lol

Well it must be so exciting to have them there!! I hope you have a blast, it's always so much fun to go and pick someone up from the airport

I hope they have a really good time, you said something about going on holiday with your Sister, are you guys doing something when they get back?

me be here. i'm feeling canadian today, had more snow again yesterday that i have to shovel today.
anyone seen carla and the coffee?

Everyone must be sleeping in ! Snowing here too, really our first heavy snow this winter, big chunky flakes, no intention of shovelling anything

It's snowing again here...big fat flakes. The ground is wet but the weather guys and gals are calling for an accumulation of at least 1 to 2 inches for us. Gonna go make another pot of coffee and watch the snow fall.

We're going out for a hike now.. before the "deep freeze" sets in here tonite No snow here!!

You are watching snow

Well I can see my neighbours roof from here and I am just about to go close the blinds lest we get snow blindness - remember to wear your shades

That's USCIS' job.

Just had to prove I actually went on a hike Enjoy!

mmmmmmm - how beautiful!

me be here!
where's the carlacoffee ™?

mighty quiet in here today - got this coffee from carla

great coffee! anyone here?

where is everyone? only 3 posts yesterday? is everyone out at tim horton's instead?

I'm here I'm here!! I have today off...but..I'm going back to bed!

Joel and I are both off today...a rarity indeed! Coffee with a sausage, egg, and cheese croissant are for breakfast. No real plans today...just spending time together.

BTW, has anyone made Charles an honourary Canadian yet?

We're both off today..

I'm going to get amazing deals at CVS today.. FREE FREE FREE Have all my coupons and am just waiting for my prescription to be ready to start the big deal..

We are hoping to go for a hike today as well..

I think Charles isn't even honourary anymore he's just Canadian!

What are you getting for free Emancipation!?

Yes, what is free? SHARE SHARE SHARE

Well.... let me see..

I've got a coupon for a $25.00 gift card for CVS when you fill a new prescription so i'll start with $25.00 of free money for filling my BC prescription..

Then they have spend $20.00 on Proctor Gamble stuff get ECB's for $5.00 PLUS i have a spend $20.00 get $4.00 off.. so i'll get $20.00 of stuff for $11.00 (which is all free moneY)..

Then I'll do another purchase with a spend 10.00 get 2.00 off.. have a bunch of coupons and we'll be getting loads of stuff for FREE tee hee.. I'm a bargin shopper for sure..

PLUS i have a $20.00 off glucose meter(makes it free).. I'm not diabetic but i'll donate it to a charity..

I'll do as much with my ECB's as i possibly can !

Wow! That sounds like fun to me!

As you probably know we rarely get any coupons at all here, we used to.

Hey I meant to ask for those of you already in the States, anything similar to the airmiles program? I have 'purchased' so many things with my airmiles, in fact my new camera is on its way to me right now! It's the second one i've gotten from them, plus my blender and 2 different phones, etc etc.

Yeah!! Free loot!!!

Not that I know of... I never see signs at gas stations etc. where you'd regularly find ads for that sort of stuff..

I know that there are really great "store" cards - like CVS or Walgreens.. those places ROCK and give you MUCH better deals than say Shoppers Drug Mart.

Well that's good to know! I shall throw out these old cards and get new! As you mention, these card programs aren't all that great here - aside from airmiles of course.

I subscribe to the Washington post Sunday paper, and the only reason I do that is for the coupons!! paper costs me $1.50,but I usually get far more in Coupons!!! Dont even read the paper!! I do read the comics!!

Good afternoon everyone. I'm too late for coffee so I'll just have a water.

We get points with our bank debit check card. Whenever you make purchases using the credit portion you get points towards a whole pile of things..... just like airmiles.

Excellent!

Howdy krikit, how goes the visit, are you having fun?

Part 1 of the visit was really nice, and a lot of fun. We took them shopping in Sanford and they were thrilled with their purchases. The sales right now are crazy good. We dropped them off at the airport yesterday to catch their cruise, and then we'll drive down there next weekend to pick them up.

This was the conversation I had with my husband the night before we took them to the airport:

Him: "I'm sad."
Me: "What are you sad about?"
Him: "Our guests have only just arrived and now they're leaving again."
Me: "But we'll see them next weekend."
Him: "Yes, but then they're leaving again."
Me: "Well, now I'M sad."

Yeah, blah! Any chance they will move to Florida!?

So after the cruise, you pick them up next weekend and then are they staying for a week or?

