5 more sleeps

or lack of it...the thing is when preparing to leave on an extended trip, I have a hard time sleeping in the weeks leading up to the big day.  What am I forgetting to bring?  What am I forgetting to do?  What am I forgetting period?   I have lists everywhere and yet I still run around like a chicken with my head cut off. Why I work myself into such a state I don't know?  So I forget something will it be so terrible?  Actually on my last trip to the Bahamas I was so busy packing and doing everything I neglected to pack enough clothes for myself.  The whole time there I kept saying 'what was I thinking'?  Why didn't I pack this shirt?  Why didn't I bring a sundress?  No worries I guess the weather will be so hot in Thailand I will live in my two piece bathing suit (fits and looks good I might add) and my two sundresses I have remembered to pack this time.

On the home front the previous mentioned anxiety issue I was alluding to has worked itself out in my mind.  I've been sitting on the fence hoping a problem would just go away but have now realized that sometimes one must have an 'intervention'   When I was younger I loved confrontation and would start an argument just for the sake of a good debate.  Now I just want to chillax.

peace out Carol

Much overdue about nothing...

My gift of gab has gone the way of the winter snow here.  Non-existant and with two short weeks till the winter olympics.  The one ski hill where they are holding the snowboarding has patches of grass and they are covering the little snow they have with straw bales to try to preserve it.

In 10 sleeps we leave for Thailand for 2 months.(I hope no house robbers are reading this)  Said oldest son Harrison will be guarding the nest.   I feel confident that he will look after the place and himself.  I told him to hire a maid before I get home then what I don't know won't hurt him...

I've been dealing with alot of personal issues that I won't go into here but are causing my usual careless self  a bit of anxiety.  I don't know what life will roll me next but I am just going to go with the flow and follow what I think will be best for myself.

I will try to blog more in the future and definitely try to take you on my Thailand adventure but if I don't, catch me on Facebook I find its just easier there to update.

DWTS and stuff

So I have to tell you, I haven't been watching the dancing too much this season but did watch the two hour finale last night.  Did anyone else think that Whitney was ready to fall off her shoes?  I found she didn't move much or put much effort into the whole thing.  The first song her upper lip was drenched in sweat before she even started.  I don't know I was pretty disappointed in her performance.   I was glad to see Donny win and loved when he sang Puppy Love and belted it out along with him.  Memories from childhood when my sister and I would sing all of his and David Cassidy's songs.  Hey, they should get him and Shawn on the show....

So onto stuff,  well winter is upon us.  No snow yet but plenty of rain.  We have the palm tree wrapped as well as our other semi-tropical plants and hope for the best they survive the winter.
Hubby is gone to Thailand to get some dental work done and check our accommodations for our upcoming trip in the new year. The price of the flight and all the dental work is cheaper then what he would pay here for one root canal and crown.
So after Nevada and I drop him off at the airport we head to IKEA which happens to be like 5 minutes down the road.  We wander through the store for what seems like hours and end up buying only two packs of whiteboard markers.  There was absolutely nothing there that caught my eye.  Not a napkin, not a plate, not a candle, not a chair absolutely nothing nada zip.
So we decided to head to a larger mall on the way home.  Same thing happens again we can't find anything .  We ended up buying a couple pack of iron-on stickers for t-shirts.  Big city outing and we come home with under $10 bucks worth of stuff 
With the Hairball gone right now I guess that leaves me to put the xmas lights up outside by myself.  After the cleaning gutter experience I figure the lights are all going to be about 5'6"  off the ground at most

Happy Turkey Day to all

hay its not just for horses

I don't know why I headed it that way?   Just popped into my mind.  I don't think I can work the 13 thing here today so will give you some random ramblings. 
So yesterday I went to parent teacher interviews at Kaikoa's school.  He is over 93 % in Social Studies, 83% in Science, not so good in Math but he is going to start going in at lunch.  His English teacher looks about 17 she doesn't give grades at this point she says but he has a G for effort?  Apparently it's some new kind of teaching technique.  Frankly I don't like it.  I want to see a grade.  So what if you do alot of effort with crappy work?  Or say little effort with excellent results?  The lower math mark really kind of surprises me. We are a family of math genius's.  I guess Kaikoa didn't get that gene.  I guess I will have to be happy with him getting a C+ or maybe squeaking out a B.
Today I am going to the Longhouse with Nevada's class on a field trip that should be fun.  I love the whole school bus experience.  I always bring a pocket full of candy and hand it out to kids around me.  Even kids I don't know I will hand a treat to. 
Survivor tonight I hope some calamity happens to those irritating Russel's.

school photo

time of year again.  I must say for the first time maybe ever I am pleased with the results 

So what do you folks in Multiply land think of them and do you like the black and white or the colour or the full or just the head?

thursday thirteen

Just a hodge podge of random randomness....

