well, i knew this weekend was coming but i still wasn't organized enough to find something to dress up as for angie and raquel's fundraiser hallowe'en social on saturday night! only about half of us there seemed to have that problem but we had a lot of fun anyways! mom and don kept the kids for me and guy AND lisa and joel! thanks, by the way! in all the stuff that went on on sunday, i forgot to thank you guys for keeping the kids! so thank you : )
we weren't sure where the hall was in elm creek but didn't figure we would have had too much trouble finding it. you know, cause elm creek is such a big place : ) still, we drove around for a while, touring the big town of elm creek, in the dark, cause that's the best time to look at anything... yeah right! well, luckily, we eventually found it!
we loved hearing
tooth n nail again! they were great of course, even considering the elm creek hall isn't the ideal place to hear a live band... the other band was pretty good too, i'm not sure if they are still without a name? i heard they've been introduced as the "jugsuckers" LOL
even elvis (one of "guests") did a number on stage... "blue suede shoes" if i remember right. some guys (and girls) had awesome costumes, some wrestlers (all oiled down, even), a VLT, a plug and a socket, not a side table and lamp but a ONE NIGHT STAND (that's so funny!), candy corn, so many cool costumes! i can't remember them all! i already mentioned elvis... oh! and of course, i can't forget "relic" from the
beachcombers... if you click on
beachcombers, he's the one in the picture on the left.
if anyone (angie, the "angel", that's you!) has a picture of patrick as "relic" please send me and i'll add it to my post here! but the best part of the night was that i, who NEVER (okay... rarely) wins anything, came out pretty good at the rainbow/chinese auction! when i went to put tickets in for the draws, i never even looked what the other things in that first group were, i just saw the gift certificate for a one night stay on fairmont gold (gold, that's usually good right?!) at the fairmont hotel in winnipeg and dumped six or seven, maybe even eight tickets in the bag. i also put tickets in for the one with a whole bunch of scratch tickets/cell phone prize (although i'm not sure what i would have done with the cell phone - oh i know! given it to mom, i think she's going to get one for the first time today!) and the one that was wrapped in yellow cellophane (cause that one also had a few packages of scratch tickets), i can't even recall what was in the other drawings i put tickets in for! i usually put a few of my tickets in each of the drawings but this time i split my 25 tickets into four of the drawings. that worked pretty good! i'll have to try that again next time : ) i was so excited when i went to check my tickets to the ones they drew for the rainbow auction!!! i had the ticket for the one with the
fairmont hotel gift certificate!!! woo hoo!!!
the other stuff that i hadn't noticed was some
norwex products (which i've heard are great!), a set of three glass candleholders, and a wooden album box. i'm still excited!
i forgot to ask angie how they made out at their social, but it looked like it was a full house - there was still people coming in at 11:30! - they had already exceeded the$12 400. they needed to raise for team diabetes for the marathon in honolulu, hawaii, so way to go! you guys had an awesome night!
anya by cd muckosky
.............how awesome! a winnipegger - cd muckosky a.k.a.
feeling inspired on two peas mb - was named
scrapbooker of the year!!!
i love her scrapbooking style, she's a "hybrid" scrapbooker, that's where you mix digital scrapbooking with traditional scrapbooking.
she was chosen out of 10 finalists but there were 500 entries received from all over the u.s. and canada and i think even other countries! all of them had to submit 20 never-published, never-posted-online scrapbook page layouts and write a 500-word essay on the effect scrapbooking has had on their lives. ugh, that's a lot of work : )
lucky girl! she won $10,000 in cash, plus almost $10,000 in sponsorship prizes — the largest prize amounts ever awarded to a scrapbooker. plus she'll have two years of commitments...
and who said scrapbooking was just a stupid hobby?!
