I received an email about a week ago "in response to my account query" or something, about how I can go about changing my password. Why the hell would someone want to hack into a blogger account? Useless much? Anyway, so I had to change my password, and I couldn't remember what it was. I do now though, thanks.
We're in Maine for the American version of Thanksgiving with my aunt and uncle and parents and the bebe. I'm anticipating much the same thing as Canadian Thanksgiving, but perhaps with more candied yams and green bean casserole. I've never had either of those (although the first one apparently involves marshmallows, so I'm hoping for that) but they're always on TV Thanksgivings, so it follows that they'll be here in real life. Obviously.
Aliant dial up is so frustrating I'm actually thinking about cancelling the account and just using the fiance's work account in the evenings. So slow. Also, with the monitor not working, it's just not worth the mental anguish.
In other, "companies that suck" news, Rogers does. They keep sending me my bill, even though I paid it off and closed the account 2 months ago. Nicely done, boys. I can't be bothered calling them, because it takes a year to get through to a person, and the automated guy doesn't respond to swearing. I emailed customer service instead.
Hmm. Might go shopping in Augusta tomorrow, they have all kinds of exciting stores like Gap and WalMart. lol. Better than sitting around doing nothing though, and there are all kinds of ridiculous sales the day after Thanksgiving here. Being in Sugarloaf, should probably be going skiing, but that's not in the cards this time around. Wasn't the last time I was here either, since I was all pregnant and stuff. And it was October.
Alright, I've abused the highspeed internet (seriously, am I the only one who doesn't have it? not fair.) enough. Later skaters.
Thursday, November 24
Saturday, November 12
oh yeah.
by the way, one month and 13 days until Christmas. WTF??
I'll be updating my buy me stuff page, and if anyone else would like to have one, I'd be more than happy to host it for you. Honestly, if anyone else wants any kind of page, I can probaly host it for you, so long as it's just a small guy like mine.
I'll be updating my buy me stuff page, and if anyone else would like to have one, I'd be more than happy to host it for you. Honestly, if anyone else wants any kind of page, I can probaly host it for you, so long as it's just a small guy like mine.
whee, highspeed!
we're home at the fiancé's parents' place for the weekend, and they have highspeed. How is that fair? They're a good 45 minutes from the nearest big city, and they get fast internet. We, a measly 20-25, no such luck. Aliant and Rogers are mean.
I'm afraid there hasn't been too much to update on, hence the lack of updating. That combined with the wonky monitors (I have mine back now, but it's not cooperating either. it blacks out, and sometimes comes back normal, sometimes with garbage. annoying.) and a 7 month old crawling baby, not much time to do anything worth talking about.
I'm beginning to realise that my maternity leave is dwindling. The boy is 7 months old now, craziness. That means 5 more months of paid leave, 3 weeks of full pay after that, then I'm effed. I am going to meet with someone at the district to see what they realistically expect from me, if there's a possibility of not doing the regular "I just graduated and will need to day-to-day supply for a year" thing. If there isn't, I'm not sure what I'll do. Stay home and start up a naked webcam site or something. Don't think I haven't thought of that. I've had one woman offer me her baby to take care of when she goes back to work in the fall, but I don't think that'll pay the bills. If I had a couple it probably would, and that's more appealing than opening a daycare option, because a daycare would be lots of kids, so I wouldn't actually get to spend a tonne of time with my dear boy anyway. We'll see. I'd be sort of stuck home though, and I'm not sure how it works if, say, I have an appointment with my little guy, or just want to go away, or something. Sorry, daycare closed for today!
That's about it, I really have to find new things to talk about. I actually had a really productive day the other day, I put up a shelf in one of the cupboards for glasses, put up mini shelves under the stairs, did laundry and dishes, and took the baby for a walk. Good times. It makes up for the other days when we do nothing all day except watch Poko and Ellen. We had a power outage for a few hours, which is not very cool this time of year. Or, actually, it is cool, because our heat is electric. It came back on just after 6 though, so the house didn't get too cold. The fiancé will never again complain about my collection of giant candles in jars though.
I'm afraid there hasn't been too much to update on, hence the lack of updating. That combined with the wonky monitors (I have mine back now, but it's not cooperating either. it blacks out, and sometimes comes back normal, sometimes with garbage. annoying.) and a 7 month old crawling baby, not much time to do anything worth talking about.
I'm beginning to realise that my maternity leave is dwindling. The boy is 7 months old now, craziness. That means 5 more months of paid leave, 3 weeks of full pay after that, then I'm effed. I am going to meet with someone at the district to see what they realistically expect from me, if there's a possibility of not doing the regular "I just graduated and will need to day-to-day supply for a year" thing. If there isn't, I'm not sure what I'll do. Stay home and start up a naked webcam site or something. Don't think I haven't thought of that. I've had one woman offer me her baby to take care of when she goes back to work in the fall, but I don't think that'll pay the bills. If I had a couple it probably would, and that's more appealing than opening a daycare option, because a daycare would be lots of kids, so I wouldn't actually get to spend a tonne of time with my dear boy anyway. We'll see. I'd be sort of stuck home though, and I'm not sure how it works if, say, I have an appointment with my little guy, or just want to go away, or something. Sorry, daycare closed for today!
That's about it, I really have to find new things to talk about. I actually had a really productive day the other day, I put up a shelf in one of the cupboards for glasses, put up mini shelves under the stairs, did laundry and dishes, and took the baby for a walk. Good times. It makes up for the other days when we do nothing all day except watch Poko and Ellen. We had a power outage for a few hours, which is not very cool this time of year. Or, actually, it is cool, because our heat is electric. It came back on just after 6 though, so the house didn't get too cold. The fiancé will never again complain about my collection of giant candles in jars though.
Tuesday, November 1
sweet merciful crap
I don't know if I can keep up this page on dialup with a 6 month old, it's just not working out. I will keep posting whenever I can, but the time, patience and subject matter just so rarely occur simultaneously that it's getting increasingly sporadic, as I'm sure, loyal reader, you have noticed. I'm trying to keep my poor boy from going crazy with teething, he's got 6 teeth through and another on the way, which is just cruel for such a tiny boy. He hasn't had a break since the first one made its appearance almost 3 months ago. There's a craft fair type thing in just over a month that I'm thinking of getting a table at, it's only $8 and I'm sure I can get some photography or something together by then. We'll see. I'm also realising that my sweet boy is almost 7 months old, which means I have about 5 months of mat leave left, and no definite plan for what's to happen after that. I'm planning to go meet with somebody at the district office and see if they can do anything for me. I understand and can respect that they want people to start out with supplying, but the day to day thing just isn't going to work. Even if I can find someone to watch the baby on extremely short notice, they'd have to live next door in order for it to be on the way to work, and with only one car, it'll be tricky for the fiancé to live up to his end of the carpooling agreement, unless I'm strictly at the high school in town and can ride along.
Come on lottery, I don't need $54 million, just maybe $1 million would do fine.
That's all my news and rants for now! I miss blogback. I'm turning on blogger comments, and will make it so you don't have to sign in for now, until I get spam crap.
Come on lottery, I don't need $54 million, just maybe $1 million would do fine.
That's all my news and rants for now! I miss blogback. I'm turning on blogger comments, and will make it so you don't have to sign in for now, until I get spam crap.
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