I smell Cinnamon rolls…

I am sitting here all by myself, drinking and typing. This could be trouble.

I was reading a style magazine (ewww) that told me leggings are back. Excuse me? They are back? What, exactly does that mean… The only explanation is there is a rip in the space time continuum that is warping all of our minds to think we look good in leggings. Because, seriously, we don’t. We never did, and we never will.

I’m sorry, let me explain myself. By “we” I mean anyone who is not a size zero, or alternately anyone who has a sense of style.

Why is it that just because celebreties are all wearing the ugliest clothes they can find, suddenly it’s the new hot look? They don’t look good, they just all look equally stupid.

I went to the doctor last week because I have big hands. Wait a minute…that sounds wrong. But it is so true. For some unknown reason my hands are swollen so much that I cannot wear my wedding ring, or any rings for that matter. I can’t even get them over my knuckles anymore. So I went to the doc and he took some of my precious (and delicious) blood so he could drink it find out what’s wrong with me.

Did you ever lick a spot of blood from a cut or something, then wonder what it would be like to actually drink a glass of it? No? Me either.

Alrighty then.

I am at two with nature.

It sure has been a while since I have blogged. Boy do I suck.

Well, I don’t have much to say really. The Boy is going to stay with his Nanny and Pappy until August 18th, so that’s news. Other than that, not a damn thing is going on around here.

Because I am lacking in my amazing and delicious writings I am going to do a meme. Shut up.

Tagged (sort of) by Robin at PENSIEVE

1. The book nearest me – The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

2. Stretch out your left arm, what do you touch? – The door in my living room.

3. Last thing watched on television? – Atomic Betty.

4. Without looking what time is it? 2:00 pm

5. What is the actual time? 2:30…oops, lost a little time there

6. With the exception of the computer what can you hear? Music in the kitchen, the movie Jingle All the Way and The Boy yammering on and on…..and on.

7. When did you last step outside? About 10 this morning I took out the garbage.

8. Before this survey what did you look at? The floor, my hands, the computer screen, The Boy, PENSIEVE.

9. What are you wearing? – Pink t-shirt and jeans. By the by, the jeans are blue, not pink.

10. Did you dream last night? – Yes, it was strange but I can’t remember it exactly.

11. When did you last laugh? – This morning. The Boy and I had some talks and he made me laugh.

12. What is on the walls in the room? – A wall hanging of Sunflowers that we picked up at a flea market, a Coca-Cola sign my father gave me and the top of a coffee table.

13. Seen anything weird lately? – Everything I see and do is weird.

14. What do you think of this quiz? – Pretty neat, too bad I am borrrrrrring.

15. What is the last film you saw? – I just watched Willow again last night. Man I love that movie.

16. Tell me something we don’t know – Once when I was 15 or 16 I accidentally set my hand on fire.

17. If you could change one thing about the world, what would you do? – Feed everyone.

18. Do you like to dance? – Yes, too bad I look like Elaine from Seinfeld…only worse.

19. George Bush? – No thanks.

20. Imagine your first child is a girl – Ok. Now what?

21. Imagine your first child is a boy – He is, and boy is he a pain. hardehar.
22. Would you consider living abroad? – Yes! I would love to. France, Greece, England.

23. What would God say to you when you reach the pearly gates? – Hi there, how was the trip? You hungry?

I’m not tagging anyone today, if you want to do it more power to ya.

 

I feel a very unusual sensation – if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. – Benjamin Disraeli

Thank you Tink!

The other day I received an excellent package in the mail. I had won a contest given by Tink and she sent me my prize of a homemade CD. Plus some Candy! Yay for candy! So I got ear candy and regular candy… oh Tink how did you know that one of my favourite things is candy?!

The bag of red blobs was a tad frightening at first. I could not tell what it was for the life of me… so I bravely opened it to discover gummi worms! Or rather what I think were alligators, but what sweet relief to discover my favourite food group and not a congealed heart.
Whew.

Also, The Boy was extremely happy to see candy in the mail and wondered at this anomaly for quite some time. He and I enjoyed everything immensely. He has also laid claim to the Bud Light keychain… interesting.

