1) People who drive 50 (or below) in a 60km an hour zone. Some of us DO have places to be arsehole
2) People who wait for the light to turn green before making a right turn. Hey butthead!! Unless a sign is posted stating no right turn on red light, go ya moron!
3) Music teachers who feel the need to stand on STAGE - in the middle in front of the children - to conduct the kids instead of standing in FRONT of it. Nothing parents like more in their Christmas concert photos and videos then some chick's red-tartaned ass covering little Johnnie and Susie's face.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Tuesday, December 08, 2009
Beautiful! ~~ Dec. 8, 2009
This photo was taken the day after our first storm on the 6th by a gentleman who submitted it to the Weather Network's website. I love the snow on the trees! We got about 10cms that storm. If we kept this till Christmas, I'd be happy. Unfortunately, we are under a snowfall warning AGAIN for tomorrow with 15-30 cms expected. As if THAT wasn't great enough, then it is supposed to change to rain overnight and for Thursday, with temperatures of 9 C!!
Gonna have to borrow Noah's ark again!!
Monday, November 30, 2009
In Memory
It's funny how someone that was a stranger to you a short time ago can leave an impression on you that leaves you feeling so sad when you hear of their passing and then there are others you have known for years that pass and the feelings aren't there the same way. I guess it is all about the interraction and relationship you build with someone, no matter how long you may have connected.
A couple years ago, I sent out some letters to various people I found the addresses for on 411.com who I thought were connected to my family during my research. One of the people I sent a letter to was Ken, who I thought may be the Ken who was the son of my great-grandmother's brother George. George left his parents, his siblings and his home in Canada around 1918 to make a new life for himself in the States. I knew George had married and they had a son, but that was about it. Imagine my delight when out of the blue I get a phone call from Wisconsin from the Ken I sent the letter to. Luckily, that Ken WAS the Ken I was looking for, and he was only to happy to share his memories, his stories and many family photos, including some of my great-great-grandparents which I had never seen. When we connected, Ken was 84, me 34 but despite our age gap we talked quite a bit and formed a bond I would like to think. He was an incredibly sweet man with an infectious laughter. His daughter emailed me this morning that Ken passed away earlier this month, his beloved wife only a few months before him. It feels strange to feel the sense of loss "I" feel now that this sweet man is gone. What an honor it is that I had the chance to "meet" him.
To Ken and Alice, may you be together once again in peace.
Nov. 30, 2009
You know you are a dork when it takes you MONTHS to figure out how the hell to "follow" a blog.
Thursday, November 05, 2009
This N' That
First things first, we had to reformat our computer yesterday thanks to my husband getting a nasty little m'f'n spyware called Antivirus System Pro that he got simply from GOING to SuperFundo that we absolutely could NOT get rid of, no matter how many times I found the files and deleted them, so anyone that reads this that emails me, I need you to send me an email (even blank) so I have your email addresses again please. Much thanks.
So, what has been going on here in Septyville? Well, has been a busy few weeks. My Mini-Me turned 14 on the 22nd and we had the party the 24th, which included BOYS eek! My cousin "Karma" had her first child, a little boy on the 23rd, the day before her birthday. My cousin "Moon", "Karma's" sister, got married on October 30th. A "unique" event, let's say. My brother and his wife had their third child on Nov. 1, arriving two weeks early. I think they are batty since their eldest is 4! GET A HOBBY already LMAO! I can't even BEGIN to imagine having three children that close in age. My daughter participated in "Take Your Child to Work Day" yesterday, going with her father for the day. Unfortunately for her, it was sunny (tho cold) and since hubby is a carpenter, it was outdoor work. Today, she isn't feeling well, complaining of a tummy ache, so back to bed she goes. Hopefully, she isn't coming down with the flu, since the little girl where they were working yesterday (she was not in the house) came home sick from school at lunch yesterday with H1N1. And now I am off to take "The Boy" (healthy thankfully) off to school!
