-Brunswick are basically rednecks: predominantly white, rural, working class people with lots of bad tattoos who listen to French country music (yes, that exists), go to church and love the beer. My family has many of those characteristics and they're awesome. </div>
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Since Andrew and my French family were so similar, I thought they would get along great (most of them are bilingual, so Andrew wouldn't have to use his French to communicate. Which is good, because all he knows are "How are you?", "You're a fat cow" and some animal names). To help Andrew better integrate into my family, I decided that I should include an interesting (albeit false) fact about him whenever I introduced him. <br />
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I came up with a quite a few. They include: <br />
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Hi, this is my boyfriend Andrew... he has a glass eye.</div>
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...He once made out with a drag queen. He had no idea it was a man.<br />
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He didn't appreciate my efforts at all. He still had a pretty good time without the use of my master plan, although he was most likely referred to as "the boyfriend of the crazy chick wearing a porcupine hat."</div>
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-45624872964105666232013-10-14T12:35:00.000-03:002013-10-14T12:35:31.671-03:00Sky - She Likes to Prove me Wrong (Video)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
After I taught Sky to speak, I made a video to show off her extreme intelligence to friends and family. It failed. </div>
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Also, in case you're wondering why I'm threatening my puppy with a closed fist, we teach the dogs using both verbal and non-verbal commands. "Speak" command includes a power fist. It helps her self-esteem.Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-87768988868417080982013-10-10T15:31:00.000-03:002013-10-10T15:31:00.048-03:00Needles Should NEVER be Repeatedly Driven into This Area of the Body
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WHY IS THIS A THING? AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS NEVER HEARD OF THIS?! DO NIPPLES REALLY HAVE TO BE ENHANCED? CAN'T THEY BE LEFT AS MOTHER NATURE INTENDED THEM TO BE? They're so sensitive! WHY INFLICT PAIN UPON THEM?!?</div>
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And WHY is there a Breast Cancer Ribbon? I totally get if a woman had Breast Cancer and needed a mastectomy or reconstruction, she would pehaps want to recreate that aspect of her gazongas, but then how does that work with the "enhance your natural beauty"? Does the average person feel the need to make their nipples stand out even more? Is it the new vajazzle or something?</div>
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Maybe since I've <a href="http://crazywithasideofvanilla.blogspot.ca/2013/10/life-update-2-moving-on-up-but-not-to.html" target="_blank">moved into the sticks</a>, I'm way out of the loop. Please let me know if I've missed out on the introduction of other fads. </div>
Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-30349112602471787732013-10-01T13:45:00.000-03:002013-10-01T13:45:44.195-03:00Life Update #2: Moving On Up (but Not to the East Side)<div style="text-align: center;">
OMG HI, I'M STILL ALIVE, I'VE JUST BEEN RIDICULOUSLY BUSY! WHY?</div>
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BECAUSE WE BOUGHT A HOUSE THIS SUMMER!</div>
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Yep, we are now the proud owners of a home that not only has a foundation, <em>but also has a basement</em>. (Woah, we're living big!) Not being able to ever truly part from Andrew's parents (who lived one kilometer away from our minihome), we just moved further down the same road. Past the point where the road stops being paved.</div>
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That's right, we've increased our <a href="http://crazywithasideofvanilla.blogspot.ca/2013/02/20-ways-to-know-if-you-live-in-hick.html" target="_blank">Hickness</a> by living on a shitty dirt road. Though there are plenty of reasons that sucks, I like to look for the rainbow that follows the rain. I'm fucking optimistic y'all. </div>
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Con: Lord knows how the hell my <a href="http://crazywithasideofvanilla.blogspot.ca/2012/09/life-update-coughing-cars-losing-teeth.html" target="_blank">little car Knuckles</a> is going to drive in the middle of a blizzard on an unplowed dirt road.</blockquote>
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Pro: If ever I take Ecstasy, I can trip out naked in the backyard without worrying about people seing me talk to the flowers. Although I'm pretty sure that if I was on Ecstasy, I wouldn't give a crap. </blockquote>
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Con: This isolation also means that there would be no one around to save me if I was being attacked by a serial killer. Or a clown. </blockquote>
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Con: Because of these lovely apple-buffets, we get visited more often by skunks and racoons. And as much as I feel like a Disney Princess, Andrew keeps stressing that if approached and sung to, <em>they will attack</em>.</blockquote>
