So I got sick...again. Another sinus cold. Cancelled all my plans for the weekend so that I could rest up and get better. Then when I was putting the clothes on the line today I got stung by a bee on my baby finger! ARG!!!
Things have been going okay besides all that. Had a fire in the chiminea last night with Grant and Risa, did my performance review for the year and got a positive review, and on top of that fixed the problem with my overtime and it all should come on to the pay that is just before we leave for Fredericton! YAY! Two more weeks! We are booked for Thanksgiving dinner with J's family for the Monday. Nothing else booked as of yet. Need to buy The Boy a new Magna-Doodle for the 11 hour car ride.
One more week before Marshy leaves for the year. WAH!
Blog ya later!
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Monday, September 18, 2006
Oh what a week...
It is time for the mother of all posts. I have been busy out of my skull for the past week and a bit. There has been something on every night and it’s all been an emotional wringer…well, maybe not all of it. Anyway, The Boy got off to school no problems. We had the interview at the school with his teacher Ms. E. I cried. We got him all packed with his massive backpack that he can barely lift. I cried. We all got up, dressed and walked to his bus pick up spot. It was all smiles and I even got him getting onto the bus on video. After he drove away I cried…and cried…and got in the car to go to work…and cried. Pretty much watched the clock all day until I got the MSN that he was home with Daddy. He likes school very much…and then we got the call home from the teacher. Apparently, besides a listening problem where he wait’s for the second time and a time-out before doing what is asked, he likes to poke the other children when he is feeling bored and wants to start playing. I love the new level of stress and anxiety that him being at school brings me. Besides the fact that he is now at home fulltime and we aren’t paying for daycare anymore, I know that school is good for him. His counting is up to 13, and he can almost spell his name. He gets all the letters in there he just doesn’t get them in the right order.
The Black Eyed Peas concert was AWESOME!!! Fourth row left and TONS of fun! I loved the Swollen Members, although I was sad that Moka Only wasn’t there with them anymore. Beside Prevail, insert heavy breathing here, his singing was my favourite part of the group. Rhianna was a slutty marionette who could only shove out her tits and ass. Singing!?! Whatever quality there is in her voice is totally overshadowed by the tarty look.
I got soooooo much of the concert on video! My favourite was Fergie doing a cover of Gun’s ‘N Roses, Sweet Child of Mine.
We had a great weekend at home with friends. Friday I picked up Mel from her place in the Market and hit the road for home. Got majorly drunk on Butter Shots and eventually passed out in The Boy’s bed. He had gotten up to go pee and wanted to watch his shows so I had to pick him up to put him back in bed. He was quite sad about this so I gave in and laid down with him for a “little bit”. J poked me awake enough to stumble to bed an hour later. No hangover to speak of. Had to go to the bathroom at 5am and was a bit dizzy but no headache or stomach problems. Had toast with Mel and then packed the entire family into the car to take Mel home. We had an awesome time in the market with J shopping for veggies, The Boy trying maple sugar candy for the first time, and accidentally participating in the Nissan Versa Road Trip. Basically think amazing race only across Canada, challenges in every major city and the person with the most points gets a new car at the end of it. Two of them were selling Beavertails on the street and The Boy was interested so we wandered over. Only thing is once we got closer I couldn’t see any signs of the beavertail hut, the two kids were holding pre-made tails, and the large group of people following them made me think they were street kids trying to make money. Basically, got there, The Boy started hugging one of their stuffed toy beavers, I got a weird vibe and ended up saying, “We had just come to say Hi.”, then hurrying the boy away from them. About 20 feet away another kid comes up to me and gets me to sign a waiver for the footage shot to be used on the show!?! I don’t know, I found the site:
http://liveversa.ca/en/
…and now wish we had bought a beavertail to support the team! Oh well, next time don’t look like hitch-hikers and you’ll sell more! The two that The Boy and I denied were Kayun and Christopher.
Went to a party for an old co-worker of J’s on Saturday night, did a ton of laundry on Sunday morning, cut my lawn, used the whipper-snipper, went in to do two hours of over-time, got home to do more laundry, clean the house, and finally watched the second episode of House that I had missed on Tuesday night because Jeff and his German Fiancé were over for dinner. Then, because we had just bought a chiminea on MAJOR sale I had to have a fire…that started at ten and couldn’t get out until almost midnight. Insert major busy day at work here!
SIGH!! It’s now 8pm and I have cleaned the kitchen, baked a dozen banana muffins, packed the boy’s lunch, packed my lunch, and put the boy through his bed time routine.
I’M TIRED!!!!!!
Must get some rest. I’m going to a municipal meeting tomorrow night about the drainage in the area. I don’t know if it applies to me or not but if I attend I’ll meet some of my neighbors.
TTFN
The Black Eyed Peas concert was AWESOME!!! Fourth row left and TONS of fun! I loved the Swollen Members, although I was sad that Moka Only wasn’t there with them anymore. Beside Prevail, insert heavy breathing here, his singing was my favourite part of the group. Rhianna was a slutty marionette who could only shove out her tits and ass. Singing!?! Whatever quality there is in her voice is totally overshadowed by the tarty look.I got soooooo much of the concert on video! My favourite was Fergie doing a cover of Gun’s ‘N Roses, Sweet Child of Mine.
