mmm, hicky

Yeah. So, I woke up this morning with a hicky. Not from who you'd think though. From the wee lad. Nice. He was up for about 45 minutes last night around 4:30, and at one point thought my neck looked suspiciously like a boob, and decided to have a go at it. I didn't let him try for long, maybe 2 seconds, but damn, the little guy has some powerful suction. Apparently. Anyway, so yes, as I'm getting in the shower this morning, I see a lovely love bite on my neck. I told my parents it was from the babe, but I'm fairly sure they don't believe me. If I had gotten a hicky from the fiance, I sure as heck wouldn't be showing it off. I did a fairly respectable job of covering it with yellow concealer meant for circles under the eyes, so I guess it's safe to go out in public. We were thinking of stopping by the wedding dress place today, so I can't be looking all whorey.

Halifax bound

or, actually, already in Halifax. Whatever. Down for a few days with the babe and the fiance for the latter's job. Might swing by Winchester's tomorrow and see about my dress, schedule a fitting, and see if they'll let me take a picture of it now so I can try to find shoes and stuff that match. Also should probaly schedule a fitting and stuff, just in case. I'll not eat for a while if I have to though. Hopefully it won't come to that. I just have to not gain weight, which should be manageable, right?

No big plans for the week, just hanging out with my parents. Might go to a movie tomorrow, but there's actually not anything playing that I absolutely need to see. I saw Eight Below as a baby movie, and it was good, but I definitely wouldn't recommend it to small children or people who have a problem with not-so-good things happening to good animals. My sister and some of her friends from work and I went to see Failure to Launch, and it was really good. Quite funny, and you get to see Matthew McWhatsisname lots, along with Bradley Cooper and another guy...Justin Bartha, who although they keep talking about what a dork he is, he's actually really cute.

I began the mural on the babe's wall. I figure since I convinced the fiance to let us make the wall drywall instead of pine like the rest of the room, I should probably do something with it. We decided on a map of the world, relatively simple, with animals painted on in the areas where they live. Should be fun. Anyway, I painted the wall a pale blue, for the ocean. It's called 'white denim', which sounds horrible, but it's a really nice colour. I also bought paints that I'll have to return. They're paints that you make your whatever, animal in my case, and then can stick it on the wall, or on a window, or whatever. I thought that would be fun for the baby, but then I thought ... he'll more likely eat them than put them on the map. So I check to make sure they're non toxic, and find no evidence of that, along with a picture of a baby face frowning, and a 0-3 with a NO symbol through it. Nice idea, maybe in the next house when he's less apt to eating everything. Anway, we're going to borrow the lcd projector from the fiance's work so that I don't have to draw the map, because that would be hard, and likely nowhere near scale. This way I can spend more time painting the world and the animals.

Donald Trump named his new baby Barron. That's just mean. It'll be a fine name when he's an adult, but come on! Things you have to keep in mind when naming your baby.

Alright. I'm going to have some lunch I think, while the wee lad continues to nap. He's making up for the fact that he was up 3 times last night. He's teething, molars, and may well be going through a growth spurt, since that's supposed to happen around now.

One last tidbit, apparently they're making Rocky: The Musical. Fer real, yo. Let's put that on the 'must see' list right along with Lord of the Rings: Onstage.

sigh.

mmm, springy

It was like, plus 10 or something foolish here yesterday. Windy, because it's always windy, but nice. The babe and I went for a walk, he fell asleep. I thought he fell asleep, but as he was reclining with his eyes closed, I hear a "pppppppppppppbt" coming from the stroller. His eyes are maybe half open, and he's pursing his little lips, making his favourite sound on earth. Pretty funny. He did fall asleep for real just before we got home. To compensate for yesterday's niceness, today it is rather cold and quite rainy. Not good for walking. I may invest in a new raincoat this year; mine is from 1993. It still fits, but it's from Northern Reflections and has paint on it. In other jacket news, I have a lovely leather jacket that grew over the past year, and now doesn't fit even a little bit. It's really nice, and hardly worn (I had this thing about it being a really nice jacket, and not wanting to ruin it, so I rarely wore it), and now useless to me. I'm going to see about getting it tailored, but I have a feeling that it'll cost as much to fix this one as to get a new one. We'll see.

We went bowling (was supposed to be curling, but the team got bumped for the 2nd time) on Friday, and I rocked, as usual. My high score was 64. Aw yeah. It was pretty fun though, and my sister and her man came over to watch the wee lad, who behaved wonderfully. Good to know. The fiancé and I might need to have an actual date night sometime.

I have a cold, and all our medication is night-time formula, so I can't take anything, lest I fall asleep and the babe is left to fend for himself. He'll be a year on the 9th, I can't believe it. He can almost walk, and does all kinds of other neat tricks. hah. This is a random post, no? What else. We've changed everything we could about the wedding, and are now pretty happy with what we're doing. There's just one hitch left, and that is that because we're now having family at the wedding, we don't want to (nor is there any need to) have a reception in the fiancé's hometown at all, let alone the following day. We (yes, really we, not me) would much rather relax, sleep in, enjoy our day as newlyweds, eat leftover cake, that kind of thing, than get up, pack up, and drive 2 hours to a party with a bunch of his parents friends. The fiancé mentioned this, and it didn't really go over that well, so we'll have to leave it for now and tackle it again later. The only reason there was going to be a reception there was because no extended family members were going to be at the wedding. Since they now are, it is, thankfully, unnecessary. Let's keep this simple, shall we? Eyes on the prize, or at least the main event, which is the wedding, which is here. Lovely. We have someone to perform the ceremony, and a place to have it, so now can start to deal with things like final guest list, food, flowers, and stuff.

The babe awakes. Early, no good.

I know my cats read this...

Guidelines for Cats.

I always wondered how they just know what to do...

via Kim

warning: post about feminine hygiene product ad

Ok, I have to say something.

You know that ad that is like, "BrandPower, helping you buy better", market research in the feminine hygiene aisle? And the girl says, 'does your ultrathin ever get wet and sticky?' and cut to other women saying, 'yeah, I hate that!' or something equally incriminating. First, I have a hard time believing that any woman in her right mind would admit to that on TV, even if she was being paid. I say that because it doesn't feel like an ad where these are actresses talking about herpes medication or something, where you assume they don't actually have anything wrong with them. These are real people, who have wet, sticky, pantyliners. That's fucking gross. Pardon my french. So, either these people are super hard up for money, super stupid and didn't notice the camera, or were somehow tricked into giving an incriminating answer to an innocent question like, 'do you ever get cut off in traffic?' or 'do you ever go to use a coupon, and it's expired?', and then through the magic of editing, came up with this monstrosity of an advertising scheme. Whatever happened, the ad is super vulgar, and I hate it, and I want them to stop talking about wet sticky things on tv. Unless they're talking about like, caramel sauce, which is ok.

looking for new reads

anybody have any daily reads I can add to yonder sidebar? I've lost a couple, one due to her loss of interest in posting (happens to the best of us), and one due to my lack of keeping up with things and people who are moving to new places / servers! (Nat, Trinity, that'd be you). I also have one who I'm anxious to put back up (GG, hello!) but she's toying with us as to whether her return to Blogdom is permanent or not. Anyway, so if you have any marginally entertaining sites to pass along, please do!

sidebar: after me saying my fiance never comes here, he was here last night trying to find a picture of my dress. What a jerk, eh? Anyway, he didn't read anything, just checked to see if I had posted a picture, but that's pretty funny.

alright, alright

I'm going to post the link, because I don't think the fiance ever goes here. If he does (if you do, don't click it, jerky), I trust that he won't look, because then I'd have to kill him. And then I wouldn't get to wear my dress, which would be a waste, really. I don't make up these rules and traditions, they just *are*. Deal with it. The rest of you, go ahead and click for the front, and again for the back. Mine is ivory, not white, with some pink in the beading. SO PRETTY! I'm excited.

so, apparently the Regis people don't agree

that mine is the most beautiful baby in North America. He didn't even make the top 10! They had something like 150 000 entries, that's pretty crazy. We'll try again next year. What do they know?

