Post Christmas, Post Turkey... No weigh in...

Christmas is finally over. No more turkey! Now it's on to New Years Eve! Great Big Sea is playing in Niagara Falls and I am so there!

www.greatbigsea.com

Can't wait!

I don't remember the last time I took a bus anywhere... I hope it's not expensive...

Happy Christmas to all!

December 24th and I have just returned from taking Farley and Charmin to the vet for an emergency visit. Charmin needed a cone... Farley... has a little infection in his little... ahem. He is now on penicillin. I am so not thrilled! But I am now packing for a weekend at moms house. I don't know if Tim is coming home, but if he is, I will have to return to my own apartment as there is only one spare room at my parents. I have packed all of my gifts and now am also ready to play Santa Clause. I will be delivering Jeff, Kevin and Daisy presents!

I am sad I couldn't go to Beauty and the Beast with Meagan and her Grandma, but it is now 1:45pm and I haven't had a shower! The show started 45 minutes ago, and I am still not ready for anything! What shoes should I wear? Pants? Skirt?

I plan to blog before New Years, but I hope everyone enjoys a safe and happy holiday season!

It Must Be Christmas

I am tired of not being in the Christmas spirit. I don't think I have smiled at one person in a mall all week. I certainly haven't smiled at people on the street. What is it?

Hmmmmm....

Money? Yup, always money.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Stupid money!

Happy Holidays New York

What fun it is to walk 7 miles to work in the snow! A story for the grandkids eh? I can't believe the union is being fined one million dollars a day! Must be nice to have that kind of money... Do unions ever really get what they want? Something tells me not everything.

Finished my Christmas shopping yesterday! Well, almost. Meagan. What a girl. I have not one slight clue what she should get from me. Friends for 13 years and I can't figure it out. I only know she doesn't want what I made her.

Tim... does Tim get a present? Hard to say. I don't want to be a scrooge, but avoiding Christmas dinner because you don't want to go to the boonies is pretty scroogey I think.

Maybe a gift certificate from Future Shop crammed into a Christmas card.

Hours are cut at work now. So much for saving money for school.

Uh oh, Charmin has found my pile of unwrapped presents... Gotta rescue!

Back to NOLA

http://www.pasadosafehaven.org/NEWS/NEWS2.htm

I wish I could go. My heart is there even though I am not. Farley seems a little huggier than usual, but that could be me. I may be a little huggier than usual. I want Farley to go home. Not because I don't want him, but because everyone wants to go home.

Monday... blahhhhhh!

If you ever have to start a sentence with don't tell anyone I told you this but... SHUT UP!. Stop speaking right now! I don't want to know. I already know I can't keep a secret! You may not know it yet, but if you don't stop talking, you will.

Today we wrapped presents at work for an Interval House family. It was nice to sign every gift from Santa and think about them opening their gifts on Christmas morning. I just love to wrap! I think I am pretty good at it to. I am not done shopping yet though... Charmin is laying on the gift I was going to give to Meagan, but upon further reflection I know she won't like it...

More shopping.

Boo.

I did finish Andria's gift, and I must say... I am damn proud of it! When she opens it I will post the picture. It is wrapped so beautifully though, it is almost a shame to let her tear it open. Oh well! Christmas is all about death to trees right? No? Oh...

Mondays... BLAHHHHHHHH!

Being a kid...

There is something elegant and blissful about watching a small child careening across a skating rink wearing a bicycle helmet with their arms windmilling away. They are fearless. They are laughing and enjoying life like no one else right now. One small girl would dare her father to do something and she would laugh as he flew across the ice then did a hockey stop inches before the boards. She called out "You crazy daddy!" and laughed hysterically. There was another girl who fell constantly. It was sad, but the fact that she constantly got right back up and went again was spirit lifting. I fell. Meagan fell. Andria fell... on purpose. I can see myself in my head gliding around the ice doing camel spins and waltz jumps, but when my feet hit the ice... reality drops like a hammer. I am happy to say I can skate backwards... sort of, and I didn't fall while spinning.

