I LOVE KAMLOOPS

So, yesterday I was cleaning out the car.  The junk mail from the last two months was built up on the floor on the passenger side of the car.  Mixed in were receipts,  an envelope with Bill's will and death certificate, various coupons and bank statements for previous owners of the house.  As I was filling Kerry's recycling bin I noticed an unopened personal silver envelope, a little heavy for just a card.  I opened it and voila! it was a 75 dollar gift card for Earls from the real estate lady who sold me this house.  I darned near chucked it!

But that isn't the good part.  Monte and I decided to go there for dinner.  We had gone the other night and due to the expensiveness of pretty good but not THAT good food we had decided we wouldn't be going back.  But hey, 75 bucks of free food?  We went!

So we ordered our food, and when the receipt came it was 75.50 before tip.  And the food was delicious and the service amazing.  So when we were done, a different server came to our table, and reminded us that she was the one that served us the other day.  And…she turned to Monte and said that she remembered after we left that he mentioned that we had just moved here.  She apologized sincerely and said that people's first meal at Earl's, when they move here, is on the house.  So she said that our meal tonight was FREE!  No charge.  And she was so sweet about it.  We couldn't believe our ears!!  So we got this amazing 75 dollar meal at Earl's on the house as a welcome to Kamloops gesture!  Is that not wonderful?

When we were on the way to Earl's we popped into the vet and I picked up Parker's ashes.  I don't know what it is about ashes but they just are so upsetting to me.  I had the same reaction to Parker's ashes as I did to Bill's.  By the time I got to the truck I was crying like a big baby.  Honestly!  Poor Monte.  He didn't know what to say to me.  I still see Parker's old eyes looking at me so trustingly.  Funny, its the look that was in Bill's eyes, as he looked so intently at me from the bed at the end that sticks in my head too.    Ah geez its too hard to think about.

I decided to buy a lazy boy chair, or at least a recliner of some sort.  I would put it in purple room at the house and sleep there.   It frees up a bedroom here in case Kathy needs it over Easter.  I am kind of excited to sleep there!  So I wrote down all the thrift stores in town and off we went. But on the way we passed the lazy boy store so I decided to hop in and see if they had any in stock that I could take today.  I need a chair for the family room downstairs anyway and I can move it down there when the furniture comes.

And…yes they had a lovely one, big and comfy and a not too wretched colour.  It was super on sale and comes with the lazy boy warranty.  It is now in purple room.  I also picked up some purple flannel sheets to put over it and a purple duvet!  I will take some pics tomorrow.  Wait til you see the view out the window in there.  Such a change from Victoria.

Kathy and Kerry arrived home safe and sound.  After exchanging a few stories we were off to bed.  Yesterday (Sunday) I packed up all my stuff and moved up to my house.  On the way I stopped at Winners and picked up a thingy that works as a side table, a garbage basket and stuff for my bathroom.  Its fun!  

And now its the middle of the night, almost four in the morning.  For some reason I woke up…maybe due to Monte's coughing.  Due to his LONG torso, his coughs are tremendously loud, even though he is down the hall and both our doors are shut.  I am spending my first night in my comfy big chair, and its awesome!  TTYL

THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY AWFUL PICTURE (THANK YOU VERY MUCH STUPID IPHONE 6PLUS) BUT THIS IS WHAT I AM LOOKING AT NOW WHEN I AM IN MY CHAIR IN PURPLE ROOM.  AND MY ROOM IS NOT THAT DARK A PURPLE.  I WILL GET SOME BETTER PICS WITH A REAL CAMERA TODAY.