...driving at Mach 2 (the over 900 miles from FLA to CHI) and every cop passed is busy giving a ticket to another driver.

YESSS!


...not recognizing "home" due to the fullness and lushness of the trees and other plants.
I need to reorient myself to the neighbourhood(s).
Gotta love Spring in Wintery places.

that's pretty great.

Mine:

You find your "lost" iPod in a jacket you haven't worn in over a year.

You wake up in Canada with the pups all snuggled up to you and your mom is brewing a pot of Timmy's?

OMG I have so done that; and I had accused everyone of "stealing" my super cool black sunglasses, only to find them in, you guessed it, a jacket unworn for months.
Red cheeks for sure.

...you try to convince someone of something that you had held fast to, and they are able to convince you why the other side works (too).

gas prices rise, and you filled up the night before. take that OPEC. =)

...when you cry the whole year that you don't feel home yet, but the minute you visit your family in Canada, you KNOW you want to go back home in the US!



Sure helped putting my ideas back in place

When you realize you've made it two years long distance and you have less than 2 months to go!!!!!!

Congrats!!

When you think everything is falling apart around your ears but make the choice to tough it out, and as soon as you decide to tough it out, everything starts falling in place

Sharon picked up her wedding rings and my band yesterday, that put a sparkle in her eyes and smile on her face, and will on mine also soon.

I'm lovin' it.

Keep it coming keep it coming!


Congrats to Ron & Sharon for taking a step forward with something you can control and make yourselves feel somewhat better.
Congrats BMJ for hanging in there.
A congrats to you and your honey jundp.
And Mephys, I know what you are talkin' about. I feel like that every time I revisit places I've lived and think I still want to live there. (There are lots.)
Good work Cattatude. Stick to 'em. Ha! It would be even better if you parked the vehicle and got yourself a fun l'il scooter or got around mostly by bicycle (if possible).



...when the "new month" arrives and you have used up all your cellphone minutes. (Yippee!)

Take that Verizon!

Seeing my wife's face after we went to look at a house and then the nervousness after we placed in an offer yesterday and am now waiting haha

When we put an ad in the paper to sell our car yesterday and get a call about it already?

aww that's so nice..
you two need tons of *sparkle* moments =)

Amen to that!

...your husband tells your supervisor "thank you for riding my wife" when he picks her up to take her to work after her car breaks down.

(Yes, this actually happened a few months ago. *LOL!* I love my French-Canadian and his occasional misuse of the English language.)

Thank you, I hope there are sparkles for everyoneat least blue skies and bright days ahead, we all could use some and that would make for good news.

This thread is a great idea.

Given time he will become a true Franglais (bilingual)

It is, I love it

Thank you! And the best part is that we get to spend the first night alone.
In Canada


Awwww....congrats! As insignificant as some people think a wedding band is after all we go through to get there, to me, it's like the final "you did it!"
I'm happy for your sparkles...

This is a wonderful idea for the thread, thanks Spirit.

My heart just keeps swelling and swelling with all of you wonder-full people.

...when you're walking around exploring downtown and you run into something this cool:



a solar powered trash can WOW!

When it's your wedding anniversary and only one of all your friends has said congratulations. Wait, that should go in The Vent.

me, too. thank you, spirit!

When you wake up and you know that this is your day; a day free of pain, suffering and the mediocrity of everyday affairs, when you KNOW that the infinite is inside of you. Feeling immortal for that one day, gotta love it. Also, when there's a half-off sale on chocolate.


As long as it's not dilated cardiomyopathy. Seriously, this is great thread.

Needy people interrupt a great thread? I love it when it's your Sister's Second Wedding Anniversary, CONGRATS Sis.

....your hands are all dirty from digging in the soil and planting and gardening and such??

You just saw your fiance last weekend and you get to see him again next weekend! Yeah 2x in 1 month ... I'm such a lucky lady!

Gotta love it when I get a poem in an email from my Love. Always brightens my day.

When you get to party with your favorite Cousin who you haven't seen in months this weekend!

