Sweat, Sweat, Sweat, *GASP*

I worked out on my treadmill tonight for the first time in about 6 months. Throughout the summer, even on the high humidity days, I would walk outside. Granted I would do this at 9:30-10pm so it was as cool as possible, but still, I worked out tramping through my streets. I had totally forgotten how awesome it is to be running in place and be able to get off at anytime!!! I mean, on my outdoor walk there are some pretty huge hills that you can't avoid. Once you start up them, you can't lower the incline and wimp out. You grit your teeth and get your butt to the top! On the treadmill you can get off when you want, you can run at anytime because you aren’t waiting for a big hill to be over, basically, you can wimp out whenever you want! :) The only thing that I have to say I find unpleasant about running on the treadmill is that there isn't a breeze to dry you off. I was literally DRIPPING by the time I was done my half hour. Note to self: bring the fan downstairs before I run again.

Anyway, Jason and I have discovered the true extent of the powers of my memory. I am a numbers machine. I have my bank card, social security, health card, every phone number of our friends locked in my brain. I am the calendar in the way that I know everyone’s birthday and anniversary…most times. This helps tons in the way that Jason has be reminded of his own mother’s birthday by me. The problem is I can’t remember having conversations 10 minutes after I have them. Jason will ask me to do something or tell me about something and 15 minutes later I will tell him he never told me that. Please insert the horrible grinding noise that is his teeth after I tell him that. In case you are wondering, yes, this does happen to me at work as well. In the case of work I have a steno pad that I’m constantly writing on so that I have back notes on my days to cover my ass. Of course I have outstanding long term memory. If I drive someplace once I can always find my way there again. I can remember conversations from 6 months ago word for word. Stupid stuff like that. I’m a champ at Trivial Pursuit! This is the weird thing that happened tonight, J and I figured out the exact perfect window where my memory stops and restarts in super accurate mode. At almost one month past the time that the event happens, I get it all back. In this case, one month ago today we moved all our stuff out of the old apartment and trucked it here. A day or two before that we got a tax bill for the new house and I shoved it, for “safe” keeping, in the file cabinet. Do you think I could remember that for the past month? I have torn this place apart looking for it! The due date on the bill I could remember, the amount we owed I could remember, do you think I could remember where I put the damn thing? I finally remembered tonight, with perfect clarity, the location and reasoning behind where I put it. Therefore, I walk through life with a month-long black void behind me. Dear God I hope I never have to go to court to be a witness….

Nighty, Night!

Kay

GREAT weekend!

This has been the best weekend since we moved into the house. Friday night was CARNAGE NIGHT! For those of you who have never done Weight Watchers:

"Carnage Night is the night directly after weigh-in. The night that is the farthest away from the next weigh-in so what you eat that night you don't count. You just gorge"

We did the KFC variety bucket with the boneless buffalo wings. *DROOL* After I got that out of my system Saturday was awesome for keeping points and staying on plan. Yes, I know I haven't mentioned the WW's points for the last several months. That's because I haven't really been keeping track of my points and haven't really been exerecising all that much with the house stuff going on. Big surprise that I hit a huge plateau in my weight loss. I'm happy to say that this past week I was doing points and exercising. I LOST TWO POUNDS!!! So, I'm now only 15 pounds away from my goal weight. I'm totally pumped to get them off and have been really focused about it....for the past two days. We will see how this coming week goes. Then there is going to be the week in New Brunswick...anyway, I'm going to do as best I can.

Saturday was totally kick-ass! I cleaned my whole house! Now, if any of you really know me you know that cleaning is the true bane of my existance. I HATE IT.....or at least I did until I owned floor I was vacuuming? Weird! I got totally into scrubbing everything! J came home from fixing someone's network and was shocked how good the place looked! Also, got all the laundry done and out on my clothesline. LOVE THE CLOTHES LINE! Today is going to be all about sitting on my ass and doing fun things only!

K.C. is coming over tonight to start the marathon "Firefly" watching leading up to the release of "Serenity" on Friday. We have the babysitter booked and are going to do a date night and go see it on opening night! WOOT!!!! Also, to make this day even more perfect, my Sweetie is making Butter Chicken for dinner!

*sigh* So this is what happy is like!

TTFN

Kay

WOOT!!!

First day of Autumn means NEW TEMPLATE!!!! Can you tell I just discovered all my settings in my blog again? :)

Let me know what you think! I still have some playing to do....

Kay

Hmmmm...

So I just put "word verification" for commenting on this blog. Please let me know if it is too annoying. I'll just tell you to fack off at that point 'cause I'm tired of the spam! :)

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!

Kay

*zzz* blerg *zzz*

So want to blog.

Too tired to blog.

So want to blog....

J and I rotated out our guest room. Mom-in-law/Aunt-in-law out on Wednesday morning, my Dad in by Wednesday at Lunch. Lots of house work being done. Trim on all rooms now, transition pieces on the laminate, lockable door knob on Master bedroom (not what you think...okay a little bit of what you think. ;) I needed a new knob that was round so that I could use the baby knob locks so that the boy couldn't get in the room and play with our stuff without us being aware of it.), new out door light that isn't motion sensor, new locks on the side door, NEW LINEN CLOSET SHELVING!!!!, MB closet doors hung, new front door closet, etc. Also we have had our friend the electrician in and install ceiling lights in the hobby room and the boy's room, fix all the outdoor outlets so that they work now, hang two out of three ceiling fans, fix all the illegal wiring that the yahoo's who had the house before us put in. He is great! We are getting the buddy rate so it's not breaking the bank. We are scheduled for the eaves troughing next week (Kennel's Seamless Eaves Troughing out of Arnprior have been AWESOME!!! I SO recommend them if you are looking.) And I have to book the fireplace guys in to clean and inspect the gas fireplaces. Once all that is done we are FINISHED for the winter! Can't wait! We will have 6 months to dig out of debt before we have to start replacing the windows and front door in the spring. LOVE MY HOUSE!!!! So pretty, so organized (ar at least it will be soon!). Anyway, must go sleepy. so....sleepy.....

*zzz*

Major Update

So let's do this in point form 'cause there is alot.

-friend Kenn is getting engaged...as soon as I work with Jubilee to get the ring custom made for him! It's sooo fun, it's going to be dragon's claws holding a black pearl.

-I successfully enacted a "sting" on my other work mates. I ws tired of the boss calling me and and telling me that the girls had tattled that I had been on the internet at work. So, when I had been busting my ass all day and saw that they were screwing around I sent a little email to the boss saying to come to the office. That is was about that conversation we had had about people in glass houses should not throw stones. She came right on time and caught one on the phone with her girlfriend and the other two watching music videos over the net. VERY SWEET!

-Layoffs happened at work. 68 people gone including people forced to retire. Also including two out of the four people in my office. All that is left now is Marshy and I. SO HAPPY! Bitch is gone! BITCH IS GONE!!!! After she got told she was laid off, she stormed into the office and started going on about how she guessed she was not one of the favourites! Pleasent, that's all I have to say.

-Mother-in-law and Aunt-in-law are showing up tomorrow and are staying for 4 days. Should be fun

-Can't wait for this weekend. Work is really horrid right now because morale is in the dumps. Oh well, give it two weeks and it will be like it never happened.

bye for now,

Kay

J is going to HELL too!!!

He is going to the same level of hell as me. He just has different scores then me!

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Moderate
Level 2 (Lustful)	High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Very High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Very High
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Low
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Extreme
Level 7 (Violent)	High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Low

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test

I'm going straight to HELL!!!

LMAO!!!! I love it!!!! Thanks Ange, for the awesome quiz!!! :D


The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Very Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Moderate
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Very High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very High
Level 7 (Violent)	High
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Very High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	High

Take the Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno Test

Thursday...

Tonight J and I had some fun priming the kitchen with the tinted primer. And before my Assclown husband comments on here. Yes honey, you did start out before me and finished long after I did.

LAV YOO!!!!! :D

Anyway, our first real house guest is coming this weekend. We want the kitchen completed so J can be Uber Chef in his pretty place of cooking. Must go beddy. So sleepy....

*zzz*

OH...MY...GOD

Okay. I just had a creeped out moment. For the past several months I have been taking whatever is in my brain or what is going on in my life and writing it down here. Didn't matter about what it was, just writing it down got it out of my head and made the load lighter, if you get my meaning.

Kudos to ANGERAH for showing me this cool medium for expressing one's self.

ANYWAY...

So, I look in my comments section tonight just to see if Angerah, Raevyn, or Teddy had said anything. Or, if my hubby had something particularly smartass to say about what I had written. That's when I see it. Someone has commented who I have no clue who they are. Thus I am weirded out. I mean I deliberately set this blog to be able to be read by one and all. I guess I just didn't think that anyone out there other then close friends would think to read this. I have only this to say:

"Hello, Geekinblack. You opened my eyes to the fact that the world can, and apparently does, read the stuff that I post here. OH MY GOD! Note to self: must get smartass husband to start editing me before I post stuff."

End of mild freaking out.

So to update on all things Bell related:

Both J and I took a turn at slapping Bell around to reimburse us for the stuff they have put us through for the past two weeks. In a nutshell, it took some yelling and finally getting a wonderful person in Billing to get the money back and a month of free service. I still hate Bell, but since I bundle my landline, internet, cell, and tv through them and get awesome savings, I’ll stay with them for now.

