Little Known Facts About the Recent Election

Unbeknownst to most Canadians, even among those deeply entrenched in political discussions and who kept on top of every breaking news story in the weeks and days surrounding Canada's recent federal election, there was an underground force responsible for ensuring that Stephen Harper, representing the Conservative party, became Canada's new Prime Minister. Realizing it would be a difficult struggle to obtain enough seats in the House to ensure the first Conservative government since 1993, Harper's strategical team came up with a top-secret list of names of experts who would be able to bring a Conservative landslide to fruition. While the major newspapers of the country did their best to dig out any kind of important or enlightening information about the prime ministerial candidates and the potential MPs in their respective parties, they did not manage to uncover the Conservative's best-kept secret: Arlene Mussche. Great lengths were taken to conceal the support of this powerhouse political activist, and it seems the Conservatives remained successful until the publication of this very blog. Here below is what seems to be the only existing picture of Mussche and Harper, proving a connection between the two political geniuses.


Here in an exclusive photograph, Mussche and Harper discuss last-minute political strategies mere days before the federal election. Mussche is thought to be the main reason for the recent Conservative win in Parliament

For Trade

To a certain member of my blogging audience: there is a particular member of your cupboard-stock which has been missing for a number of weeks and has been residing in cupboards other than your own. He really wants to go home, but unfortunately he's being held hostage. His captors are willing to make a trade: your property for their property. It's up to you...

Times and Places

Nice alarm clock, eh? It's my gift from Staples for being the "Super Person of the Month" for December. There's also an official certificate around somewhere with my name on it, potentially hanging up in a place of honour, but I haven't found that place yet. Not that I've really looked or anything, but if I ever get my hands on the certificate, I'll have to pick a wall in our home to display it on, and perhaps at the same time I'll get my Bachelor of Science diploma framed and hung beside it. Yup, I'll have a sequential display of my Calvin Christian School diploma, my HDCH diploma, my Redeemer diploma, and next in line will be my Super Person of the Month diploma.
I appreciate that my managers appreciate the stress that defined December for me. I think they appreciated that I didn't quit on them.
I like how my new alarm clock tells the temperature. As you can tell in the picture, it was 20.9 degrees in our living room. However, I also took a picture of the thermometer in our bedroom, which reads quite a different temperature:
I think Mike is trying to prepare me for living in Alaska. He was on a bit of a kick for a while, wanting to move to Alaska because he likes the snow. Then we were going to move to BC to a remote (as in, fly in with a helicopter) community in the dense forest, where Mike would teach all the commune children. I believe we were also at one point going to move to Iowa, but I'm not sure what the main attraction there was supposed to be, unless it was the corn. Who knows where we will actually end up settling, but I have a feeling it won't be Alaska, BC, or Iowa.

I Don't Know Why

Those are potatoes. On my floor.
Isn't life fun?

30 Years Later

With the help of the latest, ground-breaking age-projection software, I recently decided to use a photo of my most favourite man in the world and see what he will look like in 30 years. After some thorough research, the first feature I altered was the ears. According to some sources, "on average, ears grow one-hundredth of an inch every year." Other sources disputed the idea that the ears actually grow, citing loss of skin elasticity instead: "Skin loses elasticity as we age, so it stretches. Ear lobes tend to increase in length with age . . . another interpretation may be that big ears predict survival: men with smaller ears may die selectively at younger ages." So whether or not the ears are actually growing or not is besides the point; I can assume that in 30 years, Mike's ears will be larger, and the larger the better if it means he'll live longer.
In addition to the increase in size of the ears, it has also been noted that noses also tend to get larger with age. According to the experts, "nasal cartilage becomes thinner and loses its elasticity as we age, causing the tip of the nose to lengthen and droop." I also applied this knowledge to my age-projection. A third feature I changed was the hairline. Although Mike's family history promises little to no loss of hair, who knows what can happen in thirty years; research also seems to point to the likelihood of hair loss in my handsome hubby: "the first change is usually recession in the temporal areas, which is seen in 96 percent of mature Caucasian males, including those men not destined to progress to further hair loss."
And then, just for fun, I thought a grand old beard would be an interesting addition, although somehow in my tinkering, Mike's beard turned out blue. What do you think? He's a hottie, eh?

Mike at age 22

Mike at age 52 (projected)

Mike at age 52 with a blue beard

Congratulations Mr and Mrs Lievaart!!

Congragulations to Simon and Jodi on their marriage on Saturday!! Both bride and groom looked great, it was a beautiful ceremony, and the reception was a lot of fun. God bless you both richly as you walk down life's path together as a married couple!!