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| Wednesday, December 19th, 2007 | | 9:50 am |
Last post before X-mas
I'd love to say this is the year I can post a picture of little Xander sitting on Santa's knee, but aside from the fact that he is a big boy (or so he informs me) of four, the terror of Santa still looms. We got as far as the Santa Claus parade and giving his letter to Santa, but no more. Big boy or no, Santa is still to frightening a concept. I see too many parents plunking their terrified youngster on Santa's lap only to get a lovely picture of them bawling with Santa. I'll just wait another year. He's starting to clue in that Santa's the guy with the Christmas goods and I'm sure he'll get chatty with him before he leaves for college. At least this year I don't have to call Santa on the telephone and and ask him nicely to come though the front door because coming down the chimney was a concept that was just too scary. His wish list this year includes a gold limo, (hey me too) a microscope and a drum. Early Merry Christmas everyone. | | Sunday, December 16th, 2007 | | 2:49 pm |
I am Legend
Ok. I enjoyed it. What could be more Christmasy than mutants? For those handful who still haven't seen it, I Am Legend is based on the book that Omega Man was based on. In this version, Will Smith is the last man standing in NY after a Vaccine that is supposed to cure cancer mutates and makes humans rabid. There is the usual plot holes that go along with mutants so just don't question how ex-humans can suddenly scale a 3 floor building but not a 6 foot wall that protects the last human refuge. It's not to scary but definitely has it's thrill moments. They did it right. Like Jaws, if you just show bits of the shark and let the suspense do the work, you don't have to over do it. This approach apparently, works with the mutants. * * * | | Friday, November 16th, 2007 | | 7:32 pm |
The girl that wont go away...
On August 8th, I posted to my blog the story of how the glamour of Facebook wore off when I got spammed by Sedina Fiati. Three and a half months after she blocked me, Sedina unblocked me to write me a message saying she was sorry and could I please edit my blog entry. I had ended the entry with the comment if anyone wants to spam her feel free to do so and she didn't like that. It made her look bad. I waited a week debating what to do but I decided that if she was truly sorry she would have dealt with the fact that I was being spammed three months ago instead of blocking me on Facebook and that the only reason that she unblocked me was she was worried about her image. Finally I decided just to block her. She was a stranger and really really wanted her to go away. Unbelievably, she then calls me. Again, this woman is a stranger. I don't know who she is, and she's got my phone number and is calling me. Who does this? She is again asking me to change my blog entry because when she googles her name it pops up. I directly ask her "Did I lie in my blog entry? And she answers "No, but there are a number of untruths in your entry" (isn't that the same thing as saying I'm lying?) and in the same sentence said "when you joined Kingship..." That's when I lost it. I never joined the group and loudly told her so. I had never even heard of this play. I didn't even know what it was. I cannot get it through her head that I cannot remove my name from a group I never joined. Luckily, by blocking me in Facebook, she inadvertently did me a favour because I could no longer any messages from her. She went away. I like that. That's what I wanted. I realize now that she is not going to go away. Since I blocked her on Facebook and told her never to call me again, I'm guessing she'll be sending a registered letter next. So I edited the post. Sedina, it no longer reads feel free to spam you. The only other thing I am editing is the spelling errors because that entry is exactly what happened. Now please go away. Please, please, please go away. | | Saturday, October 20th, 2007 | | 6:51 pm |
RIP
Kitty died on Thursday. Yes, that would be the same kitty I posted in winter being snowed on. It sounds sad but if you saw her, you would have known it was for the best. She hadn't eaten on her own for 6 days, she was drooling too weak to stand, and had been on an I.V. since Monday. When you see an animal in that condition , especially an old one you know it's time. The bad part was a bad vet (greedy vet?) who was trying to draw out her death. I had this happen with my other cat from the same litter. His dying went on for 3 months and ended when I was running home to spoon feed him on my lunch hour. I told them if the animal is dying to be forth right because I didn't want that to happen again. They did their best to drag it out much to Rob's fury. So much so that with my last cat all I remember is his horrible death rather than the hours of sweetness as my personal lap warmer. So now we are kittyless. I can say we are petless as today Xander found a caterpillar at least 3 ladybugs a spider and a snail. While bugs are more difficult to pet, they make up for it in sheer quantity. * * * | | Monday, October 1st, 2007 | | 7:51 pm |
Xander is trying to age me again...
