hardy ha ha, canadians.

So, I was all excited. Wednesday I ordered Hard Core Logo and Men With Brooms from amazon.ca, and Thursday they shipped, and yesterday I got a little notification that there was a package from Amazon Canada that had to be signed for, so I should go to the post office and pick it up. Wow, I thought. That was fast. I hope it's not that defective Due South tape I sent back being returned undeliverable.

Oh, no. See, it's funnier than that. So I get out of bed on a Saturday morning, all psyched because I get to watch Canadian movies instead of studying for my Weather final, and I go stand in line at the post office, and I get... a little package I've never seen before, labeled 'VHS Tape'. See, my returned tape got to the Amazon.ca people, and they opened it up, and they saw that it was a defective tape that I had sent to them to replace, you know, because I didn't want it. And they saw also that it was only part of a set. So they packed it up and they paid to ship it back to me. A defective tape that they had already replaced that I obviously didn't want back.

And, being sneaky Canadian types, they made me sign for it.

Hem. In the spirit of still feeling the Canada-love even if I can't watch an entire movie about curling... Canadia by V. It's AU boyband slash, so that instead of being a boyband they're just five guys hanging out in, I think, Toronto. At which point, even if you don't like RPS, you can just read it as a slash story with a funny naming scheme. Plus, they're Canadian! Watching hockey and hanging out at Tim Horton's.

Okay. Feel better now.

Also.

Has anybody else heard the thing about TNN changing its name to 'SpikeTV'?

No, seriously. Apparently they want to be a manly-man station, and they figure the best way to do that is to, uh, have a manly-man name.

Me, I'm just wondering if this means they're going to be running Passions reruns. Ooh, and Dawson.

Despite the name, Hecht promises the network will be no He-Man Woman Hater's Club.

"We'll be unapologetically male," he said. "But it will also be a place where women are welcomed."

Could be, then...

money can buy...

A Red Wings jersey (Stevie!), and an 'Original Six: Old Time Hockey' t-shirt (which means I'll never forget the Bruins again!), and cute shirts at Old Navy, and cheap-o bracelets that give me something to fidget with and hopefully won't make my wrist break out in a rash, and a Strawberry Shortcake air freshener. Oooh, and Arctic Orange shakes at McDonald's. All of which leads straight to happiness, today.