The house is looking great! Mom and Dad were up this past weekend for a marathon of punch-out work. The trim is on two out of the four rooms it was removed from for painting, the broken light switches around the house have been replaced and are working, the bathroom downstairs has a new sink/taps and the caulking has been stripped and redone, the fourth trip to the dump happened that took, among other things, the beat-up white sofa that a friend of ours was nice enough to give us when we first moved in together(the boy has used it for his personal trampoline for the past year), one trip to IKEA for my new book case and a new nightstand for J's side of the bed, and (my favourite) my closet is PERFECT!!! Just in case you all haven’t noticed, I’m pretty shallow. A puddle after a rainstorm is I. The fact that my closet getting an organizer to my specific specifications is the thing I’m most happy about should tell you a lot. I’m sorry but the old one was so totally inefficient that I wanted to rip it out with my bare hands. I kind of did that anyway with the pry bar and J’s cordless drill, but I digress.

I had a fun moment tonight when J realized I'm the man. I was out cutting our lawn for the first time with our new lawn mower and our new GrassHog (Whipper-Snipper), and J was in the house making a lovely pasta sauce from scratch and spaghetti. He pokes his head out and says to me, “You know, I don’t remember when it happened, but I slowly became the bitch.”. I laughed and went back to trimming my wee patch of grass. I loved the yard work! It was so satisfying to look at it all when I was done and see that my half of the yard was prettier then my neighbors!

The Boy update:

The boy went back to Sam today for the whole day for the first time since June. HE IS HAPPY! Is back to normal and is acting like he never left! I couldn’t be happier or more stress free about my son’s daycare!

Work Update:

One of my close co-workers was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease. I have so many emotions about this I can’t even begin to articulate them all. I can’t begin to wonder what he is feeling.

One that happy note, I’m off to bed.

Blog ya later.

Kay

PHONES!!!!!

10 days later we have phones and internet. The boy is sick and whining beside me. Will post more later.

Kay

Still no phone...

I want to call people. I'm cut off. I WANT MY PHONE!

Bell is now telling me after blowing the fifth deadline that a technician will be coming by my house tomorrow morning. Yippee. Let's see what happens this time.

Mom and Dad are coming up this weekend. Dad is going to be putting the trim on the walls, fixing the sink in the downstairs bathroom, and helping me rebuild my closet. Mom is going to have fun with the boy.

I did about 20 runs up and down the stairs at the apartment last night. Almost got everything out in the last car load. Only things that are left are the cleaning supplies that J is going to use tonight to clean up. YAY!!! No more stairs!!!! YAY!!!!

To update on The Boy.

He is not doing well with the backup of the backup of the failed backup. He has actually stayed with Sirage before but that was when we wasn't even a year old yet. He doesn't remember her at all and channels Satan when we pull in the driveway until we pry his little fingers off of us and hand him to Sirage. Then he is carried into the main room while we are leaving and he is reaching for us over her shoulder, screaming as if someone is breaking his legs. I cried to work the first two days....until I phoned after I got to work and found out he is playing with the other kids, laughing and having a good time. Today I tossed him to her and waved as we shut the door in his face, but I know he is fine. Thank GOD Sam is back next week!

Anyway, will write something out at home over the weekend and post on Monday.

Buh Bye! :)

Bell phone home....

So it’s time for me to update the blog. I would have done it sooner but we have been without a telephone line/internet since Thursday of last week. Will see if we have a dial tone when we get home tonight.

ANYWAY,

Will cover everything in point form just to shorten then telling:

Tom P., our electrician, came to the house and got the heater in the Mater Bedroom installed. Also, found out that the nice ceiling fan in the Master Bedroom was badly done and took it out.

Phone was cut on Thursday morning

Bell Expressview guys show up on time and are GREAT! We now have tv.

Carpet was due to arrive at 10 am, no show, nothing, nadda. Am told at 4:30pm that they had had truck troubles. Fuck you very much.

No phone as of Thursday evening.

Carpet sales guy drives out the laminate that night so that my dad and uncle can install it tomorrow and says the transition pieces are coming with the carpet tomorrow.

Carpet gets installed Friday morning, different carpet installed in the master bedroom, don’t mind too much because it’s a better one.

Carpet guys didn’t bring the transition pieces for the laminate, cue me driving to Perth to pick them up.

Get them back to the house and they are still the wrong pieces. Sales guy will bring them by sometime early next week.

Dad and uncle install the floor over the course of the day.

J and I start packing stuff into the truck and get two truck loads to the house Friday night.

First night of sleep at the house with the boy, J and I. Still no phone.

7am Insulation guys show up on time and finish within quote. GREAT GUYS! J

Movers are a hour late but are overall wonderful. For 6 hours work and $559 all our furniture is moved in.

Saturday night, still no phone.

Sunday is unpacking and bringing 4 car loads of loose stuff to the house. Big Thanks to Jeff for helping.

Sunday was getting the TV’s and entertainment units put together and working. Most of the kitchen is unpacked as well.

Sunday night, me freaking out at Bell about still not having a phone. They tell me they switched software and that 3000 other people are in the same boat. Ask me if I care, GIVE ME MY PHONE!!!!!

Monday, back to work, Ryan with yet another back up because S couldn’t take him this week. Siraj is great but Ryan has a massive freak out over being left with a stranger. Will not take him there for the rest of the week until Samira is back on Thursday.

Quoter for the Seamless Eaves troughs coming tonight at 5pm.

I want my phone.

Back to work tomorrow...

So the weekend from hell is over. J and I are now two second coats away from having four out of five rooms painted. J stayed last night until 1 am to finish the edging in the office, I had a nightmare so I was up at 5:30am today and at the house by 6:15. I got alot of work done before I headed home at 9:30. Picked up the boy and the husband, went to Home Hardware, got to have some quality time at the house with the boy. I had gone to Walmart yesterday morning and bought the last covered "turtle" sandbox in the store (THE DEALS! Got a $40 sandbox for $25!!!) AND the Lil Tikes adjustable basketball net. Man does he love the net! I took him home for a nap at noon and brought him back at 2. I got the master bedroom's first coat of color on before we had to head home. Laundry called. So now that I have three loads of laundry run through the machine, folded and put away, what do I do? I go back to the house and put the first coat of color on the office. I'm so tired I am not coherent to J so I don't know how coherent I'm being here.

Tomorrow is second coats on the MB and the office. Hopefully J also get's the edges in the kitchen primed. I really want to have all the painting done before my parent's get here on Wednesday night.

Ta for now!

Kay

Night off...

So after today we decided that we need the night off. We have been working almost non-stop for three days and I can see the toll it is taking on Mom and Dad. Not including me, J, Lori, and everyone else that has been coming by to help out. Tonight I got some major snuggle time with the boy in the new recliner in front of "The Backyardagans", very fun show with lots of singing and pretty colors! :P Anyway, I'm going to bed as soon as I get the boy there himself.

Today included two trips to Home Hardware (they are saying, "Great to see you again" when they see Dad and I coming now), one trip to the dump where the old dishwasher found it's final resting place, raking the yard of all debris and garbage, weeding, hanging laundry on my clothes line and folding it later to bring it in the house, finishing the painting in my hobby room, watching my baby run through his yard like a maniac, and finding out our babysitter's Dad is an electrician who is willing to come out the house and fix all our nagging electrical issues. Tomorrow is one more trip to the dump, priming the living room, kitchen and master bedroom. Mom is going to come with me to my Weigh-In meeting at lunch and then Mom and Dad are off to the cottage for a rest for the weekend. They will be back up here for Wednesday night of next week.

It's ten after eight, time to do Night Night with the boy.

Blog ya later!

Kay

God my feet smell! :(

Sorry for the grossness. I just started typing and the stench hit me. I've been in my sandals all day in and out of dirt and God-knows-what so I'm guessing I'm taking a shower before bed.

ANYWAY....

So the dishwasher is still there. Yes, we are pissed. No, there is nothing we can do about it except bend over and take it without the K-Y. They also used us as their personal dump. There was a ton of shit stuffed between the shed and the fence that I dug out, the crappy old wooden patio table, about 50 cans of paint got left in the storage area, random crap still in the shelving all over the house, not including the dishwasher, ironing board, rusted snow shovel, and de-humidifyer that they left at the bottom of the driveway to be "picked up" by "some guy" that never came. All this will be taken to the dump. Dad and I made the first of many trips today and got rid of all the carpets that were ripped out. The funny thing is there were twice as many because instead of ripping out the old contruction grade stuff from the 70's, they just lay the new stuff down over top and used the old stuff as the underpad. Very stinky, very dirty, and as my Dad and I can attest, VERY annoying to rip out. Ripping out the carpets, unscrewing all the hardware, chipping out the "Nail Boards" that held the new carpet down, taking a putty knife and shaving all the old black foam from the old carpet off the floor, ripping out the underpading in the living room, finding all the staples that had been used to secure it and pinching out the bits of foam with needle nose pliars then hammering them into the floor, filling all the holes in the walls with dry wall composite, and washing all the walls down took the first day. Not to mention my Mom sanitizing the main bathroom. Why is it that your parents know how to find all the dirt that you didn't know existed? Anway, THANK GOD our friend K.Ch. was there, as well as one of my bridesmaids, and my Aunt and Uncle stopped by for the evening. This got the bulk of the nasty work done in the first day. Today was Dad and I going to the dump first thing in the morning, Lori and I priming two bedrooms, Dad and I patching the crappy hole that the pig/dogs that lived in the house before us put in the wall for their air conditioner, K.Ch. came again tonight to help with priming the living room, and J, Lori, and I completed the Boy's room. It is a lovely shade of sage green. There was also a total of 5 trips to Home Hardware.

PHEW! I'm cooked. I hurt in so many places. Everything is in such chaos. I'm so so so tired.

Anyway, that was my self pity line. On the positive side we have our new Hemnes bed from IKEA built and in the bedroom with our new mattress. We are sleeping great! Most of the nasty work is done, now we are just doing punch out work like painting, installing new garbage holders in the cupboards, fixing the leaking sink, etc. I'm just so happy that we can see the light at the end of the tunnel with this. A week from tomorrow the carpet and laminate is being installed and all the Bell stuff is going to transfer over to the house. The moving company is going to come on next Saturday and take all the big stuff for us like couches and the treadmill.

