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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/13/2008 7:30:35 PM
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magdaleine
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Thanks Mike. Everything turned out well, but I'm really, really tired.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/13/2008 7:34:16 PM
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That is good Maggie, I am happy that it all worked out for you! Now you should take it easy and rest!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/13/2008 7:53:19 PM
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Yep! I plan to sleep soon.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/13/2008 8:44:03 PM
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Thanks, Zondie. As soon as the Scrabble game I'm playing is over, I'm off to Snoozeland, even if my mom is still here.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/13/2008 9:40:25 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving, Maggie.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/14/2008 6:54:42 AM
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Thanks, Trish!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/14/2008 7:54:42 AM
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While I'm up, if it looks like I might not fall asleep right away again, I'll eat my 50 grams of chocolate (I'm using it as medicine).
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Now that's a medicine I don't think I'd forget to take!!!
I take this medicine every day. There's a candy jar filled with candy and chocolate we keep stocked for our students. They especially partake of it on a test day. Seems to do wonders for stress.
Hi Maggie. And Happy Belated Thanksgiving Day!!
Guess I best get ready for work.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/14/2008 11:52:02 PM
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I've had worse heartburn today than I've had for years. I take pariet (needed special permission from the government to take it) and instead of my usual one pill, I've taken three today and it's still not settled. Argh! I may have to cut chocolate out of my daily morning routine. And maybe tea. Sigh.
Today was the Canadian federal election. We had five parties running:
Conservatives held the last government
Liberals were after them.
Bloc Québecois (whose total platform is for Quebec to leave Canada),
New Democratic Party (very left wing and responsible for a lot of the beneficial socialist programs in the country) and
The Green Party (didn't pay attention to them but presumably they're for a greener environment) scraggle behind.
The Conservatives and Liberals have always been the domination parties in federal elections (not necessarily so in provincial elections) but with not all the votes counted yet, it looks like the Conservatives have won and that the Liberals have taken the worst beating ever in a federal election. The commentators were saying that given the current global economic crisis and the way other countries are choosing their governments, the fact that Canada has chosen to keep its incumbent government not only intact but with more support says a lot (can't remember, though, what they said it says--a true confidence in the current government, I guess).
I'm glad with the overall outcome but disappointed that the person I voted for in my riding didn't make it. Oh well, the person who won is also good--just not AS good.
In the morning, ds4 and I are going to the second annual prayer breakfast for the city. It starts at 7:15. I hope I'll get enough sleep between now and then. The guest speaker is a Malaysian diplomat to Canada. Since ds4 just finished spending 2 months in Malaysia, he's as interested as I am in the event.
With that, I'm off to bed. I washed all the bedding today. It will be so nice to sleep between clean sheets. Night!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/15/2008 8:27:32 AM
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Bloc Québecois (whose total platform is for Quebec to leave Canada)
How do you feel about that?
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/15/2008 2:58:50 PM
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I think it's insane for a federal party to exist and be part of our national parliament with the express intention of leaving the nation. Isn't that just a bit backwards? Will Québec ever actually succeed in leaving? I'm not holding my breath. In the meantime, they take votes away from the two largest parties, ensuring we don't have a majority government. (For a party to hold a majority, it has to will 155 seats, one more than half of all the seats. This is one disadvantage to having a multi-party political system.)
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/15/2008 3:02:13 PM
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I love fresh linen too, Maggie! I hope you had a wonderful nights sleep and woke up as refreshed as those sheets were! I'm learning more and more about Canadians through your thread. It's so interesting to me to find out about our similarities and our differences!
Hope you and your son enjoyed your outing together, today!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/15/2008 3:15:40 PM
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My daughter has a journal for seeds for writing. One assignment was to list the things she loves. The smell of clean sheets was top on that list. I think that is something we can all appreciate.
I have finally gone and done it. I spent the afternoon crying and writing a will. I have no idea how to go about it, so I just essentially wrote a love letter to my children. Gosh these things are hard. How I wish in my heart I knew for certain that I could just lick this cancer and go on with life. One hard thing done. Moving on.......
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/15/2008 3:41:58 PM
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Zondie, my night was far too short but I'm going to enjoy them this afternoon in a bit. I'm very tired.
I'm glad you're able to learn about your northern neighbour in my thread. Feel free to ask questions. I LOVE to talk about Canada.
And yeah, ds4 and I had a great time. I'm quite impressed with his social skills. We were at a table for ten but there were only two others at the table besides us. One of those two sat beside me and the other beside my son. He had a much easier time making small talk with the man beside him than I did with the man beside me. And then when it was over, he actually wanted to go meet the main speaker. So we did. Then we went out for tea and he told me about his spiritual walk and what's been happening with him and God. That was cool.
