Monday, March 27, 2006

Such a good day...

Holy cow has today been awesome! I have been frickin’ efficient and productive. I finished a ton of lingering little jobs at work, made dinner when I got home, got The Boy into bed, help J clean the kitchen, swept and mopped our disgusting kitchen floor, and then to top it all off I folded a MOUNTAIN of clean laundry! So this is what it feels like! The feeling of jobs well done! AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our little family grew by one this weekend. I went out and bought The Boy his first pet. Introducing…..


Blackfish!

I had just gotten back from a major spending spree with KCh. and Risa. I had hit in one day IKEA, Lee Valley Tools, Eddie Bauer, Old Navey, and will be going back to Bayshore next weekend to pick up some new running shoes from Athlete’s World. I finally gave in to the urge that has been plaguing me for weeks that my little guy needed his own little friend to take care of and keep him company. I got him home after he was in bed so at 6:30am I had the usual bat to the face, “Mommy? Chocolate milk!”.

I then replied, “R*@!, did you know that Mommy brought you home a friend last night?”

Cue his little face lighting up and, “WHERE?”

“Let’s go downstairs and see!”

Realize that J and I had been getting to know this thing since last night and had tried to guess what The Boy would name him. With the blue fins we figured BLUE. Nope, he took one look and said, “BLACKFISH!”. When he get’s home from daycare the first thing is, “Feed Blackfish?”. Thus he was named.

Anyway, you won’t believe this but I’m still sick. We are now on the fourth week and I’m pretty sick of it. If this does not clear up soon….well, FACK. What can I do!?! I’ve already tried two prescriptions!?! GAR!!!!

Anyway, let’s hope tomorrow is as good as today was! :)

Ciao for now.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Must...blog...*gasp*

So needless to say I am back to being sick again. All I have to say about that is WTF!?! I actually finished the facking drugs to the last horse pill and now I'm getting a sore throat and running nose not three days after. GAWD!!!!!

Anyway, Mom and Dad were up over the weekend. Much fun was had by all as I took Mom out to celebrate her hitting the 15 lbs lost milestone with WW! YAY MOMMY!!! I took her out for a pedicure and lunch.

Want to blog more but am SO frickin' tired. I have no energy for anything other then sleeping these days. Working out bit the dust about three weeks ago.

*YAWN*

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Feeling better...but stressed!

I hit a new level of stress this week. I took The Boy in for his appointment at CHEO for his feet. He was a great little boy, held still for his x-ray’s, played quietly in the waiting room, was talkative with the Dr. Anyway, we are looking at surgery for both his feet. As a mom I am so not happy about this, I mean I’m happy this is going to fix his feet, but I’m not happy at the idea that he is going to be put under and cut on. I’m going to see if they can do it next May. They have too much of a waiting list to get it done this May, if they do it during the summer he is stuck in casts for the whole summer, then he is starting school in the fall. I keep thinking that if he misses the last month of Jr. Kindergarten it won’t hurt him. Also, it will be after the bad weather, we won’t be trying to get winter boots on him, plus it won’t be so hot that the casts will be horrible. Anyway, will see what the Dr. says.

J has now caught my cold. He is pretty miserable, but at least the boy is healthy. I’m just starting to feel better.

Big exciting things happening tonight! I’m going to go test drive the Caliber! CAN’T WAIT!!! I know how much of a trade in I could get for Barney from our family dealer in Cobourg, but I want to see just what the dealership up here can offer me.

Ciao for now.

Monday, March 13, 2006

WHY!!! That's all I want to know!!!

So to put the proverbial cherry on my cake...I HAVE FRICKIN' PINK EYE! I can't tell you how much I hate this particular illness. I hate the drops, I hate how my eyes feel, I hate how my eyes look...ARG! I can't tell you how much I would give right now for one solid week of being healthy and having a good night's sleep. :(

Sunday, March 12, 2006

Sickness Blog?

