abandonné //29 mots sous la pluie

abandonné //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

abandonné - everywhere you go, the architecture of a particular town or area tells a story. The story of the past of the community, how people made a living and what kept the community thriving. Grain elevators were essential to prairie town economies for the past 100 years or so, but now they're almost all gone. The ones you see now days are either abandoned, privately owned, or large concrete structures that handle several elevators worth of grain. We will be seeing less of these wooden beauties over time.

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obsédé //29 mots sous la pluie

obsédé //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

obsédé - when does being a fan of something become an obsession? When you have a fan club? When you know almost all their songs? Well, I don't know really. Consider me "obsessed" or just consider me a bored fan who likes BURTON CUMMINGS' music!

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raillerie //29 mots sous la pluie

raillerie //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

raillerie - Face it, we all get cravings more than once in a while. Sometimes we have a delicious pastry right infront of us, it taunts you, tells you "eeeeeeat me!" Sometimes our willpower refuses us to eat said pastry, but other times, you just got to. That's what's happening to me today, I bought a 6 of Caramel apple fritters from Tim Hortons, while Tim Hortons baking goods suck, the caramel apple fritter is a doughy piece of heaven, and soo soo bad for your health! it's hard to resist though!

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céphalée //29 mots sous la pluie

céphalée, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

céphalée - I'm hungover, I drank two too many beers last night, and now I'm paying for it. With it, I'm insanely grouchy*, moody, tired, lonely, bitchy, hungry/not hungry, and all that. Frankly I'm sick with everything and everyone. I apply for more jobs than most people and all I ever get is a "thanks but no thanks" or they find some sort of loophole not to hire me. Today's incarnation of not getting a job was being told I didn't go to the "information session" so I'm no longer qualified. I never even was made aware of it in the first place. I can't wait until employers COME TO ME and beg me to work for them, either than other way around. Also, Brandon Manitoba is not the best place to live in. Rude people, no friends, very cliquish.. get me out of here!


*wait, I'm always grouchy!

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fatigué //29 mots sous la pluie

fatigué //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

fatigué - I wish everyone was entitled to little cat naps just like cats do. Lucky them. 8 hours without a single nap is just wrong. Amiriteoramirite?

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nul //29 mots sous la pluie

nul //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

nul - Here in Canada, winter lasts for what seems like forever. With this, entire regions are covered in a thick hard layer of snow. Walking out on the prairies, I get a sense of nothingness, there's nobody around me, I'm the only creature for several kilometres as it's too uninhabitable to do anything. The only sign of life are my footprints. No-one else will ever see these foot prints as nobody will go out of their way to actually walk in my steps (literally, not figuratively). I don't blame them... unless if they were snowshoeing! Walking in a combination of hard/soft 3 foot deep snow in the middle of nowhere is quite the challenge. For every two steps you have yourself on TOP of the snow, you will have another 8 steps where you'll be thigh deep in the snow, as it cannot support a person's body, but the next 3 steps after that, it feels like you're on the top of the world, sometimes.

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démodé //29 mots sous la pluie

démodé //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

démodé - we've gotten to the point in society where everything from the past is now obsolete. Glass bottles? Replaced with "lightweight" plastic bottles. The downside to that is that stuff like plastic will eventually be known to cause problems to peoples health. I wish it was easier to find products in glass again. If you've had a sip of Coca Cola in a glass bottle, you'll know what I mean - the product in plastic tastes horrible. Bring back glass! Or atleast give people an option to buy non-plastic based products.

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fuir //29 mots sous la pluie

fuir //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

fuir - aujourd'hui c'est la journée Louis Riel. Manitoba's equivalent of "Family Day." Louis Riel Day is in honour of the controversial hero to French Canada and traitor to others. He stood up for the rights of Francophones, Aboriginals and métis groups. He turned Manitoba into a republic that lasted only a few hours, and was eventually hanged in 1885 as he was convicted for treason. This only outraged French and Aboriginal groups in Canada, and the effects are still felt to this very day.

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céréalier //29 mots sous la pluie

céréalier //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

céréalier - to be honest, without your local grain farmers, food would be incredibly expensive. Farmers work around the clock almost all year round to make sure their crops are healthy and are good enough to ship to elevators and mills to be processed into flour, oils and other substances. Farming is not a profitable industry in this decade. Every year I hear about more and more neighbours giving up and closing up shop, it's just not profitable enough anymore.

Support your local farmer by buying only local products whenever you can. One good way is through farmers markets, which are generally very easy to find in most cities.

