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Tickle Your Fancy is one of our Themes. Since The Reading Cafe is a place we can all hang out, while we drink our coffee or sip our margaritas, the talk of everything books can lead to funny stuff when we are having fun. Since we have been enjoying this feature…It is time for another Marcie….

 

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The Joys of Winter          

For those of you who live anywhere in the world that get snow will appreciate my winter adventures.  For pretty much 4-5 months out of the year I have to bundle up in layers of clothing to go outdoors.  By the time I’m done dressing for the chilly temps I feel like the kid in Robert Munsch’s book I Have to Go! Don’t laugh I’m being serious here folks.  No sooner am I dressed and braving the arctic air, my bladder decides it needs attention and it’s back to the drawing board  😉   

Once I’m outside the fun really begins, it’s snow playing time, that’s sarcasm for fighting with the snow.  If I’m not shoveling the white s#!% I’m using the snowblower.  Thank goodness for the invention of snowblowers or I’d never get out of my driveway all winter as we get dumped on pretty good throughout our winters.  However, as much as I’m thankful for this invention I swear my snowblower knows I hate it and it hates me right back.  Plus the thing weighs 10 times my body weight and it runs away with me down my driveway. I can no longer laugh at ppl who walk by my house with large dogs, and it looks like the dog is walking them. I’m now one of them, only I don’t have a dog, I have a snowblower that walks me.  LOL!!!!  Not only do I have the joys of playing in the snow, but I also have the joys of driving in it and cleaning snow and frost off my car.  Oh now there’s an adventure, right folks. Those of you who deal with snow know what I mean.  Slipping and sliding down the roads and getting stuck in snowbanks, having to start your car 10-15mins before you leave for work to get the ice melted off your car, etc.  Oh the joys of winter.  :-p

Let me tell you, you know it’s damn cold out when the snow doesn’t stick to my boots, my eyes water and nostrils pinch together as soon as I get outside, I’m talking take your breathe away cold.  We just had a major cold spell where our temps dropped to -35 degrees Celsius with the windchill.  Oh yes, we get wind chill cause the cold isn’t enough you know. Now those days are really fun cause you wrap yourself up so good against the cold that all you can see are people’s eyes.  It’s quite the funny site looking down the street and only seeing a pair of eyes peaking out from all those layers.  😉  Now that you know some of the joys of true winter weather, let me leave you with a joke that I love to read every winter as it perfectly describes the joys of winter.

Winter  Diary

December 8: It started to snow. The first of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat by the window watching the soft flakes drift down over the area. It was beautiful.

December 9: We awoke to a big beautiful blanket of crystal white snow covering the landscape. What a fantastic sight! Every tree and shrub covered with a beautiful white mantel. I shoveled snow for the first time in years and loved it. I did both our driveway and the sidewalk. Later the snowplow came along and covered up our sidewalk with compacted snow from the street. I shoveled again and enjoyed.

December 12: The sun has melted all our lovely snow. Oh well, I’m sure we will get some more before the lovely winter is over.

December 14: It snowed 8 inches last night and the thermometer dropped to 5 degrees below zero. Shoveled the driveway and sidewalk again and the snowplow came by and did its thing again.

December 15: Sold my van and bought a 4×4 Blazer so I can drive in the snow. I also had to go out and buy snow tires for my wife’s car.

December 16: Fell on my ass on the ice in the driveway. All that was hurt was my feelings.

December 17: Still cold (below zero in the a.m.) and icy roads make for very tough driving.

December 20: Had another 14 inches of the white shit last night. More shoveling for me today. That damn snowplow came by twice.

December 22: We are assured for a white Christmas because another foot of the white shit fell today and with this freezing weather it won’t melt until August. Got all dressed up to go out and shovel (boots, jump suit, heavy jacket, scarf, ear muffs, gloves, etc) and then I had to piss.

December 24: If I ever catch the son-of-a-bitch that drives that snowplow, I’ll drag him through the snow by his balls. I think he hides around the corner and waits for me to finish shoveling and then comes down the street 100 miles per hour and throws snow all over what used to be my clean driveway.