Okay, here it is. The post to end all posts. I have been pretty delinquent (How’s that for a ten dollar word!) in posting for the past two weeks. Good reasoning though, once again I have been sick. This started about 2 and a half weeks ago with a cold that started about mid week. Here’s the fun part. Marshy at work already had strep throat AND the stomach flu on top of it! She was home for the whole week and we had an audit going on at work. I stayed and suffered through until the Friday afternoon. The audit had finished on the Thursday, I had finished doing all the morning responsibility stuff so I threw in my hat and closed the office. The weekend was a blur of being on Tylenol Sinus Day/Night and doing twice daily nasal shots of Dristan. I didn’t feel like I got any sleep the whole two days so when Monday rolled around I made it in to work, got my morning responsibilities done and then threw in the towel and went back home. I got SOOOO much sleep. The boy was in daycare and wasn’t there to keep popping in to ask if Mommy was “Wake yet?”. I made it through the rest of the week and through the next weekend and actually felt like I was beating the cold back. WRONG! Tuesday I spiked a fever and took myself to the “Emerg” at our local small hospital. I was seen in less then an hour and to be honest that is a long wait here. Usually I’m in and out in under 20 minutes. I have a sinus infection…again. Am on something from the penicillin family that are horse pills. But I have to say that I am feeling better now that I’ve been on it for about four days.

The first weekend of illness we still had our friend Melzini over for a “Weekend Away” in the country. She lives right in the market, in a beautiful one bedroom condo, and every-so-often we have her out overnight to remind her what quiet sounds like! ( J did his thing and pulled off about 4 Indian dishes. SO MUCH CURRY! ( The next day, her and I hit Walmart and Loblaws before taking her home.

This weekend has been without qualification AWESOME! First the Default concert on Thursday night, then taking The Boy with me into work to weigh-in (Lost 1.5 lbs!), going to the “Fun Zone” by the AMC in Kanata with The Boy for an hour of torturous working out climbing through the jungle gym with him. Got to hang out with Linda and Aiden too which is always a blast. Then Saturday I got to sleep in a bit before we were all out the door to go to the car dealerships to look over some cars. It looks like we are going to be going to the Dodge Caliber. It’s brand new out this year so we will be leasing, but it is a larger car and a hatch-back. After that fun we had some family fun by going to see Disney on Ice! This was The Boy’s first real test of his attention span and how he would react to that kind of situation. At first he was really scared of the huge room (Scotia Bank Place) and the occasional jungle sounds they were piping in (It was the “Jungle” series one with Tarzan, Jungle Book, and Lion King.). After the actual show started he was awesome! Sat on Mommy’s lap, sat on Daddy’s lap, sat in his own chair, watched intently, clapped when he was supposed to and generally had a great time! It was about ¾ the way through before he said to me, “Mommy home, eat!”. So we picked up and left before the crowds. We knew going in we weren’t going to make it through to the end, so we were proud he made it that far!

Tonight is Sara and her Mom and Dad over for dinner. J is doing his Curry Explosion thing again to impress and I have my secret weapon for Y and T! I am doing Risa recipe for Polar Bear Shots! Take a bottle of Crème du Cacao and Crème du Menthe, combine, rebottle, and chill! They taste like peppermint patties!!! YUMMY!!! Only thing is make sure to use the “white” option of each. I could only find the brown cacao so my shots are not clear like water. ( Oh well, it still tastes the same!

Ciao for now, must go mop the house.

Friday, March 10, 2006

Default Concert



























































For those of you who were not aware, I went to the Default concert at the Capital City Music Hall last night. Went with Keith, had a blast, met some cool people! Here are all the pics that I took. Blonde girl is the lead singer of one of the opening bands, Oliver Black. She was AWESOME! Very Janice Joplin. The guy in the red shirt is the lead singer of the other opening band that I didn't even get the name of. They were fun, but you could tell they were REALLY new. All their equipment was held together with duct tape! For the record, every pic that I'm in I'm horribly unattractive! Why do I tilt my head back when I look in the camera!?!

Sunday, February 26, 2006

The boy won...for tonight!

How did he do it!?!  I can’t believe my three year old defeated me!  Here goes:

I’m trying to watch Grey’s Anatomy at 7pm instead of 10pm so I can get to bed early.  I’m folding a mountain of laundry when The Boy starts his routine of annoy Mommy while she works.  Can I help Mommy?  If I push over all these neat little piles that’s helping, right???  NO!  So I take him by the shoulders walk him down the hall to his room and tell him to play with his Choo-Choo (aka Thomas the Tank Engine set).  I leave and get back to work and the plot line when I hear this shaking sound.  It’s the sound of many plastic parts rattling around in a card board box.  Walking down the hall with a suspicious look on my face I find my child with the box that contains the plastic battery-powered train set my mother-in-law gave him.  There is a strange grinding noise emanating from said box.  Upon further investigation, I dumped the whole box on the floor, I found one of his battery powered “Thomas” trains uselessly chugging away amongst the parts.  After turning it off, I then instruct my progeny,

“Boy, (I don’t really call him boy.  I just won’t list his name here.) put the choo-choo back in the box.”