It feels so much like fall right now. Some of the trees on my way into work have started to turn, there was no humidity today and had a really stiff breeze so it was nice and cool. Mom cooked a turkey in the oven at the house...I don't know. The smells, the sounds, it all makes me feel so at home in this new place. I met one of my neighbours, Lynda, today. She seemed very friendly...considering my parents dog scared her cat into running away. The dog did this through a fence. Anyway, she seemed very nice. Also, the city sent an entire crew into our neighborhood and are installing curbs across the street from our house. I'm assuming they are going to come over to our side at some point.

Must go shower. Must go take Advil. Must go bed.

*death*

Got the KEY!!!!

So we have the key. Got it from Bill at around noon. Preceding this I had gone in with the bank draft and taken the paperwork over to the other lawyer. We waited for my parents to come so that was another hour. 1pm comes along and we are driving over to the house. I'm excited as hell. Practically running beside the car. And that's when we get there.

The people are still there.

Their crap is all over the driveway. The dishwasher is still at the bottom of the driveway. They are still there.

I'm not impressed. I pull in and the woman comes right out and we start talking. Apparently she was told that she had until 5pm. Bullshit, but what can we do. Their stuff is all there. We give them until 5:30 and leave. Dad and I, mostly Dad, build our new bed, Mom and I go get Ryan 2 hours early, and we are going to have dinner before we do Take Two on the ceremonial opening of the front door.

If they are still there we are just going to start bringing in our stuff anyway. Screw'em.

Ciao for now,

Kay

Waiting, waiting, waiting....

So it's 8:45 on Monday morning and I'm at work. Am technically on vacation but I have to wait for my branch of HSBC to open so I can ge the draft of my mortgage to take to my lawyer. Did a little work, got breakfast....SIGH!!!! I WANT MY HOUSE NOW!!!!

Didn't sleep much last night. Helped J with a report he has to do every month.

Anyway, will update once we are in the house.

Buh Bye!
:)

AAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!

HOLY COW!!! TWO MORE DAYS!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Will blog later! :)

Kay

Real Conversation MSN style Vol. III

J says:
ok
K says:
Okay what?
K says:
I had closed the window....
K says:
Speaking of windows, close the bedroom window.
J says:
ok
J says:
You told me something, I said ok...
J says:
You put money on the credit card. Me: ok
K says:
ok
K says:
:D
J says:
wtf

Another Weekend Gone...

So it's Sunday night. We got a ton of stuff done on Saturday. My favourite was us popping into the Sears appliance/furniture store with Grisa. J and I ended up picking out a recliner/rocker for the family room in a moment of impulse! It was a floor model sale so it was half off. LOVE the deals! Speaking of deals, J went to Canadian Tire and bought out half the tool department because everything was on mega sale. Don't ask me to name all he got. It's massive the amount of saws, levels, laser-this, laser-that he got.

The boy made me want to pull out my teeth tonight. I don't know what got into him. J went for his walk and the boy started crying and wouldn't stop for about a half an hour. I chipped him some ice and gave him some "purple", (Motrin), and that seemed to calm him down. I kept asking him where the owie was but he wasn't showing me anything. SIGH! Sometimes I feel like I know what I'm doing with this whole parenting thing, but then a night like this comes along and makes me feel like a newbie again! :(

ONE MORE WEEK UNTIL WE CLOSE!!!!!

Peace out, yo mamma, and all that jazz.

Kay :)

Happy! Happy! Happy!

I don't know what I did but I am feeling GREAT today! I'm wearing my new Eddie Bauer tank top that I got for 60% off, so not only am I looking good I got the deal! I woke up after a great nights sleep, got my little boy to go potty (By the way, we are making real progress with that! He goes first thing in the morning most mornings. The only problem is we have having difficulties on the mornings when his little soldier is at attention. Then he becomes a fountain! :) ), before breakfast I went out to exercise so I don't have to worry about doing it tonight.

J and I have our regular babysitter booked for 1pm and we are going out, just him and me! WOOT! I love the couple time! We don't know where we are going yet. We might go visit our friend's Grisa and pick up some boxes, or we are thinking of going shopping in the Chinese grocery stores on Sumerset. Not sure, we'll see.

House update: Nothing new, just doing packing.

Weight watchers update: Weigh-in on Friday equals me losing 2.5 lbs last week! Have offically lost 33.5 with only 18.5 to go! DOUBLE WOOT!!!

Must go. Am cleaning house and doing laundry while we wait for the babysitter to come.

Blog ya later! :)

Kay

DOUBLE WOOT!

OH MY GOD! This is insane! The ass-clown actually Express Posted it so we have our down payment! WOOT! We are now officially ready to buy the house!

I’ve booked a babysitter for the next couple weekends so that J and I get stuff done. Also she is going to be there all day during the 27th so that we don’t have to worry about Ryan when the moving company is working.

I’ve gotten the names of some local contractors for eaves troughs. I’m very curious about how much it’s going to cost….

Anyway, other then that we are going to start packing in earnest now! We have only 10 days until we close and we are going to be working that whole week leading up to the move. Movies and CDs are going to be easy to pack up. I’m thinking that a lot of the kitchen stuff that is little used can be packed as well. I’m getting J to pick me up some big, black, garbage bags so that I can clean out the linen closet tonight or tomorrow.

Hmmm…what else….

We have to buy the primer for painting

Have to buy CLR to clean out the washer, it’s just covered in build up. I’m hoping that we can replace it within a year.

All of my gadgets and paraphernalia from my curio cabinet can be packed away.

*Note to self: Must label EVERYTHING*

I know there is a ton of random stuff in the top of the linen closet that is going to have to be packed.

At least there are two things that I know of that aren’t going to have to be moved to the new house. Ryan had two diaper leaks in the same day. Nix on one of his rugs and my computer chair coming. They are both in the trash. :(

Anyway, must go and get some more lists together. Blog ya later.

Kay

Ps – You know that blogging has become my personal scratch pad? I have gone back to that original blog about stuff I have to do about four times to make sure I haven’t forgotten anything! J

Woot!

Yay! Something went right! Our line of credit just came online, about a week early! This relieves a lot of pressure off my mind. No we just have to wait for the incompetent ass-clown who has J's money to get it too us from New Brunswick and we're flying! :)

Anyway, only 11 more days! YEHAAAAAAA!!!!

Cheers,

Kay

Yarg!!!

I got a pinched nerve in my neck this morning lifting the Boy out of the car. I couldn’t turn my head, couldn’t lift my arms above my head, it sucks. I think to myself, “Hey, at least it’s massage therapy day at work. I’ll get a rub from Fujio and I’ll be all good.”. Doesn’t he call me to tell me he has to cancel all appointments today because his massage chair got stolen out of his car last night! :(

Anyway, 13 days and counting! The following has been completed:

Carpeting/Laminate ordered and booked for installation

Bought a weed wacker, the “Grass Hog” is it’s name!

Bought our new bed, it went on sale for $70 off so we couldn’t wait.

Got all the Bell stuff set for the move.

Got all my books packed.

J and I both went through all our stuff and did a massive “purge”.

Am going to be starting to pack all the extra sheets and towels in the next couple of days.

Anyway, lots going on. Blog ya later!

Kay

Happy B-day to MEEEEEEEEE!!!

So I'm hitting 27 today. Not to shabby! :)

Only three weeks until we close on the house....

Only three days until the long weekend and fun in Cobourg with the parents...

Only three years until thirty....*sob*

Life is a bowl of bran flakes...

Cheers,

Kay :)

New Bedding...

SQUEEEEEEE!!!!

I had a blast this morning! I was going to Sears at the Carlingwood mall to look at shower curtains and ended up getting an entire bedset!

Got there way too early, the parking lot was half empty and I thought to myself I was going to be waiting a while to get into any stores. On my way in I saw this HUGE lineup for Sears. Turns out not only was it Super Sat/Sunday sales but for the first three hundred people through the doors, you got a $20 off coupon! I ended up getting the Aegean Comforter Set , the link is to a different catalogue then Sears but it is the same one. (The whole reason I'm getting brand new bedding is our current bed is going in the basement guest room so our old comforter set is going down there as well. We are getting this bed for the master bedroom.) I got the queen size comforter, the sheet set with pillow cases, and the decorative shams that look like they have the envelope flap. I also replaced all four pillows and got a mattress cover for the guest bed. Now here is the best part, THE DEAL!!!! So in total it came to about $470. If I hadn't gone in today I would have missed the sale and the coupon. If I hadn't gotten the savings it would have come to a grand total of $709 with taxes. CAN YOU IMAGINE!!! My mother somewhere is feeling proud of me and she doesn't know why! :) I'm going to be painting the walls the colour of lavender from the comforter. SO excited about my new bedroom! I think I have a bathroom set with shower curtain pinned down, but I'm still not sure if it is too girly for me...it's got butterflies all over it...hmmm....

Anyway, for other house stuff, J gets to go visit the house AGAIN tomorrow to measure the space for the dishwasher. I'm soooo jealous! I've only been in our house twice! :(

Much love to everyone,

Kay

Galaxy 90's...

I so love this channel on my Expressview! Currently listening to Prince's "Cream".

So for a house update.

ALL PAPERS ARE SIGNED!!! WOOT! We are now in count down stage. August 15th seems just around the corner but is still a million years away. So for the current checklist of things to do:

Get quotes on carpet installation (Was at the Sears flooring place in Carleton Place this morning. Tons of sales so the price shouldn't make us want to slit our wrists...too much.)