After we had cappuccino, doughnuts, fries and chicken nuggets... in that order.

Impatience VS Serenity

I have never been a patient person. When I am in a rush (which is generally my fault to begin with... unless I am waiting for mom and dad...) I am the person standing behind you in a long unmoving line shifting from foot to foot and letting my breath out in loooooong sighs. I am the person constantly checking my watch in the most obvious way I can in the hopes someone will see me and hurry themselves along. I am also the person craning my neck to see exactly who it is that is slowing the line down and wasting my time. I admit it. Not many people would I guess, but I am.

When I am not in a rush and feeling like time is wasted every second I am at my most serene. I drive the speed limit (honest!), I find things to look at while I am waiting in line, and I smile at the person in line behind me who is huffing and sighing impatiently. Generally on these days my plans include nothing more than drinking a nice hot cappucino or a really cold beer at my leisure, sitting with Charmin on my lap and Farley at my feet, and a good movie or a good book to occupy my time.

There are even days when these two people are as one. Like right now. I am sitting watching Love Actually (Great movie! Ever seen it?) and drinking one of my last remaining Budweisers with Farley at my feet and Charmin curled up next to my fat cat Nonnie. Cute eh? However, my best friend was to arrive from Saskatchewan on Thursday and now it is Saturday evening and I haven't heard a word. I hope everything is alright! What if she missed her train!!?? She wants to go Christmas shopping, but I am doing some of it tomorrow. She will be upset with me for not waiting though...

I am out of beer... Damn.

Okay, I admit it...

I am an anti-dentite. I hate teeth and I hate all those who like teeth. I hate those who work on teeth and those have perfectly beautiful and white teeth. I think dental hygenists are very nice people with really horrible job preferences. Phase I of my treatment is now complete. I have Pyorrhea, which is inflammation of the gums and when the gums pull away from the teeth. Trust me, it is as lovely as it sounds! I went in for a routine cleaning and they informed me that in order to properly clean my teeth I would have to be needled. Great! They would not work on my mouth unless they could freeze it and do you know why? Because I am a big fat cry baby. I hate going to the dentist so much that my eyes well up and I get really flustered. It is my worst nightmare. My wonderful dentist and his associates (I mean that in all honesty to) broke my treatment into four phases. The first, which was today, was the freezing and cleaning and scaling of the right side (top and bottom) of my mouth. Wednesday, December 21st is Phase II; the cleaning and scaling of the left side. Late January I have to go back and make sure everything is healing alright (Phase III), then I get to make an appointment for phase IV. This is when they will graft a small portion of skin from the roof of my mouth onto the front of my lower gums. This is where the gums pulled away severely from my teeth and my infection started. Don't get me started on the Amoeba's living in my plaque!!

I am so excited about Andria's Christmas present! I received another part of it today. It's a picture that I like of me!! This isn't the picture, but it is close. I am so lucky to be surrounded by such beautiful and amazing women. Andria and Meagan I mean!! Kevin isn't a beautiful woman though... but he is still pretty amazing...

It's my party!

So ofcourse it is snowing beautifully outside. Everyone has cancelled... there will be no party for me tonight. Atleast I got to go out for dinner last night with my parents... Check out the beer!

I wish it wasn't snowing. People need to be places! Maybe it's home for the holidays... maybe it's to a party in their honour... but hey! We could still get to pilates!

Not after that schooner!

15 days and counting...

Do you ever wish

Do you ever wish you could just get someone to shut up! I mean honest to god shut-your-mouth-you-ignorant-abrupt-blunt-uncaring person!?! Seems these are the people who have more to say than anyone else right? These are the ones who just keep talking whether you care what they have to say or not. Why is that? Why can't people who have educated comments or nice things to say be the ones to speak more often? I do not want to hear your mindless dribble! If you have an opinion, great! share it and move on... Don't try to maximize your word quota by constantly slamming me with mean statements or cracks to the ego. I do enough of that to myself.

Sixteen days and counting...

