From My Brain to Yours!

Hey I'm Blogging!

2010-07-12T12:44:00.002-04:00

Why am I blogging? Good question. This has been a "dead blog" for a couple years now. I'm now doing a post because my company is trying to regulate my blog usage with a "social media/blogging" document that the entire company has to read and understand. (This response is so me. If you tell me not to do it I'm going to do it!)

Most of it is pretty simple and a lot of common sense that most computer savey people would know. But one of the points really got me thinking. The quote is "avoid using unprofessional online personas.". Why is that my company's business? If I don't refer to them in any way at all, who cares if I have an email address that is "jigglychest69@gmail.com"??? I don't by the way, but if I did, that would be up to me right? It's my reputation and my online persona so wtf!?!

Arg.

Posting...

2010-02-15T14:07:00.001-05:00

Wow, you know you haven't posted in a while when you have half forgotten how to log into your blog. Hmmmm. I wouldn't call this blog dead. I use it all the time for the links I keep on the right hand side. I like to go back and re-read posts done during the buying of my house. I keep meaning to post stuff. Never do. Hmmmm....mayhap I will come up with a "Life Update" post. Lots of stuff changed in the last year.

Hmmm....

OMG LOLZ!

2009-04-22T09:48:00.000-04:00

So, I haven't posted in a while, but I had to share this. For those of us out there who enjoy a good romance...and for those of us who also like to make fun of them....

http://vandonovan.livejournal.com/1088311.html

Enjoy!

GASP!

2009-03-18T10:53:00.001-04:00

OMG look look look! I'm a delinquent blogger! No blogs for you!

I know. I suck. Will come back to this.....eventually....maybe......I think......

OMG yawn!

2008-10-25T17:48:00.002-04:00

OMG was today long! We had the alarm set for 8am and had all of us up, dressed, and out the door by 9:30am. Off to Value Village to check out pants for the Monster. It was scarey. Very Salvation Army. Will never be back there. Went to Winner's after that and bought over $200 in stuff...for Jason! Got a couple toys and ONE pair of pants for the Monster, but it was mostly about J. Stuff he needed like winter boots, new running shoes, underwear, etc. I got some cool cookie cutters that I plan on giving a whirl tomorrow. Off to Walmart for the portrait. Wasn't as horrible as expected. Had a hard time getting J to really crack a smile, but got one pose that really worked for whole family and even got a nice one of the two of us together. Next to Harvey's for lunch, then Sportmart for specialized shoes for both J and I. Him was Volleyball shoes, and mine were for working out. Pet store, grocery store then home. We were not in the door until almost 4pm. YAAAAAAWN!

The entire day I was really good on my points. Packed a bag before leaving with bottles of water, apples and cranberries. It saved us BIG TIME when we were out and about and not wanting to stop. Had salad at Harvey's while J and the Monster chowed down on burgers and onion rings. That one hurt, but I still have 2 points left right now, so I'm guess it was a good decision? Need to walk a bit on the treadmill and start breaking in the new shoes.

The monster is sick with a sore throat and fever. He is refusing to take medicine right now so I'm not giving him any sympathy. There is nothing I can to for him to get him to feel better unless he is willing to down some syrup. Don't cry to me at midnight. ARG!

Need to get laundry started. Raiding tomorrow night with Vanguard so will have to have everything done and taken care of by 7pm. I'm off to be usefull.

Ciao for now.

F-F-F-Friday!

2008-10-24T14:34:00.002-04:00

Yay! Weekend! So happy! This week has been endless. Having work out three nights a week, plus dealing with the monster's homework and various form/orders, playing vanguard, and keeping track of everything else is getting a little bit much. Love the third class I'm taking. it's 20/20/20 with 20 minutes of cardio, 20 minutes of step, and then 20 minutes of abs. It's a nice change from the rest of the week's strength class. Am back on plan as of this past Wednesday. It's feeling okay. I'm not in rythem for it yet and am not eating enough during the day. Which of course means I'm STARVING at night and then eating all my leftover points then. I'll work on balancing it out next week.

Tomorrow is going to be a busy day. We are scheduled to go into town shopping and get a family portrait done. Don't ask me why, but both mother's want J and I to get it done and that be our present. Whatever. It's a picture. We take better pictures AND without the cheesy background screen. We're also going to be pants shopping for the monster, and going out for lunch. Pray for me and that J's patience holds. :P

Also, going to be continuing with the reno work in the guest room. I got about 1/3 of the wallpaper off already. The worst part about it is that the idiots that owned the house before us didn't paint the entire wall, then put the paper up. They put the paper DIRECTLY on the drywall and then painted below it! It's a major pain in the ass, but I have the entire day Sunday to work on it. Plastering up the holes is next on the agenda, sandpaper those spots when it's dry, strip the hardware off the room, prime twice, paint twice, put the hardware back, and finally move the furniture back in. YAY! Another DAD-FREE project! :)

Buh bye!

Weeeeeekend!

2008-10-19T10:55:00.002-04:00

Yesterday was a good day. I slept in and then was up getting the laundry going, had a broccoli and asparagus frittata with the family, and then got dressed to start on the garden. All of my perennials I'm sick of. We have a tiger lily, some yellow iris and purple iris, and OMG do we have phlox! It's purple, it only blooms at the end of August and the stalks are taller then I am. I cut all the stalks off with the shears so that they could be bagged, ripped all the stuff that was left out of the front garden, and then started digging out the weed/vegetable garden. Funnily enough, some of the "weeds" I pulled out of there were veggies I didn't even know I was growing! Imagine me reaching for weeds and then coming up with a handful of radishes the size of golf balls! Pretty funny. Before I was totally worn out I filled one and a half yard waste bags. Today to finish up that project I have to get all the perennials out of the garden and into little bags for a fundraiser at work, rip the tomato plants out of the veggie garden, open up the composter and spread all gardens with it to make the soil better.

Last night was a big night for Ryan and I. I took him to his first Sens game. It was free tickets from work.

...

K, here is the story about the free tickets from work. The VP's got their heads together and bought a corporate box. Then they put the rule that they can only go to work people so they are given out only one at a time. Which means no one wants them because then you are hanging out with work people and not bringing someone you actually want to spend time with. So I didn't even want to go. Didn't email that I wanted a ticket...until my boss comes and asks me to get a ticket in my name for her. I'm okay with it. So I call and get it. Apparently two of my other co-workers did the same thing so that KM and her son could go. Next thing I hear is KM forgot that she has a date planned with her hubby and doesn't want the tickets anymore. I say I'll take them and use them as a reward for The Monster getting 5 out of 5 out of this week's spelling test. We have the excuses all worked out. One of us is getting the flu, and KM remembers she has the date at the last minute. The Monster and I pack up, drive to Home Depot to park ('Cause there is no way in hell I'm paying $11 for parking!), and walk in to The Bank. I get there and my boss is no where in sight. The game starts and The Monster is enthralled for maybe 15 minutes before he loses interest. Still no sign of my boss. I get The Monster through to the start of the second period before he is done and we leave. I get to say to the entire group of work people, great, my boss and two other co-workers stood me up for team building. :D Anyway, at least I wasn't upset about leaving early as the ticket was free. And because we were in a box there was a sink so we were drinking water instead of paying $8 per drink! YAY!

Anyway, I'm off to get busy with finishing up chores before going raiding in Vanguard!

Blog ya later!

CHARGE!!!!

2008-10-16T10:14:00.003-04:00

OMG I want to SHOP! I have a major clothing urge. I have a ton of winter/fall outfits but none of them feel "right". I don't know if this is fluctuating weight, boredom due to it all being three to four years old, or just the need to go out to a mall and buy something that makes me feel pretty. SIGH! I don't want to spend money right now! The new front door comes off the Home Depot credit card in two weeks and goes straight onto the line of credit and six months after that the bedroom window does the same thing. Not to mention Christmas being right in the middle.

I'm also getting the urge to do some home renovation again. Nothing huge or too expensive. I just think it's time to finally put our stamp on the guest room down stairs. The bed and mattress are J's old ones from his single days. The current plan is to just replace the mattress and buy a quilt cover for the old quilt. I'd like to step up to the plate and stript the old wall paper trim off and get rid of the mint green paint. The carpet is a deep rose color and isn't going anywhere so I'm thinking about a dark brown quilt cover and a light coffee colored paint for the walls. New blinds would be a must as well.

sigh.

Dreaming is always fun.

Ciao for now.

Weekend of Awesome!

2008-10-14T09:51:00.002-04:00

It was such a great weekend! J and I were on the road by 6pm to head for the folks. The drive was very good, in that the traffic was not heavy and there were no delays. I was excited to fill up the gas tank at 99.9! But then on the drive home we pass a station that had 94.7. Oh well, it's all in the perspective right? I did the Farmer's Market on Saturday morning with my Mom. There wasn't as many people as last year but she still did well with her sales. It was fun just sitting with her and catching up on stuff. Hearing the latest about everything going on in the 'Burg. Got to see my brother and nephew. My monster and the mini-monster had a blast together! They got along great and behaved very well. We are all planning on driving down to see my Gramma at New Years. She will be turning 90 and I haven't seen her in about 7 years due to the huge drive to get there and J not having vacation time. As long as the weather is good we should have a great trip.

Work is going well. I didn't expect to like having the office to myself as much as I am. On the two days that I have help it's nice to have someone keeping me company, but the days that I'm alone are great in that I let my inner hermit rock out. :)

My monster tried out Hip Hop classes this month. The first class was great, the second he didn't really want to go, the third it was out and out rebellion about going so I cancelled the whole thing and am getting my money back. He has fun while he is there and moving, but overall I'm going to to keep him in it just to fight with him every week about getting him out the door. Cash back on to the line of credit too so J is happy.

My boy is going to be 6 years old in a month and a half. It's very odd when I take the time to think about it. He used to be this lump that peed and cried and had to be rocked ENDLESSLY. Now he is running out the door saying, "Bye Mom! I'm gonna go to So-and-so's to play!". I miss the age of three. He was protected in house, he was toilet trained, he could play and interact with other kids and his own toys without help, could feed himself and had opinions on what foods he liked. AND he slept through the night! There are ton's of great things about his age, but I miss my munchkin. It's hard to use that word on him now that he is as tall as my collar bone! He is also doing well in school. We have had a couple 5/5 with spelling tests and his math homework comes back with great marks. As far as I can tell he really likes school, except first thing in the morning when it's time to get out of bed! :P

Blog ya later!

Happy Thanksgiving!

2008-10-09T09:20:00.002-04:00

YAY! It's my favourite time of year again! Fav holiday, fav weather, fav clothing coming out of the closet, what's not to be happy about? Nothing! I'm great! Looking forward to going to my folks and seeing friends and family.

Good Weekend

2008-09-20T11:02:00.003-04:00

Hey I'm blogging! :D

This weekend has started out great! Had Mel and Rob stay overnight on Friday for dinner and a fire outside. Made TONS of food, but I was good and stuck to WW friendly stuff. I had 3 Margarita's afterward with Mel but because I was good with dinner I didn't feel guilty about it. The boy was a little monster and ate an entire rack of back ribs, half a baked potato, and two cobs of corn! Crazy, he ate more then I did. Speaking of my monster he had his first spelling test on Friday, and HE GOT 100 PERCENT!!! Totally awesome! I'm so proud of him! We are taking him out to lunch for McDonald's and he asked for a new Bakugan toy. Rewarding a perfect score sits pretty well with both J and I.

Tonight is going to be dinner with the Pierce's. Can't wait! It's going to be fun! J and I are bringing ribs, and dessert, and also a recipe that J made last night that didn't get touched, Potatoes Gratin. I also bought them a couple bottles of wine. I found out Tom likes my girly Wild Vines Blackberry Merlot, so I figured we could have a glass. The dessert I'm making is called a Cappuccino Torte. Basically, an Angel Food Cake that has been made with coffee instead of water. Add some chocolate and whipped cream. YUMMY...I hope?

Uber BLARG!

2008-09-04T10:18:00.003-04:00

OMG I feel sore and tired. I did an awesome work out on Tuesday night, but holy cow I'm barely walking today. Anyway, to update:

-The boy is in grade 1 and is not so hot about it. Going to school everyday, plus tests, plus more work and less play equals, "MOMMY I DON'T WANNA GO TO SCHOOL!!!". Oh well, better get used to it, kid. (He picked out his own outfit. omg I need to teach the kid color co-ordination!)

-My monster is now officially registered in an all boy's hip-hop class in our town. It will be once a week and not on the same nights as my work outs so it's perfect. It's even within walking distance of the house so if I stay in town that night J can walk him over. The Monster is really excited about it! :)

-The car was in the stealership again today. One sensor for the air bag equals $545. Yay. This is on top of the $445 for the replacing the oil pan, removing the heatsheilds, oh yeah, and the $109 for the car rental for 2 days. yay.

-Playing Vanguard again. Am now a level 46 warrior and we are perusing the guilds to start raiding in the near future. I'm not sure how well I'm going to do at that. I'm a "play for a half hour at a time kinda girl" and raids generally require about 2-3 hours of focus. I'll try anything once.

-WW is back on again. I'm battling back the 12lbs summer that came back. It's going okay. I'm happy to be back on plan and feel I can stay in my limits. The one thing I hate about gaining back the weight is you lose 30+ off your whole body. When you gain back 12 it goes directly to your waist, thus screwing up the fit of all your pants. SIGH. Note to self to renew my acquaintance with my treadmill.

-Christmas and The Monster's birthday are coming up fast. Time to start planning.

Blog ya later.

Summer of DOOM!!!

2008-08-29T11:02:00.001-04:00

Yay! The summer of traveling is over! It’s been a busy summer with a trip to Fredericton for the whole family, a trip to North Andover for J and I, and a trip on the train for monster and I followed by J and I going to an awesome wedding in Mississauga. J and I are on lock down for the next three weeks for the weekends. We aren’t going anywhere or doing anything with anyone. This should hopefully recharge us and get us ready for the next rush of busy.

I’m back on plan with WW again. With all the trips it was too hard to keep track of anything so I said it was a break and gained 12 lbs. I’m happy to be back on the wagon and it’s going well. Working out took a bit of a hit as I strained the tendons connecting the knee-cap to the quad muscle. It’s getting better but is still really stiff and sore.

As of this weekend we have been in our house for three years. Still love it! Lots of projects were completed this year. A new front door, new front porch, a new master bedroom window, the master bathroom was renovated with all new hardware, new toilet, painting and cleaning. It’s been expensive but lots of necessary things that come with owning a house.

The Monster goes back to school on Tuesday. It’s the big transition from Sr. Kindergarten to Grade 1. He is more then a little bit apprehensive, but that is to be expected with something this big. All his supplies are bought and his back pack is ready to go. We have also registered him for an all boys jr. hip hop class with the local dance school. We have struggled finding an activity for him that is local, reasonable hours, and something that he likes. Ever since he killed the skating idea he has been begging for “dance” lessons. I am not going to put him in ballet. I refuse. I don’t need him beaten to a bloody pulp at school.

