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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Thursday thirteen # 19


Thirteen Things about Jill

13 sites that I like for recipes / 13 sites que j'aime pour les recettes

1. Kraft Canada

http://www.kraftcanada.com/FR

2. LEs oeufs

http://www.lesoeufs.ca/

3. Heinz it up

http://heinzitup.com/

4.Drink Nation

www.drinknation.com

5. Compagny' coming

http://www.companyscoming.com/index.php

6. Taste of home

http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Taste-of-Home/Main.aspx

7. Eagle Brand

http://www.eaglebrand.ca/

8.LEs cuisines d'Hélène

9.Nestley Very best

http://www.verybestbaking.com/

10. Robin Hood

http://www.robinhood.ca/

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13.Jell-o

http://www.kraftfoods.com/jello/

Help me fill-in the two missing part!!/ Aidez-moi à remplir les deux espaces manquants!!

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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Not yet!! / Pas déjà

Wow I've been slacking on this blogging thing lately!!! Exept for my Thursday Thirteen, I've not been doing much entries this month!! And even more slacking on my karate thinking!!
It is official, the grading would be on May 8!! I'm gonna try to pass my first blue belt!! I don't think I have done much progress since december. I just added like two moves to my register... I'm still struggling to do my sweep... and I cannot put a roll in my freestyle without loosing the flow of it!! still have 5 pratices to perfect it!!
Lately I've been having a lot of feedback from the higher belt!! There was a time when i was like : "Don't they see I did that move wrong??" . But the last two or three weeks, they've been helping me a lot. The only thing, some pratice , I just feel I have an information overload!!! Old D(I'm gonna talk about two guys that there name start with a D and are my instructor) who is definitly a perfectionist, is the one that is giving me more feedback... "Do your wheel kick like this" , "Your side block should be that way" "Be careful to have your heel out fir the side kick" Those thing make me so consious of my moves, i have to think of like ten thing while doing a simple move!! Yesterday, K was saying while we were sparring, "Kick faster, because if you take too much time, I could do this move" While grabing my leg and holding it up!
So much to think such little time!!!
In today pratice, I was doing up and down, not even sparring, with my cousin, and he hit me on the jaw, between the lips and the nose... The traitor was aiming my face the whole up and down. We have a rule that say that unless you have gloves, you cannot hit on the face. He was say that he stop his move, but it was me that came in... I don't usualy come in somebody with enough force for cutting my inner upper lips at 3 distinct places. And I almost forgot to say, the guy was aiming for my face and where should be my adam's apple a couple of time!
Then, while sparring, I was with young D. Last time, he went really smooth on me. I know he is damn good... I do appreciate every time he does his freestyle, and it is spectacular!! I was "come on, don't go smooth on me!! You can hit me!!" The guy ws having fun on me... He has the lowest stand I ever saw(he is my height, and goes almost to the floor!!) and was going that low! The guy had a big smile on his face the whole time!! But I wish I could make my move like him!!

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Thursday Thirteen # 18


Thirteen Things about Jill

13 foods I adore/ 13 aliments que j'adore

1. Chocolate... Which girl who respect herself don't like this food??/ Chocolat... Quelle fille qui se respecte n'aime pas cet aliment

2. Strawberry... Sweet and a great texture. I like the grown kind, but sunkissed fresh wild one are the best!!! / Fraise... Sucrée et une bonne texture. J'aime celles cultivée, mais celles sauvage, fraiches et qui goûtent encore le soleil sont les meilleures!!!

3. Rasberry... I think these ones are my favorite berries!!!In a smoothie or frozen yogourt... YUM!!! / Framboises ...Je pense que celles-ci sont mes baies favorites!! Dans un smoothie ou un yogourt glacé... YUM!!!

4. Blackberries... Great, but they are kind of expensive / Mures... Bonnes... mais sont chers

5.Blueberry... Only the wild ones... culture one taste like earth!! And yes, I do adore berries!! / Bleuets... Seulement les sauvages, car les cultivés goûtent la terre!!! Et oui, j'adore les baies!!!

