Canada Day

Happy Belated Birthday, Canada!!!

I was too busy having fun yesterday to post then. Plus I have pictures now of the day to share.

I spent most of the morning just hanging out at home. Mostly on the computer checking out the new Bad Girls kit and add-ons. Very beautiful month. I'm already jealous of everyone who's getting it all, and of course of the Design Team who gets everything a month early. I can only hope I can develop in style and make an awesome team like this one some day. I have a long way to go, but I'm willing to work on it.

Monkey and I spent the afternoon at my parents' house. It was sunny, warm and there was a beautiful breeze. Monkey played with his water table, there was a water gun fight or two and the big surprise! Monkey is now the proud owner of a Dodge Viper! It's so cute. And to keep it cute, it's staying at my parents' so the kids at our complex don't ruin it. All the kids at our place share the outside toys. It's great but the kids are rough; that's why I keep the water table and the car elsewhere. We're up at my parents at least once a week or more, so Monkey is still getting a lot of use out of the toys that are there.

Monkey playing in the new Viper

Jess had to try out the Viper too!!

I played photograpgher last night too. I attemped to take pictures of the fireworks. I snapped about 200 picutres the whole day. I got maybe 50 good/ok-ish ones. And this is why I love digital. I can snap away and only need to print the ones I really like. I can't wait to get the Rebel fixed...



Until next time...

July

Oh, July…On day away, July!!
I have a feeling this July is going to rock. So far there is so much to look forward to.
First there’s fireworks tonight in Goderich and tomorrow in Wingham. I’m a sucker for fireworks. I adore them with childish glee. I took Monkey to see fireworks twice last year when he was just a little infant. I was curious if he was going to enjoy them or cry because of the noise. He did neither. He slept right through them! I’m curious to how he’ll be this year.
Second, it’s Bad Girls first anniversary. Don’t know what Bad Girl is? There’s a link on the side of the page. If you’re into scrapbooking, it’s a site for you. Wendy, a lady with an eye for beautiful things, started up a monthly kit last year. It’s doing very well and all the members hope she continues to have fabulous success with it because that means we keep getting wonderful kits, add-ons and monthly projects. Seriously, if you like scrapbooking and you enjoy creating art more than just slapping pictures and stickers onto a page, then check out Bad Girls Kits.
This month there’s a lot of fun going on at the Bad Girls forum. Challenges, a crop day and so on. I’ve never joined in on these types of things before and am planning on it this month. I’ve taken part in the monthly challenges for the past couple of months and have been having fun with that. I even cranked out three layouts for the June Apron Challenge (winner gets a fabulous, blinged out Bad Girls apron to create in). Steve has already agreed to let me enjoy the crop day. He’s going to keep Monkey busy that day so I can play along with the ladies on Bad Girls for an online crop.

Next, Wendy has been ever so great…Some of you know, my birthday is in July. My mother thought that Bad Girl kit add-ons would be a great gift for me. The original plan was I’d get to pick two or three (depending on price) and mom would give me the money for it and that would be it. We took it up a notch. I emailed Wendy asking for her help. Wendy, based on a budget, has happily picked out some add-ons for me. I have no idea what I’m getting. I’ll get to see all the add-ons tonight after the reveal, but won’t know which ones I’m getting. It’s exciting and it’s excruciating at the same time! When the package gets here, I have to hand it right over to my mother so she can wrap everything up and I get it back on my birthday. If the package doesn’t come until after my birthday, then she still gets it first to wrap. My mother love to wrap!
So next on the forth coming month is…My birthday. I’m going to be 27. A year closer to 30, but it doesn’t bother me at all. After all, at Steve’s parents’ I’m 28. Everyone is 28 in their household. I’m not planning anything big this year. Last year, Steve surprised me with lunch at one of my favourite restaurants (Boston Pizza…I really do love it! I‘m so simply sometimes), a movie of my choice (Transformers was awesome!) and then he took me and my best friend to Medieval Times because he knew I had always wanted to go (it was so much fun!). This year, I’m happy to just be with my family. A nice meal and some cake and I’m a happy gal. I’m already getting spoiled by my mom. So this birthday looks good already.
I could very easily go on, but I won’t bore you anymore.
Until next time…

Job Interview

I have a job interview today. And I thought I would be more nervous about it. I'm so calm, it's almost scary.

As some of you know, I've been playing stay at home mom (SAHM) for the past three to four weeks. The temp job just wasn't going well since the students got off school. First the college students were getting all the jobs and now the high school students have joined them. So I have been enjoying my time here at home with Monkey. I've been loving every minute of it.

Steve is earning enough for us to get by. I watch our money very carefully still so we can afford to spoil the kids, hopefully take a vacation next year, save money for newer car for me and our future house.

I decided, on my own, that I would like to help out around here. I feel like I'm not giving enough to the family unit. So I've applied to some jobs and have the first job interview today. It's just an inside sales job. Nothing fancy. It's right here in town, about a ten minute drive away from our place. It's a day job with weekends off. Perfect. I don't want to be away from my family too much.

We'll see how it goes.

Until next time...

