Tuesday, May 31

oh my gross

I think I just saw my first Junebug (sorry I couldn't find a bigger picture, lol), and do I ever hate those giant, swarmy, stupid bastard bugs....barf. I love summer, but I could definitely do without this particular harbinger of warm weather. Is that spelled right? Or even used right? whatev, I'm tired and going to bed.

picture time

enjoy!







Sunday, May 29

new linky-love

random factoids to keep your days interesting. I'll put it on the sidebar too, in case you're too lazy to bookmark it yourself.

also, from Mitch, StoreWars. Odd, but entertaining.

Friday, May 27

funny

also, 2 people in recent tracking history have stumbled across my site because of my link in a previous post to the Ronco Yogurt Maker and Beef Jerky Machine. That still makes me laugh. And shudder a bit.

some of you may recall

I got engaged a while back. We've been fairly busy what with the having a baby and moving to Fredericton thing, but that's all relatively settled out now, so we're thinking maybe we should actually start planning this wedding thing. Since I've only been to like, 4 weddings (1 park, 1 church, 1 catholic church (yes, it's its own category) and 1 in a home), and the fiancé is a man, we're sort of hard up for ideas. Going away is nice, but we both have broke friends who wouldn't be able to make it anywhere exciting. At the same time, I don't want to have a lame-o wedding that I'll regret for not being cooler.

We sort of thought of having it at my parents cottage, but there just isn't space there for people to hang out / stay over, or at their house because they have a nice huge yard, but we'd have to decide that really soon, because I think we're aiming for a fall wedding, and the decorating in my parents' yard is courtesy of hurricane Juan. That guy was a jerk. It's totally do-able, but would take a little time. So basically, I'm looking for ideas.

I've been watching Wedding Story on TLC, but the weddings on there are almost exclusively churchy, and we're just not. We're also not the "Life's Weird Weddings" type though, where they get married underwater and whatnot. I may not be the princess type, but I do want to have a nice dress and flowers. So any ideas in general, or locations, or good places to have receptions, I'm all ears. Or eyes, in this case, since I'll be reading. I feel sort of silly, like that as a girl I should have all this stuff planned out, but I just don't. I don't even know where to begin.

Eloping is tempting, but out of the question as our parents would quite literally kill us.

I think also we should involve the cats. They can wear little kitty tuxedoes or something.

Just kidding. They wouldn't wear tuxedos. Just fancy collars.

Thursday, May 26

how do you expect me to post

when you don't come over and hold the baby?

just kidding, I did have some visitors, and it was a good week overall. it's quite something though, the difference it makes to have someone else home, even though it's only for a few hours at night.

I went through all the digital baby photos and chose a bunch to print off; I figure the guy should have a proper album, not just pictures in folders on the computer. I'll have to get Mitch to show me how to do his fancy photo pages, then I'll do up an online album too. I also took black and white (well, colour printed in black and white) pictures of like, his feet, ear, tummy, etc, and am looking for a frame to do a sort of baby bits collage. I can't find a nice frame though, it needs to hold 8 pictures, and I'd rather they not just be in 2 rows, that's boring.

Ever hopeful, I rented 3 movies today. I'm too lazy for links, look them up yourselves. Birth, This Girl's Life, and After the Sunset. An ecclectic collection, I agree. They're all full week rentals, and the baby has been having longer stretches of being awake but not crying lately, so we should be able to watch them. Madagascar starts this weekend, I'm so frigging excited. Somebody has to come babysit so I can go...I don't think tiny babies and movie theatres mix very well. A friend of mine mentioned something about family movie days, which sounds very promising, and I think Madagascar is a fine movie to have for that sort of thing. Apparently it's afternoon or early evening movies, the sound is turned down and the lights aren't all the way off, and you don't have to feel bad if you have a screaming infant. Well, not as bad as you would at a normal movie, anyway.

ah, the boy awakes. later skaters.

Monday, May 9

who wants to hold the baby??

I'm all by my lonesome this week, until Thursday anyway. The fiancé has gone to Halifax for work, so it's just me and my small / furry boys here. Open invitation to anyone who wants to drop by and visit me / hold a generally happy but lately less so (gassy and growing pains and whatnot) baby.

Things are still going pretty well, the baby spent the night in his crib last night, he had been sleeping in a bassinet in our room because it's just easier for the nighttime feedings and stuff if he's right there. He's getting to be on more of a schedule now though, and also getting to be a noisy sleeper, so those things lend themselves well to him sleeping in his own room.

In non-baby news, I had to let my school know that I'm most likely not going back next year, which was hard. We can't find work for my sweetie pie though (really, not being all that picky or anything) and he really likes his job here, and I can't really go back to Moncton by myself with or without the baby to work. I've been playing Set For Life lately in the hopes that I won't have to go back to work anyway. It's worth a try, yes? I really do hold a legitimate hope that I'll win the lottery someday. You just never know.

I have no idea what I used to think about or talk about before the baby came along, because he occupies literally every moment of my thoughts now. Probably doesn't help that I'm not working or leaving the house much. My apologies for the suffering of the blog.