I thought that the best slight of hand tonight would have been losing the cash I spent on the tickets for this show. I was wrong! I loved it! Wow! Definitely worth the price of admission! I would totally go see David Copperfield perform again. Now if only he had picked me out of the audience and transported me to China instead of sending that other woman to Hawaii, I would have named my daughter David!!

More room updates...

...a paint color has been selected and applied!!

What's this? An update?

Okay, so now they are less than two months of log in dates away from our log in date. I want to get excited but it seems tooooo soon. I will try to refrain. Well, at least I can get some more work done tomorrow now that I know the CCAA website has been updated. Of course I could always look at families' referral pictures and rework my estimates for our actual referral.

Christmas Time!

You wouldn't think that Charlie would know it was Christmas or that he would get the concept of gifts, well, you would be wrong. Sooo very wrong. He is actually thinking of converting to take advantage of the eight days during Hannakuh! His gifts arrived by mail, airplane and direct knocks to the front door. I think one of his favorite presents was a special visit from our neighbour down the street, Isobel, who had to bring him his gift in person. Charlie also appreciated the slippers he received from Prairie Dogma (yeah, ok, we need a kid) and the cans of water packed tuna from East Coast Dogma (yes, other people now refer to them this way as well in case you are wondering.) Charlie likes the idea of presents so much that for the entire time from Christmas to New Year's Day, each time he entered the house he would 'check-out' the tree and see if anything new had materialized with his name on it. (Okay, I may be taking liberties there, I know he can't actually read.)

Slacker that I am...

...it has been so long since I have updated the blog!! With all the home renos, staff parties and the holidays (or as I like to call it, Christmas) I haven't been on the computer very much or even in my own house and when we were, we were working on the floors. I am happy to say that all projects for 2006 have Phase 1 completed. I am still working on the Gantt chart for '07. ha ha I have been watching the Rumor Queen website everyday anxiously awaiting the latest batch of referrals to see if I can put a better estimate as to when we will be going to China. I have a feeling that this is our year!! :) Alan picked up the paint for 'the kid's' room today. I guess I know how I am spending my weekend!! That's okay though, it was part of the plan. January - paint the kid's room.

Here are some pictures from the past few weeks that I haven't been blogging....I made a quilt for my mom and my MIL, installed some hardwood floors and managed to attend the wedding of our good friends- Pat and Carole! (Finalement mes amis!) And Alan was there for most of it, with the exception of the quilt. :P (He really should learn to blog himself!!)

I don't think they make a card for this one...

'Happy First Anniversary of Your Log In Date'

I think the inside of the card, if they made one would read something like this...

'May you never have to see another...'

Seriously? Seriously!

Yep, seriously. Have I ever mentioned that I think we (Alan and I that is) are cursed? I'm talking old-fashioned, Egyption don't-invade-my-final-resting-place kind of curse or the more modern voo-doo curse where someone keeps poking a pin in my head. I figure it is my head because it is the one thing that really hurts.

So we decided to do the flooring in our house in anticipation of a new family member. Some people might have waited a few years given the need for food flinging by some of the younger set but our carpet wouldn't have lasted that long. For hardwoods we chose teak and for carpet a beige berber. We have been getting everything prepped and ready for almost two weeks now. Last week Alan and his friend Sean started to install the teak floors with the beautiful character. Well if by character they meant no two boards were the same width then we got just what we wanted. Needless to say that is going back to the store and we are going with a nice, everyday, run of the mill (hopefully a mill with a laser cut) maple hardwoods. Fine, the store is coming to pick up the old and deliver the new. Everything is fine. This week was carpet installation week. November 20, 2006. An appointment that has been booked for six weeks now. A carpet choice that seemed perfect and it would be if they had sent the right one. Let me back track, as you'll notice by the date on this post, the 20th was yesterday. One of the installers had to go to the hospital on his way here. He had an abscess on his tooth. He's okay except for the fact he had an allergic reaction to the T3's and that the antibiotics were taking a while to start working. On Tuesday, they arrived again, got the underlay installed ( a lovely shade of blue in case anyone is wondering) and then they brought in the carpet. The wrong carpet. A taupe. Taupe is not beige, it is pink. Or pinky-brown as the installer described it to the salesman. The salesman generously offered to bring the right carpet and we (the installers and I ) would just have to wait for an hour and a half. One would think that if a company carried the carpet you wanted in three colors and the three colours were taupe, biege and chocolate brown and you had wanted beige but received taupe and the salesman said he would bring the right one, you would assume he would chose the biege, right?? WRONG!! He chose the chocolate brown. I couldn't believe it. Then the salesman tried to arrange the installation for the following week!! The installers 'fixed his little red wagon' though and they left all their tools at our place so they couldn't go to another job.