Most days it was just a brown paper bag...

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Look what else i saw downtown that day! These kick my
old lunch boxes asses. I had a Scooby Doo one and I
think The Get Along Gang. Who was on your  lunch box?

Read about the crazy hairdoo adventure Tanya and I had at Tim Hortons. We were caught in hairdoo hell. I swear.

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News photos i saw today. Sorry about the lame post, drew a blank today.

This poor dog. It's not bad enough it was born a poodle. the owners do THIS to it.

A colorful pet dog. This year has seen an explosion of new pampering products for man's furry friends, among the more unusual of which is a fragrance designed to neutralize the sexual scent of female dogs, a study said.




HOW COOL IS THIS??

Two U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds perform a mirror formation during Aviation Nation Air Show at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2005.









How UNCOOL is this? As an ex-smoker, it really creeps me out.

A healthy human lung, left, and a smokers lung injected with a polymer preservative are on display during a press preview of 'Bodies...The Exhibition,' Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005 in New York. The exhibit which feature 22 whole body specimens, as well as more than 260 additional organs and body specimens opens at the South Street Seaport Nov. 19, 2005

I AM NOT A RACIST. Let me just make that clear right off the bat. Anyone who knows me at all will testify to that fact. But what I do have a problem with is when people do this to a house they were given.

I don't care about the nationality of the owners of this house. These could be my parents and I'd feel the same way. They suck. This house was only 3 years old.

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Last Night Rob and I went out for Chineese Food. Rob thinks wontons look like brains. I think they look like testicles.







Mmmm. Testicles in broth. My fav.








Rob eating deep fried spiders.








Is there something on my face?






So after Chineese food, we went to the Casino with $20.00 each and within 7 minutes we had both doubled our money. Rob wanted to go. I felt greedy, so we stayed and lost it all. We aren't big gamblers. Remember, we're cheap. BUT, I thought it would be fun to play the numbers on the back of our fortunes that came in the fortune cookies after dinner. We were going to play a game or two of pool at the 6 Mile Pub. They have Keno there, so we played our fortune numbers...









Rob won $50.00!








Made up for my greediness at the casino. We had a fun night. We played pool with two lesbians who were getting really drunk. One kept saying "Fugly" and laughing her head off when her shot was bad. The other one was more harsh and was critiquing all our shots. After 45 minutes it was getting annoying, (Hey "lady", back off with your advice! It's a stupid game that I suck at ok?) and I was, as usual, so tired I was barely hanging on. So we went home. It was a fun night. I am really liking this going out thing! But I feel weird calling it freedom because we are paying for it. it's not free at all. Aparently you can put a price on freedom. $5.00 an hour to be presise.

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Every November 11th, Canadians across the country pause in a silent moment of remembrance for the men and women who served our country during wartime. We honour those who fought for Canada in the First World War (1914-1918), the Second World War (1939-1945) and the Korean War (1950-1953). More that 1,500,000 Canadians served overseas - more than 100,000 died. They gave their lives and their future so that we may live in peace. At 11:11 AM on the 11th day of the 11th month, we have this moment of silence.

I was in complete shock yesterday when I found out that HONESTLY, you people weren't messing with me. You didn't know what a poppy was or the significance of it. The significance of the poppy comes from this poem.

In Flanders Fields
By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918)
Canadian Army

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

To learn the significance of the author and the very touching story behind the writing of it, click here. It is a very short article and worth the read.

I am not writing this post to make anyone feel ignorant (I am NOT one to point a finger. Trust me). Or bad. Or make you think I think you are unthankful for past soldiers lives cut short by war. I honestly just assumed that everyone in the world took place in this day of remembrance. There is an assembly in all our schools where they observe this moment, (Normally after a video or some type of presentation. Most times the students are involved by sharing their own poems or thoughts.) as well as in work places - if the business is not shut down completely that day. It's a BIG thing here. Rob is in the Canadian Military and he has to put on his good uniform today and march in a parade. During this time there will be other, larger parades airred on tv.

There is huge part of me that actually feels guilty that I am not going to the parade today because Crofton is sick (his very first cold ever) and it's miserable out. It falls right during his morning nap. Most times I would skip it for something like this, but because he is sick he needs his sleep. I told Phats I would take pictures, but you'll just have to use your imagination. Maybe when Rob gets home I'll take a picture of him in his uniform and post it.

I just spoke to my friend and her kids are home today from school and she reminded me that we've never gone to school on Remembrance day. And the assembly I'm talking about always took place the day before.

Where did the day go?

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Thanks BabyJewels for fixing my blog title!! What a sweetie! It was driving me crazy having the writing on top of the picture. I am enjoying getting to know all you people out there in bloggerland very much!

Today I spent a big chunk of my day chatting with Phats on MSN. He's the man. It is now after 3PM and I am just finally getting into the shower. I've had a really lazy day. Not that that is weird for me, I have them all the time. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful...hate me because I'm LAZY! Anyway, something we chatted about made me think of this picture I have. It still makes me laugh when I see it and I've had it in my files for ages. This one makes me laugh too...

I won't forget.

I was in the grocery store yesterday and there were these two old ladies looking at batteries. Probably in their late 70's or 80's. The one says to the other, "Check the experation date on those batteries." So the lady does and she says "2012. Good Heaven's Gracie, I won't even live that long!" I almost burst out laughing. I thought about taking a picture of them because the whole thing was so funny and cute, but I didn't.