He started coughing all of a sudden. It was a deep cough that made him sound like a barking seal. He went to school last Monday but when I took him home for lunch, it was more frequent. It got worse on Tuesday ,and then by Wednesday I decided maybe we should head to the clinic. Then, the clinic doc did the scary thing. He looked him over and said take him to the hospital. I hate that because you never know how serious it is versus how long the wait is at the hospital. On the way in the car he coughed so hard he barfed on himself , the kiddie seat and everywhere. So a quick trip home to change and off we went. Luckily, if it's a breathing problem they take you in immediately. He was coughing so bad that he was having trouble catching his breath. So away we zipped to the front of the line. (There was some poor lady there with a bored 4 year old girl who was there before us and was still in the waiting room 5 hours later when we left. ) Anyway, this cough is called the croup. When I hear that name I think of Anne of Green Gables and Anne nursing Diana Barry's little sister back to health with syrup of Epicac when her mom was away. Anyway, this croup is still around. It's like a cold with an asthma attack. These days they put him on an oxygen mask with medicine inside for him to breathe in, sort of like a puffer. He was petrified and it took two of us to hold him down and put it on his protesting face. Even though it was a children's mask, it was still way too huge and hung down past his chin. He had to put it on in 20 minute intervals and then wait some time to see if it worked. The forth puffer did the trick and he could finally stop coughing long enough to talk. It wasn't perfect but he didn't have to work himself in exhaustion to breathe. By Friday, the cough faded. Unfortunately, the grey hairs did not. * * * | | Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 | | 8:12 pm |
| | Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 | | 3:04 pm |
* * * Well we have manged to survive the first week of kindergarten in one piece. After the first day where he was so scared that if he sat any higher on my lap he would have been sitting on my head, he is getting the idea of the routine. He is attending a full day Montessori programme for the next two years and then he will go on to a public school. This week, he is testing. His first error of judgment so far was sneaking a crayon during nap time his second error was deciding to colour his blanket. Let's see how far he takes this testing or rules, hmmm... Anyway, my birthday went well. I had to work it but hey that's life. This was the first year since 2001 that was not filled with with building collapsing on the cover of every paper and on every new channel (curse being born on 9-11.) We celebrate the weekend earlier due to the tragedy. We went out for dinner and and I got a new popcorn popper. The discovery of teflon coating in microwave popcorn bags seeping on to the popcorn really grossed me out. So I'm going back to the old popper. * * * | | Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 | | 11:50 am |
| | Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 | | 7:40 pm |
The glamour of facebook has officially worn off
It started off really nice. I found people as far back as my elementary school days. Some I had just failed to update the e-mail addy's others had married /changed their name or left the country. I got a steady stream of people who knew me in high school or from other places who wanted to add me as a friend and frankly I didn't recognize I didn't know them from a whole in the ground which was uncomfortable socially but you can still politely hide behind a computer and say who are you again? Then I got spammed. Repeatedly. Some chick named Sedina Fiati got a hold of my name and started spamming me daily sometimes twice a day about a play called the kingship de Facto going on in Toronto. After the eighth e-mail I sent her a message saying STOP SPAMMING ME. I don't know who you are. I don't care. If you don't stop spamming me I will start spamming you. She sent me back a reply today saying that I she couldn't find my name to remove me from her list but that I should remove myself from her group called the big umbrella. And then blocked me so I couldn't reply. Wonderbar. So how do I remove myself from a group that I have never been a part of? The answer is of course that I can't. I don't have a choice. So now I have to remove a friend and block her to prevent being spammed as I am pretty sure that this joker named Sedina Fiati copied my name off of her friends list. * * * | | Saturday, July 14th, 2007 | | 7:26 pm |
| | Monday, July 2nd, 2007 | | 11:16 am |
| | Saturday, May 5th, 2007 | | 8:34 pm |
Spidey 3
OOoo Oooo saw Spiderman. Can I ruin it for you and tell you the end? Can I? Can? If you want to know the end highlight below. + + + + + + + Got ya. The evil Shmi strikes again. | | Monday, April 30th, 2007 | | 1:49 pm |
Update
Hoky crap. I joined facebook and lost 2 weeks. However, I did find two friends from elementary school and a whole host of others I hadn't heard from in a dog's age. The cool thing is these are people who would have been lost to me forever it it hadn't been for facebook. So what's new around here? Well I have to tell you because I have no pictures. Last Sunday, on that beautiful Sunny day, I smashed the camera. I took Xander out to Lake Ontario to play and take some pictures. On the way in, I was holding both our jackets, a bag, a water bottle and Xander's shovel and pail and I was trying to get the garage door open. The bag was open and sure enough I heard thump, thump. In 2 quick thumps, the camera had slid out of the bag and hit the concrete floor. That's all it took and that camera was gone. It wouldn't power up anymore. We still have it more as a memorial to our lost camera than anything. It's virtually impossible to find anyone to fix it these days, camera;s are too disposable. Bye Bye camera. Anyway, I saw Nina from the Star Wars line for her birthday and gave her a much needed answering machine for her birthday. Her having bit the biscuit from a cat incident. We went to the Toronto Gem and Mineral show for a couple of hours ( http://www.torontogemshow.com ) OOooo sparklies! It was a good year. Lots of different vendors. We both got rings and I picked up a lovely set of fossils for $6! The set included an Ammonite, 2 Brachiopods and several Crinoids. I already bought a Trilobite last year and Xander found a shell fossil in a rock by Lake Ontario with Grandpa last year. So now we have fossils from every era. Cool. Auntie Nina also bought him a Geode to open. This is the full rock to open so you don't know what gem stone or mineral you will find inside. It was so cool to watch him. First her tried slamming it down on the patio to open it. When that failed we gave him a small hammer. Eventually it smashed into eight or ten pieces and he discovered Calcite in the inside. He paused and let out this soft "Cooool." Xander is doing well. He's still in the "everyday is a new adventure stage. He is now learning to tell a bold face lie. He told me strait faced that he can't put on his pajama bottoms. Why? They were lost at Sea. The wood numbers for his clock that have never left his room. Where are they? Took 'em out. Got smushed under a car. I see.... Luckily, his bold faced lies are so outrageous that they are obvious but I am not looking forward to the days when he refines his method. He's out with grandpa right now. My last view of him was in his Flinstone car going up the street as fast as his little feet would take him. :) | | Saturday, April 14th, 2007 | | 12:03 am |
So How Was Your Day?
