God called, you failed.

As I pack for London (leaving in just under 6 hours) I would like to leave you with these gems that happened this weekend while Moms and I were at WalMart.

While searching through the women's clothing department, Moms and I share the same malcontent over a wild six year old girl who has been given free reign by her mother to run around the store throwing her toys at patrons. As we come up with all the reasons I would never have been able behave that way, the mother addresses the kid.

"Heaven, settle down, come here....don't do that. HEAVEN. Listen to me!"
"That woman should know someone played a cruel trick on her," says Moms.

There are few things Kehoe women love more in this world than irony. And for that, WalMart never fails.

Minutes later as we stand in line to pay, I amalgamate our orders and convince moms to let me pay for hers.

Five things combined - I think I can handle that.

So as the cashier begins a second bag for items four & five, I stop her and say it wold be fine if everything went in one bag.
Global warming: 0
Planet-Saving Shannon: 1/2 (A half point because I forgot my reusable bags)

I pay, get my receipt and grab my stuff, only to realize she double bagged my order.

FAIL

No Such Thing

On a phone call with Nicole, who is in Smart Set:

"Do you think that we are prettier than Jennifer Aniston?"
"No. Why?"
"Well I just thought that if we had that going for us, we might be able to steal John Mayer from her when we go backstage at his concert in July."
*Nicole loses all words and then makes squeally noises*

***I won a trivia contest and we get to go to a meet and greet before our show in Boston.

Double header from TNG

While looking at a picture of a potential blind date for a friend of mine:

"He looks like a douche, and only balding guys wear hats."
*Realizes he is wearing a hat*

On the topic of the single girls' hunt for a guy:

"Good guys are like God. Everyone belives they are out there, but no one has ever seen one."

Did we spend the last 8 years calling it the Red Neck House?!

People can be despicable, disgusting, appalling creatures. Put those qualities in a Republican and you get this:











Created and sold by Republicanmarket at the Texas Republican State Convention on Saturday this pin demonstrates a sentiment that I (along with others) am scared lies among other American voters. This upcoming election is going to be one to watch. If only the debates could centre on policy, politics and ideas for the future...

Countdown to London: 7 days to go...

In one week, I will have begun my great journey to London. Okay, so maybe it's not THAT big of a deal. I'm not taking planes, trains and automobiles. Just planes. Lots of them. True, it may take a few meager hours to traverse the Atlantic Ocean and arrive on the other side, but when you are looking to scrimp on dollars so that you have more to exchanging into the dreaded double-the-value-of-the-CAD British Pound, you have to save as much as humanly possible, thus leading to my 15 hour milk run flight.

Departure: Sunday June 22 @ 4:30pm
Arrival: Monday June 23 @ 11:45am
Stop overs: Toronto & Reykjavik

Not to mention the fact that we will arrive a few hours early at the airport for our flight, and the fact that we will have to take the tube into London upon our arrival at Heathrow, gaining us another hour.

And adding a train and automobile to my travels.

Okay, so I started off by lying. But I just have to keep in mind that while in one week I may be on the flight from hell, in two weeks I will be here. And that makes it worth it.

Fire Update

Power is back and I am home in Lake Echo, but the fire is still considered out of control and the radio is reporting that Wonderland Park in Lake Echo as well as Two Rivers in Minesille have been evacuated. Scary. We share Martin Lake with the very back of Wonderland, so we're preparing to go if we have to but staying optimistic that the fire isnt' there yet or is far and things will be okay.

Here are some pictures from about 1:15pm Atlantic time.

View from my hilly street

View from the top of the Mineville Road, now fully closed by the RCMP.

Photojournalism FAIL

If I was a world class blogger, I would have taken a picture of the fire clouds, road blocks and police officers on my way out of evacuating the house due to the forest fire. Instead I grabbed my dad, cat, laptop and left (mom is at work). Right now, the fire is decently far from the house. We left out of precaution but the winds are high off the Atlantic, which are causing problems fighting it so it's spreading and could shift.

Main message: The Kehoes are safe and I'll keep you up to date.

Update - From the Chronicle Herald website, the view just before my exit on the 107.

Sounds like the fire is moving in the complete opposite direction of the house. Still no power there and won't be until sometime tomorrow, so planning on staying in Halifax for the evening.