I'm sad too tho, I love my house, we haven't even been in it a year.

But thank god for rising house market costs! Way better than investing!

We're moving Aug 15th. Hopefully Yellowknife has a bit of summer left for us when we get there. I need to get some parkas!

ta da!!!!!!

We'll be living in the great white north! with the polar bears and the igloos and the sled dogs!

I was pretty sad to find out that penguins live on the other side of the equator... I thought they just lived in the cold and snow!

I'm soooooo excited!!!! I've always wanted to go dog sledding (I'm a weirdo, I know) and I'll be making tonnes of money. And it's only for 3 years. And they send me to mexico for a week every year! I think it's because it's dark 24 hrs a day for a while, and they are afraid of people going postal from lack of sun, but whatever! free vacation!

God I love my job!

Just so incredibly busy!!!

Getting ready to sell my house

We haven't even had it a year!

We're getting sent to Yellowknife in August! OMG it's so incredibly far away! And cold! And really really far away!

But I'm excited! We're gonna go dogsledding and see polarbears and the northern lights!

Anyway, back to painting! it's never ending!!!!!

THERE WAS MOLD!!!! And my subfloor is friggin rotten!!!!

So I bought a pry bar to take the subfloor up so I can replace it... And in a fit of passion I smashed it (only 6 or 7 times!) into the wall. So I guess I'm going to have to get a new bathroom. Hopefully one with a nice big tub :)

Looking into contractors now...

I probably shouldn't have smashed the drywall off... but maybe it'll save me some money in labour costs when they come and make everything pretty!

Well.. I should probably go back to smashing...

Very theraputic... I'd recomend it.

So lots of good vibes this way please!

She's screaming her face off because she's hungry... poor thing. I can't even give her anything to drink!

xx.

Charity

Every time we visit, she never puts Lily down, doesn't follow my rules, and generally turns my nice happy baby into a clingy, whiney little brat. As Lily gets older, she hangs onto these bad habits longer. I'm only now just starting to break her of the habit of being whiney that's held over from our Christmas visit!

When she comes to my house, she moves stuff around, changes where I store things in the cupboards, re-arranges not only Lily's clothing, but MY clothing. It takes me months to find everything after she leaves. I can't stand people TOUCHING MY STUFF!!!! I think it comes from living alone for so long. I'm very posessive of my stuff. Yes it's kinda messy, but it's MY mess, and I can find everything in it.

I think she's still of the mind that I'm "too young" to be able to take care of a kid. I just wanna scream "FYI LADY!!! Just because you raised YOUR son to be immature and unable to handle being a full time parent doesn't mean that MY parents did the same thing!"

But she's a nice lady, I swear! I really can't just yell at her. As much as I want to. It's probably not 100% her fault that her son's a jack ass. I just want her to stop spoiling my kid. Yeah yeah I know, it's Grandparent's perogative to get the kid all hyped up on chocolate and pop and send them back to the parents, probably as some sort of punishment for all the things that they did bad as children, but never got caught for (my theory anyway).

How hard is it to follow my f-ing rules?? There really aren't that many as I'm very laid back, (well except for when she's here, then I feel completely on edge).

And the hand and face washing thing! She washes Lily's hands and face in the MIDDLE of a meal! Like one drop of sauce get's on her face, and suddenly a wash cloth appears! It's so ingrained in Lily now that when she's eating, if her hands get dirty she starts saying "Hand, Hand" and won't finish her meal until her hands are clean. And her high chair tray has to be clean. One drop of food on it and she freaks out!

Not that being a clean and tidy person is wrong, but I'm the kind of mom that, if it's bath night, just cleans the messiest parts of the kid, and I deal with the rest in the tub!

Ok, enough rant, I have to save some for when she actually gets here, and I escape to the computer to try and retain my sanity!!

xx.

Charity

So I went and had a pap done today. My dr suggested i have it done because, for 1, I've been inexplicably exhausted, and 2, I was due anyway.

So the nurse is doing her thing. And she says "your cercix is bleeding really easily" . She said it was flayed or freyed or something.

Gross eh? but it's also got me crazy worried!

She really didn't want to talk about it further, and I kinda got the impression that something's wrong. She said she'd call me with in a month with the results. Not the usual, "if you hear nothing it's good news" thing they usually say. Why wouldn't she talk to me?? Is something really really wrong with me?