We had a great weekend at home with friends. Friday I picked up Mel from her place in the Market and hit the road for home. Got majorly drunk on Butter Shots and eventually passed out in The Boy’s bed. He had gotten up to go pee and wanted to watch his shows so I had to pick him up to put him back in bed. He was quite sad about this so I gave in and laid down with him for a “little bit”. J poked me awake enough to stumble to bed an hour later. No hangover to speak of. Had to go to the bathroom at 5am and was a bit dizzy but no headache or stomach problems. Had toast with Mel and then packed the entire family into the car to take Mel home. We had an awesome time in the market with J shopping for veggies, The Boy trying maple sugar candy for the first time, and accidentally participating in the Nissan Versa Road Trip. Basically think amazing race only across Canada, challenges in every major city and the person with the most points gets a new car at the end of it. Two of them were selling Beavertails on the street and The Boy was interested so we wandered over. Only thing is once we got closer I couldn’t see any signs of the beavertail hut, the two kids were holding pre-made tails, and the large group of people following them made me think they were street kids trying to make money. Basically, got there, The Boy started hugging one of their stuffed toy beavers, I got a weird vibe and ended up saying, “We had just come to say Hi.”, then hurrying the boy away from them. About 20 feet away another kid comes up to me and gets me to sign a waiver for the footage shot to be used on the show!?! I don’t know, I found the site:http://liveversa.ca/en/
…and now wish we had bought a beavertail to support the team! Oh well, next time don’t look like hitch-hikers and you’ll sell more! The two that The Boy and I denied were Kayun and Christopher.
Went to a party for an old co-worker of J’s on Saturday night, did a ton of laundry on Sunday morning, cut my lawn, used the whipper-snipper, went in to do two hours of over-time, got home to do more laundry, clean the house, and finally watched the second episode of House that I had missed on Tuesday night because Jeff and his German Fiancé were over for dinner. Then, because we had just bought a chiminea on MAJOR sale I had to have a fire…that started at ten and couldn’t get out until almost midnight. Insert major busy day at work here!SIGH!! It’s now 8pm and I have cleaned the kitchen, baked a dozen banana muffins, packed the boy’s lunch, packed my lunch, and put the boy through his bed time routine.
I’M TIRED!!!!!!
Must get some rest. I’m going to a municipal meeting tomorrow night about the drainage in the area. I don’t know if it applies to me or not but if I attend I’ll meet some of my neighbors.
TTFN
Sunday, September 10, 2006
Save me from Sinus Colds...
I hate being sick. I mean this one didn’t seem to last that long. The cold symptoms didn’t last much beyond Wednesday so I stopped taking the Tylenol Sinus pills. So now I’m dealing with nausea, cold sweats, and dizziness off and on through out the day since then. I have been kinda useful besides that. Thursday night I got the lawn cut for the first time in a month and a half. 90% of the lawn had been burned off and dead so I wasn’t going to drag out the machine to do the little parts that lived in the shade! Besides we were having a heat wave! No yard work when death threatens thank you! Anyway, weeded the driveway, ripped out the front garden and got it ready for winter, cleaned out my shed, got the bikes hung up from the ceiling, re-created our entire filing system and got Microsoft Money to balance with our current bills and budget. THANK YOU I ROCK!
The Boy starts school on Tuesday. I have to put my baby on a big yellow bus to take him away. I am not happy. Mother stuff, anxiety stuff, and I’m sure some other stuff so it all builds up to me not feeling happy about this.
Marshy got a new job. It’s only a term for a year but it’s been her and me for so long now I’m sad, yet happy for her, yet very sad for me. Going to lose my co-pilot.
J and I are hitting the brokest stage of our lives yet. Wednesday is the quarterly tax payment of $4421, the 21st is the GST payment of about $700, and the 29th is the last property tax payment of the year at $702. We are going to make it but thank you for the line of credit! We are eating a lot of potato’s and rice right now let me tell you! The big challenge has been cutting back on the groceries. Since we started tracking everything in Microsoft Money in June I can see that we have spent anywhere from $480-$636 on groceries per month! We are trying to keep the lid on it to $200 for September. We are about a third of the way in and we are at $80. YAY FOR PRICE CHOPPER!!!!
Hmmmm…this one has been a little bit not happy. Something happy, something happy….
…
With The Boy being at school or home with Jay means no more daycare bills and I’m now free to re-join the gym at work ‘cause I don’t have to leave work on the button at 4pm to go pick him up!
OH!!! I’m going to the Black Eyed Peas concert on Wednesday! 4th row left!!!! Should be AWESOME!!!
Blog ya later!
The Boy starts school on Tuesday. I have to put my baby on a big yellow bus to take him away. I am not happy. Mother stuff, anxiety stuff, and I’m sure some other stuff so it all builds up to me not feeling happy about this.
Marshy got a new job. It’s only a term for a year but it’s been her and me for so long now I’m sad, yet happy for her, yet very sad for me. Going to lose my co-pilot.
J and I are hitting the brokest stage of our lives yet. Wednesday is the quarterly tax payment of $4421, the 21st is the GST payment of about $700, and the 29th is the last property tax payment of the year at $702. We are going to make it but thank you for the line of credit! We are eating a lot of potato’s and rice right now let me tell you! The big challenge has been cutting back on the groceries. Since we started tracking everything in Microsoft Money in June I can see that we have spent anywhere from $480-$636 on groceries per month! We are trying to keep the lid on it to $200 for September. We are about a third of the way in and we are at $80. YAY FOR PRICE CHOPPER!!!!
Hmmmm…this one has been a little bit not happy. Something happy, something happy….
…
With The Boy being at school or home with Jay means no more daycare bills and I’m now free to re-join the gym at work ‘cause I don’t have to leave work on the button at 4pm to go pick him up!
OH!!! I’m going to the Black Eyed Peas concert on Wednesday! 4th row left!!!! Should be AWESOME!!!
Blog ya later!
Monday, September 04, 2006
Labor Day...
GREAT long weekend! It didn’t start off so great though. I had booked Friday afternoon off to get the bags and car packed so that the family and I could be on the road by 4pm on the dot. Firstly, I got into work for 7:30am with Marshy trailing in after my by 5 minutes. She says let’s go to Timmy’s for a coffee before work. Off we go in The Max. As we pull out of the parking lot the car LOSES THE MUFFLER! I’m not talking about it went sparking down the street, the car just got a hell of a lot louder. I curse all the way back to work with Marshy laughing at me. I call in to the dealership and find out there is a slot open at 10am. No problem. As we are getting through the morning routine we find out some devastating news. One of our co-workers in the active area died the night before. A healthy, athletic 33 year old man just collapsed while wake-boarding. Grief counselors on site and everything. I leave at 9:30 to drive all the way across town, to get a whole new exhaust system for the bargain price of $355. Yippee. Then I get home and start tidying the house to get ready to start packing. On the way to the guest room where we keep our luggage I wandered into the laundry room for no particular reason…and step in a puddle of water!?! One of the pipes leading into the hot water heater has a slow leak. We get out the old wrench and follow the old rule of “Lefty loosy, righty tighty”. The slow leak is not a fast one. Fast forward to us calling a plumber in within the half hour them spending 10 minutes replacing an “O” ring and I’m sure it’s going to be about $60 whenever the bill gets here. SIGH! Now I pack the bags, the toiletries, The Boy’s bike and helmet, and various toys for the boy to play with in the backseat. Enter J playing a video game…until 4:15pm and me about to snap. Finally out the door by 4:25pm.