A great big shout out to Tink, thanks so much, everything is great

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. William Dement

I love to dream. I love talking about dreams, trying to figure out what they mean… I think dreams are important. I also love to day dream, talking about “what ifs”. Feel free to explain my dreams or tell me yours in the comments

When I was younger I had a recurring dream. I could never remember it when I woke up, I was just left with the sense I had dreamed that before.

However there are a couple dreams that I remember vividly from when I was small. In one I am helping my dad build a model car when he asks me to go to the closet and get another kit. When I open the door a skeleton reaches out and yanks me inside. The whole closet is dark but the skeleton is bright white and is all I can see. I never felt afraid, the skeleton just held me for a bit then let me out of the closet. When I came out I sat on my fathers lap and very matter of fact told him there was a skeleton in the closet. And that was that.

Another one that really did scare me was my grandmothers face in the dark. Just her face, and she was smiling when suddenly her skin began to melt away, her hair turned to snakes and all her teeth fell out. It took me a few weeks before I could look my grandma in the eye after that.

On a much lighter note, I had a dream the other morning before work. I kept hitting the snooze button and I had a dream that The Hubband was telling me I was going to be late for work. So when the alarm went off again, I got up!

My dreams for my life are vast and important to keep me on track. I have so many dreams that I want to fulfill. The first and most important for now is getting a house. I am sick and tired of renting! Argh.

So what are your dreams? What have you dreamed lately?

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Stop staring at me!

Sign Sign everywhere a sign, Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind, Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sign.

Time once again for the Saturday Photo Hunt! This week the theme is Signs.The Hubband works in a restaurant and when they are getting rid of old items he sometimes gets to bring them home. This is how we get odd things for our house.

One of these things is a Labatt Sign that we put up outside in our patio.

Happy Photo Hunting! Did you play?

Gimme head with hair, Long beautiful hair, Streaming, flaxen, waxen.

I have been increasingly annoyed with my hair recently. I regret to say that I had the beginnings of a …. mullet.

Ewwwww.

So I asked my good friend Joan to come to my rescue.
“Give me a haircut or give me death!”
She was worried about cutting my hair, you know a girls hair is her crowning glory. But I had total faith in her hair cutting abilities. I just knew she would do a good job. And she did.

Here for your viewing pleasure, my before shot -

 

And my After -

We also dyed my hair, isn’t that special. Aren’t I the cutest thing you’ve ever seen?

Even cuter than a bag of puppies.

Great job Joan, I’ll be your first client when you open your hair salon!

SPF 07/07/06 – Wedding Edition

First I would like to send good vibes and well wishes out to Kristine and Shaun for their wedding – Tomorrow! Have a great day you guys This week for SPF, Kristine wanted to see -
1. Your Love (show us some love)
2. Take us on a Honeymoon! (bring us somewhere with your pictures)
3. Something Blue (No sad faces before my wedding!)

I went digging through my archives for this week and let me tell you there are slim pickings there! I just recently got a digital camera so most of my photos are *gasp* real. And I don’t have a scanner, so short of me holding them up to the screen, you ain’t gonna see ‘em.

Time to drop it like it’s hot.

My Love

My two loves – The Hubband and The Boy doing something they love – flying a kite.

Honeymoon in a photo

Our honeymoon consisted of one night in a B&B – sorry no pictures

This is a photo I took at my family reunion, in Clinton, Maine. I just love the shot and it makes me want to go back and visit every time I see it.

Something Blue

I love the colour blue so one would think it would be easy to find pictures of blue things. Apparently that is not the case. I found a few pictures of the sky and water but wanted to do something different. This is a picture of a jellyfish in the harbour that I tinted blue. The picture, not the jellyfish. hee hee.

Did you play? Go on, it’s fun!

Where have all the good people gone?

I have been trying to get The Boy in to a Daycare since last year. It was really tough, they are booked solid everywhere, and we are on a 2 year waiting list for our top pick! Ack. However I had a babysitter who was willing to work until I found a Daycare. Yay.

