KARM-A+

WAY TO GO MARIT!  Buy a KARMA KOFFEE for the guy in line behind you aaaaaaand GAGNEZ!  Another RIM-RIM!  What a great start to a Friday morning.  YEESSSSSS!

It's practically guar-RIM-teed - Karma never fails.  Which definitely can't be said for students this time of the year. With final presentations, term papers and exams piling up - there is always room to improve your odds for SUCCESS.  So think about that next time you are in line.  You might be buying more than just a coffee for your line-up neighbour - you just might be buying a coff-"A", maybe even a coff-"A+"!  That is something no student can pass up on!

 

  
   

Proof that good deeds make more KARMA

As mentioned in the post below (Recycle Iron, Man), part of our KARMA generating initiative is to perform a good deed for Mother Nature to make up for the paper cups that get trashed in order to participate in the best game ever, Roll Up the Rim to Win!  

The good deed can be anything good & deedy but putting a used RUTRTW cup where it belongs - like RECYCLING IT or even picking up littered cups - really seems to be the winning way.  Just yesterday I was good-deeding by cleaning out Matt's car so that cups could be placed into the recycling containers - and I GAGNEZ'ed un CAFE on a cup rolling around on the floor!   What good-deeding have you been doing?

This could totally be you with a basket of KARMA!

Erasing Garbage Guilt

Do you enjoy your RUTRTW guiltily from your paper cup?  'Cause we all know our reusable cups sits sadly (and empty) in our bag, our car, or our cupboard during this season.  Buuuuuut it's RUTRTW and we have to play.  Regardless, I know the little guilty feeling you have...........

But Listen. Listen. Listen.  I have a solution. I have a solution!  A solution to erase your garbage guilt.  And it's sooooooo easy for us!  WE ALREADY LIVE BY THE PRINCIPLES! We just have to focus!   

Here it is.........Completely erase garbage guilt by offsetting your paper cup with a good deed for Mother Nature. OMG! WE LooOVE GOOD DEEDS. See - I totally wasn't kidding when I said "We already live by the principles!".  

So, like, what am I talking about?! Totally easy-peasie things. Like recycle something you otherwise wouldn't have.  Walk to the grocery store.  Eat one meal without meat.  For one hour, read instead of watch TV.  But easiest one of all...RECYCLE your cup.  Just seperate the lid from the cup put them into their recycle containers.  Seeeee? Eeeeeasy-peeeeasie.

 

Recycle Iron (& cups), Man.  It's where recycling AND punctuation come together to make GOOD DEEDS FUN!  YEEEeeeSSSsss!

FROM MARIT:

Well, I had 2 free spins today, but alas no wins. I did get an invitation to try again next year....so there is still hope for 2013! Thanks for all the support with all the tail wagging and such!


Thanks for the update Marit!  I love your positive attitude for 2013 - way to plan for the long term!   
 

Good luck on your FREE SPIN tomorrow Marit :D

We are sending you the best RUTRTW Rrrrroulette vibes ! 

Because of Marit's perserverance at Roll Up Rrrroulette she earned herself a FREE SPIN that she gets to use tomorrow.  So let's support our fellow RUTRTWer and send her some GOOD LUCK VIBES (instructions below).  She will appreciate them as she spins the RRrrrrRRRrrrRRRRRoulette wheel and hopes for a GAGNEZ!!

Here are INSTRUCTIONS on how to SEND GOOD LUCK VIBES: 

Say, outloud, rRRRrrrrRRRRRRrrrrrRRrrrrRRRrrrRRRRRRrrrRRrrrrrrRRRR and all the while - wiggle your fingers towards you monitor and wag. your. tail.  And don't be telling me you don't have no tail to wag - just be waggin' it already!!  Practise a couple of times, in time it will start to feel natural.... trust me!)

GOOD LUCK MARIT!!

Welcome Back to Coffee Mircea

Gotta send a little shout out to my friend Mircea who is finally returning from Alert (Canada's most northern city/town/landing strip in Nunavut). 

Now we all know why it is called Alert!

