may long weekend

you would think that the long weekend would bring about fun and frivolity.....but nope here it brings an endless stream of lacrosse games. Matthew is in a tournament so between the games and the volunteer shifts we are assigned there is not much time for anything else.

my ankle is still swollen and sore and i hobble everywhere. I went for my soccer coaching certification yesterday which was great except i had to stand on the sidelines for all the practical part which sucked and byt the end my foot was still swollen even more!!!
I go for a bone scan on friday so we will see what happens........

The house is moving oh so slowly, things weren't ready so other things had to be pushed back so still living in a mess.......

Matthew's birthday is coming up so i need to figure something out--shrek perhaps....

have a good week

this cracked me up.....too funny

WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE READY TO HAVE CHILDREN

MESS TESTS
smear peanut butter on the sofa and curtains. Place a fish stick behind the couch and leave it there all summer.

TOY TEST
Obtain a 55-gallon box of LEGOs (or you may substitute roofing tacks). Have a friend spread them all over the house. Put on a blindfold. Try to walk to the bathroom or kitchen. Do not scream because this would wake a child at night.

GROCERY STORE TEST
Borrow one or two small animals (goats are best) and take them with you as you shop. Always keep them in sight and pay for anything they eat or damage.

DRESSING TEST
Obtain one large, unhappy, live octopus. Stuff into a small net bag making sure that all the arms stay inside.

FEEDING TEST
Obtain a large plastic milk jug. Fill halfway with water. Suspend from the ceiling with a cord. Start the jug swinging. Try to insert spoonfuls of soggy cereal into the mouth of the jug, while pretending to be an airplane. Now dump the contents of the jug on the floor.

NIGHT TEST
Prepare by obtaining a small cloth bag and fill it with 8-12 pounds of sand. Soak it thoroughly in water. At 3:00 p.m. begin to waltz and hum with the bag until 9:00 p.m. Lay down your bag and set your alarm for 10:00 p.m. Get up, pick up your bag, and sing every song you have ever heard. Make up about a dozen moreand sing these too until 4:00 a. m. Set alarm for 5:00 a.m. Get up and make breakfast. Keep this up for 5 years. Look cheerful.

INGENUITY TEST
Take an egg carton. Using a pair of scissors and pot of paint, turn it into an alligator. Now take a toilet paper tube and turn it into an attractive Christmas candle. Use only scotch tape and a piece of foil. Last, take a milk carton, a Ping-Pong ball, and an empty box of Cocoa Puffs. Make an exact replica of the Eiffel Tower .

AUTOMOBILE TEST
Forget the BMW and buy a station wagon/minivan. Buy a chocolate ice cream cone and put it in the glove compartment. Leave it there. Get a dime. Stick it into the cassette player. Take a family size package of chocolate chip cookies. Mash them into the back seat. Run a garden rake along both sides of the car. There, perfect.

PHYSICAL TEST (Women)
Obtain a large bean bag chair and attach it to the front of your clothes. Leave it there for 9 months.
Now remove 10 of the beans.

PHYSICAL TEST (Men)
Go to the nearest drug store. Set your wallet on the counter. Ask the clerk to help himself. Now proceed to the nearest food store. Go to the head office and arrange for your paycheck to be directly deposited to the store. Purchase a newspaper. Go home and read it quietly for the last time.

FINAL ASSIGNMENT
Find a couple who already have a small child. Lecture them on how they can improve their discipline, patience, tolerance, toilet training and child's table manners. Suggest many ways they can improve. Emphasize to them that they should never allow their children to run wild. Enjoy this experience. It will be the last time you will have all the answers.

that gave me quite the giggle---how true.....

may already!

This year is just wizzing by!
So I have had a bit of a setback.......apparently i have screwed my ankle up, can't really walk on it. Dr sent me for xrays and it is not broken-most likely tendon or ligament. Not really sure how i did it. Went running thursday night- took a step and owwwwwwwwwwwwww hurt but it went away and by sunday felt ok to try again. A bit into the run and oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww well that was the end of that--just call me hopalong.....that's what i get for trying to be active-back to sitting on my ass i guess.....
that's about it......
talk to you later.

shocking...................

I have actually lost 5 lbs! I am assuming it is from the running since the only food thing I have changed is my vanilla lattes have become nonfat sugarfree lattes.

Canucks made it to round 2 woohoo

love this

here are some layouts i quite like of late:

the beachbum one and this one were picked for the Basic Gallery

update

YIPPPEEEE! we have a date for our kitchen cabinets installation...may 22. i know that sounds like a long way away but hey i will take it.

Carrie and i are still running(run/walk) we have gone to 2 with the runners den and done the required homework also woohoo....off to do one this morning also.

what else.......i am running out of time, between soccer, the kids activities, pac, dt assignments and the house, oops almost forgot work....i am becoming overwhelmed.......................................

got this funny video clip sent to me...http://sjl.funnyordie.com/v1/view_video.php?viewkey=3efbc24c7d2583be6925

hope everyone has a good weekend i am at work tonight, hopefully it will be quiet.

life....

after a really crappy sad day at work I have come to the realization that life is far too short to get worked up about the small stuff!

so.................on the running front. Carrie and I went to our first night of run/walk at the runners den. We did it! woohoo and even more impressive we went out again today, holy crap am i ever out of shape!

work tonight, work tomorrow night, then hopefully will be able to go again on sunday before we up our times on tuesday night.

