Good morning!

Took the day off yesterday so Gene and I could indulge in some anniversary activities! Was a gorgeous day here yesterday, so we went out caching, then relaxed outside most of the day. Had a lovely dinner, and some wedding cake from last year. Surprisingly, it was as good as the day we got married!

I'll be working Tuesday mornings at the nursing home I was assigned, so today is my first day! Enjoy YOUR day!

g'morning carla. your coffee tastes better than mine, so i'm very happy to see you've returned

Oh CarlaWarla! It was your anniversary yesterday! I totally forgot. (Kinda like my husband. ) It sounds like you had a wonderful day. Congratulations!

Yes, Happy Anniversary Carla!

Good morning all. Well I got some sleep last night, which I really needed, I was just kind of in a daze yesterday due to lack of said sleep!

So we are going to stay here in Nebbie until Thursday, going to go shopping today, have a look around. It's overcast and 5 degrees here today!

Yaaaay! Thanks for checking in, Trailmix! Buy lotsa stuff!

OK going back a few pages to catch up, that definitely made me feel better

You silly bunch of sickos !

Oh, no, our secret's out.

Carla, that must be some preservative in that cake. Happy anniversary!

Shopping in Nebraska, Trailmix do tell...

Darn... now people will now we're psychos ... and here I am thinking we were doing a pretty nice job at being incognito

Yeah, you would think that. *goes back to sharpening his chainsaw and searching for his goalie mask*

Hey dudes...
Tonight I went to a seminar on dark chocolate called Xocai.
It's amazing stuff!!!
Click here for the lady's website who hosted it...it has a cool video on it about the chocolate.
One little piece of this chocolate is the equivalent of eating 1/2 a pound of spinach.
It's great for arthritis, diabetes, dental health, inflammation, cholesterol and so much more.
It's not like our regular milk chocolate (which is loaded with fat because of the sugar and milk) This is made differently, cold compressed to save all the antioxidant's...It's awesome!
It's from the States so I'm excited about moving down there even more now!!!!
I have always loved chocolate so I thought I would share!

Dark chocolate, I'd rather eat the spinach.

I know hon, I'm not a huge fan of dark chocolate either but this stuff is GOOD!
I was sooo surprised!!!!

Ok, this is strange. Driver's here don't stop for pedestrians

My Sister lives in a small town in Nebraska, we went for a walk to the 'Historic Downtown District' (about 3 blocks from her house) last night and you can stand on the corner and no one stops (actually one person did).

She lives across from a park, so tonight we stood on the corner (checking traffic - just want to be clear on that) and like 4 cars went by and no one stopped to let us cross. It is the law - anyway, i'm so surprised!

That is surprising for a small town!! i remember stopping for a pedestrian here in the DC area, and my wife was like "what the hell are ya stopping for?" lol

good morning everyone!

oooooooooooo charles! How lovely! That's a splendid looking coffee. Thank you.

trailmix...I'd forgotten about that until you mentioned it! Yes...pedestrians DON'T have the right of way here it seems. Very funny. It was the first thing that Gene mentioned when he came to Canada. Especially at malls, that people would cut across from the parking lot to the store entrances, and people just automatically stopped. I don't know that I've seen many crosswalks here as well and certainly no lighted ones!

Laura, where did you taste this chocolate? I'm not a big fan of dark chocolate. I've heard about all the wonderful properties of dark chocolate, and I always said... "figures!" I love milk chocolate...and I'm VERY partial to Cadbury's.

Thanks everyone for your congratulations on my 1st wedding anniversary! Mumsie...we had a large piece of our wedding cake frozen, and it's tradition to eat some of it on your first anniversary. My MIL made a lovely wedding cake...it was carrot cake. I thawed some of it on Monday, and it was very very good.

Here's a picture of the cake the day we got married. My MIL did a wonderful job!

i thought i'd mix up the coffee some, that's a cup of turkish coffee. strong stuff!
that's a beautiful cake!