At this point it is now a relaxing weekend. Except for the fact that I get sick, another frickin’ cold, yay. Got to see Tom and Lori twice, for the first time in my life I drank an entire bottle of wine by myself, with no hangover thank you very much! My brother, his wife and their son came for dinner and had a great time. The boys played very well and even had a bath together! Will be back to do Thanksgiving with them the weekend before the holiday cause only 5 more weeks until we go to Fredericton! YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!! *Kermit Arms*
Will post again this week. Must go fold a mountain of laundry on my bed.
Ciao for now!
At this point it is now a relaxing weekend. Except for the fact that I get sick, another frickin’ cold, yay. Got to see Tom and Lori twice, for the first time in my life I drank an entire bottle of wine by myself, with no hangover thank you very much! My brother, his wife and their son came for dinner and had a great time. The boys played very well and even had a bath together! Will be back to do Thanksgiving with them the weekend before the holiday cause only 5 more weeks until we go to Fredericton! YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!! *Kermit Arms*
Will post again this week. Must go fold a mountain of laundry on my bed.
Ciao for now!
Monday, August 28, 2006
He Speaks!
Ever since The Boy started building his vocabulary he has been pretty funny. Here are some examples from this weekend.
Riding in the car, Mom spontaneously burst into…
“On top of spaghe-TTIIIIIII!”
The Boy, “Top…Skeddie!”
“All covered in CHEEEEEEEEESE!!!”
The Boy, “All…CHEEEEEEESE!!!”
I lost my poor MEAAAAAAT BAAAAAAAALLL!!!”
The Boy, “……*pause*….WHERE????”
Or how about tonight at my cousin’s for dinner with the family…
The Boy, “Me want juice.”
Cousin, “What’s the magic words?”
The Boy, “Me want JUICE!?!”
I just about coughed up a lung I was laughing so hard from these ones!
Riding in the car, Mom spontaneously burst into…
“On top of spaghe-TTIIIIIII!”
The Boy, “Top…Skeddie!”
“All covered in CHEEEEEEEEESE!!!”
The Boy, “All…CHEEEEEEESE!!!”
I lost my poor MEAAAAAAT BAAAAAAAALLL!!!”
The Boy, “……*pause*….WHERE????”
Or how about tonight at my cousin’s for dinner with the family…
The Boy, “Me want juice.”
Cousin, “What’s the magic words?”
The Boy, “Me want JUICE!?!”
I just about coughed up a lung I was laughing so hard from these ones!
Sunday, August 27, 2006
IT'S FLOAM!!!!
Does anyone else remember this stuff??? I saw the info-mercial and just about fell out of my chair!!! Check this out!
http://www.floamcanada.com/
Posting going slowly...again. I don't know what it is. It seems like I don't post for three days and then there is so much that has happened that I don't want to catch up. I'll bullet some major or minor events in the past couple weeks.
- Had my first yard sale with Marshy this weekend. I made 45 bucks and was quite happy to get rid of a ton of crap out of my basement.
- Have been doing some overtime so am quite tired...did four today, hopefully won't be doing any this week 'cause we are leaving for my folks place for the long weekend come Friday.
- The Boy is sick. The cold started on Wednesday night with running nose and congestion. Graduated to bubbly chest and nasty cough on Saturday morning. No fever so we know it's a virus, but this kiboshes us going to dinner with my family tomorrow night. My 83-year-old Gramma is going to be there and I don't want to become known in the family as the bringer of DEATH!
- My garden is still producing! We have the last of the yellow beans coming off the vines and the green beans are just starting.
- The Max is going into the "Shop" tomorrow. There is a rattle under the car every time we go over a bump and it won't catch 90% of the time on the first turn of the key. Today's record was 7 attempts before the son-of-a-gun caught. Good thing we bought a three year waranty on this sucker.
- Grey's Anatomy starts in less then a month! YAY!!!
- The Boy starts school in two weeks...*faint*.
- J and I, instead of laying back and watching a movie last night, reorganized the kitchen cabinets...And we both agreed we had more fun then if we had relaxed. Someone help us...we have lost any sign of "The Spark"!!! :D
- My Mom and Dad were up a week ago. They made us go out for dinner while they babysat! LOVE THEM! We went to the Vietnam Palace on Sumerset. WONDERFUL MEAL! GREAT SERVICE! And while we were gone my Dad did two separate fixes on our toilet, replaced out kitchen faucett, and sprayed out my bee's nest in my shed. Mom hemmed my jeans, washed my kitchen and office floor and kept the monster out of trouble. I LOVE MY FAMILY!!!
Here are random pics that have been taken in the last couple weeks to round out this post:
Enjoy!
http://www.floamcanada.com/
Posting going slowly...again. I don't know what it is. It seems like I don't post for three days and then there is so much that has happened that I don't want to catch up. I'll bullet some major or minor events in the past couple weeks.
- Had my first yard sale with Marshy this weekend. I made 45 bucks and was quite happy to get rid of a ton of crap out of my basement.
- Have been doing some overtime so am quite tired...did four today, hopefully won't be doing any this week 'cause we are leaving for my folks place for the long weekend come Friday.