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inquiétude //29 mots sous la pluie

inquiétude //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

inquiétude - I have been on the job search game for around 25 months now (just over two years). It's taught me two things - be patient and that the dream job won't be handed to you. You have to spend tens of thousands of stressful hours before you get even an interview, if you're lucky. Every day I go check the mail, hope that there is a letter for me regarding a job.. as it seems many employers still prefer to communicate through snail mail and fax rather than over the phone or over the internet. I get excited when I do get I see a letter addressed to me, but usually it turns out to be a piece of propaganda from the Liberal Party of Canada or a bill. Once in a while I do get letters from employers, letting me know that I did not get that job I drove two hours on Christmas Eve to interview for. The future does get brighter, but one wonders when?

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crépuscule //29 mots sous la pluie

crépuscule //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

crépuscule - even with the days getting longer.. nights are still pitch black by 7PM. In the summer time I love sitting outside on the deck and watching the sunset slowly happening while sipping back a beer.


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savoureux //29 mots sous la pluie

savoureux //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

savoureux - Once every few months a bunch of my family will come out to the country for some sort of reason, whether theyre on vacation or a family emergency. This time, it was my grandpère's death that brought them out a few weeks ago. Whenever the family gets together, everyone gets buzzed.. cuz that's the family tradition haha! Well, the family generally drinks rye and crappy beer. I saw this and I was very pleased, someone in my own family actually likes good beer. There's an unstable box full of 24+ beers by Half Pints brewing consisting of Little Scrapper IPA and St James Pale Ale. Kudos to whoevers beer that is! Glad to see that I'm not the only one in the family that enjoys a GOOD beer!

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tranquillité //29 mots sous la pluie

tranquillité //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

tranquillité - It was one of those days where you just wanted to walk around without a care in the world, not think about anything, just relax and enjoy the surroundings. Today was one of those days. With beautiful weather, you kind of have to - rather than be cooped up infront of a computer 18 hours a day.

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télécharger //29 mots sous la pluie

télécharger //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

télécharger - One thing I love to do is download, download and download some more. I'm a very bored person so once in a while I'll download podcasts to keep me busy while going for a walk downtown. Bande à part's podcast is my favourite out of them all. However, I prefer to download it on my iPhone. The ability to download it on iPhone is quite nice, but Rogers' network is too damned slow to do so. Brandon's the largest community in Canada without 3G cellular service, so it's going to take 424 minutes (7 hours) to download a TWENTY MEGABYTE file! To be fair, it's now saying 347 minutes (5.7 hours) now but that's too damned long to download a 20mb file, even dialup is faster.

I love the ability to be mobile, but not to the point where it takes longer to download a file than it is to take a flight, book a hotel room, and go to the concert of said bands (on the podcast) to hear the music.

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célibataire //29 mots sous la pluie

célibataire //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

célibataire - today's considered "the" day of love, thanks to all the BS advertising from chocolate companies, jewellery companies and the like. For someone who is all-of-a-sudden single, you can't really do much but be lonely, and drink a shitload of crappy 10% beer. Today's theme was to be amoureuse, but hey - things change at the last second!

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alcoolique //29 mots sous la pluie

alcoolique //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

alcoolique - Sometimes I wonder if I'm an alcoholic. Why? Well because of alcohol, I got dumped this morning, it makes things awkward and people get upset. Now I'll be spending Valentines day wanting to hibernate until I have a job. I guess that's one of the reasons why I'm like that, I look for 18 months for a job, nothing comes up, so off to the bottle I go?

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grossière //29 mots sous la pluie

grossière //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

grossière - The girlfriend's just rude and this is mean, I was lying on my stomach and she gets out a marker and starts writing something on my back and this is what it was. Anyone else ever have a loved one do something so mean?

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réaménagement //29 mots sous la pluie

réaménagement //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

réaménagement - the general feeling of downtowns of any Canadian city is abandonment, displeasure and out-of-business. It's good to see some buildings, like this old Safeway being renovated for other purposes. In this case, it's going to be turned into a police station. Strangely enough, I've always thought that that lot would make a great location for a Tim Hortons.

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ambiguïté //29 mots sous la pluie

ambiguïté //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

ambiguïté - Living in this building for a long long long time, people leave their shit behind, you never know what they will leave behind, nor whose stuff it is. I've seen people leave behind hundreds of dollars of food, to clothing to furniture. It's quite weird really, but living in this dive of a dump, I don't blame them for rushing to move out of here as soon as possible, with half their stuff left behind.

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chômage //29 mots sous la pluie

chômage //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

Chômage - In any given community, businesses close down and lead to unemployment - people looking for a new source of income. This location was once a K-Mart, then it closed down and was replaced with a Zellers. The Zellers closed and moved to a different location, and was finally replaced with a Fields, and then again - closed.

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solitaire //29 mots sous la pluie

solitaire //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

Solitaire - The theme to the 29 mots sous la pluie project for the most part has been depressing/loneliness, and this is no exception to it. This photo was taken on the drive down a gravel road during a cold, very dark, snow blowing night. You don't pass a single vehicle on the road, and the only sense of civilization is when you nearly run into deer.