No, they definitely won't be moving to Florida. They have a great life in England. We pick them up at the port next Saturday morning, stay till Monday in Delray Beach, come back here, then they fly back out Wednesday evening. I probably won't see them again until August 2009. We have a wedding to go to in England then.

Oh, a trip to look forward to, that is always good!

Oh and I was going to ask you about bugs, so - what kinds of bugs do you deal with and how about snakes (just something that came to mind when I saw some documentary the other night how pythons are invading the everglades!)

i'm studying up though i can identify a tim horton's 2 out of 3 tries

Hmm yes, perhaps we should devise a quiz for Charles.

1. Charles is Baffin Island in Canada?

Haven't had to deal with any bugs. I got bitten by a mosquito, once, on a deck at a restaurant in St Augustine. Haven't seen any snakes as yet. There's a lot of little lizards, but they're just cute. One got into the house by accident, once, but I managed to get it out. It seemed relieved. Honestly, I've dealt with far more wildlife in Canada than I have in Florida.

Well that's good, i'm not all that scared of bugs really, just curious. Sounds like my Sister has more to deal with in Nebraska! Their house is 120 years old and had been empty for a while when they moved in. So far they have had fleas, bats, mice and a opposum even got in to the kitchen once.

(plus they don't even live in the little house on the prairie, they are in town)

That's a terrible map, Trailmix! LOL. It looks like the US is as big as Canada, when in fact it's not. Here's another:

We get points on our American Express card. Last summer we 'cashed' in a lot of points and bought me a Trek hybred bicycle. We got it totally free, shipping included, and it would have been several hundred dollars in the store (hehehe I test rode the one in the store to choose which one I wanted from the American Express catalogue). They have a catalogue that they send out regularly to show you items you can purchase using your amex points. We pay a lot of our household expenses through the Amex card and then pay the Amex card off in full every month so we keep those points rolling in.

As well, with our Bank of America accounts on our debit cards we enrolled in the 'get the change back' program - which means that for every item purchased using the debit card, the round the amount up from the cents to the nearest dollar and deposit that amount in your account. For example, you pay $36.22 cents you get 78 cents deposited in your account, spend $12.15 cents, you get 85 cents deposited in your account, spend $22.98, you get 2 cents deposited. Those pennies can really add up.

Delta and Continental both have airmile programs as well.

I also have Kroeger and Ingles 'cards' that are swiped before I buy my groceries and I get a discounted price for certain items. I also have Petsmart and Petco cards and get savings on pet food, plus they send me coupons in the mail that I can redeem at the store. These are really good values! Many stores have a similar type of 'Rewards" programme.

you dissed my map!

Yers doesn't even have baffin island circled on it

Hi everyone! Haha... yea trailmix that map did show the US as being a little bigger than it is. My husband and I have a world map shower curtain and he's proud of the fact that he can name all the provinces and territories. PEI isn't on it though (weird)

Re Airmiles - my husband has a rewards VISA card and he gets airmiles when he uses that card... and it's true, there are a lot of great rewards cards in the states.

I rushed down to meet the postman this morning (like I do every day) but nothing from my friends at USCIS... I feel so rejected

ok, your shower curtain map takes the prize then, while the one I posted had bad scale, yours is missing a province!!

Yeah the map sucked, I have to agree.

Sorry your buddies at USCIS are not writing - soon!!

Sometimes my Husband and I do a thing where we name all the States - yes, we are fun people.

Haha... My husband and I play geography games too! I totally kick his but at American geography and he hates it. I can name them all alphabetically. We've both travelled a lot so we play this game where one of us names a city and the other has to say which country it's in. Sounds kinda easy until you get into like African and former Soviet countries - those ones are tricky We're fun people too lol

Just came back from visiting family in Toronto - I met my brand new niece for the first time!

First time in Canada since last May, and I discovered Timmys on the NY thruway on the way back! No more smuggling sandwiches and donuts across the border

I love Tim Hortons!

lol that's funny, we also do an 'international' version where we have to name cities and sometimes countries and we go through the alphabet weeeeeee

gee didn't mean to start map wars
and yes it is.

ok you're in, no preliminary visas here so nessa is in too. easy.

Only one question before Charles reaches the Don Cherry level of Canuckdom. Explain any two of the following (most Canucks don't know these so if you don't get it maybe some of my fellow Canuckleheads will help):

1. Polar Sea and/or Manhattan
2. Dammit, Les, you pissed on my rug!
3. Manicouagan Fu**-You Call (this one's too easy)

*wondering how many people are going to answer one of these or all three?*

Here's my stuff.. couldn't find any glucose meters.. but i'll keep my eyes open! - We spent less than $2.00 for ALL this stuff!