Other then that, things are pretty great. Everyone is healthy and happy. Christmas will be here before you know it!

POOOF Lot of dust on this thing....

2008-05-30T13:01:00.003-04:00

Hello my adoring public....all three of you!

I figured since I'm home on a Friday it's time to do another random blog post. I booked today off as a vacation day to prepare for the INVASION OF THE PARENTS but woke up sick as a dog and am barely getting from one room to another without needing to sit down and breath hard. sigh.

General updates include my weight loss. I'm now at 33 lbs gone. I LOVE IT! I love being back in all my skinny clothes, including some that I had bought during my previous weight-loss that I never wore because I never got my body in the shape it's in now. I joined my work's gym and started going to strength training classes twice a week back in February. They were running and "Biggest Losers" program for 10 week and were letting anyone in the company go to classes without paying for them. I got majorly hooked. The bar bell that I'm now using has 34 lbs on it wich is pretty cool since I started out with 14. I can tell a difference in the fact that my body is shaping differently then the last time I lost weight. I HAVE PIPES PEOPLE! WEEEE!!!!

The food aspect is always a challenge. ALWAYS. I have days when I can say no to anything and not have a hint of remorse. Then there are days when everything is sucked into the black hole otherwise known as my mouth. Every day is a new day and every week I see success on the scale is a victory.

The Boy is great. We had his Senior K. graduation pics taken back in May and should be getting those back soon. He is going to be starting Grade 1 next year. FULL TIME SCHOOL! It's going to be a big change for all of us.

Work is going awesome right now. I'm the only full-time person left in a office of 5 when I was first hired. I'm overwhelmed right now but that is job security right? My part-time x-hippie was diagnosed with something this week and will be off for the next 6 months to a year dealing with it so I'm going to be getting another couple seniors in to help out. I'll get them trained on all the basic stuff and then keep the complicated for me. It's going to be fun scaring them by telling them there is a margin for error of ZERO. You file it in the wrong place it's lost forever.

I GOT MY GARDEN PLANTED THIS YEAR!!! Imagine that! It only took not playing an MMO game during the warm months. Although Age of Conan is being very tempting right now.....NO! Must remember the motto, NO MMO UNTIL THE SNOW! J and I both want to be out and about this summer. Enjoy the deck and the garden and go for walks, do volleyball and stuff. We've said we'll upgrade Berlin (my gaming maching) and Athens (J's gaming machine) in the fall and install Conan then. I have in my trough planters 8 herb plants, I did a flowering planter for "the pretty" and I did tomatoes, hot peppers, romaine lettuce, leaf lettuce, and green beans in the veggie garden. I'm having fun weeding already!

My dad and uncle were totally AWESOME and installed our new master bedroom window a couple weeks ago. We now have the ability to put an air conditioner there! WEEEEEE!!! No more hiding in the basement guest room during heat waves! We also re-did the upstairs bathroom in a light-LIGHT-lavender. It matches the existing tiles very nicely and we also patched all the house the last yahoo's who owned the house did. We painted all the trim white and replaced all the hardware too. New towel bars, TP holder, robe hookes and stuff. A little later in the summer we are going to be replacing our front porch as well. That should finish us off for home improvements for a couple year. The broken stuff will have been all fixed. The next BIG step is going to be replacing the side deck with a porch, scraping out and re-paving the drive-way, elongating the fence, and laying down patio stones. This is going to all have to be done in the same year for it not to look like crap.

Anyway, all systems are a go and life it good. Summer is going to be busy with us going to Fredericton in July, Boston at the first of August, and Cobourg/Toronto at the end of August. Should be fun!

Ciao for now!

10 lbs later...

2008-03-18T10:25:00.003-04:00

So I haven't posted back much because to honest, the weight loss is going...easy? I don't know why but I haven't had a week of gain yet. I'm now at 23 lbs gone and liking it. I usually do the strength training class twice a week and if I get a cardio workout or two in there I'm happy, but there are weeks that the cardio doesn't happen. I even took a week off and ate like a pig, didn't work out, and generally felt guilt the entire time. I lost 1.5 lbs that week. Weird.

Anyway, I'm loving my clothes being HUGE on me. I'm still not small enough to fit back into my old work clothes, but I can get the pants closed now! Just about 10 more and I should be back into the old wardrobe. YAY!

J is on plan too so our eating habits have really changed. Ryan has even slimmed down a bit since we started. He likes to say to me,"Mommy, I ate healthy ALL DAY. So now I want something NOT healthy.". Funny kid!

So, that's about it. No venting needed. No shoulder to cry on. Every thing is working out so far.

Ciao for now!

Yay for me!

2008-02-08T15:31:00.000-05:00

I'm at 12 lbs lost now! YAY!!! I had some fun yesterday. I started pulling some stuff out of the "skinny" side of my closet and found something that FIT! WEEEEEEEEEEE!!! I also retired the big, black, winter jacket and am back in my pretty purple Nike one that J bought me years ago when were were first dating. It's helping out that J is on the plan with me. He is the chef so him cooking light for both of us is much nicer then me picking apart something to find the healthy bits for me while Ryan and him just eat.

Got a shiny-new digital scale for home too. We had an old "needle" based one that I could barely read. It has a lovely new home in the garbage can! :D

I've also started walking on the treadmill again. I had a night off last night but that is the first one since I started on Sunday night.

Blog ya later.

Ug...

2008-02-03T13:06:00.000-05:00

Oh man do I feel like hell. I wonder if this is an iron deficiency. I'm dizzy, tired, overall not feeling good. Still getting work down around the house but I'm not getting behind the wheel of the car today. I'm three weeks into WW and heading to the 4th weigh-in. I'm 10.8 lbs down and as far as I know still going. I like it. Happy to report that my Mom has rejoined and that J is now keeping track of what he is eating too.

My goal is to be in my nice summer clothes for this coming summer. I haven't been in them in two year. *fingers crossed*

Ug, going to go lay down. Finished vacuuming, sweeping all bare floors in the house and have the laundry more then started. There is maybe 3 loads left to get in the machines. I'm hoping to have some fun and try out my new running shoes on the treadmill tonight. Asics TR 240's! LOVE THEM!!!!

Blog ya later.

:)

2008-01-10T17:50:00.001-05:00

Sweet! 4 lbs gone in the first week! I feel so happy and comfortable being back on plan. Tracking food is working out and I'm staying within my budget of points.

Anyway, off to volleyball tonight.

Blog ya later!

Blog Revival!

2008-01-05T11:41:00.000-05:00

Hello all!

So I am putting some life back into my blog. Mostly because I have re-started Weight Watchers. I'm doing the online version instead of the "in person, go to the meetings". I need a place to vent, keep track of successes, failures, and most of all see encouragement.

So I sort of fell off the wagon last night. Once I had "pointed" out all the fun I found that I still had points left over in my extras. Just have to keep on the straight and narrow until Thursday. There is alot of comfort getting back into this. Routines that have been forgotten are being relearned.

Anyway, we'll see how this goes.

Ciao for now.

Hey!!! I'm posting!

2007-11-15T21:49:00.001-05:00

Hello All.

I suck. I don't blog any more. Life is full. Life is happy.

This is not good bye. This is just, I'm not going to be here much...but I'm sure you all have figured this out already.

Please send me a comment and I'll add you to my profile on Facebook. I'm there more the here.

Too-da-loo! :D

CLEAR!!!!! ZAPPO

2007-10-10T10:20:00.000-04:00

OMG Somebody give this thing a jolt! Sorry about the non-blogging. Life has gotten so busy lately. It’s not even Vanguard any more. J and I have joined volleyball once a week, The Boy is in Swimming lessons once a week. The new TV season has started…and then when we are not doing all that J and I play Vanguard. Our weekends for October are pretty much booked through. Tigre del Jugo and her hubby Tomathon might be up for much eating and chatting this weekend, the weekend after that will be J and I going to our first pro hockey game. My boss paid for the whole team with their spouses to go to the Sen’s and sit in the “ledge”. Neato restaurant that is in the top level. You get the game and a meal! The day after that I’m taking the boy to Iams Super Dogs. Picture a stadium full of kids with dogs doing tricks to lights and music. My monster is so excited about this that he asks me just about every day how many more sleeps until the “puppy show”.

We are just back from an awesome Thanksgiving with my folks. My brother and his wife were there with my nephew. The Boy and The Nephew played their hearts out and love each other to death. Soooooo CUTE! After the huge turkey meal J got tagged to run with the boys while the rest of us played cards. In case you are not aware, J doesn’t play ANY sort of card games. HA! That will teach him! Once when the boys wandered up stairs to watch the cards I gave them each about 4 stories to get “Uncle J” to read to them! I’m mean! J

In other news, we are getting a new front door installed on the 23^rd. I’m excited! The old one is the original and about 30 years old. The frame is completely rotted. Fifteen hundred dollars later Home Depot rides to the rescue.

Anyway, I’m going to try to blog again. No guarantees though. Volleyball is going to be starting two days a week next week so J and I will be switching off for Thursday night. Whoever takes the boy to his swimming lessons will be staying home that night while the other goes to volleyball. This should save on the babysitting money.

REDBULL!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-07-24T11:08:00.000-04:00

OHMYGODTHISISTHEFIRSTTIMETHATIHAVEEVERHADAREDBULL
ANDISWEARTOGODIFEELLIKEMYHEARTISABOUTTOBURSTOUTOF
MYCHESTBUTATLEASTIFEELAWAKEANDIMEANREALLYAWAKEIHATE
THETASTEOFITTHOUGHITISACROSSBETWEENCHERRYCOUGHSYRUP
ANDCOKEORMAYBEITSCOFFEEOHWELLATLEASTIMAWAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday...and Sunny!?!

2007-07-15T09:34:00.000-04:00

It is so weird to be sitting here seeing a bright happy day out my window. It has been half raining here for what seems like a week. It even got COLD last night! Not that I'm complaining, I love it when it's chilly outside. Good sleeping weather.

This weekend has been great. J and I finished "Kingdom of Heaven" on Friday night and then played Vanguard until 1:30am. Next day was Ratatouille with The Boy, J and KCh. The adults all loved the movie, but from the level of noise in the theatre the movie didn't hold the kids all that well. During actiony stuff it got quiet but there was enough of the plot that was straight talking that went over their heads so they were bored. There were about 4 families that left early. The Boy wanted to leave within the first half hour, but we made him stay as he has to learn that once you pay the money, you wait for the lights to come back on before you leave again.

KCh took off to the pet store for more Charlie food, we were off to Subway for lunch and then to Food Basics. J had a great time. The place is uber cheap, lots of ethnic stuff you wouldn't see in Loblaws, but I HATE IT! I had a mild to medium panic attack towards the end of the stay. Too many people, aisles too full of crap that hadn't been put away on the shelves, could keep track of J 'cause he was having the time of his life wandering around finding stuff...anyway, I finally said we were done, didn't care if J was or not, parked the cart in the line up to the cash and got the hell out. J popped The Boy out of the cart so we both waited in the car for him to get out of that place. I'm not going back. Not gonna happen. By the time we got home from all of this it was closing in on 4pm. Various gaming with the "F this game" crew, then bed...around midnight! :)

Today will begin with LAUNDRY! Oh thy most hated chore! Weeding the "garden" is also up there. I was going to do a veggie garden this year...time got away from me and it never happened. Now I have a lovely crop of weeds that have to be ripped out before they can seed.

Happy weekend!

2007-07-10T09:05:00.000-04:00

Why won't blogger let me edit the title of the post!?!

Hey, I’m blogging again! YAY!!!

Nothing to report other then I’m so G-D tired I wanna cry. I love gaming with all my friends, why am I always the one who gets tired first??? Wah…L

This week is blessedly open. The only thing on the radar is Ryan’s swimming lessons on Wednesday night. He loves them so much! He is doing really well and loves being in the water. I just wish that when it wasn’t his turn he would hold still and stop wiggling around the way he does. He is right on the edge of the pool and I’m terrified that he will fall in and not grab the edge of the pool. If he grabs the edge of the pool he can pull himself out again but….sigh. Stupid worrying.

We are heading into another heat wave until Wednesday. I’m betting we will all be back downstairs sleeping in the guest room that night. Next year we are going to be buying an A/C unit for the bedroom….or maybe the year after that….It’s not bad during the summer except when we go through two or three days of 28 degrees that feels like 45 with the humidity.

Hmmm…what else to write…don’t know of anything that anyone would care about…Well, most of this blog is stuff that only I care about. So I guess I could write about how much I hate spiders in the corners of the house and there would be nothing you could do about it! HA! :)

sigh

2007-07-07T00:21:00.000-04:00

I'm sure everyone has heard the term, "foot in mouth". I seem to live my life through this. Apparently I was gifted with a lack of filter between my brain and my mouth.

I would love to know how to fix this.

I would love to take back a lot of things that I say in the spur of the moment.

I would love to not feel like this anymore.

Don't ask, won't tell, just needed to vent...and apologize....

Day off....happy sigh

2007-07-03T11:26:00.000-04:00

Wow, does this feel great! Slept in til 8am, have been up and playing on the computer for most of the morning, playing with a pile of new MP3's, dancing with The Boy, and generally relaxing.

This week is packed. The Boy's swimming lessons start again this Wednesday, Thursday night is dinner at my cousin's place with Gramma J, Friday is renting Epic Movie with KCh, Saturday is picking Melly up in the market and bringing her back here for Melly-in-the-country night. Sunday is free...so far.

My birthday is coming up. sigh. I'm going to be 29 and not happy. One more year in my 20's. On the mythic day I'm going to pull the blinds, shut the doors, and lock myself in my hobby room with a bottle...of water 'cause drinkin' isn't fun anymore now that I get hang-overs. :(

Hmmmm....that last paragraph was pretty depressing. Let's try for some happy!

I'm happy that The Boy is in his program for the summer, for the help with his speech, and for it breaking up the two months of being home with J. For J's sake as well as Ryan's frame of mind.

I'm happy that I have a happy, healthy, little boy that is currently pretending to be a frog and hopping behind me in my hobby room shouting at the top of his lungs, "RIBBIT!!!".

I'm happy that I have friend's who care about me and a husband who loves me...most of the time! :)

I'm happy that it's only 21 degrees out with little humidity. So comfy in the house right now.

I'm happy that I'm going to be going to Costco with KCh later today because a) Car ride, b) chillin' with KCh, c) gonna get a HUGE flat of bottled water as our house is dry.

That's all for now, what are you happy about?

New Template

2007-07-02T22:21:00.001-04:00

I think I have done this one before...can't remember.

Let me know what you think.

:)

Fantastic Weekend!