So, what has been going on here in Septyville? Well, has been a busy few weeks. My Mini-Me turned 14 on the 22nd and we had the party the 24th, which included BOYS eek! My cousin "Karma" had her first child, a little boy on the 23rd, the day before her birthday. My cousin "Moon", "Karma's" sister, got married on October 30th. A "unique" event, let's say. My brother and his wife had their third child on Nov. 1, arriving two weeks early. I think they are batty since their eldest is 4! GET A HOBBY already LMAO! I can't even BEGIN to imagine having three children that close in age. My daughter participated in "Take Your Child to Work Day" yesterday, going with her father for the day. Unfortunately for her, it was sunny (tho cold) and since hubby is a carpenter, it was outdoor work. Today, she isn't feeling well, complaining of a tummy ache, so back to bed she goes. Hopefully, she isn't coming down with the flu, since the little girl where they were working yesterday (she was not in the house) came home sick from school at lunch yesterday with H1N1. And now I am off to take "The Boy" (healthy thankfully) off to school!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
IMHO
Just cause you download seven million different gedcoms from others who don't do their OWN research, compiling them all into your own file, giving you a datebase of twenty-five thousand people in your tree, does not a family researcher make.
Friday, October 23, 2009
It's a sad day ~~ October 23, 2009
It's a very sad day indeed when a child gets a phone call on their birthday from a grandparent and the child is shocked to have gotten the phone call.
Monday, October 05, 2009
It's official!
If I didn't think I had a touch of my Grampy's Alzheimer's before, I sure as hell KNOW I do now!!
Here it was, 1:32 p.m., I'm sitting at my computer doing some research, and all of a sudden I hear noise. I knew I wasn't imagining it, cause my cat sitting beside me stopped in mid-lick from cleaning herself and was looking out of the room. I get up, and listen, and sure enough, there is noise that wasn't there a minute ago. I step outside of the office, and it sounds like a really loud television. I'm like wtf?? And head towards the kitchen and stairs to investigate. Once I get closer to the stairs, it begins to sound more like a video game so upstairs I go to investigate. Worrying some nintendo-playing axe murderer might be killing some time before he starts killing some Septy, I hesitantly peek around the corner of my daughter's room and UMMMMMMMM, there is "The Boy"!! What the hell???!!
HEY!! What are you doing?
Hey looks at me like I have two heads, and says "Playing a video game"
I said, um, what are you doing here, you are supposed to be at school??!!
It was at THAT point, I realized that even though I am STILL sure I took the kid back after lunch at 12:45, that I FORGOT to take the kid back at 12:45! Dear god, I am going insane!!
Here it was, 1:32 p.m., I'm sitting at my computer doing some research, and all of a sudden I hear noise. I knew I wasn't imagining it, cause my cat sitting beside me stopped in mid-lick from cleaning herself and was looking out of the room. I get up, and listen, and sure enough, there is noise that wasn't there a minute ago. I step outside of the office, and it sounds like a really loud television. I'm like wtf?? And head towards the kitchen and stairs to investigate. Once I get closer to the stairs, it begins to sound more like a video game so upstairs I go to investigate. Worrying some nintendo-playing axe murderer might be killing some time before he starts killing some Septy, I hesitantly peek around the corner of my daughter's room and UMMMMMMMM, there is "The Boy"!! What the hell???!!
HEY!! What are you doing?
Hey looks at me like I have two heads, and says "Playing a video game"
I said, um, what are you doing here, you are supposed to be at school??!!
It was at THAT point, I realized that even though I am STILL sure I took the kid back after lunch at 12:45, that I FORGOT to take the kid back at 12:45! Dear god, I am going insane!!
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Ra-Ra-Ra! He's Number One!!
Just had to grab my pom-poms and do a cheer for my hubby!!
Friday nights, as usual, are my library research night, so I'm done, and call him to come get me, and we are driving and I ask what he did for the night (we are in the process of completely refinishing the basement). He says "I didn't do anything downstairs, but I did get the kids unload the dishwasher and bring out the dirty dishes so I could put a new load through" HOLY CHIT ON A STICK! And he cleaned off the counter! WITHOUT BEING ASKED????!!!!
HENNY PENNY THE SKY IS FALLING!!
And as if THAT wasn't enough, he also made supper :O for us! Made a stew mmmmmmmmmmm!!
I Love my hubby!! (And the fact it was payday had nothing to do with it! ---this time LMAO)
Friday nights, as usual, are my library research night, so I'm done, and call him to come get me, and we are driving and I ask what he did for the night (we are in the process of completely refinishing the basement). He says "I didn't do anything downstairs, but I did get the kids unload the dishwasher and bring out the dirty dishes so I could put a new load through" HOLY CHIT ON A STICK! And he cleaned off the counter! WITHOUT BEING ASKED????!!!!
HENNY PENNY THE SKY IS FALLING!!
And as if THAT wasn't enough, he also made supper :O for us! Made a stew mmmmmmmmmmm!!