Tragiclad had to rush home today. Why? Because Xander told him there is a tornado coming and it was 2 inches big and two elephants away. | | Wednesday, February 21st, 2007 | | 7:35 pm |
Update
I saw Nina and Lisa from the Star Wars line again. We are promising to attempt to meet up at least once a month for a girls outing. This time we just wandered the Danforth. It would have been more fun if it hadn't so damn cold. On Sunday Tragic, Xander and myself took advantage of a CN Tower special price available to Ontario residents on Sundays(3 for $30 bucks) for the month of Feb. There is still one Sunday left if anyone wants to take advantage of it. You just have to show ID that you are an Ontario resident. A divers license or something. I was a little worried that Xander might be scared being so high up (Yeah right.) It has been a decade since I'd been up the tower and Tragic had never been up at all. I could remember the part where you could go outdoors and it being protected by netting but I didn't remember the really cool section with the glass floor where you could stand on the floor and see straight down to the base of the tower. If you look dawn it actually looks dizzying from that height. Xander, with no fear of heights apparently, decided not only to look down, but to lie down on the glass spread eagle and stare down to the base of the tower. We couldn't pry him from the glass floor. He would've lay there on the dirty glass for an hour if we had let him. Was that glass always there? Cool. * * * | | 5:19 pm |
| | Monday, February 19th, 2007 | | 5:10 pm |
| | Saturday, January 27th, 2007 | | 9:26 pm |
Star Wars People
I saw Nina and Lisa (bacardiJedi) from the line today! Hurray adult conversation and we made plans to do it again soon! They came down by GO train and we caught up with Daiquiri's and too biig sundaes and sweets. Lisa is now a grade 1-2 teacher for all those who helped her with her studies in th first Star Wars line up. Remember plastercine layers of the world? Anyway she seems to like it much more than working for Revenue Canada even if she doesn't like her boss. Nina is still with Revenue Canada, what can you say the money is good. It was just nice to sit around and relax and talk. They got see Xander (who has a black eye presently from running an ice cream truck into a shelf at full speed and than flying over it at full speed when it crashed.) However, even though he had been talking about them coming for three days when they finally arrived he played shy. He wouldn't be his usual talkity self. Next time we watch the Donner version of Superman. * * * | | Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 | | 6:03 pm |
| | Tuesday, December 26th, 2006 | | 11:16 am |
The X-mas overdose
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
Is everyone exhausted and feeling weird from having eaten so much rich food? As I know may people will post lists about what they got in detail and it'll get boring to read lists after a while, I have summarized ours for a quick read. Our last two days were shuffling from one side of the family to the other trying to avoid honesty and family political fiasco's. There have been arguments and ill feelings towards family members in the fall leaving me with a feeling of dread for the Christmas holidays. For once, it wasn't directly me involved in any of the arguments (do note I have added the for once in the front of this sentence) however, this does not take away the feeling of awkwardness at the polite conversation over the holidays. I have never been good at faking politeness and more often than not, I find honesty falling out of my mouth in these situations because I just can't stand it. Instead, I shut-up and watched one indirect family member digging them self into a hole. Judging by their behaviour, this is going to blow up in early spring. I would say that this would be our spring entertainment of they weren't the type to make things ugly with low blows and nasty jibes. It was so bad that I didn't even wish them a Merry Christmas. I was just too happy for them to leave. Now, the good stuff. XANDER THE BIG ITEM: In total, 34 new dinky cars varying in size and shape from hand held size to the super size me versions. Also, my sister got him a really cool play castle. TRACY THE BIG ITEM: A microwave and a possibility of a trip to PEI later this year. ROB THE BIG ITEM: A microwave, and the completion of the TV series of The West Wing on DVD (in duplicate no less.) WHO MADE OUT THE BEST? The Value Village drop off bin. Unfortunately, we got a lot of stuff we don't need. For years I have kept this stuff saying "Oh I will pass it on to someone who needs it." That pile has grown over the years of marriage to where it is now, threatening to take over a forth of our basement. I am serious, this is brand new stuff, still in the wrapper that we have in duplicate and triplicate. This year, I am taking positive action.
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