Feb 27, 2007

Thrilling read....................

You have to read this fabulously exciting, extremely modest and intellectual blog :)

www.dvbstyle.com/news/index.html

Ok so my url button thingy is still giving me hell lol so you will have to cut and paste the link ........sorry!!!

click on 'blog' to the left to read all the fascinating info......


And um yes er I am being EXTREMELY sarcastic.....

Does this girl love herself or WHAT????

Surely with all that money she could be living a more worthwhile and less self-centred life???????

Bookworm................




I like to be surrounded by books and magazines............everywhere! I have four full bookshelves like this in my sitting room and four in my study......and I also have a big basket of magazines in the sitting room.....a pile of books by my bed at all times and drawers and cupboards (and a closet) full of magazines.......

My idea of comfy...............






My idea of comfy........curling up on my bed on all my pillows with my soft throw and a pile of good books by my bed......

Or curling up on my big chair with my quillow.......and when it gets cold I can unfold my quillow and turn it into a snug quilt.....

I have throws on all my sofas, beds and chairs.....I loft soft and warm throws...in all colours :)

conked out.................



Sam collapsed and fell asleep on the sofa this afternoon.....and typical guy he fell asleep with the remote controls from the tv......reminds me of his Grandfather (sorry Dad lol!)

My Laurie.....




Laurie seems to be back to his usual happy self tonight thankfully :) My Mum phoned today to ask how he was and said she rushed out and bought him a magazine to make him feel better :)

Susie dancing




Susannah is at dance class at the moment, but here she is dancing to Little Bitty when she got home from school!

Afternoon naps could be a good thing............

I am so sleepy...still haven't woken up today...I blame Daisy!!! I mentioned to Daisy on her blog that I was feeling so energetic lately and thought I had her energy too.....well blah! Today I am just so so tired....

Laurence and Susannah will be home in about ten minutes...Christopher is going to friends house for a few hours instead of coming straight home....

Dinner is in the oven ready for the oven to be switched on at 4pm. We are having baked potatoes......Last night I made the MOST INCREDIBLE Hemp Salad............it was a mixture of salad greens with diced peppers, tuna fish and cheese mixed in and then I mixed in a LOT of hemp seeds......I wasn't sure how it would taste but it was really good and a huge hit with everyone - so much so that Susannah asked if we could have it again tonight. Last night we had new (baby) potatoes with it and tonight we are having baked potatoes. I may do cheesy beans with Lloyds instead. It is a salad high in Omega 3 and Omega 6 oils because of both the tuna AND the hemp seeds.

While the potatoes are baking I may soak in the bath and read some more of The Girls.

My Mum phoned today and said that my package had arrived...she says she read the first page of The Glass Castle and now can't wait until bed time so she can start reading it properly! I hope she likes it...I feel a bit like Debbie with her 'The Color Purple'

We put all the garbage out this morning and it was still there at lunchtime...and then I remembered that we had Family Day last week so the garbage men won't come until Wednesdays now...so I brought 2 bags back to the garage and they can go down to the box tomorrow. If there are too many bags in the box it won't close properly and then wild animals (and the dogs) tear into all the bags and make a mess......

I subscribed to my magazine by the way! Two years of Creating Keepsakes :) It says to wait 4 - 6 weeks to get your first issue so I am not sure whether I should buy the March issue or not....

I found a writers retreat I would love to go to....Lloyd said he would take the week off if I wanted to go...it's in New Mexico. I don't think I will though.....maybe next year! Its a womens only retreat and sounds wonderful! It is said to really inspire you to get writing! Lloyd is always encouraging me to write...he doesn't want me to go out to work but I know he would love for me to write from home and get published.......I haven't written anything for a few months though.....I used to belong to a writers group and I enjoyed the feedback and support.....maybe I will do something like that again.

Well, I am off to get a snack ready for when the children walk in the door!

Bye for now!

For Susannah..........



Little Bitty by Alan Jackson.....Susannah is dancing to this song with her tapdancing class at her Spring recital.....I've seen her dance to it already and I love the way she flicks her head at certain points....they have to hold their cowboy hats and wear cowboy style clothing :) It's going to be good :)

Charlynn!

