Hi Darlings,
How're y'all doin' out there in the world...in Ireland, San Francisco, Australia, Canada, Luxembourg, Dublin, Co. Kildare, Co. Galway - Heck! that sure sounds impressive - doesn't it?
I am in total heaven since I got my new home computer last night. I was without one for several weeks and it was AWFUL. I missed it so much. In the beginning I was like a drug addict missing my fix - hands shaking, etc. etc. I missed the connection despite the fact there are 5 home computers in this house of mine - I just don't like using other people's computers - besides they are always stuck to them like clams - two's company - three is a crowd!
Now I have my own magnificent baby - a Dell and I'm just loving it. Don my computer man ordered it for me and saved me $150 in the process. In addition he spent hours in his home transferring all the old files onto the new computer and then he came to the house last night and spent a further 3 hours going over everything with me. Such a gentleman and only wanted to charge me $90 for I am sure at least 15 hours work if not more. He had to remove the old computer, order the new one, collect the new one and then bring it to his home and then return again with it loaded and all of that work for only $90!! He is an incredibly decent human being but I always give him a bit more than he asks for.
He is just such a non-materialist and not in the least bit greedy. I guess if he was married with children, the story would be different!!
We had a fellow come in and clean the windows not so long ago. He did an o.k. job but felt he would have to make a '2 day job out of it'. Anyway Dave the window cleaner 'fleeced me' - charged GST plus PST and every other bloody tax he could conjure up and get away with!! For his few hours cleaning the windows he charged a whooping $320!! Compare that to Don the computer guy!! However, Dave informed me that he has a new woman "and she does all the books now!!" - easily known because after he had fleeced me, he produced this really fancy fridge magnet to remind me to book another window session. The moral of the story is 'don't book a window cleaner who has a woman at home 'doin' the books!'.
My golden wonder car is driving like an absolute gem. I love love love it. Don't know how I ever existed without it. Imagine my surprise the other day when a knock came on the door - a fellow was standing outside with a HUGE floral arrangement "Happy Easter Mrs. O'Neill from all at Three Point Motors" What a nice surprise!! It was the most magnificent floral arrangement I had ever in my life seen - wild and exotic with bird of paradise flowers and exotic palm tree foliage and yellow exotic flowers - honestly it took my breath away. I had given a thank-you card and bunch of flowers to Alexia the girl in the Mercedes Benz showroom who had been so helpful to us. I think she did that as a thank-you. Maybe they do that for everybody. And we're only in the 'B Series' - the lowest of the low!!
As I said - Stuff happens when you least expect it!!
Love y'all. Be good to yourselves and Enjoy every precious moment. I'll finish with a poem...
Little drops of water
Little grains of sand
Make the mighty ocean
And the beauteous land
Little deeds of kindness
Little words of love
Make our earth an Eden
Like the heaven above
Cheers and BFN
Patricia Delisha xxx
Friday, April 17, 2009
Stuff happens when you least expect it!!
Picture the scene...Friday afternoon I'm rushing down that lunatic highway I was telling you about before, surrounded by hundreds of cars on both sides of me - all in the same hurry as me. I had a 4 p.m. appointment in Langford (about 20 mins. outside of Victoria) to meet with a graphic designer re. my book. Suddenly the car has a fit - not me the car! I was driving Kevin's car at the time. The quicker I drove, the noisier the car became. It felt like as if I had a puncture but because there was no place to stop I had to keep going until I got to Langford and off the motorway. When I got to Langford, I checked the car - surprisingly no flat tyre - what the hell was that noise? Fortunately and by some instinct, I had blessed myself with holy water before leaving the office. I had actually returned to the office to do that (don't normally do that).
After my appointment was finished, I decided to head for home and get Kevin to check out what was causing all that noise. So off I went again back on the dreaded lunatic motorway. This time the car was really really getting to sound more and more desperate and then the steering wheel began to shake so much I could barely handle it. Even though I felt really nervous, at the same time I had the strange calming sensation that an angel was steering the car. This one is definitely an 'Angel Story'. I progressed on my journey with Angelica steering the car. We barely made it off the motorway onto a quieter road when there was a loud CRASH!! The car came to a standstill and I watched in horror as I saw my front tyre jumping up in front of my eyes and across the road about to hit some fellow in his brand new red Audi car. I put my hands over my eyes and begged "sweet Jesus don't let that tyre hit that man's car". It didn't - I missed it by a split second!!