December 25: Merry Christmas! They predict 20 more inches of the (bleep) white stuff tonight. To hell with Santa, he doesn’t have to shovel the white shit. The snowplow driver came by asking for a donation. I hit him over the head with my snow shovel.

December 26: We got the 20 inches they predicted and then some. I must be going snowblind or have a severe case of cabin fever because my wife is starting to look good to me again.

December 27: The toilet froze. If you go outside, don’t eat the yellow snow.

December 28: I set fire to the house. Now that white shit won’t cling to the roof. We are taking the insurance money and moving to Florida.

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Tickle Your Fancy is one of our Themes. Since The Reading Cafe is a place we can all hang out, while we drink our coffee or sip our margaritas, the talk of everything books can lead to funny stuff when we are having fun. Since we have been enjoying this feature…It is time for another Marcie…

 

It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!

It’s that time of year again, my favourite time of the year actually, Christmas.  So not only am I busy getting ready for the holidays at home, but also at work and there I work with kids, the wee one’s.  So you can probably imagine what kind of chaos is ensuing for me as we inch closer and closer to Santa’s annual visit.  I enjoy all the hussle and bustle of getting ready for Christmas not only at home, but at work too.   The kids love the Christmas season in my room, I’m just like one of them when it comes to Christmas and all the fun.   I even have various Christmas hats I rotate between daily to entertain the kids and my co-workers.  One elf hat even sings.  My co-workers love that one. 😉

So when I pulled out my Christmas decorations it didn’t take long for my room to look like Santa’s Elves and his workshop had thrown up in my room.  Tinsel, red ribbons, stuffed reindeers and santas were everywhere.  Heck they were even decorating themselves. They were looking more like the Christmas tree then my tree was. They were having a good time, albeit it a messy one, but it’s Christmas.  Needless to say I was able to restore some order, get the room and tree decorated with their help.

Now decorating the room is only one step on having fun for Christmas with me and the kids. I love doing crafts with them. So we’ve started Christmas crafts and we’ve been making playdough ornaments this week.  Of course after you make and dry them it’s decorating time.  Glue, paint and sparkles were everywhere.  By the time Christmas is over I’ll be number 1 on the caretakers hit list. LOL!!!!  For anyone who’s ever dealt with sparkles and crafts you know what I mean. I’ll be finding sparkles in June at this rate. They just go everywhere and stick to everything. Not to mention for some reason kids love to paint and sparkle themselves too.  I swear I needed a tub yesterday to clean up just the kids.  LOL!!!!

Next on the Christmas  fun list; baking Gingerbread Men.  I can only imagine what will happen then.  If last weeks cookie making activity is any indication I’m in for a fun and messy time.  A couple of my kids thought the dough was like the playdough and decided to mush it and mold it and just play with it.  Then of course they decided to taste it and ate some of it.  I think they played and ate more of it then we made cookies.  But that’s kids for you, what fun is baking if you don’t taste any of the dough.  I know I always did, heck I still do.  😉  We did manage to make an even dozen cookies even though the recipe called for 16, so that wasn’t too bad.  Surprisingly they tasted good too.  Yes I’m a brave soul, I even tried the cookies we made after they had their grubby little hands all over the dough.  LOL!!!

Yes I’m a big kid when it comes to Christmas and working with a group of wee one’s is the perfect place for me this time of year. I should sign off now and go surf the net for more fun Christmas ideas that me and the kids can do over the next few weeks before we break for the holidays.  Hmmm, maybe I should also look for a safety vest in case the caretaker comes looking for me.  LOL!!!

Merry  Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone.  See you in the New Year!

Marcie

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Tickle Your Fancy is one of our Themes. Since The Reading Cafe is a place we can all hang out, while we drink our coffee or sip our margaritas, the talk of everything books can lead to funny stuff when we are having fun. Since we have been enjoying this feature…It is time for another Marcie…..