On a different note, I've got mine....do you have yours???

Is there a support group for this habit?

I always have about 3 books on the go at once. This is what I have been reading. I just finished the Dean Koontz one yesterday. I always feel a sense of loss after finishing a book. Like you spend all this time getting to know the characters and then it's just over. I find myself slightly depressed when I realize it's the last page. I start feeling paniky because this relationship I've spent my valuable time creating is ending and I have no say in it. But I have to keep reading. I have to know how it ends. I need closure. No matter how much it hurts.The truely weird thing about my reading habit is that once I finish a book, I don't just merely move on to one of the others I've been reading and soley concentrate on it, finishing it and then move onto the last one, neatly wrapping things up. No, that would make my life far too simple and my brain entirely too clutter free. I have to find a replacement book for the one I just tossed aside...now no longer feeling the loss, so to speak, but rather a sense of urgency to fill this unbareable void. A rebound book if you will. I have normally chosen this next book already by the time I get down to the last 60 or 100 pages. Because Heaven forbid, I go on some kind of crazy reading binge that day and be left with no replacement.

So I'm buttering my toast this morning and Rob's all "eww what are you doing?" and I say "Buttering my toast" and he says "ya, but when did you start buying white bread?"

LINK CRAZY TODAY!!

Ask and you shall receive...on many accounts. First, a couple weeks ago I had to give a list of 10 things I would bring back. One of the things I said was banana clips. Well low and behold...what is this on this store shelf? That's right... banana clips. I guess I didn't really want them to make a real comeback or I suppose I would have snatched those puppies off the shelf immediately. I stood there looking at them...should I? Naw... well, maybe... I've always wanted to know what they'd look like. Naw... It'll just end up being 3 more pieces of junk under my bathroom sink. So I didn't. But mainly because I'm cheap.












So speaking of being cheap, the other thing I asked and received for lately was this. When I got back from the mainland last Friday, I checked my mailbox. There was this little package from Stonelifter. We had had a conversation about soap earlier. He was raving about the wonders of this Rocky Mountain Soap Co. He was particularily fond of their Pumpkin Patch soap. I told him I'd have to take his word for it as I am too cheap to spend money on fancy soaps. I just keep my fingers crossed at Christmas and hope for some in my stocking....and then proceed to Costco where I buy the biggest, cheapest pack of Ivory soap available. Well, I go inside and open up my little package and wouldn't you know it, it's a bar of Rocky Mountain Soap! And I have to tell you...it IS wonderful soap. He sent me the Field and Stream bar. So in return, I sent him some rockets and a Fat Pig as a thankyou. It took me a couple days to post this because I wanted to surprise him with my thankyou. So...Thanks Stonelifter!! I love my soap. It was very thoughtful of you.









The other day I was in a health food store and came across this bottled water. I found this very disturbing. Almost as diturbing as when I came across Paul Reiser's book "Couplehood" in the self help section in a book store.

ROB AND CHER GO OUT!!!!

I actually have a couple really funny posts coming up, but I don't have time today to give them the attention they deserve. Probably Monday. Stay tuned...until then, here's a few photos to tide you over.
Click on any photo to enlarge.
Rob working on his car in the rain







Rob a little too happy to be raking leaves. I don't know what happened to the photo, but you get the idea. 1 hour later, he had hardly made a dent in them.





After leaf raking, we all went swimming on Friday. Rob had the day off, so that was fun.
I love this picture of him standing.




Playing in the pool








SWIMMING!!!







We finally found a babysitter!! So last night we actually went out to a movie!! Ate waaay too much popcorn!






Is it just me or do you think the theater could be even a tad bit more creative and a little less neglectful with their entrance center peice dealy thing?







After the movie, we went next door to an arcade. This is me playing air hockey. That's my game face. I won, but only because Rob kept scoring on himself!






Is it just me???? Or was this really funny?















Speaking of movies, when I was down visiting my sister, my Mum and Dad watched the kids and Julia and I got to go to a movie. It was a Wednesday and we were the ONLY ones in the whole theater. It was great. We talked practically through the whole thing and ended up wishing there were more people in there just for the extra body heat because we were freezing.

Things I've seen lately and stuff (click to enlarge)

Crofton and I
were in a thrift store.
I turned around and
THIS is what he was
reading. Or eating
actually.













On the back of this mini-van it says
"Experience wildlife-Raise twins"










I have a friend who would definately clog this tiolet.






Crofton dressed up as Superman to hand out candy to the trick or treaters. About 20 minutes before our first knock at the door he puked all over it.









Damn ungrateful trick or treaters.








Ok, seriously. Who would buy Pot smelling incense? Obviously people will because there was barely any left.

As usual, Click to enlarge.

We are having a crazzzzzy storm today. I keep losing my internet connection. Here's some photos.

Trust me, I don't have a tree growing near or on my back porch. (and that's my neighbours delapitaed shed)




We also don't have a tree growing out of our front porch.










That is our garbage can blowing down the street.

These trees are probably 150 feet tall. They are right by my house and when you are looking up at them they feel like they are bending in half. This picture does it no justice.




Do you think it's time to rake? This is our tenants job as they get the back yard. But they are both away, so now the job has been passed down to Rob. I'm sure he'll be really excited about it when he sees the carpet of leaves..

A beautiful maple leaf for you






Gonzo not giving a flying fat pig about the storm.