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Goodbye February, can't say i'll be sad to see ya go!

For the shortest month, it certainly seems to have lasted REALLY LONG!
Does anyone else feel this way?

The snow is melting, and freezing rain is on its way, but so is MARCH!

SO what have i been doing for the last seven days........
in list form, here goes the what i have been doing since i've been gone

• i made the BESTEST pea soup on Saturday. Yep, probably the best i have ever made. It was thick, it was smokey, it was on my ceiling and my walls. I learned a very valuable lesson, one that i feel i must pass on to you my friends in the box. When you have spent ALL DAY making the BESTEST PEA SOUP EVER, and you go to put it in the food processor, PLEASE make sure that ALL of the ham bones are out of it BEFORE you turn the processor on. If you don't the processor will become airborne, leave its base and spread its contents all over your kitchen... the kitchen that you will be having guests in later that evening. It took 3 hours for Keith and i to clean it. The most upsetting thing about the whole flying pea soup thing? I lost almost half the soup that i had been making! (it was however delicious!!!!)
• I got a promotion at work, and along with the new pay (yeah!) comes new hours. SO far as we have figured, i will be working 10 hour shifts, but i will have 3 days off (for right now those days are a long weekend.) It does mean that for the next little while i will be tired and grumpy, but i will adjust.
• Bug had a sleepover on the weekend, and on Monday i got the phone call from the Mom (who happens to be the good sis!) who had to let me know that after Bug left, her baby got sick. Really sick.
• Which leads me to Bug being sick. High fever sick. Not going to school sick. She did however go back today!
• American Idol. Yes, i watch it. Yes, i have a fave already. She has no problem with pitch, and she doesn't kill the music she chooses. She rocks!

Just a mention of the fact that i now know that when SHE comes in my kitchen, things fall on the floor. Pie. Spit balls. Garlic bread. Playing cards (still missing 4 cards from the deck on Saturday)

Ok, so now you know what i have been doing.

And i have been doing THIS.
Wanna play?
Come on over.

The one where my head pops off....

if i have to hear one more Hail Mary from Bug.

She was given another rosary at school and of course she came home and decided she had to learn to pray the rosary RIGHT THEN AT THAT MOMENT.
It didn't matter that i was trying to make dinner (pancakes of course), or that i was trying to do laundry and deal with a few problems from work. Nope, she needed to know right then how to say the rosary.
ALL
OF
IT

Over and over again.

Now i can appreciate her love of wanting to learn, but she was sitting in the living room, with my laptop, on a site that i had found for her (one that teaches kids how to use the rosary in terms they can understand). I explained to her that she didn't have to do it all at once. No one was expecting her to do that.
BUT I DO MOMMA.

Ok, when Bug gets an idea in her head there is no getting it out....so learn the rosary she did.

I must admit, my heart is full of pride, it is just my head that doesn't seem to agree.

In other news, spring has arrived.
Or at least it did for a few moments today, between the freezing rain and the snow.
I swear i watched all four seasons within a 3 hour period from my window at work today.

I am all about the winter, but more than that, at this time of year, i just wish it would PICK ONE SEASON and stick with it. If Father Winter still wants to hang out...well that is fine, but he needs to stick around for more than 5 minutes.

I watched THIS show tonight....I don't remember the last time I laughed that hard at something that the CBC aired. Maybe things are looking up for them. It would be nice for them to have something going for them other that HNIC (you know in the two months where hockey is not an option).

Off to bed.
4am is still coming awfully early in the am.....wonder when i will get used to it?
Oh..I know, next week when i have to be at work by 4!

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A Lazy Day

Perhaps the title should be a lazy weekend, 'cause the productivity level around here this weekend has been a big fat ZERO!

Today, the morning was spent curled up in our jammies watching Trading Spaces, and marvelling at how it only takes them 2 days to do one room, when it has taken us four years and we still haven't finished up some of the projects that we have started.

We really do have good intentions, but something always seems to get in the way..most of the time it is the lack of funds....We just never seem to finish a project. Our laundry room is still incomplete, and the back hallway along with it, yet hubby wants to start stripping the upstairs hallway.

Then there is the patio that was started in the summer, which wasn't finished. Hubby wants to work on the shed in the back as well. The list never seems to get smaller...

It was supposed to be warmer today, but apparently Mother Nature had other ideas. The sun is a shining, but the wind is bitter cold, making it a good day to stay inside.

If you are inside, and find yourself with nothing to do (or if you are trying not to acknowledge your own "to-do" list), why not head over to HERE.