At the beginning of the summer, when I went back to work, I told her that I would need her 3 days a week and would only use her until I could get The Boy into a Daycare. She said she was fine with this arrangement.

Fast forward a few weeks, I find a Daycare. It is a home Daycare, but has all the elements I was looking for – more kids for The Boy to interact with, more structure and disipline, lots of outdoor play, (This Daycare has a fenced in park!) and a woman who The Boy absolutely adores. When we went to meet her The Boy didn’t want to leave! He cried. I mean how great is this that he WANTS to go to the Daycare!? I’ll tell you, its awesome.

So this Daycare doesn’t do weekends. Bummer. My Babysitter does. Yay.

So I have my schedule all set up.
Monday – The Boy is with Me every other Monday and in Daycare the rest.
Tuesday – The Boy is with The Hubband.
Wednesday – The Hubband.
Thursday – Daycare.
Friday – Me.
Saturday – Babysitter.
Sunday – Me every other Sunday and the babysitter the rest.

Well, the first week this takes effect I call the babysitter on Friday night to make sure she remembers we are still on for Saturday. This is the moment when she decides to tell me she will no longer be working for me.
Her reasons…
- I had guaranteed her 4 – 5 days a week work and she turned down another full time gig because of me. – I’m sorry, no. I never guaranteed her anything, and it’s her own fault she didn’t tell me about this other gig cause she should have taken it!
- This Daycare is just a home worker like her. – So that makes it not valid somehow?
- I am just using her for weekends because the Daycare won’t do them. – DUH! You’re a babysitter, it’s your job!
- If she works only weekends she won’t be able to do stuff with her own kids. - Ok, so before you were babysitting The Boy on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday with no complaints, suddenly now it makes a difference?

So can someone explain to me why she would quit when all the reasons she gave were bogus? I mean if you don’t like me, or just don’t want to babysit, say so. Don’t make up excuses.
And on top of all this I still owed her for a day so I sent her a thank you card. A thank you card!? Am I retarded?

Well Thanks for nothing, cause now I am royally fucked on weekends.

I don’t even know what street Canada is on. – Al Capone

Its Canada Day!

Originally called Dominion Day, the name was changed to Canada Day on October 27th 1982.

This year we are celebrating our 139th birthday.

We just got back from the waterfront fireworks show. It was awesome

In honour of this special day here are some quotes about Canada -

 

-In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations, it’s cold, half-French, and difficult to stir. – Stuart Keate

-What is a Canadian? A Canadian is a fellow wearing English tweeds, a Hong Kong shirt and Spanish shoes, who sips Brazilian coffee sweetened with Philippine sugar from a Bavarian cup while nibbling Swiss cheese, sitting at a Danish desk over a Persian rug, after coming home in a German car from an Italian movie… and then writes his Member of Parliament with a Japanese ballpoint pen on French paper, demanding that he do something about foreigners taking away our Canadian jobs. – Anonymous

-Canadians have been so busy explaining to the Americans that we aren’t British, and to the British that we aren’t Americans that we haven’t had time to become Canadians. – Helen Gordon McPherson

-I’m not an American! I am a Canadian. I come from a “nice”, thoroughly unrealistic country. – Matthew Fisher

-We Canadians live in a blind spot about our identity. We have very strong feelings about who we aren’t but only weak ones about who we are. We’re passionate about what we don’t want to become but oddly passive about what we should be. – John Cruickshank (in McLean’s Magazine)

-The huge advantage of Canada is its backwardness. – Marshall McLuhan

Happy Canada Day!

 

 

Today I am playing Saturday Photo Hunt.

Theme – Automobiles.
My father loves antique cars so whenever I see one I take a picture . I don’t know why I do this because I never give them to him or even show him any!

So in honour of Canada Day, SPH, and my Father who will never see this, I present a Red Car.

I have no idea what kind of car this is, anybody out there have a clue?

Did you play? Check out the other wonderful players.

And to all my fellow Canadians, have a Great Canada Day, eh!