- The Boy is sick. The cold started on Wednesday night with running nose and congestion. Graduated to bubbly chest and nasty cough on Saturday morning. No fever so we know it's a virus, but this kiboshes us going to dinner with my family tomorrow night. My 83-year-old Gramma is going to be there and I don't want to become known in the family as the bringer of DEATH!
- My garden is still producing! We have the last of the yellow beans coming off the vines and the green beans are just starting.
- The Max is going into the "Shop" tomorrow. There is a rattle under the car every time we go over a bump and it won't catch 90% of the time on the first turn of the key. Today's record was 7 attempts before the son-of-a-gun caught. Good thing we bought a three year waranty on this sucker.
- Grey's Anatomy starts in less then a month! YAY!!!
- The Boy starts school in two weeks...*faint*.
- J and I, instead of laying back and watching a movie last night, reorganized the kitchen cabinets...And we both agreed we had more fun then if we had relaxed. Someone help us...we have lost any sign of "The Spark"!!! :D
- My Mom and Dad were up a week ago. They made us go out for dinner while they babysat! LOVE THEM! We went to the Vietnam Palace on Sumerset. WONDERFUL MEAL! GREAT SERVICE! And while we were gone my Dad did two separate fixes on our toilet, replaced out kitchen faucett, and sprayed out my bee's nest in my shed. Mom hemmed my jeans, washed my kitchen and office floor and kept the monster out of trouble. I LOVE MY FAMILY!!!
Here are random pics that have been taken in the last couple weeks to round out this post:
Enjoy!
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Happy, Happy...!
Pretty awesome anniversary overall considering I didn’t really want to celebrate it…and I did two hours overtime tonight!I get home at 7pm and my sweetie has a stir-fry almost done, flowers and an awesome card! Had dinner and even got a candle-lit dance on the deck to our wedding dance song. I love my HONEY!!!! Three years and counting…
Saturday, August 12, 2006
DEAR GOD A MEME!!!
I hardly ever do these, THANKS ALOT ANGERAH!!! :(
5 things in my refrigerator:
1. Leftover Shrimp Vindaloo
2. Leftover roaster potato's, onions, and squash
3. 5 different kinds of mustard
4. PC Horseradish Mayo - MY FAV!!!
5. Left over roasted Swiss Chard
5 things in my closet: - Hmmm will use basement storage closet...
1. Deep freeze
2. Christmas decorations
3. Boxed up pottery pieces
4. Baby toys to go in the garage sale that I will eventually have
5. Three different Keyboards of J's
5 things in my purse:
1. Wallet
2. Weight Watcher's Dining Out Guide
3. Swiss Army Knife
4. Loonie/Two-nie Holder
5. Lip Gloss
5 things in my car:
1. Gas
2. Maps of Ontario, Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa, and New Brunswick
3. Cell Phone Charger
4. Burned CD's including: Audioslave, Alterbridge, Three Days Grace (the new one), Sean Paul, Three Day's Grace (the old one), and Pink
5. Sun Glasses
5 things on my desk: - Work Desk
1. Family Pictures
2. Computer
3. USB Cable for my Zire22
4. Dirty Plate
5. FILES, FILES, FILES
Saturday, August 05, 2006
YAY Weekend!!!
Great weekend so far! Last night was hanging out with the family, a group trip to Price Chopper for mega dealz on the groceries. Picked up a bunch of snacks for The Boy’s lunch bag. I even got a load of laundry through. The weirdest thing happened though. My left foot hurt like a son-of-a-gun for the entire afternoon and into the evening! I resorted to J’s advice of soaking the whole thing in a bucket of ice water. This did a good job of making my foot really, really, REALLY COLD…but not much else. I went to bed with the pain. I even woke up to MAJOR pain and was limping horribly for the first half hour or so. Then it went away!?! I don’t get it. It’s only the tiniest bit sore, nothing else. Weird.
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Blarg on me...
Yes, I have been extremely tardy in updating. Will do it in point form to catch you all up.
Ciao for Now!
- Digital camera broke. ME SAD! Pretty much started the tailspin of not wanting to update.
- Went on Antibiotics on the Friday before the last post. It did nothing. I got steadily sicker for the rest of that week until I ended up in Emerg on the Monday night at 10:30pm. This is the Monday of my one week of vacation. Turns out the walk-in clinic gave me such a low dose for my meds that I might as well have been taking Tic Tacs to get me better. At this point I’m diagnosed with Sinusitis and Bronchitis and am put on heavy duty meds and a puffer. Am happy to say that other then a barking cough that flares up when I laugh I’m pretty much better.
- My vacation was AWESOME! I wandered the house, watched some movies, my parents came up in the Tuesday night and stayed until Friday morning…at which point J and I packed the car and brought the boy to Cobourg to stay at my parents house with the air conditioning. Got home Sunday afternoon and was back to work yesterday. While Dad was up he dug the stump out of my garden that I couldn't move, ripped out the tilted ground spike for the clothes-line and replanted it with a bag of cement (and leveled it), put my baseboard back up in the basement (we had a foundation leak scare, turns out we assume it was The Boy spilling alot of water 'cause there was no evidence of leakage that we could find.), took a massive load of stuff to the dump in his truck, changed the hall light and installed at garbage bag holder in the down stairs bathroom. He kept telling me that if he ran out of work he was going home early so I kept finding him stuff to do. I LOVE MY DADDY!!!!
- My birthday was on the Wednesday last week. It was really awesome! I went to the Spa, had a hot-stone pedicure and hot-stone massage, got taco’s for dinner and instead of a birthday cake had birthday Key Lime Pie!!! YAY!!!! No presents…Except that J went out with the Boy and bought us a new digital camera!!!! It was a Centrios that was on sale…turned out the lenses sucked and we took it back to get a Canon Powershot A430. Basically our old camera except half the price and newer. LOVE IT!!!!
- I harvested my first home-grown yellow beans from my garden!!! YAY!!! They were yummers!
-My first message after being away for a week was the *^%(*& Early Years people calling to say there had been a cancellation and did I want The Boy to sign up…for that day!!! The idiots called my work number instead of my home. We were down at my parents house on the Sunday and could have driven up Mom’s car the day before! Instead Mom has to drive it up yesterday afternoon and we buy her a train ticket to get her home that night! ARG!
