XL

when I shop for shirts, I shop for either XL or 2XL ..... there was a time in my life when I was a Large.. and I spose a LONG time ago, I may have been a medium..





but NOW.......2XL ..... sigh......





so when I saw 7X on something today.... it caught my attention....











it was a licence plate....... we went past this car :

As we went past, I muttered out loud.... SEVEN X ... how big must that woman BEEEEEEEEEEE???

and my son goes.... uh dad??? I think it means she has 7 kids...

oh .. uh ... ( nervous laugh ) ... yes... right

duh Dad!

Facebook....

Facebook is a modern phenomenon ......I have met up with lots of old friends, and made some new ones.... and lost a few..... but it's still pretty cool...

one of the unique things about facebook.... is that whenever one of my "FRIENDS" makes a change on their profile, it shows up on MY home page..... everyday, I get a list of who changed their profile picture, who changed their status, who posted pictures... etc etc etc...

For instance, today I was informed that my cousin Brian poked some guy named scott...;

that my sister was on her way to the cottage in the rain.... ;

that my friend Tom was going golfing with John ( whoever JOHN is..... ) .....and so on and so forth....

it's very interesting......time consuming a little bit, but interesting just the same....

The weird thing is, though, that if someone corrects a mistake on their profile, or changes something they'd forgotten to include earlier.... it can get very confusing :

imagine my surprise when today, after my Mom corrected her profile.... I got the following message:


Margaret Mackay is now married.


goooooooooooood grief.....

have you told DAD yet???

Low Fat....

so yesterday, I'm on my way from Port Perry to MINDEN ....

I had one homeowner who finally, on Friday morning, returned my call, and just HAD to have the inspection completed THAT DAY...

His place was an hour and a half out of my way, and instead of finishing my inspections at 1 pm ( where my last stop would have been less than 2 hours from home,)
I finished at 3:30, almost FOUR hours from home.....

I had told the kids I'd be home Friday afternoon between 2 and 4....

Instead, I picked them up just after 7 ...... stinking guy!!!!

anyway.... all that said..... I was on my way from Port Perry around noon hour... stopped at a little general store in Argyle .... cute little spot... antique store on one corner, general store on the other corner, with a tea room etc .... I went into the tea room in desperate need of some caffeine....

I was served by this little pip squeak of a waitress... you know the type..... too cute for their own good????

so she flits over to the counter, and in a high pitched flirty voice... says..

What can I get you??

I asked for a medium coffee with cream...

while she was getting my coffee, I began surveying the muffins on the counter..... I wanted a Morning Glory, knowing full well that it was already NOON and everybody knows you can't eat a Morning Glory muffin if it's not MORNING anymore...

it didn't matter anyway....all they seemed to have were Banana and Banana Nut ......

so little miss cutie comes back with my coffee....

ANYTHING ELSE with that???

I began muttering about the fact that I was thinking about a muffin, and before I could get the words " DO YOU HAVE ANY MORNING GLORY?" out..........
she moves over to the next display cabinet and says...

"By the way, we have Low Fat Apple over here..... "


Suddenly I heard a voice that sounded a LOT like mine say :

"WHAT IS YOUR POINT???"

She stared at me like I was a SASQUATCH ......

and never said a word.... not a sound......

just looked at me.....

then, in almost a whisper... I said.... " I'll take BANANA ............!!!

still without a word, she took my five dollar bill and walked around the corner to the cash register by the door.....

As I followed her, grinning, I said :

"That wasn't very nice of me, was it?????"

she smirked ( FINALLY ) and said... "WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY TO THAT???????????"

in just as soft a whisper, I said ... " absolutely NOTHING" .

Toook my coffee, left her the change and went to my car..... laughing.......

and laughed all the way to Minden!!!

Sigh.....I wonder what she'd have said if I told her IN TRUTH that REALLY I'd been thinking about having a BUTTER TART!!!!!!!!!

Time

seems to be FLYING by this summer...I almost never have time to blog anymore...

you can see updates on photos if you click on the following links...

it'll keep you up to snuff without much narrative....