As I watched my left front tyre hop and skip across the road almost hitting this poor unfortunate, I thought of my friend Rose Delay in Calgary who was killed stone dead with her three kids behind her in the car from a similar incident. A tyre fell off a lorry and hit her window and that was the end of Rose at age 37!! Phew! I can tell you those fellows who had put a new and espensive set of tyres on Kevin's car the previous Monday had a lot to answer for!! They had not put the tyre on properly. I was bucking and cursing and swearing like a drunken tinker to myself as I got out of the car - once the shock of what 'might have been' had passed. Imagine if that tyre had come off on the motorway and me going at nearly 110 kms!! There would have been not one but SEVERAL fatalities - a big pile-up for sure!
The moral of the story is - PRAY - bless your car. I ALWAYS say a prayer before I even start the ignition for a safe journey. I can tell you - I have had a few hit and misses like that and I always end up saying a Hail Mary in thanks. Elderly folk driving not watching where they are going and stopping dead, indicating right and going left, driving through four way stops, etc. etc. All I can say about the whole incident is that it was MIRACLE and I always thank God for my angel friends...
OH! I nearly forgot the good part - Just as my car came to a dead stop - the fellow directly behind me came out of his car - obviously! He was easy on the eye which was a nice bonus but an even BIGGER BONUS - he was an off-duty cop! Talk about luck!! The easy-on-the-eye off-duty cop took control of all the mess and asked me to step off the road so as not to get knocked down - thank you handsome cop!! What a gent and how GLAD I was that I had washed my hair and dressed up nicely - trust me it always helps to act the damsel in distress in such cases!! Not that I would wish a similar incident on anybody!
To ease my distress the fellow in the red audi (who was equally easy on the eye) was extremely pleasant about the whole 'unfortunate' incident. "My car is fine" he smiled "No problem".
Phew!! Thank you world. I didn't have to lift a pretty manicured nail. De boys did all the dirty work - removing offensive wheel, phoning for tow truck, etc. The off-duty cop phoned his on-duty cop to come and report the incident. Mind you it was best for last because the on-duty cop was a Robert Redford lookalike (RR in his hey day).
So all's well that ends well...
I needed some chocolate at Easter to help ease my post-traumatic-stress-disorder!!
Cheery Billy Bye and Love y'all.
Patricia Delisha xxx
After my appointment was finished, I decided to head for home and get Kevin to check out what was causing all that noise. So off I went again back on the dreaded lunatic motorway. This time the car was really really getting to sound more and more desperate and then the steering wheel began to shake so much I could barely handle it. Even though I felt really nervous, at the same time I had the strange calming sensation that an angel was steering the car. This one is definitely an 'Angel Story'. I progressed on my journey with Angelica steering the car. We barely made it off the motorway onto a quieter road when there was a loud CRASH!! The car came to a standstill and I watched in horror as I saw my front tyre jumping up in front of my eyes and across the road about to hit some fellow in his brand new red Audi car. I put my hands over my eyes and begged "sweet Jesus don't let that tyre hit that man's car". It didn't - I missed it by a split second!!
As I watched my left front tyre hop and skip across the road almost hitting this poor unfortunate, I thought of my friend Rose Delay in Calgary who was killed stone dead with her three kids behind her in the car from a similar incident. A tyre fell off a lorry and hit her window and that was the end of Rose at age 37!! Phew! I can tell you those fellows who had put a new and espensive set of tyres on Kevin's car the previous Monday had a lot to answer for!! They had not put the tyre on properly. I was bucking and cursing and swearing like a drunken tinker to myself as I got out of the car - once the shock of what 'might have been' had passed. Imagine if that tyre had come off on the motorway and me going at nearly 110 kms!! There would have been not one but SEVERAL fatalities - a big pile-up for sure!
