The Time Travelers disappointment

I went to see the movie the "The Time Travelers Wife"

It is not at all like the book.
More like a bullet point summary of the book

meh

awanowano (evie speak for watermelon)

great now my blog is haunted.
nice.

horrifically fascinating photos of Victorian era mourning photography.

www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/32946

if you click on the first link in the article (there are more creepy photos) but there is an explanation for why we all have 'living rooms' in our homes.

enjoy!

think happy thoughts.

not a thing

I like teeth

what I like is how they affect speech

I like to observe how people speak and how their mouths move and affect annunciation and pronunciation

When I was young I had a lisp

I still have a slight lisp

I think this is because my front teeth are short

well small

and my tongues slips under them when I say 's'

I used to try and copy other peoples speech patterns

emulate the way their tongues and teeth met, the way the letters were pronounced by their mouths

I thought this was quirky


now I just realize there is a fine line between quirky and creepy

i love tacos

chances are if I know you I have thought about sending you a card

I have thought about it

but did not do it

If you have ever had a birthday, an anniversary, something happy or sad happen

chances are I have had the intention of sending you a card

I like the idea of cards
of writing a thoughtful, poignant statement that captures perfectly the emotion and the precise feeling of a special moment

I am just not so good at the execution

so take heart

If I know you

you are more than likely special enough for me to have thought about sending you a card

establish a forcefield

I have decided to go in some new directions with this blog

here is an example of the directions in which I shall go

I've waited around for hours with grump-mo

Evie is breaking molars.
enough said.


so it looks like the summer is going to be entirely different.
my sister is pregnant and sick. Like, laying on the couch for 6 days solid because if she gets up she throws up, sick.
so my plans will have to change
I have also set a new record. I quit a job before I even started. Normally I wait a few weeks or months then call in sick for a few days and then just call in and casually say that I don't think I will be coming back in. Yeah I've had a lot of crap jobs, and I am REALLY good at quitting. (so if anyone ever needs me to make a few calls....)
but it is sad because I really liked this job and was happy to have it back. Oh well
so now....I get to spend the summer with Evers
which very much a relief. In the end I realized what it was going to take to pull this off and I was scared that it would be too much. This is much easier and far more beneficial to all involved.
well that is it, so now I am free this summer. I can do what I want when I want.
And I am glad to be with Evie.

the hitchhiker told me

so Evie gets her 12 month shots today (gulp)
I know, I know she is 16 months
but I have been avoiding them
plus it takes a month to get an appointment
but I had a gut feeling telling me I needed to wait for some reason
so I followed it
and now it feels ok to get them.

I know it is strange
but with vaccines....you never know

Evie woke up at 6 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep so now I am just killing time waiting for her to get tired again so we can go back to bed. so tired.......

uh i think i ripped my pants...no, i'm good

ok changes
so we sold our car.
it only took 2 days!
crazy
then we were left with no car
so we bought a 2009 jeep patriot last weekend
what a process
car dealerships are frustrating
maybe i will relay that story later, anyway the point is that we now have a vehicle that I can fit in the back seat along with a car seat (or two) hooray!

...and



I got a job!
well I am going back to Heritage Park for the summer
I thought of this before Christmas and thought if this is meant to be then a WHOLE lot of variables have to fall into place
I need someone to take Evie first of all
so Lar (my sister) is going to take Evie for 5 days in the first month, then when the park opens I can work weekends.
So I will have evie mon, tues. Lar will have her wed, thur. Jerm will have her fri, sat, sun.
He is going to take his vacation days and spread them out so he works 4 days a week for 4 months.
so it worked out
good good.
It will be an INSANE 5 months but I think it will be worth it. I will make enough to get out down payment on a house up to where it should be. Heritage park will not be where I could make the most money but I love it there and that is important as I will probably want to quite half way though the summer so being somewhere I love will help to get me through.
So I will enjoy this last month of freedom to do what I want during the day
after that for a while my schedule is set. (gulp)

