Ok, maybe not a miracle but it's amazing! Tblog actually let me log in...whooohooo.

I had almost had my fill of "This page cannot be displayed" but after much patience and a break to treat myself to a pedicure and manicure, I am finally here :)

Now that I'm here I don't have much to say....isn't that always the way?

Til later....

It was just another Saturday, didn't do anything special. Dh had a "cash buring a hole in his pocket" moment today and bought damn near everything at some guys garage sale. As if he doesn't have enough junk...oooppppsss...sorry treasure...yeah right...already. But, what ever makes him happy....makes me happy - next time I want some cash for nothing in particular ;)

   My dd went to the fair yesterday with some friends. What an expensive disaster. Poor thing only rode 3 rides before her stomach revolted...all over the carnie's control station. I don't feel bad for the guy, he wouldn't let her get off the ride when they stopped, so really it's his fault. I told her it's too bad she missed him! Apparently her nausea continued for over an hour, poor thing had nothing left in her tummy. So that's what $28 bux will get ya...3 rides, what a waste. Oh well she know's better for next time I guess. Once her sick feeling went away she was fine. Played some games and rode a couple of milder rides. Watched some entertainment and filled her belly back up. She also hurt her neck on that ride...maybe a little whiplash? Keeping an eye on that but the paramedics she saw said she should be ok.

   So...been playing around with the look of my blog page here. I'm sure it will change, along with the music in the coming days. Still can't get a piccy in the text space where you type a blog...me html just won't cooperate!

   The Olympics are finally over tomorrow...thank gawd! Not that I don't enjoy them but my Corrie has been pre-empted for almost a month now so I'm having withdrawls. It will be a fine Sunday when it comes back on in September.....4hrs of all new episodes...a Corrie junkie's delight! Jee wiz....wish they'd treat me with the same for my EE addiction!

   Ok...I hear ya's saying "enough already with this boring as beige blog."

Off I go........

...The breakfast of champions!

   Ok, maybe not champions but certain stay at home moms.

The sun is shining today, which makes me happier than yesterday when it was gloomy and raining all day. I guess this means I should actually get out into the yard and finish my yard work. Piles of dead branches and heaping clumps of dead grass await their great end...the big black garbage bag. Now that I think of it, I do wish it were raining again today...the dog run needs to be pooper-scooped :( Speaking of dogs, dh brushed a garbage bag full of chow chow wool off the dog yesterday. The dog looks much smaller now and so very hansom. I'd take a pic of him to show you all but he's afraid the camera will steal his soul and runs from it, even if it's not on! Even the boxer wanted to be brushed and pouted the whole time her buddy was being groomed so we gave her a go...she decided she didn't like that feeling and tried to eat the brush instead. Dumb dog.

Pretty much enjoying some peace and quiet today. Since the rain came to a hault dh could go to work...dd is still snoozin', dogs and cats are fed and snoozin'...makes me feel like snoozin' too.

It feels like a home-made pizza supper night...what else do I have to do?

Ahh the life of a sahm, it's not as boring as you'd think...but sometimes it is.

HOW TO KNOW WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE READY TO HAVE CHILDREN

Mess Test:
Smear peanut butter on the sofa and curtains. Place a fish stick behind the couch and leave it there all summer.

Toy Test:
Obtain a 55-gallon box of Legos. (If Legos are not available, you may substitute roofing tacks) Have a friend spread them all over the house. Put on a blindfold. Try to walk to the bathroom or kitchen. Do not scream.(This could wake a child at night.)

Grocery Store Test:
Borrow one or two small animals (goats are best) and take them with you as you shop at the grocery store. Always keep them in sight and pay for anything they eat or damage.

Dressing Test:
Obtain one large, unhappy, live octopus. Stuff into a small net bag making sure that all arms stay inside.

Feeding Test:
Obtain a large plastic milk jug. Fill halfway with water. Suspend from the ceiling with a stout cord. Start the jug swinging. Try to insert spoonfuls of soggy cereal (such as Fruit Loops or Cheerios) into the mouth of the jug, while pretending to be an airplane. Now dump the contents of the jug on the floor.

Night Test:
Prepare by obtaining a small cloth bag and fill it with 8 - 12 pounds of sand. Soak it thoroughly in water. At 8:00 PM begin to waltz and hum with the bag until 9:00 PM. Lay down your bag and set your alarm for 10:00PM. Get up, pick up your bag, and sing every song you have ever heard. Make up about a dozen more and sing these too until 4:00 A.M. Set alarm for 5:00 AM. Get up and make breakfast. Keep this up for 5 years. Look cheerful.

Physical Test (Women):
Obtain a large beanbag chair and attach it to the front of your clothes. Leave it there for 9 months. Now remove 10 of the beans.

Physical Test (Men):
Go to the nearest drug store. Set your wallet on the counter. Ask the clerk to help himself. Now proceed to the nearest food store. Go to the head office and arrange for your paycheck to be directly deposited to the store. Purchase a newspaper. Go home and read it quietly for the last time.

