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Sunday...and Sunny!?!

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

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

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

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

Happy weekend!

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

Hey, I’m blogging again! YAY!!!

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

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

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

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

*sigh*

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

I would love to know how to fix this.

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

I would love to not feel like this anymore.

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

Day off....*happy sigh*

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Fantastic Weekend!

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

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

Ciao for now

Sigh...:)

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

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

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

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

Time to go gorge on spaghetti! :D

Blog ya later!

Aroo?

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

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

Blog ya later!

Hey! I'm Blogging!!! :)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blog ya later!

OMG FMG!!!

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

arg.

Max is sick... :(

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

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

Weekend Recap and Beyond...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blog ya later.

Vanguard KILLED my Blog!

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

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

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

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

Ciao for now.

New Info...

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

Ciao for now.

In Shock...

Hello all,

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

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

Blog ya when I know more.

Weekend of DOOM!!!

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

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

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

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

Blog ya later!

Eeeeeeeewww!

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

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

Ciao for now.

I'm a WINNER!

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

Back to work tomorrow....:(

Aaaaaahhhhh! :D

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

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

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

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

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

PEACE OUT YO!