6. Beef... There is nothing greater than a lean steak with barbecue sauce or a great hamburger!! / Boeuf... Il y a rien de meilleur que bon steak mince avec de la sauce barbecue ou un bon hamburger!!

7. Orange juice... When I'm tired , it just boost me up!!/ Jus d'orange... Lorsque je suis fatiguée, ça me réveille!!!

8. Poutine... French fries, mozzarella and gravy... Those who haven't taste it, go get one fast!! / Poutine... Des frites, du mozzarella et de la sauce... Ceux qui l'ont pas goûté, allez vite vous en chercher une!!

9. Baguettes... This is one of the reason I'm afraid to go in France!!! / Baguettes... C'est une des raison qui me fait peur d'aller en France!!!

10. Apple Melt/ Apple Delight... I just try this one las t year at my local dairybar... Soft vanilla ice cream in a home-made waffle bolw with apple and caramel sauce and some ice cream... Simply delicious / J'ai juste découvert ce plat l'année dernière à mon bar laitier local... De la crème molle à la vanille dans un bol en gauffre maison avec de la sauce aux pommes et au caramel avec de la crème fouettée... Simplement délicieux

11. Rice... Almost goes with everything / Riz... il va presqu'avec tous autres plats

12. Fries... Still in love with them, even if I'm an adult / Frites... je suis encore en amour avec celles-ci, malgré que je suis une adulte

13. Lettuce... Can prepare so much salad out of them / Laitue... on peut préparer tant de salades avec celles-ci
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Thursday Thirteen # 17


Thirteen Things about Jill

13 shows I watch weekly/13 émissions que je regarde à chaque semaine

1.Smallville, regularly in french, and when I have time in english/ Régulièrement en français et quand j'ai le temps, en anglais

2. One Tree Hill, again, each week in french, and sometime in english... Is it only me, but Chad MM hairdo is plain ugly??/ Les frères Scott, à chaque semaine en français, des fois en anglais... Est-ce juste moi, mais dans les nouveau épisodes anglais, les cheveux de Chad MM sont juste laids??

3. Samantha, a show from France, wit the best description of a dumb blonde, it's plain hilarious!! / une émission de France, avec la meilleure description d'une blonde, c'est juste drôle!!!

4. CSI, I'm just an fan!!! Sciences, spychology and cute guys, what is not to like?? / Les Experts, je suis jsute une fan!! Sciences, psychologie et des beaux gars, que peut-on demander de plus??

5. Bones, I just starting to like anthropology and all the anotomy stuff / Je commence juste à aimer l'antropologie et les choses qui touchent l'anatomie

6. CSI:Miami, same reason as above CSI/ LEs Experts: Miami, les mêmes raisons que les experts avant

7. CSI: NY, do you see a patern here?? / LEs experts : NY, voyez-vous une régularité?

8. Heroes, I just like Hayden Panetiere / J'aime juste Hayden Panettiere

9. ANTM , I like to see the transformation though all the shoot of the model... And even if I,m a proud Canadian, I do like more the american version :'( / J'aime bien voir les transformations à travers tous les séries de photos des modèles... Et même si je suis fière d'être Canadienne, je préfère la version américainne :'(

10. Une grenade avec ça? This is a québec serie about goofie fast food workers/ Une série québecoise à propos d'employés d'un restaurant de restoration rapide.

11. Lance et Compte, This one has been part of my life since I was like 5. Great storie line, hockey, and now since I'm older, handsome men!!/Celle-ci fait partie de ma vie depuis que j'ai comme 5 ans. Une bonne histoire, du hockey, et maintenant que je suis plus agée, des bels hommes.

12. Nos étés, Great storie about two french families living in Québec through a century/ Très bone histoire de deux familles québecoises à travers un siècle

13. Veronica Mars, I just like the character of Veronica, smart and not afraid of what other think of her / J'adore juste le personnage de Veronica, intelligente et n'a pas peur de ce que les autres pensent d'elle

Sorry, I might be repeting myself today, but I'm just being lazy


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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Just because... / PArce que...

