The answer to .... which ship

Yes, that's right. It's the Black Pearl.

Not just the Spanish Main, luv. The entire ocean. The entire wo'ld. Wherever we want to go, we'll go. That's what a ship is, you know. It's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs but what a ship is... what the Black Pearl really is... is freedom.
-Captain Jack Sparrow

State of the Union

Since there is a tie in the poll on the ship question, we re-opened the poll and maybe we can get a uneven score.... In the news, last night was State of the Union. Bush's last one and since I know nothing of politics, but wanted to honor the moment this is what I found.

Wholly -30 Batman!!! Brrr

Where are we in Winnipeg??? -30?? Us cowtowners don't know what to do with this coldness!! Maddy was sure there'd be no school, because the buses would be frozen. This is not funny, I'm having flashbacks of a Winnipeg morning. All you Calgarians STAY WARM today.... and people that live elswehere....... stop laughing!

Much Video Dance Winner

Maddie's school dance was today, it was a Much Video Dance, and she won the prize for best girl dancer! She was very excited!!

If there is lull in the wedding music I can see Maddie starting something like this to get the party rolling!!

The answer to Selena's fave drink

Well that was easy huh? Yes, My beloved Diet Coke is always by my side :-) We asked a few tough questions so this one gave your brain a break.... just for the taste of it! Diet Coke,,,

Vampire Kitty

I'm not sure how or why doing laundry hurt my neck. It still isn't perfect and it has been two weeks... then I thought of something.... I heard about this phenomenon in Transylvania, and well you know we have a "few" cats.... so I'm thinking maybe it wasn't laundry after all. Also I have an aversion to steak, and the sun hurts my eyes lately.. coincidence???

Strange but true...

We were in Medicine Hat this weekend. I decided to check out youtube and see if there were any interesting videos on "The Hat" This is what we came up with. At first we didn't believe it, so we went to Google Earth ourselves and lo and behold there it is!!!!



as plain as day, a Native American Head.

The Answer: Where is the first destination on the honeymoon?

Yes! You got it right - San Franciso will be our first stop on this 4 city tour. Destination: Starbucks and then the Golden Gate Bridge!

This is why we bought Kia's

Jinkies!!!

61 days??? The organizer in me is starting to panic!!!!

Evolution of Dance

This is very funny!! :-)

Answer to: What is the largest device Selena has shorted out?

Welcome to the SeleNation! This is the place where electronic devices of all sorts go to die or worse malfunction intermittently without a reason. Black is white and white is black. Things that just are not possible happen here. I don't know how many times I have talked to Selena on the phone as she is describing a problem and said to her "That's impossible." Things that happen to her are against science and often have no explanation at all.

Just this morning, I woke up to my Blackberry alarm to find the screen blank. Sometimes my Blackberry has crashed but it stopped working completely as it should. This "Blank Blackberry" rang as usual this morning but was completely blank when I picked it up to turn the alarm off. The last one to touch it? Yup. You guessed it.

How many cell phones has she disabled? Two.

Inkjet printers, especially brand new ones, are extremely reliable. Except for Selena's. It would only print one sheet at a time. I spent a few hours on this one. I could not explain it.

Maid of Honour Dale's computer: Selena simply sat down in front of it and all the fonts went huge. No explanation at all.

Last year, Selena helped me with a dental office install. The computers I used have performed flawlessly in every other dental office - I have installed hundreds. But 6 of these machines (almost half) in this one network have had problems. We did the install last February and I am still chasing bugs in these machines whose cause have no scientific explanation. It is the only office Selena has helped me with. Coincidence?

She had a TV short out on her. But the "official" explanation was lightning. I am not so sure any more.

When I first met Selena she told me about how she was cursed with electronics. I listened politely and thought she was just exaggerating. But after observing her the last few years and witnessing many of these events first hand, I am reluctantly starting to believe now.

On to the answer - the largest device Selena has shorted out is, yes, believe it or not, is a 2006 Kia Sportage! Impossible, you say? Not for her. I was there and witnessed this one first hand.

Here is what happened:

This past Halloween we had to move the Kia out of the driveway so Selena could set up the driveway like the hotel room in 1408. No problem. We had a very nice Halloween Night, lots of kids and candy, etc. People loved the 1408 display. After it was all over, I moved her Kia back into the driveway after we cleaned up. Then I moved mine. No problem.

The next morning Selena phoned me to say that she turned the key and it would not start. I figured maybe I left the lights on or something. However, it was not something I would do easily as I have to walk in directly in front of the Kia and would have noticed I had left them on. But as I was using science, I figured this was the only explanation-a dead battery. Selena called Kia roadside assistance and they came and could not start it. It was not the battery. They had to tow it back to Kia. Kia started it eventually but COULD NOT EXPLAIN what had happened.

And this my friends is the SeleNation!

The life of a tree

First it is picked by perfection, the tallest, the prettiest, the fullest....

Then it is decorated to it's beautiful Glory!! ( tilt and all ) while Christmas carols play in the background.

Once you hear AC/DC and Metallica pouring out of the stereo, the tree knows it's days are numbered... and then as small as he can get it, Dean CHOPS it up into a million pieces... do I hear him humming "Oh Christmas Tree"??

Maddie's pic of the week

One day Maddie came downstairs and her hands were covered with words, instead of explaining what she was trying to do, she showed us this video she was trying to immitate. She'll need to practice a bit to master this!!!