Final Assignment:
Find a couple who already has a small child. Lecture them on how they can improve their discipline, patience, tolerance, toilet training, and child's table manners. Suggest many ways they can improve. Emphasize to them that they should never allow their children to run riot. Enjoy this experience. It will be the last time you will have all the answers.

Things I've noticed:

- Unexpected company only drops by when your house is a mess and your having a bad hair, no make-up pajama day.

- The grass on the other side of the fence really is greener...cuz my neighbor waters her lawn.

- You really can love and hate a person at the same time.

- The last smoke of the day never tastes as good as the first smoke of the day.

- Children don't do what their told without giving a big sigh and rolling their eyes.

- Nothing is ever good enough for some people.

And last, but not least:

- tBlog should get their shit together befor us bloggers wage war, kill the blog monster and up-sticks to other blogging sites!

...I dropped!

   Well, haven't quite dropped yet but I sure feel like it! Dh & I took our tween DD back to school shopping today. Yes I have a tween daughter, and anyone else who has one know's that this age bracket is the hardest to shop with. Nothing is ever quite right or exactly what they want..ever. We hit a few stores that advertised sales only for my dd to pick though every item and say no. Ok, I can handle that. So we end up at Walmart because they have the best prices in town right? Sure, they must because it was like a freakin' war zone in there! We got in there and right away I knew that I would either get trampled by the mob of people shopping for school supplies or end up ramming into some mom with 3 screaming kids who won't get out of the way! I opted to hand over control of the cart, which by the way were hard to come by that's how busy it was, over to my calmer hubby who people get the heck out of the way of when they see coming. I'm not kidding you, it was like a race to see who could grab what befor someone else did. Crazy I tell ya! They were out of alot of stuff but I did end up getting about 1/2 of the list. We finally said to heck with the school supply section and headed off to a less densly populated area of the store...girls and womens clothes. Well what a joke. We found nothing my daughter would ever wanna wear in that girls section. Everything was way too froo-froo for her taste. She's 12 not 5! Almost everything seemed to be pink or have pink on it...she hates pink! That Mary-Kate & Ashely Olson sure make some ugggly clothes. We headed to the womens section and finally she found something...and not a speck of pink on it! Lime green to me is like Pink to her, but since it was only a belt on a pair of very nice nothing-you-would-ever-ex pect-to-find-in-Walmart jeans we walked away happily with our find.

   I guess it's back into the city tomorrow, this time to one of the malls to see what we can find and then off to Staples where they will actually have what we're looking for and we won't have to fight a war to get it!

   Hair cuts are next on the list of things to do befor school..along with a funky dye job in a weird reddish-purple color, get this, just on the tips of dd's hair. Should be interesting to see how that works out...especially since I'm the one doing it. Mwwaaahahahaha...could be a great time to get revenge on my dd for all the tween attitude I get! No, I'd never do that, not this angelic mommy ;)

   Oh yes, and I even managed to sneak a pair of lovely low-rise pants in there for myself....was my treat of the day :)

   Off to drop and watch Big Brother....I can't believe that green, or is it pink now? haired chick Nacomis has HOH again!

   Nighterz tBloggerz :)

After a morning filled with "page cannot be displayed" I've finally logged in! Only to get here and have to wait forever for any page to load. What's going on here in tblog land? Then I try to write a blog and insert smiley...poof...my whole blog post disappears! And don't get me started on trying to comment on fellow tblogger's blogs...grrrr!

The frustration doesn't end there. I visit all these wonderful blogs full of music and nifty quizzes. Now I'm no where near internet ignorant but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how these bloggers do it! I wanna nifty blog page filled with cool stuff too!

I would insert a smiley here but I'm afraid my post will end up in blog-oblivian, never to be seen again.

Ever had a friendship/s that you just knew was toxic? Maybe it's a clingy friend who needs too much of your attention on a daily basis, or just someone who claims to be your friend, all the while saying nasty things about you and stabbing you in the back. Or the one's who just use you to get what they want. You know the one's...they suck the very life energy out of you and leave you feeling drained.

I had a friend who was all of these things, more than one friend with these attributes at the same time actually. After a couple of years of these so-called "friends" I decided that it would be best for me and my sanity if I weeded them out of my life. Now, I didn't want to be mean or hateful towards them, I just wanted them to know I no longer wished to be friends and for them to simply go away and leave me in peace.

Even the best laid plans don't always work out. Sure my intentions were good, didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings but then it happened. A couple of them caused me too much grief one morning, before my morning coffee I might add, and I had had enough. I got a little angry and pretty much told them what I thought of them, nothing too horrid, just the facts, and just the fact that I no longer wanted anything to do with them. I was sick of putting my good self out there just to have them return their bad selves to me. Not worth it in my book.

Fast forward a couple of years. Tonight the phone rings. It's for dh...it is the one ex-pal that really caused me the most grief and hurt feelings. She wanted to come over, I suppose to be nosey and see the new house? Dh told her he'd have to run it by me, because after all he doesn't want to upset me by telling her yes, and he doesn't care for her much either. So he runs it by me and got the answer he expected. She calls back to see if it's ok. She askes me if I mind that she comes over, I say "yes". She sounds all excited and says "yes, I can come over" I say "No, yes I mind if you come over." I just nicely said to her that since she caused me so much grief the last time she just dropped in out of the blue by running rumors around and pissing people off that I didn't think is was a good idea that she come over now, or ever. Ok, so sure she sounded disappointed but I know her game.