- The Boy had an awesome first day of pre-school! According to J he went right up to a little boy and introduced himself. Then they went off and played! All was well when he got picked up too. I just had to go to Walmart last night on the run to get indoor shoes, a lunch bag, Tupperware containers that The Boy could open, and some juice boxes.
- Work is kinda hellish right now. No Marshy as she is starting her two weeks of vacation this week. Busy, and yet liking it. Just not liking being rushed to complete important tasks.
- Went to Linda and James place for a swim and dinner tonight. They were nice enough to invite us over to their house with central air during the heat wave. The boy were great and J got some great pictures. Also some wonderful videos…of his feet and the pavement. He made the classic Newbie mistake of pressing the button to turn it on when he thought he was turning it off and missed all of the shots of The Boy learning to swim. HA HA HA!!! YOU’RE NOT PERFECT HONEY!!! YOU MADE A MISTAKE!!! HA!
Anyway, am hoping that once the heat breaks I’ll be more into sitting in front of the computer to do some more posting.Ciao for Now!
Monday, July 10, 2006
Say WHAT!?!
Once again another template. I got bored with the old one faster then the last time so here is another stab at as much originality that I can get from pre-chosen template choices.
I had a pisser of a day. I had my introduction to what may be complete incompetence at my son’s school board. Just to be clear, I have nothing against teachers, (Love you Lori!), I have something against outright incompetence with regard to registering students. I heard about this wonderful program being given by my son’s school at his open house. Basically it’s an introduction to the formalized routine of school. It’s also really good for kids that are still not speaking clearly. After speaking with the Principal she recommended The Boy be enrolled and that it should help him and lot. I called two weeks later, spoke to the same Principal, gave her all of The Boy’s information and was told the registration packages would be in during the next couple weeks. Time went by to the point that I realized last week that the program was starting in two weeks and I hadn’t heard anything from the school about the program. After playing phone-tag with the school and the program runners for three days I come to find out that The Boy is not registered for the program. Not only that but the program is full and he now is locked out.
I am now officially PISSED OFF!
I call the Superintendent of our district and leave a very polite message about the fact that I’m irate. The Principal has screwed up and that I want to know why my son is being denied this program when it’s not his fault and what are they going to do about it. About three hours later I have the Principal calling me, telling me that she doesn’t understand how this could happen and that she is so careful with these details. I’m sorry but if she were that careful this wouldn’t have happened to us.
She then asks, “So your really keen on having The Boy in the class.”
“Well yeah, you recommended it to him and said it was designed for kids like him!?!” I replied.
“Ooooooooookay, I’ll call the program runners and see what we can do.”
I have yet to hear back from her and if I don’t hear back from her before noon tomorrow I’m going to be putting another call through to her and then the Superintendent again. I hate to say it but they have created “One of THOSE Parents”. Meaning I’m going to be their worst nightmare for the next 8 years that The Boy is at that school. I’m never going to assume they have their act together or that they know what they are doing.
Can’t wait to see how this turns out…..
I had a pisser of a day. I had my introduction to what may be complete incompetence at my son’s school board. Just to be clear, I have nothing against teachers, (Love you Lori!), I have something against outright incompetence with regard to registering students. I heard about this wonderful program being given by my son’s school at his open house. Basically it’s an introduction to the formalized routine of school. It’s also really good for kids that are still not speaking clearly. After speaking with the Principal she recommended The Boy be enrolled and that it should help him and lot. I called two weeks later, spoke to the same Principal, gave her all of The Boy’s information and was told the registration packages would be in during the next couple weeks. Time went by to the point that I realized last week that the program was starting in two weeks and I hadn’t heard anything from the school about the program. After playing phone-tag with the school and the program runners for three days I come to find out that The Boy is not registered for the program. Not only that but the program is full and he now is locked out.
I am now officially PISSED OFF!
I call the Superintendent of our district and leave a very polite message about the fact that I’m irate. The Principal has screwed up and that I want to know why my son is being denied this program when it’s not his fault and what are they going to do about it. About three hours later I have the Principal calling me, telling me that she doesn’t understand how this could happen and that she is so careful with these details. I’m sorry but if she were that careful this wouldn’t have happened to us.
She then asks, “So your really keen on having The Boy in the class.”
“Well yeah, you recommended it to him and said it was designed for kids like him!?!” I replied.
“Ooooooooookay, I’ll call the program runners and see what we can do.”
I have yet to hear back from her and if I don’t hear back from her before noon tomorrow I’m going to be putting another call through to her and then the Superintendent again. I hate to say it but they have created “One of THOSE Parents”. Meaning I’m going to be their worst nightmare for the next 8 years that The Boy is at that school. I’m never going to assume they have their act together or that they know what they are doing.
Can’t wait to see how this turns out…..
Saturday, July 08, 2006
sodrunksodrunksodrunk....
I am having the best weekend. Lots of sleep, and lots of fun with friends Marshy and Vicki in Renfrew. There hasn’t been much going on. Work stuff, home stuff, J downloaded House season’s 1 and 2 so I’m slowly working my way through that. I’m about ¾ of the way through season 1.
KCh. is out of town with work for the next week, then he is back three days, then gone for his vacation in PEI. I’m sorta house sitting by bringing in his papers every night while he is away.
We have the babysitter booked for J’s birthday. We’re planning on leaving at about 1 in the afternoon and going down to Sumerset for shopping in the fun grocery stores there. Cheap Dim Sum lunch, dinner and a movie should make it fun for J. For mine I have a hot stone massage and a hot stone pedicure booked at the spa. CAN’T WAIT!!!