He has been there since God-knows-when - in fact, just last week, he sent me a photograph of THE SUN.  Because it was a big deal.  It was a big deal because he hadn't seen the sun since God-knows-when!  

So WELCOME BACK Mircea!!  Enjoy your first RUTRTW!!  We are all crossing our (unfrost-bitten) fingers for your first GAGNEZ of the season :)

Humility & picking up garbages makes you a WINNER

First Shannon.  Then me.  Then Sophia.

Having the humility to pick up what you suspect to be a possible unrolled RUTRTW cup (sometimes called "garbage") is pretty frickin' awesome.  It is that humility that transforms one woman's trash into another woman's treasure.

Keeping the streets free of rubbish deserves more than a GAGNEZ CAFE or GAGNEZ BEIGNE.  But because no one is going to GAGNEZ SUPERHERO CAPE you for keeping your neighbourhood litter-free - consider the winning rims fist bumps from Mother Nature herself!  yeesssss.

So keep takin' good care of your hood - it will always give back what you put in!  It's RIM-RIM.

GREAT WORK!

Here's an update!  Keep up the great work all.

The Power of Positive Thinking

This is what we must harness in order to increase our chances of winning RUTRTW!
 There is a hybrid Camry on the line friends - it is worth it to relentlessly think positive thoughts.
You have to see yourself INSIDE of RUTRTW in order to see yourself INSIDE the Camry.    

I have created a little visual to help you help yourself visualize yourself INSIDE a CAMRY!  It is pure, relentless positive thinking aaand WINNING! YESSSS!

 

Can you see yourself INSIDE it NOW ?!

How far would you go for a RUTRTW?

The other night on the bus, the driver spoke into this random, I've-never-noticed-it-before, black telephone attached to the windshield, and quazi-shouted "YES YES, at the next stop".  Which I kinda though was strange - but mehhh - who am I to judge, I don't know how to drive a bus. 

So no matter, he keeps driving - which is normal and good bus business - so I think nothing more of it. At the next stop a gaggle of silly passengers make a ruckus getting off through the back door. I turn to watch, of course - because they were silly - and who doesn't watch silly?  Once I got my silly fill, I turn back around and see that the front door is open and the driver is GONE. The driver is gone.

Seems like odd bus operating protocol - but mehh........  So..... we wait. And wait.  And it is getting cold at the front of the bus cause the driver left the door open when he raced outta the bus.  But we waited some more - for at least 175 seconds.  Which feels looooooong when you are distracted by a ruckus, getting chilled from the breezy night air and kinda worried that the bus driver knew something "Speed-like" was about to happen and sacrificed me to save himself.

Then, whoosh, in comes the driver, breathing a little heavy like he had just power walked or maybe even jogged a few steps or something.  Low and behold guess what is in his hand - yep.  You know it -- a RUTRTW!!!

And then it all made sense!  He got a drop off!  The driver got a drop off!!  He is awesome and so is whoever was 'speeding' along to meet him "at the next stop". 

And that, my friends, is how far a Bus Driver will go to get a RUTRTW :) 

LEAP Day is LUCK Day

As Kerrie put it "Leap Day must really mean LUCK Day". And oh-my, I couldn't have put it better myself! 

Kerrie, Kevin AND me all GAGNEZ today!  

Did you GAGNEZ today?

Results up to February 28th

EVERYONE is beating the odds (see post below for further information) !!  Keep it UP!! 

1 in 6    =    one in six    =    1/6    =    16.6666666% 

That, my friends, are our odds. The odds of winning anything at RUTRTW.  
The odds are spectacular - practically guaranteed even - if you consider the odds of other things in our lives. 

Like, for example, Ali Binazir suggests that the chances of *you* being here on planet earth is somewhere around 1 in 40,000,000,000,000,000.  [It's kinda a long story. He gets into details that blab on about 4 trillion sperm and a hundred thousand eggs but I think it has more to do with how your Homosapien great great great (etc) grandfather must have been some phenom of a mammoth hunter to perpetuate the genetic lineage that you my friend, are currently at the end of.  (No pressure - but don't eff it up)]. 

No matter, the point is poignant. Chances of winning at RUTRTW are better than your chances of actually being alive today!  That is totally something to celebrate!!! 