To which he replied, “NO Mommy!” as he stomped his feet.

I then continued with “You will stay in your room until the choo-choo is in the box!” and promptly left to catch the next 15 minutes of Greys.

I come back at the next commercial to find him reading one of his books.  I take the book away and repeat the aforementioned instructions.  Same reaction as before except the use of the “Pouty Lip” is applied.

After another 15 minutes of drama on the TV I come back to find him lying on the floor with his feet pointed at the ceiling rocking back and forth.  Once again, “Boy, put the choo-choo back in the box!”.  He then stands up, crawls into the bed and covers himself saying, “No Mommy, sleep!”.  Okay, at this point I don’t believe him and go back to the last segment of Greys.  Fifteen minutes later I go back to his room and find him ASLEEP!!!  Friggin’ kid won the argument…for today!  I WILL WIN THIS!  Tomorrow when he gets home from daycare there is going to be no TV and no computer games until the GOD DAMN choo-choo is back in the box!  How’s that for parenting!?!

Ciao for now.

Sunday, February 19, 2006

Perfect Sundays...:)


I have been having a whole string of perfect Sundays! This is the second Sunday where The Boy has randomly crawled into my lap in the mid afternoon and promptly crashed. I love this little human so friggin’ much!

I went to the Nickelback concert last night with KCh. and Marshy. It was without a doubt the BEST concert that I have ever been too…EVER! Danko Jones sucked clowns, but Live, and Nickelback put on a hell of a show. They both played all my favourites. The only downside to the whole thing was some chick who thought the landing on the stairs closest to us was her own personal platform. She did her “I flick my long hair over my shoulders and its dancing” dance and was pretty much made fun of by the entire section. Did that stop her? No. Oh well, making an idiot of ourselves in public places is a form of self expression…I think.

This past week at work has been hell. My company is being sued and it revolves around how my office does registered letters. I am so friggin’ stressed about going into work tomorrow. I don’t wanna go. I just wanna stay home with my head under the covers and pretend that it’s all going to go away. I’m so stressed that I’m going over with J the plan if I get fired. Yay. Can’t wait to see how this all shakes down.

Anyway, it was too cold to take The Boy on any field trips this weekend. We’ll see how we do next one.

Blog ya later.

Sunday, February 12, 2006

Woohooo

Woohooo!!!

My Sweetie is taking me out for a Valentine’s dinner tonight! Don’t know where we are going yet. We’re thinking of the Vietnam Palace, Yang Schen, Mamma Gratzi’s, Azteca’s….Don’t know maybe even somewhere new. Sara is here and playing with the Play Doh with The Boy. Speaking of which, had a great day with him. We all went to the Carlingwood mall for a couple hours. Bought new underwear of everyone, J got a new kitchen doo-hicky, we all went to Harvey’s for lunch and then home. The boy was overall good. There was a wee incident after leaving the play area in the Electronic Boutique that lasted for about 20 minutes. I love tantrums in public places! They make me laugh because they are usually over something so trivial. “MOMMY!!!!! I wanna go back and play with the game cube!!!!” Not like, “MOMMY!!! My arm was just severed and my life blood is spraying the walls!!!”. Although the volume and passion behind the screaming would be on the same scale! :( Anyway, when people stopped and stared at me dealing with the crying with hugs, I just stared them down and said loudly, “He’s a sad boy.” They would either smile or shake their heads in disgust. Their issues, not mine.

Anyway, must go. Time to hop in the car and decide where dinner is!

Nighty Night!


…..

