Finally

Well, Miss Maddie is finally alllllll better!! First it was Strep throat then we found out she was allergic to penicillin, so rather than curing her it was poisoning her! But the Dr's figured it out, and now she is back to herself, talking a hundred miles an hour, and not just in her delirium sleeptalk, but real conversations. Since she has rarely been sick in 14 years, and nothing like this, I figure she's good for another 14! So let's see, what happened the last 2 weeks, not much, we've been kind house bound. We found a strange thing in the yard the other day tho.... and oddly enough Maddie started to get better right around the same time... I think we had a visitor, a secret visitor.... named Mary Poppins! ( you know, the whole spoonful of sugar making the medicine go down thing ....)

Tricks of the trade

We have a new thing in the store.... Digital Scrapbooking..... and let me tell ya, it's fun!!!!

We're Sinking That This Is Funny!

What do you sink?

Chalk Walk

To all our bloggers who have been checking in and finding nothing new.... sorry. Miss Maddie, who is never sick, has been out cold for 4 days!!!!!!! She has Strep Throat and since Sunday has slept about 22 out of 24 hours daily.

So... I need to back track to update here. On the weekend Chalk Walk was in Calgary down 17th.

We got there kinda early so the artists were still working on their drawings, there were some pretty cool ones. I'll have to google and see if there are any finished pictures?

We cruised the streets for a bit and came upon a very cool window front. At first I didn't know what kind of store this was, then we realized it was a stationary store. Something tells me the owner has a passion for Halloween.... the whole front of the store was Ghoulish supplies! I, as you can imagine, was in my glory. You'll definitely have to click the pic to enlarge it to appreciate these photos!

Fire Needed...

If anyone knows about fires, it's Evanston! And we needed to put a fire under city council to help us get out of Evanston in the morning, there's only one road! Maddie's school bus is always late, and it took Dean 40 minutes the other day to get down one street! Apparently we were loud enough and it is being fixed tomorrow!! Very cool, our first community coup!!

http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080910/CGY_Traffic_Evanston_080910/20080910/?hub=CalgaryHome

Above is the news cast.

Should You Care about the Large Hadron Collider?

No! But if you want to read about it, you can:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/extreme_machines/4281928.html

Every two centuries or so, physicists do something interesting - this is one of those times. Kind of.

But actually the Large Hadron Collider reminded me of the reading kick Selena and I got on this summer. We read Dan Brown's three other books - Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress and Deception Point. In case you are a physicist who has been working on the Large Hadron Collider and have been too busy to read or go to movies, Dan Brown is best known for his book The DaVinci Code. If you haven't already, you really need to read Dan Brown's other books. They are addicting page turners. We just could not put them down.

Are you wondering why I am talking about physicists and my reading habits? Is there a point to this post? Why yes, maybe there is.

You should read Angels and Demons, not only do you get an amazing story, you also get a mini-course on just exactly what a Large Hadron Collider is and why so many advanced degreeing smart people are freaking out over this Wednesday's test of this device. The book is awesome and just writing this makes me want to read it again.

Quest for the Muffuletta

So Dean popped into a coffee shop downtown, and was very surprised when he looked up at the menu and saw... a muffuletta!!! So the quest continues. We waited til Saturday when all 3 of us could go and with fingers crossed got into the car and headed South. We were sure when we got there that the menu would have been changed.... but no.. there it was! We ordered 3, fingers still crossed, Maddie's was without meat of course. Then we patiently waited for our order. Once it arrived we inspected it closely... so far so good, no mayo no mustard... the olive salad looked good.. so we took a bite. Yay! we found a muffuletta... now, this is nowhere near the size of them in New Orleans, you have to squish them to get them into your mouth, but the taste was right. I think tho', to get a real one, we either have to go back to New Orleans ( works for us ) or, learn how to make the olive salad. That will be the new quest then. When we do find out how, I'll post it on the cook book blog! Ok off to Google I go. ( to book plane tickets )

This was our Muffuletta....

This is a New Orlean's Muffuletta!!

John McCain vs. Barack Obama........... (with a side of Ronald Reagan)

If John McCain succeeds in November, I pick this moment where John McCain stopped the momentum of Barack Obama's campaign with two words. Obama was off the teleprompter here and it shows. Selena observes that John McCain was probably surprised by the ovation he got by giving a two word answer. But after he watched Obama's answer he definitely knew why:

A classic political moment. Sometimes it takes only a few words
to make your point.

Ronald Reagan knew that too. Here is one of my favourite Reagan
moments where just a few words packed a political punch:

Web Designer

It's now official.... I have built and sold my first web site! :-) I am a web designer...

My first, launched, paycheck in hand, approved by the owners Web site. Kewl :-)

here it is if you wanna go see :-)

http://www.okotoksfamilydental.com/

The Perfect Job

So where should a scrapbook lover work??? At Scrapbooker's paradise of course!! I start on Friday :-) It's the perfect job for me, surrounded by ideas! Short drive to work, about 12 hours a week.... and may I just say FUN!!!!!!!! I will update you on this perfect job for me!!!