Last weekend was VERY busy. I left the boys at home to go help my best friend move into her first house with her husband. It was a long couple of days but very worth it to be there. The first day was shifting the boxes and furniture from house to truck then truck to house. The second day was me digging out her gardens and planting. It was ROUGH! The one garden that I spent most of the day in had been left to turn into the lawn. I had to dig out sod and the base roots of whatever had been left in there for a couple years at least. The second garden had been maintain pretty well so it was 45 minutes work instead of 4 ½ hours. I added peat moss and even got three flats of annuals on sale for about 30 bucks. I’ll add pictures once I get them from my Mom’s computer.
I’m feeling more then a little bitter that I don’t really have any vacation for the summer. I have a day here and a day there but no long stretches. I feel so tired and worn, but I only get three weeks a year so I don’t want to blow it all in one go and then be stuck if I need the days. In four more years I’ll have earned another week of it through milestone years at work. It will be nice ‘cause you want to save one week to use as one at a time, and then do a week at a time. Oh well, I just have to get through the summer and then The Boy will be in school and then no more daycare…NO MORE DAYCARE!!!! I can’t wait! Not that I’m not going to desperately miss Sam, our provider. Just that I’m not going to miss the cost. $210 every two weeks will be ours again. It’s going to be going straight to the debts for the next year. Once we are dug out from those we are going to start feeling like we are getting ahead.
Ciao for now and will add those pictures in a week or so.
KCh. is out of town with work for the next week, then he is back three days, then gone for his vacation in PEI. I’m sorta house sitting by bringing in his papers every night while he is away.
We have the babysitter booked for J’s birthday. We’re planning on leaving at about 1 in the afternoon and going down to Sumerset for shopping in the fun grocery stores there. Cheap Dim Sum lunch, dinner and a movie should make it fun for J. For mine I have a hot stone massage and a hot stone pedicure booked at the spa. CAN’T WAIT!!!
Last weekend was VERY busy. I left the boys at home to go help my best friend move into her first house with her husband. It was a long couple of days but very worth it to be there. The first day was shifting the boxes and furniture from house to truck then truck to house. The second day was me digging out her gardens and planting. It was ROUGH! The one garden that I spent most of the day in had been left to turn into the lawn. I had to dig out sod and the base roots of whatever had been left in there for a couple years at least. The second garden had been maintain pretty well so it was 45 minutes work instead of 4 ½ hours. I added peat moss and even got three flats of annuals on sale for about 30 bucks. I’ll add pictures once I get them from my Mom’s computer.
I’m feeling more then a little bitter that I don’t really have any vacation for the summer. I have a day here and a day there but no long stretches. I feel so tired and worn, but I only get three weeks a year so I don’t want to blow it all in one go and then be stuck if I need the days. In four more years I’ll have earned another week of it through milestone years at work. It will be nice ‘cause you want to save one week to use as one at a time, and then do a week at a time. Oh well, I just have to get through the summer and then The Boy will be in school and then no more daycare…NO MORE DAYCARE!!!! I can’t wait! Not that I’m not going to desperately miss Sam, our provider. Just that I’m not going to miss the cost. $210 every two weeks will be ours again. It’s going to be going straight to the debts for the next year. Once we are dug out from those we are going to start feeling like we are getting ahead.
Ciao for now and will add those pictures in a week or so.
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Let's Go Fly a Kite...*Mary Poppins*
I took the Boy and J kite flying for the first time last night! The Boy had obviously never done it before but I was shocked to find out that J had never flown one before either. I don’t know about you but to me that is wild. Kites were a big part of my childhood. My brother and I grew up next to a school yard so we were there constantly with different models over the years. Then again, he did grow up in Fredericton, maybe kites weren’t huge out there….Anyway, The Boy had fun with it until about mid way through. Then he told me that it was, “No fun, it go up, it fall down, it go up, it fall down. No fun.”Try explaining to a toddler about the challenge of keeping it in the air.
Anyway, am going to be off for the weekend to Cobourg to help my girlfriend move into her first house. CAN’T WAIT!!! She has told me I will be lawn and garden girl! Am going to be weeding, cutting the lawn, whipper-snippering, etc. J and the boy will be staying home. J’s mom and aunt are coming into town for the Canada Day weekend, and J’s mom is staying for the week after. I’ll see them when I get home Sunday afternoon.
No vacation booked for the summer really. The Boy’s beginner school class took the one for August out. Oh well, I’ll take a day at a time when I need it and then take a week or two in the fall or winter.
Blog ya later.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Green Thumb!
I had a really good Tuesday night. There was a fire at the movie theatre that KCh and I go to so we rescheduled for later in the week to see the The Lake House. It was beautiful weather so I took full advantage and finally finished my front garden. The crusty thing was still in the position to hug the old deck. The pics go in the order of: before front angle, before side angle, during, and finished.
I still need to build it up with some more soil and add some more flowers to fill it out but I’m pretty proud of my first major gardening job done without my Dad helping.
And, yes, I'm grass seeding the front to get the lawn back up to the stones.
Ciao for now
I still need to build it up with some more soil and add some more flowers to fill it out but I’m pretty proud of my first major gardening job done without my Dad helping.
And, yes, I'm grass seeding the front to get the lawn back up to the stones.
Ciao for now
Sunday, June 18, 2006
YAY WEEKEND!!!!!
I don’t know if I have told my demanding public about my wee little problem. About once a month, thus this leads me to suspect that it’s attached to my cycle, I get what J and I call, “My little cloud of doom”. Basically I get majorly depressed/irritable due to nothing that we can tell other then it’s that time. So I was deep under the shadow of my little cloud yesterday when I discovered what can make it fly away:
PURPLE TOES!!!!
It seems if I go out in the car for a fast drive with the windows down blasting Sean Paul’s Temperature and buy a new shade of toe nail polish it gets my spirits back up. Gotta love Sean Paul and purple toes!
My garden is doing really well! My beans are up about 4 inches, my lettuce is going insane in a green carpet, and my onions have finally started showing the little green tops. I still have to finish the garden in the front of my house but the weather is not cooperating. I’m not going to do it in the pouring rain, but I’m also not going to do it in the middle of a heat wave and get heat stroke.
The boy and I had a lovely moment today. I was reading under the umbrella on the deck while he was playing in his sandbox. I guess he got a little hot ‘cause he walked back to the deck and climbed into the lounge chair for a rest with me! Love that kid!
