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


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

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

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

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

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

NUNNY LIIIIIIIIIIVES!!!!!

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



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

adopt your own virtual pet!

I'm totally copying you!!! :)

Ripped From MYFRIENDANGERAH(TM)!!!!


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I GOT A NAP!!!! :D

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HUGE thanks goes out to my parents!

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

Nighty-night!

YAY THE BOY!!!

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

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

Blog ya later.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ciao for now.

Ultimate Blerg...

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

• Saturday: My mom goes into emergency surgery for kidney stones


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


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

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

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

Ciao for now.

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.

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*

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.

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. :(

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.

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!?!