Adventures in Las Vegas

So I’ve recently returned from my trip to Las Vegas. I’m happy to report the trip disaster fairy stayed home, but her friend the giggle fairy ventured along with us.  We had ourselves a good time and lots of laughs which began as soon as we landed.  First off we’re dead tired cause we’ve been up since 3:30 a.m. eastern time and it’s 10:30 a.m. pacific time, we’re jet lagged and just want our luggage and go to our hotel.  Standing in the cab line I see a cabbie outside her cab, singing along to the music she has playing.  Guess who’s cab I get, yup the singing cabbie and she’s a friendly one.  She starts talking to us about Vegas and then goes onto her life story.  My sister and I are trying our best not to burst into giggles.  She’s telling us about her new car, her Mother’s Day, even pulls out her card to show us, and anything else under the sun.  Cab rides are always entertaining.  It’s amazing what perfect strangers will talk to you about. 

If anyone has ever been in Vegas then you know all about the kiosks/vendors in every single shopping area.  I don’t know what it was this time but I think we had some vendor magnet attached to us that we didn’t know about or else I would have turned it off. I swear every day we were harassed by at least one vendor in each different area.  If they weren’t trying to sell us a facial product, it was a hair product.  Now I realize it’s their job to try and make a sale, but really come on, how much B.S. do they have to shovel at us???  We got stuck with this one guy for almost an hour in his shop after he actually took us by the hand and walked us to his station.  He’s telling us all about this product that was featured on Dr. Oz.  I don’t watch him so I have no clue about the product, nor do I care.  He then proceeds to apply it to our faces even after we said no thanks.  He’s trying his hardest to make the sale and the whole time we’re rolling our eyes and laughing at the whole situation.  As if I’d spend $500 on eye cream, what’s in it liquid gold?????  All I could keep thinking about was the scene in Mama Mia where Christine Baranski’s character is hung over and they are trying to wake her up and her friend is yelling; ‘donkey testicles, get the donkey testicle cream’.  Really what do they put in that stuff that makes it cost that much, donkey testicles??? 

Another vendor was trying desperately to sell us a hair straightener. He even went so far as to sit my poor sister in his chair and proceed to take her hair down and start straightening it.  She’s telling him it’s okay he can stop now, does he listen, no, just keeps doing her hair, telling her about the product, how long are we in Vegas, if she comes back every day he’ll do her hair for free cause he likes her.  Oh puh-lease, gag me already.  He’s dripping in something and it’s called oil, cause he’s a slick one.  It got to the point where we felt we needed to ninja roll out of the way whenever we saw a vendor, or go purchase a pair of blinders, you know the kind they put on horses to keep their focus straight ahead.  It was just crazy.  I swear we attract them all, I really need to get my idiot magnet taken care of before my next adventure. (makes note to self about this)

Has anyone ever gone to spa for an exfoliation???  Well I can tell you there’s no need for spending that type of money.  Next time you want a full body exfoliation, just take a trip to the Grand Canyon on a windy day, and not just a breeze, I’m talking gale force winds.  The wind was so strong the day we went that you felt it pushing you as you walked, and if I were back home and it was winter, that wind would have shut my city down, we’d be in a blizzard with zero visibility.  If it were somewhere tropical it be classified a tropical storm. I’ve never experienced wind that crazy.  Thanks to Mother Nature I experienced nature’s version of a full body exfoliation and ate more sand and dirt then you could imagine.  Sand was everywhere, in my nose, my eyes, ears, hair, let me just say the shower was the first place I went when I got back to the hotel.  😉  At one point I was standing near an edge for a pic when a gust of wind came up and I couldn’t see a thing cause of my hair in my face, but I  went into the stop, drop and roll position for fear of being knocked over and pushed to close to the edge of the cliff.  It was just wild that day, the Canyon is a wonder to see, but do so on a non gale force wind day, you may enjoy it more.  😉  BTW, how many times does a person fall into the Canyon?  Just once.  That was one of the jokes our tour guide told us.