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Pro: Since we're surrounded by woods, Andrew is constantly out scouting and hunting. Which means he can't always be around when I try to sing to the woodland creatures. <em>There's still a possibility of communicating with them.</em> </div>
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So while I'm waiting for wildlife to appear in my front yard, I'm painting and unpacking boxes and getting our house ready for a House-warming Party I'm pretty sure is never going to happen <em>cause the house is never going to be fully unpacked</em>. But I'm really trying to fit in time to blog, I swear!<br />
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P.S. The previous owners of the house were absolutely nuts (think paranoid and immature with their use of permanent marker in our home) so I will have a few stories relating to when we first moved in.</div>
Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-78933475538169491782013-08-15T16:09:00.000-03:002013-08-15T22:17:50.835-03:00Major Life Update: Powerpoints ARE Effective.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Remember when I sat Andrew down and gave him a full powerpoint presentation describing how <a href="http://crazywithasideofvanilla.blogspot.ca/2012/03/why-two-dogs-are-better-than-one-or.html" target="_blank">two dogs are better than one</a>? And once completed, he was like "God, they need to give you more work at the office to keep you busy." And I was like "THAT WASN'T THE POINT OF THE PRESENTATION ANDREW!" and he was all "I get it. You really want another dog. I want one too." And I was like "REALLY?!?! WE CAN GET ONE?!?!" And he said "Yes. ...But not now. In a few years maybe." And then I stomped my foot and accused him of ruining my 5-year plan?</div>
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Just look at it. <br />
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Her name is Sky and she's now 6 months old. She's from the Carribean island of Anguilla, which means that she's frolicked on nicer beaches than I ever have. She was rescued by Rosie, a New-Brunswicker studying on the island who saw all the stray and neglected dogs and decided to make a difference for as many pups as she can. </div>
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She then started the Fly-a-Pup program, where people visiting Anguilla bring puppies back North America with them as luggage to be adopted here. Which is how little Sky, the runt of her litter, came into our lives. </div>
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When Andrew finally aggreed that we could get a second dog, I quickly discovered that Andrew was only interested in pups that looked like Lucy. I think he beleived that if Lucy = good, therefore Dog-that-looks-like-Lucy = good too.</div>
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We had also decided that our next dog would be called Sky, keeping with our Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds theme.<br />
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So when Fly-a-Pup posted a picture of this little girl, a Lucy-lookalike and already named Sky, and said that she would be flying to New Brunswick at the end of April, I pretty much exploded in awe of how fucking serendipitous this was. </div>
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I met her at our local shelter, applied to adopt her the same day, had Lucy (and Andrew) meet her the next day to see that they were compatible and took her home. Although Andrew was taken aback that we were bringing her home so fast, he fell in love with that little face before he could say no.</div>
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Of course, because she's part of our family, she's obviously crazy/weird, so rest assured there will be Sky-related pictures and videos on this blog in the future. </div>
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P.S. When I joked that we needed to finish Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds with a third dog called Diamond, he gave me a look that suggested "Don't push your Luck"/murder. I then told him that we could skip the dog, and he could just buy me a diamond ring instead. Bam. We both win. </div>
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P.P.S. If you're interested in <a href="http://www.gofundme.com/flyanguillanpups" target="_blank">donating money</a> to Fly-a-Pup or want your own little Anguillan pup, you can reach Rosie on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/#!/flyanguillanpups" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or Twitter @PupFly. </div>
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-38972139426782969912013-08-12T16:07:00.001-03:002013-08-12T16:07:44.608-03:00I Work with Crazy People. And I Feel Totally at Home.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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I guess I never mentioned it, but I got promoted back in October. ...Oops. I'd like to say I didn't mention it because the promotion came with a huge raise and I've been busy traveling the world in my private jet and taking care of my pet giraffe. But I would be lying in your face...screen. I just have a horrible memory and forgot about this post. Sometimes I'm amazed I remember to feed myself.
