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My lucky sister in law gets a surprise cruise for her birthday?

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It was my sister in laws birthday on the 18th. She turned 40.

Not this weekend, but the next a mutual friend of ours is going to have a surprise birthday party for my sister in law. She even went so far as to send out invitation – even sent one to Chris’ brother in Chicago and he’s planning on coming to the party! Since he doesn’t fly I think it’s quite a distance to drive just for a birthday party, but he’s like that and that’s another story in itself.

Not only is our friend having a surprise birthday party for Chris’ sister, but this weekend she’s taking my sister in law and her husband on a weekend Bahamas cruise! That’s also a surprise.

I can’t believe she bought four tickets (her husband is going too of course) for a cruise!

I imagine it was a special package deal. I was curious as to how much it might cost to fly to say Miami and then go on a weekend cruise – for four so I visited the travel club that my husband and I joined when we got our package deal to Las Vegas and looked at what kind of prices they had for their cruises. The lowest price that I could find for airfare and four people on one of the big cruise lines in the cheapest cabins offered was about $3500 in total!

Wow. I sure hope our friend got an even lower price than that. Still it must have cost something close to that.

Now why can’t our friends give Chris and I special surprise parties or buy us trips too?

Our friend has surprise parties or big dinner parties for Chris’ sister or her husband every year and of course we’re always invited. My only problem with the whole deal is that whenever it’s my brother in laws special party – it’s alway either on my birthday or the same week as my birthday .. uh what about me? LOL Or … Chris’ sister’s birthday is only four days before Chris and I’s wedding anniversary but other than an invite to the party our special day is forgot.

We’re all very close friends too. I just think it’s a little strange.





We missed our chance to see Van Halen

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My husband and I are trying to get out more. You know, trying to do things we both enjoy. We share a love of music so we thought that over the next few months we’d make an effort to get out and see some of our favorite bands in concert.

One of the bands that we both would have liked to see was Van Halen. Unfortunately they already played here in Toronto! There’s two upcoming concerts that we could get Van Halen tickets for, but the show in Boston is on a Tuesday and well that’s maybe too far to go, and the other is in Montreal – also not that close.

The Montreal concert is on Saturday November 10th. If only it was a few days later! We’ll be in Las Vegas at that time.

So I guess we won’t be seeing Van Halen. I think I’ll have to get my act together and do a little research as to what future concerts we might want to see and try to get tickets in advance.

At least living in a big city like Toronto we have lots of opportunities to see bands when they come to town on tour since almost every big band comes through here.

Sudden desire to get a puppy

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When I woke up yesterday morning I got this strange idea in my head that I just can’t shake.

I want a puppy.

It’s a crazy idea. But it’s like the lights turned on in my head and I can’t shut it off. I say it’s crazy because my husband and I are both allergic to furry animals.

Of course what I really want is a baby, but that’s not happening and due to my illness it might not happen at all. So what’s wrong with a puppy?

I think we can handle the allergy part of the equation. We’re both allergic to dust mites and a few other things so we take allergy medication every day anyway. That should cover our allergy to a dog.

Obviously I won’t just go out and get a puppy to test my theory. I haven’t even told Chris yet that I have this crazy idea turning around and around in my head. When I do though, maybe we’ll spend some time visiting several of our friends that have furry pets to see how we do on those visits. If we’re ok we’ll probably be ok as long as we keep taking our allergy medications right?

Sigh … yeah it’s a crazy idea.

It’s my wedding anniversary tomorrow

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You know what? I just remembered that it’s my wedding anniversary tomorrow. Yes I knew it was coming up, but I didn’t realize how close we were to the 22nd until just now. Tomorrow … gee I wonder what we should do to celebrate?

It’s our 13th anniversary. Hmmm with a number like that maybe we should just ignore it. Nah, it should be a lucky thirteen in this case. We’re happy.

Thinking back I believe I can remember every detail of our wedding day, but for the life of me I can’t remember what kind of bridesmaid and groomsmen gifts gifts we gave out. Strange. It was probably jewelery related since Chris and I had been jewelers when we met, but weren’t any longer by the time we got married.

Do you remember all the details of your wedding day or did it just go by in a blur?

Cars and their Boom, Boom, BOOM

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I’m always up late at night and lately, maybe the last three months, I’ve noticed that a car goes by blaring it’s music almost every night at about 2 a.m. and then at 4 a.m..

I can hear for at least 6 minutes! Can you imagine how loud the music must be inside the car for me to hear it from blocks away? The drivers either already half deaf or soon will be. Now don’t I sound old! LOL

I got a glimpse of the car the other day. It’s one of those suped up models. Big tires, billet grilles, and it looks like it’s had a few types of car kits added to it – you know the ones that make the back bumper look really huge?

One of my brothers used to be really into cars and music. I guess he was just like this guy who’s traveling around my neighborhood late at night.

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