Everything old is new again.

Tonight the hubby and I (mostly hubby) decided enough was enough and formatted our hard drive.  Over the last couple years the computer has contracted things and  we’ve hacked away at it leaving it quite limited in some respect’s.  We did one final back up tonight and In my haste I forgot to save my bookmarks and address book.  I’m so sad. 
Those two lists took me years to amass and organize just the way I liked them.  I feel like I’m walking around my computer with blinders on.  Please people, if you have emailed me in the past, send me another quick note to say Hi so I can add you once again, into my address book.  That would make me so happy, like Christmas all over again.

It’s crazy how technology effect our everyday lives. 
When our computer is in the shop, I nearly have a fit before I resign myself to the laundry.  Even after resigning myself to chores, I walk up and stare at the gaping hole where our CPU would normally sit.  I know, I know, I’m sick.
    The good news is that our computer is LIGHTING FAST now- everything is running at peak momentum, it’s amazing. 
    I love starting fresh.  Wouldn’t it be nice if you could do that to your house?  Well, I guess you could but it would probably be called a house fire and land you in jail for Arson.

~jen

Words of Wednesday.

Neat.

I’ve been wandering around my house lately looking at the state it’s in and feeling a tad bit overwhelmed.  Over the last several months of sickness I’ve let the place get really out of hand.  I don’t even know where to start.
     I’ve been watching this show called "Neat" on HGTV (my favourite channel!).  Even though my rooms don’t necessarily look like the out of control chaos featured on that show- they are out of control.  My husband comes from the cleaning school of ‘Out of sight, out of mind’ where as I come from the school of "a place of everything and everything in it’s place" even if that place tends to be a basket above the fridge.  Between the both of us, our house is a jumbled mess. 
    Half the time we go out and buy something we already own because we can’t find the one we already own. 
    You would never guess from first glance the mess the house is in, the house is relatively ‘put together‘, even though it has it’s moments, I do have two children under 5 after all.  But it’s the ORGANIZATION I need help with.  Due to our house being on the smaller side our storage is lacking.  I actually have a lot of places to put stuff but I can’t figure out the hows and wheres on my own.  I need the lady from Neat- Hellen Buttigieg!!  I seriously considered hiring someone to come in and give me a full day of organizing help… I’m not kidding.  But I haven’t found anything in my town yet.
    What I’m doing in the meantime, while waiting for Helen to return my calls, is pick a spot that is bugging me and once every other day purge that spot and try to organize it as best as I can.  Yesterday was our coat rack and front closet.  It doesn’t necessarily look any better than before I started but I know that it’s organized and I would be able to find my shoes and sewing stuff if I had to.  That makes me feel good.  Next zone is under the bathroom sink.

I’ll keep you updated on my progress.
Come on Helen, I’m waiting!!!!

~jen
p.s. for those of you wondering how Suz is doing- she’s great.  Her doctor appointments and U/S went great and now she’s off to North Dakota on holidays.  Have fun!!

Get to know me Saturday.

Since I’m spending some time at Suzanne’s today, watching the kids, I thought i’d blog a little ‘get to know me’ post.  I haven’t done this for awhile and it may be interesting for the people who don’t know me and for the people who think they do.

1. I don’t like dark rooms, I love a lot of lighting.
2. I love museums.
3. I love writing letters to people and sending cards.
4. I’m supposed to wear glasses but rarely put them on.
5. I think I have nice feet and ankles.
6. I wish I had gone farther with figure skating.
7. I used to buy 4 CD’s every week.
8. I don’t thank my friends and family enough for all they do for me.
9. I like vaccuming, hate laundry.
10. Appreciate a good book.
12. Love coloring in my daughter’s coloring books.
13. I love taking photographs.  Thousands of photographs.
14. Love my hubby’s ‘Go get ‘em’ attitude.
15. I eat ‘cinnimon bun’ flavoured oatmeal every morning.
16. Can’t get enough of my daughters hair, washing, combing it or braiding it.
17. I used to LOVE running and would run for 45 minutes a day.
18. I love baking.
19. I wish I recycled more.
20. I love my dog.

I had a much better list planned out in my head but of course forgot all of it once I sat down at the computer. 
I should run- Dinner has arrived (Thanks Suz!)

~jen

Get to know me Saturday.

Since I’m spending some time at Suzanne’s today, watching the kids, I thought i’d blog a little ‘get to know me’ post.  I haven’t done this for awhile and it may be interesting for the people who don’t know me and for the people who think they do.

1. I don’t like dark rooms, I love a lot of lighting.
2. I love museums.
3. I love writing letters to people and sending cards.
4. I’m supposed to wear glasses but rarely put them on.
5. I think I have nice feet and ankles.
6. I wish I had gone farther with figure skating.
7. I used to buy 4 CD’s every week.
8. I don’t thank my friends and family enough for all they do for me.
9. I like vaccuming, hate laundry.
10. Appreciate a good book.
12. Love coloring in my daughter’s coloring books.
13. I love taking photographs.  Thousands of photographs.
14. Love my hubby’s ‘Go get ‘em’ attitude.
15. I eat ‘cinnimon bun’ flavoured oatmeal every morning.
16. Can’t get enough of my daughters hair, washing, combing it or braiding it.
17. I used to LOVE running and would run for 45 minutes a day.
18. I love baking.
19. I wish I recycled more.
20. I love my dog.