Mmmmm. Turkish coffee. My friend used to make that for me. It was deelish.

Carla, that's a beeeeautiful cake!

Trailmix, they don't stop for pedestrians in Toronto, either. Though I am surprised that they don't stop in a small town in Nebraska. Maybe they all moved there from the city? However, you'll be happy to know that they stop for them all the time here in FLA.

When my wife has visited me in Houston, she's been amazed by the fact that the drivers have such little regard for pedestrians. I keep telling her that Houston is very much a "driver's city." Considering the vast amount of area Houston takes up (Toronto could easily fit within it and you'd still have plenty of room left over) and the number of people (it's the fourth largest city in the United States), having a vehicle is mandatory if you want to get anywhere.

Because of this lifestyle, people rarely give much -- if any -- consideration to pedestrians. It's not a dramatization to say almost everyone has a car. Houston might be bearable if it had a passable public transportation system, but it doesn't. Unfortunately, the reason behind this is more of a Catch-22. Metro doesn't bother much with the buses since it knows 99.9% of all people have and use cars, but 99.9% of all people use cars since Metro has such a craptastic bus system.

As a side-note, my wife and I visited Austin recently and they have the single greatest public transportation system I have ever seen. For one, they have a service called "The 'Dillo" (most likely short for Armadillo) which travels all over downtown and is FREE. Next, the bus system's NORMAL FARE is only 50 CENTS EACH WAY. A Day Pass (unlimited rides for 24 hours) is only ONE DOLLAR and an Adult Pass (for unlimited rides all month) is just TEN DOLLARS. If you work for the state government or you're a student/employed by the University of Texas, the buses are FREE too.

That is the way to get people to take public transportation. Make it much more affordable and easy to use. Americans aren't going to skip out on using their cars easily; we have something of a "love affair" with them, but if the price is right, we might make a change.

That's good to hear krikit! Calgary is very much a - stop for pedestrians - city, whether in a parking lot or they are walking across the middle of the street in your neighbourhood.

So we stayed up until 2:30 this morning watching tv and talking, I didn't know it was so late as I switched watches last night and it still had Mountain time. Everyone else is still asleep. My Sister and Brother in Law have given up their room to us and they are sleeping in the guest room - everyone else is still asleep!

They have 2 border collies, they are really cute

Carla...Click here for Lorraine's personal website.
This lady is a spokesperson for Xocai and gave a presentation at my chiropractors office.
It's very good, I'm sucking on some right now! I don't like dark chocolate..I am very surprised.
Here is the Xocai website.
I'm loving it!
I'll let you know how I feel after a week of eating it every day.
The problem with milk chocolate is it's full of fat and it's made by heating it, which kills everything in it that we need.
This chocolate is the worlds number 1 antioxidant, 5 times the amount of eating blueberries.
Many dark chocolates we see on the shelf that says 70% cocoa is still not the right type. It's made incorrectly and still have sugar added to it.
Anyway...you can get it in the states, that's where the supplier is.

Congrats on your anniversary!!!
Beautiful cake

I think we should start a Bash your Ex thread. I was just reading one thread in MENA and it was hilarious - I really like some of the MENA folks. They said that the Canada forum is the only place where we complain about our American spouses . I am not Canadian, but you all should be ashamed of your complaining selves....

Congrats late on your 1st wedding anniversary

And thanks for reminding me to bring back our cake piece from my MIL next week-end when we go so we can have it in May She froze the top part of our cake and kept it because we didn't have the room to bring it back then...

He's in the air!!!!! I know you don't need a play by play, but no one else understands quite like you guys. I am SO excited!!!!

He went through customs @ YVR and it was a breeze! It only took 5-10 minutes.

Ohmygoodness the love of my life will be home in less than 12 hours!! I can't stop crying (happy tears!). I need to go bake his birthday cake!!

OhwowIcan'tbelievehe'sfinallycominghometome!!! Is this real?