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But seriously, I want a pet giraffe. Someone make that happen for me. <br />
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Anyways, instead of being a Administrative Assistant, I'm now a <em>Coordinator</em>. I work for a company that does environmental assessments (we check proposed business and building projects to see if they'll negatively affect the environment), and my job is to make sure the projects and responses are all correctly catalogued and kept up to date. <br />
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I'm just a fancier secretary. <br />
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Next to my fancy-secretary desk, there is a whiteboard with the the status of every employee (in office, out sick, at a meeting, etc). This would usually be a pretty ordinary aspect of work, except for the fact that ours includes a completely fictional, nonexistant person. <br />
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We have Jack Longquest. <br />
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"Jack" appeared on our status board back in November, but is always out of the office due to some excuse or another. Having never met Jack, I like to think that he looks like Indiana Jones - College Professor Edition. He enjoys canoeing and has an unfortunate propensity to pose like a superhero when talking to you. He's a lifelong bachelor, makes his own beer and hates the sound of crinkling aluminium paper. <br />
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As weird as it might be that I've completely made up a history and description for him, please remember that<em> I'm not the one who created an imaginary coworker</em>. Not only does he remain on the status board after 10 months, his status still receives regular updates. Reasons why Jack isn't in the office include:
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<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Abducted by Aliens</li>
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My coworkers who update the status board also send emails on Jack's behalf:<br />
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I like working here.<br />
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-6681529113206685392013-08-09T12:55:00.000-03:002013-08-09T12:55:20.813-03:00Instagram Quickie - Recreating-Moments-with-Nature Edition<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">
Sometimes, I send Andrew text photos from work in which I pretend to be a deer chewing on a leaf.</div>
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Unfortunately for Andrew, these kind of texts are pretty common. </div>
Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-63556175656599051772013-08-06T22:07:00.000-03:002013-08-06T22:07:25.274-03:00A POST! A POST!<div style="text-align: center;">
Hello World!</div>
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The Gods of Creative Humor Writing are still being jerks, wagging their fingers at me, being all like "Nuh uh girlfriend, you are NOT publishing a post! You need to focus on eating Nutella straight out of the jar and taking a ridiculous amount of instagram photos of your pets". </div>
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But now I'm all "I DON'T HAVE TO LISTEN TO YOU ANYMORE! I'VE BEEN GIVEN A MAGICAL SPEAR OF CREATIVITY BY THE UNICORN KING OF SOCIAL MEDIA. STOP ME NOW, BITCHES!"</div>
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That's right, I'm fighting back, mothafuckas. </div>
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Now that I'm back on the blogging wagon, I have some MAJOR catching up to do. Since my last post, I've had a few major changes happen in my life. (Spoiler: these changes do <u>not</u> include an engagement.) And rather than blurt it all out now, I think I'll divulge the updates one post at a time.</div>
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Suspense, y'all. I like to keep you coming back for more.</div>
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In the meantime, here's a mini post proving that not only is Andrew the Hick still around, he's mastered the art of dad jokes and improv.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Andrew's shirt says "I love animals... they're delicious." <br />
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A few nights ago, Andrew had the glorious idea to have a cup of coffee an hour before bedtime. Giving a cup of coffee to a man with ADHD like Andrew is like giving a cup of coffee to a 5-year-old with ADHD. <br />
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The result of this combination was both of us laying in bed, him spouting off non-stop horrible jokes and me trying desperately to drown them out. What's worse, when he ran out of horrible jokes, he started to invent ones. This one was the cream of the crop:</div>
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- What did the turtle say when he went into the sea urchin?</blockquote>
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"Damn, you spiked...DA PUNCH!"</div>
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Seriously. That was the punch line.<br />
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So hopefully the fight against evil procrastination and writer's block continues, and another post will be up soon.</div>
