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Just a thread to chat about stuff. Anything's on topic here. Politics, quilting, amateur astronomy, or Kessel's shot from the point, whatever's on your mind...

Any exciting plans for the weekend? Reading anything interesting?

I love the name of this thread, Ibis3 (and so glad you included the tearoom part!)

My exciting (more likely exhausting!) plans for the weekend include checking out possible wedding venues with our daughter and future SIL.

I've had very little time to read lately :( and have had to set aside my enjoyable Canadian book, The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke, for an overdue library book, This Body of Death by Elizabeth George.

I just think of it as an all-purpose establishment, depending on the mood, the weather, and the time of day. :)

I spent most of the day tuned into my iPod (listening to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo )and tuned out of everything else. I hardly noticed when the Leafs lost again...

Lucky Barb. American Gods is somewhere in the middle of Mt. TBR, so you'll have to let me know what you think of it.

Anyone going out for Halloween? If so, what are you dressing up as?

I'm boring. Staying home like any other weekend. My mother (who's 68) is dressing up as Lady Gaga and going out dancing.

LOL here too, Ibis! And I'm boring too - will be staying home to hand out the treats. Because our driveway is so long, we don't get too many kids on their own speeding around for the huge haul, mostly parents with young princesses like yours, Barb who I just love to see and the great galoots who are already shaving (who make me laugh with their deep-voiced "Trick or treat"s)

Weekend now worse than boring. Torture. I've got to go out and get new shoes. Don't get me wrong, I love new shoes as well as the next girl who loves new shoes. But my feet are wide and my instep is high. It's very, very difficult for me to find shoes that fit. Wish me luck...

Nice to see some women in the Hockey Hall of Fame. (But what took them so long??)

Oh, anyone else planning to go see The Tempest at the cinema?

Settling in for a weekend of hockey and hanging out with my brother. He's back from school for the holiday, and I wasn't here when he left. Should be a good one!

Kirsten wrote: "Settling in for a weekend of hockey and hanging out with my brother. He's back from school for the holiday, and I wasn't here when he left. Should be a good one!"

Sounds like fun. Let's see, who's on the sked....Toronto & Montreal, Chicago & Vancouver. Sweet.

Oh man, that Pat Burns tribute made me cry.

I have to say, I'm pulling the the Habs...

The tribute was really well done. I would say I hope he's at peace wherever he is, but I think he'd get bored if everything were too peaceful.

I'm unreasonably entertained by Scott Oake. I miss the days of him and Kelly Hrudey, though.

He seems to find something embarrassing to ask for every player as well as a picture. Either that or he gets a teammate or friend to ask a question. Hilarious. Terrible but hilarious. Toews is so serious, though, it's good for him to lighten up.

Even better are Scott Oake's tweets on Twitter. If you have Twitter, you should follow him.

The last I saw of Kelly Hrudey they were showing him film of several incidents involving very personal bits and hospital visits that ensued. He was an unpleasant shade of green.

Global warming my butt! I live in balmy Victoria and we are currently getting snow for the second time in three day. Well before many of my eastern relatives. It guess this means we truly are Canadian.

John wrote: "Global warming my butt! I live in balmy Victoria and we are currently getting snow for the second time in three day. Well before many of my eastern relatives. It guess this means we truly are Canad..."

Obviously, the weather gods did not want everyone to forget what winter is supposed to feel like in the Great White North.

The weather sucks in Minnesota too. Time to get my skis out.

Happy Thanksgiving to our southern neighbours!

Thank you! Happy Thursday to my wonderful northern neighbors :)

:( Leafs losing again. And to the Sens (booo!).

The Sens shouldn't exist.

They need a new topic for Hot Stove that doesn't include a Crosby/Ovechkin debate.

I think they should just ditch Mike Milbury. He's such a jerk.

That's an even better idea. I can't stand him.

Okay, so is anyone here doing anything for Grey Cup? Or is everyone like me and basically ignores the whole shebang?

Yeah...not so much a football fan. I leave that to the dudes in my life. They're more than happy to drink my share of the beer.

It looks like a snowy winter wonderland out there now. Much better than the rain we've been having.

Ibis3 wrote: "It looks like a snowy winter wonderland out there now. Much better than the rain we've been having."

