Randomly Evacuated!

So, Kelly and were sitting around the apartment after work today when we both start coughing/choking. We start to have trouble breathing and we get itchy! We decide to leave the apartment and go to Subway across the street. On my way out the door, I phone my land lord and be like: "...so ya... we can't breath and we're coughing and itchy... so ya... see ya later...".

At subway, Kelly and I were still coughing and pounding water back. After a while, I look out the window and see EMS, police and fire trucks! We wander back over to see our entire floor- and a couple others- all sitting outside near the ambulance.

GET THIS: Everyone on our floor was coughing and vomiting and could not breath... and it turned out to be a lady at the end of the hallway cooking peppers SO HOT that it essentially pepper sprayed the whole floor. She had evacuated herself to her balcony... but failed to TELL ANYONE ELSE! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!

We had to stay out for a couple hours while they air the floor off. I'm still itchy and Kelly's still coughing, but it's mostly gone.

HOW FUNNY!???!!!

Naramata

Me waving ridiculously with a ridiculous smile on my face, Gino yawning, stunning vineyard next door to our rental house, Gino trying to swim (even though we later realized many pugs don't swim! oops- sorry Gin!), my foot near a duck to illustrate how many french fries people must feed them!

Naramata

So, I'm on vacation with my sister and Mom. (I always capitalize "Mom"- even when it's not a perfect noun... because, seriously, my Mom is ALWAYS a perfect noun.) I know that come September, my year starts to get busy, so this getaway is the calm before the storm. I really am not one for road trips, but this journey was stunning.

Orchards and vineyard, beaches, mountains and lake. Grapes, peaches squash, pumpkins, cucs, zucs- even walnuts and asian pears! All I ever see growing is wheat and stinky canola! Haha! Every province has it's beauty, but this is breathtaking. We are renting a log home right amongst the vineyards and a KM from the lake.

I've been taking hour long showers because it's so cool to stick my hear out the window and see green fields and lake while I'm naked! Heehee...

Gino, our chug, is having a blast sniffing all the new smells here. He didn't make a peep for the 12 hour car ride. What a good boy! Kelly got stung by a wasp in Golden! Boo!

Really, I'm just rambling... but it's just so great here.

I'll through some pictures up when I get home.

J

Not music related... but funny!

I just need to recount this story:

My sister and I just returned from Walmart at midnight. Now- I know this is pretty late for a Walmart excursion... but I really wanted Skittles and some Juicy Gels. (Cravings happen!)

I don't know how many you you facebookers have been to an all night Wally World, but you witness some funny stuff. I've been there at 3 AM to get cold medicine and witnessed a 5 person family- complete with little kids- purchase a 52 inch tv and couch. I've witnessed a girl fall and start bleeding on the floor while waiting to pay. Multiple used tampons floating in a flooding toilet.

Tonight, however, we stood behind a stuttering middle-aged man with a strange accent who bird crap and feathers stuck to his clothing. He was making a giant pile of stuff he didn't want on the floor by the cashier which included A stool, 2 Barbies, a book, various toys and odd building supplies like hinges. Keep in mind this in MIDNIGHT. Stuff he's actually buying include: a paintball gun, light switch covers, 6 pepsis, a Miley Cyrus poster and 3 DIFFERENT WHELLS for a bed. Like 3 different styles/sizes. Not 4- but 3. He was price check as he went. By the 15 minute mark, I got the chuckles and Kelly just got pissed! He then proceeded to mumble a joke to the cashier about checking his ID because you need to be over 18 to buy the paintball gun. (He was balding, with bifocals and wearing a leather bomber jacket circa 1989.) Finally she finished processing his $300 order of random, random shit and he fumbles in his pocket and then proceeds to explode the entire contents of his wallet on the floor and in so nervous, for some reason, that he can't pick up any of his credit cards. Usually I'd help a dude out... but seriously- this guy was creepy and overtly nervous. Once he does pick his life up- he can't afford the stuff that made it past the 3 inspections he did. He starts riffling through the bags and pulling out items and asking the cashier what she could do about the price of certain things. After the VERY patient casher tells him that there is nothing she can do, he just stand there for a bit... thinking or something. He just walks away still mumbling- something about a bank machine.

I was crying at the hilarity of this poor dude by now. MIDNIGHT. Paint ball gun. 3. DIFFERENT. Bed Wheel thingys.

A quality Walmart excursion.