What goes around, comes around

Last month the kids got together, pooled their meager resourses and gave Wally and I a box of cash for Christmas. What a great surprise!

They had really thought this through and it was so fun to have some money in the bedside table that we could spend on anything! We have a few fun trips coming up and I thought the best thing to do would be to use the $$$$ for fun money. I was excited to not have to save up for the fun I wanted to enjoy later on. I thought it was a great idea.

After Christmas, we got busy getting ready for "the wedding" so I sort of forgot about the cash and got busy with the festivities.

The night of celebration arrived. Everything went smoothly and we were winding down the family dinner with a few speeches when I got ANOTHER huge surprise! Wally gave his little "tribute to the bride" and was just heading back to his seat when he said, "O my gosh, I almost forgot-all my girls got diamonds this year except for my favorite girl." and then he pulled a little white box out of his jacket and offered me a

DIAMOND RING!!!!!

So while I'd been busy making pies and getting ready for the party, Wally had taken the cash and bought me a ring. (Angela had alerted him to the 10 diamond band the day she saw it.) What a guy! And what a great bunch of kids. I'm so lucky!

that explains a lot

I love useless information!

Some of the funniest things I've heard over the last little while have been derived from perfectly useless facts. For instance, this morning in my email I got a forward (which by the way, I generally ignore) that absolutely cracked me up. Its title was something about truths and I was intrigued so I opened it up and started to scroll through the list. This little diddy caught my eye and then smacked me right in the funny bone.

"The first testicular guard, "the cup" was used in hockey in 1874. The helmet was first used in hockey in 1974."

It only took the guys 100 years to figure out that the brain was important too!

And who knows? It was probably somebody's mother who insisted on the helmet. Just sayin'

huh?

In the early morning hours when I can't sleep, I often get out of bed and fire up the little macbook pro and "surf" the web. That's about all the surfing I can handle these days. I look up recipes and books I'd like to read. I research movies and musicals I'd like to see. I also check out seat sales to places that are WARM!

This morning when I opened my email, I was thrilled to see "air canada seat sale" in the subject line. I opened it up immediately and was thrilled to see lower one way fares to a number of destinations. I clicked the box for one way from Calgary (YYC).

Here's what I found:

Calgary to Cranbrook $209

Calgary to Honolulu $209

Duuhhh?!?!? You choose......