Yes, it is once again time to play in the YARD.
It has been some time, and since i have been having problems finding the motivation to write, i thought it was time to get back to basics and just get words on the darn page (so to speak).

SO if you are so inclined, stop by the JunkYard and have a go.
We used to have playing there, and i think we could have fun again.

Your friends can come play too...it is always more fun when you have friends to play with..and maybe we can all forget our to do lists together!

Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen things i hate about Alzheimers...

1. it is stealing away a man who was once full of life and laughter, who sometimes doesn't remember who we are.
2. it attacks slowly, ..but it gets called so many other things...old age, boredom...etc.
3. it can rip families apart quickly and viciously.
4. it attacks people where they can't fight back.
5. it has stolen precious memories that can never be gotten back
6. it makes my kids cry
7. it makes my husband and i cry
8. It makes me angry, and i hate being angry at anyone!
9. it is not concrete enough for me to fight, and yet it will beat me.
10. it is taking away a man who was for many years the shoe that would kick me in the ass when i needed it most, something that my own father, for whatever reasons was unable to do.
11. it has no know cure
12. It has reduced a once proud and independant man to..well...a proud and stubborn man who forgets things..and places and people..like who we are and where he lives.
13. it will prevent me from keeping promises that i made, to always be there to take care of him..even though the things that we may have to do are because of the fact that we want him to be safe always.

She says I have to blog

And so...

How about some JunkYard poetry.
(its what i do when i sit staring at the screen, not being able to think of a damn thing to type)

The love i feel today
is no different from any other day
Yet today it must be packaged in something
Pink or red.

Why is it so damn important
to show someone you care on just this one day

Shouldn't it be
that if you love someone
that you show them everyday?

Even she is caught in the trap

YOU MUST MAKE PINK HEART CAKES MOMMA
The sickenly sweet icing
fits well with the day

All sprinkles and sparkley
made to look pretty

But all it is
is flour and egg
and a bit of colouring

The same thing i serve up every day
just put in a different package

Just like love

It doesn't change because i put it in a pretty bow

Love is love is love

No matter how you wrap it up

It is still sweet

Cause i share it with you.

Happy Valentines Day

JYP 10:34-36pm

Sickday...

For those who know me, it might come as a surprise that for this...the second day in a row, i have been home from work.
I can count the number of times i have been home sick from any job since becoming a "grown-up" on one hand. I DO NOT call in sick.
Until yesterday.
I went in to work, but came home by 9am....it felt like i had been hit by a truck.
Everything hurt..my head, teeth, hair (who knew that was even possible).
I slept all day (until Keith came home from work) napped after dinner, and at 11pm decided that i wasn't feeling much better, so i called in for today.

I am feeling better, just my head and chest hurt today.....not so BLAH (if that is a real technical term)..and i fully expect to be at work tomorrow.

There seems to be a lot of excitement today around here...we are expecting a huge snow storm....although i don't think it'll be anything near what they are prediciting. It never is. Snow seems to stop at the border.....perhaps it doesn't have a passport yet? Maybe it is an undesirable?
Maybe it might surprise us and actually show up.

At least with me being sick, i won't have to go out and shovel it.....that can wait until tomorrow.
If it comes at all.

I can admit when i am wrong (or how i learned that bananas are backwards)

I have no problem admitting when i was wrong.

Let me explain......
(insert dream sequence music here)

On Saturday night, we had gathered together for our ritual of cards and coffee. As i have mentioned before, it gets really COLD in my kitchen. SO she came up with a great idea...I should bake something to keep the kitchen warm. And of course I thought it sounded like a great idea, so i made a Hot Carmel Cake. When i was taking it out of the oven, i realized that the trivet i needed was under a bunch of bananas, and so i asked the Exhausted Husband to move them for me. In a way that is oh so common here when the four of us get together, it led to a discussion on bananas. (not that we often discuss bananas, but our conversations  are often brought on by seemingly "normal" events, which for us can turn into hours of "shiny-thing" type discussions)

ANYWAYS......

In my vast knowledge of Bananas (which may i state for the record consists of fleeting memories of Gilligans Island, Disney movies and the odd bad TV show), my mind sees the bananas growing DOWNWARDS. Apparently i am not the only one wh remembers them this way, because SHE remembers them this way too. And we proceeded to argue with our husbands that yes indeed, bananas grew downward off of the tree.

I said that i was going to google this particular topic and end the arguement once and for all, and prove that they did not grow UPWARDS as our husbands were telling us. After all WE know things.

