I'm an Impatient Doofus

Well, I guess I am impatient, 'cause when I was trying to get the pics to download onto my last entry, it was taking too long (by my standards) and I thought it wasn't working, so I cancelled it and now I had to make the pics a whole new post. Oops!

Thank you Ralph!

Well, my family all got their Prosperity cheques from the gov't! For those of you who aren't either a happy Albertan or a pissed the rest of Canada, or Priemier, Ralph Klein has gotten us out of debt, and managed for our government to have a surplus. He decided to share it with the people who paid the money in the first place, so we all got a cheque for $400 per person in your household.
So, I promptly went out and bought a digital camera, and the protable little printer that goes with it! No I didn't go crazy and buy the most expensive one. I got a little Canon Powershot A520. It works for me since I am a digital virgin. I do love that I get to print out only the pics I want to scrapbook, which will bring down some of the clutter in my scrap booking room. Which I am posting pics of.
I have been trying to clean it up and get it organized for the past few months, but it just keeps getting more and more things deposited into the expanse of junk! I am hoping that by posting the pics it will make me accontable (on a pretty large scale!) to get it done.
Since I got my digital camera here is a picture of me from yesterday. I was very tempted to photo shop it, but I didn't. Unfortunately this is the real me!

Gone to the movies, alone...

I know most people have a problem going out alone like shopping, the movies or especially to a restauraunt. Last night I had to go get groceries. I don't think I ever would get groceries on a Sunday night, except for the fact that I had started a shopping trip on Saturday (with all three kids in reluctant tow) and while examining somehting on the lowest shelf, I had to crouch down. My jeans split. I have continuously tried convincing myself that it wasn't because I am fat. But why else does ones jeans split in the rear? Needless to say I went directly home.
Anyway, I had to go back to the Leduc to do my shopping. I was actually lucky 'cause Trevor was home to stay with the kids. So, making sure I had a sweater to tie around my waist if need be, I started my shopping. First to Wal-Mart, then I stopped at Tim Horton's ( I heard they are being sold to some guy from the states) for a sandwich and a coffee. Then I headed to Sobey's to get the reaminder of my groceries. During this time I had been hatching a plan to delay my trip long enough that I could go to the moives. I had read what was playing in the Friday paper. So I sat in the Sobey's parking lot awhile, ate my sandwich, drank my coffee , read a magazine I bought at Wal-Mart (if you didn't already know, it is official Angelina is pregnant!). I wasted about 45 mins doing this, went into the store and got my groceries. I called Trevor on my way into the store and let him know my plan.
So I went to a movie on a Sunday night all by myself. I don't think ti is a big deal. But when I tell people I get comments like "You went by yourself?" "Where was Trevor?" "I would've went with you." My sister can't believe that I would go somewhere like a movie by myself. She says she would be embarassed. I wonder if she thinks I care if people think I am alone. My God, alone, think of that... That means nobody telling me what to do, what they want, what they need! I have gone to the movies by myself 3 or 4 times. Each time was kinda spur of the moment, but if I had made plans with someone else I would've had to go to a movie they wanted to see, made sure they could go at the same time I could, maybe they would've invited anoterh person, if Trevor came I would've needed a babysitter, etc. This way I was the only person to please. I got to make all the calls. Yes, I enjoyed myself. I saw Family Stone, a good movie with an awesome cast, and I didn't have to share my popcorn.
My question is, would you go to a movie by yourself?

Batman Begins

Apparently I didn't pay too much attention to what I was typing in my rant last entry. The movie that I rented was Batman Begins, not Batman Returns. It is definately the BEST Batman movie yet!
The old movies were too cartooney. Chritian Bale was super hot and totally nailed the part! I adore Michael Cane too.
I truly hope that they go ahead with redoing all the other Batman movies with Christian as Bruce Wayne.
I appreciate the quote " Why do we fall?" "So we can learn to pick ourselves up." It is one that is especially relevent in my life.

Yeah, yeah, I know we all need our "space"!

Here is the pic of the kids in front of our WT Family Christmas tree that I promised, but could not get to post to my last entry...

So, here I am Saturday night before the Monday when it all starts again! The kids I babysit M,W, F will be back (ages 9 months and 3 yrs), my kids start school on Monday, (normally I would be thrilled but this just means that the home work arguements start, waking up to be a short order breakfast chef, packing lunches that nobody likes, etc.), I start back to teaching Playschool on Tuesday, and though I have been doing it during the "holidays" on top of it all I will still be doing the cleaning at the office twice a week.
This last week of "Holidays" was all about me and two outta three of my kids (huh, that theme sure resonates around here!), being sick with all kinds of infections that include symptoms of hacking like we've all smoked for thirty odd years. Which I swear none of us have. Maybe Justine is a closet smoker, but I have no actual proof yet. And my sweet husband picks this week to be his "I need space week'.
It comes around on a regular basis. He basically avoids home and all its luxuries, which automatically includes me. It always seems like circumstance, a hockey game to play, goes over to his mom and dad's to watch a game, watched a movie at home (but didn't say two words to me that night), then went to our old room mates to watch the Juniors (we won apparently), last night he played Ps2 directly after supper , even though I had rented us a movie (Batman returns, they were out of Wedding Crashers), so I gave up on the movie and went to bed at 11:30 (really late for me!), and first thing this morning he was packin' his stuff for yet another hockey game!
What I want to understand is this a reaction to forcing himself to spend time with me and its all he can stand, and he has to be break away? Or once he has had his "own" time he feels he can offer himself more freely. Either way it sucks and I am not sure how to deal with it! I thought I was the all or nothing person.

I Did My Holiday Baking Yesterday!

I was so behind in all my Holiday plans, that I ended up doing my baking yesterday. Yes it was January 1st! Oh, well, at least I did it, right?
We lived through all the Christmas concerts, family get togethers, and the unrelenting flus, colds and fevers. We even went shopping on Boxing Day (with the kids in tow). Nuts, yes! But now I have my Eliptical Trainer and we have a Playstation 2 with ten games! I am a little jealous of all the time Trevor and the boys are spending on the PS2, mostly 'cause I don't feel I have had my fair share of game time! But soon enough, Trevor will be back at work and the boys will be in school, then I will have plenty of time to waste on something that really has no purpose.
I am attaching a couple pictures of the kids in front of our White Trash Family Christmas tree.
I know of some "Muffy type moms" who won't hang their kids ornaments and the kids don't get to lay a finger on the tree. I couldn't imagine taking that away from my kids. Without kids the whole spirit of Christmas is lost, if you take away these small moments from them, what do they have left. It may sound dramatic, but I believe that these small things is how they hang on to their innocence. If they don't feel special enough to be allowed to help decorate the family Christmas tree with the decorations that they painstakingly created, where does that leave them in terms of importance to the world.
Whoa, I got deep there for a moment, huh?
Anyway, what I am trying to say is that Christmas is for the kids, don't take any part of it away from them!
Happy New Year, this one's gonna be GREAT!