2007-07-02T21:48:00.000-04:00

So tired, yet happy! The past weekend was a blast that was packed full. The Connor Brothers made the trip from Lowell, Massachusetts. The abbreviated version is:

-gaming
-playing with Ryan
-more gaming
-trip to the Market and Capital Hill
-Ryan going to a Little Ray's Reptiles birthday party
-trips to the grocery store
-walks around town to get the mail and do the river walk
-more gaming
-forcing Alphabet BINGO on the guys :)
-lots of pictures
-wet towel fights
-did I mention gaming?
-walkie talkie hide n' seek
-curry night Jason style
-fire in the chiminea on the deck
-early mornings no matter how late we stayed up the night before
-discovering Bri watches Grey's too! YAY!
-fireworks on Canada Day
-YouTube fun
-drinking, learning baseball quarters, War, and Trouble
-hang over of doom and determining that I'm now too old to drink since I can't hold my liquor
-one last game of AOM
-The boys packing up and heading home.I'm so glad I booked tomorrow off. I'm going to recover. :) Hope you guys had as good a time as we did.

Ciao for now

Sigh...:)

2007-06-20T18:10:00.000-04:00

One more day and my baby's first year of school will be over. I can't believe it's gone by so quickly. He has gone through several ups and downs with learning personal space with his classmates, learning how quickly he can be sent to time-out, and most importantly, how much he loves playing in the school yard. He will be joining up with the Stepping Stones program again this year. We are pre-registered so no debacle with getting him in on the first day. His teacher recommended it for his speech and letter recognition. He'll get Monday's with Sam until he is in the program just to liven things up for him.

Work is great! The boss is on vacation for the next three weeks!

J and I are still hooked into Vanguard. Not as hard as we used to be...or should I say, I'M not as hooked into it. I'm liking taking nights off from it to watch tv or do laundry...or God forbid, READ.

I'm looking forward to my week of vacation in Cobourg. The boy and I are going there while J goes east to visit his family. J and I decided to do this vacation separately just because he is going to have to work the entire time he is there. The last time we did this it was hell on the Boy and I so I said we weren't doing it again. The next time we all go as a family it's going to be a REAL vacation!

Time to go gorge on spaghetti! :D

Blog ya later!

Aroo?

2007-06-06T17:10:00.000-04:00

What is this you think? She is blogging two days in a row after some pretty consistent neglect? It's because I'm up in my hobby room with the lovely cool breeze blowing in the window and I'm in enjoying my little computer away from the blue boy's room. I love my pink room. I'm also having an "I miss MyfriendANGERAH" moment due to the fact that she just threw a sheep at me in Facebook. :)

I'm going to do something totally weird and play a game of Worms World party.

Blog ya later!

Hey! I'm Blogging!!! :)

2007-06-05T13:06:00.000-04:00

So let’s think on this real hard and I’ll come up with some stuff that is new.

Not so new stuff is that J and I are still playing Vanguard. Am up to level 30 and we’ve taken a break from leveling while we wait for one of out static group to level a new character. Harvesting has pretty much been all that we’ve been doing…and making lots of gold from the stuff that we have been harvesting! The weird thing about this game is I’m only playing it to spend time with the husband, I wouldn’t have gotten into it otherwise. BUT, I’m now to the point where I’m having fun! It’s mostly due to hanging out with fun friend’s while we do boring stuff. J has a friend who he has known for 8 years from previous games like this. He and his brother are playing with us most nights. Very funny guys and they make grinding on trees and blood howlers fun! They are driving up from Massachusetts to visit for the July 1st weekend. MASSIVE LAN PARTY!!!! Incidentally, they just adopted a kitten last night. I don’t know how but J talking them into naming him “Potato”.

The Boy is good. I took a day off last week to do Field Trip day with his class. It was to the Museum of Nature for the morning, and then to Andrew Haydon Park for the afternoon. It was fun, in an “Oh my God do I really want to do this again” kind of way. I was given my boy and another little boy for the day, while other parents were given three kids each. SO glad that The Boy’s teacher was so kind to me. It was hard getting them herded from one place to the next, and saying things like, “Stay together, Don’t RUN!” and, “We’re looking, not TOUCHING” a billion times was fun as well. By the end of the day I had a migraine so bad that I was considering making J walk to the school to drive us home. I toughed it out, got in the door, took three advil liquigels, and was in bed for three hours. The headache didn’t go away for two days after. So hurty. I’m taking bottles of pills everywhere I go now so I don’t let these get out of control again.

J’s mom was with us for two weeks, and just went home yesterday.

I’m on Facebook….ALOT! I love it! It’s fun to see daily updates of what is going on with a large cross-section of people. Email me if you want to hook up there.

That’s about it for us. The Boy is done school in three weeks. J and I have an appointment with his teacher for a discussion on his test scores on Thursday. He is going to be going to Sam for the summer one day a week. This should break up his weeks a bit and give him some companionship as well. Although I think that him and Jayden are going to be hanging out A LOT this summer. Little friends are cute!

Blog ya later!

OMG FMG!!!

2007-05-10T10:21:00.001-04:00

Okay so the Warranty is a complete sham. They don’t cover environmental and the deductible is $100 so we had the dealership just fix everything. It wasn’t worth the inconvenience of taking the car to another place for the NINE DOLLARS we would have gotten. Also, all estimates were before taxes. $2227 went on the credit card yesterday. That was a fun 2 months of no credit card debt and interest!?!

arg.

Max is sick... :(

2007-05-09T11:08:00.001-04:00

I feel ill. J and I decided to take the car to the dealership for the first time since buying it a year ago to have it checked out. We have had it serviced at the original car-lot and Canadian Tire’s or Walmart for oil changes and stuff but nothing major. So in I go and drop off the Max, get to work and am impressed with the service and shuttle. I got the call.

$1862 in repairs needed. I MEAN HOLY F#*^@!!!!!!! We can get $500 taken off and done with another place on our extended warranty but still, HOLY F%$#&^!!!!!!

Weekend Recap and Beyond...

2007-05-08T09:08:00.000-04:00

Great weekend! Friday night was wonderful! I got in the door and basically was cleaning and doing laundry until my Mom tapped me on the shoulder. The parents were up for the weekend to baby-sit for us while J and I went to a party and also to help me install our air conditioning and a new bi-fold door at the top of the stairs to the basement. I’m hoping the door will keep the A/C upstairs where it’s needed.

Lots of yard work was also done. I mowed the lawn, extended the veggie garden by about 6 feet, cultivated the front garden while Mom and The Boy were popping weeds. My hands are still sore and I still can’t make a pinching motion without pain. :(

Party was great, out to the Chupick’s for a potluck meal and watching the Sens beat out New Jersey. Was home by 10:30 and into bed.

J and I are trying to save money right now so we have turned off a lot of our tv stations. We kept the fun zone package for The Boy and the lifestyle package for us as it includes HGTV and Food network. I haven’t really missed anything! It’s like we have had all these channels and been paying for them, but haven’t been watching them! STUPID!

BUSY weekend coming up with little to no Vanguard happening! L Friday night is Melly’s birthday fling with Salsa dancing, Saturday lunch is BBQ with ANGERAH and her room mates, Saturday night is drinkin’ n’ shit with Grisa, ANGERAH and her man, and possibly KCh, Sunday is Mother’s Day so I had better damn well be getting breakfast in bed.

Tomorrow should be fun, first time taking the Max in to an actual Nissan dealership…I mean stealership. We’ll see how much this sets us back.

Blog ya later.

Vanguard KILLED my Blog!

2007-05-03T10:12:00.000-04:00

Vanguard, the addiction. I am a level 27, at the moment, Warrior in Vanguard named Girtha. Please feel free to make fun, this was not intentionally going to be my main toon. I thought that I would use her to learn the game and made an unfortunate name choice. J and his friends make fun of me all the time. Oh well, such is fate…to be Girtha. Life is actually going well. Mid year review was done this week and my boss is happy with me. Whatever that means. The boy is out of his casts and doesn’t even limp anymore.

The Boy is now is swimming lessons with his little friend Aiden. They are soooo cute at the pool!
Am heading out to see Melly and eat at Wang’s Noodle Hut. OUR FAV!!!! 5$ dinner and it’s soooooo yummy!

I’m going to try to update this thing more. Only problem is the husband and I are playing Vanguard when ever the boy has gone to bed and we are not too tired. Makes for not a lot of free time to blog.

Cross your fingers and maybe I’ll post again before another 2 months go by.

Ciao for now.

New Info...

2007-03-08T22:17:00.000-05:00

Okay, I officially hate whatever doctor called my Aunt. From what he told her we were prepared to be at a funeral next week. My brother gets on the phone with the hospital and when he starts asking about our Gramma they say, "would you like to speak with her?" He says yeah and the next thing you know he is talking with her on the phone! She was lucid...enough considering she is on morphine. Turns out she had a blood clot and the heart attack that she had, she had in the hospital so it is not as bad as they thought. This we find out after my Aunt, Uncle and Father are speeding their way across the province! SO. I'm not going down after all. Even my Dad is saying he is going to wait until morning to drive from Cobourg to Chatham. Will post more if I get anymore info but at this point I'm not thinking we're going to be losing her at this point.

Ciao for now.

In Shock...

2007-03-08T19:31:00.000-05:00

Hello all,

I don't know what is going to be happening over the next couple days to week. My Dad was called this evening by his sister to tell us that his mother has had a massive heart attack. The doctors are saying they don't know if she will pull through. She is 85 so I don't know how strong she is for this. Dad left 15 minutes ago is and driving to Chatham where she is being treated. I will be going there as well.

Teddy, this is putting next weekend in the "cancelled" zone for me if this is going the way I think it is going. If I don't make it to the brawl then we will have to plan a night of revelry in the name of St. Patrick with the gang on another weekend! :(

Blog ya when I know more.

Weekend of DOOM!!!

2007-02-25T19:22:00.000-05:00

Did we ever have a good weekend! It started out on Thursday night with me putting the cage together for the Guinea Pig Palace. HUGE thanks to The Shee-HAN for digging them out of the basement and just giving the cube sections to us for free! I found sheets of coroplast at our local Home Hardware for about 4 bucks cheaper then Home Depot in Kanata. The cool thing was I could get it delivered to my house for the same price as one sheet from Kanata without delivery! Everything was at the house and ready for assembly on Friday night. I can't tell you the amount of cursing was done, but at the end of two hours of me sweating over the measuring, marking, cutting, measuring, marking, and scoring...then cutting off another half inch on both ends and measuring, marking, and scoring again....TA DAAAAAAAAAA!!!!The girls love it! They run laps through the whole thing, go up and down the ramp with ease, and generally are much happier piggies in their new home. I, on the other hand have a new problem. The damn thing is so big I can't get on top of a stool and easily catch the girls for floor time. I have to get J or ANGERAH to be at the other end to herd them toward me so that I can have some interaction with them. Although I have to say that GP Watching has now become a major pass time of mine. The first night that the girls were in the palace they were running around so much that I didn't get to bed until 1:30am. Mind you they didn't get in there until after 11:30pm but still that is a lot of rodent watching. We had a minor engineering flaw at first in the ramp. I had made it out of coroplast and scrap carpeting. I thought it was strong enough to hold up the girls to get up to the food...I was wrong. Spice was a little more then half way up when old lard-butt Cinnamon gave it a try. The ramp collapsed and the girls scattered. I fixed the problem by putting one of there little houses under the ramp. The contact of the ramp to the house is at the half-way mark and supports even the chubbiest Guinea Pig!

Our friend R's 30th birthday is on Tuesday. None of us knew this until we were woken up at 9:30am by G to invite us all over. It was a blast! KCh., R, Angerah, and I played shooter Snakes and Ladders. Every time you went down a snake you had to do a shot of Polar Bear shooters. The board was a sheet of glass and the men were little shot glasses. Totally FUN! Then after two games of that it was time to try out Dance Dance 2000! That was a hoot, even J hopped up there and did some organized stumbling for us.

Today has been all about the laundry and Vanguard. J and I both bought an account and play on Woefeather. I'm at level 5 and a lesser giant. It's fun but I'm not near the addict that J is. The first night he had his account he was up until 4am...on a week night! :) I enjoy doing the quests more then just randomly killing stuff.

LOL!!! The Boy just randomly called out that he has to clean his room, that he has a "BIG mess"! He has only one more week with the pins in his foot and then two more in the walking cast. I can't wait for this to be over. He has regressed with his toilet training to the point that we have put him back into Pullups. He was doing so many accidents that I was washing his dirty underwear all week to keep up. Oh well, as soon as he is out of the cast he will be back to normal. It happened that way the last time.

Blog ya later!

Eeeeeeeewww!

2007-02-20T10:09:00.000-05:00

So I got hit with the stomach flu yesterday. It was my first day back at work and I didn't feel that great going in but I chalked it up to getting up at 6am when I was used to crawling out of bed at 10am. I had a cup of coffee and a raven(egg, bacon, cheese on an english muffin) from the caf and then started feeling truly awful. I was able to leave work early at three and get home just in time to start loosing the contents of my stomach.

The Boy is in the office with Daddy. When he starts hearing me retching he asks Daddy, "What she eat for dinner!?!" and a few minutes later after a particularly loud HURG, "That not good!". I was in plenty of pain for most of the night and felt like someone had beaten me with a stick when I woke up the next day. Advil has taken away the worst of it and I was able to have a light breakfast and keep it so I'm assuming it was a 24 hour bug. Anyway, will try this whole getting back to work thing tomorrow.

Ciao for now.

I'm a WINNER!

2007-02-18T10:41:00.000-05:00

I guess this is my "End of Vacation Wrap-up Post". I have had a fantastic week! The Boy and I have had many moments where I know he has liked having me home with him and Daddy. Besides our outing on Tuesday, I went on impulse and stuffed him in the car on Friday afternoon and took him to the Hershey's Chocolate Factory in Smith Falls. He had a blast while I was a pack mule. They didn't have any spare wheel chairs and I didn't want to dig the stroller out of the frozen shed so I carried him on my back through the whole tour and through the gift shop. I was fun and it got us both out of the house.
Last night was the BEST! I went to a euchre tournament/party with the Pierce's and had a blast! It was a retro themed night so I was a flower child with my tie-died shirt and wild makeup. I was randomly drawn to the main table...and didn't really leave there until near the end of the night. I WON THE TOP PRIZE! I had amazing luck with the cards and the partners. Yvonne and I are planning on doing the same thing in July at their house, with J cooking of course.

Back to work tomorrow....:(

Aaaaaahhhhh! :D

2007-02-15T13:39:00.000-05:00

Vacation agrees with me! I've been off work all week and I have to say that I'm already sad that it's more then half over. I have done some powerful relaxing. For the past two mornings, after getting the boy watered, fed, bladder emptied, and put in front of his shows, I have gone back to bed and not emerged until well after 10am. I even treated J to my "'Jama's Dance" where I walk into his office in my SpongeBob Pj's, chubby police car slippers and started bustin' a move! It made him laugh, made me laugh, made the boy laugh.