In other news, I had a minor heart attack yesterday when I found out my mat leave is up in 3 weeks. Yipes! But then I realised that I still have 21 workdays of pay to come from the NBTA (they don't top you up, but they give you 30 paid days, not too shabby), which will take me to April 10th, which is what I was planning on in the first place. So, good. I'm a little apprehensive about going back to work, it's going to be really strange working as a supply teacher when I'm used to having my own class and rules and stuff, but I'll make do. I had always thought that supply teaching wouldn't be nearly so bad if I hadn't been doing it specifically to try to get a 'real' job. Like, if you were retired, or only wanted to work part-time, and could accept that you're not likely going to have a meaningful impact on most of the kids, and that if you make it through the day without more than a couple of kids ending up at the principal's office it's a good day, then it's not so bad. So I'm going to try that for a while, see if it's enough to pay the bills, and if it is, I'll do it for a year until the wee lad is 2, then hopefully I'll get a real job and he can go to daycare to learn a bunch of vital social interaction skills and whatnot. Or, I'll make some money, bank up some hours, have another baby, and hopefully the rumours about a 2 year maternity leave being on the horizon are true. See, I don't feel bad for employers having to deal with a 2 year leave, because especially in my case, it's a good thing to have teachers on leave. It gives new teachers a way to get started. I imagine in some cases it's difficult, but whatever. People need to reproduce, and it's so much better for people to have the opportunity to raise their own kids for a while rather than having to put them into a daycare system when they're not even walking or talking.

I'll get off the soapbox, for now.

Ah, also, we're moving the wedding to the August long weekend. There's been some...input...from some people, and we've decided to increase the size of the wedding. Based on that, and because we didn't really pick the date in the first place, we moved it to August, since lots of people travel in the summer anyway, and moved it to Saturday from Friday, again, easier for travel and for getting everything ready, and moved it to Fredericton, since having it in a home base makes just about everything easier. So. I might send out 'save the date' things, since lots of people will have to travel to get to us, but real invites won't be going out until probably June / July. We (I, really, I can't see the fiance being too excited about picking out invites) have to pick some out and get them printed up. Whee!

That's about it. I'm on my own (with the bebe, of course) this weekend, so if anyone wants to come over for like, ladies' night in, I'm up for that.

whee, wedding dress shopping!

A few things to keep in mind. Really, don't bring all your best friends. Bring your mom, or someone whose opinion you can trust, and who will be honest with you. Wedding dresses run small ("quite small", according to the lady who was helping me), so, depressingly enough, you'll be at least a size bigger, and likely 2 sizes bigger than your normal clothing size. Who thought that was a good idea?? They run up to size 30, but come on. That's just mean. Try everything on, to a point. If you're iffy, try, but if it's truly awful, leave it on the rack. Go with your gut. If you love a dress, hang on to it. If you try it on, and it's nice, and pretty, but it doesn't make you go wheeeeeeee!, then it's not the one for you. Hesitation is a sign that there's a better one out there for you. The one floor of the one store I was in had 400 dresses. Four Hundred. They have 3 floors.
I learned also that apparently I have a great body for trying on wedding dresses. They all fit perfectly; it was really weird. Nice, but weird. Also made it trickier to easily eliminate some of them. I felt bad no-ing some, because they laced up the back and took significant time to get on. Silly, but whatever. Anyway, I bought a dress. Well, my parents bought a dress, and it's beautiful, and very me. I'm not posting a picture, because the fiance isn't allowed to see it, and I don't trust him not to stumble across it. I won't have the actual dress for several months (probably 5) and don't have a picture of me in it, but can share the link with anyone who just can't bear to wait that long. It's on the Romantic Bridals website, if you'd like to go try to guess. They don't have a picture of the colour of mine though, mine is ivory with some pink in the beading. ooooh, pink! How apropos.

That is all.

Valentine's funny

(from my Lost-addicted sister)


Apparently, these four Valentines were discovered washed up on the Philippine coast last week. After extensive forensic analysis (a big shout-out to the team over at Criminal Minds), the ink has been restored and we can now tell you what they say:


The First Valentine
Dear Libby,
Roses Are Red
Violets Are Blue
Even though you denied it when I asked, I'm still pretty sure
That I know you.
Be Mine,
Hurley



The Second Valentine
J,
Y'know how the Fugitive--from the TV show, I mean--was a doctor? Well, you're a doctor. And I'm a fugitive. How about that?! So...even though I kissed you and ran away because I saw an imaginary horse, I hope you forgive me.
I miss you,
K



The Third Valentine
Dearest Husband Jin,
If you understood English, you would know that I am writing you this Valentine to tell you that even though you frustrate the hell out of me sometimes, you are so effing hot when you take your shirt off.
All My Love,
Sun



And Finally...the Fourth Valentine
Freckles,
There ain't no damn roses anywhere, so...
Wanna screw?
The One with the Guns

baby beauty contests, wooh!

haha. Yes, I did it. Regis and Kelly are having a Beautiful Baby contest, so I entered my dear boy. I sent in this picture



Apologies to the grandparents who got cut out, but the picture had to be less than 100k, and I didn't want to take up any unnecessary space with photo extras. hehe.
Anwyay, so watch the show on the 20th (Next Monday) and then vote for him if he makes the top 5. Thanks! Tell your friends to, too.

so, it's official

A couple of things, actually.

Thing one, arguably the more important, we have a new prime minister. I'm not really excited about this, because he's a scary mo' fo'. I am, however, hopeful that due to the significantly minority-ness of the minority Conservative government, he won't be able to pass all his crazy ammendments. As Rick Mercer said, if you want to drop your kids off at a publicly funded daycare on your way to a gay wedding, do it now.

Thing two, I'm getting married. We're going to have a very small ceremony on September 1st, and then a great big party on September 2nd in the fiancé's hometown. Although certain significant members of his family are having a difficult time coming to grips with there not being a huge ceremony with all 100 close family members being invited, there are several problems with that. I'm going to go over them here, for your benefit, and to reinforce to myself that we're doing the right thing. Thing one, and I'd say definitely the most important, is that I am reading, seeing, and being told over and over again by those who have been there, to do what we want to do. To consider others' feelings, input, and guilt trips, but when it comes down to it, just to do what makes us happy, not what makes everybody else happy. I think the giant party reception in his hometown is a nice compromise, considering it will be 95% his family & friends and maybe 5% mine. There will be people there I have never met, or have even heard mentioned more than once. But it's going to be a good time. Another thing, is that due to the large-ness and closeness of this family and town as a whole, it is really difficult to draw the line as far as who gets invited and who doesn't. We'd end up with a tonne of people, and thus either spending a bajillion dollars to entertain a bunch of people we're not really that close to, or having cheese and cocktail weiners. And somebody is always going to be left out. So this way, it's easily drawn, immediate family only, and a few close friends. I think we have 25 people all told, including the 2 of us. The big reception will be loads of people, and if we're friends, you're invited. If you're not in town but can be for Sept 2nd, let me know. If you want to come, send me your address (real, not e), and we'll send you an invite. Once we pick them out and stuff.

Anyway, we went to the place we're having the wedding and small reception, and it's really nice, and it's going to be great. It's an inn, so we can all stay right there, and we've got the honeymoon suite booked already. It has a jacuzzi in the room. Not in the bathroom, in the room. Nice.

Also, in preparation for the impending day and the dress shopping that will go along with it, I've decided to try to firm up a bit. I have videos for Winsor Pilates, Yoga, and stability ball. I'm trying the Pilates, but it's not going to be fun. 20 minutes this morning may cripple me for a few days. I guess that's a good sign though, long term. My sister and I and a couple of her friends went to a bridal show yesterday. It was sort of fun, free cake samples and stuff, but not very useful since I'm not getting married here, and it was all local merchants. There's a show in Moncton on the 20th that I'm going to go to, if anyone wants to take the day off and come with me and the wee lad. Should be more helpful, since we're getting married around there. The show was a bit of an ordeal though, we thought we needed tickets, and my sister's friend had 2 extra, so no problem, but then she only had one extra, so we were like, damn, but then when we got there you didn't even need tickets, nor was there even anywhere you could have handed them in. I registered for some free stuff, not the least of which is a rehearsal dinner at El Burrito Loco. That would be sweet. All the tables were like, wedding photographers / videographers, favours, invitations, and oh, yes, Fantasia. Big ol' vibrators and dildos, right out on display. They were not giving away samples, nor could I sign up to win anything. Unfortunate. Ha.

Alright, I'm excercised and clean, and the boy sleeps still, so I'm going to do nothing while the doing is good.

funny for the weekend

Random, but entertaining.
Points to Ponder for the new year:

Number 10
Life is sexually transmitted.