Get quotes on eaves-trough installation

Pick out new dishwasher 'cause the one that's there is dead

Get quote on installation/cost of a water softener

Get lawnmower/whipper-snipper

Now playing Britney Spears "Oops I Did It Again"...

Get quote on insullation installation/attic upgrade

Buy new bed and mattress for master bedroom (Ours is going in the guest room in the basement.)

Start the process on getting the utilities turned on for August 15th but not completely switched over until the 27th when weare completely move in.

Get Bell to install new dish for expressview at the new place.

Buy HUGE loads of Mr. Clean and CLR because the people before us did not like soap and water as a combination.

PHEEEW!!!! Well, at least we already have out paint colors picked out. Mom and Dad are going to be so awesome! Dad is totally construction-y and will install our laminate in the front office for J's while I'm painting and Mom is cleaning. It is going to be 2 weeks of HELL, yet satisfying because we're making positive changes to my family's new home. I can't wait for the day when The Boy asks to go outside and I can just let him out the door!

Now playing Chumbawumba "Tubthumpping"

Bye for now!

ps - Happy Anniversary Rae & Jim!!! :)
Kay

Blerg about MSN...

Okay, so if anyone has tried to talk to me for the past two days on MSN I have not been here. Sorry about this. One of J's computers has been automatically logging me in when it is turned on and I didn't know about it. I came upstairs and was turning off the machines for J last night when I saw about four conversations that people has tried to start with me and it looked like I ignored them. SORRY, wasn't here, didn't know I was logged on, would have replied if I had known. :(

Anyway, quick update. My parents are coming up today because the house inspection is tomorrow. Not only would I have wanted my Dad to be here for it we had a daycare conflict. The boy is home with us all next week because our new provider already had a vacation week booked. I didn't want to put the boy into a back up of our back up for one week and screw up his already tenuous routine. Mom will babysit while Daddy and Poppa go see the new house.

Have I mentioned that we are very excited about this? HOLY COW ARE WE EXCITED!!!! We were at Home Depot, or as we call it Home Despot(the home store run by Hitler), twice this weekend. Picked out the possible flooring for the office, got some paint chips and picked the colors for most of the rooms. J is in kitchen heaven going through appliance reviews and picking out what he is going to have in his kitchen! Also, BIG news for me! Instead of getting a cheap new bed for the guest room downstairs, we are going to buy the matching bed frame of our current furniture and a new mattress for us! WOOT and DOUBLE WOOT!!!! I'm not going to be sleeping in a hole anymore! The guests get to!!! :)

Anyway, must go. Got all the vacuuming and tidying done but I still have to mop before the 'rents get here.

Buh bye! :)

Signing your life away...

So It's now 10pm and the agent has left. All papers have been screwed up once on behalf of J and I, re-copied, and then correctly signed. (At the exact same moment we both put our initials on the "seller" section of a page. Oh well, nobody's perfect.)

This is a very good reason why I missed M&G, right? Please Teddy/Raevyn, fill me in on the dirt! :)

Anyway, both J and I are doing phoning for lawyers/mortgage/insurance/inspectors tomorrow. Overall, we are looking at moving on Labor Day weekend! YAY LONG WEEKEND!!!!

It's been a great run here at the apartment. I was pregnant here, was proposed to here, brought my baby boy home to his first night here...anyway, there are tons of good memories that include friends and family alike. I can't wait to start making new ones across town.

Cheers,

Kay

ps - The boy has new daycare, she is fine, the boy is doing well, everything a-okay on that front.

THEY TOOK IT!!!!

So we broke and emailed the listing agent that we would go up another $2000. Just to see if they would bite. They did! Anyway, they ended up coming down $1900 themselves. We are EXCITED!

Okay, I'm more then a little bit speechless right now. Just know that we are happy and we are going to be moving before September.

DOH! An-ger-ah, this means that KG is cancelled for me. Wanna use my tent? It's enough for one with space for a VERY good friend. Would be more then willing to lend it to you. Let us know!

Love you all and thanks for all the advice along the way,

Kay

Smeh on them...

So we didn't get the house. Rather then come down they took the friggin' place off the market. Can you believe it!?! The agent alluded to they are feuding and that they are not sure what they are going to do with the house. Anyway, at least we are preapproved for a mortgage and can now look at our own pace. Blerg.

Kay

Tick tock tick tock...

So we put an offer on the house...it was turned down. The people came down all of $400 dollars from their asking price. NOT acceptable considering they didn't take good care of the place and we are going to have to replace/rip out and put down hardwood before we can move in. We are going to let them stew for a week before coming back with our last offer. They really don't have much choice, they have had the place on the market for a month and a half and we are the first offer. She took a new job in Deep River and is already there! He is only there on the weekends to keep it "warm" so to speak. Anyway, we want this place. It's perfect for our needs, and it's spacious enough that we won't feel hemmed in. Anyway, will update when we have more news...

Kay

Breathe...breathe...

Okay, J and I have now been officially pre-approved for our mortgage.

HOLY SHIT!

When Mom and Dad and us go through the house tomorrow we can make a conditional offer on the house.

Once again, HOLY SHIT!

By for now!

Kay

DUM DUM DUUUUUUUM *evil music*

So I have a real update to do. To start off, my baby.

Ryan is at home right now mostly because he has the croup. He woke me up at 4am barking like a seal so I got up and turned the humidifier on and shut his door so he would be in his own personal rain forest. Of course I couldn’t get back to sleep because of all the stress that has been going on for the past two days.

Part ONE

Ryan’s new daycare provider sucks. I have taken him there a total of twice and both mornings the basement door is closed, the kids are downstairs and chickie is upstairs with the tv on. I don’t know if she is just waiting for the other kids to show, or if her husband is sleeping because he works late and she wants to keep the noise down or what. All I know is I don’t like it. I called Wee Watch yesterday and told the boss about what I had seen for the past two days and the first and only word out of her mouth was “Unacceptable!”. They are sending the monthly inspector by today, but I am not sending my baby back there. I can’t knowingly consign him to basement living. He will be home for the rest of the week sick anyway but even if he had been well I would have only let him stay one more day just so that he would have been there for the inspector. Will blog more later about interviewing new people.

Part TWO

My office mate nearly lost her house on Monday. Let me give you the scoop about these people: one part crazy, three parts stupid. They moved into their house back in December, in fact, I helped to move them in. At the time J and I were basically taking bets on when they would get themselves into trouble financially. They bought the place with 0% down, got a line of credit to pay off ANOTHER line of credit with another bank from the last time they consolidated all their debt after they sold their last house to move in with their in-laws because they couldn’t afford to keep it because….Oh Fuck. ANYWAY. They kept saying, “Oh yeah, we are going to be so on the edge, but we can do it. We can cut back and not spend money.”. So they did things like, buy a third car for the parts, sink four grand into the other car that is only on the road during the summer, there was even a day when she got her friggin’ hair cut with money from the line of credit because they were short on cash. Not to mention they put one of their two sons into hockey for the bargain price of $300. The credit line is now maxed, all $12,000 of it. What a shock. So she gets a call from her bank on Monday, it turns out that they have been only paying the interest on this thing since they got it. That’s the way the lady at the bank explained it to them, that it's okay to just put the interest on it. But now the bank is saying that she didn’t know what she was talking about and now they need 3% plus interest. So the payment is from $80 to $380 or something like that. For the rest of the day all I can hear is her hyperventilating in the corner about how they can’t afford that and they are going to lose the house. The next day a solution has presented itself, her husband can basically do as much overtime as he wants so it he does four hours, four times a week they can make the new payment. Of course, they don’t want to punish their son for their mistakes so he is still going into hockey this winter.....*sigh*

Part THREE

J said yes to looking at a house. … … I KNOW!!! HE SAID YES!!! We went last night and looked at it.

We love it far more then we thought we would. Dad and Mom are coming up Thursday night to look at it. If they give us the high sign we are going to put an offer in. Of course we now have to go get pre-approved for a mortgage, find a lawyer, get the down payment out of the locked investment…

Will do more info about this later when I know more about what is going on.

Anyway, all of this combined in two days let me go to sleep after midnight, the boy had me up at 4am, I found J on the couch upstairs sleeping so I woke him and led him back downstairs and put him to bed, and I couldn’t get back to sleep. I got to work at friggin’ 6am. Slightly crunchy eyed but I would have been anyway if I had stayed in bed killing time listening to J snore.

I will be back again sometime before the end of the week.

Hugs to all!

Kay

Damn, Damn, Damn...

I am so not happy right now. I'll fill you in on the back story.

Sam, our daycare provider, has left us for the summer. Her father is ill in Venezuela so she has taken all 6 of her kids and gone there for the summer. No problem, I of all people know about family emergencies. Well and good, but this means Ryan is with someone new for the summer. We started with Ham today. I walk up to the door with Ryan and all his stuff and ring the bell. She is sitting in her living room watching daytime television. Okay, I think to myself that, the other kids must not be there yet. Oh no, they are all downstairs...with the basement door closed...so she opens the door and Ryan toddles down there to play with the toys. Am I freaking for no reason? Am I the only one who is wondering how much supervision is going on there?

So I cry my way to work and get myself under control enough to get inside and start the wait. Is she going to call? is he going to be freaking out? I don't know. All I know is she is not Sam and I am not happy! :(

I call at 9:30 and she said that the Boy had a little cry and asked for me, but after she told him that I was at work and would come at the end of the day he calmed down. He was having a snack of cheese and crackers when I was on the phone with her. Anyway, if I'm not more comfortable by the end of the week I'm calling Wee Watch and saying WTF!