So on Sunday, I was checking my e-mail and the comments on my blog, when I saw one that got me mad, here it is :
You should really stop writing in english on this blog because you make too many mistakes. Jeez, why are you guys using this language when it is not necessary ? This is obviously a french blog and as far as I can see, you're french, so stop doing it, you're ot good.
It is my bussiness if I want to write in english, even if my first language is french.
But here is some points why I do it:
-The last time I check, Canada was a free country
-Since Canada is a free country, I can make all the damn writting errors that I want
-Since I can speak both language(french and english) I want to show that I'm proud of being bilingual!
-With two languages on my site, I can reach more persons
-Half of my readers, maybe more, are english speaking person
-Doing my blog in english is one of the only thing that keep me praticing my english, exepctely the writting part of it(the only place I speak english is when doing karate)
-Writting in my second language doesn't stop me of being a damn proud Acadian, and wanting my students, my family and my future children to speak in french, and being proud to speak that language that our ancestor fought so bad for!!
And by the way, dear commenter, if you are so proud of being french, because you said you were, why didn't you wrote all of your comment in french?? And you did a mistake too!!!

Saturday, April 07, 2007

It was time / C'était le temps

Some of you might have notice the lack of post lately, and the same lack of comments on your blog. Well, it was because I didn't have energy enough to write or visit you. For the last week and a half, I've been feeling dizzy, and at some other points, it was just like somebody took a seringe and took all my energy from my body. So I did visit my doctor, to make him notice my blood pressure was too high (my doctor didn't seem to believe it, he took it like 3 times. I have to say, that it is a little bit lower than the average usualy!) And I have to go take some blood tests!! I don't think I will have some blood left after them, because I saw like 10 test on the sheet!!
But today, I'm back almost to normal... I have some energy, the dizzyness is almost gone. Yesterday, I could finaly redo a little bit of exercice. I did go smooth, because it didn't go well during the karate pratice on Monday( I would talk a bout it lower)... I'm gonna retry tonight, because the lack of energy gets on my nerf and make me feel like a robot!!
So, now back to my karate pratice... Just the trip to go there was demanding, and I did a little bit of shopping before. (And yes, for once, shopping was more like a chore) So master sanseï L told us that the grading would be at the beginning of May. That only give us about a month to make our freestyle better and to pratice our sparring!! So there is only a month left for me to learn the moves to pass my first blue belt!!! Ouch!! There are still some movements that give me an hard time!! So back to my Monday's pratice!! So I did start the warm up, it went well, since we do a lot of the movement on the floor and I can think to breath easily. But I took it easy to be sure! Break. Then, we did the series of movement. I was starting to feel the lack of energy and the dizzyness. Then, some sparring one-way(what we call up-and-down). My partner told me that I look exausted... We go easy, the energy is not there. Change of partner, this one got better since last time we pratice together, and I could not take advantage of that... I needed to go sit, because if I wouldn't have done it, I was affraid to pass out!! For the first time in 11 month of karate, I needed to go sit, I could not continue praticing. I had cold, some of my muscles hurt, but never did I needed to stop and take a break while the other were continuing praticing. I was so disappointed. And I had to sit a whole 15 minutes...
I hate having so little energy... It makes me feel like a disable person. I couldn't do normal day thing. I hope it won't come back...
But, now I'm back... Back to my old normal self!!