FEMA & The St Bernard

How is it possible that three months after Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita there are people living in tents inside what is left of their home!! It is not safe there! Nothing is as it should be yet it is apparently more important to place blame then actually get things fixed. This has been (in my opinion) the problem since the hurricanes hit. It should not matter whose fault it is that the city of NO and surrounding areas were not evacuated in time, it is not important who didn't call who and who didn't pass along what message! What matters is the mothers, fathers, children and pets who were affected! Fix the problem and then place blame!! If, three months after massive flooding, people are living in barns and tents in winter the problem is NOT solved!

The Moment

So life is funny! One minute I am emailing my Scottish/Irish/English/Canadian friend and apologizing and apologizing for not emailing more often when he turns up Canadian again. Home after two years of working abroad with no phone call... no warning... but who cares!?! He is home! I am beyond excited to see him again, and hopefully he feels the same way.

I am also excited that he gets to meet my family! The new member atleast... and I will get to see Bonnie again! And Tux!! OMY I am so excited! I need to stop saying that...

Cheers to friends!

Twice in one day!

Some pictures of what it is like to party with my Curves family!

We clean up pretty good!

The Day After

Ahhhhh, poor Andria... Girl can't hold her liquor. It's amazing how friendly and loving one becomes toward people they never have anything nice to say about when they are full of the good stuff.

Big hugs and good byes from a lot of people I may or may not see again. A lot of congratulations from some people as well. I even got a drunken "It's your retirement party!" from my boss! Fun!

I really do love my girls. I missed the two sickies, but I know they love me.

Already had breakfast with the folks and played a little Sims... It's nice to not have a hangover. I sure did drink a lot though! Not that I am proud of that.

Random Saturday morning thoughts..

An over the counter day after pill? Interesting. Pharmacists need to just fill persriptions and shut up. Do not lecture women who seek this kind of treatment! Do not charge WalGreens with Religious Discrimination because they expect you to do your job! FILL THE PERSCRIPTIONS!

Now kids are brawling and CNN is blaming Katrina? I guess I have to wait for the complete story...

I am picking Andria up for the Christmas party. That means I have to clean my car out! Dammit! I wish I kept it cleaner, but apparently I have mess issues. It is dirty on the outside thanks in total to the wonderful salt we throw on the ground during Canadian winters!! The inside is cluttered, because that is how I am.

I just cannot believe how messed up things are in the middle east. My heart goes out to those families with sons, husbands, brothers and friends being held hostage out there. Even Muslim leaders are calling for their release. I can't imagine believing so vehemently in a cause that I would be willing to murder people who are in my land to help. Now the US Army is dealing with a weapon that will pierce the armour on their cars. They are EFP's or explosively formed projectiles and they are considered extremely dangerous. Now CNN is explaining in detail how to make EFP's... why do I even watch this channel?

Oh yeah, because I love Anderson Cooper.

My picture today is from my birthday night at the Little Big Horn. The night I met Mr Bodhran. What a loser I am at times.

Students were arrested for brawling. Twenty seven of them and 15 were from NO. The Houston kids at this highschool are saying NO students don't belong. Even adults all around Houston are blaming the evacuees for everything from traffic to unrest. So much for sharin' the love...

Whispers

I finally did it! I got my own blog!

Why?

Who knows! Seems like the thing to do now a days. I hate how easily I jump on bandwagons! Maybe not that easily, but still easily enough to bother me. It snowed heavily during the night, and I woke up to a nice temperature and a white blanketed ground. I am so excited Farley seems to really enjoy the snow. It is his first snowfall afterall! Charmin, as usual, runs through the snow with her nose down. When she pulls her head up she has a pile of snow on her face. So cute...

Tomorrow is the Curves Christmas party, and it is most likely my last one. Seems life is picking up speed and blasting by me, but I have slowed right down... Even though Christmas is two weeks away I am not ready... It is coming too quickly... I love Christmas and the family get together, but I am not ready.

Seemed easier when I was kid.

Meagan is coming home next week. That is something that is coming so slowly... It will come eventually, by I am impatient for it. Like most things I suppose.

It's 8:15pm on a Friday night, and I am home alone with my babies.