So "Cheers" to us all and to the super fluky what-are-the-chances odds that got us to where we are today.  Which actually, if you are lucky, might be in a line-up somewhere waiting for a winning RUTRTW :)    

KARMA WORKS

 Everyone Loves Karma - Buy someone a coffee today!

BAM! And then just like that, the magic of a KARMA KUP pays off! 

FREE COFFEE for Mark!!  YESSSS!

Well done Mark! Your thoughtfullness totally  paid off. You won a coffee today - finally breaking your 0 for 4 streak -- all thanks to the Karma Kup earlier this week!  

Pass on good KARMA to yourself by buying someone else a coffee! 

It's Rim-Rim!

Day 2

Okay Gang, Things are looking great!

Here are some preliminary results:

IT'SHERE-IT'SHERE-IT'SHERE

HAVE YOU ROLLED YET?! Have you?!!

I am going to have my first this afternoon and I CAN'T wait. So excited.

Kerrie had her first sippy bliss this morning - and she got a DOUBLE CUP! 

Amazing!

Kerries Double Cup First Sippy Bliss of the Season

It's finally almost here! 

Roll up the Rim is back February 20th 

ONE WEEK TO SIPPY BLISS!!

February 14th

What a delicious celebration!  Tasty treats + Feb 14 inspiration = the best of both worlds.

But I think it is more than just 'both' worlds.  'Both' implies that it is only two worlds that are colliding when in fact, one could argue that this 'Be Mine Deliciousness', is at the intersection of at least four worlds colliding.  To elaborate - this is what I think is colliding:

1) heart shaped food

2) pink & red glitter  (sometimes called sprinkles)

3) chocolate smearing on top, and

4) A brilliant name: Be Mine.  awwwww

Soooo... it isn't just "the best of both worlds".  It is more like "the best of all worlds" or "the best of quad worlds" or maybe the "the best of quarted worlds".

No matter which order of magnitude you want to think about donuts in, be sure that some worldly collisions happen between the TH 'Be Mine' and your mouth. 'Cause that is the best of both worlds for sure!

 Heart shaped food with glitter + my mouth = the best of both worlds

A, B, C, D......

So about the new cup sizes -- and I'm not talking about the A, B, C or D cup sizes that you might be thinking about....... (ah-hem boobies)   No. I am talking about the new TH coffee (or tea, or milky coffee taste) cup sizes. 


They are new(ish)!  Have you noticed?  You may not have noticed the change in cup sizes if you are like me and sleep walk to the coffee counter, mumble, "eye-wha-lie-a-coffee-phlease" and then gulp down the steamy tastiness all before realising that you are actually *not* in your own kitchen nor (thankfully) still in your pajama's. 


But what you are likely to notice is how you walk faster, talk faster and type faster than you did before the new cup sizes. Basically, you are way better at work thanks to the TH cup size adjustments!  There is just soooooo much win-win here!  We get more coffee and we type harder! Perfect!

The best part?  When you become desensitized to the extra jolt and begin to wane, Stephen Harper will (to bolster Canadian productivity) insist that TH issue another cup size increase.  Hooray -- more coffee!! 

Stephen Harper about to drink his "Canadian Productivity Juice".
(Like our current take on Kyoto, it's a true "made-in-Canada" solution)

options, options, options

So many options to make drinking deliciousness better everyday.

Even IiiiiiI have options.  Two options actually. Option One is to discuss the NEW (new last week) cup sizes aaaaaand Option Two is to discuss the TH Latte.

Firstly, we should discuss Option Two - the new, but really not that new, TH latte which TH confusingly calls 'milky coffee taste'. Yah, that's right - they actually print this on their website.  Milky Coffee Taste.  What does milky coffee taste even mean......or taste like for that matter?  PalEEze advise once tested and tasted.

But wait, there is a QUIZ (https://www.facebook.com/TimHortons?sk=app_177521379015388) that you can take to match you with the perfect milky-coffee-taste beverage.  Soooo now you can know before testing every single one.  Perfect thinking TH. 

Secondly, Option One. Tomorrow.