Monday was hanging around the house, Tuesday I took The Boy out of the house to go visit his class mates and deliver Valentine's to them all. I even got to help with his class doing a craft. After he started getting tired he and I went to Sam's to say hi to all the kids and let Sam give him some hugs. Then to the grocery store, dollar store for a treat, then home. Lots of running around and by the time we were home I was spent. The treat that he picked out was a new one, POP ROCKS! I told him that he might not like them and that they were...hot? Anyway, after the first demo by Mommy he now has a new favorite and begs to go back to the dollar store to get more. I'm thinking that one package a week or less should be fine. Don't want him totally high on sugar.

That brings me to my latest conundrum. How do you get your 4 year old proper nutrition in the way that you get him to eat as much of his dinner as possible before you let him have dessert? I have serious issues about this because it's implanting the mentality that you have to clean your plate all the time which can lead to obesity. I'm thinking the only way to do this is to do away with ALL treats and then establish "Dessert" that is a healthy, yet yummy, choice like yogurt, fruit, small bowl of ice cream, etc. On the other hand we have been doing things so far that he has to have most of his dinner, half to three quarters, before he can have a treat. Treats can mean a Popsicle, bowl of ice cream, strawberries, a hard candy, ju-jubs, three Pocky sticks, whatever we have in the house sort of thing. He is doing really well with his eating new things...if we deny him anything except a small bit of water about two hours before dinner is scheduled. He eats beef with broccoli stir fry, schezuan stir fry, roast chicken, roast beef, LOVES cooked broccoli, carrots, mashed potatoes....hmmm. The more I think about it the more I realize he does eat a lot of veggies and good-for-him things....hmmm....perhaps I'll think more on this before we do any sweeping changes.

Can't wait for Gray's Anatomy tonight! Not just for the episode but that fact that KCh and ANGERAH is coming over to watch it at my house. I love dishing the action during commercials! Tomorrow is Movie Night at KCh's house with his 52" tv, Saturday night I'm out with the Pierce's at a Euchre Tournament, Sunday is crying and whining about not wanting to go back to work. :)

We had something interesting happen with the GP's. We are pretty sure Cinnamon went into Estrus. The girls wouldn't settle down for almost two days. Constant arguing and rumble-strutting/humping. I was ready to separate them and even had the smaller cage ready to go, but today they are back to peaceful co-existence. The book says that estrus can last 17-20 days but that ovulation is 24-48 hours. I guess that was what that was? Who knows, I'm just happy that they are getting along again. Spice is a really good influence on Cinnamon. She is willing to try any of the veggies that I have put on the floor during outside time. As soon as she gets to chowing down Cinnamon gets jealous and starts eating it too! So far we have had major success with carrots, strawberries, and today's new one, Broccoli. I read the book to find out whether or not green/yellow beans are okay for them. The books says they are okay while the internet says they are poison. Hmmmm....we'll leave them out just on the outside chance. Anyway, here is the latest awesome pic of the two of them.

PEACE OUT YO!

THIS ROCKS!!!

2007-02-10T21:10:00.000-05:00

This post is coming to you courtesy of my hobby room in the top of the house...on MY OWN COMPUTER!!! YAY!!!! I gave the challenge to my hubby about two weeks ago to build me my own PC with the spare parts, mice and keyboards that are strewn around the house. This is the chain of events that occurred:

- mother board that has been sitting on a shelf waiting for a CPU for about a year got a new kick-butt CPU
- that combo ended up in Athens (All computers in our house are named after major European cities to help with the network.)
- Athens Mother board and CPU went into Berlin.
- Berlin's Motherboard and CPU went into my new/old baby, re-christened, Dublin.

This is when things started getting a little crazy.

- The power supply that we though was good, wasn't.
- New power supply bought.
- The video card was a dud.
- Cue digging another video card out of the pile.
- Mommy decides that she hates the behemoth monitor that would have gone into her cute little pink hobby room so talks Daddy into letting her get from Costco this morning a brand new "17 Acer monitor for $179! YAY WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! (I LOVE IT!)
- Computer is now formated, booted with Windows XP, and is getting all the programs I want on it.
- Cue Daddy having to buy a wireless network booster so that I can watch my Torrented TV upstairs.
- Cue Daddy adding to the order a set of speakers and sub woofer so that I can hear said TV.

This "free" computer is ending up costing us a bit of a chunk! :(

Oh well, I'm VERY VERY VERY happy being able to have my own little PC. It is at the point in our family that J would be on one with The Boy on the other in the office. We now officially have one PC per person living in our house. We are geeks.

My vacation is going great! I slept in to 8am, Mom and Dad are up for the weekend so we all got up and got moving. Mom and I went to Costco first thing because we needed TP and a few other essentials, (This is the part where I called J on the cell and talked him into the monitor. Did I mention that this is also going to be my birthday present so if I whine about not getting anything in July slap me.), Mom was AWESOME and bought J and I a present! She bought us a Costco Memebership!!!! YAY!!!!! Out to Carleton Place for the dealz at Price Chopper, then back home to eat some lunch. This afternoon I took advantage of Mom and Dad being here and had a nap for an hour and a half. I have been so worn out lately. I could go to bed now and be happy!

Anyway, I'm going to go see if I can get a game of Sequence going with the folk. Tomorrow they head for home and I have a Movie night booked with KCh.

Blog ya later!

ANGERAH and Teddy made me do it! :)

2007-02-08T12:49:00.001-05:00

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was your first thought?I don’t want to go to work today. L
2. When’s the next time you will have sex?This weekend…my parents will be in the house afterall! ;)
3. What’s a word that rhymes with “DUCK”?Muck
4. Favorite planet? Saturn, as I LOVE RINGS!!!!
>5.Who is the 4th person on your missed call list?What missed call list? Is that a feature? Oh, on my cell it’s the Hubby.
6. What is your favorite ring on your phone?William Tell Oviture
7. What shirt are you wearing?Eddie Bauer, Purple, full length sleeve, “V” neck.
8. What were you doing 20 minutes ago?Eating lunch and gossiping with the work mates
9. Name the brand of shoes you’re currently wearing?Hmmm….Payless
10. Bright or Dark RoomBright
11. What do you think about the person who posted this survey?They are both awesome/neat-o/peachy-keen!!!
12. If you’re in a room with two beds, which one do you sleep in?The one close to the window, in case of fire.
13. What were you doing at exactly midnight last night?I was in the comforting arms of Morpheus
14. What was your last message you received ?Follow up from my director of Taxation about a screw up by our offsite storage provider.
15. How do you like your eggs?scrambled or without the yolks with sautéed onions and red peppers
16. What’s a word/phrase that you say a lot?Yuppers
17. Who told you he/she loved you last?Son
18. Last furry thing you touched?Cinnamon as she was the last Guinea Pig I put in her cage.
19. How many drugs have you done in the last three days?1 – Advil Liqui-caps!
20. How many rolls of film do you need to get developed?Zero – get with the dgitial!
21. Favorite age you have been so far?28
22. Your worst enemy?The head secretary at work. She makes my life hell and treats me like shit when she can get away with it.
23. What wallpaper do you have on your desktop?A pic of our Guinea Pigs!
24. What was the last thing you said to someone?..Thank you
25. If you had to choose between a million bucks or to be able to fly?Million bucks
26. Do you like someone?Lots of people
27. The last song you listened to?Keshia Chante – U2
28. If the last person you spoke to was getting shot, what would you do?Duck the arterial spray
29. If you could punch 1 person in the face, who would it be?see question 22
30. What is the closest object to your left foot?My sock, in my shoe, next to my computer tower.

YAY FOR ME!!!

2007-02-08T11:12:00.000-05:00

I finally broke and booked a week of vacation. The Boy’s surgery and accompanying recovery time has been hard on us all. I need to re-charge so I’m going to sleep for a week. My new computer should be up and running by then and I’ll be able to spend some time getting it exactly as I want it. With all the pointers and sounds I want, RIGHT J???? I can be as frivolous as I want!

I’m also going to be my honey’s Dish Bish for a week! This will give him the break that I know he needs but can’t have as we can’t afford for him to randomly stop working for a week. Maybe I’ll even try cooking a time or two! …maybe not….

The Spice Girls are getting along much better! When they are out of the cage together they run and play and, as you can see below, they will snuggle when Daddy has them out on his chest during basketball games!

Ciao for now!

Cinnamon and Spice Meet...

2007-02-05T20:19:00.000-05:00

The girls were finally introduced tonight. It went really well. They were really happy to see each other...for the first half hour. Then the dominance battles began. I couldn't take the nipping so I finally separated them for the night. I think they will eventually be the best of friends if only because it took them over a half hour to get to the dominance stuff. Anyway, here is a pic of them together.

Cheers.

Happy Sunday!

2007-02-04T17:05:00.000-05:00

It's been a great day! Yesterday, after I was out shopping with KCh., I came home to find out that ANGERAH was going to be coming to stay the night when she got back from being out and about. YAY!!! We've had a great Sunday with ANGERAH with lots of fun playing with Spice and Cinnamon. We even took The Boy out for a walk in the wagon so he could experience the snow. It's also been very fun for J as he has been cooking up a storm. MAJOR breakfast with HAM and eggs, and Seafood Chowder for Dinner! The Boy is doing very well after the surgery. He was off of all drugs within 5 days, we dismantled the pallet in his room on Friday night, and last night was the first night he slept the night through. YAY!!! We go in to CHEO on Tuesday to see if the current cast is tight enough to last for the next four weeks or not.

I haven't really done a big description-type post about his time in the hospital...and I don't think I'm going to. It was two days of no sleep and lots of stress so I don't really want to get into it other then to say I'm glad it's done and he did very well considering all he went through. I'm also VERY VERY VERY thankful that my Dad came up and helped with through the thing 'cause J had to work.

Anyway, this week is nothing special except for a vet. appointment for Spice on Monday night, A reiki appointment for me on Wednesday, and Mom and Dad coming for the weekend on Friday. My experiment with reiki I'm very much looking forward to. It's done by Stevie, a mutual friend of Melly's and mine. I'll get to hang out with the both of them on Wednesday so double bonus!

Blog ya later!

Welcome Spice Pollock!

2007-02-02T17:45:00.000-05:00

We added to the family this weekend. I have been tossing around in my mind ever since we brought home Cinnamon whether or not she should have a sister. I was in Super Pet in Kanata buying a second litter pan and brush for our piggy when I made the mistake of taking a peek in the animal area. A new litter of Guinea Pigs had arrived last week and there was one with the same pallet of colors as Cinnamon. *INSERT LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT HERE* Upon nagging J though MSN until I finally asked him:

"Do you have any MAJOR objections to Cinnamon getting a friend? I'm the one that is going to be cleaning the cage. All you have to provide is the love."

"Fine."

Thus I went to the store, helped the girl sex the litter and assured myself that Spice was a girl, then we were on our way home.

She is doing the same thing that Cinnamon did her first night, cowering in her Pigaloo and has yet to come out. I know it's going to take her a couple days to settle in so I won't be the emotional mess I was the last time. So it's two weeks in quarantine down in the bar and then we will "introduce" the girls to each other. You have to be careful with this. You don't just plop them in the same cage and let them fight it out. We are doing this in the right way in we have an older GP and a younger one. Dominance will be established pretty much through size so we'll see how well this goes.

Enjoy!

YIP YIP YIP YIP

2007-01-29T21:55:00.000-05:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKX0RN19zc0

Jason and I randomly came across this...and nearly pissed ourselves laughing!

Enjoy!

Hospital Stay

2007-01-28T20:39:00.000-05:00

I would love to write a large, in-depth post about the surgery, in-hospital visit for two days and the joys of a kid on morphine…but I just can’t. I’m so tired, fatigued, wasted, used up, and burnt out I just want to cry. AND THIS IS AFTER GETTING A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP.

Sigh.

Maybe tomorrow. Am staying home from work another day.

Buh bye.

Soooooo tired....

2007-01-23T09:04:00.000-05:00

I am so out of it this morning. I can't sleep well 'cause The Boy's surgery is tomorrow morning. We are going to have to be up and out of the house by 6:30 to get through the traffic to the other side of Ottawa at CHEO by 8:15. I love rush hour traffic. It never fails to make me car sick driving in it. My Monster is starting to get a little nervous and I'm trying to talk him out of it. I have an old spinach-green-screen Game Boy with a ton of games so I'll pull that out for him once we get him settled in. He and I are going to be there overnight, joy, and i don't know if they are going to let me in the post-op room. I have a cold and have had it for about a week and a half now. yay. The only great news I have about this is with J having to work, instead of me dealing with all this by myself my Dad drove up yesterday to help me at the hospital. I'm so thankful for this.

In other news our local park was vandalized again. I take my 4 year old son over to go down the slide and find this:

I was completely disgusted by this...even though I did giggle for about one second. I had brought the camera to get some fun shots of The Boy playing in the snow and on the equipment. So, no pics of him on the slide, but this pic did get sent to the town on Sunday afternoon. We got a reply first thing Monday morning and before the end of the day someone had been by and rubbed something over it to smear it around and make it illegible. I don't get it. There is a house right across the street from this place! Are you telling me the brats are not drawing their notice??? I would be the neighborhood watch and calling the cops on them! ARG!

Oh well, I'll write again after we are checked out of the hospital on Thursday.

TTFN

Hi there

2007-01-15T17:40:00.000-05:00

OH MY HEART!!!! I just finished shoveling the driveway for the second time this year. The first time didn’t really count as I could have just used a broom and swept it clean. Frickin’ chest pain!

For my public’s enjoyment. A random picture of Cinnamon and ANGERAH.

Cheers

*TWO HOURS LATER* *Sponge Bob Narrator voice*

STUPID!!! I finally broke and picked up my cute, fuzzy, deadly pet and cuddled her against my neck. I haven’t done this since the first major reaction but I hadn’t had anything major happen since then so I thought that maybe I was becoming accustomed to her.This is what happened after two minutes of petting her against my neck. Please note in the bottom left hand corner the almost perfect foot print in hives! For God’s sake! You can’t see it but my ear is swelling and has hives too. I guess she sniffed at it. *Blogger uploaded the pic on it's side??? What the Hell? turn your head to the left when you look at it.*

I am so sick of this. I have so much love to give a little ball of fur! I mean, why would I nag my husband for 8 months to get her if I didn’t have a ton of love to give! SIGH!

In other news, The Boy’s surgery is on the 24^th. We were at CHEO this past Friday and have found out that we are only going to be fixing the left foot. THANK GOODNESS! Him having only one cast on is going to make this ordeal so much easier! The bad news that we found out is that they are going to be doing bone work so there will be pins and it will be eight weeks in casts. We will get through this. It’s going to be a lot harder on J then it will be on me but I know we will get through this.

NEE NER NEE NER NEEEEEE NER!!!!

2007-01-06T20:29:00.000-05:00

This is a post specifically to Rae and Tedward:

HA HA!!! I GOT HER FIRST!!!! EAT MY SHORTS!!!!!

Double Whammie SIGH!