The moral of the story is - PRAY - bless your car. I ALWAYS say a prayer before I even start the ignition for a safe journey. I can tell you - I have had a few hit and misses like that and I always end up saying a Hail Mary in thanks. Elderly folk driving not watching where they are going and stopping dead, indicating right and going left, driving through four way stops, etc. etc. All I can say about the whole incident is that it was MIRACLE and I always thank God for my angel friends...
OH! I nearly forgot the good part - Just as my car came to a dead stop - the fellow directly behind me came out of his car - obviously! He was easy on the eye which was a nice bonus but an even BIGGER BONUS - he was an off-duty cop! Talk about luck!! The easy-on-the-eye off-duty cop took control of all the mess and asked me to step off the road so as not to get knocked down - thank you handsome cop!! What a gent and how GLAD I was that I had washed my hair and dressed up nicely - trust me it always helps to act the damsel in distress in such cases!! Not that I would wish a similar incident on anybody!
To ease my distress the fellow in the red audi (who was equally easy on the eye) was extremely pleasant about the whole 'unfortunate' incident. "My car is fine" he smiled "No problem".
Phew!! Thank you world. I didn't have to lift a pretty manicured nail. De boys did all the dirty work - removing offensive wheel, phoning for tow truck, etc. The off-duty cop phoned his on-duty cop to come and report the incident. Mind you it was best for last because the on-duty cop was a Robert Redford lookalike (RR in his hey day).
So all's well that ends well...
I needed some chocolate at Easter to help ease my post-traumatic-stress-disorder!!
Cheery Billy Bye and Love y'all.
Patricia Delisha xxx
We're back in business again...
Hi Friends,
Hope you all enjoyed your Easter break and got out and enjoyed the sun... oops I meant rain!! What's to enjoy about rain - nothing!! We headed over to Vancouver, and being the eternal optimist, I only packed light bright cheery clothing in anticipation of some lovely spring sunshine. Good Friday was lovely t.g. and at least I got one wear out of my white pants and yellow top. We walked along the beach and down Robson Street ending up in the best fish and chipper in town (we had it planned). It was totally scrummy and the place was packed because being Good Friday, everybody was off meat for the day - or so it would appear. Late Saturday and all of Sunday it was rain, rain and more rain!! We went to see a movie and I fell asleep in the cinema - Julia Roberts in her latest movie (the name of which I have forgotten) it was that exciting!! However the locations were fabulous - Dhubai, Rome and London - that was the best part.
I am deeply ashamed to say I cracked up in Vancouver and broke into an easter egg on Easter Saturday! Unfortunately, it wasn't guilt I felt afterwards, but frustration because the chocolate tasted DEsgusting...It really wasn't worth breaking my 'off-chocolate' promise. However, I must explain why...Every Easter we have a family tradition to go visit 'the olde English Candy Store' and choose our easter eggs. It is such a pretty shop and has been in existence for decades to give pleasure to chocaholic ex-pats. In the summer they sell the naughty sea-side post cards which I love and you can buy 'normal' cheese and onion crisps there at 'abnormal' prices - but it's worth it every now and then!! We make a ritual of visiting the shop every Easter. The girls begged me to "Just for Easter" eat some chocolate. I knew it was important to them. Ali said it would ruin the Easter if I wasn't eating chocolate so that's why I gave in.
I'm a sucker...and in this case I DID put up quite a fight. I think once the sluice gates of deprivation were opened, I went in search of tastier chocolate to discover that the Godiva shop on Robson had closed down!! Closed Down - how could that be? Obviously the universe was consipiring to make me keep my no-chocolate promise!!
We enjoyed our long weekend in Vancouver - dining out and shopping and eating chocolate and really letting it all hang out...In prep. for the 10k coming up on the 26th of April, Kevin and I did a massive walk starting on Sunset Beach and we walked all around the seafront until we reached Coal Harbour. It took us in all two and a half hours and not exaggerating - I'd say we walked ten miles!! Obviously - the girls did not join us!! We were starving afterwards and I was quite exhausted - though not as bad as I felt two Sundays ago when I did my first proper 10k walk. I hadn't been doing any walks so imagine my delight when I did the 10k in 1 hour and 36 mins!! With all that walking my appetite is huge!! Never mind - it's all in a good cause - or is it???
