15 June 2009

I ordered p90x after reading two testimonials about it on websites I frequently visit.  I just rescheduled my police test for 3 months from now and I had 3 months in my head as a magical number. When I read that one round of p90x was 3 months long, it felt like a calling.

I had no idea that The White Stripes video “You Don’t Know What Love Is” was filmed in Iqaluit.  Unfortunately, it’s kind of a boring video.  Apparently they dined on raw caribou meat when they were in Nunavut.  I love them even more now!

My mom and I bought kayaks!  We are taking them up to the cottage eventually.

28 May 2009

How awesome is Michaëlle Jean?  The Governor General of Canada went up to Rankin Inlet, Nunavut to eat raw seal heart with Inuit.  She wanted to send a message of solidarity with the Inuit’s right to traditional seal hunting in face of the controversy surrounding the commercial seal hunt.  I have so much respect for her now.

10 April 2009

I bought a gun.

It’s a used Lee Enfield 1914 bolt-action .303 rifle with a scope.  It’s not fantastic, but I wanted something better than a plastic toy though not too expensive.  I plan to use it to do some target practice up at the cottage.  The ammo came from Serbia and is probably the same bullets supplied to the Chechen army.  It weighs a ton and looks like something my Estonian great-grandfather would have owned.