So I got sick...again. Another sinus cold. Cancelled all my plans for the weekend so that I could rest up and get better. Then when I was putting the clothes on the line today I got stung by a bee on my baby finger! ARG!!!
Things have been going okay besides all that. Had a fire in the chiminea last night with Grant and Risa, did my performance review for the year and got a positive review, and on top of that fixed the problem with my overtime and it all should come on to the pay that is just before we leave for Fredericton! YAY! Two more weeks! We are booked for Thanksgiving dinner with J's family for the Monday. Nothing else booked as of yet. Need to buy The Boy a new Magna-Doodle for the 11 hour car ride.
One more week before Marshy leaves for the year. WAH!
Blog ya later!
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Monday, September 18, 2006
Oh what a week...
It is time for the mother of all posts. I have been busy out of my skull for the past week and a bit. There has been something on every night and it’s all been an emotional wringer…well, maybe not all of it. Anyway, The Boy got off to school no problems. We had the interview at the school with his teacher Ms. E. I cried. We got him all packed with his massive backpack that he can barely lift. I cried. We all got up, dressed and walked to his bus pick up spot. It was all smiles and I even got him getting onto the bus on video. After he drove away I cried…and cried…and got in the car to go to work…and cried. Pretty much watched the clock all day until I got the MSN that he was home with Daddy. He likes school very much…and then we got the call home from the teacher. Apparently, besides a listening problem where he wait’s for the second time and a time-out before doing what is asked, he likes to poke the other children when he is feeling bored and wants to start playing. I love the new level of stress and anxiety that him being at school brings me. Besides the fact that he is now at home fulltime and we aren’t paying for daycare anymore, I know that school is good for him. His counting is up to 13, and he can almost spell his name. He gets all the letters in there he just doesn’t get them in the right order.
The Black Eyed Peas concert was AWESOME!!! Fourth row left and TONS of fun! I loved the Swollen Members, although I was sad that Moka Only wasn’t there with them anymore. Beside Prevail, insert heavy breathing here, his singing was my favourite part of the group. Rhianna was a slutty marionette who could only shove out her tits and ass. Singing!?! Whatever quality there is in her voice is totally overshadowed by the tarty look.
I got soooooo much of the concert on video! My favourite was Fergie doing a cover of Gun’s ‘N Roses, Sweet Child of Mine.
We had a great weekend at home with friends. Friday I picked up Mel from her place in the Market and hit the road for home. Got majorly drunk on Butter Shots and eventually passed out in The Boy’s bed. He had gotten up to go pee and wanted to watch his shows so I had to pick him up to put him back in bed. He was quite sad about this so I gave in and laid down with him for a “little bit”. J poked me awake enough to stumble to bed an hour later. No hangover to speak of. Had to go to the bathroom at 5am and was a bit dizzy but no headache or stomach problems. Had toast with Mel and then packed the entire family into the car to take Mel home. We had an awesome time in the market with J shopping for veggies, The Boy trying maple sugar candy for the first time, and accidentally participating in the Nissan Versa Road Trip. Basically think amazing race only across Canada, challenges in every major city and the person with the most points gets a new car at the end of it. Two of them were selling Beavertails on the street and The Boy was interested so we wandered over. Only thing is once we got closer I couldn’t see any signs of the beavertail hut, the two kids were holding pre-made tails, and the large group of people following them made me think they were street kids trying to make money. Basically, got there, The Boy started hugging one of their stuffed toy beavers, I got a weird vibe and ended up saying, “We had just come to say Hi.”, then hurrying the boy away from them. About 20 feet away another kid comes up to me and gets me to sign a waiver for the footage shot to be used on the show!?! I don’t know, I found the site:
http://liveversa.ca/en/
…and now wish we had bought a beavertail to support the team! Oh well, next time don’t look like hitch-hikers and you’ll sell more! The two that The Boy and I denied were Kayun and Christopher.
Went to a party for an old co-worker of J’s on Saturday night, did a ton of laundry on Sunday morning, cut my lawn, used the whipper-snipper, went in to do two hours of over-time, got home to do more laundry, clean the house, and finally watched the second episode of House that I had missed on Tuesday night because Jeff and his German Fiancé were over for dinner. Then, because we had just bought a chiminea on MAJOR sale I had to have a fire…that started at ten and couldn’t get out until almost midnight. Insert major busy day at work here!
SIGH!! It’s now 8pm and I have cleaned the kitchen, baked a dozen banana muffins, packed the boy’s lunch, packed my lunch, and put the boy through his bed time routine.
I’M TIRED!!!!!!
