Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Valentine's Day gift for one of YOU


Hey all! Here's hoping your Valentine's Day is filled lots of love and maybe even a few surprises.
I'm having a contest. Email me or join me at the eXtasy chatters party February 10 all day to enter. Just tell me your favourite love story. It can be a movie, a book, personally witnessed or even from your very own life.
<key chain, a pretty net sack of heart-shaped chocolate, what-when-where scratch tickets and a fun fur bag to keep it all in.
Everyone has a love story in their life that makes them simply melt, so what is yours?
Email me at extasyauthor@gmail.com to be entered. I'll do the draw on February 11th. Hope you all have a wonderful day today and every day!
Jojo xo

Thursday, February 5, 2009

When life hands you lemoms...

In my life I am lucky enough to have a number of people who inspire me. One in particular is an aunt who is mine through marriage. She is our adventurer.

She has skydived, just to see how it felt.
She and her group of friends have gone to Hades to help out at hospitals and an orphanage. They even transported an entire playground over there and built it for the children.
She has swam in the ocean, even though she has a major phobia of drowning and is by no means an avid swimmer. (She wears a life jacket in the pool, for pete's sake!)

This time, she and her gang trooped on down to Honduras and zip-lined. sounds like fun, right? one tiny little problem though ... she could not get the dang thing to slow down, let alone stop. So, rather than do a full face plant into the rather massive tree at the end of the first line, she put her foot up. Result -- broken middle toe and ball of her foot as well as pulled muscles in her back and scrapes and bruises.

She never got to finish the rest of the lines or soak in the hot springs. They took her to a private hospital, where she was xrayed, cleaned, bandaged and casted. The hospital gave her their very best 1920's era crutches and some very good, if unknown, pain killers.
Back at the resort, she was moved to a main floor room and treated like royalty for the duration of her stay. She had some pretty interesting signatures on her cast, including the doctor, who she plans to stay in contact with.

Did she call home and worry her husband and kids? No! It happened on Thursday and she didn't say word one about it until she was back in Toronto on Monday. Did she complain about the safety of the zip-line company? No! She praised them for their care and speed at getting her the medical help she so desperately need -- as well as them paying for it all. Did she bitch and gripe back at the resort? No way! She laughed and joked through the last half of her vacation. She told anyone who asked, that she was having wild, crazy sex and smashed her foot off a cement wall. (Some people really do not get her sense of humour)

She and her group of friends are already planning their next adventure. Look out world -- these ladies are coming!

She is one of the best lemonade makers I have ever had the priviledge to know!

Monday, February 2, 2009

Six more weeks

Oaky it's official, Wiarton Willie saw his shadow. Therefore we can look forward to six more weeks of winter. Look forward to --- yeah right!

Don't get me wrong, I have lived here in Canada since the tender age of three, so i'm used to snowy white winters. I've trudged through the snow to go trick or treating (Canadian kids' Hallowe'en costume MUST fit over snowsuits or they are useless) I've searched for those elusive coloured eggs in a blanket of white. I understand that here in Southern Ontario from October to April it's normal to have snow. BUT that does not mean I have to like it.

So, let's go March 16th... bring on the spring - the brave bulbs bursting with renewed life - the deliriously happy children on their bikes - the flooded fields, roads and basements - the potholes ... did I say spring was better? LOL

Oh well, I guess I'll just go back to the story I'm working on - at least it's warm there.