A New Grocery Store....and a BIG win!

 Was on my way home from work today (which is a 50 minute drive)

and our local radio station was doing a remote at our local A&P which has recently
become a 'Metro' as are all the A&P's in Ontario I guess.
Well he announced that the next person in who could correctly answer his
question would win $250 in gift cards for the new store.

I listened as a lucky lady won, and then another and then he announced that
the next prize would be $500 worth of gift cards!!!!!
I hmmm....and haaaaa'd and decided I would at least drive by and see how
busy they were...thinking that it would be crazy in there about now!
There weren't alot of cars around but I just kept driving anyway thinking
I'd never win and I really didn't want to push through a throng of people...
I'm just not that agressive, lol!

Almost half way to home from town the announcer came on at 2:55 and said
the big giveaway was happening just minutes after 3....so I hmmmmm'd and haaaa'd
again and actually turned around and went back into town.

I roamed around awhile, really surprised that there weren't more people in there!!
I heard him tell two other ladies that it would be around 3:18 when he went on
air again with the question. I stayed close and when he said you had to find Ted
and find out how long he'd worked there...I was off!
The first guy I asked wasn't Ted and looked at me funny when I asked his name, lol!!
So I asked a cashier who had been there for years where I might find Ted
and she pointed him out walking across the back of the store!

Ted told me he'd been there 24 years and when I told the announcer that
he asked me how I'd gotten that so quickly, lol..he thought maybe I knew Ted!
I WON!!! Yep, $500 worth of groceries and who doesn't need groceries,
especially with 5 people at home and one at college who could
really use a gift card for food, lol!

Crazy, crazy, crazy it was and you can't imagine how thankful I was
that I had changed my mind and turned around!!!

I think the next time that I try to push something aside and say ahhhh
never mind, that I will remember this win and go out of my way to take advantage
of any opportunity that might come my way, no matter how ridiculous it feels or looks 

I'd Like to Thank G-O-D....or wait, I mean D-O-G

 How many of you watched the Golden Globes on Sunday nite? I was watching '24' which I have been waiting a long time for, lol....but when it was over at 10 we switched to the award show and between finishing up some laundry and other chores I only caught a few of the speeches. One was Kate Winslet...I was soooo happy for her! She was genuinely shocked to say the least, because she not only won the best-supporting actress early in the evening but here she was also winning the best actress category which according to different web reports was highly expected to go Anne Hathaway because of a posting glitch on the Globe website.

Well, the other speech I caught was for Mickey Rourke. He looked umm.....hmmm....I'm not sure the word for it, lol.....quite colourful for sure     Anyway, instead of the usual speech that's pulled out of the pocket (which I noticed Kate didn't do either...I luv it when they wing it!!) about thanking G-O-D for this award, Mickey thanked his D-O-G...or really his dog's' plural. As most everyone knows, he has been shunned by hollywood as being very unco-operative and un-reliable and who knows what else, and they even had to shut down production on the movie he won for (the Wrestler) because they couldn't get backing on his name, so were looking for another actor! But through all the bad years, the drinking and the low times his dogs were always there for him when no none else would return his calls.

Dogs really are like that aren't they?! No matter how many mistakes you make, how often you scold them....they are always the first one to greet you with a wagging tail and a happy smile when you walk through the door    We lost our dog Nicky last fall and I was heartbroken. And even though it's been months, it still brings tears to my eyes and I can't talk about that nite without bawling. She was always happy to see us just because we were her people. She didn't care that we didn't have enough money to buy her the 'good' dog food, or a stocking at Christmas. It didn't matter that she sometimes got left out in the cold a little longer than she would have liked or that sometimes we forgot her in the car overnite, lol!  She luved car rides and our toast crusts and to curl up on the couch and never failed to be right there by our side whenever we were down....always happy to offer her unabiding loyalty.

RIP Nicky...you'll always be in our hearts...xo

Happy New Year!

 

Did anyone do any celebrating??

We had a few goodies here and watched Kung Fu Panda with the kids.

They both made it till midnite and then they were out like a light, lol!

The big boys both had parties to go to.

Is anyone making any New Year's Resolutions?

If it's possible I'd like to take on a new renovation project each month this

year...our 120 year old farm house still needs so much work