2006-12-07T20:48:00.000-05:00

I am so retarded about posting! I have soooooo much to cover. Here we go with bullet form again.

- The boy's birthday went off without a hitch. He is now officially 4. He also now tells everyone he meets, "I'm (insert name here), and I'm FOUR!"
- I have discovered, much to my chagrin, that I'm horribly allergic to Cinnamon. I break out into hives within minutes of her touching my skin. Raised white lumps or welts on a painfully itchy red background. We have switched her bedding to CareFresh from pine/aspen to see if it's the tree oils that is doing it. I also gave her a bath tonight to get any remaining oils and deposits off of her. Will give a couple days and see what the deal is. Am not totally happy about this. A) I love her to death and being denied touching/petting her is actually a bit painful. B) For 50 liters of pine bedding it's $6.99, for 41 liters of CareFresh it's $27.99. Granted it lasts twice as long and I have Cinnamon trained to pee in her litter pan so I just change that out instead of the whole cage, but STILL! :( and C) I get to watch J giving her tons of love, when he was the one who didn't really want a pet. I love my Sweetie for doing this for me. He takes her out during a basketball game and she just snuggles with him for about 45 minutes. She's not much into the game though. - The Husband He is keeping her people friendly by interacting with her, but I just wish it were me. :(

Photos are during traumatization of the bath and after, looking much more poofy then usual! :)- Can't wait for Xmas. All present shopping is done now. I just have a ton to wrap.

- Our new winter tires should be here tomorrow so next week there won't be any more threat of death from me skiding off the road in SHITTY SHITTY SHITTY All-Season tires. Don't get me wrong. The Neon did great with All-Seasons. The Max we can't get in the driveway if there is an inch of (*@*! snow or ice on it! :(

Hold on, silly wife. You're comparing last years brand-new all-season tires on the light, small Neon to the 50% worn rain-tires on the heavy Maxima. It'll spin wheels much more easily trying to pull up the incline of the driveway for both reasons. Also, horsepower. The Max has 255 and the Neon had whatever a beagle with arthritis measures up as, so the Max will spin more easily because it wants to run. - The know-it-all husband

- CAN'T WAIT TO SEE MYFRIENDANGERAH IN THE NEW YEAR!!!!

- Am freaking because The Boy's feet surgery is scheduled for January 24th. This is the one to straighten them out. Nothing to do with his leg. We are looking at at least 6 - 8 weeks in casts depending on if they break bones and put in pins or not. yay. Another hospital stay before the age of 5.

Must go to bed and get some sleep. I'm so tired of the grind of life and work. Get up, go to work, do a job that nobody respects except those who are directly effected. I think it's about that time of year for the annual morale boost of the profit sharing plan! :P

Blog ya later.

Introducing...

2006-11-17T21:17:00.000-05:00

Cinnamon Honey P.!

The Boy's First Movie Success!

2006-11-12T16:38:00.000-05:00

So the Boy was being really good this morning so on the spur of the moment, I called KCh to see if he wanted to come with us to "Flushed Away". He was down for it so off we go with "The Rules" being repeated about 20 times. The main one being, if you are a good boy through the movie we will go to the arcade and you can play ONE game. All went well! He sat either in his chair or my lap, I even got some hugs and hiding his face in my neck during scarey parts. There was even a moment where he took my hands and covered his eyes! LOVED IT!!! He ate popcorn, drank some of my pop and even got a major treat of a Kinder Egg. This is a major improvement from 6 months ago when we didn't even get through the first 5 minutes of "Ice Age 2".

The gate is now open, he is already asking to go back to see "Happy Feet".

Absolutely no painting got done this weekend. I felt run-down and tired the whole two days and didn't do much other then laundry. J shagged the pooch as well by barely looking up from his monitor all weekend. I have been a Neverwinter Nights 2 widow for about 5 days now. I miss being married! :( He did get the office and kitchen floors scrubbed and swept while The Boy and I were out.

Anyway, let's hope this week goes quickly.

Blog ya later.

My Sweetie is...

2006-11-11T09:30:00.000-05:00

It's a good thing I use my powers for good and not evil, because quite frankly, I could get away with murder. I'm clever, tricky, and charming. I know how to make you laugh with one hand and pick your pocket with the other. Not that I'd ever DO that, of course...

HA!!! He's a low-down, double-crossing, foreclose-on-the-orphans-and-widows rogue TOO!!!! LOL!!!!

My Inner Hero - Rogue!

2006-11-11T09:09:00.000-05:00

It's a good thing I use my powers for good and not evil, because quite frankly, I could get away with murder. I'm clever, tricky, and charming. I know how to make you laugh with one hand and pick your pocket with the other. Not that I'd ever DO that, of course...

Hoo-kay. As my Hubby put it, "I'm not surprised! When we had our campaign I'm surprised you chose ranger! You lie, you cheat, you steal, and all you want is the phat lootz! You're not hugging the bunnies and high fiving the foxes!"

How about you? Click here to find your own inner hero.

UGH!

2006-11-11T07:03:00.000-05:00

I't 7am on Saturday morning and it's dark, raining, and the house is freezing. I'm awake and posting because I was woken with a massive nightmare that I was just fired from the comfortable job that I currently call home. Frickin' dreams! I can't remember the last time I SLEPT IN on a weekend. Sure I don't have to go to work, but waking up on your own at the exact time that your alarm is supposed to go off is no fun either. Especially when your body wakes up and is ALERT! No slipping back to sleep for me. Just laying in the bed listening to my husband breath his normal sleep patterns. Makes we want to hit him so he can enjoy my misery too!

...except that he would probably just grumble at me and then GO BACK TO SLEEP!!! ARG!!!

Might as well go shower and start by washing the walls in the hall down. I have a lot of patch and fill work before we can even prime.

Went and visited the new baby last night! I wish I could take her home this weekend! :( BLARG! Oh well, it is for The Boy's birthday.

Ciao for now!

Pocky Sticks!!!

2006-11-09T18:54:00.000-05:00

POCKY STICKS!!! POCKY STICKS!!! POCKY STICKS!!! POCKY STICKS!!!

If anyone else knows the addiction that I’m currently living with please assure me there is a 12 step program that does not include ODing on these things! Especially since I discovered that they sell them at my local YIG and I don’t have to wait for J and my’s next trip to Sumerset!!! Oh the Pocky!

This week has been pretty not nice. I have been dealing with the monthly depression cloud of doom. It makes even the happiest things dull. Oh well, give me a week and I’ll be over it.

J and I have news! We are going to be adding to the family! Like water on stone I finally wore J down about getting a pet in the house that didn’t have gills and say GLUB-GLUB! On the 19^th we are going to be bringing our new baby home. I’m going to be silly and leave you all in suspense until he/she comes home. Will post the pic then too!

Blog ya later!

Spread the Love!

2006-11-09T10:25:00.000-05:00

Comment with your name and I’ll give you an honest compliment. Then post this in your journal and spread the love.

This works! Got an awesome compliment from Tedward on his blog! Pop your name in and see what you get! :D

My Own Personal Pub!

2006-11-06T22:44:00.000-05:00

This is what I spent my weekend doing. I hope yours was as productive! :)

My "Spidey Senses" are tingling!

2006-11-03T08:12:00.000-05:00

Just a quick posting for the Halloween pics. We had a blast with our Spiderman! L & J's son was the tiger. Enjoy!

Swiped from ANGERAH who swiped it from Teddy!

2006-10-29T19:22:00.000-05:00

Hmmm...at least I won't punch you in the face??? Yup, I'm a terrible person. :(

Greed:	High
Gluttony:	High
Wrath:	Low
Sloth:	Medium
Envy:	Medium
Lust:	Medium
Pride:	Medium

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So full of PORK!!!

2006-10-29T18:58:00.000-05:00

Another fantastic weekend! I drove down to the market and picked up Mel. We got back to Almonte and ordered Chinese food for the first time in about a year. YUMMY!!!! The last time Mel was up we bought the chiminea the day she left. We promised we would have a fire for her the next time she came, so in winter coats, mitts, hats, and blankets we had a wonderful blaze. We bought the fire logs from the grocery store and I have to say they were so much more convenient! I mean we lit the ends and sucker was an inferno for the two and a half hours we could take the cold outside! I didn’t have to poke the fire once! On the other hand the other way is with the free firewood that you can pick up from the truss company outside of town. The fire logs were $3.99 a piece…anyway, it was a fantastic night!After I drove Mel home on Saturday I popped by KCh’s place on the way home. His dog, Charlie, was “fixed” last Friday and he has been having a hard time keeping her quiet. I took him out to the grocery store to get him some fresh air, he is on call this week too, and then dropped him off and drove home. Saturday night was just hanging out in front of the TV and relaxing. Sunday we were up early and got the Christmas lights finished. I started them on Thursday night to try to beat the weather coming on Saturday. An hour and a half on the roof in the wind we have been having was...interesting? We had to go back to the store to get a different kind of clip to finish and by the time I got back it was too dark to get on top of the ladder. J had to get on the climb up the ladder to install the extra clips to finish the line I wanted. IT LOOKS GREAT!!!! We won't be turning them on until after The Boy's birthday on the 28th of November.
I’ve re-organized the closet full of winter gear, replaced the shower-head in the upstairs bathroom, did five loads of laundry, took all the hard-ware (face plates to the light switches and electrical outlets) off of the hallway to the bedroom and washed all the walls up there. This is all in prep for painting. Next I went down to the bar and stripped it as well. I also popped all the trim off, got the pliers and ripped all the broken nails out of the walls, washed the walls here too, and then got out the putty and filled all the holes. After I help J clear up from an AWESOME dinner of roasted pork shoulder (with carrots, mashed potato’s, vegetarian gravy, and broccoli. See my link to The Food Geek for the future post.), he is going to be priming the bar while I fold laundry. PHEW!!!! I’m glad I was totally lazy yesterday ‘cause I have worked my butt off today!

Blog ya later!

THE MEL WEEKEND COMETH!!!

2006-10-22T21:47:00.000-04:00

This weekend has been awesome! Friday night was hanging out at the house. Didn’t go anywhere, just laid down on the couch with my Sweetie and watched X3. In my opinion, although I acknowledge to the nerds that it doesn’t follow the comic book plot lines, was an awesome movie! Very smooth, very entertaining. Saturday was hanging out around the house not doing much except relaxing and playing with the boy. Sunday had some work involved with laundry, painting of some of the rough spots around the house and tidying up the storage area in the basement. I took the Boy to the park in the morning…before it SNOWED! Can you frickin’ believe it snowed before it’s even NOVEMBER!?! GAH! I bought a pair of stools from our YIG at an awesome sale price of $24.98 a piece. I think they go very well with our bar. What do you think?

I'm so bitter that it's already hugely cold and snowing! I wanted a couple more weeks of chiminea weather! I LOVE my chiminea! It is the most calming, relaxing thing that I own.

This week should be interesting, lots of meetings and there still isn’t anyone hired into Marshy’s spot so I’m still by myself. Oh well, at least I have a Mel weekend to look forward too! YAY MEL!!! I’m buffing the blender for us now! Just a quick flash back to the last bit of drunken revelry that happened...:)

AAAAAHHHHH!!! You can't beat drunk blue Smartie lips! I have a package of Key Lime Smoothies with our names on it!

TTFN

Fredericton...

2006-10-22T21:23:00.000-04:00

IT IS TIME. For the vacation post! We had set the alarm for 5am on Saturday morning so that we could have a good breakfast and get on the road. At 4am I have a massive nightmare and wake up in a cold sweat. 5 minutes later I hear The Boy…giggling!?! Then he starts calling for Mommy. When I get to his room and ask him what was wrong he asks me why I was calling him! I told him it was a dream and crawled into bed with him and started rubbing his back. After a little while I realize that it’s less then an hour away from when the alarm is scheduled to go and both The Boy and I are awake. At this point I send him in to wake up J so that we can get going. After having breakfast, packing the car, and doing a final bathroom break we start out. Things are going well and we get all the way to the Blair Rd. turn off when I screech out, “OH MY GOD I FORGOT MY PURSE!!!”. It contains my drivers license, the Boy and my health cards, me MP3 Player, my palm pilot, and my cell phone as well as other miscellaneous things. It has taken us an hour to get to this point, we are not turning around ‘cause if we do it’s going to be two hours before we get back to the same spot. I have many, many moments of self rage throughout the day over this. We get to Montreal and take the right turn off to get to the tunnel…and accidentally turn off the highway into Montreal!?! Wrong turn one of the day. We get back to the right road with no incident and continue on our way. We do several stops with us taking the Boy into the bathroom and then running his face off in the parks provided. We had fun pointing out land marks along the way. Rivers, mountains, the giant egg, the giant husky dog, bridges…bridges that we are suddenly going across that we shouldn’t be!?! Wrong turn number two of the day. Suddenly we are in Quebec City!?! Insert wrong turns three and four as we try to get back to highway 20. We ended up doing a lovely tour along the river and got to see a pretty cool church on the edge of a cliff. Anyway, we got back to the main road okay and eventually got to Fredericton.

A great week was had with Marco, Kelly, and Emily. The kids loved each other and spent most of their time together making each other giggle their faces off. Because I had left my driver’s license at home I was pretty much house bound and didn’t go out unless J was driving. On Sunday I went on a girls’ day to Moncton with Kelly shopping, Monday was Thanksgiving dinner with J’s family out at him mom’s place in Minto, Tuesday was hanging out at home with the Boy during the day then taking him back to Minto for an overnight stay with Nana. J and I went out for awesome dinner at Mei’s for CURRY NOODLES with ANGERAH, Wednesday was Cindy and George’s place for another family dinner and picking up The Boy, Thursday was dinner with Marco and Kelly, Friday was dinner with them again and an aborted trip to Rob and Betty’s place. We then packed the car and got up early on Saturday morning to get to Boyce’s Farmer’s Market before hitting the road. Got a MASSIVE tray of home-made baklava, but there weren’t any Samosa’s that day! ( The drive home was great with the Boy sleeping four times during the drive. We got home at about 6pm that night. Sunday was cleaning the house then Monday was back at work. PHEW!!! I need a vacation….

Oh So Blergy...

2006-10-17T21:54:00.000-04:00

So...tired.

Have been back from vacation since Saturday night. Slept like the dead, worked all day Sunday to clean the house and do three loads of laundry...yes they are still not folded and put away. Have done an hour of overtime every night with week. Tomorrow night is movie night so something to look forward to.

Will try to finish my vacatino posts later this week if not this weekend. We have no plans scheduled so should get some free time.

Blog ya later!

Pre-Thanksgiving Weekend!

2006-10-15T15:47:00.000-04:00

Let’s go back about two weeks ago. I have been so lazy about my blog that I thought the best way to catch up was to three separate posts covering everything.