Number 9
Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Number 8
Men have two emotions: hungry and horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.

Number 7
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.

Number 6
Some people are like a Slinky.....not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.

Number 5
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Number 4
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

Number 3
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents?

Number 2
In the 60s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

Number 1
We know exactly where one cow with Mad Cow disease is located among the millions and millions of cows in America, but we haven't got a clue as to where thousands of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located. Maybe we should put the Department of
Agriculture in charge of immigration

another good, though possibly biased site.

Rick Mercer's Blog.

See also Rick Mercer Report. Generally on Tuesdays now, but with a special election episode on this Monday.

Time to get votin', folks

I think this badboy is classified as a non-political blog, but this one post won't hurt.

Vote.

It's coming up, Monday the 23rd. If you're not already registered, and would like to register ahead of time, you can get the number to call on the Elections Canada website.
In the interest of information for people who are too lazy to search or try the obvious names that go with each party, here are links to the main party websites. I'm not saying you can believe most of what you read on them, but at least it'll give you a starting point.

Liberal. Have they done some bad things? Sure. Good things too. You decide.

NDP. I like the idea of NDP, and I'm pretty sure that they'd have a chance to get in if everyone who thought they'd do a good job would actually vote for them, but I think there are a lot of people who aren't willing to take the chance to vote NDP and risk that the greater of the 3 main evils will get in.

Green Party. Sounds good to me, but the same problem, even moreso, as the NDP. Not a main party in many people's eyes, but worth considering.

Conservatives. I'll ask that you seriously consider the scariness level of this guy before you consider voting for him. Revoking constitutional rights? That's not cool, buddy, regardless of how you feel about sexual orientation. Plus, how do you cut taxes, increase tax breaks, and also increase policing on city streets? What's that, by cutting health care? Privatising? Oh, ok.

In a way, the American system is good. Did I just type that, for real? Wow. See, cause then if you like your local conservative guy, say he's been doing a good job (just pretend with me for a minute), then you can vote for him, and then vote for someone else for Prime Minister.

Just to be clear, that's NOT how it works here. You basically have to vote for the PM via the local guy.

That's the end.

Do vote though, please. Even if you don't register beforehand, you can still vote on the 23rd.

oh, d-d-d-d-deer!

Cheesey title? Whatever. We have deer in our yard, it's super cool. I took pictures of them on Wednesday. You can look at them if you like. They're all random sizes, I couldn't get really close so I had to zoom, so then I just cropped the deer out of all the background snow and trees. You know how it is. I made movies too, but don't have the patience right now to upload them. In one, one deer, I think the boss deer, cause it was heading up the rear, was heading toward me to check me out. I went inside to get the fiancé, but when I looked outside they had taken off. Ah well.

deer
more deer
still more deer
deer, again
you guessed it, deer
and finally, deer

In other news, it's freaking beautiful out today. It's probably even nicer than it is in Raincouver, where Mitch is, cause it's been raining there every day for TWENTY FIVE days now. It's almost a record, the record is 28, set in 1953. The boy and I went for a walk, but we only had the little umbrella stroller, so it was pretty rough going. Might have to get a sled or something, cause regular strollers are not designed for all-weather trekking.

What else. I'm hungry. My fat cat Mort has been super annoying and wanting sweet lovin' from us all the time lately. It's annoying because sometimes you just want to sit down without a creature crying to get up in your lap. Bad enough when the fiancé does it.
HA!
He doesn't usually read this page, so I can say that kind of stuff.

I think I'll go have some homemade bits and bites. They're super tasty, even if the fiancé doesn't think so. Have a great weekend, I'm going to the market with Jenn to have a donair the size of my head. Mmmmm. Also am having supper with my sister and her man.

Oh, yeah, also, may actually be getting married this year! Fun, yes? Any ideas to go with a small-ish ceremony, fun quotes to put on invitations or anything, send 'em my way.

sir poops-a-lot

I try to keep the baby stuff to a minimum on here so as to keep it interesting for my many, varied readers, but man. Babies sure can produce an astounding amount of poop in the run of a day. I'm not sure it's even balanced as far as what goes in vs. what comes out.

enough of that.

Santa found me twice this year, which was pretty nice. We spent Christmas proper at the in-laws place, and headed to my parents place on the 28th. That'll be reversed next year, and then likely we'll start having our own Christmas with visiting afterward. My sister did that this year. Some have said she's the clever one in the family. Anyway, my dear boy cleaned up, as was expected, with lots of toys and clothes. He's mainly interested in things he can throw and chase around at this point, so he loves the Fisher Price peek-a-blocks and rollarounds. So, funnily enough, do the cats. Dear boy will be playing contentedly with a ball, batting it about, and Mort (the cat) will just dive in and swoop it away, and play with it himself. The dear boy doesn't seem to mind, he just finds something else to bat at. For those of you not privvy to his website, he's crawling like a fiend, standing up on everything (if you come visit, make sure your belt is done up, or you may lose your pants in his effort to get upright), and as of yesterday can move sideways while holding on to the couch. In baby-parent circles, this is apparently called "cruising'.

In unrelated news, Wedding Crashers came out on video yesterday. You should all see it. Even my mom liked it, with the exception of Will Ferrell's part. Admittedly, he's a bit much, but it's Will Ferrell, thus it's good. We significantly increased our movie collection over the holidays. Mostly the fiancé did, with my help, but what's his is mine, right? We got A Series of Unfortunate Events (I'm thinking of nicknaming the dear boy Sunny), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Cinderella Man, Amadeus, L.A. Confidential, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and The Sword in the Stone. Those last 2 are theoretically for the boy, but he can't really appreciate them yet. He did watch one of his Baby Einsteins though.

Sadly, I think that's all my news. Mitch was home over the break, but our being away almost exactly matched his visit, so I only got to see him briefly. I haven't seen my sister yet, we missed each other totally when visiting my parents, and I have yet to see any of my close friends. Weird. I'll have to get on that. If only all these people didn't work, it would be so much easier!

nice holiday story

click

after all that template work

Merry Christmas!

I'm not going to PC it up and say Happy Holidays instead, but I will say it as well, so that whatever your affiliations or lack thereof, you can feel free to enjoy some time off to spend with family, or watching tv, or playing xBox, or whatever you like to do.

It's really late, and I have to go to bed. I hope Santa found you!

is it funny cause it's not true, or cause it's true?

A sign in the Bank Lobby reads: "Please note that this Bank is installing new Drive-through teller machines enabling customers to withdraw cash without leaving their vehicles. Customers using this new facility are requested to use the procedures outlined below when accessing their accounts. After months of careful research, MALE & FEMALE procedures have been developed. Please follow the appropriate steps for your gender."


MALE PROCEDURE:

1. Drive up to the cash machine.

2. Put down your car window.

3. Insert card into machine and enter PIN.

4. Enter amount of cash required and withdraw.

5. Retrieve card, cash and receipt.

6. Put window up.

7. Drive off.

*********************************************************************


FEMALE PROCEDURE:

1. Drive up to cash machine.

2. Reverse and back up the required amount to align car window with the machine.

3. Set parking brake, put the window down.

4. Find handbag, remove all contents on to passenger seat to locate card.

5. Tell person on cell phone you will call them back and hang up.

6. Attempt to insert card into machine.

7. Open car door to allow easier access to machine due to its excessive distance from the car.

8. Insert card.

9. Re-insert card the right way.

10. Dig through handbag to find diary with your PIN written on the inside back page.

11. Enter PIN.

12. Press cancel and re-enter correct PIN.

13. Enter amount of cash required.

14. Take a quick peeky at yourself in rear view mirror.

15. Retrieve cash and receipt

16. Empty handbag again to locate wallet and place cash inside.

17. Write debit amount in check register and place receipt in back of checkbook.

18. Re-check makeup.

19. Drive forward 2 feet.

20. Reverse back to cash machine.

21. Retrieve card.

22. Re-empty hand bag, locate card holder, and place card into the slot provided.

23. Give dirty look to irate male driver waiting behind you.

24. Restart stalled engine and pull off.

25. Redial person on cell phone.

26. Drive for 2 to 3 miles.

27. Release Parking Brake.

like I need another time-sucker

thanks to my sister for this one.

WebSoduko

Good luck! Default is easy, I'd highly recommend starting there. And reading the rules, it actually makes it easier.

seriously though, cutest baby ever.