I had a much better list planned out in my head but of course forgot all of it once I sat down at the computer. 
I should run- Dinner has arrived (Thanks Suz!)

~jen

Some cheese with my Whine…

My sister informs me that my blog has become a big whine-fest lately.  Of course, she’s right… Can you blame me??  I try and blog about my life and it’s been kinda stinky lately.
    Having said that, I always try to find the bright spots in my days and I promise to blog about those for the next week (at LEAST!).  Here was my bright spot for today:

I was doing laundry upstairs with the kids and Nolan disappeared.  He can’t go far in our small place and I found him shacked up in the main bathroom.  Just as My eyes landed on him, I noticed he was taking a large bite of something in his hand.  Upon a quick and close inspection I realized it was our bar of Ivory soap!!  He rolled the bitten off chunck around in his mouth before I could get him to spit it out.  The whole time I didn’t see him wince once.  I think he actually enjoyed it, and blew bubbles for the next 15 minutes.
Proof that the kid will, in fact, eat ANYTHING.
What am I going to do when it comes time to discipline him for a potty mouth?? Will he ask for the Ivory!?

Hugs and Kidletts
~jen

Wisdom come lately…

Thanks for this quote Suz.  It’s so true.  I even had the perfect shot of Elizabeth to put it in.  The shot isn’t perfect on it’s own (what the hell was I doing with my camera here??) but there was something about it that kept me from deleting it.  I’ve got a scrapbook  layout planned for this one too. 

Go out Everyone and spend your day WELL.

I can really appreciate this quote with all the sickness floating around this house lately.

Bad things

So I blogged last about my many lovely health problems.  That night they got a little worse.  My daughter woke up at 2 AM complaining of stomach pain and an hour later it was vomit central around here.  I was up for 3 hours comforting her before the pain and hair-trigger heaving would stop and let her sleep.  This morning my Hubby was in the same boat, AND he was already sick with some other bug before that. 

I slept for most of the day- to make up for the lack of sleep the night before.  And last night I started to develop sharp shooting pains in my stomach accompanied by loads of nausea and cramping.  So far no heaving on my part but the night is young.  I’ve only eaten perogies today and that was at 2 PM  the rest of the day it’s been water, water, and more water.   Water is as easy coming up as it is going down. 

We went to bed at 9 AM after watching KONG so now I’m wide awake, my body feeling like it’s had enough sleeping for one night.

Someone please shoot me.

~jen
p.s. Yes, I missed my first Words of wisdom Wednesday- but I think i was justified.  I may feature it on Friday this week.

Good things

Lots of stuff has been going on ‘behind the scenes’ lately.  Due to some unfortunate circumstances at Hubby’s work he is able to move up and have a steady shift.  No more guessing and begging out of things because of last minute schedule changes.  As of April my hubby will know what his schedule is for the next 30 years.  I’m going to love that. 
    I’ve been sick still/again.  I should have been to the doctor months ago but I’m stubborn like that.  I must also enjoy coughing until I wet myself.  Just went I think I’m feeling much better, some new symptom- usually LUNG related- crops up.  It’s very tiresome.      
Dermatologist informed me that I have an all-over case of eczema.  Lovely.  She also prescribed a bucket of cream with several bucket sized refills, what a wonderful woman Doctor.  I took a very large dose of antibiotic tonight for another embarrassing thing I’ve managed to contract.  No, I’m not going into details.  The dose was a total of EIGHT (8) pills (In ONE sitting!!) so I’m expecting to not only feel better soon but I’m also half expecting to be shitting through the eye of a needle for a week or so.  Antibiotics don’t do nice things to my GI tract.  If they work- I’ll forgive the bout of the ‘trots’ no matter how long in duration.  My tongue is feeling like a large slimy piece of aluminium in my mouth right now.  Yummy.
    Anyway, it’s late (or early depending on where you live), I was tired all day and somehow I managed to stay up late once again.  I’m going to want shoot myself tomorrow morning, I tell ya…

How’s your Tuesday treating you??
~jen

Houdini Pills

Some of you may remember my blog post a while back complaining about the mysterious disappearance of my prescription of ‘happy pills’. 

Well last night, they reappeared.  I had a feeling they would but not in the way, or place they did.  While searching for a cough drop to quell the hacking, subsequent gagging and wetting of my pants, i pulled out one of my two medicine baskets.  I glanced over top of the basket looking for the cough drops so I wouldn’t have to dive in a create a giant mess.  Wouldn’t you know there was a familiar looking blue bottle of meds perched jauntily on top of the entire mess.  I couldn’t believe my eyes because I had previously DUMPED that sucker out and meticulously sifted through each item, tossing the expired stuff and placing them in chronological order according to expiration dates (Just kidding). I was thorough, I am sure of that.  But as my eyeballs wandered over the label of the pill container I realized these were in fact the LOST PILLS!! 

Part of me was pissed off at myself, "How could I have NOT seen them???".  Another part of me was Embarrassed, "I must be fricken blind and stupid."  And the last part of me was happy, "Right on, I have six months supply and I don’t have to go through this again for a while!!".

All in all, it’s a happy day.

~jen