Go Canucks Go...

couldn't make it, lasted till end of the 3rd ot but then i had to crash!

Talk at you later!

been awhile....

Just noticed how long it has been since I have written something....bad blogger that I am! Not much going on though....still living in reno chaos, kids are the same: soccer done now into the land of lacrosse and field hockey...work is work....Darren is Darren....I visited some friends in Hamilton...not the nicest place to visit but had a blast anyway. Did get 2 layouts picked for the Basic Grey gallery.....extended one guest DT gig (Lovebug) and did another for a different site(Scraphoria).
That is about it...................................did miss seeing Carol when she was over though.

need to do lose some major pounds.....starting the run walk thing at the runners den again with Carrie.....

ok now i am done.

in

so we are in......what a nightmare! oh well it will be over sooner than we think.
was sent this by my friend dawn - funny. It has pics also but i was too lazy to upload them all.

Okay, some of us weren't exactly "little" but it brings back some memories....and if you can't remember just ask the magic 8 ball...

You had that Fisher Price Doctor's Kit with a stethoscope that actually worked.

You owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a plastic basket with flowers on it.

You learned to skate with actual skates (not roller blades) that had metal wheels.

You thought Gopher from Love Boat was cute (admit it!)

You had nightmares after watching Fantasy Island .

You had either a "bowl cut" or "pixie", not to mention the "Dorothy Hamill".

People sometimes thought you were a boy.

You had rubber boots for rainy days and Moon boots for snowy days.

YEAH! You owned a "Slip-n-Slide", on which you injured yourself on a sprinkler head more than once.

You owned "Klick-Klacks" and smacked yourself in the face more than once !

Your Holly Hobbie sleeping bag was your most prized possession.

You wore a poncho, gauchos, and knickers.

You begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon.

You had the Donnie and Marie dolls with those pink and purple satiny shredded outfits, or the sunshine family

You spent hours in your backyard on your metal swing set with the trapeze. The swing set tipped over at least once.

You had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable color. (Oh yeah!)

You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole & the buckle).

You also had a pair of salt-water sandals.

You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad; you wore that Little House on the Prairie-inspired plaid, ruffle shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture; and you despised Nellie Oleson!

(so sad but so true)

You wanted your first kiss to be at a roller rink!

PONG! ("video tennis" ) was the most remarkable futuristic game you've ever heard of !

Your hairstyle was described as having "wings" or "feathers" and you kept it "pretty" with the comb you kept in your back pocket. When you walked, the "wings" flapped up and down, looked like you were gonna "take off"

You know who Strawberry Shortcake is, as well as her friends, Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie.

You carried a Muppets lunch box to school and it was metal, not plastic. With the thermos inside some were glass inside and broke the first time you dropped them.

You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazzard was your boyfriend.

YOU had Star Wars action figures, too!

It was a big event in your household each year when the "Wizard of Oz" would come on TV. Your mom would break out the popcorn and sleeping bags!

You often asked your Magic-8 ball the question: "Who will I marry. Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, or David Cassidy?"

You completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Fame soundtrack record album.

You tried to do lots of arts and crafts, like yarn and Popsicle-stick God's eyes, decoupage, or those weird potholders made on a plastic loom.

You made Shrinky-Dinks and put iron-on kittens on your t-shirts!

You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape player up to the speaker.

You had subscriptions to Dynamite and Tiger Beat.

You learned everything you needed to know about girl issues from Judy Blume books. (Are you there God, It's me, Margaret.)

You thought Olivia Newton John's song "Physical" was about aerobics. (?? its not??)

You wore friendship pins on your tennis shoes, or shoelaces with heart or r a i n b o w designs.

You wanted to be a Solid Gold dancer.

You drowned yourself in Love's Baby Soft - which was the first "real" perfume you ever owned.

You glopped your lips in Strawberry Roll-on lip-gloss till it almost dripped off.

sadly i am guilty of all of the above.

holy crap!!!

so we now have possession of the new house and it is uglier than i remember, good lord what have we gotten ourselves into?? check out the carpet.