Must get some rest. I’m going to a municipal meeting tomorrow night about the drainage in the area. I don’t know if it applies to me or not but if I attend I’ll meet some of my neighbors.
TTFN
The Black Eyed Peas concert was AWESOME!!! Fourth row left and TONS of fun! I loved the Swollen Members, although I was sad that Moka Only wasn’t there with them anymore. Beside Prevail, insert heavy breathing here, his singing was my favourite part of the group. Rhianna was a slutty marionette who could only shove out her tits and ass. Singing!?! Whatever quality there is in her voice is totally overshadowed by the tarty look.I got soooooo much of the concert on video! My favourite was Fergie doing a cover of Gun’s ‘N Roses, Sweet Child of Mine.
We had a great weekend at home with friends. Friday I picked up Mel from her place in the Market and hit the road for home. Got majorly drunk on Butter Shots and eventually passed out in The Boy’s bed. He had gotten up to go pee and wanted to watch his shows so I had to pick him up to put him back in bed. He was quite sad about this so I gave in and laid down with him for a “little bit”. J poked me awake enough to stumble to bed an hour later. No hangover to speak of. Had to go to the bathroom at 5am and was a bit dizzy but no headache or stomach problems. Had toast with Mel and then packed the entire family into the car to take Mel home. We had an awesome time in the market with J shopping for veggies, The Boy trying maple sugar candy for the first time, and accidentally participating in the Nissan Versa Road Trip. Basically think amazing race only across Canada, challenges in every major city and the person with the most points gets a new car at the end of it. Two of them were selling Beavertails on the street and The Boy was interested so we wandered over. Only thing is once we got closer I couldn’t see any signs of the beavertail hut, the two kids were holding pre-made tails, and the large group of people following them made me think they were street kids trying to make money. Basically, got there, The Boy started hugging one of their stuffed toy beavers, I got a weird vibe and ended up saying, “We had just come to say Hi.”, then hurrying the boy away from them. About 20 feet away another kid comes up to me and gets me to sign a waiver for the footage shot to be used on the show!?! I don’t know, I found the site:http://liveversa.ca/en/
…and now wish we had bought a beavertail to support the team! Oh well, next time don’t look like hitch-hikers and you’ll sell more! The two that The Boy and I denied were Kayun and Christopher.
Went to a party for an old co-worker of J’s on Saturday night, did a ton of laundry on Sunday morning, cut my lawn, used the whipper-snipper, went in to do two hours of over-time, got home to do more laundry, clean the house, and finally watched the second episode of House that I had missed on Tuesday night because Jeff and his German Fiancé were over for dinner. Then, because we had just bought a chiminea on MAJOR sale I had to have a fire…that started at ten and couldn’t get out until almost midnight. Insert major busy day at work here!SIGH!! It’s now 8pm and I have cleaned the kitchen, baked a dozen banana muffins, packed the boy’s lunch, packed my lunch, and put the boy through his bed time routine.
I’M TIRED!!!!!!
Must get some rest. I’m going to a municipal meeting tomorrow night about the drainage in the area. I don’t know if it applies to me or not but if I attend I’ll meet some of my neighbors.
TTFN
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Save me from Sinus Colds...
I hate being sick. I mean this one didn’t seem to last that long. The cold symptoms didn’t last much beyond Wednesday so I stopped taking the Tylenol Sinus pills. So now I’m dealing with nausea, cold sweats, and dizziness off and on through out the day since then. I have been kinda useful besides that. Thursday night I got the lawn cut for the first time in a month and a half. 90% of the lawn had been burned off and dead so I wasn’t going to drag out the machine to do the little parts that lived in the shade! Besides we were having a heat wave! No yard work when death threatens thank you! Anyway, weeded the driveway, ripped out the front garden and got it ready for winter, cleaned out my shed, got the bikes hung up from the ceiling, re-created our entire filing system and got Microsoft Money to balance with our current bills and budget. THANK YOU I ROCK!
The Boy starts school on Tuesday. I have to put my baby on a big yellow bus to take him away. I am not happy. Mother stuff, anxiety stuff, and I’m sure some other stuff so it all builds up to me not feeling happy about this.
Marshy got a new job. It’s only a term for a year but it’s been her and me for so long now I’m sad, yet happy for her, yet very sad for me. Going to lose my co-pilot.
J and I are hitting the brokest stage of our lives yet. Wednesday is the quarterly tax payment of $4421, the 21st is the GST payment of about $700, and the 29th is the last property tax payment of the year at $702. We are going to make it but thank you for the line of credit! We are eating a lot of potato’s and rice right now let me tell you! The big challenge has been cutting back on the groceries. Since we started tracking everything in Microsoft Money in June I can see that we have spent anywhere from $480-$636 on groceries per month! We are trying to keep the lid on it to $200 for September. We are about a third of the way in and we are at $80. YAY FOR PRICE CHOPPER!!!!
