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[Emancipation 2]

Morning!!!!!

Last night hubby & I went out to celebrate his new "crown" (long story short - hubby had dental work done in the Navy - a few years later a civilian dentist "destroyed" said dental work and his tooth then started falling apart. Hubby (who by this time is going through a bitter divorce, and has many different priorities for his $$) ignores said tooth and it gets bad fast. When I met him - he'd be eating (only on one side cause the tooth had almost disintegrated), and pieces of tooth would fall out. I MADE him go get a root canal (most overpriced piece of dentistry I've ever seen - over $1000 - our co-pay was like $300), and then we lost our dental insurance. SO we finally are back on track almost a year later, and hubby FINALLY gets his new fake tooth - so we celebrate with a trip to Ruby Tuesdays (does anyone else love their salad bar?). ANYWHOO.. Target is practically in the same parking lot so I ask him if we can go and take a look around (he rolls his eyes of COURSE).. We go into the seasonal section and there is the charcoal Weber grill my hubby has been DREAMING of, marked down from $70.00 to $16.00!! Look who's smart now for just going to Target to just "looking around"..

Edited September 11, 2008 by Emancipation

[Carlawarla 1]

Morning!!!!!

Last night hubby & I went out to celebrate his new "crown" (long story short - hubby had dental work done in the Navy - a few years later a civilian dentist "destroyed" said dental work and his tooth then started falling apart. Hubby (who by this time is going through a bitter divorce, and has many different priorities for his $$) ignores said tooth and it gets bad fast. When I met him - he'd be eating (only on one side cause the tooth had almost disintegrated), and pieces of tooth would fall out. I MADE him go get a root canal (most overpriced piece of dentistry I've ever seen - over $1000 - our co-pay was like $300), and then we lost our dental insurance. SO we finally are back on track almost a year later, and hubby FINALLY gets his new fake tooth - so we celebrate with a trip to Ruby Tuesdays (does anyone else love their salad bar?). ANYWHOO.. Target is practically in the same parking lot so I ask him if we can go and take a look around (he rolls his eyes of COURSE).. We go into the seasonal section and there is the charcoal Weber grill my hubby has been DREAMING of, marked down from $70.00 to $16.00!! Look who's smart now for just going to Target to just "looking around"..

Woooooohooooooooooo new tooth and new grill! Just make sure he doesn't bite down on some charred piece of meat and break that new crown off!

j/k Nice dental work....and shopping work!

[Ban Hammer 13,133]

Good Morning!

Spirit should enjoy the coffee this morning! I'm so glad your first day of work went well Marilyn! It's been beautiful here for the last week or so. I've had all our windows open, and at night it's been heavenly to sleep. Enjoy your day!

now that's a neat cup of coffee!

good morning everyone. i wonder how krikit is doing on her trip.

We don't know because she isn't talking to us, she is surrounded by.....Canadians!!

Wow that sounds nice Carla, i'm really looking forward to winter here.

zomg we better go rescue her!

and we get tim horton's coffee today!

Edited September 11, 2008 by charles!

[Emancipation 2]

Woooooohooooooooooo new tooth and new grill! Just make sure he doesn't bite down on some charred piece of meat and break that new crown off!

j/k Nice dental work....and shopping work!

Tee hee.. in classic Husband style he placed his prize grill downstairs in storage so he wouldn't "get her dirty" this season He'll enjoy the charcoal grill next summer I guess

[Carlawarla 1]

Woooooohooooooooooo new tooth and new grill! Just make sure he doesn't bite down on some charred piece of meat and break that new crown off!

j/k Nice dental work....and shopping work!

Tee hee.. in classic Husband style he placed his prize grill downstairs in storage so he wouldn't "get her dirty" this season He'll enjoy the charcoal grill next summer I guess

Oh that's right...he's not the Canadian! Any Canadian knows that you can grill all year round. I did my Christmas turkey on the grill one year in -40 weather!

[Emancipation 2]

Woooooohooooooooooo new tooth and new grill! Just make sure he doesn't bite down on some charred piece of meat and break that new crown off!

j/k Nice dental work....and shopping work!

Tee hee.. in classic Husband style he placed his prize grill downstairs in storage so he wouldn't "get her dirty" this season He'll enjoy the charcoal grill next summer I guess

Oh that's right...he's not the Canadian! Any Canadian knows that you can grill all year round. I did my Christmas turkey on the grill one year in -40 weather!

[SpiritAlight 1]

Congrats Flames!

I'm certain that you will do fine.

You know about this site to practise?

I have been testing myself already, hahaha!

[trailmix 77]

Oh that's right...he's not the Canadian! Any Canadian knows that you can grill all year round. I did my Christmas turkey on the grill one year in -40 weather!

so true, i'm just sitting here thinking...what?...put it away????

Good morning all and congrats to you flames for getting your citizenship test date, they are actually going to let you stay here WOW

Good buy Emancipation!!

[thetreble 19]

That has got to be a Canadian thing. My mum also bbqs all year round. She leaves the bbq in the garage and when she bbqs in winter she just opens the garage door and does her thing. MMMMM..... I said to my husband that I can't wait to be able to bbq all year round once we get our own house and he was like..."um...you can't grill in the winter.." Eff it!

So this is the first day at work in 2 months I've really not had a lot to do and I'm using the internet quite a bit. I'm hiding from my responsibility today!

[SpiritAlight 1]

Well, then have a look at some photos I have taken over the Summer...just for fun:

These are from the top of the Hancock building downtown

[SpiritAlight 1]

sunset from a return from racing on the Lake

a moonrise at Chicago Yacht Club

a sunset taken from Granville Bridge in Vancouver on my last trip there, sigh...mmmm...

[thetreble 19]

So very nice!!! I think I could live there. It is one of those places where I truly thing I would be happy in here in the US.

[MrsCat 6]

Spirit, your pictures make me wanna say yes to a sailboat. I grew up in the NWT, and prairies and basically all but landlocked, and am not much of a sailor. Hubby on the other hand grew up sailing and racing with his father in Seattle. He thinks we should skip the house part and move right into a boat.

Seeing your pictures makes me think that wouldn't be so bad.

[KarenCee 3]

Ah yes...grilling in the winter. My hubby loooooooves to grill. I have pictures of him grilling in the dead of winter. I think it was starting to snow... anyway...our grill stands at the ready!

[SpiritAlight 1]

Spirit, your pictures make me wanna say yes to a sailboat. I grew up in the NWT, and prairies and basically all but landlocked, and am not much of a sailor. Hubby on the other hand grew up sailing and racing with his father in Seattle. He thinks we should skip the house part and move right into a boat.

Seeing your pictures makes me think that wouldn't be so bad.

I may have told you that I lived on various boats for a decade.

It is the way of life for me.

So much community right in the heart of downtown (years in Vancouver and a little in Portland, ME and Miami).

Living on land feels dead.

Hence all my trepidation with this flatland city that has Winter.

You cannot do such things here.

Although TheTreble I can see why you would like to live here.

It is quite a fast-paced and full-on zing city!

Everything is big; everything is busy.

It has almost every-thing.

Edited September 11, 2008 by SpiritAlight