Sunday, 25 October 2009

• Canadian television and other rambles

  I'm becoming rather lax with my blogging it seems. Which is terrible considering that i nag other people constantly about their lack of frequent blogging.
  
  I have been 'thought-blogging' this last week though, and looking for a quiet opportunity to sit down for a while and put it to paper cyberspace. Recently i've been watching some tv. Something i dont do much of regardless of where in the world i am, but Josh will have had the tv on to watch hockey or whatever and then he'll leave to play hockey at a ridiculous time of night (10pm) and leave me stuck on the couch like a whale within arms reach of the remote. So i've been watching some Canadian TV the past few weeks and have decided that despite my fondness for most things Canadian, our tendency towards gratuitous liberality and 'freedom of expression' is definitely not one of these things! What is it about Canadian culture that needs to push the boundaries beyond the lovely multi-culturalism and just a bit less socially restrained-ness of our southern neighbours? Why must we force 'real life' issues, fringe issues i might add, to the forefront of main-stream television? Why do Canadians feel the necessity to ensure that all people are correctly sensitized to 'the way things are' now in the world (well, in the western world that is). Does the watching public not realize that we're being brain washed here? Do the TV producers think we're so stupid as to watch such blatant displays of fringe behavior on the telly and swallow it as normal?! The scary thing is, this kind of brain washing does work. It has in the past. It will in the present. Canada is on the fast-track to her own glorified liberalism and uber-tolerance. And i want no part of it. I DO want a part of the new CBC Radio that plays singer-songwriters now more often than classical (although that was a painful transition for me to make, i confess). I do want a part of the rich tradition of multi-cultural embracing that we've developed and the national pride we attempt to foster for our teams in the winter Olympics and for our country in general. I appreciate the more down-to-earth-ness that i see demonstrated at least in the prairie provinces - that same characteristic being largely responsible (i think) for the fact that very few people are suffering greatly from this global recession. Who is it, then, who are pushing this supposed Canadian culture, this liberal agenda down our throats through the media? Who is it that is sucumbing to the American propensity towards fear-mongering when it comes to H1N1 flu and its supposed miracle vaccine? Are we all simply being led by the nose by those uppity Torontonians?! Bah!
  
  Judah has continued to embark on a plethora of adventures in the past few weeks. My parents took him cycling in the park in the city last weekend when it was so lovely outside. They even managed to get to BDI before it closed for the season.
   
  
  
  
  
  
  Josh was busy this last week mowing people's yards, washing windows and being an overall generally helpful guy to family and friends around town. Judah was quite stoked to help out with the window washing himself, although i reckon he made more streaks than anything else.
  
  
  I am continuing to grow bigger and more uncomfortable as the days go by. I continue to receive MANY comments about the immediate arrival of my child, to which i have no sufficiently gracious reply. I've still about a month or so to go. Perhaps i should print a shirt that states this fact and wear it every time i go out. The ladies at Judah's preschool continue to be the most insiduous commenters in this regard. For my own records, my feet are so very swollen that my socks leave deep indentations on my ankles every day. They feel like balloons and i'm certain i have stretch marks on the bottom of my feet because of the swelling! I've pains in places that make me thing labour is imminent, however i'm sure it's just a preparation type thing. I've been scheduled for a fetal assessment this coming Friday to determine the position of the baby since the midwives continue to be confused at whether the babe is breech or not. Josh will leave that same day, before my appointment, for the west to speak at a variety of EMC church missions events. I've hired a doula in case i should need to go to the hospital while he's away Sleeping has become mission-impossible most nights, and i've often ended up moving Judah to the baby-crib-mattress on the floor and taken over his bed in order to get some uninterupted sleep. We need more beds in our suite i reckon.
  
  
  
  
  

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