A Deck of me.....

I am slowly working my way through a 'Deck of me'......

http://embers.typepad.com/e/mini_art_journal_challenge/index.html

You are supposed to alter one card a week following the prompts on the blog and then amke a case or bag for the cards.....Anam had the idea to do this in a journal instead and the desk/ rolladeck that I bought to alter had the perfect number of pages for this, so I am using this to do my pages.......above are the pages I have done so far..........

some recent layouts

Here are a few of the layouts I have done recently - I don't 'think' I've posted them before but apologies if I have!!! I can't be bothered to check lol! The SHAMU layout I did today :)

Definitely better!

Sam sam today........yep...definitely better.....

No visitors..

I love to have people come to stay - this summer we will have so many visitors and I really enjoy it.....BUT it's also nice to ahve the house to yourself again once the visitors leave......

Dan has gone now for a few days - he is stayng with my friends Daughter Bobbi - at her apartment downtown.....he has been a penfriend (via email) for a few years now and they get on great......so he is staying with her for a few days - and I told him that if he is uncomfortable at ANY time or just wants to come back then he can just call and we will go and get him - I know he will be fine and have a great time but I wanted him to know.....and I also told him that if he loves it there and wants to stay longer then just to let us know and thats fine too......I'm sure he is bored hanging out in the middle of nowhere with a sick 2 year old lol! He will have more fun downtown with people his age!

Anyway, all that aside...I am looking forward to being able to soak in the bath tonight with the door wide open...flop on the sofa in just my nighty.......and possibly even (lol) noisy sex!!!! hahahahaha! There are just some things ya can't do when ya have visitors rotflmao!!!!!

Congratulations

A HUGE congratulations to Daniel - who is now an EX smoker!!!! He hasn't had a cigarette since Saturday morning...and as Bobbi is very anti-smoking, I don't think he will be smoking in the next few days with her either!!! :)

He says he hasn't even missed it really and did warn us he may be grouchy but I haven't noticed it!!! I guess the change of scene and all the fresh air has helped.....

Well done Dan!!!

tired.

I can barely stay awake today......these tablets are awful....if I take them even half an hour late I am knocked out for the whole of the next day :( so so sleepy today :(

My eyes ache from tiredness.

Luckily Sam is doing better today - right now he is outside on the porch playing in the sandbox....just the other side of the window from me....I really should go outside and do some yard work but I'm too tired.....I've done some laundry, vacuumed, changed like a million diapers on Sam today (YUCK!) and cleaned the kitchen etc....I took Abigail to preschool and then when I went to get her at lunchtime, I tok Dan and Sam and we drove all down by the lake and showed him the airport there and the village...the school and the golf course etc etc...he checked the mailbox for me and then we came home.....he is now making Kraft dinner for himself (again lol) but this time with less help (hahahahahaha he is soooo nervous about even making Kraft dinner lol....."Jane the waters bubbling what do I do????" "Jane how do I know when the pasta is ready?" too funny!

This afternoon I have to drive Dan into town where he is meeting Bobbi - then he is going to stay with Bobbi for a few days in Edmonton..tonight they are wtaching her Planet Earth dvd's and making banana bread.........tomorrow he has a job interview!!!!!! Its at a company that makes artificial limbs.....so yesterday Lloyd went and bought Dan some new pants (trousers) - khaki ones for work - and he now has a dark blue shirt and brown shoes to wear....all set....he doesn't need a suit or tie for this interview but jeans were TOO casual....

So this week he gets to experience city life in Canada.....mingling with the office workers and students downtown and on Whyte Ave etc...and also see the museum, WEM and a few other things........and spend time with a 20 year old instead of us old fogies in this mad house :)

Tonight I think Lloyd and I are going out for dinner......but I am so tired I may change it to tomorrow night instead....

I have such a huge to do list - things I WANT to do......pages to scrapbook, things to alter, even decluttering my closet etc......but I never seem to have the time or energy lately......I ahven't even read any of my current novel for AGES......I hate these new tablets BUT I haven't had a migraine for a week! So which is better no meds but endless migraines and having to pop Imitrex instead OR no migraines BUT taking 4 tablets a day minimum that make you really sleepy?????? Like REALLY sleepy.......

Hopefully the sleepy side effect will wear off.

He's better!!!

Sam is back to his adorable annoying-drive-me-crazy self!!!! Rushing around on Lightning McQueen and saying 'nope' to everything.....

Canadian foods.....

Here are the packets of Kraft dinner and Goldfish.....Kraft dinner is like Mac and cheese BUT its in a packet and is kind of the equivelant of a pot noodle - in that it is ultra fast food for kids.....Lloyd refuses to eat it and doesn't buy it for the kids either - but Susie likes it and eats it at friends homes...the boys think it is gross....I think it is ok and when I have eaten it in the past, I have always mixed veg into into so its a little more nutritious......standard Kraft Dinner is something like 9 points for half a cup or something ridiculous - or so a friend once told me!

Goldfish are little tiny crackers shaped like fish and some of them have a smile baked into the...you can get them in flavours like bacon and salt and vinegar and also can get coloured ones and jumbo ones......Sam also has a little goldfish shaped tupperware type pot that he keeps his in! Most toddlers eat goldfish and most moms keep baggies of them with them when they are out for snacks....

I'm not keen on either of these foods....