Did you read todays Farmgirl Fare post??????? Isn't it wonderful???? I want her life!!!


EVERYONE go on over to Farm Girl Fare and read todays blog post :)

Its wonderful! Just wonderful!

Mornings.....strikes......fat fish and subscriptions....

I have been awake since 6am when Sam decided it was time for the day to begin, but I still don't feel properly 'awake'.....

Last night was nice....Lloyd is working every evening atm...here at home but it means he is sat at the dining table with his laptop each evening.....but that suits me fine because I sit with him and scrapbook....Last night I did another 3 layouts for my Disney album and I worked on my Easter paper bag albums.....I am really pleased with how they look so far :)

I had the boys bring up my scrapbooking drawers yesterday and I decluttered them all.....now I can finally see what supplies I really have amongst all the scraps and junk I had been hoarding!

So now Tuesday is here. I just got back from taking Abigail to preschool and chatting with the other Moms...some of them seem really nice......one invited me to her Partylite party next week so I may go along to that....their tealights smell so good!

I have a big pile of Abigails 'school work' to go through that I found in the scrapbook drawers....at the time I was using some of the drawers for homeschool supplies....

The schoolboard had given me the kindergarten curriculum for Abigail last year which she had mainly worked through but there is still some she can go through in the afternoons and the days when she doesn't have preschool......

Her typing is so good now....she can't read much but she can spell really well which seems odd to me lol....I really should focus more on her reading ability...she can type away on the computer and type in all our names and everything....

I think I may subscribe to Creating Keepsakes magazine for 2 years...I was showing it to Lloyd last night...you can save something like $150 or more if you subscribe for two years.......it works out to just over $3 an issue compared to $9 an issue when I buy them in the store.....if they can sell them for that price then why do they put the price up so ridiculously??????

Abigail tried to kill her fish today.....with kindness...she over fed it.....poor thing...so I ended up having to remove half the water to get the food out and then top it up again and I have now hidden the food....she killed all our fish a few years back by tipping in the whole pot of food...I thought she had learned by now...although she did say it was an accident and she thought the pot of food had a little pouring hole rather than just the big pot which makes sense I guess....she will be feeding Goldie under supervision from now on.

So, my list of things to do today are:

sort out Abigails work folder
sort 2 baskets of laundry and pack Sams away in his closet
read yesterdays Edmonton Journal
collect Abigail from preschool
make tomorrows lunches
take girls to ballet and pick them up

The rest of the day is my own :)

Talking of school, I am really fed up with the strike issue in the Parkland area......basically the Parkland School Board teachers have been on strike for almost 2 weeks now...for shorter hours, more pay and a few other reasons that they give so the public might feel a little sympathy (isn't it ALWAYS for the good of the students??? grrrrr)

The teachers say they will not go back to the negotiating table unless the school board is willing to reduce the hours the teachers work.....but the schoolboard say there is nothing they can do about the hours.....

You know what though...teachers have ALWAYS worked long hours.....when you go into teaching you know it is not the greatest paying job out there...you KNOW the hours are long....you know you ahve to work through recesses and after school and before school and mark papers into the evening etc etc....you KNOW this.....

Yes teachers (usually) do a great job but thats what it is - a JOB......a choice they made!!!!

I do NOT like that bald guy who is head of the Union...to me he comes across as a real SHIT STIRRER who is doing nothing to help the problem and like one parent said this morning, it is more of a personality clash between the two sides than anything else.

Yesterday hundreds of parents and students picketed AGAINST the strike......many students have exams coming up and they are missing vital classes.....working parents are struggling to find childcare.............

The whole situation is starting to piss me off and it isn't even my childrens school board involved!

I am not particularly supportive of Unions anyway and do not approve of strikes....I know some very pro-union people but will have to agree to disagree because I am anti strike and anti union.

To me its a choice thing...like the forces.....yes Lloyds friend is in Iraq atm and my BIL is off to Afghanistan soon BUT when you sign up to join the forces that is the CHOICE you make...you KNOW that is what the job involves......

That said, I do think there should be a 'get out clause' in the forces when you get married....the forces are so very much a single persons career.....I think many young single people sign up and join the forces and don't think ahead to when they are married and have families......

ok getting off my soapbox :)
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