I've managed to not post any pictures of my dear boy on this site so far, but that time is over now. I think, upon seeing the picture, you'll understand why I felt the need to share it with everyone who might stumble across this page.

enjoy.

With all that mistletoe hanging around (haha, hanging...)

You'd better get primed for some serious lip locking.

Mastering the French Kiss

You're welcome.

mystery rodent!

I think it's a weasel, but I'm not sure. Mort was chasing leaves at the window, or so I thought. His mewing and pawing the glass were a little more insistent than usual, so the baby and I went over to investigate. We saw a small white rodent-y type animal scurrying around the yard. Very exciting. We went out and took a picture of it, as it was diving under ground.



From my extensive research on GoogleImages, it's a weasel. They turn white in winter. Who knew? They're a lot cuter than I had imagined a weasel to be. Weasel's a pretty negative image, but they just must be very sneaky little animals to have earned their nickname association. Anyway, that was my excitement for the day, I put up some more pictures on the baby's site to keep the relatives happy, and am now going to get showered to keep myself happy.

Later skaters.

hooray for Primus

I got the whole Rogers thing sorted out, so that's good. It took 45 minutes on the phone, largely on hold, and 3 people to sort it for me, but the 3rd guy actually knew what he was talking about (odd, I know), and explained what had happened in about 15 seconds. Nice of him. His name is Jeff. Thanks Jeff. I still hate Rogers, but it's nice to know you're not all a bunch of useless tits. I've also switched my long distance and internet over to Primus. It's still dial-up, but comes with an accelerator, which actually works. Hooray again!

I've retouched the gift blog. There are actually some things on there that I hope to get, as well as my dear, sweet laptop. I'm not taking it off the list. Feel free to post your lists, it's fun.

In other, unrelated news, I went to check out my old preggo blog, to find that it has been taken over by somebody else. Jenn was right when she said I should save it somewhere else to make sure that it was safe in case Blogger exploded or something, and I think in fact it was doing just that which allowed this other woman to take over the site. I republished the whole thing on another server, and never changed the publish-to address back to blogspot. Ah well. I had a mini heart attack in the 2 seconds before I rememebered that though.

Hmm. 23 days until Christmas, I should get this site all festive looking again. I was going to count the shopping days, but it's the same number here since we have Sunday shopping. Just you po' folks in NS don't, I think. I have lots of plans for my time, but all I generally end up doing is surfing around and playing minesweeper. I have a gift I'm supposed to be making though, so I really do need to get on that.

On that note, the shower and my project are beckoning. I cleaned the tub this morning, with new Lysol cleaner (new to me) and it has the most disgusting smell ever. "Summer Breeze" or some such foolishness. It smells like...I don't know. Something really gross. I'll either have to get new stuff, or the fiancé will have to do the cleaning. Somehow, I'm thinking option A is going to be the viable one.

damn blogger hacker assholes

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.

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.

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.

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.

because it's not bad enough being on dialup

my monitor doesn't work, so I'm without computer altogether. This is being posted on the fiance's laptop which I made him bring home so I could surf and pay some bills. I apparently forgot to pay the phone bill last month, which is generally frowned upon. After much hassle, we finally got our satellite installed. It took some doing, they thought we were in PEI, then perhaps near Woodstock, which we are just not. I got a free month of movie networks as compensation, so I'm relatively happy. Also, I can now watch Ellen, which is also good.

Anyway, tiny laptop keyboards are annoying, so this is short and sweet. Just wanted to let you all know I'm alive, in case anyone was wondering.

later skaters.

via Trinity again

List the top 100 songs from your grad year. Bold the ones you actually like. Pick a favourite and underline it. And strikethrough the ones you loathe. Italicize the ones that were guilty pleasures.

1. Candle In The Wind 1997, Elton John
2. Foolish Games / You Were Meant For Me, Jewel
3. I'll Be Missing You, Puff Daddy and Faith Evans (the beginning of the 'who needs to write new music?' phenomenon, I think)
4. Un-Break My Heart, Toni Braxton
5. Can't Nobody Hold Me Down, Puff Daddy
6. I Believe I Can Fly, R. Kelly (in his pre-molester days)
7. Don't Let Go (Love), En Vogue
8. Return Of The Mack, Mark Morrison
9. How Do I Live, LeAnn Rimes
10. Wannabe, Spice Girls
11. Quit Playing Games (With My Heart), Backstreet Boys
12. MMMBop, Hanson
13. For You I Will, Monica
14. You Make Me Wanna..., Usher
15. Bitch, Meredith Brooks
16. Nobody Keith Sweat
17. Semi-Charmed Life, Third Eye Blind
18. Barely Breathing, Duncan Sheik
19. Hard To Say I'm Sorry, Az Yet Featuring Peter Cetera
20. Mo Money Mo Problems, Notorious B.I.G.
21. The Freshmen, Verve Pipe
22. I Want You, Savage Garden
23. No Diggity, BLACKstreet Featuring Dr. Dre
24. I Belong To You (Every Time I See Your Face), Rome
25. Hypnotize, Notorious B.I.G.
26. Every Time I Close My Eyes, Babyface
27. In My Bed, Dru Hill
28. Say You'll Be There, Spice Girls
29. Do You Know (What It Takes), Robyn
30. 4 Seasons Of Loneliness, Boyz II Men
31. G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T., Changing Faces
32. Honey, Mariah Carey
33. I Believe In You And Me, Whitney Houston
34. Da' Dip, Freaknasty
35. 2 Become 1, Spice Girls
36. All For You, Sister Hazel
37. Cupid, 112
38. Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?, Paula Cole
39. Sunny Came Home, Shawn Colvin
40. It's Your Love, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
41. Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit, Gina G
42. Mouth, Merril Bainbridge
43. All Cried Out, Allure Featuring 112
44. I'm Still In Love With You, New Edition
45. Invisible Man, 98 Degrees
46. Not Tonight, Lil' Kim
47. Look Into My Eyes, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
48. Get It Together, 702
49. All By Myself, Celine Dion
50. It's All Coming Back To Me Now, Celine Dion (seriously, how many songs does one woman need on the countdown?
51. My Love Is The Shhh!, Somethin' For The People
52. Where Do You Go, No Mercy
53. I Finally Found Someone, Barbra Streisand and Bryan Adams
54. I'll Be, Foxy Brown Featuring Jay-Z
55. If It Makes You Happy , Sheryl Crow
56. Never Make A Promise, Dru Hill
57. When You Love A Woman, Journey
58. Up Jumps Da Boogie, Magoo And Timbaland (can't say as I know that one...)
59. I Don't Want To / I Love Me Some Him, Toni Braxton
60. Everyday Is A Winding Road, Sheryl Crow
61. Cold Rock A Party, Mc Lyte
62. Pony, Ginuwine
63. Building A Mystery, Sarah McLachlan
64. I Love You Always Forever, Donna Lewis
65. Your Woman, White Town
66. C U When U Get There, Coolio
67. Change The World, Eric Clapton
68. My Baby Daddy, B-Rock and The Bizz (seriously, what are these songs?)
69. Tubthumping, Chumbawamba
70. Gotham City, R. Kelly
71. Last Night, Az Yet
72. ESPN Presents The Jock Jam, Various Artists
73. Big Daddy, Heavy D
74. What About Us, Total
75. Smile, Scarface
76. What's On Tonight, Montell Jordan
77. Secret Garden, Bruce Springsteen
78. The One I Gave My Heart, w Aaliyah
79. Fly Like An Eagle, Seal
80. No Time, Lil' Kim
81. Naked Eye, Luscious Jackson
82. Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix), Los Del Rio
83. On and On, Erykah Badu
84. Don't Wanna Be A Player, Joe
85. I Shot The Sheriff, Warren G
86. You Should Be Mine (Don't Waste Your Time), Brian McKnight Featuring Mase
87. Don't Cry For Me Argentina, Madonna
88. Someone, SWV
89. Go The Distance, Michael Bolton (oh, my, barf)
90. One More Time, Real McCoy
91. Butta Love, Next
92. Coco Jamboo, Mr. President
93. Twisted, Keith Sweat
94. Barbie Girl, Aqua (so catchy, evil, evil!)
95. When You're Gone / Free To Decide, Cranberries
96. Let Me Clear My Throat, DJ Kool
97. I Like It, Blackout Allstars
98. You're Makin' Me High / Let It Flow, Toni Braxton
99. You Must Love Me, Madonna
100. Let It Go, Ray J

go find your songs, and do up your list. Scroll down a bit to find the top songs.

via Trinity

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying, 'Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.'