So, I tired to publish the above post before we went out. Didn’t work, couldn’t connect to the server so I saved it. It’s now Sunday morning. Last night was awesome! The boy was happy to see Sara($25) and apparently they got along great. The boy even asked after her when he woke up this morning. J and I ended up at Patty Bolands for a nice informal dinner. We were on the ground floor in the back in a little nook of a table. Snuggling and PDA’s (public displays of affection) were had. J had the cornmeal crusted-saffron aole haddock, while I made due with the vegetable curry sensation. I don’t know why they named it that. There was nothing sensational about it. Flavourless/colourless would be more accurate. Then again they were going for a Thai/Indonesian curry while I’m used to Indian curry that is very flavourful. J and I basically ate off each other’s plate so I had my share of his fish as well. After dinner (75$ with tip) off we went to Oh So Good for cake and coffee at my request($25 with tip). I haven’t been to this place in ages. I had a Chai café latte with a slice of chocolate brownie cheesecake, while J had English Breakfast tea from a mal-designed pitcher, (it leaked on the table whenever you poured from it.), and a slice of “The Real Deal”, which was some sort of chocolate mousse cake with slivered almonds on the top. Neither of us finished, but it was due to richness. So now we are at the end of the evening, the drive home. My tummy, is at this point not happy at me, I don’t know how I made it the 45 min. drive home ‘cause when I finally got there I lost all my dinner. J compared me to the Simpson’s episode where Homer wouldn’t stop eating the giant sandwich that was older then time, I looked all grey and shaky and shivery. He made the bed for me and tucked me in. I feel much better this morning, but Holy God! J ate the exact same things that I did. We shared plates the whole night and he was fine!?! ARG! Oh well, now my only gripe is that how am I supposed to Weight Watcher point out what I threw up and didn’t throw up???? The entire evening came to about $130 with $5 of parking. We both said the same thing, we’re not going out together again until our anniversary in August!

Anyway, The Boy wants some attention.

Ciao for now.

Friday, February 10, 2006

Weekly Update

Weekly Update

Lots of stuff happening this week.  The first three days of my work week were candy-coated Hell.  The boy was getting us up at 3:30 in the morning every night, sometimes twice a night with bathroom issues.  Whether he had peed the bed, had gone pee-pee on the potty, had a nightmare, basically no sleep was had.  By Wednesday night I was beside myself with exhaustion.  I had plans with friends on Tuesday night AND Wednesday night.  I was so crusty I cancelled on both.  Sucks ‘cause I was going out with KCh. for movies on Tuesday and M&G with Teddy on Wednesday.  (  Anyway, Wednesday night we had our first good sleep in almost a week.  Friday was even better so I ws flying high at work.

Speaking of work, The National Capital Race weekend is coming in May.  Our company is a major sponsor of the 10k and 5k.  I’m going to be walking/running the 5k and have started fundraising.  The best thing ever happened!  I convinced my Inn to donate a night at their place for fundraising!!!  I’m going to be doing a raffle on March 3rd.  I can’t wait to see how much money we make on this!

Weighed in today, lost 2 lbs!!!  I love it!  Am back at 154 lbs…again.  I looked through my tracking booklet and I have hit this one about 6 times in the last 6 months.  Ladies and Gentleman, I believe we have a plateau!?!  Mom got her 10 lbs lost ribbon last week!  I’m so friggin’ proud of her!  I booked us in for pedicures as her reward for putting in the work.  We’ll go get funky toes and then off to Rideau Center to go out to lunch and shop.

My sweetie is taking me out for Valentine’s Day this Saturday.  We’re going to the Vietnam Palace on Somerset.  J has been there before and said it was amazing, can’t wait to see if it lives up to all the talk.

Anyway, off to bed.  Can’t wait to sleep in tomorrow!

Ciao for now.

Sunday, February 05, 2006

Whoops...

Weird. Accidentally made a blank post....better fill it with something....

Dooodeedooooodeedoooooodee.....

Hmmm...

Smeh.

Bye

Saturday, February 04, 2006

Great weekend so far

Great weekend so far. Friday night was hanging out at home with the boy while J went out to Grisa’s place to watch a basketball game. I ended up getting in my pj’s early and was in bed almost as soon as the kid was asleep. J woke me up a little when he got to bed late, then the boy had to go pee-pee at 3:30 in the morning. He won’t just go down stairs, do his business, and then go back to bed. He wants the acknowledgement that we know he went so he will call and call until someone answers and says he is a good boy. Only thing is we want to SLEEP!!! Arg. Oh well. We were up pretty early with him and got the laundry started, the floors mopped and vacuumed, and the kitchen cleaned up. After that, we all went out to lunch together at Wendy’s and then off to the Agricultural Museum for a family day out. The boy behaved SO well! He was great at lunch, and he was even better checking out the cows and sheep! He would walk up to each animal in the pen and say, “HI COW! HI SHEEP! HI BULL!”. Too cute showing him this kind of stuff for the first time! I can’t wait to take him to the Metro Toronto Zoo!