Laundry is Dangerous!

This has been Selena's view of the world for the past 3 days:

Left of the couch

A little more to the right

The TV, of course, playing CSI: Season 7...

And she is able to look out the skylights...

Here is her arsenal - vibrating back massager, Robaxisal and Deep heating pads and the all healing Diet Coke...

All because of this:

Selena was moving some clothing from the washer to the dryer when she felt something twist and shatter in her shoulder and neck. This was last week. But on Saturday she wasn't barely able to turn her head and has been on the couch ever since! She is getting better now. She is able to turn now but wow - please be warned of the dangers of laundry! Who knew it could be so dangerous?

She says she will look like this if she has to spend any more time on the couch:

How Many Days did it take Dean to Install Selena's Computer in '05? The Answer to the Poll Question!

I have worked with computers since my brother threw his Radio Shack colour computer aside when he got sick of it. From that day in 1980 or so, I was hooked.

Fast forward to 2005, when a beautiful woman named Selena asked me to take a look at her home computer. My life would never be the same again.

We figured out that she would need a new machine rather deal with trying to video capture on her aging Windows 98 machine. I delivered the new machine and just like that she was up and running just like the hundreds of other installs I had done in the past.

Yeah, right.

In my computer career, I have installed many new machines, transferred a lot of data and dealt with every problem you can think of. That is, until Selena came along.

I have never before or since had to re-install Windows XP that many times. Well, a whopping 40 DAYS LATER, I finally got it to work. Wow! And the rest, as they say, is history.

Dinner and a Goat.

We ventured to Banff yesterday. We explored a little bit, went to Starbuck's and took some great mountain shots with Selena's new camera:

There was a wedding at The Banff Springs and we happened upon a few cool ice sculptures:

Including a full ice sculpture bar. Cool!

Then we got hungry and the two of us went for dinner at The Keg. We waited and requested a table for two and eagerly followed our hostess to our table. We were led up some stairs, around a few corners and then straight to this table in a small corner of the restaurant. When we sat down, we soon discovered it was actually a table for three:

First, I tried to make friends with our table guest. He didn't seem to want that. He seemed to get a mean look in his eye and just kept staring.

Fear finally got the best of me and I had to run away. He seemed to like Selena, however:

So, if you are ever in Banff and want to really experience mountain wildlife up close, go to The Keg and ask them for the Goat Table. They will definitely know which one you are talking about!

We have our answer!!

Ok, so we sent the west coast into a tizzy trying to understand the meaning of Toffifay vrs. Toffifee, and we now have our answer. Right from the horses's mouth, so to speak. We sent an email to the company with our question, and here was our answer...

Good Morning,

Thank you for contacting Storck Canada. We appreciate the time you have taken to write in with your comments.

All of our products are produced in Germany by our parent company. The spelling "Toffifee" is used throughout the world except for the U.S. where the product is spelled "Toffifay." The U.S. uses the phonetic spelling to help our consumers with the correct pronunciation. There is no other difference between the products.

Once again, thank you for taking the time to contact us and we hope you will continue to enjoy and support Storck products.

Sincerely,


Roberta Campbell
Storck Canada Inc

Alright then, the American's need to phonetically spell their products... can someone explain this to me then. How in the world does Sorcerer phonetically sound out Philosopher??????

There's No Crying In Baseball (and other truths)

We had a lot of fun this Christmas. We played many, many games like Pass The Ace, Friends Scene it, Harry Potter Scene It, Scene it Jr, and classic Simpson's Clue. They were all great. But I caught Selena doing something during Monopoly - Credit Card Edition. This is the one where there is no cash - you get cards and a Credit/Debit machine that does everything for you. Makes for much faster game play and it's still much fun. EXCEPT Selena was reverse cheating!

Let me explain.

I thought at first she was playing some extra cautious game strategy and saving up her money to make some super 25 property "land for cash" deal that would sweep her to a stunning victory while giving me a false sense of hope. My brother Glenn was excellent at this ploy when we would play as kids. His "But you would own BOTH UTILITIES" sold me every time (and probably still would today). Ahhh, but that's the fun of this game! BUT, my fiance was doing no such thing. She had tons of money and was the owner of Boardwalk AND Park Place. She WAS NOT putting on any houses or hotels on her properties. She was passing go tons of times, getting Chance cards telling her to pass Go amd bypassing all my properties. The game was in her hands! But I had to point out that she did indeed have enough money to easily Hotel Boardwalk and Park Place. She finally relented and bought them and about 2 turns later the game was over! I had caught her reverse cheating!

I have learned many things this Christmas:

1) Toffifee and Toffifay are the same candy.
2) There are people in the world that like ketchup chips.
3) As of today, I am not even close to a Guitar Hero!

and lastly,

4) Some people still don't know that in Monopoly all bets are off. It doesn't matter who is playing, your mom, your kids, your sweet old Grandmother or yes, Selena, your husband to be, if there is a chance to BANKRUPT these people in Monopoly, you TAKE IT!

2008

Happy New Years Everyone..... wow we get married this year!!! :-)


Maddy played Guitar Hero so much she wore a hole in the red key!! Dean had to go to Memory Express to get all the parts to make it work, and as you can see we break every regulation behind our TV, but , hey, we get to play!!!