We spent quite a bit of time on this discussion....and then in our typical fashion the topic swung from bananas to what kind of moistuizer men like to use, and of course the ever popluar mens underware discussion. (There is no telling where our discussions lead to...it boggles the mind as to how we get onto some of the topics we discuss).

This morning, just as i said i would, i googled Bananas.

And then i did it again.

There was no way...the search must be wrong.

And so i did a image search.

and found this........

THEY GROW UP.

WHO KNEW?

And since i can admit when i was wrong...

I was wrong....

this time.......

February made me shiver.....

Yep, winter is still here, and once again the weatherman lied.

Ok, maybe not lied in as much as made it sound like we would be OH SO MUCH warmer come yesterday and today. I am sure that technically it IS warmer, but i think that once it hits -10ºC anything after that is just COLD.

Kids are off today...yet ANOTHER Pd day for them...second one this month. It is just me or do you think that maybe having TWO extra days off in the shortest month is a little ...um....stoooopid?

That's it.

Nothing exciting....
BUT i did post something.

I never promised it'd be pretty.
Maybe tomorrow.

I am Canadian

For many years now, all of you (yeah, right, all 2 or 3 of you who actually read this) have been very patient with me when i natter on about how much i love the winter.
I really do.
BUT
May i just say that although i love winter in its "Oh-lets-play-in-the-snow-Make-snow angels-Tobbogan-Ski-Skate-Walk-in-the-snow" kind of way...the love does not extend to the "HOLY CRAP ITS -31ºC  segment of our current winter status.

I know, some of you are laughing and saying.."BUT YOU LOVE WINTER KIM!!!"

I would nod an answer, but my head does not move easily when it is wrapped in seven layers of scarves and hats.

We have been in an artic low, which has resulted in temps of -20ºC to -35ºC**. Trust me, not even the biggest fan of winter is loving this. Many of these temps were without the wind chill factored in, although we still didn't reach down as far as Winnipeg which hit-40C (without wind chill) There has been frost on the INSIDE of my library windows...it makes a pretty pattern, but NOT something that i want to see. It is cold enough in my kitchen that i have to prewarm my coffee cups before pouring coffee into them. They are apt to shatter if they are not prewarmed....that is how cold they are.

Munch was looking for furniture polish on the weekend, and i told him it was under the sink. He wanted to know if we had any that wasn't frozen. I didn't even know cleaning supplies COULD freeze.

This weather trend is supposed to warm up by the end of the week, the artic mass is moving on. Winter will be back to being enjoyable..

**For you who still follow the F kind of temps...think -4F to -31F...no matter which letter you put behind the numbers....its just damn cold!

Thursday Thirteen

Thursday Thirteen.......13 Things that you may not know about me.

1. I cannot sit at a table where the utensils have been placed on the wrong side. It drives me nuts. No, really it drives me insane. People often take bets to see how long it takes me to crack when we are out somewhere and the table has been set incorrectly.
2. I do not get scared when watching horror movies. As part of my required courses in University, i had to take make-up and special effects. Now, when i see a scene, i am usually thinking...WOW, I wonder how much latex it took to do that! Scary books on the other hand are different. I can get VERY scared while reading, because of what the author makes me see in my head....better than any special effects could ever be.
3. Despite my now somewhat conservative look, at one time i was a bit of a rebel. I had a half shaved head in high school, and many different hair colours, often at the same time.
4. On audition forms under hair colour i used to check off OPTIONAL(see #3 above)
5. In 1991 I was assaulted. I had gone to sleep after my roomate went out, and i awoke to a man in my bed. It was not my boyfriend. It was however someone that i knew.
6. I do not drive.  I did drive, but it was not pretty, so i stopped. Something to do with not having really good depth perception, and "seeing" cars coming straight at me, even when they were several lanes over.
7. I would like to learn to bungi jump.
8. In University I held the Boat race drinking title at one of the local bars.  My team beat out the football squad.
9. At one time i seriously thought about becoming a doctor. Or a lawyer.
10. I saw my doppleganger. Our pictures appeared the day after each other in our local paper when i was in high school. She attended a different high school.
11. All of my writing used to be done on my Grandmother's monster typewritter. The kind that needed six men to move it. I swear it was made out of cast iron. It was lost in one of the moves ( i actaully think it was stolen, because it was really hard to misplace due to its size). I really miss that typewritter, and am always on the look for one similar.
12. I hate peas. Not just a little. I really hate them, can't be in the room when they are being cooked...Yet, i love pea pods. Weird.
13. I was a member of the Canadian Armed Forces. I was honourably discharged. My children can honestly say that yes, their mother wore combat boots. I taught weapons and public speaking. No, not in the same class.