I saw the smear thing, and it was completely bloody. So so gross! I'm not much of a fan of the whole pap smear thing as it is, but I get one every year or so, just to be safe. This has me really worried! Why the hell am I bleeding??? I don't get my period anymore because I have an IUD and haven't got my monthly in 9 months or so.

I'm kinda freaking out now. Tried the whole google search thing, but all I can come up with is a video by papa roach! lol I'm not the best internet person in the world, that's for sure!

Frig

I need hugs please!

Screaming kid upstairs... MAAMAMAMMMAAAMMMAAAA!!!

NOOOOOOOO! Please tell me the pukey baby isn't back!

I really hope this is a bug she's caught, and not the beginning of another round of unexplained nightly vomit-fountains!

So now she's set up in the guest bed, which terrifies me.... I hope she doesn't get out in the night and do something nasty (or messy) to me or herself (or my house. LOL)

I hope the poor kid feels better in the morning! How does she know to get sick when I have a class to take the next day??? They must have a sixth sense.

And will someone please come and help me clean up her sheets and matress? I can't handle it! I'm gagging just thinking of it! I had to take a break after cleaning her up, because I really can't stand puke.

So I messed them up, because it was weird.

We get home today, I start making supper, Lily's playing with her singing alphabet toy. I get done cooking.... look over....

WTF??? It's weird....
Should she be doing this? She's 20 months old....

It really creeped me out tho! I mean, yay for her! recognizing lines and colours matching and all that.

But it's still weird. I'm not going to mess it up this time, cuz I'm pretty sure she'll just put it back.

6 quirky things about me.... hmmmm...

I'm a serial artist.... pretty much everything i own is painted, sparked or drawn on

I have 3 tattoos and 2 piercings... hehe

I'm addicted to home renovation tv shows

I'm a colour cameleon! my hair changes colour on a semi-monthly basis, and I've got half a dozen pairs of coloured contacts

I'm the only female working as an avionics tech on the base I'm at. So it's me against 200+ men

I hate cotton balls ***shudder at the thought***... especially wet cotton balls...PUKE!!!

Tag! You're it ellamia, boredmum, Arna, monarogirl, fairymama25, and sheilao!!

7 guppys
a wall plaque
a tooth brush holder
a tv stand
a shelf for lily's room
some painting supplies
a leather punch
and a hair dye

56 bucks

and it didn't help (but i did get some really awesome deals! on stuff i probably dont need..... lol )

I apparently have inherited a weird gene from my grand mother too.... it's call the paint-whatever-stops-moving-long-enough gene. Everything that we have of hers has about a half an inch of paint on it. Brown was on sale i guess, because everything is brown. LOL

So today my painting gene took over, probably activated by the buying of un-needed painting gear. So I painted my cupboards. Good-bye old orangey oak colour. Hello pretty white cupboards! Hopefully next depression shopping spree I'll rememeber to get new drawer pulls! Then I'd have a whole new kitchen!

What is with all this childish bull crap lately?? People voting people down, reporting comments for no bloody reason, putting questions in advice, even after advised that that's not where they belong, and generally being a pain in the ass?

I don't get it.

And I'm so sick of having to sift thru people half-assed attempts at advice to find something that's worth reading. Seriously people. Do some research. If you just feel like writing something for the hell of it, write it in your blog, like I'm doing now. That way it doesn't come up when people are trying to read LEGIT advice.

And it's called spell check. Write your article in microsoft word, or someother word processer and just copy and paste it here. A sentance is NOT 8 lines long with no punctuation and horrible spelling mistakes. That's just a big speal of unreadable crap. Noone wants to try to decifer what you are trying to say, and then, when they figure it out, realize that it's just junk.

I don't put out alot of articles, but when I do, I do research, and I try to make them the very best I can. I'm proud of my advice articles. I'm not the best speller in the world, so I use spell check. It's pretty damn simple.

I love minti (especially the new format, even tho it's takeing a bit to get used to the tabs) and most of the people on here are great. Just why do people have to pop up all the time out of no where and make trouble? It's like we just get rid of the menaces and another one comes along!

GRRRR

I know.... someone is gonna tell me that if I don't like it here to just leave and noone will miss me, or whatever. And I'm sorry if you've wasted your time reading my vent, but oh well.

I love you Minti! I won't leave you!

Then my flight was cancelled for flying out of Ontario, so I had one less day with MY family than I had planned.

