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Colour and Chesterfields

hee hee. Well I just got done colouring my wifey's hair. She is SOOO nervous! She's not too sure about it all as she's never coloured her hair before, but she is fed up with the amount of grey she has. I think the grey hair is sexy and beautiful on her, but she is really haitng it so we decided to trust Diane Keaton and her endorsement of a certain L'Oreal product that does 100% grey coverage. We shall see!

Speaking of colour. As I type that word I am reminded yet again of another adjustment I needed to make in moving to the north land. They spell words different up here and I've had to learn to spell all over again. They like their 'u's up here. Here are some examples of American English that I'm used to and the lovely queen's english that I've had to get accustomed to?

Meter= Metre
Color= Colour
Neighbor= Neighbour
Center= Centre
Analyze= Analyse
Armor= Armour
Behavior= Behaviour
Caliber= Calibre
Check= Cheque
Labor= Labour
Theater= Theatre


And I could on and on. Argh!!! And spell checkers just assume you are in the states, so I now look like I don't spell correctly when I'm typing emails and basically no longer have a spell checker. Or is is it chequer?? Hmmmmm. True enough, some programs you can change the language for the spell checker, but not all of them.

It is a long weekend this weekend. There is another festival in the park down the street from us called the Rib Fest, and there was the balloon festival also. Tons of hot air balloons flying over head. Some shaped like flags, one like a big Maple Leaf, a dinosaur and more than enough ReMax balloons. It was great! Honey and I are dog-sitting at her brothers AND at her parents' home for two weeks so we were lounging at the pool and just watched them fly over. A few of them dropped low enough that we were actually able to talk to the people in the balloons! Too nuts. Didn't make it to Rib Fest yet, but I'm not all that into rib eating so that's just fine right now!

Ipo almost got herself in a tight spot. She took her potty treat cookie with her to the couch and I guess it fell between the cushions and the arm side of the couch. I look at her and all I see is her butt sticking straight up in the air and she is grunting and growling. Literally, half of her body was gone into the depths of the unknown places of the couch that only and animal can see.

She got the cookie thank god. She came up for air, shook her head and chowed down. I just love how dang cute my little dog is. Can't help it! It's a good thing I don't have kids as they would get so sick of me doting on them all the time.

Other news.....hmmmmm....I'm happy happy happy! No reason...just am. I'm very blessed and have wonderful people in my life. I didn't get to call mom today though as we're not at home. Going to have to do that tomorrow. About every other week we chitty chat. Sometimes less cuz I'm not the best about calling but I'm working on it. My mom rocks and is the bomb of all moms...so there! Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Ok.....honey is washing the colour out of her hair now. Yikes!! I best go see how it's going. I may end up sleeping on the couch tonight!! (or as they say here- sleeping on the Chesterfield)

10:30 p.m. - 2007-08-05

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