Spam!!!

Okay, so I get a comment on my last post from someone called knicksgrl0917 promoting some website called huntington car.com. It's some website that you can answer surveys and make money. This is the second time I have gotten some advertising shit on my blog. I think if this keeps up I might stop this whole thing. That's just too creepy.

More Hodge Podge

Well Darren has started with the powder coating business. He is coating Shayne's (a friend of ours) work trailer. He sand blasted it on Wednesday which took him all day, and 22 bags of sand, he was absolutely filthy. Thursday he started to put the first coat on while I packed the trailer to go camping. We were planning on leaving that afternoon around 4:00 or so.

I get a phone call at 2:00pm from the doctor I took the girls to on Monday and she said that Annika's test shows that she has bladder infection too and that she would phone the pharmacy and have the prescription ready for me. So okay, I stupidly assumed that she would have done that as soon as she hung up the phone. So I get ready to go, interrupt Darren so he can watch the girls while I run to town thinking I would only be about 20 min. I get to the pharmacy and the pharmacist (Donna) says she didn't get any phone call from the doctor.

I then go to the doctor's office to find out what the hell is going on and she is in with a patient. I waited 20 min. there and then she finally came out and says, "Oh you're fast." Fast!!!??? Just to recap, this was 40 min after she phoned me! Whatever! So she writes the prescription, I thank her and get the hell outta there, head over to the pharmacy, AGAIN, get to the desk and a chick behind the counter says Donna is on lunch. WHAT THE F**K! So I slap the prescription down and tell her to tell Donna to phone me when it's ready. I get home and apologize to Darren for delaying him from getting his work done, and continue packing. I finally get the phone call around 4:00 that her medicine is ready to pick up. What a GONG SHOW! I was so mad I could spit fire.

We finally ended up leaving to go camping around 5:30pm and Darren didn't end up finishing his first coat. But the camping trip was good. Found an awesome spot by Cadomin (south of Hinton) right by the river. Went for a drive around there and found a spot by a coal mine that has hundreds of Big Horn sheep. It was pretty cool to see so many in one area. The area they are in is protected meaning no one can hunt there so that's why there is so many. Smart animals.

I will post pics when I get them developed. I still haven't gotten the girls 3rd birthday pics developed yet. I think I need a digital camera.

Chow!

Well our weekend was a bit eventfull. Saturday night we went to our friends' 25th anniversary party a little west of the Gennesee power plant. We took our trailer so we could put the midgets to bed, and so we could drink too of course. Stayed up way too late! Didn't go to bed until 3:00am and was up at 7:15 cause of the girls waking up. But I managed to get them to sleep for another hour thank god.

Sunday was Trev's (my brother) 33rd bday. Went to their place for a BBQ. Was a bit tired and hungover. Had lots of salads and desserts which were awesome! Good job Cordell and Tawnja! Yummmmmmmy! Thanks for having us over!

Today took Erika to the new doctor in town (she is an awesome doctor, just what our town needed!) and she (just as I suspected) has bladder infection. Thursday morning she went to pee and she complained it hurt her but she never said anything like that since, but since then she has been trying to hold in her pee because it hurt (which caused her to have accidents ). Poor thing. So she is on drugs which is good because we are heading out this Friday to go camping for the weekend. I am glad I got her looked at today.

Our town hasn't had a clinic in it for years. Their pediatrician is in Edmonton but that is just so inconvenient for us because it's such a far drive. I think this clinic will do quite well.

First Night

Well Annika's first night in her own room went very good. She was thanking me all afternoon yesterday saying, "Thanks mom for my new room!" She is so excited! We read our bedtime stories on Annika's bed which was nice. It took the girls a while to fall asleep though last night so I had to rub them to sleep. I don't blame them. I think with Annika it was just so exciting that she couldn't sleep. With Erika I think with Annika out of their room she might be feeling a bit lonely.

This morning our alarm didn't come on but the girls were up and playing at 7:15 which woke me up in turn I then woke Darren up(he was a little late). When the girls heard us talking they came running in our room and Annika said, "Daddy do you want to see my new room?! I will show you! Come on!" So she takes off running to her room with daddy following and when they got there she said, "Ta da!!" It was the cutest thing!

I am trying not to make too much of a big deal of it though because whenever I do say something about 'Annika's new room' Erika right away comes to me and talks about her room, so I also have to get excited about Erika having her own room too. I don't know if I am being weird but I don't want her to be left out.

They have tons of room to play now between the two rooms which is also a bonus!

But here is a lesson I have learned. I should have split them up to their own rooms sooner. I hope they can go to sleep on their own tonight.

Darren wasn't mad at all. I think he understands why I did this. And now when Erika feels the need to get up at 3 in the morning and play, when she isn't supposed to, hopefully she won't wake up Annika.

Annika's new room

Well today was a big change in this house. Annika got her own room!

It all started around 3:00am today. I don't know why I woke up but I did and noticed a light on down the other end of the house. I got up and saw that it was the girls light on and they were sleeping. I knew right away that it was Erika. So I shut off the light and go back to sleep, get a couple more hours in, and at 5:00am I hear Erika yapping away. So I get up again, go to their room,the light is on again, Erika is up playing, Annika is just sitting in her bed in a tired daze. I lay them both down, go to the breaker box and shut off the switch to their room, and get back into bed.

Minutes later I hear 'click click click click........Whahhhhhhhh!' Erika was trying to turn on her light and got right pissed that it wouldn't turn on. So I ended up just bringing her to bed with me so we could all get back to sleep.

