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As I was relating in the last post, Wealth and Wisdom Event were super fabulous.

Hear so many great speakers and allot of forgettable ones too. But that’s 20/80 % rule, right.

The 20% helped change my life from medeoaker <(Yes, I misspelled It)  to steadily improving.

I have come to realize that learning and self growth are the keys to true happyness.

Personal growth help you meet and get to know people with a positive attidude.

Just not be around negative people is in it self so up lifting.

Nobody likes whinners, they just bring you down.

But on the other hand hanging out with positive people makes you feel great and

uplifts you to the next level.

 If you feel your life is stuck in a rut,

 Go learn something…

So much for talking about the Great speaker, well nxt time.

To Be Continued… Don

So  Carla is doing a bunch of Peak Potentials courses,

all which she enjoyed and learned  valuable skills and gained confidence 

and then came one called Wealth and Wisdom.

It is 3 days long, and features 9 or 10 speakers. I figure this is great, I just have to go and listen.

I can do that. 

 It was great!!!  For 3 years in a row, we attended the Wealth and Wisdom.

In my next post I’ll tell about the Great speakers we hear.

To Be Continued… Don

In the beginning Snorkel was aloud only where Carla said but slowly toke over the living room.

Next Came the Day ,just before Christmas, She was going to stay alone in the house .

You quest it wild puppy roams house, snorkel had been up on the desk, the table and even the kitchen counter.

And she tore open a couple of presents and broke one.( a coffee mug for Gram)

By the end of the holidays she had gotten out of the dog house.

In the middle of January, Carla announces that she has signed us up for an 3 hour seminar,

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind Intensive: FREE… which was just an introduction for the

The Millionaire Mind Intensive Weekend… so we signed up.

It was one of those T Harv Eker (Peak Potential) things…

I actually in joyed myself and learned some new things. It was a blast playing the Bee Hive game.

I thought I was done but Carla signed up for the whole package, but not me.

Wrong… To Be Continued… Don

Being as this was the first marriage for both Carla  and I we had a few things to work out.

Such as, does the toilet seat go up or down. We decided that if we both left it with the lid down that was the best because, if I left the seat up and Carla sat on the ice cold porcelain the middle of the night , she would scream and wake me up and if we left it down and it got wet ,it was very unpleasant to sit on.

We spent a lot of time deciding who’s pictures went on what wall. It is a very small house.

Next came the discussion, over where our dog be allowed in the house. (when we got one)

Carla said it be allowed only in the kitchen (8ft. by 8ft.) and in the 4 by 6  room  outside our bedroom door

I thought it should be able to go every where except on the furniture.

Two years later we got Snorkel at 10 weeks old, black lab and great Dane mix.

To Be Continued… Don

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We  to possession of the house. Then came moving day. To help , I in listed a few guys from Cambie Roofing and some from Marine roofing and My friend ’s  teenage sons and her cube van. what a great team, In order to get the couches and bed out, Brian took charge and ordered up a rope to lower them from the balcony to the trucks. hear this Carla decided to visit a friend because she cold not watch. Every thing got to the truck safety and unharmed.

Apond reaching the house, we removed the railings of the balcony so we could pass the stuff into the house . In a short manner we completed the job.

We continued the family tradition of having KFC and Beers.

The biggest decision Carla and I had next was who’s paintings went where and why we were using all her furniture.

 It was obvious to Carla all her furniture was good and mine was junk. ( Hey Guys I bet you never heard that one before.) In the end it all worked itself out. And life went on.

To Be Continued… Don

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As we start our life together, I have to put all my good stuff in storage because we are combining to households into one.

We start looking for a house. Carla wanted an apartment but I told her the way they were building them            nowadays. We looked in afew areas but saw nothing we liked. We decided the Queensborough area was for us. It was a short commute to work, the house were priced a little lower and it had potential for the future.

After looking at about 10 houses, one caught our eye.  We were taking a second look and put in an offer. Our real estate agent went up stairs and did the offer while we were still downstairs. With a little back and forth We came to a deal. Carla and I danced around and hugged and kiss.

It was a small house on a large lot. Just renovated and very cute. We were so happy.

To Be Continued… Don

After appropriate length of being Engaged, We got married April 10. The wedding was at my mother’s house.

It was attended by Me and my best man Brian, his wife and two of their children Tyler and Casey.

Carla’s family was her mum and dad,her two sisters and their husbands and her nephew, Montie.

After the ceremony and pictures, We had dinner at Seasons in the Park. We bought our own wedding cake.

It was an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen.

After dinner( which my mother paid for) we drove to Snoqualmie Falls. What a wonderful place, the falls were magnificent and the lodge and food were great.

Three days later we were home now living in Carla’s apartment. We started to look for a house to buy.

To Be Continued… Don

April 16 We started dating , Carla said ” I had 1 year to make up my mind.”

We did all the usual things a couple in their forties do, scuba diving, going to dinners and movies.

I got invited to come to Cormorant Island for Christmas and to meet the Whole Family all at once.

I had great time and everybody was so nice. By January I had made up my mind.

So ,on a cold snowy January the 4, on the way to Carla’s apartment, I detoured into the parking lot of our baseball park and stopped in front of gate”B” and asked Carla to marry me. (Carla being a big CUBS fan)

She said,Yes!  I was now praying my van was not stuck in the snow. God was with us and I made it out onto the road.

To Be Continued…

Yes, the next time I saw Carla, we were in the same marine biology class at the Vancouver aquarium. I got her phone number and when I had afew to muster up courage, I would phone her. We started diving together and one day when we were going diving, it was too stormy for safe diving. So we went to a restaurant for lunch instead. That’s the day Carla realized that she was attracted to me!!!    We began dating …..

To be continued….    Don

I apologize for not posting, I have been slightly off track since Brian,
my closes friend for 40 years died suddenly. In about 1month he went from
looking and acting fine to dead. I knew Brian had health issues,
but that is not what took him. And this on top of one of our dogs dying
Jan.2 (Veddar- named after Eddie Veddar by my nephew)
You be glad to know I haven’t had even 1 drink, although I sure feel like it some times.

Enough of sad tales, I hope You ,your family and friends are in good health
and getting by in these trying times.  Don

P.S.
Today is my 61 birthday