After we got back from that I still had the itch to travel. I hopped in the car and went to the dealership to check out the Hyundai Sonata for J. He has been trying to talk this car on our list of possible replacement for the Neon for a long time now. Okay, he wins! GREAT looking car! It’s gonna be interesting to see which one we end up with by June. From there it was to St. L. mall for some track extensions for the boy’s Thomas the Tank engine collection, Bayshore for a book for me, pants for J, and some more spice jars for J.

Tomorrow the plan is for me to work some overtime, then over to L&James’s place for me and James coming to our place. We are calling it SPOUSE SWAP 2006! L and I are going to watch Wedding Crashers and the boys are going to nerd out on the computers.

Ciao for now!

Monday, January 30, 2006

It wasn't food poisoning...

Yup, I got a touch of stomach flu today. Apparently, 5 out of the 6 kids in our daycare came down with the same thing and all the parents are dealing with it as well. All because one family brought their kids to daycare even though they knew they were sick. ARG!!! Oh well, who needs to go to work...oh yeah, I DO! :(

Going to see Underworld : Evolution tomorrow night with KCH and my Sweetie. Even though the movie is being panned, I'm excited. A night out with my Honey is always fun.

Buh Bye.

Sunday, January 29, 2006

GREAT WEEKEND!

What a fantastic weekend! I feel so relaxed right now it’s not funny. The whole thing didn’t start off very relaxed. It looks like Ryan picked up a bit of food poisoning ‘cause on the drive down on “The Seven”, just before the Timmy Ho’s by Madoc, the Boy woke up and started talking about having to go pee-pee. Well, we figure we can just pull over and let him water the snow. So we get pulled onto a side road and drop his pants…to find that he has pooped…A LOT! Insert family doing the quick change of his pants ‘cause it’ frickin’ cold and he is shivering (poor boy). We just get him in the car with a clean bum when he start projectile vomiting. Some went down the front of him but a lot of it went out the car door and never hit anything but the ground! Once again, POOR BOY! We get his shirt changed and him under his coat to get him warm. Before we start back on the road we give him the “Potty Cup” to hold in case he is feeling sick again. This a like the insert to a training potty that is like a giant mug with a handle that has rounded rims. This was the best idea we had ‘cause he was sick twice more and both times he got it all in the cup and all we had to do was chuck the yuck in the ditch and use a wet wipe to clean his mouth and the cup before giving it back to him. Once we got him in the door at Nana and Poppa’s he was even dry heaving in the kitchen sink before we could get him to the bathroom. At this point I’m am convinced that the Inn weekend is cancelled. I’m not just dumping a sick kid on my folks to go off and whoop it up while my baby is going through Hell and they are going through it with him. Turns out though that the next morning he was fine! Not 100% but no more throwing up, there was never any sign of a fever, and he was drinking and nibbling on food. So, Mom and Dad convinced J and I to go ahead and have our weekend.

We went shopping at the Northumberland Mall for the earrings that I had seen at Christmas and had planned to buy with my overtime money. My Sweetie surprised me and bought me the matching necklace as an anniversary present! LOVE THAT MAN!!!

We had lunch with my best friend/bridesmaid LW at the Oasis Bar and Grill (Got an awesome pic of L and I in the Henley Arcade on the way back to the car. Someone was getting creative with their graffiti and had done some poetry and some flowers.), went back to the Inn and checked in, met with an old friend of the family who runs a used car lot and put him on the hunt for a used Mazda 6 sport wagon or hatchback (whichever he finds first), went to Walmart for a quick shop, and then back to the Inn to settle in. I had a lovely swim, J watched Discovery channel, I read one of my ebooks, and we both just relaxed. LW and her husband TW came over for a quick dinner before they were out to play poker with some friends of theirs. It was nice to have them over, we don’t get to see them often enough due to the distance factor.

Slept great, had a great breakfast and was back to pick up the boy for around 11:30. He was happy to see us and besides still having some bad bums is back to normal. Mom and Dad had a great time with him…except for him getting Nana up at 5:30 in the morning! :(

Anyway, great weekend, can’t wait to see what this week brings.

Ciao for now.

