a peek inside the fishbowl

… the amount of money I could have saved over the years if I had been buying all my beer and wine in Quebec. (Which they carry at the grocery store. How civilized is that??)

Back in late November/early December I received a friendly email from a PR firm representing Canadian Tire, asking me if I wanted to try something from their 2008 Christmas Décor catalogue.

There was one thing which caught my eye: NOMA solar-powered Christmas lights. A neat idea whose time has come. I was willing to give it a go, even more so because I have never been 100% happy with our current strings of outdoor LEDs. Our current lights are gaudy. They remind me of something you’d see framing windows in the red light district. I wonder who decided to throw so many orange bulbs into the mix. It’s not even a CHRISTMAS COLOUR fer cryin’ out loud. 

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… my Charlie’s Angels trading cards? I just dug these out of the basement.

I like how so many of the (bilingual!) captions are followed by exclamation marks (!):

And how is it that they managed to maintain such perfect hair while fighting crime?

And this was my favourite card of all:

I also have an entire collection of E.T. cards. But I don’t think those are worth scanning. :)