You know, the whole time we were in Vegas we discovered something important about clothing and woman.  Anyone can wear a bikini, short skirt or skin tight dress. I couldn’t believe some of the outfits and swim suits I was seeing.  I swear some were wearing dental floss and passing it off as a swim suit, and how the heck some were walking in those shoes I’ll never know.  My poor foot (the injured one) looked like a balloon every day thanks to the heat.  I was living on IBProfin and icing my foot every night, and these girls are walking on shoes with heals that looked like spikes, oy vey my foot hurts just thinking about it.   Vegas pools and the strip are a great place to kick back with a drink and people watch.  Boy did we get an eyeful on our trip, it’s always entertaining and brings on the giggles for us.  Aside from people watching, sightseeing, chatting it up with other tourists, and having a good time, we ate at some great places and saw some amazing shows.  For anyone thinking of heading to Vegas I highly recommend Le Rev at the Wynn.  I’m a fan of Cirque du Solei shows, but Le Rev blows them out of the water.  It was freaking amazing and one can really see Maks’(from DWTS) dance style come to life in the dance numbers.  He’s an incredible dancer and teacher and it showed through in Le Rev. In case anyone’s wondering, yes I’m a fan of Maksim Chmerkovskiy 😉  If you’re looking for fun drinks and amazing desserts then The Sugar Factory at the Paris is the place to go.  Your jaw will drop when you your dessert is delivered to your table, they are incredible.  One thing’s for sure, Vegas doesn’t skimp on the food servings cause they are huge and delicious and the drinks don’t disappoint either.  I’ve been to Vegas a few times now and I’m ready to go back again.  It’s a fun place to vacation and there’s always something new to do and see.  (walks off humming Katy Perry’s Waking Up in Vegas)    

Marcie

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Adventures on Vacations

For anyone who loves to go on vacations I’m sure you’ve all had your share of mishaps, funny incidents and just plain old out of your hands situations.  Well my friends I’m no different and I swear every time I go on vacation, whether it’s a short one or long one, the trip disaster fairy decides to show up.   

For example, for one of our first big adventures, we decided it would be fun to take the train and travel to Montreal and Quebec.  Not wanting to leave our car for a week in another city, we took the Greyhound bus to get there.  All was going well till we reached our destination and have been introduced to the trip disaster fairy.  We were told the train would be delayed for 3 hours due an emergency stop.  No vehicle with us we were stuck at the train station in the middle of no where.  I’m serious this train station is called a junction point and it’s in the middle of the bush with nothing around but the people who work there.  Talk about an exciting 3 hours.  One creepy worker wouldn’t leave us alone, kept talking to us, played cards with us, even talked to us about our nail polish since we decided to paint our nails to pass some time.  Who does that at their job????  Oh and lets not forget the wildlife, they came out to visit too.  At one point we couldn’t identify this one creature, who came out of the bushes and crossed the tracks, probably looking for food.  Upon returning from our trip, Mr. Creepy decided to drive us back to the bus station because he felt bad for us having to wait all that time for our train and didn’t want us to have to wait for a cab to come get us. Again who does that, and why did we agree to the ride??????  Must have been tired from our trip.  😉

Flying is always another adventure for us as it seems we are never destined to get home on time.  For one reason or another we are always delayed, either due to weather or mechanical issues.  Coming back from Las Vegas our first time we were delayed landing in Detroit due to weather.  I’m stuck on the plane with turbulence and trying not to be sick.  Finally land only to learn our connecting flight is delayed, and delayed, and delayed.  Thought we were never leaving Detroit that night, but finally at midnight they have us board the plane.  We go to take off, the plane goes into darkness as the trip disaster fairy strikes again.  We’re told the electrical part of the plane has no power and needs to be charged.  So we are stuck on the plane with no power as they call for a generator, it’s hot, humid and we’re exhausted.  Enter the giggle fairy, we can’t stop laughing and we’re dying of heat.  At one point, my sister is laughing so hard she almost falls out of her seat and flight attendants are looking at us like we’ve lost it (which I’m pretty sure we had at this point) and asks us if we’re okay.  In between fits of laughter and snorting I reply, ‘it’s been a really long day, can you open a window’.  Yup I had lost it by now.  😉  Flying is always an adventure for us and the trip disaster fairy never disappoints us. 