I Love my hubby!! (And the fact it was payday had nothing to do with it! ---this time LMAO)
Monday, September 21, 2009
Our Weekend
Nothing like a little bit of frostbite to start your week!! Okay, that might be a slight exaggeration as it IS plus 7 out there right now, with a high expected of 20 (hurry hurry hurry)~~ That is celsius for all you Americans!
Just got home from dropping off my delightful demons (or DD's for short) at their schools. WAIT, now that I see the DD's, I prolly should pick something else to describe the kids instead of making references that could be mistaken for boobs by a peeping tom (or Daphne LMAO)! I am putting off being a domestic goddess so thought I would sit for a bit and blog. HOLY CAACAA DOODIE! Two blogs in one week? My computer could self destruct!
Let's see....what is there to talk about? Did the usual library thing Thursday and Friday night, looking for some dead relatives I might like, since I don't seem to like the live ones! No one left me wanting to kill them, so chalk that up to a good week! Saturday, mini-me was having a buddy spend the night, so thought I would look like a good mommy and make a supper that was easier to eat than the last time she joined us for supper (incase no one has ever had the pleasure, it is highly entertaining watching a 13 year old with new braces try to eat hotdogs in a bun!) so instead made some chicken thighs baked in the oven in szechaun sauce and rice for hubby and the kids and potato for me. Little brat didn't even try the chicken and maybe ate two bites of rice? The kid is pickier than I am and eats barely enough to stay alive! Hubby says "there is more meat in a canary's dink then there is on her". After supper, we took "the boy" out the bookstore to spend some late arriving birthday money on his newest obsession on one of the The 39 Clues books. It's a series of ten books (I think) put out by Scholastic that has stuff you can also do on-line. He talks about them constantly. Very thankful he, and his sister, share my love of reading actual books, and not nudie magazines like their father LMAO! "But honey, they have good articles in them!" Is the type on her nipples sweetie?
Sunday was our second annual apple-picking family day, which we brought the brace-wearing-didn't-eat-my-damn-chicken-mini-me's friend to. Kid about drove me to pelt her with apples, but since I am a cheap ass, and Chaz mighta made me pay for the pelting apples, I refrained! My self-control is rather astounding, even to me. We all went down and had an ice cream at the new store/produce market hubby's boss just built across from his farm then went and pilfered some produce from said farm. For FREE. Wooohooo, my second favorite F word!! Fudge being the first of course! Much to my husband's dismay. Then went up the hill to check out next Spring's T-bone steaks! Cows, in case you don't know, are pretty boring creatures, cute yes, but they don't do to much. 'Cept the occasional turning the ass towards you and have a big giant dump. And let me tell you, the bull has some damn big balls!! If his balls are that big, I'd hate to see what else he is packing! My sincere condolences to the heifers. There was one adventurous buggar who finally approached the truck, and for a second I thought he was gonna climb right up and hump it, but no such luck. We stopped by the "outlaws" on the way home and dropped off the squash we pilfered for them, where once again, my self control was astounding when I passed them to them as opposed to pelting. I am an amazing woman! Of course, the lack of pelting was made up for when they took us behind the shed to show us where they are digging this long friggin trench to guide water run-off, and the monster-in-law is going on about having to remove leaves from said trench, leans down to grab one out in demonstration, loses her balance, steps IN the running water and damn near topples over head first on the other side of the trench.
The shit ya see when ya don't have a video camera!
Just got home from dropping off my delightful demons (or DD's for short) at their schools. WAIT, now that I see the DD's, I prolly should pick something else to describe the kids instead of making references that could be mistaken for boobs by a peeping tom (or Daphne LMAO)! I am putting off being a domestic goddess so thought I would sit for a bit and blog. HOLY CAACAA DOODIE! Two blogs in one week? My computer could self destruct!
Let's see....what is there to talk about? Did the usual library thing Thursday and Friday night, looking for some dead relatives I might like, since I don't seem to like the live ones! No one left me wanting to kill them, so chalk that up to a good week! Saturday, mini-me was having a buddy spend the night, so thought I would look like a good mommy and make a supper that was easier to eat than the last time she joined us for supper (incase no one has ever had the pleasure, it is highly entertaining watching a 13 year old with new braces try to eat hotdogs in a bun!) so instead made some chicken thighs baked in the oven in szechaun sauce and rice for hubby and the kids and potato for me. Little brat didn't even try the chicken and maybe ate two bites of rice? The kid is pickier than I am and eats barely enough to stay alive! Hubby says "there is more meat in a canary's dink then there is on her". After supper, we took "the boy" out the bookstore to spend some late arriving birthday money on his newest obsession on one of the The 39 Clues books. It's a series of ten books (I think) put out by Scholastic that has stuff you can also do on-line. He talks about them constantly. Very thankful he, and his sister, share my love of reading actual books, and not nudie magazines like their father LMAO! "But honey, they have good articles in them!" Is the type on her nipples sweetie?