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Life Bullets

- Started the process to register the boy for Junior Kindergarden, yes I did cry a little

- Am doing some under the table work to organize a friend's files and records keeping system. this equals earrings money!!! :) Am sad 'cause I missed time with the boy tonight. He stayed home 'cause he was uber-grumpy and I was going to take him with me to the friend's house while I worked. Too grumpy for me to do work and not be concerned about his behavior at the friend's house. Apparently he fell asleep 5 minutes before I walked in the door. I tried to wake him 'cause it was only 6:30pm but he wasn't budging. I'm going to be going to bed early 'cause he will be up at 6am I'm sure.

- I am feeling so tired/sad/hungry right now I don't know whether to cry, sleep, or find something deep frid to do both of those thing in before I devour it.

- Wanna go see the Trews at Barrymore's on the 4th but none of my friends like them enough to pay the $20 ticket. I've done the "go the concert by myself becuase I love them and being by myself can't stop me from seeing them live" thing. Now I'm at the stage I just wanna go to see them and not stand there like a loser...alone. *SIGH*

-Am depressed about work. My boss told me it really "bothers her" when my face looks worried when she is telling me about new projects. Gee, I guess I should look happy when she is overloading me with work to the point that I can't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

-The light at the end of the tunnel right now is my Sweetie and I going to our Inn this Saturday! Can't wait! Gonna swim my face off, and then stuff it with Chinese Food! WOOT!

Gotta go find something that isn't running away too fast to consume.

Buh Bye.

Monday, January 23, 2006

DOUBLE HOLY COW!!!

I can't frickin' believe it! Marshy won the trip to San Fransisco this morning!!! One trip left...hmmmmmm......

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

WAAAAH!!!

So I take the boy into the Dr. today. After she diagnoses him with an ear infection and bronchitus, she takes one look at me and says, "Open up.". So I'm now home for the rest of the week with Strep Throat. Yippee. All I gotta say is we had better be health for next weekend! Wouldn't it be great for J and I to be hacking and coughing at the Inn for our anniversary!?!

Blerg.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Double ZZZ...ZZZ..

Another fun night of the croup. If this kid is not showing any signs of getting better toinght he is going to the DR. tomorrow. It was another night of sitting in a cold room while his breathing straightened up, being woken up every hour, and the new one was him being in a fever at 4:30am. That was 2 cups of juice, 7.5 ml of Motrin (he's 42 lbs, that is the dose for someone his size), and lots of hugs. I'm so not here mentally. My goal today is to get through with as few mistakes as possible.

*sigh* I want my little boy to be feeling better...:(

Monday, January 16, 2006

*ZZZ...ZZZ...*

K, so the boy was up alot last night. The coughing woke him up several times and the first time he was absolutely terrified of the humidifier. I had to talk him down from that one, then every other time after that it was coughing woke him up so then he would need a hug, need a drink, need some love then back to sleep. Poor sick kid.

SO TIRED.....:(

Going to the Mart that is Wal tonight! YAY! Going to get the boy a present for getting toilet trained. Am thinking along the lines of play doh......

Sunday, January 15, 2006

Poor Boy...

The boy has major croup right now. He went to bed fine, was sleeping like a log, but when I went to check on him about 45 minutes ago he was tossing and turning, desperately trying to swallow, then finally started the seal-barking-coughs. J and I had him on his puffer then opened the window in my hobby room so that some cold air could stop the attack. Maybe 15 minutes in there settled him down. We now have the bed elevated, the humidifyer running on high, and the window cracked open in his room. No worries, will close it when we go to bed. I put socks on him and tripled his blankets. He shouldn't freeze. *sigh* He is going to be home a couple days with this...

Potty training is going great! We had a 90% dry weekend! A poop on the potty both days, but a whoops poop in his pants at about 5:30 tonight. I caught him trying to "wash" his briefs out in the toilet, eeewww, and he looked so sad when he saw that I had caught him. Oh well, Rome wasn't built in a day.

J and I had a fun 30 minute conversation about new cars. Basically we talked around the idea about finding out how much Barney would be worth on the trade in, but in the end we can back to the fact that we still have a ton of debt after buying the house and it makes more sense to suffer through with my purple shit-box at least until June. We are planning on going by Sarnia to my Grandma's, both of them, place for a visit. J and the boy have never been and I haven't been since.....hmmm....I think with Mom over Easter when I was still single??? It's been awhile. Also, we have the annual trip to New Brunswick in August. All this would be easier with a bigger car.

Must go, new Gray's Anatomy tonight.

Ciao for now.