Over the years as we’ve traveled throughout North America we’ve had some pretty funny situations, from spending a week out East in total fog and looking like drowned rats every day thanks to the moisture in the air, to being out West for the Calgary Stampede, and dealing with weather changes almost every 10 mins.  Everyone in Calgary told us they having a saying, ‘if you don’t like the weather, wait 10 mins’. They weren’t kidding.  I can go on and on about our adventures on vacation courtesy of the trip disaster fairy but I fear you’d be reading forever.  Just know whenever I travel, you can be sure something crazy and out of my control will occur, and all involved will be attacked by the giggle fairy, completely loosing it over the situation we are finding ourselves in.   Well that’s all for now, got to go pack for my next adventure, let’s hope the trip disaster fairy stays home this time.  😉 

Marcie

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Adventures of a Stress Fracture and My Friend the Air Cast

As I’ve sat down over the last few weeks to try and type something for my new post nothing funny has come to me.  So instead you all get to hear of my adventures of a stress fracture and it’s friend the air cast. 

Hi there, this is Hop Along reporting this month.  You see for the past few months that’s basically what I’ve been doing as a result of my injury, the dreaded stress fracture.  Whoever says exercise and work are good for the soul is seriously smoking something strong and I wish they’d share it.  A few weeks before Christmas I attended my exercise class only to wake up the next morning with my foot resembling that of a puffer fish.  It’s so swollen I can’t fit my foot into any kind of footwear except for my slipper, so that’s how I went to work.  Somehow between being on my feet all day at work, and going to my pilates classes I wind up suffering a stress fracture.  Of course it takes a few months to diagnose, as they don’t show up on X-rays and I have to wait for an MRI appointment.  Needless to say it’s not fun hobbling around on a swollen foot wearing a slipper.  Finally a couple of months later my injury is finally diagnosed and I’m put into an air cast.  Anyone ever wear one of these things?  If not let me tell you about it.  

Let’s all say hello to my newest friend, air cast.  He’s been with me for the last 6-8 weeks.  We became very good friends and went everywhere together.  The air cast looks like a ski boot, but without the ski binding parts, or you could say it sorta resembles a roller blade boot, but without the wheels.  The only good thing about this contraption, I was able take it off to bathe and sleep, thank goodness.  So everyday for the past 8 weeks I’ve had to put the air cast on and inflated it. Yes you have to inflate it to keep it secured on your foot once you strap it on.  It comes with a little pump, looks like a balloon animal pump and fits nicely into you purse.   Why do I need it to fit in my purse you ask?  As I said earlier we went every where together, especially shopping.  Of course when one comes across new clothing items one must try them on. So there I am unhooking and deflating the stupid air cast in the change rooms so I can try on some clothes.  Then of course I have to put it back on, inflate it and carry on with my shopping mission, and there were a few throughout the weeks spent in my air cast.  

The other fun part about the air cast, trying to find a shoe that is of equal height to the air cast.  Nothing I own really did, some were a bit too high, while others just fell below the height of the air cast.  So I went around being uneven when walking for the past 8 weeks.  Let me tell you, my darling sister had a field day with me and my air cast.  Hop Along was just one of her pet names for me during my ordeal.  Another fun part of this whole ordeal, I live up North where we get snow, and of course my air cast is open at the toe area.  So not only do I have to worry about slipping on ice, I’m trying to keep the snow from getting inside my cast and getting my sock and foot wet.  The only thing that worked was putting a ziplock baggy over the front of the air cast.  Boy I was really styling now with my ziplock baggy accessory for my air cast.  😉  

Thank goodness my 8 weeks has come to an end and my adventure is over.  I’ve now said my farewells to my friend stress fracture and his friend the air cast, and hope to never hear from them again.  This is your roving reporter Hop Along, bidding you all a good day and happy walking.  😉      

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My Olympic Ice Skating Debut………Not!!