Sunday was our second annual apple-picking family day, which we brought the brace-wearing-didn't-eat-my-damn-chicken-mini-me's friend to. Kid about drove me to pelt her with apples, but since I am a cheap ass, and Chaz mighta made me pay for the pelting apples, I refrained! My self-control is rather astounding, even to me. We all went down and had an ice cream at the new store/produce market hubby's boss just built across from his farm then went and pilfered some produce from said farm. For FREE. Wooohooo, my second favorite F word!! Fudge being the first of course! Much to my husband's dismay. Then went up the hill to check out next Spring's T-bone steaks! Cows, in case you don't know, are pretty boring creatures, cute yes, but they don't do to much. 'Cept the occasional turning the ass towards you and have a big giant dump. And let me tell you, the bull has some damn big balls!! If his balls are that big, I'd hate to see what else he is packing! My sincere condolences to the heifers. There was one adventurous buggar who finally approached the truck, and for a second I thought he was gonna climb right up and hump it, but no such luck. We stopped by the "outlaws" on the way home and dropped off the squash we pilfered for them, where once again, my self control was astounding when I passed them to them as opposed to pelting. I am an amazing woman! Of course, the lack of pelting was made up for when they took us behind the shed to show us where they are digging this long friggin trench to guide water run-off, and the monster-in-law is going on about having to remove leaves from said trench, leans down to grab one out in demonstration, loses her balance, steps IN the running water and damn near topples over head first on the other side of the trench.
The shit ya see when ya don't have a video camera!
Thursday, September 17, 2009
This N' That
Well, it has been awhile since I have blogged anything. I must say, I truly do miss Yahoo360. Even though I didn't blog alot there near the end, it was nice being able to check out what was going on in the lives of my yah-buddies. Personally, I think Yahoo screwed up big time when they got rid of 360 and replaced it with yahoo profiles.
Not much going on here, that is super exciting to the outside world anyway. It's been a busy few weeks here, with the adjustment of being back to school. Bigger adjustment for me, as now my kids don't go to the same school, so means more travelling for me in the morning. Mini-me is in HIGHSCHOOL ~~GASP~~, so it has been a bit nervewracking knowing she is Uptown where there are weirdos and fruitloops. Not to say the area we live in doesn't have weirdos and fruitloops (I live here don't I?), but the Uptown area has a wider variety, not to mention higher concentration, of weirdos!! I use to work up there, I KNOW!!
My "Baby" just had a birthday this week, he turned ten years old! Can you believe it? Seems like just yesterday that I was pregnant with him, feeling him trying to bust out my chest like those damn suckers in the movie Alien with Sigourney Weaver!! Personally, I think the 20.5 inches he was born at was how long he was at 5 months in utero, based on the pains I was having in my ribs. Ahhhh, the memories!
Mini-me is adjusting well to the new world of Highschool and of having a cell phone ~~cringe~~. I had to break down and get her one (after being continually harassed for three years), so she had a way of contacting me in an emergency, what with her being up around the above mentioned weirdos and fruitloops!! I will say, it does serve as a great blackmail tool! Bad grades? Phone gone! Don't pass in assignments? Phone gone! Go over your minutes and cost me more money? Phone gone! Anyone looking for leveredge over your teen, I highly recommend a cell phone. Texting is their lifeline!! Silly me, all the time I wasted as a child actually PHONING or going over to CALL FOR a friend! Man, we had it rough! She will be turning 14 in a few weeks and is wanting to go see the group Marianas Trench which is playing here a few days before her birthday. She is desperately trying to find a friend to go with, as she sure as hell doesn't want her "old" mom going with her! (secretly hoping none can, so I can tag along, snickersnicker).
Hubby is....well....hubby. He works, he eats, he shits, he sleeps, not much changes with him. Just like a baby!! 'Cept the working part. I still am convinced that is why we are still married, he isn't home enough for us to kill one another!
On the "out-law" front, the father-in-law is like a house of cards, with a bomb exploding in the basement! Now the doctors says he has had several mini-strokes, which have left him with Primary Progressive Aphasia, that the two arteries in his neck (leading to his brain, boy that explains alot) are over 90% blocked, but "they don't do surgery until you have some bad symptoms from it", and his most recent bomb, he apparently has some lesions on his leg that turned out to be skin cancer which he goes to get removed the end of the month. SEE PEOPLE, THIS IS WHY YOU NEVER RETIRE! YOU FALL ALL TO HELL. On a happier note though, he is easier to be around since the Aphasia makes him forget how to be insulting to you!