It's that she doesn't get it! How she doesn't get it, I will never know. It's as if she expects to be able to cause hurt feelings and havok in people's lives and to get away with it looking like a jewl. Sorry, not with me. I've had enough. I don't want to go there again. Sometimes it's nessasary to weed out some of those friends that just aren't good for you, the one's who cause you pain and expect to be able to come back and cause more.

I'm not sure what makes her think she is so wonderful that I would want to be friends with her again because I know she will just start it all over again. Her lifestyle doesn't interest me, and neither does she. Sounds cold, I know, but how else can I be?

Dh says she will just keep trying to come back, even though it's been years since I told her to go. Once a year at least there is a call or a pop-by visit, but no more. I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just not interested. She obviously doesn't think she's done anything wrong, or caused me any pain, or she doesn't care. I don't hate her or even dislike her, I just don't want her in my life, that's all. Is that so hard to understand?

I'm sure this isn't the last I'll hear from her, and no doubt next time dh see's her she will ask questions. Why on earth does the Universe see the need for her to keep crossing my path? Doesn't the Universe know I just don't have the tollerance to cope with this woman? Oh I know there's a life lesson in this somewhere for me to learn, give me strength to find what it is! Upon the advice of my dh I am going to talk to her, face to face, and explain it to her one last time. Maybe then she will understand? 

Ever have one of those days....

   When you wake up, your mind is a muddle, no concept of time, like the earth has tipped off it's axis? Yup, you got it, that was me this morning.

   I woke up this morning, looked at the time, 6:35am. For some reason my mind registered that it was 7:35am so I jumped up in a panic to wake up dh who's boss would be here in 20 minutes to pick him up for work. Coffee's not made, he's not up...let the paniced yelling begin! I screamed "your gonna be late for work, get up - get up!" By this time dogs are barking, cats scurrying around, all wondering what the kafuffle is about. Dh is slowly trying to drag his tired, over-worked body out of bed when I realize....Oh it's 6:35 not 7:35...dh doesn't have to go to work until 8! Yes, that must have been the moment my brain actually awoke....gawd did I ever feel like a joke. Said my sorry's to dh for ruining his last 25 minutes of well deserved sleep and went back to bed myself.

   The second time I woke up I was in control of all my faculties, well as much as one can be upon awakening. After guzzeling some coffee and my daily dose of East Enders I felt more like myself. I believe tBlog was also off kilter this AM 'cuz when I came to log on to blog I got no page just a nifty message saying "please be patient while we fix some bugs." I wish I had some techies in my head to fix my site when it's not quite right....I bet dh wishes for that too!

Three monkeys sat in a coconut tree,
Discussing things that are said to be;
Said one to the others, "Now listen you two,
There's a certain rumor that can't be true:
That man descended from our noble race,
The very idea is a disgrace!

"No monkey ever deserted his wife,
Starved her babies, and ruined her life;
And you've never known a mother monk,
To leave her babies with others to bunk,
Or pass them on from one to the other,
Till they scarcely know who is their mother.

"And another thing you'll never see,
A monk build a fence round a coconut tree,
And let the coconuts go to waste,
Forbidding all other monks to taste;
Why, if I put a fence around a tree,
Starvation will force you to steal from me!

So this is Sunday.

   Is this what they mean by the day of rest? It must be 'cuz that's all we did today. I ate, slept and blogged...therefore I am.

   Not much happening this evening...just more lazing around in this awful humid heat...I think Alberta thinks it's Ontario the way the weather has been. It's hazy, humid and hot.

   Got my first comments and tblog friend today...yea me! I am still trying to figure out how to find a couple of these blogs I read that made me giggle so I can befriend these humorous bloggers and add their blogs to my links. If ya know how, do drop me a comment, I'd love to read those bloggers blogs again.

   It's the end of Sunday and the end of my blogging for today. I'm off to watch the Osbournes and Curb Your Enthusiasm...it's the funniest show and just how I like to cap off my Sunday nights, with a good laugh.

   Til Tomorrow....Goodnight tBloggers.

Pancakes, Fire Trucks & Floats - Oh My!

LeananSidhe Folklore

:D

Hello tBloggers!

   This is my 1st tBlog post. I'm new to blogging, just started last week over at another site but I thought I'd come check out this site because it seems to have more to offer. I like the layout and all the options this site provides, and I luv the community feeling here. I hope to meet many new bloggers here and make some new friends. While I still haven't figured out how everything here works, and it's a real bummer that I can't post pics, I'll blog along until it's all familiar. I've already read a few different people's blogs and left comments. I wish I knew how to connect with them and to save their blog info so I can visit thier blogs again. If anyone reading this has any suggestions or help to give I'd sure appreciate it!

Happy Blogging All!

LeananSidhe