HAVE YOU E....V.....E....R....

...been to a Santa Claus parade where toilet tissue was handed out, along with candy? THAT was a first for me!

...found something when looking for something else? I had told my friend Listen Linda, where my house key was hidden, indicating in a text that she had to look UP, and to the right.  So what does she do? She looks UP and to the left, and finds a key that the previous owner had hidden, leaving behind when they moved out.  That was kinda neat!

...been told "You smell like lobster! Long pause... And lobster STINKS!"  I totally forgot that gem when I posted my Kindergarten tales recently. I WISH I had been cooking lobster. It was mackerel; the smell still clung to my cardigan.  I have very little sense of smell, so I am oblivious.  That is NOT always a good thing though, is it?

...bragged about something, and then had the reverse happen? I had taken to bragging recently, how at the age of 62, I hadn't had stitches, surgery or broken a bone. Well, turns out I broke my little finger on the Fundy Trail, when I fell on slippery rocks on the beach. An x-ray almost two months later, confirmed it. That will teach me!  No more bragging.

...had the snowplow pass and throw a huge snowball SMACK in the middle of the end of your driveway? It was the size of a snowman's belly!!  Nothing else, just the huge snowball. I had just finished shoveling, so OUT I went.  I had to pick it up with two hands and pitch it in the snowbank.  If I didn't know better, I would think some evil ELF had planted it RIGHT there!

...crept into bed on an evening when it was -35 degrees Celsius, with gale force winds blowing, only to find a hot water bottle wrapped up in a towel, under the covers at the foot of your bed? What a surprise and w-h-a-t a treat!!! My mother is the only one who e-v-e-r put a hot water bottle in my bed. It was a GOOD elf who did that.

...received a Christmas card from Hogwarts? I did!  My English friend Tracy, has parents who live in Biggleswade, England. Now isn't THAT a name straight out of a Harry Potter book?  It is to me, so they signed their Christmas card this year. "Hogwarts." It made me smile and smile.  What makes you smile?