Living up in the great white North, one of our favorite past times in the winter is ice skating. Seeing how this winter has been a strange and mild one for us, we were pleasantly surprised to see that our outdoor rinks were finally ready.

So the other day my sister and I bundle up in our snow gear, we now look like Maggie Simpson, fall into the car cause we can barely move in our snowsuits and drive over to the rink.  We somehow manage to extract ourselves from the car and waddle our way to the benches to change into our skates.  With our pack of tissues in our pockets and skates on we’re ready to go.  

Now keep in mind one hazard of ice skating is children learning to skate.  They become road hazards, like little speed bumps in the road that you should really avoid.  Ten minutes out on the ice and we’re now playing dodge the falling child.  Here comes a child sliding by, wheeeee,  as I go one way dodging the little speed bump, another falls and I’m forced to go the other way. I’m now zig zagging across the ice attempting to stay upright. They really should make a smaller ice pad for the learning to skate crowd. 😉  Of course we get the giggles which doesn’t help cause now the wind has picked up and our eyes are tearing.

One more joy of outdoor skating, next it’s the runny nose. Yes I’m now juggling the task of dodging children, tearing eyes and needing to blow my nose all well staying upright on my skates.  Oh no let’s not forget the bumpy patches and chips in the ice which I always seem to find. As I manage to by pass one chipped spot I hit another and I go staggering across the ice, hit a bumpy part, my arms are flailing in an attempt to keep me upright and I wind up in a snowbank, stumbling to a stop.

Here come the giggles again and runny nose.  Oh the joys of outdoor skating in winter in the great white north.   As we continue our adventure on the ice,  it appears the wind doesn’t want to stop so every time we come around the corner and skate towards the other end, we get blasted by some chilly wind.  Me a clutz on feet, decides to turn around and skate backwards to avoid the wind in my face.  *warning bells begin to play in the background…..”Danger Will Robinson, Danger”…  I was never that great at skating backwards and I should always remember this but no, I turn and attempt to glide backwards.  Bad decision, my blade catches a chipped spot or small hole in the ice and I suddenly can fly, backwards albeit it but I am now sailing through the air. This outcome will not be good I just know it.  Needless to say I make a less then stellar landing and look like a chalk drawing in a murder investigation.  

Thankfully nothing is broken, just my ego and I’m once again laughing along with my sister. After an hour we finally decide to call it quits, and head home for a well deserved hot chocolate and baileys.  Tune in next time for another adventure in the life of Devil Mouse. 😉  

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Tickle Your Fancy is one of our Themes.  Since The Reading Cafe is a place we can all hang out, while we drink our coffee or sip our margaritas, the talk of everything books can lead to funny stuff when we are having fun.  We will be showcasing some of these moments for all of us to enjoy.  So without further ado....

 

The pressure is on…. I have been trying hard to think of what to write for my first post on The Reading Café.  I’ve been told that I have a great sense of humor and I should share that with you all. Now I know what writers block is.  But then yesterday was the kind of day that begged to be told.  I thought this was perfect for my first post, and I’ve titled it

“Why I Should Have Stayed in Bed”

 I missed my alarm, and woke up late.

 Then I stubbed my toe on the antique bench in the hall walking to the bathroom.

 I proceeded to blind myself in one eye while washing my face… my morning just keeps getting better.

I safely make it to the kitchen to make breakfast, only to pour my pomegranate juice into my bowl of cereal.  Being too tired to get a new bowl, I strained my juice out of the cereal, and add my milk.  Mmmmm, yummy pomegranate flavored milk and cereal.  

I made it to work in one piece, only to slip and fall on the ice in the parking lot walking to the door.  

At that point, I was very tempted to drive back home, crawl into bed and call in sick.  

Well I can safely say the rest of my day went much better then my morning did.  There were no mishaps on my part, but at lunch the kids at my table all had butter fingers.  Every single one of them spilled their milk.  It looked like a domino effect.  I did have a near miss, as it almost got my left pant leg, but I rescued it just in time. 

Fortunately, I got home safely without anything else happening.  That was my day that I had to share with you all.  😉  

Marcie

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