And now that I'm home, my baby sitter is being a pain and keeps getting sick, or hurt. And work is being a bitch and I STILL haven't got my promotion that was due to me. Well, I think it was due to me, anyway. I think I should get it early... hehe. I was actually due on the 9th... but they promoted people today, and guess what... I wasn't one of them! Buggers.

But on the up side... Lily has decided that she's a big girl, and refuses to wear diapers and has peed on the potty twice! Yay for my big girl! She's only 20 month. No more diapers soon, I hope. Proof that babies in cloth diapers potty train sooner! And when I do get my promotion, they will give me all the pay that is due back to me. Which is good, because then I can actually pay my bills instead of just telling them that I paid them and then not answering the phone the next time they call. Yay for paying bills!

Another negative thing... David is still being a jerk and living a 3 hour flight away from Lily and I. Why does he not understand that he should be here? That I could get a second job if he was and he could finish school? I mean... what is wrong with the man??? And what is wrong with me that I am STILL waiting on him?

Oh well... some day my prince will come...

So! New years resolution come early! I'm going to be more out there. I'm going to comment on everything that I want to, and I'm going to make more Minti friends!

Yay!

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A young woman went to her mother and told her how hard her life was. She said she wanted to give up; she was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose. 

So, her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word.  In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. 

Turning to her daughter, she asked, “Tell me what you see.”

“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she replied. 

Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.

The daughter then asked, “What does it mean, mother?” Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water.

Each reacted differently. 

The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak.  The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however; after they had been in the boiling water, they had changed the water.

Which are you?” she asked her daughter. “When adversity or change knocks on your door, how do you respond?
 
“Are you a carrot, an egg or a coffee bean?

“Are you the carrot that seems strong, but with change and adversity will you wilt and become soft and lose your strength?  “Are you the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat?  Do you have a fluid spirit, but faced with a death, a break-up, a financial hardship or some other trial, do you become hardened and stiff? Does your shell look the same, but on the inside are you bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart? “The coffee bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavour.

“If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and provide strength and happiness for those around you. “When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, can you elevate yourself to another level?”

The fun part is, I'm leaving on Friday to go up to Toronto to stay with him and his family for Christmas! It's too late to cancel, and Joan (David's mom) is so excited to have Christmas with her grand-daughter that I couldn't back out.

It makes me want to throw up. His family is the opposite of mine, pretty much. In mine, if someone is pissed off or is being rude, someone is going to tell them off. In his, you just pretend that everything is ok. I don't get it, and I'm also really bad at keeping my feelings bottled up and not saying whats on my mind.

UGH!!!!!!!!

Why are men so STUPID!!!! (sorry guys, I'm sure not ALL of you are stupid, just all the men I've ever met are... lol)

Seriously! Who would want to live 1000 km from their daughter, and live in their mom's basement??? WTF is wrong with some people??? I don't think that living with me would be such a horror... I'm a nice person when I'm not being stressed out and hateful towards the world.

I hope you are all having a better holiday season then I am!

Step 1:

If you think you've spotted a baby, verify by employing classic sniffing techniques. Baby powder is a dead giveaway.

Step 2:

Flatten the baby before actually beginning the hugging process.

Step 3:

Simply slide paws around baby and prepare for possible close-up.

Step 4:

If a camera is present, you will need to execute the difficult and patented hug, smile, and lean in order to achieve the best photo quality.

Playing at the park in the rain! I love her neon green slicker!

Playing in front of our very own house!!!

And Reading a book! She's so smart! LOL

I've been insanely busy! i'm taking a course at work right now (please don't ask what it's incredibly boring!)

The new house is coming along great! I've got most of the main floor painted (no more institutionalized grey and white! hurray!!) and next on the list of painting is my UGLY green bedroom! (think tinkerbell meets mint icecream... bleh!)

Still single... still not loving it, but what is a mommy to do? Started my Christmas shopping, but i'm even more excited for Hallowe'en!!! The best holiday of the year! Ghost and vampires and CANDY!

Baby weight is still coming off very slowly, but that's good. At least it's still coming off! I'm down to 155... below the dreaded 160lbs! And down to single digit jeans... thank God for size 9!

Lily is growing like mad! She's already 3 feet tall.. and she's only 16 months old. Poor girl... where am I ever going to find clothes to fit her when she's a teenager??

I hope everyone is doing well... I've missed minti, but man I've been crazy busy. I'm being a guilty mommy and leaving Lily at the sitters for an extra couple hours after class so I can study and have a bit of me time.

Peace and love to everyone!