Merry Christmas!! There. Might as well get that out of the way. You heard it here first!
This year, I really want outdoor Christmas lights in our trees. I have three tall pine trees on the lawn that need lights. Problem is, I have quite a large fear of heights. My husband Rob has no fear of heights whatsoever, but he’s knee deep in school assignments and exams and I don’t have the heart to ask him to do it. Which means, I need to get to the top of three 17 foot trees myself. I may just steal an idea I saw once in a neighbourhood in Orleans. Someone had put a 6 foot step-ladder on the front lawn and just draped the Christmas lights over it. By day,it looked like a ladder. But by night….it looked like a beautifully lit Christmas tree. If I don’t get over my fear of heights, I may just put the lights out on the ladder. And maybe I’ll throw some on the wheelbarrow too.
Dogs continue to amaze me. Anyone who has a dog knows how opportunistic they can be. I keep the dog food in a large 10 kg can in the spare room. With a lid on it. The other day I fed all three dogs then went on the computer for a while. The dogs were happily crunching away on their dinner. It takes my dogs about 4 minutes to eat their food! After about half an hour, I realized that one of my dogs, Hudson, was still crunching away. I checked in the spare room and there he was, eating as much food as possible from the big 10 kg can, with his food bowl still completely full. I had forgotten to put the lid back on the giant storage of dog food. Hudson had consumed about 4 dinners by the time I noticed what he was doing. And he had no intention of stopping. Would he have eaten all 10 kg of food if he could? The answer, I think, is a resounding ‘yes’.
Best. Bond. Ever. I went to the new James Bond movie, Casino Royale, and I think that Daniel Craig is unbelievable! Until now, it was always Sean Connery who won most critics’ polls as the best Bond. But I really believe that Daniel Craig should now hold that title. Casino Royale is a well-written movie, it’s filled with action but the best part of all, the unexpected bonus, is that Daniel Craig is a marvelous actor. Ottawa Citizen movie critic Jay Stone chuckled when I told him that Daniel Craig should be nominated for an Oscar for his acting performance. Come to think of it, so did everyone else. Oh yeah? You read it here first.
I’ve never been a soap opera fan, but I have been hooked on ‘Days of Our Lives’ this week. Why? Because the city of Ottawa has been part of the plot line! Here’s this week’s ‘Days of Our Lives’ Ottawa story-line, and I am not embellishing in any way: a woman by the name of Kayla was exposed to poison gas in a hospital, and the only doctor with the serum to save her life lives in Ottawa, BUT WAIT, there’s a huge blizzard in the lower provinces of Canada, so all commercial planes have been grounded, including all planes in Ottawa, which of course is located in the lower provinces of Canada. So a pilot named John volunteers to fly his private jet to Ottawa to get the serum to save Kayla’s life, snow storm or not!!! Away he goes, with his girlfriend Marlena along for the ride, flying through the blizzard until, ENGINE FAILURE!!! The plane is going down!!!! Marlena thinks that the plane will be OK if the load is lightened, so she JUMPS from the plane on the way to Ottawa, and lands on the snow somewhere near Ottawa!! A distraught John the pilot continues on, lands safely in Ottawa, and gets the serum! Meanwhile, his girlfriend Marlena is lost in the wilds of Ottawa!! Back home, Marlena’s daughter is horrified that her mother is missing! How can her mother survive the ‘THIRTY FEET OF SNOW and temperatures below zero’, she exclaims!! John the pilot flies back home with the serum, saves Kayla’s life, but still no sign of Marlena. As luck would have it, a man in a big parka stumbles across an unconscious Marlena in thirty feet of snow in the wilds around Ottawa, and takes her back to his cabin!! Marlena awakes, make-up and hair perfect! As luck would have it, the man in the parka is none other than ‘Smokey Robinson’! One of Marlena’s favourite singers! He gives her food, bandages up her sprained ankle (after all, she did jump from a plane) and then he sings a couple of songs! Saved by Smokey Robinson, who happens to have a cabin in the wild near Ottawa! Wow. ‘Days of Our Lives’ just became my favourite show of all time.