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-73467890062215402312013-04-21T10:09:00.001-03:002013-04-21T10:09:16.730-03:00Andrew is an Austrian Bodybuilder/Popstar. Andrew is singing Scream and Shout by Will.i.am and Britney Spears to Lucy. In the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger. <br />
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-59139442878385944292013-03-27T14:41:00.003-03:002013-03-27T14:41:55.580-03:00Dancing in Winter Camo Gear is Tougher than I ThoughtAlthough Andrew sleep-talks all the time, he sometimes quietly dreams that I do horrible things to him. Upon awaking, he then decides that he's still mad at me, and refuses to talk to me until he is happier (ie. fed). I always thought he was being absolutely ridiculous, until it happened to me last night. <br />
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Me: You were a disgusting asshole jerk face in my dream, so I'm having a hard time reminding myself that it wasn't really you<br />
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Me: So much douchery. You essentially blatantly cheated on me and didn't care and wouldn't help me with anything. I had to do an exam at the university and halfway there you saw the Spice Girls walking by and you pulled over and offered to help them instead<br />
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Me: And you were flirting with them right in front of me. So I had to walk all the way to the university. And I didn't know the way so I was walking in circles. And I was panicking because I was going to be late. And you kept my laptop because Baby Spice wanted it so I had nothing to take notes with.<br />
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Me: And I got to the university and it was Hogwarts looking and I decided to try and sleep with someone to get revenge on you. But no one wanted to because I was dressed in school clothes and couldn't buy myself a drink. And then I found out that you showed Ginger Spice the video of me dancing in your camo suit. Which was the ultimate betrayal. </div>
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<em><em><em>After I found out he recorded my dancing, I made him promise he would </em>never<em> show anyone without my permission. </em>Especially <em>not to Ginger Spice. </em></em></em></div>
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<em><em><em>(I was dancing to "Moves Like Jagger", because </em>obviously<em>.</em> Look at this this still<em>. I'm an amazing dancer.)</em></em></em></div>
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Me: So I decided to change my Facebook status to single to make a point. But I didn't have my phone or laptop so I couldn't. It was very stressful and upsetting.</div>
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Although I will never be able to look at the Spice Girls the same. </div>
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Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-69116815187514397972013-03-15T21:35:00.001-03:002013-03-15T21:35:33.056-03:00Canadian Feature Friday: Making Canadian Crack - Maple Syrup Season<div style="border: currentColor; clear: both; text-align: left;">
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As of this season, I can now confidently write about harvesting maple sap and creating syrup, because of the combined facts that: 1) Andrew is continuing his family's Canadian Hick legacy by helping out at his dad's sugar camp, and 2) he now realizes that I can be put to work. <br />
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And so since this is all that is currently happening in my life, this is what you bitches get to read about. </div>
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Sidenote: I'm like the kid that pulls your ponytail because I like you. Bitches is purely a term of endearment. </div>
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<br />And so, in case you think that you can start your own maple syrup collection, here is a non-scientifically-written step-by-step. </div>
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1. Make sure you live somewhere where the temperature goes below freezing at night and above freezing in the daytime. Sap only runs in these conditions because it is a total diva.</blockquote>
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2. Find a shitload of maple trees.</blockquote>
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3. Drill a hole into the tree, insert spile and hang bucket underneath it.<br />
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5. Everyday, drag your ass to those trees and dump all of the sap into a manmade tank attached to a four-wheeler with tank tracks instead of wheels - cause you're a badass. </blockquote>
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10. Make pancakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and spread syrup over them like it's the only thing that keeps your heart pumping. </blockquote>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lucy has no reason to be included in this post<br />
other than the fact that she's gorgeous.</td></tr>
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Bam! You're now a Canadian. You're welcome for the access to stronger beer.Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-56563361482134468282013-03-14T16:23:00.000-03:002013-03-14T16:23:17.922-03:00The Gods of Creative Humor Writing have Gone on Vacation. Probably to Hawaii, or somewhere else where women dance around in grass skirts - I feel like the Writing Gods are probably perverts. <br />
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Anyways, they've been total jerks and left me behind, so I've had to deal with a major case of writer's block. <br />