We also got him is first two-wheeler! Another toddler milestone gone.
Anyway, I still have the residual cloud, namely a headache and lack of energy to do more the move my mouse around. Will post again soon.
Ciao for now!
PURPLE TOES!!!!It seems if I go out in the car for a fast drive with the windows down blasting Sean Paul’s Temperature and buy a new shade of toe nail polish it gets my spirits back up. Gotta love Sean Paul and purple toes!
My garden is doing really well! My beans are up about 4 inches, my lettuce is going insane in a green carpet, and my onions have finally started showing the little green tops. I still have to finish the garden in the front of my house but the weather is not cooperating. I’m not going to do it in the pouring rain, but I’m also not going to do it in the middle of a heat wave and get heat stroke.
The boy and I had a lovely moment today. I was reading under the umbrella on the deck while he was playing in his sandbox. I guess he got a little hot ‘cause he walked back to the deck and climbed into the lounge chair for a rest with me! Love that kid!
We also got him is first two-wheeler! Another toddler milestone gone.
Anyway, I still have the residual cloud, namely a headache and lack of energy to do more the move my mouse around. Will post again soon.Ciao for now!
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
YAWN!!!!!
Yes it’s the return of the “God –DAMN am I tired!” posts. I’m soooooo fuzzy right now. Just got back from a huge walk, didn’t get much sleep last night…or the night before that. Work is going okay, my boss has been away for two weeks and is gone for one more. Am going to try doing a garage sale on Saturday morning…we’ll see how that goes.
Anyway, just a quick update that I’m still alive…barely.
Blog ya later!
Anyway, just a quick update that I’m still alive…barely.
Blog ya later!
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
YAY 5KM!!!!!
The walk went great! It was 6 of us who drove down to the race. Four including Marshy, my friend Lori, and I. We kinda split up within the first 15 minutes or so. Breaking into two’s with the speed we were comfortable at. I’m happy to report that Lori and I came in at 56:48.2!
We also had some great news come in on Friday. WE SOLD THE CRIB SET!!!! YAY!!! I immediately called Mom and got the number for the clearing house in my home town where there was an awesome sale on a captains bed for the boy. After buying it over the phone and telling my Mom and Dad about when they could pick it up I started dismantling the Boy’s room, starting with emptying his dresser into my hobby room. It’s the season where I have to go through his clothes, see what is going to fit him come next fall, separate the things that are done forever, and bring out the summer things from last year and see what will fit him. I had to take J and the Boy to Walmart on Sunday afternoon ‘cause not only did the Boy have almost no shorts that fit him, we needed to pick up his new bed set. He had the choice of Batman or what he ended up choosing…SPONGEBOB!!!!
His room is sooooooooo CUTE! I ended up taking down a little shelf out of the corner ‘cause the Boy would have hit his head on it eventually. Mom and Dad were great and bought the Boy the matching night stand for a present.
THANKS MOM AND DAD!!!
There is also HUGE thanks going out to my Dad for other stuff. Not only did he bring up the new bed, put it together from truly asinine instructions, he ripped most of the front deck off my house and replaced the railing to make a really sweet platform leading up to our front door! He has worked like a dog these past two days in the heat and humidity and had it all done by this afternoon…in time to help me deliver the baby furniture out to it’s new home. Once again, my Dad rocks!
Anyway, I have a line on selling the old air conditioner that came with the house. Let’s hope that one comes through, all the cash we can get our hands on right now is appreciated. The tax payment is two weeks away, and my income tax return has yet to make an appearance in our account. SIGH!!! I called and found out it hasn’t even been processed! DOUBLE SIGH!!!
J’s job is secure for several months. It was coming down to the wire with the current contract expiring…the day after TOMORROW! He finally asked his boss when the paperwork was coming through and boy was he surprised! He thought that it had all been taken care of and that everything was fine. Meanwhile I’m hyperventilating in the corner at the thought of J being unemployed two weeks after buying the new car! Everything a-o-k for now.
Must go. Am sticky and hot and miserable…and this is in the office that has the working air conditioner. And if you are wondering I’m selling one when it is so hot here, this is the AC that doesn’t fit in any of the windows…the one that the yahoo’s cut a hole in the outside wall of the bedroom to get it to work. That one.
Ciao for now!
We also had some great news come in on Friday. WE SOLD THE CRIB SET!!!! YAY!!! I immediately called Mom and got the number for the clearing house in my home town where there was an awesome sale on a captains bed for the boy. After buying it over the phone and telling my Mom and Dad about when they could pick it up I started dismantling the Boy’s room, starting with emptying his dresser into my hobby room. It’s the season where I have to go through his clothes, see what is going to fit him come next fall, separate the things that are done forever, and bring out the summer things from last year and see what will fit him. I had to take J and the Boy to Walmart on Sunday afternoon ‘cause not only did the Boy have almost no shorts that fit him, we needed to pick up his new bed set. He had the choice of Batman or what he ended up choosing…SPONGEBOB!!!!
His room is sooooooooo CUTE! I ended up taking down a little shelf out of the corner ‘cause the Boy would have hit his head on it eventually. Mom and Dad were great and bought the Boy the matching night stand for a present.THANKS MOM AND DAD!!!
There is also HUGE thanks going out to my Dad for other stuff. Not only did he bring up the new bed, put it together from truly asinine instructions, he ripped most of the front deck off my house and replaced the railing to make a really sweet platform leading up to our front door! He has worked like a dog these past two days in the heat and humidity and had it all done by this afternoon…in time to help me deliver the baby furniture out to it’s new home. Once again, my Dad rocks!
Anyway, I have a line on selling the old air conditioner that came with the house. Let’s hope that one comes through, all the cash we can get our hands on right now is appreciated. The tax payment is two weeks away, and my income tax return has yet to make an appearance in our account. SIGH!!! I called and found out it hasn’t even been processed! DOUBLE SIGH!!!