 

1. We are going to the corn maze tonight.   I love that place, its really quite huge and hard to get out of.  I am thinking of taking a compass with tonight : )  www.chilliwackcornmaze.com

2.I have been a very busy beaver what with making jelly's and juices.  I love the fall harvest.  We have had excellent weather, no rain yet.

3.Em's cell phone talk makes me really think about the stupidity of people putting every ones lives at risk.  What could possibly be so important that you have to have that phone glued to your ear 24/7.  Are they even really talking to someone?  Maybe they think its cool to walk around the store, mall, kids concert, church talking on their phone.

4.Winter isn't even here and we are already battling flu bugs in our house.  Kaikoa's already missed 3 and a half days of school and Nevada 2.  I hate when they miss school. Except of course for the 3-6 months they miss when we take them on holidays : )

5.I am still digging outside and the ongoing landscaping project continues on.  I am starting to think it will never end.  Now Hairball wants to move the front door to the side of the house...

6.I took Oma up to the grave-site yesterday to see Opa's gravestone.  I must say we were very disappointed in the workmanship.  The engraving wasn't the same depth all over and they left dirt all over the top of it.  YOu think they could have washed it after they laid it down.

7.Canadian Thanksgiving is on Monday and I love turkey day.  I love the prep work with all the baking and shopping and planning.  This year we are having the dinner at Harry's moms ( Oma).   She just lives in the house up front so I will be doing alot of the work.

8.Sorry here's another copy from Em's blog but its about health care.  I don't believe in a full socialized system but I feel there is a combination of the both private and subsidized that can work.  It amazes me the lack of compassion people have for those less fortunate then them.  Not everyone has the advantages or the brains to be in a position to pay for their own health care and I don't see what's wrong with us more fortunate ones helping out.

9.Still looking at leaving for Thailand the beginning of the new year.  I found some incredible flight on China Air for $875 round trip.  I can't even fly to eastern canada that cheap.

10.Halloween is coming and Nevada still hasn't decided what she wants to be.  I remember as a kid that was all you talked about in Oct.  I guess it isn't as big a deal anymore.  The majority of the houses don't even give out candy and hardly any parents let their kids go trick-or-treating.

11.I have hair woes,  I don't want to go with the full colour but you can see grey.  I don't want to look old..

12.I heard on the news that there was a breast cancer breakthrough.  This past summer Harrison's friend lost his mother to the disease.  I hope something good comes of this and doesn't get pushed on the back burner.  I wonder sometimes where all the money goes that is raised? 

13.Well that's about it going on in my life sorry to bore you but I still can't seem to get my writers block unblocked : )

13.

Harvest Moon

and the weather outside is right in the mood.  Last night I woke up to the sounds of the ice-cream man coming up the driveway.  It took me a few seconds in my groggy half awake state to realize that I was hearing the wind chimes from way on the other side of the house.   I love the cooler sunny days with the leaves turning and the air with a nip in it.  Yesterday morning there was frost on the shaded parts of the neighbor's roof.  I picked the rest of the squash and put it on the porch.  The raspberries are starting to produce in full force again.  I think they like the cooler nights better.  I found a cucumber yesterday that was the size of a zucchini.  I guess it had been hiding from me for some time. 

With the weather change I realize that I don't have any  casual long sleeve shirts.  This spring I must have done a major cleaning of my closet and even got of my old standard standbys...   The downsize of doing all that labour intensive work over the summer is that my nicer fitted shirts the sleeves are too tight now.  I guess I will I have to go out and shop.  I don't like shopping in Canada though.  I can never find things of quality at a decent price and style that I like.  As no trips south of the border are imminent I'm not sure what I will do...

Well I guess I better go pack the prince's lunch and make him coffee to take to work.  As he likes to tell his dad and I 'At least someone works in this family'

The clear sky's we should have tonite should make for perfect viewing of the full moon : )