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?