:(

Noo Nee Noo Nee Noo Nee

So I have been a monstrous butthead and have not updated here in days and days. I know! How cruel of me to deny you insight into my warped take on life! How dare I take away your only form of entertainment! Oh well, if I can get over myself, you can get over my ignoring you. :D

Anyway, to start off, Holy F&*K it is hot out! We have two air conditioner, two ceiling fans, and two stand alone fans and is it cool in my house? NOPE! For crying out loud, it’s been like this for a week! We are going to my parents place in hopes of staying cool over the long weekend. Can’t wait to see my mom and dad, I don’t see them enough and I know they miss the boy more then they miss me. I’m okay with this because I know how great my little guy is!

Speaking of the little guy, he has been home with J for a week now because he broke out in what we suspect was Chicken Pox. Still not sure if it was, because he is happier the a pig in poop. Pelting around the house, destroying this and that, spottier then normal though.

I’ve decided to give pottery a break for now. I just seem so busy at home, I’m cleaning more, and J is hooked on Age of Mythology again so we are on the computer more together. Oh well, I still have a pile of clay to get through so I know I’ll be back in the fall or winter.

Weight watchers is going okay. Am up to 29 pounds lost and counting. J is doing great with it as well with 10 pounds gone.

Anyway, must go home as start packing for the trip to Mom and Dad’s.

Happy Canada Day!

Kay

Vol. 3 - Real Conversations Between Real Married People - MSN version

K says:
Which looks more professional/sexy:
My "martha" dress that's red orange and white back ground
or
Orange top and green skirt?

J says:
just a second. professional/sexy? Isn't that two different things?

K says:
Nope, it's like wanting to do your secretary...

K says:
I don't want to look like a whore, just a little slutty, but respectable.

J says:
I guess it's time to subscribe to Respectable Slut magazine and check the fashion tips

K says:
Okay, let's try this, which one do you like better?

J says:
the orange and green, I guess

K says:
Thank you

J says:
If we're done, I'm going to go do my secretary now.

tick tock tick tock

Yes I know I have been very delinquent in updating here. Just so much to do.

Had people over on Saturday night, went out with the family to another place on Sunday, got the house mostly cleaned, yes J I plan to mop the kitchen tonight, and finished balling friggin' socks for 2 boys and myself at 11:15 last night. Laundry! THY PAIN IS NEVER ENDING!!!! :(

I AM POOPED.

Anyway, am on lunch, might do an update later.

The Wife

Double Blurg Soaked in Cat Pee

Oh holy hell my eyes are crunchy. Here goes, am going to bullet this just to get it out there and I may or may not flesh this out later depending on mood/time.

- Weekend was awesome, parents are fantastic, the boy was great, and I love my husband

- Didn't mention on Friday that I had booked the car in to be fixed because of "noisy" steering. Turns out I had to get a new "Rack and Pinion". What ever the hell that is, it is costing my family $1200. I embrace the debt as Jodel says. So after not sleeping all night last night in anticipation of getting up early and getting on the road, I have myself up at 5:15am and the rest of the family up, packed and driving by 6:25am. Damn I hurt. So we get into the 'Mont at about 9:30am, drop the husband off, take the boy to day care and drive in to Capital Dodge. All good, they take Barney and drop me off at Bayshore. I piss away the entire friggin' day (Even though I asked if this was going to go pat 4pm, and could I get my rental now?) at the friggin' mall. I get back to the dealership at 3:30pm and the car is not close to being ready. So they set me up with the rental for the night. I would like to take this time to say driving home a brand new Dodge Dakota, Quad cab, V8 truck makes you feel like a MAN! Even though I have boobies. I love it and it was the only good thing to happen today.

- Now having lost the day to sit on my ass at the Mall, I now have to go and start on all the chores I had planned to do during today.

Will blog when I'm in a better mood.

smeh

....

HEY! I almost forgot! One of the reasons I love my husband is he is a fantastic chef! HE MADE ME VEGETARIAN CURRY FOR DINNER!!! So perked me up, love you sweetie!

The Wife

ps - Yes, my husband deals with my violent mood swings rather well! :)

A week in review...

So it is Friday! YIPPEE!!! This week has been hugely busy...which is my excuse that I’m sticking to for not blogging sooner. Let’s see, where to start….

Saturday: Went shopping with my good buddy K. The both of us needed some new summer clothes so off we went to Bayshore. Much laughter was had when the woman in Eddie Bauer offered to let us share the change room. We politely thanked her but said we were friends but not that kind of friends. Bought another skirt...hmmm...I guess it's true, I am a girl! :)

Sunday: Went to Raevyn’s for dinner and had a ball. My Monster was a good boy running around after her kids. Who by the way are exceptional little people! Great manners, took care of The Boy like he was one of them, fantastic respect for the parents, AWESOME KIDS! Dinner was great except for The Boy not wanting to eat with us because he had filled up on crackers. Otherwise, great fun and am looking forward to seeing them all again! No Raevyn we aren't mentioning getting lost driving to the 'Prior! :(

Monday: A) Skipped out on Pottery because it was too damn hot. Also, am needing a break from it. It has become work instead of fun. I’m not open to learning new things right now. I just want to make my soccer balls, crank out a few dozen mugs and not have to deal with anyone. Oh well, will go back to just being a studio potter for a while and if I feel like it will get lessons again over the winter.

B) Went for my jog and was in a bit of pain. My knee was killing me so I only did one little stretch of running and did not feel better for doing it. Uh oh.

Tuesday: After work went straight to the doctor. My knee was completely fooked. It would not take weight going down stairs, overall a feeling of swollen numbness. Turns out I have micro tears in my meniscus. I know! I didn’t know I had one of those either! Also, I have two of them! Translation: In my knee cartilage. So after I got the word that I wouldn’t be jogging for the next four days I immediately went to Motion Wear at the Hazeldean mall and bought myself new running shoes. My Asics Cumulus were getting worn down and they were a couple of years old. So I got my assessment done on my stride, the wear pattern on the bottom of my shoes, and it turns out my feet are perfect! They don’t pronate, souponate (I have no idea of the spelling of these terms. It means my ankles don’t lean out in either direction.) and my arches are beautiful. SO, I ended up getting a brand new pair of the exact same shoe that I already owned! Asics Cumulus IV! Love them! Have yet to use them but I’m sure it will be an improvement.

Wednesday: Had to drive back into town after work again to get more diapers at Walmart, go to Bell World to get the car charger for my cell phone, and then head down to the pavilion to the Pagan M&G. Got all my errands done and was driving down Carling on my way to the M&G when I get stopped at the light across from the hospital. Out of the corner of my eye I can see some woman strutting her stuff across the intersection and I turn my head to see who is putting on the moves…IT’S MEL!!! My martini partner from previous posts! She hops in the car and we chat up to Prince of Wales Drive where I drop her off to catch the 85 bus and I head to pavilion. Overall, it was a good night. I got to see Ted, Tanya, Morris, and met someone new who seems like an awesome person, Marie. I have decided to take all of my forays into paganism as an educational experience. MyFriendAnge tm is pagan and I don’t want to sound like an ignorant twit so I want to learn. I have figured out that religion as a whole does not appeal to me. I’m very willing to learn but am not eager to be practicing. Anyway, ‘nuff said on that subject.

Thursday: Hung around the house and did some laundry. The boy didn't want to go to sleep until after 10:40. Poor boy was so tired this morning! After we got him dressed he climbed back into bed with his Bunny. He did go to day care but was very quiet and droopy.

Friday: Tonight the family and I leave for Cobourg. Should be a great weekend with the family. I’m going to be seeing both of my girl friends from high school so it will be a ball!

Anyway, much love to you, my readers.

Peace out, yo muthuh, buh bye and all that good stuff!

Sunday Fun!

WOOHOO!!! Out to Raevyn's for dinner with the peeps toinght! As soon as the boy is up from his nap we are hitting the road, loaded with food, for the 'Prior! That kid is going to sleep tonight!

If I'm sober I'll blog later but ther is also the factor that I'll be tired out too! Got to go get the laundry done and folded. Also, see previous post, must go clean out the car. :(

Hey Ange, do you think you might be able to get your ticket to have a lay over of a couple days here in Ottawa? :) The family here would love to see you and since you are already in the province...? Anyway, Jay and I just thought we would ask if you had to be back home super quick after Fest.

Hugs to one and all!

More Real Conversations Between Married Couples - MSN Version

The previous conversation was about how I hit my pre-pregnancy weight today. Twenty-eight pounds lost! Enjoy!


K says:
What are you going to do with a skinny wife this weekend? Something dirty I hope...dirty DIRTY!
J says:
Since she's in good shape, she won't have any problems cleaning out the car.
K says:
fu
J says:
omg gasp
K says:
stfu
J says:
pfo
K says:
i hate you

AHHHHH!!! Bask in the warmth of the love!

Actual Conversations of a Married Couple...

Scene: 12am, couple in bed reading Canadian Living magazines looking for dinner for the next night.

K: Are you flipping through that whole magazine? There is an index at the back you know.

J: I know there is. I like to flip through it.

K: You're a flippin' moron.

J: Sweetie, use words that help, not words that hurt.

*pause*

K: Didn't you call me a forgetful Ass-Bitch the other night!?!

*pause*

J: Oh...When did I call you that?

*pause*

K: I can't remember...I KNOW you did!

Fin

R-I-I-I-I-P!!!! Volume II

Okay, if you are a faithful reader of the crazy that spews out of here you will have heard about the ripped skirt. Here is what happened to me this week that I forgot to Blog about.

I went shopping on Sunday afternoon. I felt like getting out of the house and replacing a pair of navy jogging pants that I had worn through so I hopped in the car and bopped into Wal-Mart. Do you think I could find one pair??? No. I did, however, find clothes for the boy, sports tops for jogging, and a few other things that brought the bill up to $163. At this point I'm thinking to myself, "Self, you are about the be hurt in some horrible way when you walk in the door with this stuff after you told your loving, sweet, understanding, husband that you were only getting jogging pants.". This is when I whipped out an old Walmart gift card that Jay has hanging around his wallet that I swipped earlier. WOOHOO!! That brought it down to a more reasonable $98. So, having saved myself I then took off to Bayshore to get my self a new outfit! :)

If at this point you are trying to figure out the logic about that one, please, call my husband, he is still trying to figure it out too.