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The smell of clean sheets was top on that list. I think that is something we can all appreciate. I appreciate it even more because I don't change my sheets nearly as often as I should--nor the blankets. I got home late from my class last night. I hadn't managed to remake the bed before I left and there was dh sleeping on the bare mattress, rolled up in his favourite blanket (he's rolled up in that thing even when there are sheets on the bed). He got up for the washroom as I came into the room so while he was gone I made up the bed. Silly guy.
{{{{{{{{{{{Dove}}}}}}}}}}}} I'm sorry you're having a hard day. I wish there was a magic wand we could wave and you'd be all better. But I am praying. As for the will, you really need to have one done by a lawyer. You can include what you wrote and you can add things to it later handwritten as a codicil but you need to have a will properly drafted, signed and witnessed, ESPECIALLY because of your marriage breakup. One thing that is important to put in the will is who you want to be guardian of your children. I know what you did today was impossibly hard, but I see you growing in strength because of all these difficult things you face head on and with resolve. Your children are benefitting from the strength God is growing in you and if you do lick the cancer (I'm praying, hoping and believing that you will), you and your children will have gained so much from this unbearable burden you all are carrying right now. I know God is with you.
I'm tired. Definitely nap time.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/15/2008 7:32:19 PM
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I have finally gone and done it. I spent the afternoon crying and writing a will. I have no idea how to go about it, so I just essentially wrote a love letter to my children. Gosh these things are hard. How I wish in my heart I knew for certain that I could just lick this cancer and go on with life. One hard thing done. Moving on.......
Oh, (((Dove)))! Sweetie, I've had letters written for years now, to individuals of my family. They're sealed in an envelope and are in the pocket of my Bible cover. My funeral arrangements (requests) are also in that envelope. My immediate family knows where it is and respects my request of not opening it until my death. I did all that because, I wanted to try to ease some of their burden at 'the time'. And I needed to get it off my chest; since dh don't like to talk about death or dying. But it's something we all will face. And I knew what a hard time we had, coming up with all the 'personal' information they needed on my dad. (Mom wasn't able to help us at the time.) It's hard, I agree. But it helped me to know that even at the end of my life here, I could still be of some help to them. I agree with Maggie about you beating this Cancer...I'm praying, hoping and believing that you will! Don't you dare give up on us! 
But Maggie's also right about the Will. You can write one yourself or go on the INTERNET and print one out. But you have to have it witnessed, dated and it's good to have it notarized too. Otherwise, it won't be legally considered.
Maggie, thank you for inviting me to ask questions about Canada. I'm learning a lot here without having to ask so-far though!
Pengie, what's wrong with drinking milk? I don't know what I'd do if I had to be without it!!! Thank God for milk!!! 
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/15/2008 9:17:25 PM
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Yes, Maggie and Zondie, I know it needs to be properly recorded and witnessed. My difficulty is that we are dealing with a no fault divorce system which will give my husband everything if I die before the divorce is finalized. The court has ordered all my policies to be written with my husband as the beneficiary and a bank trust set up for the funds upon either of our death in the meantime. I can not even enforce by a will what I want the balance of those policies or my cash assets to be used for or given to. I can only write my desires and wishes for the children and my personal possessions at this time. I can only hope that my family will pressure my husband to consider those requests. If the divorce is finalized in my lifetime (within two years), then I can change my policies and set up any financial bequests that I want. So this is the pickle I am in. The only way I can shorten that time period is to 1. convince my husband to comply quickly which he won't because he wants all the assets or 2. prove a fault divorce and then the time period changes and also assures my portion of the assets even after my death if I should die first.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/16/2008 12:34:42 AM
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I'm having my drinking problem again . . . craving milk all the time! Drinking it now as a matter of fact. LOL! With that kind of drinking problem, you won't have a calcium problem!
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My difficulty is that we are dealing with a no fault divorce system which will give my husband everything if I die before the divorce is finalized. Yeah, I was wondering about that. Well, you WILL be alive two years from now. Can't imagine, though, what it must feel like to have death constantly hovering over you, never knowing for sure how long you have. I suppose we're all in that boat, really, except that we can pretend we're not. You can't. :-(
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Maggie, thank you for inviting me to ask questions about Canada. I'm learning a lot here without having to ask so-far though! Since we just had a federal election and you're preparing for one, let me share a bit about the political differences between our countries. I'm not a political person but I think I know the bare bones.
