Bad singing!

I chuckled so much when I read this, I just had to put it here to share!

From Annie's Mailbox:
Dear Annie: I smiled when I read the letter from "Pittsburgher with a Dilemma", who asked what could be done about their caring and inspiring rabbi who happens to have an awful singing voice. You made some good suggestions.
Our wonderful parish priest also sings enthusiastically and terribly (into a lapel microphone) at every Mass he officiates. Someone must have mentioned how off-key his singing was, because one Sunday he apologized for any ears he was hurting. He then declared he certainly wasn't going to quit singing at Mass. He said, "God gave me this voice, and I am paying him back!" -- Montanan with No Dilemma

Cracked me up to no end!! Isn't that hilarious??? I'm going to have to remember that line the next time someone complains about MY singing voice!! :-))))

Okay, just freaky....

So the wedding. Tentatively booked for August 2, 2008. I'm thinking around suppertime. Still playing with that idea of calling that Alastair MacLean fella, that Marriage Commissioner person that I saw listed. You know, to pre-book for next summer. 'Cause his name works. LOL

And the last few weeks, we've had one of our clients have some sort of dealings with this man. I even looked him up on the net, to get a look see at him. But kept putting off calling him.

Today, a fella by the name of Scott is here to see one of our partners. He wasn't in a hurry to see the partner, 'cause he was still waiting to for someone else to join him, and then they would BOTH see the partner. Well, damned if it wasn't ALASTAIR MAC LEAN!!! Can you believe it???? I mean, what are the chances of him coming here!!

So I asked the guy, are you the 'Alastair MacLean' that performs marriages? Yep, that's him!! Altho, he usually only does the overflow when everyone else is booked up. So we began to talk about what I was looking for. I even had the sample invite that I'm thinking of using here at my desk!! LOL

Well, the fella has even done handfasting ceremonies. Not exactly what I was looking for - a little too much pomp and ceremony for me, altho, I DID check it out!! LOL And he's worn his kilt to perform weddings! He sounded like he was on board!

But..... it's too early to book him, AND, he kinda made a face when I said it was the August LOOOOONG weekend. Altho, he was happy to hear how small it would be - guess he still works full time too. ~big sigh~

BUT... he did give me his number to call him! I'm thinking that he may just be the one to hitch us!! The gods certainly seemed to be pushing me that direction. "If Mohamed won't come to the mountain then the mountain will just have to come to Mohamed." What kind of "coincidence" was that?!!! A sign!! A sign!! LOL

Spring is REALLY here!!

Watching the blue jays out of my LR windown this morning, zipping & bopping around - and what do I see? A ROBIN!! Wait, TWO ROBINS!!

SPRING HAS SPRUNG!!

Patrick's wrecked car March 10

My poor kid!! He went on a little road trip up to Devon with a friend. On their way back by Leduc, he crashed into a guardrail. Spun back and hit it again. THANK GOODNESS there wasn't anyone in the other lane. THANK GOODNESS the people behind him where back far enough to not be involved in the accident. THANK THE POWERS THAT BE that he and his friend WEREN'T hurt!!!!! The people behind him called 9-1-1, the cops and EMT guys came. I guess there has been numerous accidents right there before his! Jeez!! Think maybe there should be something done about it????? And some accidents weren't so lucky - there has been roll overs and even fatalities!!! The EMT guys were surprised that P's air bags didn't even deploy. But he said he wasn't speeding, doing about 112 km/hr.

He couldn't reach his dad on his cell phone, so he & his friend ended up taking a taxi to RD. At a cost of $140!!!! 'Cause the cops towed the car right into Leduc, right away. Before he had a chance to do anything else with it. And of course, he's young, and it was his first accident, and he didn't know what kind of things to do. Poor kid!

Then the quote came in to repair it. About $6600. It's a 2002 Saturn. P's dad then wants to see if Dave could repair it cheaper. So Dave & Dwight went thru the quote that was faxed down here - the best they could do would be $4500. With Dave doing the labour @ n/c. And paint at cost. We faxed the info back up to RD, and then P's dad figured we could break down the cost by 3 - he'd pay 1/3, Patrick would pay 1/3, and I would pay 1/3. Thank goodness for Patrick, who TOLD his dad that "Mom doesn't have that kind of money!". He was rather disgusted with his dad, I think. See, give the man enough rope, and he WILL hang himself!! I WISH I could help Patrick out!! ~big sigh~

So the poor kid is hoofing it for now. Lots of walking. Sucks to 18 and have no wheels. Wait, I was 18 once, and had no wheels!! LOL I'm still very grateful that it was only his car that got wrecked!!

Forot to tell you - MYSTERY flowers!!

While Dave & I were out for lunch on Friday, one of the girls from my work called me, to tell me these flowers had arrived for me at my work. Almost a week later, I STILL haven't a clue who sent them to me!! LOL Guess we'll put this file into the Unsolved Mysteries File....

Spring has Sprung!

WooHoo!!! Spring is on it's way!! How do I know this? My daffodils are coming up, and when I sat outside on the back doorstep today on my smoke break, the ants are out!! Okay, so the ants aren't so great, but the DAFFODILS are!!!