J’s job is secure for several months. It was coming down to the wire with the current contract expiring…the day after TOMORROW! He finally asked his boss when the paperwork was coming through and boy was he surprised! He thought that it had all been taken care of and that everything was fine. Meanwhile I’m hyperventilating in the corner at the thought of J being unemployed two weeks after buying the new car! Everything a-o-k for now.
Must go. Am sticky and hot and miserable…and this is in the office that has the working air conditioner. And if you are wondering I’m selling one when it is so hot here, this is the AC that doesn’t fit in any of the windows…the one that the yahoo’s cut a hole in the outside wall of the bedroom to get it to work. That one.
Ciao for now!
Friday, May 26, 2006
Long Post....
Huge post must be done. There has been so much stuff happening during the past week.The long weekend went great in some ways and terrible in others. It was great in the way that my Mom and Dad were up, but terrible in the way that we were scheduled to work on our front deck. The weather was horrible and rained the whole time so it was a little bit unsafe to play with power tools. We took everyone out for a drive in the Max, went shopping in the newly renovated Independent Grocer, and kick my Mom and Dad's butt's in Sequence! J did his thing with the cooking and I did my thing hanging out with Mom cleaning the house. The boy had a fantastic time with Nana and Popa and was sad to see them go.
This was the Boy’s first week back to daycare since the cast came off. He didn’t want to get out of bed at ALL! VERY GRUMPY BOY! After I got him in the door he recognized the place and ran off to go see his friends. The rest of the week was the same except for adding in screaming at the top of his lungs every time I came to pick him up ‘cause he didn’t want to leave.
The boy
had his first trip to the dentist yesterday. I was so freaked out by this. I hate the dentist and dreaded having to take the Boy lest he sense my foreboding. Anyway, everything went great. He did the entire appointment lying on top of me in the chair and had his teeth counted by the hygienist and the dentist with no problems. No cavities so he got his picture on the wall of fame!After all that when I went to pick him up, Sam said that he had been having a very bad water-bum all day. He told me his tummy hurt and that he didn’t want to eat anything. We got him and and got some peanut butter toast into him with some Gatorade and that seemed to settle him a little. We then had the most awesome evening! J washed the Max, I cut and whipper-snipped the grass, and the boy played outside in his sandbox. I also took great please in teaching him how to roll down the hill of our front lawn! He had a blast! After I got the front garden weeded we strapped the Boy into the stroller and went for a nice long walk through the neighborhood. There are some major big houses just a couple blocks over from us! Bathtime and Bed for the boy at this point.
After we got him into bed was when things took a very quick turn for the worse. Just before J and I were about to go to bed the Boy had a major croup attack. He could barely breathe he was “barking” so
hard. We got him to emerg. just in time for the attach to subside and for us to look like panic happy parents. Joy. Got him home and in bed by 11pm and didn’t get to sleep until after 12am. Yay. Another exhausted day at work.This weekend is going to be busy. Lori and Tom are driving up late tonight ‘cause Lori and I are participating in the National Capital Race weekend. We are doing the 5km and then going to the company catered event afterward. Should be exhausting and fun! Will post pics after I recover! :)
Ciao for Now!
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
The Boy and other business...
Oh well. After a half an hour of fiddling and choosing I ended up with the template that I started out with over a year ago. Blerg!
ANYWAY, the boy is FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! We were out of the house by 6:38am and at CHEO by 7:50am. What a difference a half an hour can make in the traffic!
Here is the boy after just getting out of the car.
So to make a long story short: Check in, main waiting room, X-ray waiting room, X-ray, wait for the film to be developed, back to main waiting room, private waiting room, Dr. K. says everything is great, over to the body shop.
Here are some pics of getting him pried out of his plaster prison. He didn’t cry while the saw was working! He watched it and was apparently fascinated! There was some crying after the support of the cast disappeared. Lots of, “OWOWOWOWOWOWOW MOMMY OOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!!”. Otherwise, it went very well. he was not traumatized by the whole experience, he liked seeing the Dr., but otherwise was very happy to leave CHEO.
Back in the car and home.
After dinner I went for a swim in the tub with my baby and finally got him clean. Washed his hair and scrubbed a ton of dead skin off of the area’s that the cast had been in. He is going to be coated in skin cream for the next week to get the dry skin under control.
By the end of the evening he was standing on his own and saying, “Look Mommy! No fall no more!”. Just a note that we didn't let him free-stand like this by himself for a long time. He would have his leg randomly give out and he would hit the floor if we weren't there to catch him. He is still a little bit delicate and can't bend very well, but is otherwise a happy boy and getting closer and closer to being our happy kid again.
Will blog tomorrow about the new car!
Buh Bye!
ANYWAY, the boy is FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! We were out of the house by 6:38am and at CHEO by 7:50am. What a difference a half an hour can make in the traffic!
Here is the boy after just getting out of the car.
So to make a long story short: Check in, main waiting room, X-ray waiting room, X-ray, wait for the film to be developed, back to main waiting room, private waiting room, Dr. K. says everything is great, over to the body shop.Here are some pics of getting him pried out of his plaster prison. He didn’t cry while the saw was working! He watched it and was apparently fascinated! There was some crying after the support of the cast disappeared. Lots of, “OWOWOWOWOWOWOW MOMMY OOOOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!!”. Otherwise, it went very well. he was not traumatized by the whole experience, he liked seeing the Dr., but otherwise was very happy to leave CHEO.
Back in the car and home.
After dinner I went for a swim in the tub with my baby and finally got him clean. Washed his hair and scrubbed a ton of dead skin off of the area’s that the cast had been in. He is going to be coated in skin cream for the next week to get the dry skin under control.By the end of the evening he was standing on his own and saying, “Look Mommy! No fall no more!”. Just a note that we didn't let him free-stand like this by himself for a long time. He would have his leg randomly give out and he would hit the floor if we weren't there to catch him. He is still a little bit delicate and can't bend very well, but is otherwise a happy boy and getting closer and closer to being our happy kid again.
Will blog tomorrow about the new car!
Buh Bye!
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