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Hopefully they come back soon, but in the meantime, I'm just letting you all know that I'm doing great. In my case, lack of writing does not equal a mental breakdown, sudden drug addiction or secret Russian Mafia kidnapping.<br />
<br />
Andrew and I have been busy helping out his dad to make maple syrup. Since that's the only interesting thing going on in my life right now, I'll try to post some pictures of the process. I'm thinking that because not everyone is Canadian, or hick, some of you might have absolutely no idea what entails in making the magical syrup. IT'S MAGIC Y'ALL!<br />
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HOLY SHIT, MAPLE SYRUP PHOTOS WILL BE TOMORROW'S CANADIAN FEATURE FRIDAY! (My genius astounds me.)<br />
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Okay, no more caps. <br />
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I'M TOTALLY KIDDING! THE CAPS NEVER END!Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-14909891561999497872013-02-15T17:38:00.000-04:002013-02-15T17:38:42.221-04:00Sometimes, I Like to Give Andrew Gentle Reminders<br />
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The effort put in shows how much I love him.</div>
Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-84238663381179929652013-02-13T17:28:00.000-04:002013-02-13T17:28:00.122-04:00This is What Andrew is Getting for Valentine's Day. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It shows how much effort I put into our relationship.</td></tr>
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In case you can't read my tiny writing:<br />
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Baboon-face Me: Hey! Why did we switch computers? </blockquote>
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90s-dressed Andrew: Cause I'm loading hunting pics. LOL!</blockquote>
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Sidenote: Andrew constantly steals my laptop because his little tablet won't take USB keys or SD cards, so he has to download his pictures from his hunting camera and post them on hunting websites from my computer. </blockquote>
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Note to Others: If you find a mysterious folder on your computer with the words "skinning", "processing", or "hunt video" in the title, <em><u>do not open the folder</u></em>. It will lead to reactions like "OMG CLOSE THE SCREEN! CLOSE THE SCREEN!" and " I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO ERASE THIS FROM MY MEMORY".<br />
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Hope everyone has a wonderful Valentine's Day tomorrow!</center>
Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-83665662212100691742013-02-09T13:34:00.000-04:002013-02-09T18:19:20.791-04:0020 Ways to Know if You Live in a Hick Household (I Thought I was Pretty Good at Keeping an Un-Hick Home. I was Wrong.)Holy shit, I've been gone for a year! Okay, not really, but it feels like forever since I've written a post. I'd give you all a good excuse, but the truth is that the only reason I haven't written is because I didn't feel like it. Well, that, and the fact that life's been boring as hell.<br />
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Anyways, to make up for my longer-than-usual absense, here is a longer-than-usual post. With lots of pictures for people who don't like words. Although if you don't like words, I have no idea why you come to my blog. Weirdo.<br />
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While looking for hick sterotypes, I came across <a href="http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/archive/t-241560-p-3.html" target="_blank">this list</a>. Though it was posted in a chat room (and so is about as credible as my knowledge of llama mating practices), I decided to see how many of these items applied to our household. <br />
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I then found out how far I've fallen down the rabbit hunting hole. <br />
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Disclaimer: We do not hunt rabbits. Except for Lucy. She's a bitch.</blockquote>
Without further ado, here is the list, and how we score on it. <br />
<ol>
<li><em>"Couch that folds out into a bed. Common among whiteys in general, but in hick homes it's a staple thing..."</em></li>
<ul>
<li>Okay, if this person used the term whitey, I'm gonna go ahead and assume that they're a non-whitey. And because I've never seen, let alone heard of an African, Hispanic, Asian, Middle-Eastern or Native hick, I'm also gonna assume that this person is an outsider looking in at hicks, and can therefore give a fairly accurate portrayal of what non-hicks consider to be hick-ish. </li>
<li>That being said, we don't have a futon. </li>
<ul>
<li><strong>A "Normal" household: 1, A Hick Household: 0.</strong> </li>
</ul>
<li>Sidenote: When we stay over at my parents' house, we have two options: the spare bedroom upstairs, which contains our old double bed and furniture, and my grand-mother's old pull-out couch from the 70's in the basement's entertainment room. Guess which one Andrew picks, every single time? Yeah, that's right: the damn 40+ year old pull-out couch. </li>
<ul>
<li>Sidesidenote: We've called dibs on Andrew's parent's old futon. </li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"axe"</em></li>
<ul>
<li>We don't have an axe either! Well, technically we don't have an axe because Andrew's dad has a mechanical woodsplitter.. </li>
<ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 1.5 Hick: 0.</strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"rifle - .306 (thirty-aught-six) for deer hunting, unless you hunt with shotgun slugs...but ****, you should really have both for the full hick experience."</em></li>
<ul>
<li>Fuck. While Andrew doesn't have a .306, he does have a rifle and seven shotguns. Yes, I'm completely serious</li>
<ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 1.5 Hick: 1</strong></li>
<li>On a related note, you are welcome to join us in the event of a zombie apocalypse. Providing you have beneficial skills and resources. Like medical knowledge. Or a herd of alpacas.</li>
<ul>
<li>Yes, we have a zombie apocalypse plan. It never hurts to be prepared.</li>
<ul>
<li><em>Shut up.</em></li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"pick up truck - american-made, of course...jeeps are semi-respectable too, but not nearly as much as a pick-up."</em></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Picture from a mudding expedition. Cause, obviously.</td></tr>
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<ul>
<li>Double fuck.</li>
<ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 1.5 Hick: 2</strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"every type of essential camping and fishing item known to man."</em> </li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Camo. On our anniversary. </td></tr>
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<li><strong>Normal: 1.5 Hick: 3</strong></li>
</ul>
<li>On our first anniversary, I bought Andrew a camping grill. His response was "Wow, thanks! ...So, was I supposed to get you something too?"</li>
<li>Every anniversary since then, we've celebrated by having a picnic in the back of Andrew's pick-up truck, camping grill included.</li>
</ul>
<li><em>"barbed-wire fence marking the exact boundaries of your property line"</em></li>
<ul>
<li>A barbed-wire fence shall only appear in the event of a zombie apocalypse. </li>
</ul>
<ul><ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 2.5 Hick: 3</strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"chaw/chew... and - with real old hicks - a spitoon."</em></li>
<ul>
<li><em>Oh God</em>. If a spitoon ever appeared, I would leave him in 2 seconds flat. </li>
<ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 3.5 Hick: 3</strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"at least one mounted taxidermy piece - preferably a deer with 8+ point antler configuration"</em></li>
<ul>
<li>Okay, so here's the thing. Before we ever moved in together, I tricked Andrew into promising to never bring any sort of stuffed animal into our future households. I have never regretted that bit of trickery. </li>
<ul>
<li>That being said, we do have antlers hanging on the wall in Andrew's man-cave. <em>There's just no bone or fur attached to it</em>.</li>
<li>....And there's going to be a coyote pelt hanging in our shed (aka, man-cave number 2). </li>
<li><strong>Normal: 3.5 Hick: 4</strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"septic tank"</em></li>
<ul>
<li>What the hell does that have to do with being a hick? That just means we live outside of town.</li>
<ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 3.5 Hick: 5</strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"gas generator"</em></li>
<ul>
<li>We're saving up for one. So I'm gonna count it as one point for normalcy.</li>
<ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 4.5 Hick: 5</strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"wood-panelling in every inch of your home"</em></li>
<ul>
<li>Ha! </li>
</ul>
<ol><ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 5.5 Hick: 5</strong></li>
</ul>
</ol>
<li><em>"mangy pet, usually a dog - hicks tend to drown their cats"</em></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our "mangy" dog. Fuck you, list-maker. She' a superstar.</td></tr>
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</ul>
<li>And most hicks that I know don't drown their cats<em>, thank you very much!</em></li>
<ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 5.5 Hick: 6</strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"smoker for fish and deer jerky"</em></li>
<ul>
<li>We don't have one. Unfortunatey, that's the type of item that will be on our wedding registry when <em>Andrew finally puts a ring on it</em>.</li>
<ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 6.5 Hick: 6</strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li>"stilt-house/single-level house...but no subterranean, dug-in basement other than a coal den...and often just a trailer-home"</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Well, this is getting kind of awkward...</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<ul><ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 6.5 Hick: 7</strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"clothes-line"</em></li>
<ul>
<li>Got that.</li>
</ul>
<ul><ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 6.5 Hickness: 8<em></em></strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"road-side mailbox"</em></li>
<ul>
<li>Nope. There's so few people in our area that no one bothers to come out here to bring flyers. </li>
<ul>
<li>Except for the Jehovah Witnesses. You guys are determined as hell to spread the word.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul><ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 7.5 Hickness: 8</strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"way out of tune, piece of **** spinet piano"</em></li>