Well, after breakfast I started taking everything out of the computer room to make it into Annika's own room. I hope Darren doesn't kill me. I have mentioned to him that I wanted to do this long ago but he was dead against the computer being in the living room. (not sure why. maybe he likes to look at some websites I wouldn't approve of. (ha ha) I don't know.) So I got everything cleaned up in there and put her bed in and some toys and books, it looks so cute! (Crystal, I put the picture of the Care Bear you made for her up in her room too!)

When I was done I carried Annika into her room as I covered her eyes and when we got in I counted to three and uncovered her eyes. She was quiet for a few seconds, she probably didn't know what the hell her bed was doing in the computer room, and after I explained this was her own room she got pretty excited. She started taking books off her shelf and took them to her bed to look at them. I took a pic which I will post in this when I get them developed. I feel pretty good now.

Exept our living room is a bit crowded. All I can think of is "Where are we going to put the Christmas tree?"

Fit Hits The Shan

When will this freakin' heat end???!!! I am so tired of these 30 above temperatures. And now the humidity is so bad the weather people have a humidity factor so it makes the temperature feel more like 35 degrees. We are in Alberta people!! We aren't used to this! If I wanted to sweat it out every day in this weather I would go to B.C. .... or Mexico! At least there are nice lakes and such in those places that you can hop into. Here we have Wizard or Pigeon Lake (yay). Pigeon Lake had such bad algae blooms last year because of a bunch of factors (hasn't happened yet this year that I have heard of) and now in front of our cabin it is so thick with floating weeds and hives it looks like soup. Yummmo!

Anyways, I have to share what happened yesterday afternoon. Around 4:30pm I am happy watching my Young and the Restless, the girls are quietly playing in their bedroom, and I hear this huge crash. We live in a mobile home and the builders use the cheapest shelving they could possibly scrounge up (the wire shit). 4 of these shelves have fallen down in this house so far.

Anyways, this time it was the closet shelf. I blame it on me hanging one of Darren's heavy ass coats from it a few days ago. I open the door and there is crap everywhere! I had 2 little pots with dirt in them that got dumped all over everything.

So while I am cleaning this up Erika is in the kitchen (she had pulled a chair up to the stove) pouring salt and pepper out of the shakers into a neat little pile on a baking sheet I had sitting there from lunch. And Annika is at the other end of the house in their room shitting in her panties (which happened 3 times yesterday. That will be another rant another day I am sure).

All hell has to break loose all at once in this house. Days like these make me think I am definately not having any more kids. Two is enough for me!

Walmart Blues

Good morning! Well I am sitting here today at my computer drinking hot coffee when it's probably already 20 degrees outside already. It is supposed to reach 34 degrees today. Way too frickin hot for me I tell ya. I can't function with this heat. Darren came home the other night with a ceiling fan for the living room (that he bought for $200!!!) I thought that was a little too much to spend. But it is making a difference.

Now the girls and I have to get ready soon to head to Walmart before the temperature gets too crazy. Yay for me!! I am starting to hate that store. They have maybe 3 tills open and there are 15 or 16 fickin tills just sitting there empty. So the line ups sometimes reach as far as the dairy section. I just don't know. Is this problem in every Walmart out there? When I think of going there I just feel all panicky and my stomach gets upset. I just hate shopping all together. I got this way when the girls were born. Shopping is a little more time consuming when you got two kids in tow. I used to work in a daycare and I would get these moms that would drop their kids off for a couple hours about twice a week so she can go shopping. I used to always complain about this because I couldn't understand why she would do this. Well now being a mom, I can relate. It is a little easier to shop without the girls, which never happens with me, but thankfully they are excellent shoppers. They are so good in a store (knock on wood!). So I guess I better get my ass moving. Chow for now!

Boob Tube

Well I have a confession to make. I haven't touched the book I have been reading since my last post. I don't know what the hell happened there. I was doing so good. I think I have to blame it on TV. I've got to tune in to The Young and the Restless everyday of course. I have been hooked on that soap since I have been a teen. My mom has been watching it since God knows when. Probably before I was born. I've tried watching other soaps but they just seem so....well....stupid is a good word I guess, and fake.

Monday nights are for Hell's Kitchen. LOVE LOVE LOVE that show!! I love to watch cooking shows and I started watching this show on the Food Network last year and they didn't cut out Chef Gordon Ramsay's swearing, which f**n happens every f**n second word that f**n comes out of his f**n mouth, but it makes the show even

better I think. I just use the F word way too often as well, so I think I can relate to why he swears so much. I watch it on City TV now and they cut out the swearing. Oh well, anyways, if you haven't seen it it's worth giving it a shot. Every episode when he gives someone the boot he says, "Get the f**k out!" It's pretty funny! He also has another show on the Food Network called Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares. He helps little restaurants that are going under by changing the menus, working with the staff and owners, and in the end turn it right around to a bustling restaurant. But it's on at 11:00pm. So yea I am tired today. For an old guy too I think he is a little sexy!

Now Thursdays and Sundays Big Brother 8 is on. Haven't watched this show for a couple years so I thought I would watch it this time. Thursdays are also for Pirate Master. (have you figured out by now that I like to watch reality TV?)

Okay so that leaves Tuesdays and Wednesdays. I guess I could try to read those nights. For some reason right now I can't think of anything that is on those nights. Drawing a blank here!! Weekends are a write-off. There is always something going on.

I think I am done rambling now. So I guess tonight I am reading the book.........if there is nothing on the boob tube! Now f**k off!!