Queen Elizabeth is our sovereign as much as she is the sovereign of England. Since she lives there and we're here, she has a representative called the Governor-General who, technically, has the power to veto anything that is decided in the government but who, in practice, rubber stamps it all. But the role is full of pomp and ceremony, as befits the Queen's representative. The role is assigned by the government in power, I believe, and it is for a set amount of time. Our current Governor-General is a woman born in Haiti (or maybe she was born here and her parents immigrated from Haiti).
Each province also has a representative of the queen called a Lieutenant-Governor (pronounced Left-tenant). They each get an ancient but beautiful home to live in near the Legislative Buildings and have constant RCMP guards. I was privileged to be asked to pour tea (along with the mayor and a few others) at one of the New Year levees. It's a grand event, and very formal. Anyone with a uniform of any kind or medals, proudly wears them.
The active head of our government is the Prime Minister (just as in England) and those who represent the people from the various constituencies across the country are called Members of Parliament. (We also have a senate but we, the people, do not elect the senators. They are chosen for life by whatever government is in power when a seat becomes vacant. We don't elect judges, sheriffs, etc. either--when I learned you do that in the US, that was, and still is, hard to grasp.)
Our election (took place yesterday) was to choose who will be our Members of Parliament. We do not vote separately for our Prime Minister as I understand you do for your President. We don't have primaries like you do either. Each party (currently we have five: Conservative, Liberal, New Democrat, Bloc Québecois and Green) chooses their party leader and whichever party gains the most votes, their leader becomes our Prime Minister. So yesterday, on the ballot, my only choice was who do I want to represent me in parliament. I can choose to vote based on the party I want to see in power or I can base my decision on who is the better individual to represent my riding. But there was just the one choice.
I'm not sure how many seats we have in Parliament, but I assume it's just over 300 because to have a majority, a party has to win 155 seats. The Conservatives won about 144 seats (our newspaper is on strike so I haven't seen the final numbers) so they are forming a minority government. This means that they need at least one of the other parties (who have 11 seats or more) to side with them on contentious issues or the issues are voted about in Parliament or no new legislation will be passed.
Historically, a minority government doesn't last long. Unlike the US, we do not have a set day for elections. This has just been changed, I believe, but up until now, a new election can be called whenever it is deemed necessary. If every bill in Parliament gets no confidence, the Parliament is just spinning its wheels and so an election is called with the hopes that a majority can be achieved and so have an effective government in power.
The provincial system is pretty much the same way. We do not directly elect our premier. Rather, we choose who we want to represent us for our riding and then whichever party has the most votes, their leader becomes the premier.
That was long. Sorry.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/16/2008 1:07:31 AM
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Don't vote separately for the Prime Minister? Don't have a set date for an Election? Only have one choice to make on the ballot? Gosh, Maggie! It all seems so cut and dried, already! And complicated (at least for me) to understand! And about your Thanksgiving holiday. Yours is passed, ours is coming up. Is your celebration based on when Canada became a nation?
BTW: Thanks for all this information!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/16/2008 1:31:54 AM
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Hi Maggie.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/16/2008 1:33:53 AM
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No, our Thanksgiving is not based on when we became a nation, nor on our first settlers. I'm not sure exactly HOW it originated, really. We simply use it as a day to give thanks. It isn't full of historical meaning as yours is. It doesn't have the same cultural significance either. I've noticed that for Americans, Thanksgiving is almost bigger than Christmas. You refer to it as "The Holidays," but for us Thanksgiving is simply another long weekend that is set aside to give thanks. There is only one day off work and school and the day after is not a big shopping day as it is in the US. When we talk about "The Holidays" we're referring either to Christmas or to the summer and our big shopping day is Boxing Day, the day after Christmas. Boarding schools in the US usually give a week off for Thanksgiving. In Canada it is only the one day.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/16/2008 6:50:38 AM
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Zondie,
I have made photo scrapbooks for each child with page inserts for me to write to them personally about memories, hopes, blessings, prayers, scripture etc. I also already gave each younger child a 'hug' book with photos of me holding them from birth to present. Those books are for them whenever they need a 'hug' and I am not available. Sometimes I see they are out of their box for quite awhile and then they are back in their place.
I am also starting to prepare a folder with personal papers etc. one will be my username and password for forums so my oldest can inform everyone of circumstances. That way I won't just disappear from cyberspace.
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/16/2008 3:00:43 PM
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Actually, the US does sort of have a set time for election day. Yeah, that's what I was saying. You DO have a set time. We don't.
Dove, I love your hug book idea! That's so cool! So are the scrapbooks. What a thoughtful, smart mom you are!
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RE: Magdaleine's Alabaster Atrium - 10/16/2008 3:10:21 PM
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Dove, I love your hug book idea! That's so cool! So are the scrapbooks. What a thoughtful, smart mom you are! Might I add loving Mom also...
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