The reverse of this - carefree highway - when you travel down a stretch of prairie highway, listening to your favourite music during the middle of summer and loving life!

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Cerf //29 mots sous la pluie

Cerf //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

Cerf - In rural Manitoba, one hobby farmers and people from the city like to do is hunt (and fish). I've never hunted in my life, nor plan to but it's been a tradition in my family for several decades. Farmers and hunters alike collect the heads of the deer they shoot as a "trophy" of their accomplishments.

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Buriné //29 mots sous la pluie

Buriné //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

Buriné - This old building was a food vendor/hang out during the summer times. Like anything else, nothing lasts forever, weathering takes place and eventually deteriorates everything. I remember coming here hundreds of times in my youth, like the summer of '92 I'd get an ice cold soda and a Mr Freeze freezie, or a hot dog. Oh how the times change. I don't believe this is in use anymore.

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passe-temps //29 mots sous la pluie

passe-temps //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

Passe-temps. Last week my grand-père (right in photo) died at the age of 85. I never did get to really know him. He was a quiet man. He worked harder and longer than most people I knew. When I was very young he would go hunting during deer season and ice fishing, but over time he stopped doing that completely. Today was his "celebration of life" gathering at a local community centre as it was in his best interest for only that to occur rather than a funeral. Several of his siblings, all my uncles and aunt and most of my cousins (except one) all made the trek. What's crazy is most of my grand-père's siblings are still alive and kicking. Everyone has a story, but we never really know anything about the story until the story is already written (death).

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Communauté //29 mots sous la pluie

Communauté //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

Communauté - This weekend the Lieutenant Governor's Winter Festival going on in Brandon, Manitoba. It's a free event with free bus shuttles where you can see a bit of what some of the community's several vibrant cultures are all about. Last night I checked out the Franco-Canadien pavilion. As a Franco-Canadien, it's a requirement to go every single year. I get to drink beer by Unibroue, eat crêpes, listen to folky music and eat tire sur glacé. Yum. Times like this I'm happy to be French Canadian, but they need poutine!

This is a sculpture of a big pot of pea soup (soupe aux pois), which is a staple dish for Francophone families here and Quebec. Vive la culture!

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Étudier //29 mots sous la pluie

Étudier //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

Étudier - I spent 6 years of my life to work on a 3 year double major arts degree, yes six. What have I learned from it? Your dream job doesn't exist, also - diversify the hell out of everything. If you don't have a minor in business and history and philosophy and German, you're screwed for life! Nobody will HIRE you as youth unemployment is at its highest level in decades and employers have the right to be as picky as they want in this economy. Edit: Take what I just said with a grain of salt, read that with lots of sarcasm in it!

I'm proud of Chantal, she's worked her ass off for the past four years working on a Psychiatric Nursing degree and she's only a few months away from graduating! She's stressed her ass off on a regular basis but now that she's near the end of the tunnel, she is not really giving an eff about how she does on upcoming assignments, and I don't blame her. Politics degree graduates aren't in demand, psychiatric nurses ARE!

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Gelé //29 mots sous la pluie

Gelé //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

Gelé - Waking up today, I look at the Weather network app on my iPhone and it says "windchill of -35C." On days like that I just want to avoid civilization completely. Why not? It's too cold to do anything. Then you look at US TV, or hell.. Ontario TV and they're whining about this white powder called "snow", as if they've never seen it before, as if it's going to kill off the civilization. Um.. that's what winter is for.

I saw this ice lodge/backup and now I realize why my old room flooded each and every damned spring. Yum, the smell of mildew!

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camaraderie //29 mots sous la pluie

camaraderie //29 mots sous la pluie, originally uploaded by Cody La Bière.

Bienvenue tout le monde, welcome everyone! I've started a bit of a Flickr project titled « 29 mots sous la pluie. » Which, in English translates to "29 words in the rain." It's a project that brings together my feelings and thoughts together with photos. For 29 days I'll be doing un mot (one word) per day.

Why 29 mots sous la pluie? February is generally the most depressing month of the year for me. While it is the shortest month of the year, it also feels like the longest, as well as the coldest - and in some years - the most depressing. The phrase is an oxymoron for living in Manitoba as it's always a cold, gloomy windchill packed month.

For 29 days I'll be choosing one word en français to describe the mood.

Le mot ce jour - camaraderie - j'ai choisi ce mot parce que quand j'ai vu des bières de Chambly d'Unibroue, c'est comme une famille. Seule, c'est une bière delicieuse, mais ensemble, c'est une histoire. I chose the word because when I look at these Chambly beers by Unibroue, it's like a family. Alone, the beer's delicious but together it's like a story.

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