'OH NO!' the president exclaims. 'That's terrible!'

His staff is stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the president sits, head in hands. Finally, the president looks up and asks, 'How many is a brazillion?'

ha ha ha!

minesweeper queen

on this computer anyway. I've beaten all my dear fiancé's best times. He's pretty excited. Minesweeper is funny. If you know how to play it, it's ... not easy to beat, necessarily, but easy to know how to beat. Like pool. But if you don't know how to play, it's really hard to understand.

My sweet boy and I went for a walk today, it's absolutely gorgeous out. We saw a butterfly and a bluejay. I did anyway, he goes into sort of a trance and usually falls asleep on walks. Oh, I saw a tiny, tiny snake too. I thought it was an earthworm who had been in the sun too long, but then it moved, very un-wormlike. Sort of neat. I've got to remember to bring my camera on walks, being out of the city, I actually see nature worth taking pictures of. The fiancé is just getting over a nasty cold, which I and our dear boy managed to avoid, until yesterday. Poor baby is all stuffy and coughing, although he seems more just stuffy and whiny today. And tired, he was up lots last night. Good times. I just am stuffy and have a sore throat. I've started him back on cereal, we tried it last week but he got so gassy, he was having farts that would rival any grown man's. It didn't seem very fun, so I gave him a couple of days off, and we're having just like, a teaspoon of cereal a day for now, until he gets used to it.

That's about it. I'm tired, but am going to try to work on this family-type website I keep talking about. I promise though, and if I go back on my word you all have the right to verbally berate me, that I won't have a baby blog, where I type entries pretending to be my son and tell you all about the exciting things "I" did today. I promise. You can even slap me around a bit if I do that.

jallapenno out.

not really all that exciting, I'm afraid

It's raining, I have to take my car in to get the bushings fixed, or replaced, or something. What is a bushing? I don't really know, but when they're broken, it's apparently bad news. Luckily it's under warantee for another like, 4000kms, so I'm not having to pay for this. The fiancé is home sick, and my dear boy is sleeping, after being a whiney jerk for a good part of the morning and yesterday. Maybe jerk is too strong, but definitely whiney. It's fun, I guess, to be learning what kind of noises you can make. Just unfortunate that they're mostly really loud. heh.

anyway, I'm going to shower, I just paid my mastercard bill and now feel like crying because I officially have NO money again, after having my line of credit almost paid off. such is life, I suppose. I do have some cake though, that my mom made for me, so that should help. I also actually have some cake that my mom made for my sister. We've been having the same birthday cakes (each of us has our favourite, I get chocolate with boiled icing, my sister gets angel cake) since we were old enough to have opinions. Some things are just always good. There was only one year, I think, where I didn't get my chocolate cake with boiled icing. It was a rough one, I'll tell ya.

Hope you're all enjoying my birthday as much as I am!

effing effer monitor

or computer, I'm not sure which. Twice now, the computer has gone to sleep, taking with it the monitor, and the computer will wake up when prompted with a keystroke or pushing of buttons, but the monitor will not. Both times it eventually has, after much restarting and just waiting, but I fear someday it will not. What to do?

Because I could not play online (not that I do much anyway, these days), I painted the bathroom. I primed and did most edges yesterday, so finished up with the main painting and a re-do of the edges. Looks pretty good, I think. It's a yellow that's a bit darker than I would have liked originally, but it goes perfectly with the wood, tile floor, and the wall tiles that we've picked out, so it's great. We also got our first mail in the mailbox today, very exciting. 2 bills and a Marks Work Wearhouse flyer. Weehoo.

I'm really tired, so I'm going to go nap until my honey gets home to cook me supper. Hehe. I had a productive day of painting and dish-doing, so I get supper cooked for me. Not a bad deal.

it's that time of year again!

that's right, time for you to buy me presents. No, sillies, it's not Christmas. In case you're blind, or just really, really unobservant, it's my birthday! Soon, anyway. It's also what is apparently called my champagne birthday, although I can't find any info about that on Google. Disappointing, I must say. Anyway, I'll be 26 on the 26th, which is pretty fun.

I'm on my own for a bit longer than usual today, the fiancé is going to see a scary movie, and thus I am not. I just don't really enjoy being scared. Call me crazy. I like movies with some suspense, but not jumpy or gory movies.

My sweet baby and I are going to put up our mailbox today, which could be a bit of an adventure. We put up the post to sit said mailbox on already, so I should be able to manage screwing the box on top. I'm pretty handy. I also had to put the mailbox together a bit, with no instructions, and it seems to be working, so I've gained confidence in my mailbox abilities.

Back to my birthday. I've been asked to post a wishlist, so I'm going to revive the buy me stuff page. I've actually got some ideas, but not many. I have a hard time. There are lots of things we need for the house, but since, with the baby, I have a feeling that all other gift-related holidays will no longer revolve around me, I feel like I have a right to just ask for me things on my birthday. It's not so much about the presents, (although who doesn't like getting stuff?) and it may change as I get older, but I really like the recognition, people knowing it's my birthday and wishing me well. You don't get that on a regular basis, and I enjoy it. Pay attention to ME! Thanks. You guys are great.

I really am going to make a page for the baby, I just have to think of a name and like, create it. It'll likely be something like meandthefiance.ca with a subpage for our dear boy. I don't like ads and hassle, and I want to be able to split it into pages for each month, so I'll just spend the $20 and get a new full site. That way I can have all the family going there too. I know some of my family reads this site, but I also know they do that with the understanding that I may rant and roar every now and then. I don't necessarily want my WHOLE family, and the fiance's, to be reading about all my little adventures and annoyances.

Alright, off to update the gift page.

5 months

wow. Happy 5 month...birthday? Anniversary? Who knows. My little man is that old today. I can't believe it. His hobbies to date include chewing on stuff, making b-b-b-b-b-b and farty noises, as well as weird grunting sounds that make him cough after a while, waking up screaming in the night(why? I have no idea.), smiling at everyone he lays his beautiful blue-ish eyes on. He does have hair, but it's super light, so doesn't show up too well in pictures. One more month til we start on the food thing, I won't say solids, because they're really not. Good times.

I posted some more photos in his folder, go take a look. Here's a sampling.


(yes, I do put him to sleep on his back, but he flips over almost immediately.)


(I'm not actually sure what he was so surprised about here)





On a completely unrelated note, but sort of related, because it shows why I am worried about the kind of world my sweet boy will be growing up in...:

"What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them." –Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston Astrodome, Sept. 5, 2005

yeah, that's the family alright.

wow, dialup

soooooooooooooo slooooooooooooooooooow.

We're in, as of last Monday night, so it's been a week. In that time we've had lots of visitors, which is nice. I was on a mad rampage Tuesday and Wednesday, trying to get everything put away before the in-laws came to visit. I think I did really well, but apparently everything wasn't perfect. Whatev. Have to measure the bedroom furniture to see if there is any other way to organise it, our room is full of windows and a patio door, which is lovely, but doesn't leave much wall space for a variety of arrangements. We've also failed so far at the hanging of the pot rack, because the beams on the ceiling make it hang too low. May have an idea to fix that though.

I'll tell ya though, moving with a 4-month old, not a good idea. FYI. Next time, there'll be a babysitter or something involved. I underestimated how long it would take to load things, the packing wasn't so bad. When we rented the cargo van to bring the big stuff like the baby's furniture and our bed, it was not a good time. We learned as we were trying to load the crib that it had, of course, been assembled in his room, and was too wide to fit out the door. We then had to disassemble it, having no idea what we were doing, and no allan key to do it with. Good times. My poor sweet boy is teething also, and so wasn't really in the mood to be set down for any amount of time without screaming.

All's well that ends well though, I suppose. We have a lovely home, with lovely new appliances and bedroom furniture, and new to us livingroom furniture (it's giant, and red, but comfy). We still have a lot of work to do; I think there may be a landscaping party in the works. Wooh! You're all invited. I'm sure there will be beer involved, if that helps.

