yes indeedy folks. I had a bonafide responsibility-less weekend these past couple of days. The husband was headed to his hometown to host the bachelor party of his best bud. I've had lots of hometown-ness lately, and so elected to stay here. I then got to thinking, hmm. I haven't had a full day to myself since the wee lad came around. That's a long time. I'm about due, I guess. So, I sent wee lad home with his father, to spend the weekend being spoiled and kept up too late by his grandparents. As my neighbour put it, you have to weigh the benefits against the risks. Is it worth the few days it'll take to straighten him out in order to have a day or 2 to yourself? In considering that it has indeed been a long time, and that his grandparents will be eternally in my debt for having the opportunity to spend so much two-on-one time with the babe, yes. It is. They're on their way home as we speak.
I made myself a mercilessly garlicky and oniony chicken noodle dish for supper last night. I stayed up late watching great shows like "While You Were Out" and "Property Ladder". (Note to self regarding latter: always research housing market, neighbourhood, and get a frigging home inspection, before assuming you can make a $60k profit on your first house flip.) I hung pictures, I filled out most of the wedding scrapbook album, and put all the professional type photos in the photo album. Sidebar, if anyone out there has wedding pictures, I'd muchly appreciate copies! Today, too late to be a true part of my girly weekend, I know, I bought 2 small tubs of Ben & Jerry's. It's on sale at Superstore, if anyone's interested.
editor's note: Vermonty Python has now joined Half Baked at the top of my "Best Ben&Jerry's flavours" list. Mmmm, cookie crumb swirl and fudge cows.
Yesterday, I went to the market, had the aforementioned pictures printed off, tooled around town, went to Canadian Tire, that kind of thing. The night before, I went to see Pirates with Jenn and bought 2 cds. It's ok, because they only cost me $20 together. One is Corinne Bailey Rae, who you've probably heard of, or would at least recognise her song "Put Your Records On". It's a good album, basically what you'd expect, and that one song is great to sing along to. The other is Nizlopi. Who? My thoughts exactly. I was browsing the cd racks, and this one caught my eye. I have no idea why, but partly because the album title is "Half of these songs are about you". I thought that was funny. I had basically decided to buy it before I even asked what it was like. The girl at the counter told me it was sort of Counting Crows-ish, which was a good selling point for me. She said it was also kind of Jason Mraz, which I agree with more than the CC comparison. I'd throw in a bit of Coronation Street (just for the accent) and some Paul Simon for good measure. I'm quite proud of my purchase, I must say. I really like both cds.
I have a week before I start my new job, teaching resource and some classroom at a middle school about 15 minutes from here. I'm still looking forward to it, but am also looking forward to finding out what exactly I'm doing. I found out yesterday that it looks like it is in fact just a one year position, because the woman I'm replacing is just on ed leave, not moved to Nunavut or anything, but I'm not seeing that as an entirely bad thing. At least it is a one year position! If they can keep me on at the end, bonus, if they can transfer me somewhere equally close to home, bonus, and if they try to make me work in Woodstock, then I'm no farther behind than I would have been otherwise. I'll pick up where I left off in this district, and go from there.
What else. Oh, I applied for my laptop, I'm super excited about that. I may question the logic behind the program, but ah well. We'll see how badly blocked off the Dept of Ed laptops turn out to be, and then I'll decide if I can scratch "iBook" off my wishlist.
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