What’s with the Canadian men being so shady this season? If you haven’t been watching it yourself, first we had Craig who was actually scary and pure evil, and then Justin, a wrestler who not only had a girlfriend on the side, but was cheating on the girlfriend on the side! Now that the Bachelors who make it pretty far can become pretty famous there’s always a couple who are just in it for the fame and money.

Justin denied all the accusations (not very convincingly though) and yesterday, the day after the show came out I was at a movie theatre and came back to find this on my car:

WHY would anyone go to this? If Justin hadn’t turned out to be so completely sketchy I could see why girls would want to go to get the chance to meet him, but now it’s pretty clear that he was just in it for the fame and is a big sketchball.

Questions pour vous:

1) Would you ever go to this event? (If anyone goes because of this blog post I will never forgive myself, by the way.)

2) Do you think Justin’s stardom is on the rise or is this the end of the line for him?

3) Am I the only one who finds it really annoying that one button on his shirt is undone? I think everything about Justin creeps me out now.

I’ve gotten a few frantic calls and texts asking, “Are you alive???” so I thought I should probably clarify. No, I didn’t delete you off Facebook. I’m just taking a much needed hiatus from all things online social networking which includes Facebook, Twitter, and all blogs (except this one!)

It’s only been a couple of days but my mind feels a lot less cluttered, my time feels like it’s my own, and my floors and my hair look a heck of a lot shinier. (I should also admit that I’ve had one or two HGTV marathons.)

I’m sure you know as well as I do how quickly fifteen minutes online can turn into a guilt-ridden hour, and maybe you know all about the feeling of needing to know everything that is going through the minds of everyone in your life all the time, just because you can.

I thought it would be more difficult than it actually has been, really, and especially because right now I’m living hours away from the best kinds of real life distractions (my sisters, almost all of my friends, and my baby niece.) I find that it’s easy to find better things to fill my time so far, and surprisingly shopping and HGTV have not topped that list.

We’ll see how long it lasts, but right now it feels like it could be awhile.

If you check out my post from last year’s Bachelor you’ll see that I picked the Canadian Jillian and I didn’t do too badly – in fact she went on to become the next Bachelorette! Right now there are only four girls left, but I made a list of my top four in the very first episode and three of the girls – Ali, Tenley, and Gia are still in! Pretty good! Especially since I don’t think anyone really likes the other girl in the top four, Vienna, except for Jake. I didn’t really have a fourth favourite so I picked Jessie just because she is Canadian. She didn’t do too badly, she left last week.

Of the top four Gia is my favourite. I got a little flack for liking her in the beginning since she’s a swimsuit model, but she is totally coming through for me. I think she’s adorable and Jake totally agrees.

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This is the theme song to my absolute favourite show ever.  The Biggest Loser.  I watched it last night- the finale, when the final 4 are chosen, and everyone goes home to do it on their own- and it was so amazing.  These people all come into the competition with no idea what they’re getting themselves into, and all with different stories.  The most touching story this season was Abby’s story.  Abby had lost her husband, her 5 1/2 year old daughter, and her 2 1/2 week old son in a car crash three years ago.  I watched the very first episode where she first told everyone what had happened with Kaylee, who absolutely hates the show (howww?), and we were both sitting there crying, so we had to change the channel.  She was eliminated at Week 7, and was even on Ellen at the beginning of November.  If I knew how to post  video on here I would, but here is the link to the youtube video.

I had heard of it before from Rosie O’Donnell’s blog. The movie hits close to home for Rosie because of all the paintings that her kids do. It’s almost similar to the movie because she often tapes them all painting in their painting room, it’s amazing.

