And The Award Goes To...

The Lloyd MMusic AAward for Least Inspired Name Ever for a Duo or Group goes to:

RyanDan!

Accepting the award will be the members of RyanDan, RYAN AND DAN!

Congratulations, guys!

2007

Last year at around this time, I awarded the first annual Lloydy awards (Lloyd's 2006 Mmost Aawesome Aawards. This year, there are new categories, and exciting winners in each category. So, let's get on with the ceremony, and present the statues.

First, in the category of "news story of the year", the winner is the big event that happened on December 13. Click here to read more.

Next, the winner of the best birthday gift of 2007 is the gift I received 13 days after my birthday. Click here to read more about my birthday gift.

The third award to be handed out is for the best Christmas present of 2007. The winner is this gift I received 12 days before Christmas. Runners up in this category are: my wife signing me up for the Second City's Improv Comedy classes (level A) and; my new GPS system from my in-laws, which I have named Molly after the little girl on Heroes who can find anybody. (after giving me a Serius Satelite Radio last year for Christmas and the GPS this year, my in-laws have more than doubled the value of my Chevrolet Aveo!); and also the donation to Bloorview Kids Rehab that my mother made in our names (this is the place where my son receives his physiotherapy and occupational therapy and attends nursery school).

Finally, in the category of Best Anniversary Present for 2007, the award if for the present my wife and I shared, which we received 18 days before our 10th anniversary (which, by the way is today). Click here to read more about this award winner.

So, there are the Lloydy Awards for 2007. As you can see, it was a clean sweep. What a great year.

Happy New Year everybody.

Llove,

Lloyd, Jjodi, Eeric and Aalex

Delicious Canada

Chicks dig guys who can cook, right? Right? Did I mention that I went to culinary school? I graduated in 1996, from a two-year culinary arts diploma program. I have worked in every kind of professional kitchen you can imagine. Greasy spoons, a funky London wine bar; a beautiful country inn, a world famous resort hotel and more. Chicks dig that, right?

Well, if that doesn't make you swoon, what if I told you that I studied at the Culinary Institute of Canada? Sexy, eh? What's so sexy about the CIC, you ask? Well, for one thing, it is, for the second time in a row, home to Culinary Youth Team Canada. As the website says,

These eight young chefs, all of whom trained at Holland College’s Culinary Institute of Canada, have been selected to represent the country in the most prestigious international culinary competition in the world, the Internationale Kochkunst Ausstellung, more commonly known as the Culinary Olympics, in Efurt, Germany in October of 2008

Pretty sweet, huh? But it doesn't end there. This week, at the World Junior Grand Prix in Glasgow, Scotland, Culinary Youth Team Canada was crowned "World Grand Prix Culinary Champions"! This is huge. Canadians should be really proud of this team.

Check out the website, and have a look at the pictures from Glasgow on the News page (three of my chef instructors can be seen there: Team Manager, Chef Craig Youdale as well as Coaches Chef Hans Anderegg - you might recognize him from TVs "The Next Great Chef" - and Chef Richard Braunauer). Leave them a message letting them know that Canada is proud to have the world's best young chefs.

And don't forget ladies - I studied at that great school, under those incredible chef instructors. Pretty hot, eh? Like, rockstar hot. If you want me to autograph your breasts or underwear, just let me know.

Llove,

Lloyd

2006 - a year in review

I did something I have never done. I bought a Maxim magazine. I couldn't help it. It had a really smoking hot picture of my girlfriend on the cover.

I loves me some Angelina

The issue I bought is the "2006 Most Awesome Awards" issue. Other than my Angelina winning "Woman of the Year", I didn't really think they picked very awesome award winners. So, I decided I would do it better than them. Here is my very own...

Lloyd's 2006 Mmost Aawesome Aawards

(AKA The Lloydy Awards)

1. Woman of the Year: You guessed it, I agree with Maxim on this one.

Angelina was really emotional when she learned that she had won the coveted "Lloydy" award.

2. Blog of the year: Becspeak. Well written, funny, interesting. Rebecca and her husband Garth are two of the coolest people I know. Read it, because I said so.

3. Best CD my wife and I bought this year: John Lithgow - Singin' in the Bathtub

This CD makes my son smile from the first note all the way to the end. If you have kids, you need this CD

4. Best Stand-up Comedy Debut by Somebody Named Lloyd - The winner is... ME.

5. Best Canadian Political Moment: Outgoing Alberta Premier Ralph Klein's comment about former Conservative, now Liberal Belinda Stronach (former girlfriend of Conservative heavy Peter MacKay) never having a Conservative bone in her body... Well, maybe one. Watch the video here and learn more about Belinda and Peter here. I'm not a fan of King Ralph at all, but this was funny stuff.

6. Best American Political Moment: Vice President Dick Cheney mistaking one of his hunting partners for a bird. I think the real story is that the dude kept teasing Dick about his "lez-been" daughter so the veep had to shut him up.

7. Cutest kid of 2006: Mine

I'm sure you think your kid is the cutest, but you are wrong

8. Best Weight-loss Plan of 2006: Mine

So, there you have it. The best of 2006. I'm sure many of you disagree with some or all of my choices. But that's the great thing about living in a free society. You are free to learn how wrong you are and to learn what you should really believe.

Enjoy the rest of 2006 kids.

Llove,

Lloyd