I'm going to go shower while my dear boy is napping. He has his 2 bottom teeth through, which was pretty traumatic for me, I have to say. It's early for that stuff, 6 months is average. Since this occurance there's been even more of the 'well *now* you'll stop breastfeeding?'. Um, no. I don't know how you guys drink, but there's not usually a lot of teeth involved. I know it happens, but we'll deal with that if/when it does. I figure my doctor knows more about what's best for my baby than most of the people who are suggesting that I stop breastfeeding, so I'll go with her counsel to not introduce anything else until 6 months. Then we get rice cereal, wohoo! Should be fun. He's doing well other than that too, he's a beast at about 18lbs, and I'm still not sure what colour his eyes will be, other than that they won't be blue.

The cats like the new place, they can sit on the stairs and peer through the railings to keep an eye on things, and there are lots of windows to paw at. Also no carpet to barf on, which is a bonus. They spent the first few days growling and hissing at eachother every time they came around a corner, but have gotten over that. Sure was fun.

Anyway, this is probably going to take an hour to publish, so I'd better stop. If anyone knows how to speed up dialup, I'm open to suggestions. I've heard of browseblast, but it costs money, so is a no go. I'm off to shower while my dear boy finishes his nap.

moving moving moving

packing sure is fun! I'm having a packing party, come on over! you can help move boxes too, once packed. It'll be a riot, I swear.

Our house has floors now, they're super swank. Well, maybe not swank, but definitely nice. I'm really tired from moving stuff daily and just trying to get everything done by the end of the month. It's coming together though, and it'll definitely be worth it in the end.

In other news, we're losing Rogers, so if any of you fools email me at that address, stop doing that. Get me at either hotmail, or, preferably, gmail. I haven't made the switch, even though I've got the account set up. I'll send out a mass email with all my new pertinent info when we get settled. We're going to have to go back to dial-up, I'm not looking forward to that. I've had highspeed since like, 1st year university, so this is definitely a step back.

In other, other news, my sweet boy is getting a tooth. I'm traumatised, it's too early. He can feel free to progress mentally as fast as he wants, but I don't want him to like, grow up faster than normal. Not cool. He's not really enjoying it either, it seems. I guess it's probably not very fun, I can't really remember. I don't think my wisdom teeth coming in hurt too much, and I don't remember anything before that.

Anyway, back to packing boxes, whee! I'm looking forward to packing clothes, they just go in garbage bags. Much easier. Doesn't work for dishes though.

good heavens

H.E.R.B. - Had Enough Religious Bullshit. That's about all I can say. The quotes are...astounding, to say the least.

Before you get all angry or anything, go see the page. It's not that I have an issue with religion, per se, but I think you can't impose your beliefs on your nation, let alone the world.

enjoy.

funnest website ever

What does your phone number spell? Mine, our new one, since despite what the Aliant guy told us, we can't take our Fredericton number with us to our house, spells a bunch of fun, random things. If your number isn't full of 0s or 1s, you're all set. Our old Freddy number was 455-flog, which was fun, but the Moncton one and this Freddy one don't spell anything, all full of 0s and 1s. Anyway, go and see what yours spells. It'll brighten your day, I promise.

We're starting to move things to the house, and we have floor in one room, the master bedroom, and it looks beautiful. Today I hung out with my dear boy while the Aliant guy (Aliant guy #2, who told me that Aliant guy #1 was a liar) hooked up our phone. It was quite a process, involving trudging through the woods and stuff to run the line. See, *that* I don't mind paying the requisite setup fee for. Flipping a switch, I mind paying for. We officially can't get cable, so once we get a little more settled we'll be getting a satellite I guess. Should be fun. Aliant has some deals. I'm actually glad to have a good excuse not to stick with Rogers, because I hate them. ha.

holy, heart attack, batman

I gotta tell ya, when you sign into your banking, and see an account measuring into 6 digits, not including decimal places, it's a little alarming. Especially when that is money that you now OWE, not that you actually posess. Mortgages sure are fun. Whatever, bring on the PC points!

girls' night out

My parents were up for a few days to visit and see the house, and to keep me company while the fiancé is away in Winnipeg. I took advantage of this by going out with my dear friends for an atrocious amount of Mexican food, not-so Mexican food, and even a drink or two. We ate until there was a very real danger of vomiting, because it's ok to make a total pig of yourself every now and then. I had TWO drinks, because my dear boy was home being bottle fed by his doting grandparents (also apparently he was doing a lot of screaming, which I, unfortunately, missed). We had special-ordered dessert that was, as restaurant desserts tend to be, a little disappointing. We made social commentary on everyone around us, trying to decide who was gay, straight, on dates, and whether the French gentlemen at the table diagonal to ours were talking about us and looking our way because we were cute and entertaining, or loud, or maybe both. We fed the pigeons bits of our tortillas, because they were there anyway, so we didn't figure it would hurt. We shocked and saddened our waitress by telling her that gas had gone up to 112.9 (regular) the day before. She thought we were joking. We weren't. I had luckily, on my way out to the house the day before, filled up at 98.9. I'm not sure what the highlight of the evening was, but one of the high points was definitely the carwash. It was one of the old, full-touch (as opposed to touchless) carwashes, with the scary giant brushes and weird dangly things that attack your car. A good time was had by all. Last night Jenn came over and we watched the Office marathon, because I had never seen it and I enjoy Steve Carrel. Tonight I'm not sure what my big plans are, but I bet it'll be exciting! I think today we'll go out and buy some fabric to make a sling for my dear boy. I have some, it used to be a duvet cover, but I think something less rainbowy and a bit stretchy would work better.

because I have nothing to talk about

I give you, loyal readers, the fall tv season premieres list. I only put the shows I think are good though. New ones that have interesting titles, or that I think I've heard of, I left too, but if it's crappy, in my opinion, or I have no idea what it is, it's just not gonna make the list. so if you want more, go here. I bolded the ones I'm most looking forward to.

Times are EST, I presume.


THU., SEPT. 8
8PM – 'The O.C.' (Fox) (you do SO watch this show.)

SAT., SEPT. 10
8PM – 'Cops' (Fox)(just kidding!) (well, that's really when it's on, but I could not, possibly, care less.)

SUN., SEPT. 11
8PM – 'The Simpsons' (Fox) (isn't the premiere usually like, really late? the Halloween episode?)
9PM – 'Family Guy' (Fox)
9:30PM – 'American Dad' (Fox)

TUE., SEPT. 13
8PM – 'Bones' (Fox) (looks kind of lame, but I'll give it a shot.)
8PM – 'Gilmore Girls' (WB)
9PM – 'House' (Fox)

WED., SEPT. 14
9PM – 'Head Cases' (Fox)

THU., SEPT. 15
8PM – 'Survivor: Guatemala' (CBS) (this is right up there with the O.C., and even at the same time, so you have to choose your guilty pleasure)

FRI., SEPT. 16
8PM – 'What I Like About You' (WB)
9PM – 'Threshold' (CBS, two-hour premiere)

SUN., SEPT. 18
7:30PM – 'King of the Hill' (Fox)

MON., SEPT. 19
8PM – 'Arrested Development' (Fox) (if you're not watching this, you really, really should be)
8PM – 'Surface' (NBC)
8:30PM - 'How I Met Your Mother' (CBS)
9PM – 'Las Vegas' (NBC)
10PM – 'CSI: Miami' (CBS) (he's so bad, it's good. his one-liners are just nowhere NEAR as good as Gil's though.)
10PM – 'Medium' (NBC) (she's annoying, and I hate the way they left the season as a cliffhanger, not because I'm so wanting to know what happened, but because the show isn't THAT good, with that much of a following, to pull that off. but I do like it.)

TUE., SEPT. 20
8PM - NCIS (CBS) (I can't believe they killed her!)
9PM – 'My Name is Earl' (NBC) (I think this is the one about the guy who has to apologise for all the bad things he's done? it looks funny, if it is.)
9:30PM – 'The Office' (NBC)
10PM – 'Nip/Tuck' (FX)
10PM – 'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' (NBC)

WED., SEPT. 21
9PM – 'Lost' (ABC, new time) (so exciting!!)
10PM – 'Invasion' (ABC)
10PM – 'CSI: NY' (CBS)
10PM – Law & Order' (NBC)

THU., SEPT. 22
8PM – 'Joey' (NBC, one-hour premiere)
8PM – 'Everybody Hates Chris' (UPN) (I don't get this channel, but it sounds intriguing)
9PM – 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' (CBS) (I have a crush on all the boy CSIs, even Gil, cause he's wicked smart, and has good one-liners. Nick also, along with the chiselled jaw thing, now has the appeal of being a really good character, played by a guy who can *really* act. Warrick's just a hottie.)
9PM – 'The Apprentice' (NBC) (I don't watch this, but a lot of you probably do)
10PM – 'Criminal Minds' (CBS)
10PM – 'ER' (NBC)

FRI., SEPT. 23
8PM – 'Ghost Whisperer' (CBS)
10PM – 'Numb3rs' (CBS) (a show about math, with Fleischman from Northern Exposure, sweet!)
10PM – 'Inconceivable' (NBC)

SUN., SEPT. 25
7PM – 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' (ABC, two-hour premiere) (how do you not cry while watching this show? I need to know.)
8PM – 'Cold Case' (CBS)
8PM – 'Charmed' (WB) (yes, really)
9PM – 'Desperate Housewives' (ABC)
9PM – 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' (NBC)
10PM – 'Grey's Anatomy' (ABC)
10PM – 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' (HBO)

MON., SEPT. 26
all day - it's my birthday! wooh! buy me presents, please. No show premieres? wtf?