<ul>
<li>This one is definitely my fault. I've always wanted a real piano, so when my childhood friend was selling his and asked if I wanted to buy it, I was all "FUCK YEAH I WANT A FUCKING PIANO!" </li>
<ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 7.5 Hickness: 9</strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"beer-can collection"</em></li>
<ul>
<li>This one is definitely <em>not</em> my fault .</li>
</ul>
<ul><ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 7.5 Hickness: 10</strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"dirtbike"</em></li>
<ul>
<li>Andrew sold his sporty four-wheeler (which is just a dirtbike with two extra wheels, cause MORE WHEELS IS SO MUCH COOLER) after he impressed me enough that I slept with him. </li>
<ul>
<li>So since he sold it, I'm not gonna count it. Because I'm already losing hard enough as it is. </li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul><ul>
<li><strong>Normal: 7.5 Hickness: 11</strong></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><em>"1/2 mesh baseball cap"</em></li>
<ul>
<li>I don't let Andrew wear those anymore. However, that doesn't mean he has million of them.</li>
<li>Honestly, he has two bags full of hats in our closet, plus a bag left at his parents, plus a bunch in our mud room, plus these "favourite" hats that he leaves on the top of the couch.</li>
</ul>
</ol>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The favourites.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
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<strong></strong><strong>Total Score:</strong><br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<strong>Normal: 7.5 </strong></blockquote>
</div>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
<strong><u>Hickness: 12</u></strong></blockquote>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I might as well start learning to play the banjo and include camo in my attire. </div>
Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-11288997451001469642013-01-31T19:37:00.000-04:002013-01-31T19:37:01.634-04:00Is That a Fish in your Pocket, or are you Just Happy to See me?<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Andrew, while preparing our fish & chips supper:<em> How many fish dicks do you want?</em></blockquote>
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No thank you, Andrew.Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-35073021387551135602013-01-29T16:04:00.000-04:002013-01-29T16:05:45.714-04:00Dear Andrew: This is what Happens when you Convince me to Trade in our Blackberries for iPhones.You end up with this ridiculous shit, just cause I can. <br />
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P.S. Pudding is also an alcoholic. Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-82669564847841610652013-01-27T18:57:00.000-04:002013-01-27T18:57:02.997-04:00This is Me Trying to Finish any of my Blog Posts.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-90687245142644416212013-01-22T11:23:00.000-04:002013-01-22T19:15:18.121-04:008 Things You Will Deal With While Working at a Summer Camp<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Let me just start by saying that I love kids. My totally unattainable goal is for Andrew and I to become become Brangelina 2.0 and adopt/give birth to a bazillion kids and have a rainbow of adorable kids. That would be the total bombizzle (word, homie). Not only would I love them and teach them to be awesome, but I would also use them as free labour on my future hobby farm (chickens, goats and horses included). <br />
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But other people's kids can sometimes bring out a different reaction out of me...<br />
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Camp Counselors, or anyone else that has to deal with someone else's kid for more than 6 hours, should be given a raise. Cause kids are nasty. After some of the events I went through during my summers running camps, it's a complete miracle that I haven't sterelized myself.<br />
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<li>You will quickly learn that kids under the age of 10 do not understand sarcasm. At all. While in the craft room, a child once asked me if I had a bowl. I naturally replied "Of course I do! I always carry one in my back pocket in case of an emergency!" She stood there expectantly, waiting for me to pull out a giant mixing bowl out of my Mary Poppins jean pocket. Sarcasm was never again used on a child. </li>
<li>And it's not just the kids: you will inevitably have that one mom that brings her kid in with an entire lunchbox of over-the-counter and prescription medication. This kid takes so many drugs in a day that they put your local stoner to shame.</li>
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<li>No matter how much flat ginger ale and quiet relaxing time you give them, the chances are, you will eventually get a kid that throws up. And chances are also that it will be a projectile vomit. All over the other kids' shoes and backpacks. </li>
<li>You will get a child called Jessica who <em>demands</em> to be called Madison Butterfly Butterfly. </li>
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<li style="border: currentColor;">You will have to wipe blood off of random surfaces, because kids either: a) panic when they get hurt and run around, dripping the stuff everywhere, b) don't notice that their arm/leg/nose is gushing blood, or c) they don't give a damn. </li>
