CONGRATULAIONS!!!!!! to the new Mr. & Mrs Shumey!

Well, it looks like the happy couple tied the Knot! Congratulations! And what a dream place to do it...and on Valentine's day... Hard to forget that anniversary!
Here is part of the email that Ronda sent to me today... Zowie Wowie!
Surprise Everyone!!!!

>Hello from the BVI's! The perfect place where John and I were married on Valentine's Day!!! We were married at a beautiful little place called Cain Garden Bay on the island of Tortola. The ceremony took place... where else... but on our sailboat which was decorated so beautifully for our special day! We've been planning this for quite sometime now ...surprise .... and figured it would be perfect to be married where it all began 3 years ago ... on a sailboat on the Caribbean Ocean with our special friends!!! We have lots of pictures and lots of amazing stories to tell you all when we get home. It;s been pretty incredible!<
And don't they both look beautiful and ever so happy! Wow,Wow, Wow...and more power to the Shumey women! I love increasing our Numbers! Just joking! Ronda looks beautiful...Welcome to the clan. I think you were already part of the family, long ago, but a big welcome and to John...It is about time!!!!


"The Creator"

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Still plenty of jewellry available at Kolmel's...so send your Honey in!
Tonight a bunch of us will go up to Mary Hall to a beautiful dinner with mega deserts! Emil called this morning from Vancouver. He said he gave every one hell for booking meetings on Valentine's Day...since he was the one organizing the dinner!
Have a great day!

"The Creator"

Has to be Funny When...

When something is sooo ooo funny,that even when no-one but the dog and cat can hear you, you burst out laughing in a good belly laugh out loud.
That was my response tonight after I hung up the phone.

Phone rings.
I say "Hello"
Male voice vaguely familiar and pretty happy says, "Just checking to see if the green room is available tonight?"
I say" Depends who's asking and whats it all about!"
Male voice says" I ended up here after Hillary had to transfer Oscar. He was in the Trail hospital ,but has moved to Nelson now, blah blah blah... ( takes no breath...keeps on telling me the story about Oscar and Hillary who was a scatter brain and can't remember anything.
I don't even try to interrupt, because Male voice is into some long winded story and is clearly a little pi**ed off with Hillary and how she didn't let him know about Oscar's transfer and so he has been running around the country trying to locate Oscar, and has ended up here.
I finally get a chance for more than a "but" or "wha" or "who",and I say to Male voice. "I don't know who you are talking about...and who did you really want to talk to?"
Dead Silence
"This isn't Betty?"
"Ahem..No, my name begins with B, but it certainly isn't Betty"
But the number I dialed is xxx-xxx-xxx5?
I say "Yeppers, that is the number alright - xxx-xxx-xxx5"
Male Voice: "Waitaminute. The number I should have dialed was xxx-xxx-xxx8"
Silence one more time.
"What city did I dial?"
"Nelson" ( I should have said Atlanta or Australia or somewhere exotic!)

Next, a barage of apologies, beginning with "I am SO sorry to have bent your ear this long!"
By now, I am laughing and tell him to have a great night and hopes he gets over his trials and tribulations...It isn't your fault that we also have a "Green Room"!
I hung up ,then laughed and laughed and laughed until Soleil and Silk just stopped everything and started to stare at me.

I have to say, it was the best laugh in a long time...Thanks, Male Voice.

"The Creator"

GRAMMY.com - 49th Annual Awards Show

GRAMMY.com - 49th Annual Awards Show
Yep, the Grammy's are stilllllllll onnnnnnnnn. I enjoyed the new Corinne Baily Rae...certainly a beautiful gal ,and a most precious voice. The Police regrouped to open the awards, and that was a fine performance with Sting singing "Roxanne"..makes the hair stand on end on my arms! I'd like to see him on stage! I printed out some of the nominees fromt he above website. Now I can have a list at hand of who to look for when I buy a new cd, or who to look for when I do a download. Good idea eh? Good when you live in boony ville and still hear the same songs on the radio ,that they were flogging last year.
Oh, there is James Blunt singing "You're Beautiful"..awwe. I like Narles Barkley's performance... singing "Crazy". He should be on Broadway! Maybe he is??

Dinner was wonderful at Janice and Gord's last night. She stuffed Pork tenderloin wioth apricots and prunes and all sorts of spices to give it the most delicious flavour! Sort of reminded me of eating cranberries with chicken...I guess I am a fruit lover!
After dinner, we embarked on three games of Euchre. I've heard about it, but never played it before..and it was good!
The link here is for British Euchre, that utilizes a joker as well as the two Jacks as Bowers.. We didn't play that way, however, I guess there is as many rules for euchre as there are nationalities in the world!
here it is, bedtime already.
I did accomplish a few major tasks between yesterday and today, and can say that without a doubt, my corner of the basement is clutter free..well almost! I took a Vue-load of recycle to the dump, and still have a box of mags to drop off at the Medical clinic. I reorganized my whole fruit storage area/pantry/excess pots/baking dishes/appliances etc. Emil built great wine racks in the new basement, thus freeing up a ton of space in my little cold room. I also did a shuffle of my Partylite stuff, and now it is all boxed and out of site. That is one thing, when you do spend the time to clean up some area, the rewards are great. You can physically see a remarkable improvement. I'll try to continue with hauling excess garbage to the dump this week. It is piling up in garbage bags here and there. We changed the furnace filter and it is a big yuchy to dispose of. Better than breathing in dirty air!

Also, I was relieved to find a note in my email today that Chris and Caro made it to Sao-Paulo...it is raining there as well, so they could have stayed home and had the same thing!
ha-ha!
The next three days should be hopping at work with Valentine's day approaching. You may not hear from me till after the big V-Day. Nelson is having a Hugathon...the latest craze hitting the world. People will be standing on the street corners ,ready to give out free hugs!Starts at 2:00 on Baker Street, on the 14th!
After the close of the shop. I will be heading up to Mary Hall for the Grand Finale dinner of the year at Selkirk! The students prepare their best menus for Valentine's day. We look forward to it every year.One has to save themselves for the desert table. I am hoping they have a chocolate fountain this year! Did you see that even Canadian Tire carrries those Fountains... How much fun would that be at a party?

Oh yes, and as a final note, I spent half the afternoon yesterday getting flights for Sonia and I booked on-line for Correna's big 4-0, this summer in Vegas! I found the best deal through Orbitz ,although we incur a stopover in Salt Lake city. Other than that, the departure times and arrival times are pretty good from Spokane and it looks like the planes have plenty of open seats. You could pick your seating, which is a good thing. Now I'll have to call the hotel and confirm the late arrival ( we land around four fifteen in the afternoon). Other than that, the e-tickets arrived in my email and it looks like we are good to go. Now to start saving my gambling dough! maybe I'll just spend it on a trip to the Grand Canyon. I've been so close,three times now, but not there.
good night..Holy cats..it is late ...and the grammy's are still bleating away. Looks like most of the best singers existed 30 years ago!