The Boy, J and I drove down to my parents’ house in Cobourg on the Friday night. Great drive, no problems, plus we did our traditional stop at McDonalds for dinner to be eaten in the car on our way. The driver is also traditionally fed by the person in the navigator seat. "FRY!" :) We had brought the Boy’s bike in the truck so as soon as we got there we had him out and driving around my parents’ cul-de-sac for about an hour. It tired him out really well, although it did not with his sleep during that night. He had a really bad tummy and was up crying a couple times so I ended up sleeping next to him for half the night. Not a bad deal since when J and I sleep there we are in a double sized bed. The next day was cloudy so we headed out to the Roseneath Fair early. It was about 10am when we arrived. The Boy went right in the first barn and started getting acquainted with all of the baby animals. It was at this point that I started my cross country trip. We had brought a limited amount of cash to try to budget our trip. Little did we know that it would cost $14 just to get in the park! I walked from one end of Roseneath to the other looking for an ATM before was told it was at a gas station at the other end of town. At that point I had to hop in the car and drive there, get the cash, drive back and find the boys. They had been fine this whole time because The Boy had gotten to hold baby ducks, chickens, and bunnies. This is when the fun started. We perched our boy on a pony for a $3 ride, the 200-year-old, fully-restored, carousel for the first of THREE rides for the day, the baby roller coaster, the two-storey Farris wheel, and finally the Scrambler. Not one moment of fear was had by my son! J only went on the Merry-Go-Round with him for two of the rides, while I did the other ones. We also watched a black smith demonstration and had a bite to eat. On the way back to the car my Monster saw the mid-way so off we went to do Skee-ball, the water-gun race game where we won a turtle for the kid, and finally the ping-pong ball toss to win a $5 gold fish. We talked the Boy into letting the fish stay at Nana and Poppa’s house so that it could go to Nana’s school and live with the other fishes. Monday morning we received this email:

“am sorry to announce the death of CHARLIE THE FISH at approximately 7:25 am this day the 2nd day of October, 2006. He went towards the big light in the aquarium in the sky. Those attending the interment in the downstairs toilet were Paul Alexander Dean and Brigit Dean. Grama Dean did not attend as she was too overwhelmed and had to got to work. We will keep special memories of Charlie in our hearts forever and ever.”

I love my Mom! She’s silly! So over all it was a $60 day but the memories that we made we worth it! Dinner that night with my brother, his wife, and Josh. My dad made Mike Dunn’s recipe for baked beans…yes, there was a VERY musical night after that! Anyway, headed home on the Sunday to prepare for my first week without Marshy being with me in the office. Turns out there was a major lawsuit thing happening so I had to go to meeting with a bunch of VP’s and then spread the word about what was needed to get the information to the lawyers. I felt very self important. Also, I left the whole thing in Marshy’s lap while I went on a week’s vacation to Fredericton! Tee hee! Ah, the satisfaction is sweet!
Anyway, See following posts about the vacation.
TTFN!

WAAAAAAH!!!!

2006-09-24T12:48:00.000-04:00

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!

Oh what a week...

2006-09-18T20:16:00.000-04:00

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

Save me from Sinus Colds...

2006-09-10T21:10:00.000-04:00

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!

Labor Day...

2006-09-04T21:06:00.000-04:00

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!

He Speaks!

2006-08-28T20:26:00.000-04:00

Ever since The Boy started building his vocabulary he has been pretty funny. Here are some examples from this weekend.

Riding in the car, Mom spontaneously burst into…

“On top of spaghe-TTIIIIIII!”

The Boy, “Top…Skeddie!”

“All covered in CHEEEEEEEEESE!!!”

The Boy, “All…CHEEEEEEESE!!!”

I lost my poor MEAAAAAAT BAAAAAAAALLL!!!”

The Boy, “……*pause*….WHERE????”

Or how about tonight at my cousin’s for dinner with the family…

The Boy, “Me want juice.”

Cousin, “What’s the magic words?”

The Boy, “Me want JUICE!?!”

I just about coughed up a lung I was laughing so hard from these ones!

IT'S FLOAM!!!!

2006-08-27T22:45:00.000-04:00

Does anyone else remember this stuff??? I saw the info-mercial and just about fell out of my chair!!! Check this out!

http://www.floamcanada.com/

Posting going slowly...again. I don't know what it is. It seems like I don't post for three days and then there is so much that has happened that I don't want to catch up. I'll bullet some major or minor events in the past couple weeks.

- Had my first yard sale with Marshy this weekend. I made 45 bucks and was quite happy to get rid of a ton of crap out of my basement.

- Have been doing some overtime so am quite tired...did four today, hopefully won't be doing any this week 'cause we are leaving for my folks place for the long weekend come Friday.

- The Boy is sick. The cold started on Wednesday night with running nose and congestion. Graduated to bubbly chest and nasty cough on Saturday morning. No fever so we know it's a virus, but this kiboshes us going to dinner with my family tomorrow night. My 83-year-old Gramma is going to be there and I don't want to become known in the family as the bringer of DEATH!

- My garden is still producing! We have the last of the yellow beans coming off the vines and the green beans are just starting.

- The Max is going into the "Shop" tomorrow. There is a rattle under the car every time we go over a bump and it won't catch 90% of the time on the first turn of the key. Today's record was 7 attempts before the son-of-a-gun caught. Good thing we bought a three year waranty on this sucker.

- Grey's Anatomy starts in less then a month! YAY!!!

- The Boy starts school in two weeks...*faint*.

- J and I, instead of laying back and watching a movie last night, reorganized the kitchen cabinets...And we both agreed we had more fun then if we had relaxed. Someone help us...we have lost any sign of "The Spark"!!! :D

- My Mom and Dad were up a week ago. They made us go out for dinner while they babysat! LOVE THEM! We went to the Vietnam Palace on Sumerset. WONDERFUL MEAL! GREAT SERVICE! And while we were gone my Dad did two separate fixes on our toilet, replaced out kitchen faucett, and sprayed out my bee's nest in my shed. Mom hemmed my jeans, washed my kitchen and office floor and kept the monster out of trouble. I LOVE MY FAMILY!!!

Here are random pics that have been taken in the last couple weeks to round out this post:

Enjoy!

Happy, Happy...!

2006-08-16T20:54:00.000-04:00

Pretty awesome anniversary overall considering I didn’t really want to celebrate it…and I did two hours overtime tonight!

I get home at 7pm and my sweetie has a stir-fry almost done, flowers and an awesome card! Had dinner and even got a candle-lit dance on the deck to our wedding dance song. I love my HONEY!!!! Three years and counting…

DEAR GOD A MEME!!!

2006-08-12T22:38:00.000-04:00

I hardly ever do these, THANKS ALOT ANGERAH!!! :(

5 things in my refrigerator:
1. Leftover Shrimp Vindaloo
2. Leftover roaster potato's, onions, and squash
3. 5 different kinds of mustard
4. PC Horseradish Mayo - MY FAV!!!
5. Left over roasted Swiss Chard

5 things in my closet: - Hmmm will use basement storage closet...
1. Deep freeze
2. Christmas decorations
3. Boxed up pottery pieces
4. Baby toys to go in the garage sale that I will eventually have
5. Three different Keyboards of J's

5 things in my purse:
1. Wallet
2. Weight Watcher's Dining Out Guide
3. Swiss Army Knife
4. Loonie/Two-nie Holder
5. Lip Gloss

5 things in my car:
1. Gas
2. Maps of Ontario, Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, and New Brunswick
3. Cell Phone Charger
4. Burned CD's including: Audioslave, Alterbridge, Three Days Grace (the new one), Sean Paul, Three Day's Grace (the old one), and Pink

5. Sun Glasses

5 things on my desk: - Work Desk
1. Family Pictures
2. Computer
3. USB Cable for my Zire22
4. Dirty Plate
5. FILES, FILES, FILES

YAY Weekend!!!

2006-08-05T10:46:00.000-04:00

Great weekend so far! Last night was hanging out with the family, a group trip to Price Chopper for mega dealz on the groceries. Picked up a bunch of snacks for The Boy’s lunch bag. I even got a load of laundry through. The weirdest thing happened though. My left foot hurt like a son-of-a-gun for the entire afternoon and into the evening! I resorted to J’s advice of soaking the whole thing in a bucket of ice water. This did a good job of making my foot really, really, REALLY COLD…but not much else. I went to bed with the pain. I even woke up to MAJOR pain and was limping horribly for the first half hour or so. Then it went away!?! I don’t get it. It’s only the tiniest bit sore, nothing else. Weird.

We, all three of us, slept in the basement guest room last night. It has been stinkin’ hot all week. Even though last night was very nice we stayed down there ‘cause J and I have been getting ULTIMATE SLEEP down there! It’s like the capsule of sleep! I don’t wake up in the middle of the night and turn over, J, the King of Poor Sleep, has been getting solid nights of sleep since we moved down there. I think it’s the bomb-shelter-like-quality that has been helping. That, and the fact that it’s really nice and cool down there. Anyway, I’m feeling great today.

I got to use my new clothes line for the first time since we got it straightened by my Dad. It’s so much nicer then the old one! Even though the lines go around the four spokes in layers instead of going back and forth in straight lines, I found it to be really nice to stand in one place and just twist the whole thing around and around instead of having to walk back and forth. I know, this shouts of lazy. I know, let me tell you…I’M LAZY!!!! :) I had to take a picture, it's such a beautiful day out! Major blue sky, my grass still looks nice even though I cut it last on Thursday night, even though I hate my back fence with a passion. Oh well, project for next year.

J and I finally watched the last two episodes of BSG before the season finale. We are now waiting for KCh. to come over on Monday to finish it off. CAN’T WAIT!!! I have no real TV addictions right now. J downloaded me the first and second season’s of House so I’m just waiting for the new stuff to come on in the fall. I’m getting him to download me the entire series of Roswell, ‘cause (I admit it) I watched the first two seasons and then lost track of it. I find it funny that Brendan Fehr ended up on CSI:Miami!

Must go, am teaching the Boy how to write his name!

Blog ya later!

Blarg on me...

2006-08-01T21:18:00.000-04:00

Yes, I have been extremely tardy in updating. Will do it in point form to catch you all up.

- Digital camera broke. ME SAD! Pretty much started the tailspin of not wanting to update.

- Went on Antibiotics on the Friday before the last post. It did nothing. I got steadily sicker for the rest of that week until I ended up in Emerg on the Monday night at 10:30pm. This is the Monday of my one week of vacation. Turns out the walk-in clinic gave me such a low dose for my meds that I might as well have been taking Tic Tacs to get me better. At this point I’m diagnosed with Sinusitis and Bronchitis and am put on heavy duty meds and a puffer. Am happy to say that other then a barking cough that flares up when I laugh I’m pretty much better.

- My vacation was AWESOME! I wandered the house, watched some movies, my parents came up in the Tuesday night and stayed until Friday morning…at which point J and I packed the car and brought the boy to Cobourg to stay at my parents house with the air conditioning. Got home Sunday afternoon and was back to work yesterday. While Dad was up he dug the stump out of my garden that I couldn't move, ripped out the tilted ground spike for the clothes-line and replanted it with a bag of cement (and leveled it), put my baseboard back up in the basement (we had a foundation leak scare, turns out we assume it was The Boy spilling alot of water 'cause there was no evidence of leakage that we could find.), took a massive load of stuff to the dump in his truck, changed the hall light and installed at garbage bag holder in the down stairs bathroom. He kept telling me that if he ran out of work he was going home early so I kept finding him stuff to do. I LOVE MY DADDY!!!!

- My birthday was on the Wednesday last week. It was really awesome! I went to the Spa, had a hot-stone pedicure and hot-stone massage, got taco’s for dinner and instead of a birthday cake had birthday Key Lime Pie!!! YAY!!!! No presents…Except that J went out with the Boy and bought us a new digital camera!!!! It was a Centrios that was on sale…turned out the lenses sucked and we took it back to get a Canon Powershot A430. Basically our old camera except half the price and newer. LOVE IT!!!!

- I harvested my first home-grown yellow beans from my garden!!! YAY!!! They were yummers!

-My first message after being away for a week was the *^%(*& Early Years people calling to say there had been a cancellation and did I want The Boy to sign up…for that day!!! The idiots called my work number instead of my home. We were down at my parents house on the Sunday and could have driven up Mom’s car the day before! Instead Mom has to drive it up yesterday afternoon and we buy her a train ticket to get her home that night! ARG!

- The Boy had an awesome first day of pre-school! According to J he went right up to a little boy and introduced himself. Then they went off and played! All was well when he got picked up too. I just had to go to Walmart last night on the run to get indoor shoes, a lunch bag, Tupperware containers that The Boy could open, and some juice boxes.

- Work is kinda hellish right now. No Marshy as she is starting her two weeks of vacation this week. Busy, and yet liking it. Just not liking being rushed to complete important tasks.

- Went to Linda and James place for a swim and dinner tonight. They were nice enough to invite us over to their house with central air during the heat wave. The boy were great and J got some great pictures. Also some wonderful videos…of his feet and the pavement. He made the classic Newbie mistake of pressing the button to turn it on when he thought he was turning it off and missed all of the shots of The Boy learning to swim. HA HA HA!!! YOU’RE NOT PERFECT HONEY!!! YOU MADE A MISTAKE!!! HA!

Anyway, am hoping that once the heat breaks I’ll be more into sitting in front of the computer to do some more posting.

Ciao for Now!

Say WHAT!?!

2006-07-10T20:24:00.000-04:00

Once again another template. I got bored with the old one faster then the last time so here is another stab at as much originality that I can get from pre-chosen template choices.

I had a pisser of a day. I had my introduction to what may be complete incompetence at my son’s school board. Just to be clear, I have nothing against teachers, (Love you Lori!), I have something against outright incompetence with regard to registering students. I heard about this wonderful program being given by my son’s school at his open house. Basically it’s an introduction to the formalized routine of school. It’s also really good for kids that are still not speaking clearly. After speaking with the Principal she recommended The Boy be enrolled and that it should help him and lot. I called two weeks later, spoke to the same Principal, gave her all of The Boy’s information and was told the registration packages would be in during the next couple weeks. Time went by to the point that I realized last week that the program was starting in two weeks and I hadn’t heard anything from the school about the program. After playing phone-tag with the school and the program runners for three days I come to find out that The Boy is not registered for the program. Not only that but the program is full and he now is locked out.

I am now officially PISSED OFF!

I call the Superintendent of our district and leave a very polite message about the fact that I’m irate. The Principal has screwed up and that I want to know why my son is being denied this program when it’s not his fault and what are they going to do about it. About three hours later I have the Principal calling me, telling me that she doesn’t understand how this could happen and that she is so careful with these details. I’m sorry but if she were that careful this wouldn’t have happened to us.
She then asks, “So your really keen on having The Boy in the class.”

“Well yeah, you recommended it to him and said it was designed for kids like him!?!” I replied.

“Ooooooooookay, I’ll call the program runners and see what we can do.”

