Really! I'm A Deadbeat.

So after yesterday I may be just changing the whole title of this blog and everything I do to 'memoirs of a deadbeat mom'.

I actually MISSED parent watching day at Nova/Hovda's (3 year old daughter) dance class! Yep.

Sorbet had a nap, woke her up from nap to take Hovda (I like that misunderstanding of her name best I think, although no one made a silver spoon with that name on it for her as they did Nova, right, this is deserving of a post...) to her dance lesson and in true deadbeat form as it is a very small town and the temperature is very frigid at the moment I opted to leave my baby in the warm van while I took Hovda in for the lesson. I did it quickly and efficiently and Hovda specifically asked me to let her go in herself and to 'have fun at home' as if she knew it was parent watching day and she wanted me to FAIL! So I obeyed her every word and went home! Totally forgetting about the special day and ONLY day that Momma's get to watch their baby's grow up to be (not cowboy's) but dancers.

I remembered this was happening, unfortunately, long after the class was over and then asked Hovda if the Mommies were there today and she said cheerfully 'yep! and some daddies too!but you weren't there! (ya deadbeat!)'

avant-garde?

While I was auditioning photos for my updated bloggy profile GlenZa came across this one that was taken at her New Years party by me in front of her 'pooter. Well I think you can see why it failed the test as it gives off the (oobey doobey doo...) impression that I am watching you as you navigate the pages of bloggy world. Also I think we should call to attention that the really green parts are there to emphasize the very warm or greasy areas of ones face. Just Beautiful.

figured out titles!

finally I have figured out how to make my posts have titles instead of just the first few lines of my post....what a relief!

so I am thinking of changing the whole look of my blog to be more customized to, well, me and not so much like the many other blogs.....

I may be trying out different things thru the next few days. So just bear with me. It may be fun to just see what the look of the day is.

so maybe possibly it will be bye bye DOTS.

New Word

Is it just a funny coincidence that my 3 year old daughter's word for booze is...

UNCLE-hol?

Special Poem

I made meat balls for supper......I love a meat ball sub.

Ode to Meat
(dedicated to GloTox as we share the same fondness)

chicken, cow, piggy or fish
meat is where it's at,

meat is my wish.

ribs, wings, steaks and roast
meat has it all,
it gives us the most.

fried, baked, fondue, bar-B-qued
oh meat it is true,
you're my favorite food.

I know there are others out there who feel the same way. It's natural. It's right. Let me share this picture with you....

Sorbet & Meat

Well it's been too long since me blogged. And since it is GlenZa's 'make a wish' that I blog once again I will start with something simple. Last night after a very unfortunate medicine getting incident for Sorbet (as we now call her) I lay awake. I lay awake thinkin'. Then I got laughing. I was laughing about silly things that happened during the day. This is a list of my favorite things that happened yesterday.

1) GlenZa trying to sharpen a 'flat' eye pencil. Then I was thinking about why would they manufacture an eye pencil that is so inconveniently shaped for sharpening?

2) Also the unfortunate medicine getting incident was not funny while it was happening but it got funny immediately after. You see everything just went wrong. It's was 1:30. I had just fallen asleep. Sorbet woke up with her nasty cold/cough crying. I went to get her. Decided medicine is what she needed. Went to get the medicine, couldn't open it with my wee, small , weak hands. Had to 'wake up' Flebb. Even though he was already awake from the tiny screaming body that was awake wanting meds. He opened the bottle, then I lost the little syringe thingy in the bottle, swore loudly, put the baby by Flebb, went to find tweezers to get the syringe out. Then there wasn't enough medicine in the bottle to get any out so had to pour some in a cup and get it out that way, then finally got satisfaction and put the meds in the baby. Went back to bed. This seemed really funny to me when I should have been going to sleep. It's almost impossible for me to be rational at night with a crying baby that just wants to be on me so much that when I try to put her down she squeezes my hip with her tiny little legs and grips my neck with her little arms. Right, so maybe that was more my favorite thing rather than the medicine trying to get me committed....

3) The meat that I ate for supper. We really do have a great butcher in town and if were up to me, which I guess it really is, we would do ALL of our grocery shopping there and forgo the whole produce, bread and what not food groups.

4) The meat I ate on my sandwich later on in the evening.

And on that fond note I feel I should stop. I just got off the phone with GlenZa and she got me all excited about chili and/or hamburger soup. Just so you know if I ever do a post of this variety again, the meat will most like make an appearance.

20 Ways To Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity

(disclaimer: I did not make these up but I did laugh a little. This is my version of 'forwarding')

1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a
hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.

2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.

3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries
with that.

4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "IN".

5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks . Once everyone has gotten
over their caffeine addictions, switch to Espresso.

6. In the memo field of all your checks, write "For smuggling diamonds".

7. Finish all your sentences with "In accordance with the prophecy".

8. Don't use any punctuation.
9. As often as possible,
skip rather than walk.

10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.

11. Specify that your drive-through order is "To Go".

12. Sing along at the opera.

13. Go to a poetry recital, and ask why the poems don't rhyme?

14. Put mosquito netting around your work area and play tropical sounds
all day.

15. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can't attend their party
because you're not in the mood.

16. Have your co-workers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Bottom.

17. When the money comes out of the ATM, scream "I Won! I Won!"

18. When leaving the Zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling
"Run for your lives! They're loose!"

19. Tell your children over dinner, "Due to the economy, we are going to
have to let one of you go." (I love this one!)

Annoyed...again

Pictured here is the shower curtain that I ordered online from CanadianTire almost 2 weeks ago. Yes, it's cool. I love the colors and I can't wait to see it so I can get to painting my bathroom!

And here we have a picture of the one that was sent. Also cute but NOT the curtain I ordered!!! What vexes me more is that they didn't REALLY send the wrong one because the product numbers are the same! How does this happen? How many people out there are ordering things online only because they like the pictures and descriptions and then do not receive what they have been anxiously hoping for? If there were color options for the curtain don't you think that should have been advertised? Or does the person putting together the order just say

'hmm, well it's not the right color but I am sure the customer won't mind this color too much'

Anyway, they have to 'start a file' on the incident and try to straighten it out for me. That means it could be a long time before I get my shower curtain. Which means it could be a long time before my bathroom gets painted which means a long time showering in the basement....uggggg!

This is flibirdijibits very frayed online shopping nerve......

For Posterity....

This post is mostly for my sake, taking advantage of the diary initiative that is Bloggy. So read on if you like but remember it's just a way of keeping track of my life for later on down the road when I can't remember what the hell it is I have done.

This week we are off to Christopher Lake to partake in our version of camping which is borrowing Auntie Margaret's cabin. Flebb and I met there, and it's always refreshing to go back to 'where it all began'. Our 6th, yes I said sixth, anniversary will come and go while we are away. Have to say we've accomplished and demolished quite a bit in the last 6 years. I realize this is not REALLY my personal diary so I'll stop there. Anyway, perhaps some funny incident will fall upon us in our travels and I will have more flibirdijibitisms then?

Toodles.

Urban Dictionary

This site seems to take my little game of Balderdash to another level! It's a slang dictionary that you right the definitions for!It's really funny. Here's todays word:

August 4, 2006

awesinine:
Stupidly brilliant, or brilliantly stupid. Describes an idea or work whose chief virtue is its overwhelming, unadulterated dumbness.

Have you heard about that new movie 'Snakes on a Plane'?Heck yeah! I'm going opening night. That thing looks awesinine

Wilma, you totally have to go put your new words up on that site!