Got to Old Navy and decided to face down my arch nemesis, THE CHANGE ROOM. The back story about this is the last time I was in this store I had a mild panic attack about trying on clothes. I have been losing weight for about 6 months now and had a small mental block about putting a "label" on myself. I am a size 16, or I am a size 14, whatever. This time I got both of those is about 6 different styles of pants and got in line. WOOHOO!!! I'm a size 14 again! Anyway, only bought one pair. Went to Payless and got a cheap pair of nice sandals. Mommy is Stylin'!!!

So, Monday dawns bright and clear! The birds are singing and I am going to be going to work in new pants! I use my fashion consultant/husband for which shirt. I ended up weeding out a few of the older ones into the garbage before settling and getting myself and the boy into work/daycare. I am feelin' good! I look good, am walking in new shoes, life couldn't be better.

And then it happens.

I glance down at my pants as I'm walking down the hall and I think I see a thread near the fly. THERE IS A FUCKING HOLE TWO INCHES LONG DIRECTLY UNDER THE FLY! I calmly go back to our lovely receptionist and ask her if she has tan thread with her black. Nope. I get back to my office and spread'em to show the girls what has happened to me...AGAIN! They tell me that if I stand normally you can't see the hole, so I think to myself, "Okay, I'm gonna be okay. Will get through today and get these home and sew them. It will all be fine.". I turn around to go back to my desk and a huge collective gasp rings out. The seam going between my legs and up to the waist band has pretty much split. The only thing that is preventing the world from seeing my, as Ted would say, naughty bits is a wee bit of thread. I lose it. I pick up my coat, my purse and say I'll be back in an hour. Back to Old Navy I go and show the first GIRL sales person my problem. She is immediately helpful...in telling me there are no more of my pants in the store. I say, "Okay, get every size 14 you can find and meet me in the change room in 5 minutes." I ended up getting instead pants a new skirt, new top and to top it all off, the skirt was a size 12, the first one of my adult life!

So, is this a happy ending? You decide.

Buh Bye

ps - it was kinda funny to have people walk by me in the hall looking at me and saying, "Weren't you wearing something different today?", and me reply back, "Nope, you must be thinking of some other day!"

RIO Forge Update...

So it's not dead! Or at least it wasn't for long. Jay tried to do a few things to it, googled a bunch of info on it. Basically if you leave the battery out of it for 20 minutes or more it resets itself and that fixed it. Anyway, must get some work done. We are listening to The Wedding on HOT 89.9 this morning while we work.

Buh Bye!

Holy Fuck!

So I have to capture this day while I still have the adreniline coursing through my system. Please forgive all typo's, run-on sentences and grammer errors. Too tired to fucking care yet too wound to stop typing!!! :P

Day started at 2:38 in the morning with the boy waking up screaming his head off. Understandable, because he had crapped his pants before falling asleep. This of course meant that it was extremely painful and uncomfortable at 2:38 in the morning. Changed his bum, gave him big hugs and cuddles, sang him the "sunshine" song and then crawled back into bed for another three hours of sleep. Great morning! Was up before everyone, as usual, had my shower and got ready to go before either of my men woke up. I knew the munchkin was going to be grumpy so I cut up a bag full of strawberries, his favourite, for his breakfast and had them ready at the change table. GOOD PLAN MOMMY! He was VERY happy to see them and helped keep a good mood on him all the way to day care. Jay came with us today to work out of Kanata for a change. BONUS! Got to have a 2 point breakfast with my sweetie (english muffin, no butter, and an egg white with 1 tbsp of ketchup) and then the honey took me out to lunch at Bombay Marsala. OH GOD THE CURRY!!!!! I deliberately only had a turkey bite for the whole morning to save points for lunch, which we figure ended up being around 30. Had the deep fried onion balls, butter chicken, ground beef type of curry, and curried veggies!!! SO YUMMY!!!! Anyway, that was it for food for the day. Didn't have dinner except some of Ryan's strawberries/milk/wee bit of ice cream smoothie. Jay went off to install the computer he built over the weekend and left me with the monster. I emptied the dishwasher and loaded it again, cleaned kitchen to shining, striped the bed and washed the sheets and mattress cover, folded three loads of laundry, tidied up the monster's room, swept the living room, made the boy dinner, and got started on the new Nora Roberts, Black Rose. Jay came home at this point and made a pot of coffee and we tried out the new Vanilla Caramel creamer. OH HOLY HELL THE YUMMY!

ANYWAY, here is the fun part. My RIO Forge DIED!!! Wouldn't start, nothing. Jay plugged in the USB cable and it was able to connect but it looked like it was going to have to be flashed...or some such techno babble. Ended up letting Jay fiddle with it for about a half and hour before taking HIS MP3 player and going on my run. This is now 10:30 at night and am so crusty eyed it's horrible. But, I ate my heart out at lunch so the guilt was riding me. I HAD THE BEST RUN OF MY LIFE!!! I ran 3/4 of the entire route that I usually take in four separate bouts of running!!! I was so high when I got back I wanted to put my head through a brick wall or, start doing back flips! What I ended up doing was stretching in front of the intro to Goldmember (Forgot how funny that was!), chugging a bottle of my flavoured water that we got at Costco and making the bed before coming up here.

Okay, it's now 11:43 and am on the crash. Must....go....sleepy.....

*ZZZ...ZZZ...ZZZ*

Tee Hee!!!

Check it out! I'm doing HTML stuff! Not that I know a thing about it, or if it didn't work I would know how to fix it...hmmm.....SMRT!!!!!!

Stole this from Tedrow's blog! This is actually pretty close to the last D&D character I played.

WORD TO MORJA, ELISAR, MENION, AND RHANA!!!!!

Must go have some quality time with my Dungeon Master! ;)

Buh Bye.

I Am A: Chaotic Good Human Ranger Fighter


Alignment:
Chaotic Good characters are independent types with a strong belief in the value of goodness. They have little use for governments and other forces of order, and will generally do their own things, without heed to such groups.


Race:
Humans are the 'average' race. They have the shortest life spans, and because of this, they tend to avoid the racial prejudices that other races are known for. They are also very curious and tend to live 'for the moment'.


Primary Class:
Rangers are the defenders of nature and the elements. They are in tune with the Earth, and work to keep it safe and healthy.


Secondary Class:
Fighters are the warriors. They use weapons to accomplish their goals. This isn't to say that they aren't intelligent, but that they do, in fact, believe that violence is frequently the answer.


Deity:
Shaundakul is the Chaotic Good god of travel and exploration. He is also known as the Rider of the Winds. His followers are typically rangers, and work to protect the land. They typically wear leather armor, and carry long swords and short bows. Shaundakul's symbol is a white hand with the index finger raised.


Find out What D&D Character Are You?, courtesy ofNeppyMan (e-mail)

MUH-HA-HA-HA!!!

It has been done! I have turned Jay over to the dark side!!!!

This Saturday marked the first day of my husband joining me on the weight watchers diet! WOOHOO!!! I GOT'M HOOKED!

He has been doing really great to. Because he's 6'2" he gets a lot more points them me, but he is still having fun getting aquainted with the points and stuff. Will get him to update on how he is adjusting.

Can't wait for next weekend! Going to Raevyn's for dinner with the family! Should be a brawl!!! :D

Anyway, Jay are I are going to go watch a movie.

Props to da 'Hood, yo.

Holy COSTCO Batman!!!

So I feel like I just witnessed a train wreck! I just got back from a huge trip with the family to Costco...yes you read right, I took The Boy to a large busy store. I know what your thinking, "She's crazy as a loon." or "What was she smoking!?!". I now feel the same way. Jay and I totally agree that he was a normal 2 year old. Which means of course that most of the trip was hell. He was good in that he stayed in the cart for most of the time. He was cute when he was eating the samples that were offered(rice, chocolate covered strawberries, mango, and two different kinds of juice). Was very polite and clean in the way he shoved them down his throat and made them disappear. When it came time to put the stuff through the cash Jay and I took the boy to the food court area and got a Poutine (By the way, Costco Poutine is by far the best EVER! The cheese is in huge chunks, like, hey we are too lazy to shred this stuff! We are going to give you these giant pieces of cheese on these deep fried potato slices with a gallon of rich dark gravey and there you go! A heaping helping of heart attack!!!) which the boy refused eat, a slice of okay pizza(seemed dry, aka old) which the boy refused to eat, and a diet coke...which the boy drained and had a melt down if anyone tried to take it from them. Holy cow, by the time we got all of the stuff in the car (We didn't do too badly, only about $190 this trip.) and got home I think I am in a state of shock.

My sinus cold is still in full force. When I walked in the door, the first thing, after changing the bum of the boy, was get out the Dristan Nasal Mist. LOVE THAT STUFF!!! It is like a shot-gun blast to the sinuses! I had major pressure, leakage and ear pain. One shot in each side and suddenly I'm a healthy person! Love that stuff. Too bad it's highly addictive or I would use it more then the recommended twice a day.

I am soooooo bummed! The one thing that I totally lusted after tonight was such a bargain. DAMN TAXES making us have to save our money! It was an 18" 14kt white gold rope chain necklace...for only $93!!!! *sigh* maybe next time....(HINT HINT SWEETIE!!!! :D )

Anyway, must go and coralle the boy into his bed. Jay is already unwrapping the computer he is building so I will see in on Monday.

Later 'Gator!