...when you know that the Notice of Item from the post office means your VISA has arrived

...when you know that in a mere 5 weeks a church wedding will happen and 2 days later the move to a new home comes along

You are about to make complicated dinner and Hubby says" Lets eat out" Ahhh!

WOOHOO congrats I'm so happy for you

Wow so much good news!
This is simply wonder-full....and spreading to outside of us from the Cannuck forum.

...you get to finally see why Lake sailing is as much fun as ocean sailing (racing).
(It was a long time in coming...)

Check out the sunset:
(although it is setting on the "wrong" side...hahaha)









Check out the orbs!!

....you are only a few weeks away from seeing family that you've not seen in two years. Mahvelous!

...you look at your husband and daughter, realising they ARE your greatest accomplishments in life. Priceless indeed!

...you know you are truly loved and adored like you have never been loved and adored before.

Oh, I miss my sailing days on Lake Ontario and Lake Erie! Yes, lake sailing on the Great Lakes is pretty phenomenal!

Don't you love it when you get treated to a lovely homemade Ukrainian dinner from new friends you met on VJ? Joe and I visited Anna and Richard last night - they also live in Stockbridge, and Anna is originally from Kiev. We had a wonderful meal, complete with Ukrainian vodka and cognac, and had an enjoyable evening visiting afterwards.

Did you get the house, Bowflex?

Great thread, Spirit!

That is a lovely way to spend an evening, and with Ukrainian food to boot! Perogies, cabbage rolls, yum yum.

Don't you just it when . . . . your kitty decides today that you are Queen Sheba, and they will honour you with purrs and snuggles.

when you actually have beautiful weather (in Seattle) and a free festival to attend

When you finally get your tax incentive check, go out to buy the barbeque you have had your eye on for 2 years now - and find that it is on sale for $60 less than the regular price you were willing to pay!

It finally rains after weeks of hot sun and the wet earth smells so divine!

You live in Florida, don't you?

I love it when your laptop stops working so you drag it all the way to Canada with you (and literally fall over it in the airport cause you have so much stuff) for your future son-in-law to fix and he calls a few hours later to ask "What, exactly, is wrong with it?" Yep... you guessed it.... it worked fine for him. Guess it just needed a vacation.

Oh, I'm sorry. I guess this should have been in the vent thread.

......you finally find the piece in the jigsaw puzzle whose empty hole has been driving you crazy?

(can you tell what I have been doing on my holiday weekend?? )

You get your pretty new Target Visa card (which you applied for as a Canadian) in the mail the day before you get your SS Card in the mail, so you call customer service and advise them that you have emigrated from Canada to the States and they apply all your new info, and then you are instantly building credit in the US. Now I don't have to use my Canadian cc with the stupid 2.5% surcharge in the US, and I have avoided getting a secured card. Yay! And whoever posted here on VJ about this idea - THANKS!!

Also, I love it when you wake up on Vancouver Island and look out the window and there is mist and cloud caught over the lake and the low lying hills, and it is also sunny and it is also raining lightly. It was like that here in Victoria thi morning (I'm visiting my parents).

I love puzzles! I used to do them at the cottage all the time. Here I just do them online.

Yippee!
It makes me smile everytme I look at your posts...and I read them again and again.

Bluegreen, you made me so homesick with your description of Vancouver Is. Congrats on your SS and credit cards.
And Warriorprincess, the smell of rain on earth (soil) is divine.
I lived on one of the golf islands and I loved it when I saw the sun streaks through the tall cedars and fir trees.
Oh the scent of the forest was intoxicating. Mmmmm....


Missing puzzle pieces huh Cassie?
I get obsessed when I am faced with a jigsaw puzzle.
I won't sleep/rest until I finish it.
Hahaha!
Thankgodd I don't have them around too often....it's been years.

Krikit, that is what is known as the phenomena of technology.
You got hit with the classic scenario.

What great news bowflex. Do tell...



For your viewing pleasure, may I present Gulf Islands magic:





Oh and what the H, this is one of my favourite's of English Bay area:



These are all old photos taken on, gasp, film!