They so thoughtfully also tried to match the carpet to this lovely paint color in the living room and dining room.We have already ripped out all the carpet, taken the kitchen cabinetsout and torn down the fake brick on the fireplace. The hardwood has been ordered but will take 6 weeks and i am off to order the new kitchen cabinets today. the house also has these hideous intercoms throughout the house which will need to be taken out and patched, even in the bathroom.....speaking of the bathroom look at this

nightmare...i know you are all jealous!

you should be dancing.....

hack cough cough-yuck still sick but joy my fave show is coming back on......Dancing with the stars!! even matthew likes it.
here is who is on it this time round

LAILA ALI
BILLY RAY CYRUS
CLYDE DREXLER
JOEY FATONE
SHANDI FINNESSEY
LEEZA GIBBONS
HEATHER MILLS
APOLO ANTON OHNO
VINCENT PASTORE
PAULINA PORIZKOVA
IAN ZIERING

now that is an interesting bunch although they seem to have kept the combination
beauty queen, talk show, boy band, country singer, sports guy....although i have to say apolo intrigues me and what the ???? heather mills????

my midlife crisis........

for awhile now I have babbling on about how Ineed a new job/career but now I reallythink I want one! I love my job-the having babies part- but the rest is killing me. I hate working nights, I hate working 12 hrs,I hate the politics of working where I work...aaaarrrrrgh. what to do what to do???? I do however like the money and the time off.....hmmm I think I need to win the lottery. Anyhow, if anyone has an idea as to what i could do let me know. I have a few ideas but will have to do a bit more research...................or perhaps this is my midlife crisis and it will pass.

it finally caught me

so i managed to fight the flu off...or so i though. Friday i went to work, feeling ok, slight headache by the end of work but that is the norm lateley. Came home feeling tired so went to bed early.....fast forward to 3am awake and freakin' freezing, shaking I remember being cold but apparently i was "on fire" and slightly delerious according to darren. I yelled a few things, woke up feeling like crap and progressed from there. Needless to say i did not go to work saturday night and there were some not so happy people but believe me i would rather be at work than feeling like crap like i did. Today i am congested but the fever seems to have broke....or so i think-- according to suzie it rears it's ugly head again jsut when you think it is gone.
we are still going back and forth on the flooring and now appear to be back onto laminate.
Also having some issues with painting- I really can't justify paying some guy $3000+ to paint our new place. the claw will be back, i may try spraying though......
hope you all have a good week.

rain rain go away

so it would appear that I am still fighting off the evil sickness....Matthew however is not so lucky. He woke at 5 this morning barking like a seal-if he was younger i would say croup-poor kid-poor me! He always seems to get sick when i have a million things to do...oh well it will be a fun filled day full of nothing......he is a typical sick "boy/man" whiney, pathetic in fact, "wo is me" you would think he was on his last breath. Taryn sick is completely different, she parks herself on the couch with a blanket, juice, book, doll and remote and is good to go.......
hope everyone enjoys their day!

oh before i forget ....guess what i got darren for valentines day?
a new house, hahaaha i crack myself up.
Darren however was very sweet, or sucking up and got me 1 dozen white roses(my fave) and some chocolates.......think he was looking for some action.......too bad it is "the time"

adios!

yuck...

starting to feel yucky, i have been fighting it off for a while now but apparently this is the downward spiral....Taryn had a fever last night and matthew had a cough this morning so you know it is heading my way....

toot for me

so I was extremely excited to do my Guest DT gig for my fave lovebug for 4 months and now I have been asked by another online team to be guest designer for a month-how cool. I will post more info when I know.

there is a challenge now to do a BOM (book of me) at Lovebug. Here is my title page-notice how i managed to do it without a pic of me, hahahha.

We think we have picked our floor for out new house.....think being the operative word. This time we are going with hardwood instead of laminate, leary at first because of the scratches from Row and the kids but we are thinking about an "oiled" hardwood which means it does not have that super glossy look so you don't notice the scratches if there are any....we hope. It is twice as much as laminate but looks so nice it is hard to not get it......ooooooh what's that.......me hemmoraging money.......think we have a tentative layout for the kitchen too-all depends on exact measurements when we get in there.

how cute is this!

Taryn decided she was going to copy a layout from a magazine. She went through the mag and found the perfect layout and then "scraplifted" it.

monday.....

this weekend was a wet one! It rained saturday for Matthew's soccer game and again sunday for Taryn's- i was a drowned rat.
Need to really start to get ready to move-order dumpster for new house, move all utilities etc.....tonight have shower for some of the girls at work...more to follow.....so much to do so little time.........
Am starting a bom (book of me-for all you non-scrappers) not sure how this will go but hopefully will make me step outside my box.....

to pack or not to pack

in a quandry as to wether or not i start to pack now. I don't want to pack too soon and then have to go on the hunt to find stuff but then i also don't want to wait too long........If anyone watches the newshour..sunday night Mike McCardle did a spot which was about my nephew Jackson and his attempts at shooting hoops--so very cute.
that's all for now, off to ponder.....

it's official

It is official! we have now sold our place and bought a new house. All the subjects on both places have now been removed. We take possesion on the 28th of Feb and they take possession of ours on March 14th so we have a few weeks to rip out the ugly carpet etc.

ok so is it sold or not?

apparently when you buy or sell a house certain criteria need to be met....why does it take so damn long to get it all figured out??!! hopefully by tomorrow it will all be done and I can start dealing with the fact that I have to pack all this stuff!! I am quite enjoying my finished house though...and after 3 yrs of waiting it got finished in 1 week!! it has also-amazingly-stayed clean!
Here is a layout I did of matthew snowboarding that I love.....
enjoy your weekend everyone!