So another Christmas come and gone. It was a pretty good one I have to say! It was our turn to have Christmas Eve this year so we had our family over for some drinks and snacks. I'm glad everyone came out and braved the cold weather.Darren was pretty good to me; meaning he DIDN'T get me a case of beer or a Polly Pocket. He got me an awesome pink robe which is so soft, an ipod nano, deep fryer, perfume, and new phones for the house. The girls got spoiled of course. Their favorite toys are the new Diamond of the Castle Barbies. Erika is loving her High School Musical movie. They watched it probably 5 times today alone! And oh!!! Oh oh oh!!! Remember about our dead tree? Well the night before Christmas Eve Darren went out after work and picked up an artificial for me!!! I think I'm spoiled!! I was so happy! I was up till 1:00am decorating it that night. It is beautiful!! I love having a real tree but I think those days are done for me. No more needles on the floor, no more worrying about if it has water or not, it's prelit so no more fiddling with strings of lights, yadda yadda yadda..! So yes, it was an awesome Christmas!!
Well Tigger has done it again. Donna got to work this morning (in Calmar) and when she got out of her vehicle she saw Tigger sitting there on her roof. I don't know why she didn't jump off as soon as Donna started her car!! So Darren had to go pick Tigger up and bring her home before he went to work. I checked on her this afternoon and her ears are all pink, swollen, and seeping clear fluid. I think she may loose both her ears! Poor thing! I can't believe she went for a ride on a vehicle again! So we are all ready and anxious for Christmas! Yay! Just one thing though, our tree is DEAD! Last weekend it stopped drinking water. So now it's so dried up I don't even want to turn the lights on. It's really depressing! I am debating if we should run in tomorrow and pick up an artificial tree. We may get a deal which would be good! We'll see.
Well it was an interesting weekend. Saturday morning the power goes off a little after 11:00am. The girls had their first drop-off birthday party at 1:00 so we just went to mom's a little before that to hang out in a WARM house. Took the girls to their party and came back to mom's to visit with Auntie Maxine, Martie, and Richard. It was so nice to see them! It's been too long! Later on after they left I had to pick the girls up from their party and take them to mom and dad's because Darren's work Christmas party was that night. So I drop them off and head home to see if we have power; this was about 4:00pm. Got home and the power had just turned back on and the house was FREEZING! Hurry and change; get out the door and head to Edmonton for the party; which was also FREEZING in there all night. There were awesome snacks and the meal was SO good. They had a slide show of all the people working there of pictures of when they were young and pictures of them now. That was cool. The bosses bought gifts for all the employees kids and also handed out shirts and wicked backpacks for everyone. After 3 coffees (which I thought would warm me up; not a chance) and lots of visiting we decide to take off and we (us and Trev and Krista) then went to Boston Pizza for a couple drinks and watch the rest of the hockey game. It was so warm in there!!! Ahhh!! So it's about 10:30, we then head out for home; but first we had to pick up the kids from mom's. Get there, wake them up, take them home and tuck them into bed, and we retire ourselves.Sunday morning wake up at 8:30am with NO POWER AGAIN! Darren's mom said it's been off way before 6:00am. The house is freezing again. Annika got up and we basically just sat on the couch and covered up with blankets to try to stay warm. Erika slept and slept, which was good because I knew if she stayed sleeping in bed then she'll stay warm. Sat and sat and sat and sat. 10:10am the power comes back on!! Yay!!! It was funny because then Erika got up, like she knew. The furnace ran for a little over an hour to try to get the house warm again. So we carry on normally; have lunch a little later, then get the girls ready for their Christmas concert! They did just fine; I was a little disappointed they didn't say their lines, sing, or even face the crowd(Erika), but hey, they did stand on stage at least and I am proud of them for that. There were a lot of people there.So yea, busy weekend, glad it's over, and now time to do some last minute panicking for Christmas!! AAAAAHHH! I am usually done way before this time of year. I don't know what's wrong with me this year! There are gifts to buy and I have to try to go see my grandma for a way overdue visit. Oh boy. Anyways, wish me luck!!
So this morning the girls and I were heading out to go to Pam's for coffee. As we were in the garage and loading into the van I noticed a cat running along the roof of the van. So I get in and start it up, back out of the garage, and before taking off I stop to fiddle around with the iPod before getting onto the road. I figure the cat is long gone so we take off. As we take off onto the highway and I get up some speed I notice in the rearview mirror a cat fall down off the back of the van and onto the road. Well, holy shit! I watch as it does a couple flips and then she just sat there. I slammed on the brakes and whipped a shitty in the middle of the road and headed back to her as fast as I could and noticed some trucks coming. Thank god she ran off the road and went into the ditch. I pulled up to her and noticed it was Tigger, one of my favorite cats on the farm. I got out and grabbed her and took her back to the yard a 1/2 mile away. She was all wet and dirty from the road, I couldn't tell where or if she was hurt. I get her home and into the garage to lay her down on some coveralls and notice her favoring one of her back legs. So I left her alone and headed back out to our coffee date. We checked on her when we got back home and it turns out she is fine. Yay! What a morning!
Okay. I'm not too into politics, don't really know much about it. I voted for Progressive Conservative, I'll admit it. But I am wondering why do we even vote in this country if our votes can be pretty much overruled?! I don't get it! It's pretty apparent who Canada wants to be Prime Minister, it shows in our votes. So why doesn't that matter? Why can't it just be left at that? Hey Liberals! WE DON'T WANT YOU!!!!! And that other stupid french party, I don't even want to go there. I just don't understand why our voices don't matter. And from what I hear I don't think I would want to live in Alberta if those dicks take over. Nuf said.