I can't believe how cold it is again.

ow wow

so Jerm is in California for the week for a work conference type thing. Something about windows drivers. So I am here in Brooks for the week so that Evie and I did not have to get bored staring at only each other all week long.

evie come crash on the floor

so I woke up from a dream the other night that went a little something like this:

I am wandering around a rabbit farm and I see cages of bunnies flapping their floppy ears as hard as they can and I think to myself ' those bunnies are turning into birds; well that's evolution for ya. Damn it!'

in other news don't buy a Sony Bravia LCD tv. We have had ours since for about two weeks now and last night it quit working. Stupid tv. I guess we'll see what kind of a warranty we got.

I should change the book I am said to be reading on my blog. I read about three or four books in between changing what it says I am reading. But I am too lazy on most occasions to change it.

here is a cutie sitting in her very own chair she got for her birthday. She likes to sit in it covered with a blanket and with her favorite stuffed animals. It is funny how we order our worlds at such a young age.

new year?

ok so we made it through Christmas

i only had to go to the ER once to get antibiotics
so it turns out I was struck down with a sinus infection and strep throat. I had been sick off and on for about three weeks and then on boxing day started to feel worse and the next day woke up with a fever of 102.
I had feverish dreams all night long about yelling at people I would say things like 'I'm the one with dark hair and pale skin, I'M THE ONE!"
and " somebody better flood the rink, I'M NOT SKATING IN A SWIMMING POOL!"

so after a delirious day and night my mom finally made me go to the hospital and see a doctor.
and so I missed Christmas.
awww stink.

christmas steve will find me, where the love lights shine

so Evie has been dealing with eczema for a while now and for a baby that is tough. Plus it has been all around her face circling her eyes and mouth, and her skin is always raw and irritated. So we went to get her some food allergy testing ( and me as well because my eczema was raging all over my arms and hands ) and it turns out that she has sensitives to Dairy, yeast, wheat and sugar and so am I. So that leaves nothing to eat. Haha, no I am just joking. Some members of my family deal with various food allergies and they eat this way all the time, we have been heading down that path for about the last year now but needed something to take the plunge. Evie having food sensitivies did it for me. So she is totally off bread, dairy and other various things. Her face started to clear up within days of this. She is also on a heavy dose of probiotic bacteria. She likes goats milk, and we have no yeast added kamut bread with olive oil and natural peanut butter for breakfast. We have switched all of our pasta to rice pasta. There is a world of food out there for people with allergies and most of it far healthier than what we were eating before. (we can still eat the old stuff, just not too much of it so don't be afraid to invite us to your houses for dinner)
it is strange how food conscious I became when Evie started eating with us, and now even more. It feels good to know I am taking care of myself and her.
(jerm is still not totally on board, he likes his toast and butter)

a tooth! a tooth! My kingdom for a tooth!

So Evie cut her first tooth this weekend. Yes you heard me, her first tooth. She is 14 months old and this is her first tooth. It is a relief, I had this strange thought that maybe she would never get teeth and then we would have to buy dentures for a 5 year old. She did well enough without teeth, even taking hunks of chicken and beef and gumming them down to swallowable pieces. I am sure going to miss that gummy smile.

This weekend was the butt. All three of us were sick. Evie and I had been sick most of the week and then on friday night I was taken down again, an on saturday Jerm succumbed to illness. So we spent the weekend laying on the couch watching movies and just relaxing and playing with Evie. We all have colds. But I guess there was not much else we could have done this weekend while living in the north pole.

sure can start

so so so
I have been tagged to share my influences

1. RMC- specifically Dr. Joyce Peasgood, who took me from a world of black and white to a world of colour
2. Jeremy. It is kind of weird that I have known my husband since I was just a teenager. I have grown up in his presence and he has taught me what a person of character, intelligence, peace and kindness looks like and lives like.
3. The movies- I know that if I ever meet a future version of myself the space time continuum might be interrupted and I may find myself in an alternate future. I also know that Irish catholic firefighters lead the bravest, richest, fullest lives.
4. Theology- the intellectual pursuit of God
5. Spirituality- Combined with the above this is the pursuit of my life. The very central thing I know I am to do on this planet is to study these two things and let them seep into every area of my mind and soul. This is where I found myself. This is who I am called to be.