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<li>You will have to chase down a misbehaving child in a bouncy structure. No matter your size, wit and strength, they will make you look like a drunk panda. </li>
<li>When the kids get picked up, you'll be talking to an older father in a business suit and realize he's giving you elevator eyes and hitting on you right in front of his kids. </li>
<li>And finally, I hope this will never happen to you, ever. But maybe, just maybe, if you have any of my luck, you'll be feeding the kids their lunch when a little boy will walk up to you and whisper in your ear "<em>I think someone pooped in the sink</em>." And no matter <em>how hard</em> you pray that this kid is just an extremely creative liar, lo and behold, <u>there is actual <em>shit</em> in the sink</u>. </li>
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Now please give me your own horrible/gross experiences working with kids that will make me feel better about mine. Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-23003002637859489332013-01-19T19:26:00.000-04:002013-01-19T19:26:00.101-04:00This is Why We Don't Own Nice Things<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
After paying more than $2 on a gift bag for my niece's present, I took a picture of it to show it off to my mother. It wasn't until after I sent it that I noticed a little gnawing going on.</div>
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Thank God kids care more about what's inside the bag than the actual bag itself.Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-35737052994636674502013-01-15T21:29:00.000-04:002013-01-15T21:33:24.089-04:00Our Wars III: Revenge of the HickSee what I did there? I'M SO CLEVER!<br />
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You know that time <a href="http://crazywithasideofvanilla.blogspot.ca/2012/01/andrew-hates-me-because-i-am-good-shot.html" target="_blank">I accidentally shot Andrew in the face with an elastic</a>? Well, I don't have to feel guilty about it anymore. <br />
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By the time I was done paying, Andrew was already back in the car and ready to go. So I walked up to the passenger side, started to open the door, and got sprayed in the face with windsheild wiper fluid. <br />
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With fucking windshield wiper fluid.<br />
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It's like time slowed down as I stood there in complete shock: the wiper blades going back and forth, my face and coat getting drenched, the look on Andrew's face as an unending stream of "I'msorry!I'msorry!I'msorry" poured out of his mouth.<br />
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We rode home in silence; Andrew knew better than to try to play country music on the radio in a time like this.Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1608967034007443268.post-57269981924897592972013-01-09T22:40:00.000-04:002013-01-09T22:40:23.245-04:00Where do you Bring a Hick for his Birthday?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For all you non-Canadians (aka, 90% of you readers), Montana's is a mountain lodge-themed restaurant. Half of the menu is solely dedicated to red meat, and the "mascots" are a taxidermied moose and deer. They also serve "man mugs", which hold three cans' worth of beer in them.</div>
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We began the night wearing paper antlers (the hick version of paper crowns). However, as soon as Andrew saw me wearing a full rack of antlers, he ripped it off my head in disgust, shouted " <em>a doe doesn't have antlers</em>!" and tore off the top of my antlers. He then gingerly placed the modified hick-crown back on my head and continued on as if nothing happened.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Apparently this is a deer mating ritual.... I'm flattered, I guess?</td></tr>
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After eating a main course primaily composed of animal parts (which cost more than my appetizer, main course and dessert<em> combined</em>), the staff sang him a song, gave him a complimentary dessert and placed <em>this</em> on his head.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Behold, Andrew the Steak Sauce Stealer, the cheapest Viking in the land!</td></tr>
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However, once he found out that there was another headgear option that better suited his fashion sense, he had his helmet replaced by this one:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes, because when being asked to pose while sporting a moose rack, it is <br />
best to look pensive. A+ for that rationale, Andrew.</td></tr>
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He spent the rest of the night proudly sporting the ginormous moose rack, whilst I attempted to finish my dessert without getting knocked unconscious every time he swiveled his head.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I actually had to duck under to be anywhere near him.</td></tr>
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<strong>Happy Birthday Andrew!</strong></div>
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I'm sorry I didn't let you attempt to steal the moose rack helmet. (I'm not genuinely sorry. That was a stupid idea. How the hell would you have pulled it off?)Christinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15172256891512433621noreply@blogger.com1