I have yet to hear back from her and if I don’t hear back from her before noon tomorrow I’m going to be putting another call through to her and then the Superintendent again. I hate to say it but they have created “One of THOSE Parents”. Meaning I’m going to be their worst nightmare for the next 8 years that The Boy is at that school. I’m never going to assume they have their act together or that they know what they are doing.

Can’t wait to see how this turns out…..

sodrunksodrunksodrunk....

2006-07-08T22:56:00.000-04:00

I am having the best weekend.  Lots of sleep, and lots of fun with friends Marshy and Vicki in Renfrew.  There hasn’t been much going on.  Work stuff, home stuff, J downloaded House season’s 1 and 2 so I’m slowly working my way through that.  I’m about ¾ of the way through season 1.

KCh. is out of town with work for the next week, then he is back three days, then gone for his vacation in PEI.  I’m sorta house sitting by bringing in his papers every night while he is away.

We have the babysitter booked for J’s birthday.  We’re planning on leaving at about 1 in the afternoon and going down to Sumerset for shopping in the fun grocery stores there.  Cheap Dim Sum lunch, dinner and a movie should make it fun for J.  For mine I have a hot stone massage and a hot stone pedicure booked at the spa.  CAN’T WAIT!!!

Last weekend was VERY busy.  I left the boys at home to go help my best friend move into her first house with her husband.  It was a long couple of days but very worth it to be there.  The first day was shifting the boxes and furniture from house to truck then truck to house.  The second day was me digging out her gardens and planting.  It was ROUGH!   The one garden that I spent most of the day in had been left to turn into the lawn.  I had to dig out sod and the base roots of whatever had been left in there for a couple years at least.  The second garden had been maintain pretty well so it was 45 minutes work instead of 4 ½ hours.  I added peat moss and even got three flats of annuals on sale for about 30 bucks.  I’ll add pictures once I get them from my Mom’s computer.

I’m feeling more then a little bitter that I don’t really have any vacation for the summer.  I have a day here and a day there but no long stretches.  I feel so tired and worn, but I only get three weeks a year so I don’t want to blow it all in one go and then be stuck if I need the days.  In four more years I’ll have earned another week of it through milestone years at work.  It will be nice ‘cause you want to save one week to use as one at a time, and then do a week at a time.  Oh well, I just have to get through the summer and then The Boy will be in school and then no more daycare…NO MORE DAYCARE!!!!  I can’t wait!  Not that I’m not going to desperately miss Sam, our provider.  Just that I’m not going to miss the cost.  $210 every two weeks will be ours again.  It’s going to be going straight to the debts for the next year.  Once we are dug out from those we are going to start feeling like we are getting ahead.

Ciao for now and will add those pictures in a week or so.

Let's Go Fly a Kite...Mary Poppins

2006-06-27T12:50:00.000-04:00

I took the Boy and J kite flying for the first time last night! The Boy had obviously never done it before but I was shocked to find out that J had never flown one before either. I don’t know about you but to me that is wild. Kites were a big part of my childhood. My brother and I grew up next to a school yard so we were there constantly with different models over the years. Then again, he did grow up in Fredericton, maybe kites weren’t huge out there….Anyway, The Boy had fun with it until about mid way through. Then he told me that it was, “No fun, it go up, it fall down, it go up, it fall down. No fun.”

Try explaining to a toddler about the challenge of keeping it in the air.

Anyway, am going to be off for the weekend to Cobourg to help my girlfriend move into her first house. CAN’T WAIT!!! She has told me I will be lawn and garden girl! Am going to be weeding, cutting the lawn, whipper-snippering, etc. J and the boy will be staying home. J’s mom and aunt are coming into town for the Canada Day weekend, and J’s mom is staying for the week after. I’ll see them when I get home Sunday afternoon.

No vacation booked for the summer really. The Boy’s beginner school class took the one for August out. Oh well, I’ll take a day at a time when I need it and then take a week or two in the fall or winter.

Blog ya later.

Green Thumb!

2006-06-23T13:38:00.000-04:00

I had a really good Tuesday night. There was a fire at the movie theatre that KCh and I go to so we rescheduled for later in the week to see the The Lake House. It was beautiful weather so I took full advantage and finally finished my front garden. The crusty thing was still in the position to hug the old deck. The pics go in the order of: before front angle, before side angle, during, and finished.

I still need to build it up with some more soil and add some more flowers to fill it out but I’m pretty proud of my first major gardening job done without my Dad helping.

And, yes, I'm grass seeding the front to get the lawn back up to the stones.

Ciao for now

YAY WEEKEND!!!!!

2006-06-18T20:50:00.000-04:00

I don’t know if I have told my demanding public about my wee little problem. About once a month, thus this leads me to suspect that it’s attached to my cycle, I get what J and I call, “My little cloud of doom”. Basically I get majorly depressed/irritable due to nothing that we can tell other then it’s that time. So I was deep under the shadow of my little cloud yesterday when I discovered what can make it fly away: PURPLE TOES!!!!

It seems if I go out in the car for a fast drive with the windows down blasting Sean Paul’s Temperature and buy a new shade of toe nail polish it gets my spirits back up. Gotta love Sean Paul and purple toes!

My garden is doing really well! My beans are up about 4 inches, my lettuce is going insane in a green carpet, and my onions have finally started showing the little green tops. I still have to finish the garden in the front of my house but the weather is not cooperating. I’m not going to do it in the pouring rain, but I’m also not going to do it in the middle of a heat wave and get heat stroke.
The boy and I had a lovely moment today. I was reading under the umbrella on the deck while he was playing in his sandbox. I guess he got a little hot ‘cause he walked back to the deck and climbed into the lounge chair for a rest with me! Love that kid!We also got him is first two-wheeler! Another toddler milestone gone.
Anyway, I still have the residual cloud, namely a headache and lack of energy to do more the move my mouse around. Will post again soon.

Ciao for now!

YAWN!!!!!

2006-06-06T22:45:00.000-04:00

Yes it’s the return of the “God –DAMN am I tired!” posts. I’m soooooo fuzzy right now. Just got back from a huge walk, didn’t get much sleep last night…or the night before that. Work is going okay, my boss has been away for two weeks and is gone for one more. Am going to try doing a garage sale on Saturday morning…we’ll see how that goes.

Anyway, just a quick update that I’m still alive…barely.

Blog ya later!

YAY 5KM!!!!!

2006-05-30T21:54:00.000-04:00

The walk went great! It was 6 of us who drove down to the race. Four including Marshy, my friend Lori, and I. We kinda split up within the first 15 minutes or so. Breaking into two’s with the speed we were comfortable at. I’m happy to report that Lori and I came in at 56:48.2!We also had some great news come in on Friday. WE SOLD THE CRIB SET!!!! YAY!!! I immediately called Mom and got the number for the clearing house in my home town where there was an awesome sale on a captains bed for the boy. After buying it over the phone and telling my Mom and Dad about when they could pick it up I started dismantling the Boy’s room, starting with emptying his dresser into my hobby room. It’s the season where I have to go through his clothes, see what is going to fit him come next fall, separate the things that are done forever, and bring out the summer things from last year and see what will fit him. I had to take J and the Boy to Walmart on Sunday afternoon ‘cause not only did the Boy have almost no shorts that fit him, we needed to pick up his new bed set. He had the choice of Batman or what he ended up choosing…SPONGEBOB!!!!His room is sooooooooo CUTE! I ended up taking down a little shelf out of the corner ‘cause the Boy would have hit his head on it eventually. Mom and Dad were great and bought the Boy the matching night stand for a present.

THANKS MOM AND DAD!!!

There is also HUGE thanks going out to my Dad for other stuff. Not only did he bring up the new bed, put it together from truly asinine instructions, he ripped most of the front deck off my house and replaced the railing to make a really sweet platform leading up to our front door! He has worked like a dog these past two days in the heat and humidity and had it all done by this afternoon…in time to help me deliver the baby furniture out to it’s new home. Once again, my Dad rocks!

Anyway, I have a line on selling the old air conditioner that came with the house. Let’s hope that one comes through, all the cash we can get our hands on right now is appreciated. The tax payment is two weeks away, and my income tax return has yet to make an appearance in our account. SIGH!!! I called and found out it hasn’t even been processed! DOUBLE SIGH!!!

J’s job is secure for several months. It was coming down to the wire with the current contract expiring…the day after TOMORROW! He finally asked his boss when the paperwork was coming through and boy was he surprised! He thought that it had all been taken care of and that everything was fine. Meanwhile I’m hyperventilating in the corner at the thought of J being unemployed two weeks after buying the new car! Everything a-o-k for now.

Must go. Am sticky and hot and miserable…and this is in the office that has the working air conditioner. And if you are wondering I’m selling one when it is so hot here, this is the AC that doesn’t fit in any of the windows…the one that the yahoo’s cut a hole in the outside wall of the bedroom to get it to work. That one.

Ciao for now!

Long Post....

2006-05-26T21:43:00.000-04:00

Huge post must be done. There has been so much stuff happening during the past week.

The long weekend went great in some ways and terrible in others. It was great in the way that my Mom and Dad were up, but terrible in the way that we were scheduled to work on our front deck. The weather was horrible and rained the whole time so it was a little bit unsafe to play with power tools. We took everyone out for a drive in the Max, went shopping in the newly renovated Independent Grocer, and kick my Mom and Dad's butt's in Sequence! J did his thing with the cooking and I did my thing hanging out with Mom cleaning the house. The boy had a fantastic time with Nana and Popa and was sad to see them go.

This was the Boy’s first week back to daycare since the cast came off. He didn’t want to get out of bed at ALL! VERY GRUMPY BOY! After I got him in the door he recognized the place and ran off to go see his friends. The rest of the week was the same except for adding in screaming at the top of his lungs every time I came to pick him up ‘cause he didn’t want to leave.

The boy had his first trip to the dentist yesterday. I was so freaked out by this. I hate the dentist and dreaded having to take the Boy lest he sense my foreboding. Anyway, everything went great. He did the entire appointment lying on top of me in the chair and had his teeth counted by the hygienist and the dentist with no problems. No cavities so he got his picture on the wall of fame!

After all that when I went to pick him up, Sam said that he had been having a very bad water-bum all day. He told me his tummy hurt and that he didn’t want to eat anything. We got him and and got some peanut butter toast into him with some Gatorade and that seemed to settle him a little. We then had the most awesome evening! J washed the Max, I cut and whipper-snipped the grass, and the boy played outside in his sandbox. I also took great please in teaching him how to roll down the hill of our front lawn! He had a blast! After I got the front garden weeded we strapped the Boy into the stroller and went for a nice long walk through the neighborhood. There are some major big houses just a couple blocks over from us! Bathtime and Bed for the boy at this point.

After we got him into bed was when things took a very quick turn for the worse. Just before J and I were about to go to bed the Boy had a major croup attack. He could barely breathe he was “barking” so hard. We got him to emerg. just in time for the attach to subside and for us to look like panic happy parents. Joy. Got him home and in bed by 11pm and didn’t get to sleep until after 12am. Yay. Another exhausted day at work.

This weekend is going to be busy. Lori and Tom are driving up late tonight ‘cause Lori and I are participating in the National Capital Race weekend. We are doing the 5km and then going to the company catered event afterward. Should be exhausting and fun! Will post pics after I recover! :)

Ciao for Now!

New Car!!!

2006-05-17T21:22:00.000-04:00

Old and broken...

New and pretty!

That is all. :)

The Boy and other business...

2006-05-16T21:31:00.000-04:00

Oh well. After a half an hour of fiddling and choosing I ended up with the template that I started out with over a year ago. Blerg!

ANYWAY, the boy is FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! We were out of the house by 6:38am and at CHEO by 7:50am. What a difference a half an hour can make in the traffic!

Here is the boy after just getting out of the car.

So to make a long story short: Check in, main waiting room, X-ray waiting room, X-ray, wait for the film to be developed, back to main waiting room, private waiting room, Dr. K. says everything is great, over to the body shop.

Here are some pics of getting him pried out of his plaster prison. He didn’t cry while the saw was working! He watched it and was apparently fascinated! There was some crying after the support of the cast disappeared. Lots of, “OWOWOWOWOWOWOW MOMMY OOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!!”. Otherwise, it went very well. he was not traumatized by the whole experience, he liked seeing the Dr., but otherwise was very happy to leave CHEO.
Back in the car and home.

After dinner I went for a swim in the tub with my baby and finally got him clean. Washed his hair and scrubbed a ton of dead skin off of the area’s that the cast had been in. He is going to be coated in skin cream for the next week to get the dry skin under control.

By the end of the evening he was standing on his own and saying, “Look Mommy! No fall no more!”. Just a note that we didn't let him free-stand like this by himself for a long time. He would have his leg randomly give out and he would hit the floor if we weren't there to catch him. He is still a little bit delicate and can't bend very well, but is otherwise a happy boy and getting closer and closer to being our happy kid again.

Will blog tomorrow about the new car!

Buh Bye!

New Templates...

2006-05-16T20:43:00.000-04:00

If anyone has cuaght some of the new templates that I have been trying out...sorry. I'm bored with the red, tried out a couple new ones and the one that I'm currently on I just realized was the one that I started out with more then a year ago.

*SIGH*

Let me get this sorted out and then will do the post with pics about the boy.

Ciao for now. :)

Green Thumbs, Fingers, Arms....

2006-05-15T20:11:00.000-04:00

All those years in the environmental club in High School paid off! It is now nine months into having my first house. I’m a rabid recycler/compost-er/garbage processor. I have been the thorn in J’s side about learning which bottles can be recycled and putting the compostables in the container for me to take out. I am quite proud of myself as it is, but I have been given another reason to feel puffed up with pride at my responsibleness.

Last night I counted how many garbage bag stickers I have left until the end of August. Our county runs our garbage pick up by the rule that you put out a bag it must have a sticker on it to be picked up. The ration of stickers for the year are sent out at the end of August and if you run out it’s $2 a sticker until you get the next years. When I moved in the yahoo’s moving out complained that they don’t give you enough stickers and that I would be taking some bags to work to get through until the next ration comes.

I HAVE ENOUGH STICKERS LEFT TO GET US THROUGH UNTIL MID OCTOBER!!!!!!!

I rock! We have been able to skip putting out the garbage because the can has been half full!

Did anyone else read the article on CNN about people protesting the wind farm because of the danger to migratory bird? Wind power is such an important investment into the world’s renewable “clean” power it's wonderful that companies want to put 170 windmills offshore at a time. Now some bleeding hearts are saying, NO NOT THE BIRDIES!!!!!

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Well…yeah I guess they are important and a part of the environment too. But at the end of the article it mentions that people in Cape Cod are protesting a 130 windmill farm off the coast because they will be “unsightly”. I can be legitimately pissed at THEM!!!!!

