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My Weekend
So I went to a wedding this weekend. It was kind of meh. But as always, going to weddings makes me think of what my wedding will be like, except not.
After going though my sisters wedding, I had decided to elope. I wold tell no one, and then just show up with a husband for the next family dinner.
This time though, I was thinking that maybe I'd have an actual wedding. I'm not overly religious, so maybe an Elvis impersonator as the celebrant? Except I could care less about Elvis, maybe someone dressed up as an alien? I'm a sci fi fan.
Also, since I'm cheep, maybe rather than pay a lot of money to feed everyone at the part after, I could just have a pot luck. :P
I really suck at dancing (I know this, because sometimes I dance with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
raxhel who is slightly more graceful than me, but tends to just copy my dance moves, and *she* looks goofy dancing, so I *know* I do too), so, for my first dance, I want to make sure I know the moves. To that end, I think my first dance should be the Macarena.
I feel I can't go wrong. I think at the next wedding I go to, I will plan my wedding dress.
In other news, when we were in the car on the way down to the wedding, we were listening to the news, and apparently a report went through, about the cities gunfire. In 2007, Ottawa police fired their guns 51 times. I had never really thought about it before, but I would have thought that number would be higher. Also, of the 51 times their guns were fired, all of them were aimed at animals, which didn't actually surprise me. Ottawa has expanding suburbs into areas that used to be forest, so you have a pretty good chance of hitting a deer or fox or turkey. My sister hit a deer once, and the police officer had to kill it because it wasn't going to make it.
After going though my sisters wedding, I had decided to elope. I wold tell no one, and then just show up with a husband for the next family dinner.
This time though, I was thinking that maybe I'd have an actual wedding. I'm not overly religious, so maybe an Elvis impersonator as the celebrant? Except I could care less about Elvis, maybe someone dressed up as an alien? I'm a sci fi fan.
Also, since I'm cheep, maybe rather than pay a lot of money to feed everyone at the part after, I could just have a pot luck. :P
I really suck at dancing (I know this, because sometimes I dance with
raxhel who is slightly more graceful than me, but tends to just copy my dance moves, and *she* looks goofy dancing, so I *know* I do too), so, for my first dance, I want to make sure I know the moves. To that end, I think my first dance should be the Macarena. I feel I can't go wrong. I think at the next wedding I go to, I will plan my wedding dress.
In other news, when we were in the car on the way down to the wedding, we were listening to the news, and apparently a report went through, about the cities gunfire. In 2007, Ottawa police fired their guns 51 times. I had never really thought about it before, but I would have thought that number would be higher. Also, of the 51 times their guns were fired, all of them were aimed at animals, which didn't actually surprise me. Ottawa has expanding suburbs into areas that used to be forest, so you have a pretty good chance of hitting a deer or fox or turkey. My sister hit a deer once, and the police officer had to kill it because it wasn't going to make it.
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Also, the shooting stats cracked me up. Oh, Canada. <3
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Hey, if you're willing to forgo the Vegas part, I would so marry you in Niagra Falls a la Britney Spears (ie, get divorced the next day :) just so we can say we *did*.
Also, the shooting stats cracked me up. Oh, Canada. <3
Yeah, what do you think the normal shooting stats in the US is? I mean, in Canada, violence is on the rise, but even in Toronto, Canada's most violent city, the number of murders a year is under 100 (I think it was 87 in 2007, but I could be wrong on that) not that any number of murders is good, but when I think back to that Numb3rs ep, where Charlie was going after gang murders in LA and there were *so* many.
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On the shooting front, now you've got me curious as to what gun ownership laws are like in Canada. I'll have to do some research.
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Yesss!
As for the gun laws here, I know that the laws are really different, but so is the attitude.
Half the time when Canadians here Americans talk about guns, the mind just boggles. Like the thought that having a gun in your house will protect your family? Not one widely held. Most of the guns that are legally owned are hunting rifles, because we have a lot of wildlife (both for hunting, and just that farmers need them sometimes). Canadians just don't like guns that much. Our thoughts are, if no one carries guns, then we'll all be safer, whereas sometimes the impression we get from places like the NRA is that they think we'd all be safer if *everyone* carried a gun.
There's a joke in Canada that we have the right to bare arms, but we'd rather not, because we sunburn easily.
I know that a few years ago the government pumped a billion dollars into a gun control registry that was very much useless (most of the dangerous guns aren't registered. You can't legally carry automatic weapons or any semi-automatics that can be converted into an automatic).
If you'd like to research it, this site is a good one.