I was mesmerized with the movie. It’s a documentary about Marla Olmstead, an adorable and shy 4 year old. She started painting when she was 2, and they always loved her work, but really all parents love their children’s work. A friend of the families owned a coffee shop and offered to put her work up in the shop, just to see what might happen. As it turns out a gallery owner saw the painting and loved it, after finding out that it was done by a 4 year old the story just grew and grew. And that was just the beginning. She has art shows and her paintings sold for anywhere between $250 (the first one) – to $25,000. Issues arise when people start questioning whether she had any help from her father, an amature painter himself. The documentary does an amazing job of making you really think about it. In the beginning you are so amazed with Marla’s painting, that you believe she does it all herself. Further into the movie after they tape her painting and compare it to other works she has completed you wonder whether she did in fact have help from her father. The painting that she was filmed painting (called Ocean) looks a lot different from the other paintings that she completed (for example Building & Zane Dancing [Zane being her younger brother]) the others are tight patterns and are very symmetrical, the one she painted on film was not. In the end of the movie you are left to decide for yourself.

I honestly feel that it doesn’t matter if she had help, the pieces are still amazing, but if she had help they should have said from the beginning that it was father-daughter work, and not that she did it all herself. The parents were adamant in the movie that she did it all herself and the only help she got was with setting up the canvases, that she did all the painting by herself. The father seemed a bit odd in the movie, and I think it may have been possible that he was helping out. Laura found Marla’s manager to be really weird, and I agreed. He never seemed to give the right answer when people were asking questions and after a documentary about Marla ran on CNN he was filmed screaming at a camera who was asking him questions. Quite a creepy guy also.

I really want to believe that she made these herself and I would highly recommend seeing this movie, so you will know what I’m talking about because this may seem like a lot of mumble jumble. And please let me know what you thought of it!

I actually tried out for Canadian Idol years and years ago. In grade 12, my best friend and I took the bus to Toronto and waited in line forever and sang, and didn’t make it. It was fun thought. I think our problem was that we definitely didn’t sing the right song. I didn’t pick my song until I was in line, and kept thinking of songs, and then realized that I didn’t think I knew all the words. Looks like I won’t be found in the limelight any time soon!

Anyways! Here are some videos that I liked. You need to click through to the next page because they kinda mess up our formatting.

I think these two should go on, I’m not sure how they decide who goes on.

Read please!!! Hi, my name is Kellie Loder and I’m a nursing student. The song I have written reflects the lives of the ill that I can see right from my dorm room window and into their hospital rooms. The song talks about how we can be selfish sometimes and overlook the most important things in life, when others would do anything to find their sense of self again. Please consider my audition and my talent because I am confident that I can touch the hearts of many people with my music and that I would be the greatest Canadian Idol yet. p.s. I hope you aren’t sick of watching these vids by the time you get to mine. haha. Plese give me the chance. My talent needs to be shown to the world, instead of boxed up in a dorm room. Thank you, Kellie Loder

There were 6 groups competing – Chefs, cab drivers, backpackers, flight crew, celebrity lookalikes, and bloggers.   Naturally I wanted the bloggers to win – they were really the only group I felt an affinity with.  If they had snowboarders, I probably would have gone with them instead.   I thought the bloggers had a pretty good chance – most of us online seem to keep up with world events, especially those entertainment and pop culture related.  I only saw one of the quiz segments (the last one – Indulge Me) and I’m happy to report that I scored perfect!  When the questions and answers were reviewed, I was able to answer the majority of the questions before the answer was revealed.  I think I would have made a great blogger team member

As you’ve probably figured out from the title of this post, the bloggers won with an average score of 50! Top score overall was earned by a blogger, one Rick Spence.  Even the celebrity representing the bloggers – Samantha Bee, my favorite Daily Show correspondent – was the highest-scoring celebrity.

Reading through the Test the Nation website, I discovered that one of the 5 experts who devised the quiz itself is an old professor of mine – Tim Blackmore of the University of Western Ontario.  My SEO blogging brain had also been wondering if all those bloggers got links to their blogs on the CBC website – indeed they did! I’ve discovered some great new Canadian blogs already.

Canadians – they are still looking for members for teams like Americans living in Canada, Armchair Athletes, Buskers, Mechanics, and many more.  Hey Lauren, they’re even looking for cheerleaders!