Woot!

YAAAAAYYYY!!! The weekend is here again! It is going to be sooooo nice to relax. Jay is going to be building a computer all weekend so he will keep himself busy. Ryan and I might try a couple of road trips…

Anyway, the boy has done it again. The poor little guy had a touch of the croup and passed it to me in the form of a sinus cold. I really, REALLY hate sinus colds now. It’s the “I can’t breathe, so I can’t eat easily, or taste anything, or sleep comfortably” kind of deal. Jay is dosing me with some Nyquil for the first time ever tonight because I’m sick of not sleeping.

I’m going to be doing my gardening this weekend. YAR I’M NOT SUGAR I WON’T MELT! I don’t care if it rains, I want to get my herbs planted. My sweet sweet husband went to the Home Hardware and picked up my second planter.

If I’m a little disjointed it’s because DUFFMAN CAN NOT BREATHE, OH YEAH!

Must work, will blog over the weekend.

Later ‘Gator!

Cheap, Cheap, Cheap

So the story of my long weekend. Where to begin…

I left work, took the boy home, had dinner, and then drove to the market to Mel’s place. From her place went to meet up with Jodel at the Tulip Festival for the Shawn Desman concert. FUN! VERY FUN! The concert was awesome, and had a great time. After that however was when it went downhill. Wait, scratch that, the next morning was when it went down hill. I was horribly, publicly, drunk. When I say drunk I mean, I was held up to get home. But here is the funny part. IT WAS ON ONLY FOUR DRINKS!!! What the hell!?! We started at the Blue Cactus where two martini’s were imbibed. From there we were still feeling good so we went on to the Lesbian bar beside the Bare Fax. Had a great time there! Got hit on by this lovely black woman in the bathroom, and then there was the dancing to the awesome music. I had two Smirnoff’s while there. And that was it for me. By the time we got to Zaks for snack I was being overly polite to everyone to appear in some way sober. There was an incident with me, a cigarette, and three police officers, but we won’t get into that. By the time I was “helped” home (carried) and fell into bed (the couch), and tried to sleep (passed out after dealing with a bad case of the spins for a half an hour), it was about 3:30 in the morning. That means we were all up by 8am and ready to try to get to the Domus sidewalk sale. I was rough. Felt fine when I woke up, but by the time we had walked to get breakfast (one croissant) and shop, I was just about ready to cry I was so nauseous. Once again, FOUR DRINKS! Mel and Col took pity on me at that point and took me back to the apartment to try to sleep off a bit of the poison. It helped a lot. It got me well enough to be safe on the roads to get home to Almonte. This of course meant me having to cancel on fun that night with Ted, Jules, and Jodel. :( Was not happy about that, but believe me, you did not want me there! Will try to reschedule something soon, or maybe it will be at the next M&G.

And so the moral of this story is: Mommy is never drinking more then one ever again!!!

After that is was a general haze of recovery. The rest of Saturday was spent flat on my back, moaning occasionally. Sunday I was feeling a little bit better so I was able to get out for my run. Monday I walked twice. Took a movie back to the store on the other end of town with The Boy in the stroller and then did my jog that night.

Must go, my eyes feel like two piss holes in a snowbank. Need to get some sleep tonight.

*zzz…zzz…zzz*

Unconscious Mutterings Stolen from Teddy!

By Kay

1. Grandma::Bitter-Mean-Crusty-Lump of Old - if anyone has ever heard me speak about my Dad's mom, you are well aware of this...:)
2. Pet::Tamagochi
3. Desolate::401...highway between London, ON and Windsor, ON
4. Backspace::often
5. Common ground::grass
6. Storm::lightening
7. Dark::ness
8. Water bottle::weight watchers...I keep one at work to chug all frickin' day
9. Training::boring
10. dot coms::Mark Cuban - owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team

By Jodel

1. Grandma::old
2. Pet::sam
3. Desolate::alone
4. Backspace::keyboard
5. Common ground::marriage
6. Storm::exciting
7. Dark::scary
8. Water bottle::drink
9. Training::learning
10. dot coms::information

Weekend fun!

What a great weekend! It all started on Friday night when I stayed home. REST! Oh yeah, gotta love it. Went for my walk/run and then was in bed early. Woke up pretty early, just in time to nag my husband to take the family in to the mall. By the time we packed the 2 year old, mother-in-law and us in the car it was about 10:30. I started thinking to myself, “Damn I wish we had gotten out of the house sooner, the boy’s nap is going to be all screwed up.” He ended up having a little sleep in the car on the way into town. Got to Carlingwood and then started on the practice of learning patience. The kid rode the escalator about four times to the third floor and down again. Fine, this entertained him while Mother-In-Law and I browsed. Of course when it was time to go there was the “NO-O-O-O-O!!!” which was accompanied with jumping up and down and tears. No problem, it was actually kinda funny, especially when my 6’2”, husband started jumping up and down behind him. Just about peed myself! Anyway, finally got everyone out to the mall. The boy was, overall, a good boy. I made a Mommy mistake in not bringing the umbrella stroller (For those non-parents, it’s one of those flimsy strollers that fold up into a bundle of sticks and wheels. Very convenient for traveling.) and the boy got tired so he ended up being carried for that last hour we were there. Not a bad time overall. Am going to try to take him out with me more. He has to learn how to behave in public and if he never goes there how is he going to learn?

Anyway, that was only the first half of the day. Second half was me waking up from a nap at 5pm, getting dressed up , and hitting the market with my good buddy Mel. We had a huge chat in her condo, then walked through the market looking for a place to have a drink and a snack. We walked into five different places and walked back out again. We just couldn’t find a place that tickled our fancy. Ended up at the Blue Cactus Grill in the bar area right at the window. Over the next hour and a half we played that age old game of “FASHION CRIME!”. Basically, we just tore down the people that walked by. It got better with the rain started and everyone was soaked and complaining about it. Tried two new drinks, the Apple Pie Martini ( had it once be for at Alice Fazooli’s in Kanata but this one was AWESOME!!!), and a Ready to Go Martini (This one was smeh. Had vanilla vodka, kalua, something else and a shot of espresso. The silly thing even had coffee beans floating in it!). Anyway, was feeling the buzz so no driving home. Slept on the couch after watching ANCHOR MAN with Will Ferrel and getting pizza. By the way Anchor Man is the best. Could watch it a million times just to hear Brick say, “I DON’T KNOW WHY WE’RE YELLING!!!”

Sunday was blah. Hung out at home, had a mild argument with the husband, did laundry, and vacuumed the house. Jay’s mom followed behind me with the mop.

Pottery class tonight. Am going to build another soccer ball. It will be the third one and the last of the ordered ones. I can start doing mugs again and maybe design a new project or two.

Later ‘Gator

Something that smells...Memy?

1. Android::Data
2. Revenge::Smeh
3. Knight::Heath Ledger
4. Stranded::Tom Hanks
5. Weakness::Me for chocolate
6. Greed::Weed…what the hell!?! I can’t think of a word so I’m rhyming now???
7. Walter::Richardson..crush in high school
8. Dense::Lead
9. Sheep::Sex…I know…I need therapy
10. Propane::BBQ!

Okay so I'm having a "warm" moment. Can't help it, my office mate is discussing a "moment" with her spanish husband on the stairs. Pedro! Whoose Blud BOOILS with de PAASH-Y-ON!!!

*sigh* I miss my husband. Haven't really spent any time with him in three days. :( Oh well, the weekend starts tomorrow night.

Buh Bye.

Holy BABY!

Holy shit did I have a weird night. So, I’m out at the M&G with Jodes, Teddy, Julia, and the crew. I’m having a great time joking around, hanging out. Then I check my phone just to see what time it is and there is a text from the husband telling me to call home. I call and find out that I sorta friend is in labor and is calling to see if I can come over and babysit the youngest boy in case they have to go to the hospital. I’m more then a little weirded out but she is a human being in need so I can’t say no. Anyway, left the pavilion, drove 1/2 hour to Almonte and packed my bag, then drove ½ hour to Stittsville to their house. Got in there at 10:15pm and got myself in my pj’s thinking I’ll get some sleep ‘cause this is going to take a while. The next thing I know Tim is asking me if I could video tape. Sure thing! :) So now I’m in the middle of the action! She is in the inflated kiddie pool full of warm water, sucking nitrous oxide through a mask at the peak of contractions and pushing. And there I am. First the tape wasn’t working and I had to take it out and figure out that there is a switch that says to record or not on the tape. Then the battery dies and I’m in the kitchen trying to figure out how the hell to get the first one out and replacement in. I get it all fixed and the camera on for the last two pushes. Baby comes out and up on her chest. There is a tense minute while they get her breathing. It didn’t happen right away. Anyway, sweet little girl born at 11:16pm, 7 lbs 4 oz. LOTS of black hair on her little head. Anyway, since everything was fine and they weren’t going anywhere after all, I put on my shoes, packed up my stuff and drove home in my Pooh Bear Pj’s. So……TIRED!!!

So this is the weird part. I’m driving home and just above the road is this beautiful crescent moon. I had just watched a new life be brought into the world and I think I was a little bit in shock. But I swear to God I had a spiritual moment in the car last night. I felt like there was another presence there with me and I was comforted by it/her/him. Once again, weird. (This is where Jay is rolling his eyes at me. Yes I know you are Sweetie! I know all and see all.)

Anyway, I need to find a good book on Paganism. Just to get the ground rules/beliefs and such. Sorta like Wicca for Dummies. Anyway, I want to put my head down and cry now. Am too tired to think straight.

Bye for now.

R-I-I-I-P!!!!!