No, it's Memorex. CONGRATS and godspeed!!!!!!

That is a beautiful cake.Thanks for sharing. I'm so glad you and Gene could enjoy it on your 1st. Just one word of advice, it may not be a good idea to try it on your 60th.

Food poisoning, anyone ?






I'm very happy for you Enjoy that moment that is going to last forever

Good morning peeps! Enjoy your day.

We do? Where's this link?

That reminds me. I always wondered if anyone ever read in here because hardly anyone ever posts.


Awwwwww. That's so nice how excited you are, Aaralyn. I guess when you don't show up again we'll know he's there.

g'morning everyone. i see carla has the coffee ready

Yes and it tastes wonderful

Well it is raining here in Fremont today, talking about some snow tomorrow then it gets warm! We are thinking of staying until like Monday anyway.

Not sure what we are doing today, probably popping in to a store. It's interesting how shopping is different in a small town. Yesterday we popped over to Penneys - in Calgary a shopping trip is a 4 hour thing.

Nice trailmix!!! You seem to be touring the nation now sister!!!
while you're shopping, don't forget to get me some Martha Stewart bed sheets for my room in your place, ok????

And maybe an extra toothbrush. She's always forgetting hers.

Won't need it, I always thought we scrubbed out potty mouths with a toilet brush. Really thrilled to see the return of Van Gogh cat, I'd cheer loudly but I don't know if he'd hear it.

Well, it isn't exactly off topic, but I just wanted to interrupt to say "I got my biometrics appointment! Yay! They haven't lost my I-751 in the black hole of Texas after all!" Short notice too - April 19th 2 pm - and I have company visiting from Canada that week too. Oh well! Ok . . . back to your regularly scheduled programming . . . .

I would NEVER forget 4 things:

1. Toothbrush and chewing gum (for an unapologetic smoker like moi, it's a necessity)
2. Cigarettes and a coupla books.
3. My whip and handcuffs
4. My collection of Barbra Streisand and Dear Joyce records.

Mumsie... here, have a chocolate.

Why thank you, it says "EX-LAX," is that a new type of Hershey bar?

Errr... of course it is sweetie, would I really ever hurt you????????????

*pokes head in* Hi!!! Just wanted to drop in and say I have my sweetie home with me!! The last leg of his flight was delayed a bit, but he finally got here around 11am eastern. We're heading out early in the morning for Gatlinburg Tennessee for my sissy's wedding. Be back sometime after the weekend.

Enjoy your weekend with DH

Don't forget to stop and smell the coffee today!



Congrats Kathryn on your biometrics appointment!

trailmix, thanks for stopping in and letting us know how you're doing!

Aaralyn, glad he got in safely. Enjoy your time away!

Everyone have a great weekend!

Thanks Carla, need that hit of coffee in the am. Have to get geared up to get everything done as Mom and my Aunt are driving my car down to me this weekend and staying for a visit. Whoo hoo on the visit and whoo hoo on having wheels again (my own wheels that is LOL).

Would not want to be flying on American airlines, canceling oodles of flights for maintenance checks!

g'morning everyone. it's friday!
smell the coffee? i'm gonna drink the coffee, carla

Morning indeed. Yawn, yawn.... though I am excited about the weekend. I get to go to a Pow Wow on Sunday, and that is always super energizing and fabulous Gotta love Native spirituality ---- I do, I do, I do.

Hi everyone!

Well, it's rainy and cold here in Fremont today.

So my Husband was on his way to Walmart last night, for some water and things and he gets around the park across the street and half way through the intersection on the main road and the car stops. Soooo he has to get out and push the car back out of the intersection - and yes 2 people drove on by while he was pushing it alone.

So now he and my Brother in Law are over there trying to figure out what's up.

My guess is the alternator for $5000 alex!!

Hope they get it figured out soon

Ahhhhh! Anyway, they blew out the blah blah blah air blah blah blah thing and it is now running, so we are off to the store.