From: "Christine Sibilleau"
Sent: Oct 20, 2006 7:50:53 AM
To:
service@futureshop.comhi there, i just thought i would share with you the most unpleasant shopping experience i have ever had! actually, i believe it is my ONLY unpleasant experience! i spent all morning yesterday researching online what kind of lcd monitor we should get. after reading reviews as well as user comments at several sites, i settled on one model that was available at your store (which, by the way, is a TWO HOUR drive). we did some other shopping, of course, checked out the selection at costco and then went to your future shop store on regent. there was a lady who said hi to us just after we had walked in to the store, that was the last time someone talked to us. we went straight to the monitors, i found the monitor i had looked at online, i was happy with the display so i was ready to purchase it. unfortunately i couldn't find one in a box, the tag said "open box" so i assume that meant there was just the display model left. that was fine, i didn't care, i just needed a sales associate to help me with it.... we waited around for someone a few minutes then one of my girls needed to go to the bathroom so we took care of that and came back and waited around for assistance again waiting, waiting, walked around looking for someone in the area who was available, waiting, waiting. see sales associates go by, looking at us as they walk by, waiting, waiting, same sales associates go by, looking at us, waiting, waiting. another sales associate helps someone near by, they're looking at computers and then at monitors. he's beside us on our right, walks in front of us to our left, goes back to our right, at which point i actually started to speak to him. he didn't even look at me! not once, no "i'll be right with you" or anything like that. i see another sales associate always busy in the computer section and he's never in our area. finally a couple sales associates, one of which had looked at us as he walked down the main aisle SEVERAL times (after the second time he wouldn't look in our direction anymore), came in computer section, again seeing that we were needing assistance, but again not acknowledging us. i seek them out, i was impatient, i was upset, i demanded for help and went back to the monitors. i was even more upset at his answer, he never asked what i needed help with, he never said someone would be with me shortly, instead he pointed out the two sales associates that were in the area and said they were with someone else. well, obviously, otherwise i wouldn't have been standing around all his time, trying to keep my three kids civilized! i was fuming at his attitude! he didn't care what so ever when i stormed out empty handed. i think he actually said "fine"! hard to believe that if anyone would have asked, they would have found an easy sale. i already knew what i wanted before i entered the store!!! i just wish i could have brought the display model to the checkout so we wouldn't have had to waste our time with you guys!!!
we were in your store for an hour!!! we waited for someone to talk to us for an hour!!! (ok, take off 5 or 10 minutes for bathroom break) no wonder my kids were running around, making noise. i would have left long before had i known that much time had passed! i wish the monitor i had picked was at a different store and i could have totally avoided dealing with your incompetent sales people. now that i think about it, it would have taken me less time to drive to another future shop. but who knows if we would have had the same experience there?!
i wasn't ready to go back home without a monitor, that was the main purpose of our trip to winnipeg! so we went a couple of doors down to best buy where the sales associates actually asked if they could assist us. imagine that, what a concept!!! one of them even opened up with "what brings you to best buy?" oh if he only knew!
don't worry! i won't be going back to future shop so your sales people don't need to worry about me yelling in their store again...
christine sibilleau
i don't know about you guys but we had a quiet weekend, haven't had many of those lately : ) danielle noticed too - her comment when we went to town to bring matthieu to sunday school this morning was "we're staying home for two days?!" that brought on the twenty other questions that always follow whenever danielle asks about anything: "how come dad's not working today", "how come you're not working today", "how come we're not going to diane's", "how come it's sunday", "it's not sunday", "all the other kids are at diane's how come we're not"... whew! those were easy enough to get through! sometimes she has me stumped - you know, about the things that don't always have an explanation because that is just the way it's understood to be - it's usually the science questions, like why is ice slippery? once in a while, she lets me get away with "i don't know, we'll have to ask dad, maybe he knows"... life from the perspective of a four-year-old...
danielle is so bummed that she doesn't have school this week. she only goes to school readiness on thursdays but there is no school here on thursday or friday. she wishes she could go to school every day so she is really bummed that she has to wait two weeks this time! she LOVES riding the bus to school in the morning, matthieu brings her to her classroom. it's so awesome having an older brother! i imagine he'll be off the hook for chantale, danielle will probably take over for him since she'll be in 1st grade when chantale starts school readiness and matthieu will be in 7th grade AAGH!!! i'm not ready for that!
i need to go have some chocolate now : )
i like my purse. i like the colour, i like the shape, i like the size! i bought it a few years ago from a thirteen sisters home party (did you know they have a store in greenbush now? love it!) and it's the one i use every fall - because it just feels like a fall purse! don't you think? and orange coordinates with everything LOL
it's been called everything from a bowling bag, to a pumpkin, to my hunter's orange/hunting bag.
most everyone, including my sister makes fun of it every chance they get. even the customs officer the other morning gave me a hard time about it! "what's that?!" he laughs. and you know how they always ask if you have anything from the u.s. to leave in canada? well, he said to be sure i brought my purse back with me, didn't want me to forget that thing behind LOL!
i usually use the purses that i like until they get worn out or sometimes i'll hang on to them and swap them out through the year (like this one). when i don't like it anymore i pass it on to the girls for them to play with it or it goes with the stuff for terry's next garage sale. i don't know if anyone else will get to enjoy my purse when i'm done with it, but for now - this one's a keeper! i plan on using it for many years to come! so for those of you who think it's an eyesore - put on your sunglasses : )
give me a break! i'm new at this : )
don't forget to give me the link to your blog i'll add you to my list!!
well, this is a big step! not so big maybe, at least i've heard of a blog before - unlike dh : ) where has he been?! i hope to use this to share about us - and maybe showcase some of my stuff! in case you didn't know, i like to scrapbook and make cards, dabble a little bit in some altered stuff... ok, maybe like isn't strong enough a word....
later,
christine
a.k.a chris