Hmmmm…this one has been a little bit not happy. Something happy, something happy….
…
With The Boy being at school or home with Jay means no more daycare bills and I’m now free to re-join the gym at work ‘cause I don’t have to leave work on the button at 4pm to go pick him up!
OH!!! I’m going to the Black Eyed Peas concert on Wednesday! 4th row left!!!! Should be AWESOME!!!
Blog ya later!
The Boy starts school on Tuesday. I have to put my baby on a big yellow bus to take him away. I am not happy. Mother stuff, anxiety stuff, and I’m sure some other stuff so it all builds up to me not feeling happy about this.
Marshy got a new job. It’s only a term for a year but it’s been her and me for so long now I’m sad, yet happy for her, yet very sad for me. Going to lose my co-pilot.
J and I are hitting the brokest stage of our lives yet. Wednesday is the quarterly tax payment of $4421, the 21st is the GST payment of about $700, and the 29th is the last property tax payment of the year at $702. We are going to make it but thank you for the line of credit! We are eating a lot of potato’s and rice right now let me tell you! The big challenge has been cutting back on the groceries. Since we started tracking everything in Microsoft Money in June I can see that we have spent anywhere from $480-$636 on groceries per month! We are trying to keep the lid on it to $200 for September. We are about a third of the way in and we are at $80. YAY FOR PRICE CHOPPER!!!!
Hmmmm…this one has been a little bit not happy. Something happy, something happy….
…
With The Boy being at school or home with Jay means no more daycare bills and I’m now free to re-join the gym at work ‘cause I don’t have to leave work on the button at 4pm to go pick him up!
OH!!! I’m going to the Black Eyed Peas concert on Wednesday! 4th row left!!!! Should be AWESOME!!!
Blog ya later!
Monday, September 04, 2006
Labor Day...
GREAT long weekend! It didn’t start off so great though. I had booked Friday afternoon off to get the bags and car packed so that the family and I could be on the road by 4pm on the dot. Firstly, I got into work for 7:30am with Marshy trailing in after my by 5 minutes. She says let’s go to Timmy’s for a coffee before work. Off we go in The Max. As we pull out of the parking lot the car LOSES THE MUFFLER! I’m not talking about it went sparking down the street, the car just got a hell of a lot louder. I curse all the way back to work with Marshy laughing at me. I call in to the dealership and find out there is a slot open at 10am. No problem. As we are getting through the morning routine we find out some devastating news. One of our co-workers in the active area died the night before. A healthy, athletic 33 year old man just collapsed while wake-boarding. Grief counselors on site and everything. I leave at 9:30 to drive all the way across town, to get a whole new exhaust system for the bargain price of $355. Yippee. Then I get home and start tidying the house to get ready to start packing. On the way to the guest room where we keep our luggage I wandered into the laundry room for no particular reason…and step in a puddle of water!?! One of the pipes leading into the hot water heater has a slow leak. We get out the old wrench and follow the old rule of “Lefty loosy, righty tighty”. The slow leak is not a fast one. Fast forward to us calling a plumber in within the half hour them spending 10 minutes replacing an “O” ring and I’m sure it’s going to be about $60 whenever the bill gets here. SIGH! Now I pack the bags, the toiletries, The Boy’s bike and helmet, and various toys for the boy to play with in the backseat. Enter J playing a video game…until 4:15pm and me about to snap. Finally out the door by 4:25pm.
At this point it is now a relaxing weekend. Except for the fact that I get sick, another frickin’ cold, yay. Got to see Tom and Lori twice, for the first time in my life I drank an entire bottle of wine by myself, with no hangover thank you very much! My brother, his wife and their son came for dinner and had a great time. The boys played very well and even had a bath together! Will be back to do Thanksgiving with them the weekend before the holiday cause only 5 more weeks until we go to Fredericton! YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!! *Kermit Arms*
Will post again this week. Must go fold a mountain of laundry on my bed.
Ciao for now!
At this point it is now a relaxing weekend. Except for the fact that I get sick, another frickin’ cold, yay. Got to see Tom and Lori twice, for the first time in my life I drank an entire bottle of wine by myself, with no hangover thank you very much! My brother, his wife and their son came for dinner and had a great time. The boys played very well and even had a bath together! Will be back to do Thanksgiving with them the weekend before the holiday cause only 5 more weeks until we go to Fredericton! YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!! *Kermit Arms*
Will post again this week. Must go fold a mountain of laundry on my bed.
Ciao for now!
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