TUE., SEPT. 27
9PM – 'Commander In Chief' (ABC)
9PM – 'The Amazing Race: Family Edition' (CBS)
10PM – 'Boston Legal' (ABC)

WED., SEPT. 28
9PM – 'Criminal Minds' (CBS, time period debut)
9PM – 'Veronica Mars' (UPN) (I hope a channel we get picks this up, it's really good and super addictive)

THU., SEPT. 29
8PM – 'Alias' (ABC) ("First of all, my name isn't Michael Vaughan...")
8:30PM – 'Will & Grace' (NBC, live 90-minute premiere)

TUE., OCT. 4
10PM – 'Close to Home' (CBS)

WED., OCT. 5
8PM – 'One Tree Hill' (WB, new time)

Galadriel

Possessing a rare combination of wisdom and humility, while serenely dominating your environment you selflessly use your powers to care for others.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.



Which fantasy / sci fi character are you?

via Jenn

I scored as Geek/Nerd. Haha! ok. go computer geeks! Geek/Nerd 40% Loner 33% Punk 33% Hot 20% Goth 13% Emo Kid 13% Prep 7% Jock 7% Stoner 0% "Ghetto" 0% What Highschool Clique Do You Belong To?

joys of messenger

I was out picking some tile and hardwood for the new place, and I came back to this message, from Jenn

JennX says:
Random funny thing.. there's a place at the market that sells your typical mid easter type stuff.. tabouli, samosas, hummus... We were there on the weekend, and I think they their sign maker needs help with their english, cuz they were selling "homos" for $2.50 a container.

too funny.

warning, mushy post

so, my dear boy has been a bit difficult the past few days. He just, every now and then throughout the day, generally when he's tired, will go from happy-giggling baby to screaming- as-if-we're-pulling-his-arms-off baby. This is a bit hard to deal with, since there is no apparent cause for his distress. He's not hungry, dirty, wet, or in pain as far as I can tell. He's not teething, and if one more person suggests that to me, I'm going to slap them. Either that or this is the longest, strangest, randomest teething session ever. Anyway, that coupled with the still not sleeping through the night thing, which has also been worse the past few days, and I'm feeling pretty sorry for myself. I know it can be worse, obviously, but it can also be better. I think that the moving / house stress is probably not helping either. Anyway, I'm watching Today, because it's the only thing on at 8am worth watching. There is a story on about this woman, a photographer. A few years ago, her sister gave birth to a baby, and was told that the baby was not going to survive more than a few days. This woman offered to do anything she could to help her sister out, and was asked to come and take photographs of her tiny neice so that they could always remember her clearly. She did, and although she admits it was the hardest day of her life, the fact that it helped her family so much led her to a career of sorts, taking pictures of babies and small children who are not expected to live very long. So, I'm sitting in the chair with my cranky boy, who has calmed down some and is eating and dosing off, and I'm watching all these poor parents with their poor, sick children, smiling and laughing in the pictures, or pictures of their babies who have died, and I'm just weeping.

Sometimes you just don't even come close to realising how good you have it.

edit:

just a little sidebar to that last post, I didn't want to make it any longer. After discovering his new talent of rolling from front to back, I go in to my dear boy's room last night, or this morning I suppose, at about 3:30, he's crying because he's rolled himself onto his stomach and has apparently forgotten that he is able to flip himself back over. Silly rabbit.

frigging productive day

and I'm effing tired. I did 3 loads of laundry, changed kitty litter, vaccuumed the kitchen and bathroom (the kitty litter will not be in the bathroom in the new house), unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher, washed a bunch of pots and pans, made banana muffins, bought a new tv stand (we're trying to downgrade some of our enormous furniture), looked for a dvd stand, and priced hardwood flooring and ceramic tile. Not all in that order. I also tried my dear boy on some apple juice, which he just didn't really know what to do with. He made some pretty funny faces, but didn't drink much. Apparently you can give them apple or pear juice twice a day to go with their age, so at 4 months, he can have 4oz twice a day. It helps them get used to different flavours and makes introducing food later on a bit easier. I think I'll try the pear tomorrow though, it's a milder flavour so might be better to start. Honestly, I have no idea how any of us survived past babyhood. We slept on our stomachs, weren't all breastfed, were given food before 6 months. I'm going to ask about a few things like that at his next appointment...more needles, I'm not looking forward to it any more than my poor baby would be if he had any idea what was coming.

Also, he rolled over today, front to back, which was pretty exciting. Now, theoretically, he can roll over and over, since he rolled back to front a few weeks ago. It could take time for him to figure that out though. The fiancé and I were playing with him and put him on his tummy, as babies are supposed to do when playing sometimes, and he worked and worked and flipped himself over. Between the surprise of landing on his back and our clapping and cheering for his having done it, the little guy just kind of laid there for a minute with a look of 'what the HELL just happened??" on his face, but then realized we were happy and smiled and wiggled his happiness in response.

Random sidetrack. A few nights ago I made my version of East Side Marios linguine (linguini?) chicken amatriciana. It was fantastic, I'm proud to report. Thus, I figure I will post the recipe. Makes lots, enough for 2-3 with leftovers.

5-6 mushrooms, sliced
2T butter
1/2lb bacon, cut into 1/2" pieces
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite size pieces
1 clove garlic, squished / diced / pressed
1/2 bottle marinara sauce and 1/2 bottle alfredo sauce
OR a bottle of rosé sauce.
linguine, enough for however many people you're feeding
salt, pepper, parmasean cheese

This is good to do all in one pan, that way all the flavours mix together and you have fewer dishes.

brown the mushrooms a bit in the butter, just until they start to turn transluscent. take them out of the pan and set them aside for later.
cook the bacon, not crispy, just done. put it with the mushrooms.
start cooking your pasta.
cook the chicken pieces together with the garlic and some salt and pepper, in the bacon grease. mmmm.
put the bacon and mushrooms back in with the chicken, and add your sauce. I added a bit more marinara sauce than alfredo, but you can frig with it until it's to your liking. once the pasta is cooked, drain it, do NOT rinse it (sauce sticks better to unrinsed pasta) and add it to the pot.
mix everything together and serve to your guests. use pasta bowl-plate things if you can, they're fun. Serve with parmasean cheese if you like. If you want to get really fancy, make some garlic bread, I really like the PC frozen u-bake stuff, it's delish. Don't make too much though, since the linguine is really filling.

enjoy!

recent searches

people are interesting, and weird things lead them to my site. Searches for the following:
during exam" pee wet (ok, that's just funny)

sneakers (I actually get a lot of searches for sneakers, I'm not sure if people have like, sneaker fetishes, or if they're just looking for fashion tips)

what kind of rides at the FREX (in answer to that one, regular carnival type rides, I suppose. Ferris wheels, that kind of thing. One year they had a super fun hang-gliding type ride, but I didn't see it last year.