On the family issue, ugghhhh, more family functions are required for the next month. One of my cousins is due to pop end of October so they just had a baby shower for her at my aunt's place last week. Boy was THAT fun (oh how I miss Yahoo smileys, especially the eyeroll). Her mom is the one who reminds me of Paula Abdul in all her "I-am-not-a-drug-addict" glory! Her other daughter and her have not been speaking for about a year, and since that other daughter is getting married the end of next month and she isn't invited and apparently some in the family think they are going to boycot the wedding cause they think it is their decision who should be invited, I mostly went for entertainment value! I shoulda had a V-8!! So next on the family docket will be the bridal shower, with possible boycotting family, then us all getting together to make food for the reception, then the wedding! I just may turn into an alcoholic yet damn it!!!
Not much going on here, that is super exciting to the outside world anyway. It's been a busy few weeks here, with the adjustment of being back to school. Bigger adjustment for me, as now my kids don't go to the same school, so means more travelling for me in the morning. Mini-me is in HIGHSCHOOL ~~GASP~~, so it has been a bit nervewracking knowing she is Uptown where there are weirdos and fruitloops. Not to say the area we live in doesn't have weirdos and fruitloops (I live here don't I?), but the Uptown area has a wider variety, not to mention higher concentration, of weirdos!! I use to work up there, I KNOW!!
My "Baby" just had a birthday this week, he turned ten years old! Can you believe it? Seems like just yesterday that I was pregnant with him, feeling him trying to bust out my chest like those damn suckers in the movie Alien with Sigourney Weaver!! Personally, I think the 20.5 inches he was born at was how long he was at 5 months in utero, based on the pains I was having in my ribs. Ahhhh, the memories!
Mini-me is adjusting well to the new world of Highschool and of having a cell phone ~~cringe~~. I had to break down and get her one (after being continually harassed for three years), so she had a way of contacting me in an emergency, what with her being up around the above mentioned weirdos and fruitloops!! I will say, it does serve as a great blackmail tool! Bad grades? Phone gone! Don't pass in assignments? Phone gone! Go over your minutes and cost me more money? Phone gone! Anyone looking for leveredge over your teen, I highly recommend a cell phone. Texting is their lifeline!! Silly me, all the time I wasted as a child actually PHONING or going over to CALL FOR a friend! Man, we had it rough! She will be turning 14 in a few weeks and is wanting to go see the group Marianas Trench which is playing here a few days before her birthday. She is desperately trying to find a friend to go with, as she sure as hell doesn't want her "old" mom going with her! (secretly hoping none can, so I can tag along, snickersnicker).
Hubby is....well....hubby. He works, he eats, he shits, he sleeps, not much changes with him. Just like a baby!! 'Cept the working part. I still am convinced that is why we are still married, he isn't home enough for us to kill one another!
On the "out-law" front, the father-in-law is like a house of cards, with a bomb exploding in the basement! Now the doctors says he has had several mini-strokes, which have left him with Primary Progressive Aphasia, that the two arteries in his neck (leading to his brain, boy that explains alot) are over 90% blocked, but "they don't do surgery until you have some bad symptoms from it", and his most recent bomb, he apparently has some lesions on his leg that turned out to be skin cancer which he goes to get removed the end of the month. SEE PEOPLE, THIS IS WHY YOU NEVER RETIRE! YOU FALL ALL TO HELL. On a happier note though, he is easier to be around since the Aphasia makes him forget how to be insulting to you!
On the family issue, ugghhhh, more family functions are required for the next month. One of my cousins is due to pop end of October so they just had a baby shower for her at my aunt's place last week. Boy was THAT fun (oh how I miss Yahoo smileys, especially the eyeroll). Her mom is the one who reminds me of Paula Abdul in all her "I-am-not-a-drug-addict" glory! Her other daughter and her have not been speaking for about a year, and since that other daughter is getting married the end of next month and she isn't invited and apparently some in the family think they are going to boycot the wedding cause they think it is their decision who should be invited, I mostly went for entertainment value! I shoulda had a V-8!! So next on the family docket will be the bridal shower, with possible boycotting family, then us all getting together to make food for the reception, then the wedding! I just may turn into an alcoholic yet damn it!!!
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