way to go!

Can you believe this???? Just the THREAT of freezing rain has closed our school system. Oy Vey! Now this makes two days we have to make up....argh! It would have been nice if the buses could have ran, brought the kiddies to school, and THEN decide to call school off...it would have been counted as a day of school. *sigh* Oh well...it is in the best interest of the kids. I just hate having to give up another one of our planned days off before the end of school.

Good morning peeps! Had a nice weekend here. We went to a Chris Botti concert on Saturday night. Very good! Then went geocaching on Sunday. Yesterday we went to visit Daniel Boone's home.

Great deal Emancipation...you're a great coupon shopper!

KarenCee...does every "snow" day there result in you going one day longer at the end of the year?

Here's coffee, and a few treats. Notice the whipped cream? mmmmmmmmmm


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That is TOO funny that you took a pic of all your stuff. lol. But I'm so glad you did because I'm a visual learner. WOW! $2.00 for ALL THAT STUFF!!! That's awesome.


For the Canadians who come from a snowy climate, this just sounds crazy. But my husband says they close schools in the US due to the litigious nature of the American society. I worked at a College in Canada. I loved snow days, but they were few and far between. I would just work from home if it looked too crazy out. Sometimes they didn't announce school closures until after a certain time of day. That's because they would still receive the government funding for that day. Closures prior to that magic hour were not funded. Plus, they'd have to make up the days like your school system does, Karen. Anyway.... I've said WAY more than I had initially intended. What I really meant to say was.... Enjoy your day off!!!!

Thanks for the CarlaCoffee^TM[sup] [/sup]Carla! It looks delish. Had to go to the Chris Botti site to see who he is. The track playing through the intro sounds haunting. It was lovely. When I read "To me, music that breaks your heart is the music that stays with you forever." he had me. I love when the beauty of something -- whether it is music or performance art or whatever -- moves me to tears.

Well the best part about the day yesterday was I scored 2 spa gift certificates on Freecycle as well!! It was a banner day for Freebies!!

We have two days built in as emergency days and we've already used those. So yeah, from here on out anymore days missed due to weather (or whatever) will result in the school year going longer.


He's right...unfortunately. I do wish there were some way we could work from home when these type days happen. I do work on plans and such, but that doesn't count as far as work in the eyes of the school board. Yup, I'll definately enjoy the day off...I have another day with our daughter and my husband doesn't leave for work til 1:30.

yay carlacoffee ™ is ready

Wow, you had a lucky day! I'm an AVID freecyler. Everyone should join!




I hear you on the "beauty of something..." I cry sometimes seeing a sunset.... Gene and I are so perfect together...not because he cries at the same things as I, but that he loves me more because I feel those types of things so strongly that I DO cry.

Gosh, I'm like that too! I've been moved to tears at the beauty of sunsets, sunrises, breathtaking scenery.... you name it, I cry. LOL. My husband says it's a gift.


What is Freecycle?

It's an online community that trades things for free - you post what you have for free, and read the offers from the other members.. i've seen everything from miniature ponies to oak tables given away!!

http://www.freecycle.org/

I'm the same way in that certain things affect me so deeply that I get emotional, whether I cry or laugh...and Joel feels the same way about me too Carla. He doesn't want me to suppress that part of me and for years I had to, because of my prior relationship. The freedom to express myself this way...it never ceases to amaze me! He supports that part of me to the fullest extent and that's just one more reason why I love him as much as I do.

Awe... i'm so happy that you two have found such a love as this... how beautiful!

That is so far removed from what I thought it was. I was thinking along the lines of bicycling/spinning.

lol!! the only think i recommend is making up an e-mail address for JUST freecycling.. you can get a TONNE of e-mails from subscribing to this.. I think i have 1400 e-mails in my "dummy" freecycle account!

Yikes! Thanks for the tip.

Carla, you have your own trademark coffee!

Come on sunshine hours! It's 7:50 and still pretty dark out here, I mean really.