Ciao for Now,

Ps – ONE MORE SLEEP 'TIL THE BOY IS FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

Pps – Stay tuned to the post about J and my’s NEW CAR!!!!! The Neon has pretty much died so we go to pick up the new one on Wednesday! Will post picture and story then. To quote-eth the Raevyn, “SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE” (

ARG! YAWN

2006-05-10T13:24:00.000-04:00

So frickin’ tired! The Boy was up five and six time the night before last with a bad tummy so we went into last night already tired. We stayed up until the first Wah at about 11:30 and then it was lights out for me. Funny thing was J was watching a B-ball game next to me in bed. Under the sounds of the game I could here this rhythm that wouldn’t stop! I got him to mute the game…there is someone in a camper blasting the radio next door in their driveway! I’m like, whatever, and fell asleep ‘cause I was exhausted. The Boy has his next Wah at 2:38, we get him settled and then it’s time to go back to sleep right? WRONG! The IDIOT in the camper still has the stereo going! It’s now 3AM in with the window closed you can still hear the bass! So, I call the cops. This is a noise violation and just plain rude. Place the call at 3am and they say they will be there soon. 4AM comes and the music is still going!!! WTF!?! I get back on the phone to the OPP and they have in their notes that someone was by and the lights in the camper was off and the music turned down! Once again, WTF!?! I grab the cordless and take it into our bedroom and put it up to the open window and ask the dispatcher if that sounded like turned down!?! He pauses and says, “Yeah…I can hear it. Can you hear that from the front of the house?”, so I put on my coat and stand next to my front porch outside and say yeah I can still hear it. I go inside and wait at the front door to see the cruiser pull up and an officer get out. I go back to bed at this point ‘cause I can hear him hammering on the camper door. Cue the music going off at 4:20 in the morning. With all the goings on I don’t get back to sleep until WAY after 5am and my alarm goes off at 6:23.

Yippee. Start of a new day of hellishly tired.

All I have to say is if Dude is pissed that we called the cops and comes over to say anything he is going to get more then an earful.

*grumble grumble*

Sigh...Double Sigh...

2006-05-05T10:03:00.000-04:00

I am so tired of having a broken son. He pooped on the carpet again. The first time he did it in his room and it nearly stopped my heart. It was everywhere!!! On all his blankets, on him, rubbed into the floor…ARG!!!

This time though it was MY CARPET! My extra-thick-pile-more-expensive-then-the-rest-of-the-house-for-my-bedoom
-PURE-WHITE-CARPET!!!! He pooped in his diaper, then said to himself, “Well, that’s done.” Then took it off! I didn’t see this, J told me about it when he called me. Thank GOD the carpet cleaners were already out in our neck of the woods yesterday. If they hadn’t been it would have been next Thursday before they could have come out. Everything is cleaned up. They even gave the spot in the Boy’s room another shot ‘cause there was a micro bit of a stain left. So that’s $120 in on week for carpet cleaning. I mean hey, it’s not like J and I are under some financial stress right now…Oh wait, WE ARE!!! * smacking forehead with palm*

Other then that we are doing fine. KCh. came out to the house two nights ago so the Boy could meet his new puppy, Charlie.

OH MY GOD is this thing CUTE!!!!! The boy has totally fallen in love with her. The next morning the first words out of his mouth was, “Go see puppy?”. I am totally hungering for a pet right now, but it is so not the right time for the expense. And NO BLACKFISH DOESN’T COUNT!!! He’s in a bowl for crying out loud! Charlie is also completely imprinted on KCh.! The way you see her in the picture is how she is 90% of the time, on his feet!

Eleven more sleeps to go 'til no more broken boy.

Blog ya later.

Blog Hijack

2006-04-30T20:28:00.000-04:00

Hi, it's the husband. I've h4x0r3d the wife's site to show that like most self-respecting people, I don't listen to her dance music. /shudder

Create your own Music List @ HotFreeLayouts!

YAAAAWN!!!!! Head cracking in half like the "Reach" cartoon guy...

2006-04-30T18:42:00.000-04:00

Holy CRAP am I tired. The Boy has caught a cold on top of still having two weeks left in the cast. He is being dosed with cold medication as well as having Vic’s vaporub on his chest. He is back to being up 5-6 times a night due to not being able to breathe. Otherwise he is happy. We have taken him for a walk in the wheel chair every night for the past 4 days. I am in the middle of YARD WARS with the dandelion population in the back yard, so he has been coming out on a blanket next to me. He “helps” me by wanting to use the weeder tool and points out the next weed to get. By the time I just dumped the last bucket o’ pulled weeds I have a 90% full full-sized garbage can. The depressing thing is that I have only gotten started. The friggin’ yard is overrun with weeds. I will be fighting them all summer just to make sure next year is not a total loss. I have had many people recommend that I just re-till the whole yard and start from scratch, but even if there are weeds The Boy can play back there. If it is all dirt he cannot play there. Once again laundry has suffered in favour of my playing in the yard. To my husband and his grumpy face about having wrinkly shirts, to him I say, “TOUGH BEANS!!!”. To any of you who have the link to my sweetie’s food blog, go check it out. He just did a posting about stuffed peppers that he did on the BBQ! VERY YUMMY!!!!

We just had the bomb drop about taxes again. FSKING TAXES!!! Every year because J is a contract worker we feel like we are punished for making money! J made more money then we thought this past year so we ended up owing another thousand. A nice little present! :(

Oh well. Let’s focus on the positives that are happening. The boy is out of prison in two weeks (from Tuesday), we have an air conditioner, we have a house, we are all healthy (I’m talking about cancer and nasty stuff like that. Cold’s don’t count.), and most of all no matter how many crappy things get thrown at us I will always have my Sweetie! :)

Here is a pic from our recent trip to Fulton’s Sugarbush with my team.

NUNNY LIIIIIIIIIIVES!!!!!

2006-04-29T22:05:00.000-04:00

The boy glommed onto this stuffed montrosity when he was 8 months old. If you could only see the rotting, patched, sewn-up Frankenstein he is today! :)

Found this on Raevyn's site! Found it totally fun!

adopt your own virtual pet!

I'm totally copying you!!! :)

2006-04-28T15:34:00.000-04:00

Ripped From MYFRIENDANGERAH(TM)!!!!

Create your own Music List @ HotFreeLayouts!

I GOT A NAP!!!! :D

2006-04-23T21:58:00.000-04:00

Awesome weekend with the folks. Once again they were wonderful and helped J and I out a lot with caring for the Boy. Who, by the way, is still getting up in the night, but not as much as he used to. It’s also for different reasons, too. He used to wake up screaming in pain 5 times a night. Last night kinda went like this:

11:30pm Wah! WAH! = Mommy, I have to toot. Please flip me and twist me until the gas has worked itself out. *FFFRRT*

12:30pm WAH! WAH! WAH! = Mommy, I have to go pee. I’m not going to tell you that though until the front of you feels very warm and you put me down. Then I will water the mattress and pillows until you jam the urinal jug in front of my wang to catch several more gallons of liquid. I will then fall asleep on your shoulder as Daddy changes the bedding and gets new pillows.

4:30am – waaaaaaaAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!! = Mommy, I am cold, please add to the sheets on top of me. I then will drift back to sleep with no other issue.

7:30am – “Mommy? MOMMY? MOMMY? MOMMYMOMMYMOMMYMOMMY! = I am ready to get up now. Get your lazy butt out of bed and take me to my computer and TV. Don’t forget the chocolate milk for breakfast. By the way, “I like you Mommy!”

I am hoping for maybe one less waking tonight as I’m starting back to normal hours at work. Eight to four baby! I am going to feel like a massive rotting pile of compost!

The wonderful part of the weekend was Mom and Dad did something hugely nice for J and I. They bought us an air conditioner. Or loaned us…basically they put it on their Sears card until we feel we can pay them back. Since we know J’s job is going to be maybe disappearing in the next 6 months we have really tightened our belts. The plans to replace the two windows, to put in A/C units, were canned due to cost ($2300 for them both). The windows we have currently will not fit standard A/C units, as they are almost 30 years old. The one that Mom and Dad got us is a “portable” unit that is not mounted in the window. It sits in the office like a large dehumidifier with tubes going out the window. Dad put a large piece of plywood in the space and cut a hole so it is all nice and tight. It should cool most of the house, but even if it doesn’t get up to the bedrooms at least J will be able to work the summer in the front office of fiery-heat.

HUGE thanks goes out to my parents!

Anyway, it’s about 10pm. Must go try to get some sleep before the first call from the slave-driver happens.

Nighty-night!

YAY THE BOY!!!

2006-04-21T14:58:00.000-04:00

YAY!!! It finally happened! The Boy slept through the night for the first time in almost 3 weeks!!! WOOHOOOOOOO!!!! He fell asleep about 10pm and didn’t make a peep until I had to wake him up at 6:45 to get ready to leave the house! He is actually really mobile now too. On his good leg and hands he crawls around his floor, looks at his books, throws around the little Easter rubber ball he got in his Easter basket, and generally burns some energy. He is even trying to fight with us again by crawling on top of us. Only thing is it REALLY hurts, the fibre-glass is really rough and we have to keep the sharp edges covered in tape to protect us and The Boy. He is also regressing with his potty training. Pee-pee is fine but he keeps pooping in his wheel-chair. We keep a towel under him all the time to keep it as sanitary as possible but JEEZ! He knows where to go, he knows we will take him on command, he just doesn’t want to. ARG!!!

I can’t wait for this weekend. We are going to a team building activity at Fulton’s Sugar Bush tomorrow with my work and taking The Boy. Mom and Dad are also coming up for the weekend to give us a break as well. Should be awesome!

Blog ya later.

YAR...DUH!!! YARD WORK!!!

2006-04-17T08:28:00.000-04:00

Just a quick note about the awesome stuff my Dad and I got done around the house while J cooked and Mom kept The Boy entertained.  Dad and I got started with me pruning back the garden of winter-die-off stuff and trimming the permanent bushes.  Dad raked the lawn and ripped out the four cedar trees that I hated.  In the place of the trees we dug a little veggie’s garden that I’ll plant some time this week before Mom and Dad get back this Friday.  We did a run to the dump with the last of the junk in the shed that the previous owners had left, the cedar trees, and the folding deck chairs that we have had for the past three years that have gotten a little too thread-bare.  On the way back from the dump we stopped at Home Hardware and dropped $80 on top soil, grass seed, a new steel rake, sandbox toys for when The Boy is popped out of his prison, silicon and aluminum nails for the siding patch we have to put on the house, and patterned/textured sticker that is for the bathroom window.  The sticker for the window let’s in daylight without letting the neighbors see us in the shower, and only for $5!

While Dad raked the lawn of satch, my dad’s word for the dead grass left after winter, I got on my hand’s and knee’s for the next hour and a half and ripped dandelions with my brand new weeder tool.  OH MY GOD did my back hurt when I was done!  The whole thing just made me more mad at the previous owners!  The friggin’ weeds had roots the length and thickness of large carrots!  They had been there for YEARS!!!  On the other hand if they had maintained the place I don’t think we would have gotten it for the price we did…

Anyway, we also filled in the wholes in the lawn around the yard with the top soil, seeded the bare patches, ripped the grass out of the bottom of my fence, and picked rocks out of my garden.  I had to take a nap at some point, The Boy had been up every hour the night before, so Dad did the patch on the siding on the side of the house while I zonked.

Mom was AWESOME! She cleaned my house and finished my laundry while I was doing the yard work with Dad!!!  It’s so nice to come in from working hard to find the4 bathrooms sparkling!

Must go.  J is going to be starting work soon.  He needs the computer.

Ciao for now.

Ultimate Blerg...

2006-04-16T23:23:00.000-04:00

Hmmm…it’s been so long since I blogged I don’t know where to begin. Firstly, major family emergency hit us. My three year old son broke his right femur playing with another three year old. This is pretty much why I haven’t had the energy/time to even think about posting. Mom and Dad were up over the weekend so I’m actually feeling semi-human. The weekend this happened, two weeks ago, kinda went like this:

Saturday: My mom goes into emergency surgery for kidney stones

Sunday: The Boy get’s a spiral break in his femur

Monday: J comes home from CHEO at 10pm, leaving me there with the Boy who is drugged out on Morphine, to find an email in his work account saying that the two year extension he just signed for work has been cancelled and that it now is only for the next three months.

I don’t know what to say. I’m wrung out on so many levels it is sickening. The poor bugger is in a body cast from his nipples to his toes on the broken leg and will be in it for he next four weeks (Has been in it for two already.), I’m stressed about us being in debt and a new home owner with job instability looming, and with the poor bugger being in the body cast hasn’t slept the night through in two weeks. I miss sleep on sooooo many levels.

Anyway, if you don’t hear from me for a little while yet you now know the details. Will post when I can.

Ciao for now.

From My Brain to Yours!

Hey I'm Blogging!

Posting...

OMG LOLZ!

GASP!

OMG yawn!

F-F-F-Friday!

Weeeeeekend!

CHARGE!!!!

Weekend of Awesome!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Good Weekend

Uber BLARG!

Summer of DOOM!!!

*POOOF* Lot of dust on this thing....

10 lbs later...

Yay for me!

Ug...

:)

Blog Revival!

Hey!!! I'm posting!

CLEAR!!!!! *ZAPPO*

REDBULL!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday...and Sunny!?!

*sigh*

Day off....*happy sigh*

New Template

Fantastic Weekend!

Sigh...:)

Aroo?

Hey! I'm Blogging!!! :)

OMG FMG!!!

Max is sick... :(

Weekend Recap and Beyond...

Vanguard KILLED my Blog!

New Info...

In Shock...

Weekend of DOOM!!!

Eeeeeeeewww!

I'm a WINNER!

Aaaaaahhhhh! :D

THIS ROCKS!!!

ANGERAH and Teddy made me do it! :)

YAY FOR ME!!!

Cinnamon and Spice Meet...

Happy Sunday!

Welcome Spice Pollock!

YIP YIP YIP YIP

Hospital Stay

Soooooo tired....

Hi there

NEE NER NEE NER NEEEEEE NER!!!!

Double Whammie SIGH!

Introducing...

The Boy's First Movie Success!

My Sweetie is...

My Inner Hero - Rogue!

UGH!

Pocky Sticks!!!

Spread the Love!

My Own Personal Pub!

My "Spidey Senses" are tingling!

Swiped from ANGERAH who swiped it from Teddy!

So full of PORK!!!

THE MEL WEEKEND COMETH!!!

Fredericton...

Oh So Blergy...

Pre-Thanksgiving Weekend!

WAAAAAAH!!!!

Oh what a week...

Save me from Sinus Colds...

Labor Day...

He Speaks!

IT'S FLOAM!!!!

Happy, Happy...!

DEAR GOD A MEME!!!

YAY Weekend!!!

Blarg on me...

Say WHAT!?!

sodrunksodrunksodrunk....

POOOF Lot of dust on this thing....

CLEAR!!!!! ZAPPO

sigh

Day off....happy sigh

Let's Go Fly a Kite...Mary Poppins

ARG! YAWN

YAAAAWN!!!!! Head cracking in half like the "Reach" cartoon guy...