So I had a relatively weird day yesterday. I wore a floor length skirt with a short sleeved sweater that hasn’t seen the light of day in four years. Got to work and was just brushing my hand against my hip and what do I find, A HOLE! It’s like three inches long! I rush out to our grandmotherly receptionist and get her sewing kit. So there I am, in the bathroom, in my underwear, sewing my skirt. Not a big whoop. I get back to the office and start showing off my handiwork when my other hand brushes my hip and I find ANOTHER HOLE!. So back in the bathroom I go. What’s the deal??? It was only worn maybe a total of 6 times before it went into the closet. So mad. On the lighter side of things, I talked Jay into letting me go buy a couple new skirts to replace that one!

PAGAN M&G TONIGHT!!! Woohooo! Can’t wait to see all the fun people I met last time. I’m hoping that Raevyn makes it, not sure with her moving house and all. Will see you there Teddy!


‘Later!

Monday, Monday...Bah Da..Ba da da da

So another week has started. I AM BUSY! I totally didn’t plan to have this much on this week. Monday night is Pottery class, Tuesday going to a movie with friends, Wednesday is Pagan M&G, Thursday is Survivor night at K’s place (the bastage will have his 55” Sony Vega Trinitron LCD…something-or-other in by then so I’ll be able to count the pores on Ian’s chest…not that I want to.) and then Friday I am home with the Mother-in-law while Current Husband goes out with the boys. Phew! If I don’t blog it’s because I’m trying to keep my sanity.

I’m feeling great today! I was looking through my closet for tomorrow and decided to try on some of my “thin” clothes” from 4 years ago. THEY FIT!!! I’m wearing something today I haven’t worn since I was single! I am a Hottie McHot’nHot! :) Yeah, yeah, am blowing my own horn a little much, but let me have my moment…okay it’s over.

Hey MyFriendA tm! I found an awesome site for Corry Street recaps! I’m reading about all the stuff that is happening now. Now I don’t worry about missing seeing the show and look forward to watching certain episodes!

Anyway, I was a good little housewife this weekend. Made dinner for S. and the boy on Friday, made a batch of WW cookies yesterday, Chewy Chocolate Gingerbread cookies. Only one point a piece, but, as Jay says, “You have had how many today???” *sigh*

Anyway, hope I get back to this sometime this week, but might not.

Buh Bye! :)

Lo-o-o-ng Day

Had a ton of stuff going on today. My monther-in-law is staying with us for two weeks so when the boy got up this morning he went up and hung out with her. Yey for Jay and I! We got a little sleep in. Anyway, our big event of the day was we just bought from a friend of ours a 5 year old Sony Vega 32" TV. AWESOME!!!!! Only problem was it weighs a ton and it took three of us to get it out of K's place, the use of another friend's truck, and four of us to get it up to our 2nd floor apartement. All stairs all the way! :( Jay is getting me to pick things up for him 'cause his forearms are just shot. Anyway, should be pretty cool tonight, we are going to watch our first movie on it. I'm thinking it might be Lemony Snicket, but I might shoot that one down, we'll see.

Have to go jogging tonight no matter what. I had a massive blow out with three slices of pizza at lunch today. I don't want to even start counting the points but am going to anyway just to stay in diet. I an so happy with myself with the weight loss. I bought a dress today (Just $17 at Walmart, hey, don't say it! Walmart is cheap, but nice!) and it is only a size large! WOOHOO!!! Haven't been in that in three years! Only 6 pounds to go until I hit my pre-pregnancy weight and then the sky is the limit!

Anyway, hope everyone has a great weekend. Am off to have another glass of water, am PARCHED! :)

Later 'Gator

YEY ME!

Just got back from weigh in! Another 1.5 lbs gone from my ass! WOOHOOO!!!! That brings the grand total to 22 lbs lost. Jay is making something decadent and wonderful for my "Don't Care" night. We're doing garlic mashed potatos, green beans, and french style steaks! That means that Jay will take one of his "Magic Cow Frosting" cubes out of the freezer to deglaze that pan that the steaks fried in! YUMMY! I think the real name of the cubes are Demi Glas. Anyway, 18 kinds of yummy! I love being married to a gourmet! :) Have a good weekend!

Kay

ps - Hey Teddy, I lost your email address, could you forward it to me again? Thanks!

Weigh-in Tomorrow...

So, here I sit, contemplating everything that I ate this past week that was not in the diet. Every M&M, every bite of the coconut cake that our day care provider sent home with us, down to the pizza I had today at lunch. Now most of this stuff would not harm you. In small doses it can be a great treat. For example, a normal sized bag of M&M's is actually only 5 ww points so me having a bag every so often is not huge. On the other hand, when you add up several bags it is bad. Not that I had that many. Have I mentioned that they are my kryptonite? And the bastages just came out with DARK CHOCOLATE ones for the whole Star Wars stuff.

I hate them.

Anyway, this is not the point of my bitch session tonight. It is about what my group leader (weight watchers, not therapy) would call a saboteur. My boss, a co-worker, and I joined the program all at the same time. While I lost steadily and stuck to the program, they both didn't follow in different ways and gained or saw no results. Eventually, they both dropped out and I am still in it. I'm not losing as fast anymore but I think I'm still dropping. So we do a team building exercise at The Putting Edge (black light mini putt) today with a pizza lunch to start. I made sure that they were going to be having salad so that I wouldn't have to abstain. No problem. Made sure that there were going to be diet drinks there so that I wouldn't have to bring my own. No problem. We are driving back from the game and my cars mates stop at Tim Horton's for an Ice Cap and I say, "No, Thank you." Now I have come to the kicker. My boss and her carmates all roll in with a giant box from Nescalero's full of CANNOLI!!! FOR FUCK SAKES!!!! She even says when she comes into the office to tell us about it, "I know some of you are on diets, but just come down and have one.". She started the program with me! She sees that I'm now struggling with the plateau stage and she does THIS! I was so mad, but she is my boss. I had to wait for someone to pick up a file so I got a co-worker to get a cannoli for me. I then went down later and got a cup of the Orangina and said thank you very politely. The pastery was taken home in a zipware and given to my Mother-in-law.

If I don't deserve a friggin' high five from that I don't know what I have to do! :(

Anyway, will see how I do with the weigh in tomorrow. Wish me luck!

ps - Kudos to my current husband who held my hand not a half hour ago and led me away from the M&M's Dark in the Beckers. Love you Sweetie, thanks for supporting me.

My Pope name is...

Pope Hideous Carlos XII

When did I become south american!?!

My first stab at Memy Goodness...

Okay so what the hell is "Memy" Goodness? I like the stuff, am going to shoot my own out there but where did the name come from? Anyway, here goes...

What follows is a list of different occupations. You must select at least five of them. Of the five you selected, you are to finish each phrase with what you would do as a member of that profession.
And the list is:

If I could be a scientist... If I could be a farmer...If I could be a musician...
If I could be a doctor...If I could be a painter... If I could be a gardener...
If I could be a missionary... If I could be a chef...If I could be an architect...
If I could be a linguist...If I could be a psychologist... If I could be a librarian...
If I could be an athlete... If I could be a lawyer...If I could be an innkeeper...
If I could be a professor...If I could be a writer... If I could be a backup dancer...
If I could be a llama-rider... If I could be a bonnie pirate...If I could be a midget stripper...
If I could be a proctologist...If I could be a TV-Chat Show host... If I could be an actor...
If I could be a judge... ...If I could be a mob boss... If I could be a backup singer...
If I could be a CEO... If I could be a movie reviewer...If I could be a monkey's uncle...
If I could be a CSI...If I could be a contortionist... If I could be a TV preacher...

Mine:

If I could be a farmer...I would stamp my feet and clap my hands and turn around to view my land.

If I could be a painter... My self expressionism would be done through glitter and maccaroni on construction paper.

If I could be a gardener...I would cherish the little lives that I would care for and then harvest their asses mercilessly in the fall! >:)

If I could be a bonnie pirate...YAR! I would be a pirate and would tell the world of our love of cookies! gar.

If I could be a contortionist...I could kiss my own ass goodbye

How's zat?

Buh Bye!

Blurg...

This past weekend was so GREAT! Went out with the gang to dinner at "The Works", and then hit MacArthur Bowl for a couple games of 10 pin. I haven't been out with my husband in so long it felt weird that we were both there. It's always the case of one of us staying home so the other can go out. The boy had a great time with the babysitter. Went to bed okay and ate a good dinner.

Sunday was spring cleaning. Wasn't even planned but the next thing you knew, Jay and I were wrist deep in the spice drawer relabeling and rejarring everything. Next it was the pasta/cooking stuff cupboard, then the linen closet. We topped it all off by moving some of the bedroom furniture around. Our little tv is now on top of my big white wardrobe instead of in the deep windowsill. It had made the room so much bigger and brighter to have both windows not blocked. Of course I ruined it all by staying up too late so that I was crusty all day. Even went to pottery earlier so that I could leave earlier to get my walk in. I'm about to collapse in a puddle right now. Anyway, the main high point of tonight was finally nailing down a price for my Soccar Ball planters. C. and I worked out the supplies, hours of labor and stuff so that we settled on $40 a pop. It's pretty reasonable considering it takes be about 4 hours of work for each one.

Anyway, in case anyone hasn't noticed, this blog is mostly to keep MyFriendA TM in the loop for her extended family here in Almonte. If I ever talk about stuff that you don't know where I'm coming from, comment to me and I will blog a larger explanation.

Nighty Night!

*zzz...zzz...zzz*

Meh...

So I got my hair done. It is okay. I like it don't get me wrong, but it is not as radical a change as I had hoped. It is really pretty with three different colors now. Blonde, red, and brown. Oh well, will get J to help me get a pic up later.

Everyone had better be tuning in to Grey's Anatomy TONIGHT!!! I want to hear what everyone thinks of it tomorrow.

Nighty night!