I am SO GLAD to be alive - maybe at the back of my mind was the thought - Heck life is short - you have to enjoy it...Tune in to the next blog to hear about my close brush with death...Yeah! sounds dramatic...and is dramatic!!
Cheers and Remember do at least ONE good thing for yourselves today and TWO good things for others and if they tell you to MYOB - turn the other cheek - the BUTTOCK one!!
In the next blog you will really learn that MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!!
Cheery Billy Bye...
Love y'all
Patricia Delisha
P.S. I'm back on track and OFF chocolate forever now and as for YOSA ...I dunno what way the Universe is working these days...
Hope you all enjoyed your Easter break and got out and enjoyed the sun... oops I meant rain!! What's to enjoy about rain - nothing!! We headed over to Vancouver, and being the eternal optimist, I only packed light bright cheery clothing in anticipation of some lovely spring sunshine. Good Friday was lovely t.g. and at least I got one wear out of my white pants and yellow top. We walked along the beach and down Robson Street ending up in the best fish and chipper in town (we had it planned). It was totally scrummy and the place was packed because being Good Friday, everybody was off meat for the day - or so it would appear. Late Saturday and all of Sunday it was rain, rain and more rain!! We went to see a movie and I fell asleep in the cinema - Julia Roberts in her latest movie (the name of which I have forgotten) it was that exciting!! However the locations were fabulous - Dhubai, Rome and London - that was the best part.
I am deeply ashamed to say I cracked up in Vancouver and broke into an easter egg on Easter Saturday! Unfortunately, it wasn't guilt I felt afterwards, but frustration because the chocolate tasted DEsgusting...It really wasn't worth breaking my 'off-chocolate' promise. However, I must explain why...Every Easter we have a family tradition to go visit 'the olde English Candy Store' and choose our easter eggs. It is such a pretty shop and has been in existence for decades to give pleasure to chocaholic ex-pats. In the summer they sell the naughty sea-side post cards which I love and you can buy 'normal' cheese and onion crisps there at 'abnormal' prices - but it's worth it every now and then!! We make a ritual of visiting the shop every Easter. The girls begged me to "Just for Easter" eat some chocolate. I knew it was important to them. Ali said it would ruin the Easter if I wasn't eating chocolate so that's why I gave in.
I'm a sucker...and in this case I DID put up quite a fight. I think once the sluice gates of deprivation were opened, I went in search of tastier chocolate to discover that the Godiva shop on Robson had closed down!! Closed Down - how could that be? Obviously the universe was consipiring to make me keep my no-chocolate promise!!
We enjoyed our long weekend in Vancouver - dining out and shopping and eating chocolate and really letting it all hang out...In prep. for the 10k coming up on the 26th of April, Kevin and I did a massive walk starting on Sunset Beach and we walked all around the seafront until we reached Coal Harbour. It took us in all two and a half hours and not exaggerating - I'd say we walked ten miles!! Obviously - the girls did not join us!! We were starving afterwards and I was quite exhausted - though not as bad as I felt two Sundays ago when I did my first proper 10k walk. I hadn't been doing any walks so imagine my delight when I did the 10k in 1 hour and 36 mins!! With all that walking my appetite is huge!! Never mind - it's all in a good cause - or is it???
I am SO GLAD to be alive - maybe at the back of my mind was the thought - Heck life is short - you have to enjoy it...Tune in to the next blog to hear about my close brush with death...Yeah! sounds dramatic...and is dramatic!!
Cheers and Remember do at least ONE good thing for yourselves today and TWO good things for others and if they tell you to MYOB - turn the other cheek - the BUTTOCK one!!
In the next blog you will really learn that MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!!
Cheery Billy Bye...
Love y'all
Patricia Delisha
P.S. I'm back on track and OFF chocolate forever now and as for YOSA ...I dunno what way the Universe is working these days...
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