Today's hostess is one of my BBF's! I adore Andrea. And if you don't read her blog...well what are you waiting for? I am of course featuring sweet An today because she is also the hostess of Caffeinated Randomness every Friday. It is my favorite meme because I get to be completely random and fun. Which is perfect for me. Andrea has a beautiful heart and loves our God. She also challenges me and makes me think. Love that. She also touches my heart when she writes about women and our worth.
I laughed through this whole post....she definitely deserves her Caffeinated Queen title. As I mentioned yesterday I don't know what I would do without An and Kristen.
Visit Andrea at her blog Under Grace Over Coffee.
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I was so excited when my fabulous Lovely, Christy asked for guest posts for Critty Joy. I adore Christy. This is a girl whose heart is so beautiful, so tender, and so full of love for God that it just shines through everything she does. Of course, you already know that, don’t you?
I had a hard time deciding what I wanted you, fabulous readers, to know about because I don’t really know a lot about anything. I just pretend to know a lot of stuff. And what I can’t pretend, I fake. People seem to think I’m pretty smart, so it must be working.
But then I realized that there is one thing I do know a lot about that maybe some of Christy’s readers don’t know. You see, I am a Canadian. Sure, it’s easy to blend into the blogosphere of mostly American blogs quite easily when no one actually has to hear your voice. I’ve even been known to type “y’all” on occasion. But never “eh”. This generally means that people are surprised when they find out that I’m not actually American and suddenly have lots of questions about what it’s like up here in the great white North. Well, I’ll tell you.
1. It is not really that white. Yes, our summers are horribly short, but it’s really only white and snow-filled for about 4 or 5 months of the year. And even that depends on where you go. In fact, most of our weather mimics that of the northern U.S., with the exception of hurricanes, which we don’t get, and the minus 40 degree weather (which in Celsius and Fahrenheit are exactly the same!) which we are plagued with during January. Also, it’s a little known fact that our January is at least 6 weeks longer than our neighbours to the south. Or at least feels that way – it’s hard to tell when your brain is frozen.
2. Not everyone plays hockey. Almost, but not quite. Also, for some reason our national sport is Lacrosse, even though if you ask the average Canadian what our national sport is, s/he will inevitably say hockey. We’re also highly educated here, you know.
3. Canadians apologize for everything. You may have heard this and thought it was an exaggeration. I’m sorry to say it’s not. In fact, I’m pretty sure that our national phrase is “I’m sorry.” Right after “Let’s go watch some hockey, eh!”
4. Canadians have a dry sense of humour. Very dry. I blame our British roots. And now you know the real reason why I love The Office. In fact, if you have laughed at any part of this post so far, you might just be Canadian.
5. Canadians will grasp tightly to any connection we may have to the rest of the world. We have an uncanny ability to find a Canadian angle to absolutely any news story, world event, or celebrity possible. That means that right now there are a large group of people extremely proud that Justin Bieber is Canadian.
(Ugh. I just realized Justin was born the same year I graduated from high school.)
Moving on.
6. We are quietly patriotic. So much so that we can be accused of not being patriotic enough. And even though many Canadians spend most of their lives feeling like they live in the shadow of their big brother and therefore try to be more like him (that would be you, my American friends!), when it comes right down to it, we love our country and are proud to be in the land of the glorious and free.
7. We spell our words funny. It’s not enough to spell color with five letters. We have to make it Canadian by adding a “u” to spell it colour. I don’t know why this makes it Canadian, but we do it, much to my American spell check’s annoyance. Or is it annouyance?
8. We call hats that you wear in winter “toques” (pronounced TWO-cks). And handbags are purses. But shoes are still shoes. Just in case you were wondering.
9. We really are very nice – we don’t like offending anyone. Just don’t mess with our hockey.
10. And lastly, yes, we do like maple syrup and Tim Hortons, thankyouverymuch. But I’m not so sure about Canadian bacon. It still seems very, very wrong to me. Also, I like Starbucks better. But I think it might be a law somewhere that we have to drink at least one cup of Tim Hortons coffee a year.
I’m sorry. Dry humour, remember?
There you have it. Everything you need to know about being Canadian. If you’re ever in my neck of the woods (although where I live, there aren’t any), make sure you stop by for some Tim Hortons coffee. Just don’t forget your toque. You never know when it might snow.
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