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Plusieurs se sont peut-être apercus du manque d'entrées ces derniers temps, et le manque de commentaires chez vos blogs. Bien, je n'avais pas l'énergie nécessaire pour écrire ou vous visiter. La dernière semaine et demie, je me sentais étourdie, et à d'autres moments, juste comme si quelqu'un aurait pris une seringue et simplement aspiré l'énergie de mes membres. Visite sur le médecin, pour me faire dire que ma pression sanguine était trop élevée(mon médecin ne semblait pas y croire lui même, il l'a repris comme 3 fois. Il faut dire que généralement, elle est un peu plus base que la moyenne) . Et je dois aller passer des tests sanguins!! Je pense qu'il ne me restera plus de sang après ceux-ci, j'en ai vu comme 10 sur la feuille!!
Me revoilà aujourd'hui, me sentant finalement presque mon moi-même normale... J'ai de l'énergie, l'étourdissement est presque partie. Hier j'ai finalement pu refaire un peu d'exercice. J'y ai été molo, car ça n'avait pas bien été lors de ma pratique de karaté lundi(je vais vous en parler un peu plus bas)... Je réessayerai ce soir, car le manque d'énergie m'éxaspérait et me rendait comme une automate!!
Donc, me voici à ma pratique de karaté... Juste le voyage pour y aller m'avait demandé beaucoup, et en plus j'avais été magasiné un peu auparavant.(Et oui, pour une fois, c'était un exploit magasiné, presqu'une corvée) . Donc master sanseï L nous dit que le grading est au début de mai. Ce qui nous reste environ un mois pour perfectionner notre freestyle et pratiquer le sparring!! Donc il me reste un mois seulement pour savoir les mouvements pour ma première ceinture bleue!!! Ouf!! Il y a des mouvements qui me donnent encore de la difficulté!! Donc revenant à la pratique de ce lundi!! Je commence les réchauffements, ca va bien, puisque l'on fait une partie de ceux au sol, et que je peux penser à bien respirer sans difficulté. Mais j'y vais assez doucement quand même. Pause. Là on fait une suite de mouvements. Je commence à sentir les étourdissement et le manque d'énergie. Par la suite, un peu de sparring à un sens(ce que l'on appelle les ups-and-downs). Ma partenaire me dit que j'ai l'air épuisé... Nous y allons lentement, l'énergie n'y est pas. Change de partenaire, celui-ci s'est amélioré depuis notre dernier partage, mais je ne peux pas profiter du défi... Je dois m'asseoir, sinon, j'ai peur de tomber dans les pommes. Pour la première fois en 11 mois de karaté, j'ai du m'asseoir, ne pouvant plus continuer la pratique. J'ai eu des grippes, j'ai eu mal à certains membres, jamais je n'avais du arrêter au cours d'une pratique. Ceci m'a telement déçu. En plus j'ai dû m'asseoir pendant comme 15 minutes.
Je hais avoir si peu d'énergie... Je me sentais comme une invalide. Je n'étais pas capable de faire les choses de toutes les jours normalement. J'espère que ca ne reviendra pas...
Mais me revoila... À nouveau à la normale!!

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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Thursday Thirteen # 16


Thirteen Things about Jill



13 things I like in the summer(and making me want even more for summer to arrived!!)/13 choses que j'aime à propos de l'été(et qui me font avoir hate de plus en plus à l'été!!)

1. Eating soft ice cream from local dairy bar. /Pouvoir manger de la crème molle aux bars laitiers locaux.
2. Being able to enjoye the beach/Pouvoir profiter de la plage
3. Feeling the hot sun against my skin /Pouvoir sentir le soleil réchauffant ma peau
4. Reading outside / Pouvoir lire dehors
5. Not working /Ne pas travailler
6. Some of the visitors from Québec / Certains visiteurs du Québec
7. Eating meat cook on the BBQ /Manger de la viande cuite sur le BBQ
8. Eating marshmallow cook on a bond fire /Manger des guimauves sur un feu de camp
9. Fresh berries, espacially the wild kind / Manger des baies fraiches, spécialement les sortes sauvages
10.Parties/ Les party
11. Festival /LEs festivals
12.Getting a suntan /Avoir une bonzage
13. being able to see the touristic attraction / Pouvoir être capable d'aller visiter les attractions touristiques
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6.Joely Sue Burkhart 7. Wylie Kinson

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