Well what can I say.. I am stupid..

I won a vacation today.. 7 days & 7 nights blah blah blah Universal studios.. All I had to do was pay $250 for the administration fees.  I asked the guy what the catch was and he said that was all.  The vacation was worth more then that... But me always the ever so cautious passed it up...  I had entered a competition but I enter so much stuff on the internet I really need to start remembering what it was I entered,( Something to do with using my VISA card, and he had my secret e-mail address (the only one that does not get junk mail)  while I can still not remember I not sure if I did the wrong thing in passing it up.. The guy actually questioned me when I said and I really did say this, "Thank you very much but please give it to someone more deserving."

You see I passed it up because we were having a three way conversation and hubby was on the other line, and I don't know about you guys, but well I find my hubby to be extremely cautious. While I have said to myself that I am not going to think about what I passed up a vacation with the works, for only $250.00 I will blame it on the hubby and now feel much better about it..  Still I meant what I said about more deserving.  Not saying I don't deserve it but I am sure there are people out there who would love to take the opportunity to pay only $250 for a 7 day 7 night vacation to Florida..   Anyway back to what I was saying about the hubby.. He hung up half way between the conversation you saw his face was not interested which is why I told the guy to pass it to someone else.   But of course only after I told the hubby that I have actually started entering things on the off chance that I may win something he said "It would have been cheaper for me when I go down in July". He is taking Camille that way as a kind of finish to Grade Six and the fact that she has improved in her schooling like you would not believe. And every year he promised if you do well we will go to Disney...  Anyway it has taken 4 years but finally she has done so well that we are very very proud of her... 

But by then it was of course to late to accept the winning trip... :)  I really can't complain though...  As Jamaica is coming up in less then three weeks, and I get to pick up my new car on Monday.. We were going to wait until later in the year to buy it but we got such a bargain for this car that there was just no way, and I mean no way that we or anyone else for that matter would be able to pass up the offer...   So while I am slightly disappointed in not taking up the offer on the trip it is only because I actually won something and refused it, not because I wanted to go but because I won something... :)  But the disappointment is over taken by the fact that I will have another set of wheels in the driveway soon.   Mind you it won't fit unless i get out there tomorrow and shovel all the snow and I have to put it in the garage so I will have to clean that out too.   SEE MARG, I will know the pleasure of shoveling... :)

Hubby and Cam are going to Disney for the Construction Vacation (two weeks off where it seems that the whole of Quebec is closed).  I told hubby when we decided to sell my other car to go to Jamaica that I would prefer to actually stay at home with Francis.  Sure he would love it, and I'd have fun too, but a different kind of fun, you know the mum fun that gets to run around and make sure that the youngest does not run off into the crowd because he thought he saw mickey mouse, and the kind of fun where you have to wait for the others to get off a ride so that you can all go and have lunch.   I think we will go back in a few years when Francis is old enough to really appreciate it and even remember it.   That is one thing that upsets me about our trip to Australia, while we all had fun he won't remember it and god knows when we will get the chance to take him back...

So in saying all that, how can I get upset about passing up on a Vacation that I won when I seem to be so spoiled.. Trip to Jamaica, new car (second hand), trip to Australia three years ago (we have only just finished paying that one off), new earrings because I lost one of the other ones I loved so dearly, a new puppy...   I hope the person who does get the trip I passed up is very deserving of it...  :)