Most of my other referrals come from my lovely amigos over on the sidebar there, from people looking up my Blogger profile for whatever reason, and from people looking for spicy things, the sort of which I do not have here. My apologies. I don't get nearly the variety that Jenn gets though.

funny

I got this a while ago from my mom, who thought I'd see the humour in it, now that I'm a mom. It's pretty big, almost 2megs, so I'd recommend staying away if you're anywhere near a dial-up connection, but if you have a few minutes and are or have ever known a mother, this will be pretty funny to you too.

enjoy

p.s. It took me a really long time to type that last line, as I have apparently forgotten where all the non-letter keys lie on the keyboard. Unfortunate.

so, it's official

pretty much. Our bid's been accepted, with the conditions we put on about things found in the inspection needing to be fixed (nothing big, since it is a new house), there's no ecoli in the water, and we close August 15th. Go have a gander, I made a movie. It's broken into 2 parts, and ends rather abruptly because I was trying to make it small enough for my parents to see on their cottage dial-up account.
downstairs and upstairs. Enjoy my sweet narration at the beginning. Apologies for the format, I don't know if everyone will be able to see it, but the only program I had to change the ginormous .avi file into anything more manageable was Windows Movie Maker, which of course saves in its own file format.

In other news, I'm up and posting at 7am because, as some of you may be aware, babies don't understand about weekends and sleeping in. He's up, happy as ever, gnawing on the edges of his excersaucer, which he's actually not quite big enough for. I think he's not teething, because he's been gnawing on stuff for a couple of weeks now, but he really does put everything he comes in contact with into his mouth. And tries to gum it to death. We also had him in the jolly jumper yesterday, which he enjoys, even though he's also not technically big enough for that either. Well, he's *big* enough for both of them, he weighs about 17lbs, but he can't sit up on his own, so he's not supposed to be in them. Whatev, he likes it, and I'm not going to leave him in either while I go get a spa treatment or anything. We're going to have to buy him a new carseat too, because he's almost too big for his infant carrier jobbie. I'm pretty sure they're supposed to last more than 4 months, but maybe not. He doesn't really seem big enough for the stroller without the carseat in it, but I guess he must be.

That's about all my news. I can hear my dear boy putting a great deal of effort into soiling himself, so I suppose I had better go take care of that.

all grown up

sort of. we may have just bought a house. That's pretty scary. I'm not going to post any pictures or anything yet, because I want to wait until we get all the inspections and everything done before I get too excited. It's outside the city, really pretty location, with a yard and stuff. Not huge, but we're a pretty small family, so it's perfect. Really nice, cedar shingles, all pine interior, loads of windows and glass doors and well insulated so that we won't cook all summer. I'm excited.

man...within a year, get pregnant, get engaged, have a baby, buy a house. If we actually end up getting married, we'll have done like, every major stressful life event inside of about 15 months. That's just silly.

as promised

the missing cat poster.

hmm

edit: sorry the blog was all buggered, blogger is being difficult today...


Apparently that last post about the 26 things project was for June, and there's a new list out for July. If you, like me, didn't take a single picture for the June list, you can pretend you didn't know about it, and just start fresh with this new list.

discarded
sunday
sleep
round
light up
important
profile
unkept
impressive
layers
eat
celebrate
clear
baby (gee, I wonder what that picture will be of...maybe I'll surprise you!)
six
stamp
faux
photographer
publication
storage
floppy
parking sign
entertainment
mixed bag
aged
down the street

Have fun!

I did get a picture of that lost kitty sign, I'll upload it later when the babe is napping.

two days in a row, wow

I just had to though. I was out and about today, getting a gift bag and tissue paper for my dear fiancé's birthday present, renting a movie, buying things at Superstore. On my way home from the movie store, I saw the sweetest and yet heartbreaking thing. There was a missing cat poster on the lamp post, but rather than your standard photo and phone number, this was a work of art. By, I'm guessing, 4 year olds. It had a hand-drawn picture of possibly the ugliest cat ever, described as grey, coloured in solid black with a white face. His name is Radar. The kids had written all over it things like "we love Rabar" and "I (heart) Ray" and their phone number with backwards 4s in it. The grown-up in the house had written in small but very clear letters in the top right corner 'if you have any infomation please call 455-xxxx'. I wanted to take a picture of it, but all I had on my was my cell phone which can take pictures, but not great ones, and then the light changed for me to cross the street. I'm very seriously considering going back to take a picture with my camera. I really hope they find their cat, it's so sad to lose a pet, you just never know what happened or where they went for sure. We lost a cat when I was 11, but we (a friend of my sister's actually, while babysitting) found him a few months later living with another family. Weird eh? What are the odds? We lost a couple of other cats too though, and didn't have such luck.

baby you can drive my car

seriously, you can. I think I'm going to sell it and lease something a *little* bigger with a/c. I like my car, and it still has warantee and everything on it, but I think with the amount of stuff we need to lug with us now, it's not going to work very well. I have discovered that I can fit my stroller in the trunk, but it has to go in just so, and the handle still meets prematurely with the trunk when it closes, but it will close. Also, then I can't fit anything else in, like a playpen or, say, luggage. Good times. I don't know why, it's a good size trunk and a normal stroller. Clearly not a family car!

As I've been thinking of selling though, I've been thinking more about the car itself, and when I was driving back from Moncton the other day, I decided that a person could tell a great deal about me by going for a drive with me in my car.

For example:

-I couldn't afford a really sweet car when I bought this one, but it's decent.
-My favourite colour is blue, so that's what colour my car is. I think the colour of your car is very important, you shouldn't just get whatever colour they have in the lot.
-I like to drive about 15 over the speed limit. I've basically convinced myself that the limit is actually 120, not 110, so I don't feel like I'm speeding much.
-I generally eat something unhealthy while driving, as evidenced by the chip bags in the little holder thing on the driver's side door
-I like doo-dads, but not too many. I have a flower that I won at the FREX a couple of years ago wrapped around the rearview mirror, and 2 bobbleheads in the back.
-I become emotionally attached to my belongings. One of the aforementioned bobbleheads, a dog named Bob, is broken and no longer bobs, but just sits by the rear windshield with his friend Lester, the bobbing lobster, who does indeed bob. They're both sort of old and faded, and Bob is a good 3-4 years old, but I just can't bear to part with him.
-I enjoy a variety of music. My sunvisor cd holder has cds by Coldplay, Fiona Apple, Maroon 5, Sheryl Crow, Robbie Williams, John Mayer, Tragically Hip, Sam Roberts, the Garden State soundtrack, and several homemade mixed cds with everything from Donovan to the B-52s to John Lennon.
-I still buy cds, I haven't downloaded more than a couple of songs in the past year.
-I have a baby. I care about said baby, so I have a carseat base, window shades, and one of those mirrors on the rear windshield so I can see him while I'm driving.

that's all I can think of for now, but that's a lot to tell about a person just from their car, isn't it?

money well spent

we bought the baby a mobile yesterday, and he digs it. It's all fancy, it plays classical music, lullabyes, or white noise (except that the white noise you have to turn up a lot to hear, so then if you switch back to the music you'll be deafened), and has things with apparently interesting patterns that move around, but pause every now and then to let the baby focus. This is all apparently good stuff. And he likes it, and it comes with a remote, which is also cool.

In less fun baby news, yesterday he had such a giant crap while we were at Superstore that I had to wash everything he was touching at the time, including the carseat (which luckily has a removeable, washable cover), and had to rinse him off in the sink, which he did not enjoy but seemed to get used to as I explained to him that it was just like a bath, but with moving water. All that poo, and he hardly kicked up a fuss until I took him out of the seat and was like, hmm, your pants are wet...that's odd. Maybe he sensed my grossed-outedness and was just responding to that.

Either way, gross.

on a more serious note

the Moncton SPCA has way, way too many cats. There are way, way too many really stupid people who don't understand that you shouldn't own pets if you can't afford to properly care for them (get your pets spayed or neutered, Bob Barker agrees..), and they're getting about 30 cats a day now. Sick. Because they need so badly to get these little guys adopted, they're waiving the fee for adopting adult cats, and you just have to pay the spay/neuter deposit if you'd rather a kitten. Go on, get one. Or 2, they like to have a friend. They may try to kill each other at first, but that will stop.

non-baby post!

I only ever did the 2003 one, but there was one last summer too. You should play, no prizes or anything, but it's a fun sort of photographic scavenger hunt. Check it out.

The list of things to photograph. Use your imagination and discretion to decide what each thing means to you.

Direction
Used
Carry
Falling
Permanent
Connection
Unfamiliar
Silence
Pile
In/Out
Amazing
Sometimes
Everyday
Can't Live Without
On the Move
Holding Back
Out of Control
Awe Inspiring
Just a Sample
On the Edge
Do You See What I See?
All Grown Up
What The?
Making It Official
In Two's
Unfinished Business

for your reassurance

just so you don't think I only take mocking pictures of my dear boy, here is one I made that I think is pretty neat.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.