your lips taste better than your hair

'shall we talk to our friends today, it would be so much fun to talk in such a friendly way until the day is done.'

that phrase is playing over and over and over in the background as Evie got a phone that calls winnie the pooh. horray!

we went to the zoo today, it was a really good day.
we have tried to go to the zoo as often as possible this fall, so we have been going about every other week. It is a really great place to hang out. If you are looking for evidence that Calgary is going through a baby boom just go to the zoo on a weekday.

mon-day bloody mon-day

oh wait
that's Sunday.

well I am finally back home. I was in Brooks for about 2 weeks just making the rounds visiting and such. I had not been home for a few months and felt like I needed a long visit.
Evie and I have been grocery shopping this morning
now she is napping and I am painting my toenails purple.
Evie is now 1
it seems it does not agree with her as she has decide that now would be a good time to start throwing temper tantrums
sometimes she screams and sometimes she just flops onto the floor. The flopping is funny, the screaming not so much.
she is also turned around in a toddler car seat and she seems to not enjoy this as much as she did her backwards baby car seat. I can tell by the random blood curdling screams that she does not like the sun in her eyes so much.

call the coast guard

so Evie and I went swimming today.
We try to go swimming every week, there is a parent and tot cheep swim at Cardel Place which is by our house. Normally it is $11 to swim and Evie is free, but on parent and tot day (mon. and wed. mornings) I am free and Evie is $3.75. Cheaper is better.
Lar and Selah come with us every week too.
Evie is a strange little girl, she has absolutely no fear of the water she will just wade in until it is over her head and then try and sit down. When I yank her out she smiles and laughs and thinks it is a game. So she does it over and over. She also jumps off the edge into the water and goes under every time, she loves it and sits on the edge smiling and babbling to herself until I pull her off and into the water she goes again.
Apparently when I was 2 I jumped into a hotel pool by myself. I had no fear of the water. I was alright and this did not deter me from loving swimming. (I used to be a lifeguard) I have this image of an underwater pool light and I think that it stems from this incident. It must be my first memory.
Well it is good to know Evie has inherited my love for swimming hopefully she will be good at it. I have tried to teach Jerm to swim for about 8 years now and he just sinks (literally, he can't get the strokes and can't blow water out under the water, he come up sputtering every time) he tries hard but I have given up on him. I will turn my attention to our offspring to make sure they survive any water related disasters.

miss teen world my word

so Evie is sick today.
this is the very first time in her life she has been sick. I count that as a year long lucky streak. She is not too grumpy as long as she has some Tylenol in her. Other than that her sickness consists of rubbing her runny nose over everything and rubbing her face violently with her hands, nothing we can't handle.
I stood in line at superstore today for half a bloody hour to get groceries for dinner. Superstore and saturday night does not make for a great date.

it was the best of times it was the blurst of times

so jerm has started hockey again.
which is why I am sitting here alone at 10 on Thursday night.
I think I will go to bed.

I told jerm that he better really really enjoy hockey.
because it is bloody expensive
($400) a winter, for one game a week.
and I am alone while he goes out

last year he decided that he would not play hockey
well it was a good decision as we had a newborn, but this year with Evie in bed at 8 every night I guess there was no reason not to play.

you can buy new things but you can't buy a new party

Yes jerm, in response your comment I am, in fact, planning to get rid of you when you are 78. I don't think I could ever bring myself to be married to an octogenarian. I hope you have an even bigger life insurance policy then, cause I am planning to travel the world with our pool boy Ramirez after that. We will have pool boy by then won't we? Oh yeah lets get a pool boy.