Friday, April 07, 2006

Off on an excursion

I am off to Calgary to see a few friends and to pick up my sisters on the plane at 10pm. The sibling group are gathering this weekend. Ky is bringing "Wit". Seems like a perfect two year anniversary of your Mom's death kind of movie. We may even watch Step-Mom. Sorry, I think that's only funny to us. Too soon?

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  1. You should all come to Edmonton. We are having a HUGE fire tomorrow night.

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  2. It's never too soon for dead mom jokes. Unless someone else's mother just died. Learned that one the hard way.
    And don't worry Ky, your flight will get there at 9:30. I just think Bron didn't want to be specific about it.

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  3. By "someone else's mother" do you mean that I'm not allowed to make dead mom jokes anymore?

    On another note, I told my Canadian history class about the game "Kill the Russians" today. But it was in the context of cultural history, and reading a bunch of stuff about summer camps that used Native names, and kids playing Cowboys and Indians and all that. And, while we were all confessing less-than-culturally-sensitive games that we played as children, someone claimed that these are just the kinds of games that kids make up. And so I posited that these games are still a result of our culture, and I gave "Kill the Russians," at the end of the Cold War, as an example.

    My class loved it.

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  4. Wait, who's sisters? Org charts please. I sometimes feel like I'm an interloper on your guys' blogs. Not only am I a guy, but American too - gasp!

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  5. May-B, Ky and Lynniec are sisters. Whenever Mel comments, she's their sister-in-law. They also have a brudder, married to Mel, and living in Red Deer.

    Janny and I are sisters, and we're cousins with M-B, K and L, but we (especially I) essentially grew up at their house, and they at mine.

    Justanothergirl and Kay-B both have been neighbours, and are essentially family members.

    Jen's a distant cousin as well.

    Our extended family also puts the "fun" in "funeral."

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  6. Jen is also the only one not origanally from Saskatchewan. I am from Alberta. (Horrors!) ;)

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  7. Alberta = Canada's Texas.

    Saskatchewan = Socialist Paradise.

    I live in British Columbia now. British Columbia = Hippies. And expensive, with lots of rich people. And recognising familiar places on TV and in movies.

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  8. And hey, I hope you guys are having a good weekend!

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  9. Maryanne, you are hilarious. Could you have a longer conversation with someone ELSE on my blog? I mean really. I'll just stop posting and you and Roger can carry the whole thing. Work for you?

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  10. Oh for crying out loud, that's not what I mean. It's just that you answer all the questions as though they were intended for you just because you know the answer. Its fine. Just amusing.

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  11. But Mary, you can make fun of our dead mom all you want.
    I heart you much much.
    Roger - I'm sorry we confuse you.

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  12. Well, you guys were all busy this weekend, and I've been procrastinating. And I was like, "Oh look! A question where I know the answer!"

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  13. If you want us to run this thing, we need the password and stuff.

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  14. Roger, you are a smart ass. And if you can guess the password, you're welcome to it!

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Crap monkies say "what?"