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=11763&l=1a52f&id=538261469

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=11757&l=89248&id=538261469

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=11755&l=231f1&id=538261469

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=11691&l=429b5&id=538261469

Long Time No See....

well I find summer time horribly busy.... it's fun, in some senses, but I also find it a little depressing, cause after the busy pace... the melt downs are kind of sad...

Mondays are usually that way after spending the weekend with my kids.. I hate to see them leave!

Thursday night, I came back to Brantford... got home somewhere around 9.... picked the kids up at 10 Friday morning.... spent the morning running errands, getting water, took Taylor to the chiropractor ( fall out from that last ride on the tube with Uncle David at the helm! ) ....

Friday afternoon, I inspected a place in Hamilton, went to the Limeridge mall to get a new belt.. I'd been given a gift card for Christmas a year and a half ago... from the Cadillac Fairview malls.... only problem is, we don't have one here... so the card was left in my wallet unspent...

guess what?? I did not know that on most gift cards, they have a MAINTENANCE fee if you don't use it... after 15 mos ( depending on the card ) they help themselves to $2.50... every month.... my $30 card was down to about 18... stinkers.........

got a belt, and 1/4 of a pair of shoes!!!! ( no, really... got a belt 50% off and a pair of shoes that was 50% off, then an addition 25% off the lowest ticket, and then used the last $5.93 of the gift card..... I paid $10.43 out of my pocket.. who ahhhhh!!
and I wore those shoes Saturday when I sang... and got a whopper blister.. duh duh duh!!!!

Friday night, Taylor worked and the girls spent the evening ( literally ) at the mall with kenzie and danielle ..... 4 divas with cash in their pockets.. jeeeeeepers...

It was neat though... the kids were "around" but busy... made it feel like I had a normal life for an evening.....

Saturday, Anna and I ( and my friend Gord ) drove to Port Franks ( Just south of Grand Bend ) for an all day sing thing..... here's the link to some of the photos that Anna took....

to be honest, I post most of my photos on Facebook now, only cause it is SO much faster to upload them there....

but you don't have to be a member to see these I hope...

Volume I

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=11008&l=4cd16&id=538261469

Volume II

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=11011&l=34bb9&id=538261469

it was a fun day..... tiring, got a whopper sun birn on my forehead.... duh..

Sunday, was pretty relaxing.... Took the kids to Central for 9.... picked them up, at 10, went to Pleasant Valley Community Church at 10:30 ... and then home by 12:30...

drove taylor and jayson and kyle to the movies for 1 ..... Abby and I went to go to see a movie at 4 and I'd messed up on the show times... it was too late to go in at that point.. so we wandered around Zehrs for a while, and then came home....

Today, the girls are at VBS at Central, the boys are still sleeping, and I'm working on paperwork ( save the little hiatus to write this! ) ....

heading back to Peterborough tonight sometime.... have to be back here next weekend to sing at a wedding Saturday.. should PROBABLY learn the words to those songs... hey??!!

Happy Monday!!!

Gas Prices ----

there's not really anything to be said for this except .....

when you own a gas station, and you've assigned the task of posting gas prices .....to the new guy.....

it's safe to say that good help, is hard to find......

I saw all 3 of these, on the same day... within 40 kms of each other.... tsk.....

Lemon Crinkles

So.... I've heard how much some people like the new Lemon Crinkle donuts at Tim Hortons.....



so tonight... I tried one.....










know what?? I feel like I just drank 2 litres of Lemon Pledge.....

Words you don't want to hear your son say....

My son got a job a few weeks ago... he is a stock boy at Sobey's in Paris....

he is really catching on to the job and starting to enjoy it....

but one day last week..... he came out with a sentence that stopped my heart...

"hey Dad... I made Bail today........ "

Lord have mercy...

"WHAT??????????? "


"I made my first bale with the cardboard baler today..."

"Great Taylor..... We'll talk more about this after I get back from the cardiac unit"