Well here in Winnipeg we've already had 2/3 the snow we had all last winter, most of it in the last week. Because I have shoveled every day while the snow was still pristine (once in the morning before leaving for work and once when I get home), even though I had mountainous snow banks all around my yard, it did still look like a winter wonderland. I say "did" because it did until the arse from ACROSS the street plowed his driveway AND the street in front of us and deposited all the dirty, sand-filled ugly crap in MY yard. I swear, even if it takes me all winter, sneaking out in the dark of night, I'm going to put every single filthy lump of it back into HIS yard.

That's a serious party foul. Do you know anyone who owns a dump truck?

Haha! Actually, my assistant's beau does clear snow, so I was going to ask him to assist in my nefarious plan. However, I decided it would be more fun to use my toboggan and just truck over a couple of loads every night and deposit them in the guy's driveway. Just enough, so he'll have to clear it away to get out of his garage in the morning.

I may still do that, just for the satisfaction and to see him scratch his head in the morning. But it turns out that the city snow-clearing crew has either deliberately wreaked my revenge for me or they just saw that his side of the street was conveniently lacking in snow banks. Either way they've now plowed some pretty sizable dirty banks into his yard. Heh heh.

Ha. That's what he gets for being a jerk. The road grader drove by yesterday when I was just finishing up the mouth of the driveway and left a new snowbank. The driver even had the audacity to wave. I bet he sees a lot of angry mitten/shovel waving.

Has anyone gone to grad school in Canada? I'm considering it and wondering what your thoughts were on the topic. Many of my Canadian friends have weighed in, and almost all of them have told me to go within their home province, which I find amusing.

Kirsten wrote: "Has anyone gone to grad school in Canada? I'm considering it and wondering what your thoughts were on the topic. Many of my Canadian friends have weighed in, and almost all of them have told me t..."

I did my MA at UofT, but I'm not sure if any part of my own personal experience would be generally applicable since my program was kind of isolated from the main school. What are you planning to study?

My Bachelor's degree is in Environmental Science, and I would like to continue on that path. What exactly I will study is still up for debate.

Anyone else watching HNIC? Don Cherry's suit coat looks pretty bad this week based on the 3D previews they were showing. (Unless that isn't this week's, but either way, I'm pretty sure my statement stands)

Kirsten wrote: "Anyone else watching HNIC? Don Cherry's suit coat looks pretty bad this week based on the 3D previews they were showing. (Unless that isn't this week's, but either way, I'm pretty sure my statemen..."

I've been watching. He was wearing a white jacket with multicoloured flowers. And Marcus Naslund is a sweet guy (not to mention hot). And the Leafs won against Montreal (what could be better?).

I saw that. I wonder if he has to have those coats custom made for him.

Yesss...definitely watched the Nazzy tribute. Attractive, gracious, well dressed, and a division rival. Oh well, we can't always have it all in life. My family was less than pleased that I watched.

Kirsten wrote: "I saw that. I wonder if he has to have those coats custom made for him."

That's awesome. It's not often that a question can be answered quite that directly.

Global climate change...bah. A couple feet of snow and below 0 here.

It's been kind of quiet here lately. I guess everyone is out shopping, inside baking, or trying to weather the weather.

I've been too busy shoveling and lamenting how much the Wild suck at hockey :(

How's everyone's holiday looking?

My Christmas shopping day is tomorrow. I'll let you know how I hold up. Baked some eclairs today, but my mum's oven wasn't hot enough (she thinks), so they didn't really rise all that much. They turned out flat and wide instead of cylindrical.

Hope everyone out there is having a merry (and booky) Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all!! I'm enjoying some quiet time before everyone else gets up. My book and a nice cup of tea...

Merry Christmas to all! I didn't get any books, but I got a couple of giftcards to buy them with!

Mrsgaskell wrote: "Merry Christmas to all!! I'm enjoying some quiet time before everyone else gets up. My book and a nice cup of tea..."

Sounds lovely. What was your book?

Kirsten wrote: "Merry Christmas to all! I didn't get any books, but I got a couple of giftcards to buy them with!"

I only got one book this year, but it was one that I've wanted for a long time.

Settling down to watch the Juniors. Go Canada!

Excellent! What book?

The WJC is the best part of the hockey year.