Little Known Facts

Since 1939, when the NHL moved to a Best of 7 format for the Stanley Cup Finals, the team that has won Game 1, went on to win the title 54 times.

The Top 5 Banks in Canada collectively made over $5 billion in profits in the 2nd quarter.  This fell short of forecasts apparently.

Rafael Nadal was given a watch to wear at the French Open.  It was crafted by the watchmaker Richard Mille.  It's price tag?  $500,000

So... What can $500,00 buy you?  Well, this or this or this or try to live here or 30ish of these or this

The 2010 World Cup (Soccer) is taking place this month in South Africa.  This event takes place every 4 years.  In 2006 games were televised in over 214 countries.  Total viewing audience was 26 billion+ people over the course of the tournament.  With an estimated 607.9 million people watching the final match between Italy and France.  And I thought they had a marketing problem calling it "soccer" and "football."  Check out the facts here.

The latest Barna Group stats on charitable giving. 

Number of times this past weekend I was asked if I was a cyclist because of the lack of hair on the bottom of my legs - 2.

Swagger Wagon "Meet The Parents"

Okay, so had my brother-in-law and sister-in-law here this past week.  Whoops, supposed to give a shout out to Shauna, because apparently, I have failed to mention since the inception of this blog, that she is my favorite sister-in-law.  Maybe a little pushy, but I digress (and now, because of that last comment, just completely lost the coolest brother-in-law title).  Being a reader of the blog (one of 6), Shauna loved the Swagger Wagon vid from awhile ago, and while visiting us this past weekend, loaded up a new clip from the same series that is pretty sweet.
I am gonna link it, instead of embedding this puppy so you can watch the whole array of ad's if you want to be cool and be the best parents cause you feed your kids.  We do by the way which makes us awesome.

Out of the mouth of babes

We have Carla's sister (Shauna) and fam here for a visit.  They wanted to see the new digs.  While I was driving Megan and her cousin Taryn home from being out, Megan suddenly proclaimed, "Dad, dad, look back here.  We can both lick our armpits!"

There literally is nothing to say.

VHF - OK GO

OK GO is the band who sky rocketed to the youtube stratosphere with their now infamous treadmill video.  They have released a new vid, and they do not disappoint in the ability to "wow" you with their capacity be creative and have fun.  Happy Friday.

6 Things in my brain today

1.  Because I think this kind of stuff is interesting.  Like way more interesting than any season ever of the Bachelor.

2.  Whatever your opinion, whatever your understanding, whatever your personal life holds, you can't miss this event.

3.  Most likely all of us have done this at some point with no success.... until now.  Success lies at the edge of your lips.  Shout it out people.

4.  Read this article first so that you will undertand why I like this article second. 

5.  This is almost too difficult to post it is so lame.

6.  18,000,000 Hits

It's 2 am somewhere, well, right here

So, a couple nights ago, I was in that beautiful deep sleep point of the night (REM apparently, or at least that's what they told us health class in Grade 6 - you know, it's where your eyeballs are going schizo back and forth.  That being said, to this day I have no clue why eyeballs do that.  Like does your arm twitch uncontrollably at some point in the night too?) dreaming about walking in my mankini on the beach in Hawaii.   When I was awoken by an attrocious (how do you spell that anyway?) noise.  I am talking an airhorn built for hard of hearing giants who wear ear muffs kind of noise.   My youngest, Caedyn, is so freaked out, she decided it was critical to scream louder than the siren of doom.  She comes shreaking into our bedroom, dives on the bed, pancakes the dog, and buries herself under the covers in less than 4 seconds.  I had no clue what hit me.  My wife says something to the effect of "stop farting" and shoves Caedyn over to my side.  As quickly as the noise began, it stopped.  Well, the siren that is - Caedyn was still howling like the woman I saw at Costco the other day, who, and I kid you not, somehow completely missed seeing the large bump on the road painted bright yellow and built to easily maneouver as a human, and tripped over that puppy and had the shopping cart she was pushing land squarely on top of her, trapping her in it's wire mesh death trap.  It was not pretty yet beautiful in the same moment.  At his point I still had no clue where the noise came from.  I immediately struck out to find the source of this chaos.  Nothing.  No red lights indicating trouble on my fire alarm/carbon monixide detectors.  Checked all four.  No emergency vehicles.  No car alarms.  Zip.  I even checked the curb to see if Costco chicky pants happened to fall on my driveway.  Zip.  I decided it must have been a horrible dream and that I actually was wearing a mankini in Hawaii and forgot to shave my back.  I check on my other two kids.  Megan was still sleeping when I went in to her room, and when I bent over her, she opened her eyes and said "my leg is cramping."  I have no clue either.  My son Brady, was completely buried in his pillow with the sheets pulled over his skull.  I peeled back the covers only to have him shriek in terror and start crying.  He thought Ironman had gone evil and was jack hammering through the roof  into his room to kidnap him and force him into slave labour making Barbie Movies.  The poor kid.  I had to sit with him for 15 minutes just to get his breathing controlled.  I finally crawled back into bed only to receive a head butt from Caedyn the moment I put my skull on the pillow.  Lovely. 

Oh the memories. 

VHF - Sunday's Coming Mock Movie Trailer

Love to hear your comments.  Happy Friday!


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