IR5 I didn't really get your questions, does this mean I have to relinquish my membership in the Canada forum? If so is there another forum I should go to, like UK or Mena or? Actually, because I was out of the country during high school I have a lot those moments where people go, oh and remember THIS or they make some joke and I have no idea what they are talking about.

Hahaha "OT refugee"

rhymeswithcandi - we suggest you come for coffee in the Canada OT forum and every time you post no one is here!

I'm concerned you will be getting paranoid thinking you are killing the thread each time!

Anyway, what rhymes with candi? Mandy, Sandy, memimomandy - candi?

Thank you for being concerned... makes me feel important I was busy debating in AOS I think I'm going to have to agree to disagree at this point

Haha... Mandi rhymes with Candi

Ohhh, Mandi
But I sent you away
Ohhh, Mandi

I almost named my daugher Mandi. But my husband nixed that and now she's called Shannon.

If I had a nickel for every time someone has sung that song to me... my husband used to say "you came and you gave without taking"

It's just Mandi... not Amanda. I like it. Shannon is pretty. I've never met a Shannon I didn't like.

That's quite a jump - Mandi to Shannon! When my Sister was having her second child we had decided it was a girl and her name was going to be Chelsea. At the time I was in to cross-stitching so I did these reallllllly cute xmas stockings for Chelsea and my other niece.

Well, needless to say, Chelsea did not appear - but my wonderful nephew did. So I took the stocking to work (as he was born on Dec 7th and I was in NZ) and ripped Chelsea's name from the stocking and put his in.

The manager did walk in too - he just looked at me - I told him what I was doing and he was good with that - he was a great guy - I'm sure he still is!

Just thought I would share that lovely story

Oh and by mistake, at some point, my BIL threw the stockings away by mistake.

I have ***NO*** idea what this is!!!
How long before you give us the answers

I loved that song. My family always jokes with my daughter because they tell her she was named after a dog.....

Shannon is gone I heard
She's drifting off to sea

She'd probably like a nickel for every time she's had that song sung to her too.

lololol - oh both such sad songs - I used to cry when I heard Mandi (only if I had been drinking I might add) - and the Shannon song, oh my oh my.

Thanks for sharing!


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I'd love to know also... that was a tricky question.

You sound crafty!

The first Christmas my husband and I spent together was in Cyprus. I was going home for Christmas and he had to stay there for work. I felt bad for him 'cause he was away from family and friends at Christmas so I got him a stocking and filled it with a ton of goodies and stitched his name on it. It was a snowman stocking. This Christmas (2 years later) my MIL bought me a snowman stocking very similar and I just stitched my name in it last week. Now we have matching ones

Actually i'm not, but probably have the potential to be?

I bought the scrapbooking kit from the shopping channel, tried to do 1 page, no-go. The leather albums I bought at costco to do wonderful photo albums are still in the original box and my roll of cross stitching fabric is in a bag in the closet.

1. Canada regards the Passage as lying within its territorial waters, while other nations (especially the United States) regard it as an international waterway. The result is a long-simmering dispute between Canada and the U.S. on the question of Canadian sovereignty. Canadians were incensed when Americans drove the reinforced oil tanker Manhattan through the Northwest Passage in 1969, followed by the icebreaker Polar Sea in 1985, both without asking for Canadian permission. In 1970, the Canadian government enacted the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act, which asserts Canadian regulatory control over pollution within a 100-mile zone. In response, the Americans in 1970 stated, “We cannot accept the assertion of a Canadian claim that the Arctic waters are internal waters of Canada.... Such acceptance would jeopardize the freedom of navigation essential for United States naval activities worldwide.” A compromise of sorts was reached in 1988, by an agreement on “Arctic Cooperation,” which pledges that voyages of American icebreakers “will be undertaken with the consent of the Government of Canada.” However the agreement did not alter either country’s basic legal position. In January 2006 David Wilkins, the American ambassador to Canada, said his government opposes Stephen Harper's proposed plan to deploy military icebreakers in the Arctic to detect interlopers and assert Canadian sovereignty over those waters. http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage

2. While in office, Pearson resisted U.S. pressure to enter the Vietnam War. Pearson spoke at Temple University in Philadelphia on April 2, 1965, while visiting the United States, and voiced his support for a negotiated settlement to the Vietnam War. When he visited U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson the next day, Johnson strongly berated Pearson. According to Canadian legend, Johnson grabbed Pearson by the lapels, shook him, and shouted "Dammit, Les, you pissed on my rug!" Pearson later recounted that the meeting was acrimonious, but insisted the two parted cordially. After this incident, LBJ and Pearson did have further contacts, including two further meetings together, both times in Canada. (Canadians most remember the Pearson years as a time Canada-U.S. relations greatly improved.) http://www.canadiancontent.net/people/poli...B.-Pearson.html

3. ?

I am obviously bored at work and did a bit of googling...

I LOVE scrapbooking. I just started one of my honeymoon.

Nice one! I had no idea on #1.

All I know about #3 is that Lake Manicouagan is gorgeous.

other than prolonging paperwork and not being able to work, is there any disadvantage to not filing for AOS/AP/EAD right away?

Oliver just wants to wait a week or two b/c he accidently put a scratch on this person's car and wants to wait for the estimate just in case...

There you are! (Was thinking about you today.) No, there's no disadvantage. Unless you have an emergency and have to go home..... then it's huge. And if it's only for a week or two then it's not worth mentioning how it will delay the removal of conditions or the citizenship process (if you're going down that route).

You got it!!!! Now you can wear loud, expensive vestements and bellow "Dougie Gilmour."

For the record both the S.S. Manhattan and the US Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea got stuck and were rescued by Canuck icebreakers. So much for US opposition to Canadian icebreakers. The answer to #3 is the rumour that when Brian Mulroney (the big BM ) was PM, members of the PC party used to hang out at his retreat at Lake Manicouagan. Whenever the press called these insiders with questions many of them were supposed to comment, "I just swam in the Prime Minister's pool, so Fu** You." I think it was Peter C. Newman that first reported it. For the record, Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson was 5'6" and 160lbs. and Lyndon Baines Johnson was 6'3.5" and 260lbs.



Sad eyes turn the other way
I don't want to see you cry.

Groan.

Good morning everyone. Looks like Mumsie has gone to bed so I'll get the coffee. Today's version has attractive swirls which get stuck on your lip.

Mmmmmmmmmm....looks great! School has a one hour delay so now I can sit back and relax over a nice cuppa. Might even attempt to actually eat breakfast too.

Ooooo....I just remembered....I have a can of whipped topping in the fridge! Instant cappuchino! (sp) I think I'll brew a pot of Hazelnut coffee...mmmmmmmmmmm!

A one hour delay? Is it still raining there? <---- Borrowing Trailmix's smiley.

Are you like me where you can't eat until you've been up for a while?

Re YouTube: Wow. Someone's an artiste.

same here... me and breakfast have never gotten along... my stomach needs time to wake up before I can put food into it..

LOL. I like International Coffee's Swiss Mocha. Not quite coffee and not quite hot chocolate. It's the best of both worlds.

I heard that they actually offer classes on how to do that to the coffee..

That's why they're so expensive. lol

yay my coffee fix for the day

the 2nd question mumsie had i understood, the others i didn't know what it was about, the first one i thought was about a location, not an object

Thanks for everyone stepping up to the plate this morning and brewing some awesome coffee! I've been on-line for almost an hour now, but my internet connection keeps failing, so didn't know if I was going to be able to post. Hope everyone has a great day!

Eat your breakfast!

I have never been able to eat breakfast first thing either, mind you I can't eat and drink coffee and since I drink coffee first that could have something to do with it!

Mumsie that is a bad bad song.

I can't eat and drink coffee too!!!

Yeah, never have been able to, my Mom does though, when we go to a restaurant she orders coffee with her meal, so does my Sister sometimes, I do not understand this.