Paintball

It's blurry because I copied a picture then cropped out a part of it. I don't have an advance photo altering program to make it look better...But...That's my Stevie there. He went to play paintball last weekend. He thinks he looks pissed off. I think he looks serious and handsome. But then again, I always think he looks handsome. If I didn't then we wouldn't be where we are today, now would we.

I've put Steve on a mission to get me paintball pictures of his self so I can scrap them. I really want to put our two hobbies together to create memories for when we're 90 and can barely move. Someone else can turn the pages of my scrapbooks and we can enjoy the past once again.

New Place Part II

The front view of our place (taken from the bedroom window) Our street and the lovely telephone poles that line the so-called nature trail.
The lovely plant/photo box Steve brought home for me one night, just because. I put Monkey's picture in it.
Monkey just relaxing on his chair. Doesn't that wall just scream out "Put a damn picture on me"? I think so. Steve and I are going to get creative. A friend of Steve's is going to blow up a black and white picture of Monkey and put in just one colour (like for a toy or a shirt, whatever). We haven't picked out a picture yet.
My cheeky Monkey. In need of a haircut...Again...Love those curls though. He has mommy's hair alright.

The New Place

Please excuse the lack of design and the mess...I'm working on it...

Monkey trying to sleep on mommy and daddy's bed. We have mix match stuff in our room right now until we find a bedroom set we both like. I *love* my new comforter...Dark faux suede! Lovely!
My messy scrap corner with a layout in prgress from last night. It's not the way I want it yet, but it's workable for now. And yes, that's my kitchen sink to the left. I have a very small space to scrap in, but it's my space. My little desk there also opens up to make more room to work on.
Our tiny living room. Monkey's watching his fave Baby Einstein video. If you look closely you can see my purse hiding behind a pillow. Guess I didn't see my purse when I was cleaning up last night. And to my fellow Bad Girls...Look closely...My finished March Project Kit is in view. At least the front side of it. And yes, I have Scrapbooking For Dummies. I bought it when I first decided to try the craft and thought it was informative.
My/Steve's planter with...*gasp*...flowers in it! We used to keep it in the living room with spare change in it. It's finally outside where it belongs. I bought those flowers just a few days ago. I still have to re-pot them.
The view from our back deck. We're in a new area of town that hasn't been built up yet. The houses that are already built are beautiful! We wouldn't mind owning one some day.

Part two coming up...

Rambles of packing and hospitals....

Anyone wanna pack for me? I have four more sleeps until M-Day (Moving Day, people! Keep up with me, will ya) and I have nada packed. I always seem to wait until the last possible minute.
I was all set to start packing today, but got a little side tracked. Actually, a lot side tracked. I rushed my mother to the hospital this morning. One of her eyes (the left one for all those nosey people out there) was swollen shut this morning. It looks like a bee stung her. She has no idea why it happened. She can’t remember anything stinging her or anything like that. We spent a few hours at the hospital only to leave without seeing a doctor. It’s a long story of why. The short version is…Small, backwards, stupid towns have equally backwards, stupid people working in their hospitals. We have vowed never go back there again and drive the extra 10 to 30 minutes to go to a different hospital in a different town. It wasn’t our first time with a bad experience at said hospital. I was there about four years ago with a badly sprained wrist. I wasn’t sure if it was broken or not. I spent 4 hours in the waiting room, was placed in a room and waited for another 2 hours. A nurse walked by and looked shocked to see me sitting there. The only doctor they had on that day had gone home for dinner an hour and a half earlier and wasn’t coming back unless someone called him. Nice, eh? So glad I had Monkey down in Kitchener. My labour, c-section and so on and so on (most of you know the horrible ordeal I went through, I won’t bore you again) was horrific enough. I’m sure it would have been worse at this tiny hospital. My sister got to see the baby wing at the small town hospital as part of her parenting class in school. She said it didn’t look like anything, including medical devices, had been updated since the early 50’s. Everything, according to my sister, was a thousand times better in my two rooms in Kitchener (my labour room before the emergency c-section, and my room afterwards in the c-section ward, as I called it). I’ll admit, I loved my labour room! Wish I could have pushed out Monkey and stayed there. There was a nice little whirlpool tub, a private bathroom (I had a roommate in my other room), a 27 inch tv that I didn’t have to use earphones to listen to (only in private rooms does one not need earphones), I had a closet all to my own and the room was nice and big. My shared room was big too, but my roomie had twins and took up a lot of space. My private revenge was when Monkey cried. He didn’t cry too much, but when he did, it was loud! Everyone heard monkey; he was the loudest baby there.
And I am so off topic here. Just rambling away. So, yeah…I got no packing done today because I was at the hospital for a good chunk of it. Once we came home, I put monkey and my mother down for a nap and hopped online to chat with Steve at work. I couldn’t pack up my room when there’s a sleeping baby in there. And I just didn’t bother once the baby was awake.
I will start tomorrow. As long as I’m not working again. Have I ever mentioned I hate being a temp? Because I do. Really, really do. I’ve been thinking about going back to school…Just might…
Until next time…