A Rock It Man...

Family Guy has soooo many layers. I thought Stewie was just making fun of Elton John.

(sorry about the quality)


Until I came across this:

Just about died. 

Conversation with Ian over lunch.

(for reference, B is a kid in our neighborhood, one Travis and I don't particularly like)

Ian: B's blood is all over the court.
Me: Why, did he hurt himself?
Ian: Nope. He puked blood. He puked it all over the court.
Me: Did he hurt himself first?
Ian: No. He just puked blood.
Ian: He puked blood and I rode my bike over it and now his DNA is on my bike.
Me: (laughing) What's DNA?
Ian: It's something in your body that makes you go or something.
Me: OK.
Ian: B said that his DNA is on my bike so it's his bike now.
Me: (not laughing anymore) Well next time he says that you tell him that he's full of baloney and it ...
Ian: (interrupting) And then I should kick his ass?
Me: (trying not to laugh) NO!! You shouldn't hit other kids!! Just tell him that's a load of baloney and it's your bike.
Ian: And then just ride away.
Me: Right! (and then I came over here to transcribe before I forgot. My lunch is still on the table so I better eat it!)

Someone's poking me.... and it is not on Facebook!

I'm at 16 weeks now. I've been thinking I might be feeling some movement for the last week or so, and I have now decided that that's what it is. Just a little flutter here and there but still pretty cool!

I have a doctor's appointment today. We are all going to go together because he is going to try to find the heartbeat. I am pretty excited! I have been having a lot of nerve pain in my rear end as well, so I am planning on asking if there are any recommended ways to alleviate that. Sometimes I can hardly walk, and it is getting worse all the time. I find walking helps a bit, so I try not to sit still for too long. But bending or squatting makes it worse, so I try not to do any housework (that's my excuse, anyways.)

I have also been getting ginormous. I haven't really put on much weight.... I lost 5lbs or so after the holidays and then put it back on, so I am pretty much breaking even there. However, I only have one pair of jeans that fits. I went to the mall yesterday to try on maternity clothes, because I wanted to not feel fat for a few minutes. I will go shopping next week probably and pick up a few things, and then I will take a picture. I just can't put a big fat picture up right now. I don't mind looking pregnant, but I hate looking fat.

Ian seems pretty blase about the whole situation. When we advised him he was going to be a big brother, his response was "but Mom, you can't have a baby! You don't have any milk in your boobies!" Travis and I just looked at each other and laughed. That was the last thing we expected him to say!

We are planning on getting the spare room cleaned out first, then painting it green with some bug decals (caterpillars, dragonflies, butterflies, ladybugs etc) I want to do kind of a meadow theme. Maybe some birds and frogs too. This is a huge ongoing project as we have been using that bedroom as a storage room since Ian moved into the bigger room. I don't know where we will put people now when guests come.

So I think for right now, I am going to eat some breakfast and then do a few things around here. It is green bin day, so I think I should clean out the fridge. Exciting way to spend my day off!

Recieved via Email today

Canada Post has created a stamp with a picture of the Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The stamp is not sticking to envelopes. This enrages the Prime Minister, who demands a full investigation. After a month of testing and spending of $4.1 million, a special commission presents the following findings:

1. The stamp is in perfect order.
2. There is nothing wrong with the adhesive.
3. People are spitting on the wrong side of the stamp

Things are going to change around here.

November, eh. That was a while back. I think this has to be some kind of a record for me! However, I was crazy busy. My mom and my sister Jenni came out for Christmas. It was a short but fun visit. Add the craziness of the holidays to the craziness of trying to find space for everyone to stay and it adds up to UBERCRAZINESS!!!

In January I went to Edmonton to surprise my Mom for her 50th birthday. We surprised her with me, a spa day, a suite at the Hilton, and a huge party with tons of family there. It was a great weekend! I got to see cousins I hadn't seen in years, and it was so nice to get together on a happy occasion. I also had a chance to see my sister Adrienne's new house and her new baby Tyler. Both her kids are cute as buttons and she certainly has her hands full. I also got to meet Jenni's boyfriend Lonny. I can absolutely get along with him, and he seems like a lot of fun.

Then I found out I am expecting a baby on September 25.

In February Travis went to the west coast to help with harbour patrol for the Vancouver Olympics. We really missed him here, especially since the babysitter took my whole paycheck while he was gone. Ugh.

But he made it back alive and now we have a major house-rearranging project to occupy us for the next few months. Plus I am trying to work some extra hours to make up for February and also save some up for the future.

I will try to keep everyone updated!!

Sincerely, Leoal!

(ps: did you see how I just snuck that in there?)

John Coltrane

I put the whole music list on and now Miles Davis and John Coltrane is on. I don't listen to much Jazz music, but I like this. It makes me want to learn to play a bass so I can play in tiny dingy clubs at night and wear sunglasses and hang with really cool artsy people.

Except I can't read music. Or play the bass. And I don't really want to start smoking, because if you are going to play jazz music on a bass in tiny dingy clubs, you have to smoke while you are doing it.

Oh hey.... Finger 11! This makes me want to......

On growing up

When I grow up, I am going to bake cookies whenever I want.

Even when I really don't want to make cookies. Even when I actually just want to eat cookie dough and watch tv. And the baking part is just kind of an annoying inconvenience to me, so I just make two pans full of big cookies and stick them both in the oven at the same time and take some dough and go watch the tv. And I forget to set the oven timer and burn the whole batch.

I wish I could be a little girl forever.




When I grow up I am going to drive a car wherever I like. Cool places like road trips and holidays.

And places like work, and home, and grocery shopping, and work, and home, and grocery shopping, and the ga$ $tation, and to the dealer$hip for tire$ and oil change$ and oh, it needs a new tran$mi$$ion you $ay? And how about the battery dies and I decide to jump it with my van and set both vehicles on fire at once?

I wish I could be a little girl forever.



When I grow up I am going to buy cool things like cups and plates to put in my own kitchen cupboards wherever I want.

Only it seems like the only things I buy go either in the laundry room or the fridge. And in order to put stuff in the fridge I need to clean the icky stuff out of the fruit drawer. And then I look down at my tubby self and decide that this week, I will definitely eat the fruit I bought.

I wish I could be a little girl forever.



When I grow up, I will be able to read as long as I like and nobody will tell me I have to stop to go to school or eat supper or do the dishes or anything.

And every time I read for a while the boy gets cranky because he's been watching TV all day long and the husband gets cranky because I am not paying any attention to him and sometimes I wonder if I aimed this book just right if I could knock them both out with one shot... but it doesn't matter anyways because I have to go to work.

I wish I could be a little girl forever.



When I grow up I am going to have a baby just like my doll that I can dress up and lay down in its crib and cuddle and burp.

And I can change his diapers and poo will squirt all over the place and he can cry all night for no reason. And as soon as he learns to walk he can knock his teeth out on a window sill and then one night he can puke all over his bed so I clean him up and put him in my bed and he pukes all over my bed too so we go sleep on the couch and he pukes all over that too but it's ok for daddy because he's sailing that week. And when he's bigger he can push the hazard button in the car which causes the battery to go dead which prompts me to try and boost it with the van. And then he can natter on endlessly about what's 8 plus 2 and doesn't a 2 look like an upside down 5 and also doesn't a 6 look like an upside down 9 and how do houses turn into rocket ships and please stop talking for five minutes please. And then he snuggles up to me, and winds his arms around my neck and says I love you mostly all the way to the whole sky and gives me a kiss right on the lips.

I wish he could be a little boy forever.