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Awwwww! hey thanks you guys!!! I turned 40 yesterday! Holy #######! I want to say, I had possibly the best birthday I have ever had. My husband spoiled me like I have never been spoiled. He "left for work" and then showed up about an hour or so after and kidnapped me and took me for pancakes and house hunting and he got all the work on my car done that I needed and got it plated and registered and everything . Seriously? amazing. Then he dropped me off at my sister in law's and we had ice cream and hung out and then I came home and he and my step daughter and I went out for a lovely dinner and came home and opened up the gifts they got me. One of which was a full-sized authentic Canadian flag.

Thanks for your well wishes and I had a perfect milestone birthday here in the US of A with my lovely family.

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BTW Happy Birthday to LGG :)

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I also need to special mention, as this is very special, but a very sweet and Lovely Sprailenes sent me a garden gnome for my garden! i will be posting a pic of that cheeky little guy in a moment.

very sweet and awesome, if i may say.

:)

hope you don't mind me mentioning it, Sprails, but it's too late now!

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May I present to you...

Gneal the Gnome! On another note, I picked SO much arugula lettuce today that I think I'm going to make an arugula pesto with it. I think it's gonna rock. :D

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No Dairy Queen here either, only one in AR and that one is about 20miles away from us. :(

OH I get to go to Big Lots this Sat yay I can't wait to check it out. :dance:

I don't know if there's a Dairy Queen around here, but Yvonne loves her Abbott's, so it's all good. :D

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OMG. Poor Gneal is being held captive by a giant net! We need to start a Save-The-Gnome fund!! crying.gif

Happy belated birthday, LGG! What an awesome day.

I have been told by a few different people in the US that they like my accent. I'm like.... what accent? LOL

Good news! My cousin called to cancel my help with the packing. Bad news for them, though. It sounded like they were fighting. :(

Trailmix, I SO would have helped you pack. That was funny. :lol:

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Aww i missed giving you bday wishes Lgg!! Happy belated bday! Sounds like you had an awesome fun day!!

So i dont have much baking stuff and i was craving something sweet..and remembered an old favorite of mine..Pets des Soeurs! So while i was tracing down a recipe i found this blog from an american woman who travels and there is a post about american / canadian words and isms..lol i got a kick out of it.

And it has a few recipes and some great links to other canadian food sites.

http://pat-aviewfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2009/12/americancanadian-dictionary-part-deux.html

i thought you guys and gals might get a kick out of it :)

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OMG. Poor Gneal is being held captive by a giant net! We need to start a Save-The-Gnome fund!! crying.gif

Happy belated birthday, LGG! What an awesome day.

I have been told by a few different people in the US that they like my accent. I'm like.... what accent? LOL

Good news! My cousin called to cancel my help with the packing. Bad news for them, though. It sounded like they were fighting. :(

Trailmix, I SO would have helped you pack. That was funny. :lol:

That is great news about the cancellation of packing duty!!

Here is a little something for the fund

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Awwwww! hey thanks you guys!!! I turned 40 yesterday! Holy #######! I want to say, I had possibly the best birthday I have ever had. My husband spoiled me like I have never been spoiled. He "left for work" and then showed up about an hour or so after and kidnapped me and took me for pancakes and house hunting and he got all the work on my car done that I needed and got it plated and registered and everything . Seriously? amazing. Then he dropped me off at my sister in law's and we had ice cream and hung out and then I came home and he and my step daughter and I went out for a lovely dinner and came home and opened up the gifts they got me. One of which was a full-sized authentic Canadian flag.

Thanks for your well wishes and I had a perfect milestone birthday here in the US of A with my lovely family.

:)

Awww! That sounds lovely - and so very sweet! I think he's definitely a keeper!:D

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aww.. what a great birthday LGG :D

And LOL at the $2 bill. I miss loonies and toonies so much, it's not even funny! lol

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aww.. what a great birthday LGG :D

And LOL at the $2 bill. I miss loonies and toonies so much, it's not even funny! lol

Yea, Im not even there yet (PoE June 30) and Im sure the money is gonna make me miss our bills with colour.

No interac makes me grumpy too, I so rarely carry cash here.

Maybe I should just bring a few boxes of Coffee Crisp and Mr. Big, It would be like having cigarettes to trade in a jail Im betting laughing.gif

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Yea, Im not even there yet (PoE June 30) and Im sure the money is gonna make me miss our bills with colour.

No interac makes me grumpy too, I so rarely carry cash here.

Maybe I should just bring a few boxes of Coffee Crisp and Mr. Big, It would be like having cigarettes to trade in a jail Im betting laughing.gif

They have debit cards here as well

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They have debit cards here as well

I worked for a company that wrote transaction software for the US Credit and Debit systems, unless its changed, at the time, all Debit cards were a dual use Credit/Debit card. You could only tie one account to your debit card, not all the accounts you like, and it was a special Debit account, higher fees, zero interest. Also the ubiquity of the debit system down there cant even touch the penetration of interac. Its similar yes, but nowhere near the same :(

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