I promised myself I would make a post today but since I am kind of busy at work I decided to post a joke someone sent to me. I am originally from "down home" Nova Scotia and have a warped sense of humor. Newfie humor especially appeals to me like dumb blond jokes, some of them can be very funny. Ok so here goes:

Why Newfies can't be paramedics:

Joe and Bud are out in the woods hunting when suddenly Bud grabs his
chest and falls to the ground.He doesn't seem to be breathing, his eyes are rolled back in his head.

Joe whips out his cell phone and calls 911. He
gasps to the operator, " By t'undering Jesus bye, I tink Bud is dead! What should I do?"

The operator, in a calm soothing voice says, "Just take it
easy and follow my instructions. First, let's make sure he's dead."

There is a silence...... and then a gun shot is heard.Joe comes back on the line :

"Okay, now what

I find it so hard to keep up with blogging lately. At home finding time is not easy. I usually have 100 other things I have to do. Work was my blog place of choice but it has seemed so busy lately. I try to read everyone’s blogs even if I do not write but I am so far behind it is hard to catch up!!!

I feel like I am missing out on stuff! I am loosing touch with my blog friends. I don't know what is going on in anyone’s life!! Ug

Ok lets see. I am pretty much finished shopping. Now I just have to NOT buy anything else no matter what the sale is. Oh how hard it is. I keep saying to myself "Dr Phil says not to buy kids everything they want or they will never learn the value of wanting things and not always getting what they want" Ok breath put down the item ... walk away....
Stay out of all malls!

I told hubby we need to put something under the tree for us from Santa. If we do not my son say """HEY YOU WERE BAD SO SANTA DID NOT LEAVE YOU GUYS ANYTHING UNDER THE TREE... YOU SHOULD NOT YELL AT US ANYMORE AND MAYBE SANTA WILL GET YOU SOMETHING NEXT YEAR""" Can not endure that again.

I suggested to hubby we fill each others stocking. Stockings were always my favorite thing when I was small. And hey I am easy to please, go to the dollar store and get me pens paper scrap booking stuff ect and I am a happy girl. Hubby looks very un-enthusiastic. Men. No honey, I want to buy my own present and hey let me wrap that for you and put it under the tree for me. Sounds good eh. Not.

Oh well.

Kids are very excited. We are counting down the days. I think I am just as excited to open their stuff and put it together and play with it as they will be.

I am so tired. I am falling asleep in my chair. God I hate getting up so early in the morning. I need to win the lotto….

I watched Constintine today. I like that movie. Tomorrow I am watching The Last Samri. Never seen that one before.

Moved the furniture around a bit the other day. Very pleased with myself. Starting to go together. I think your home is always a work in progress right. Never completely finished. Like being finished the laundry it does not happen….

Sent hubby upstairs with the kids. Give Mom a break I said. Funny he yells at them to get ready for bed and they end up crying for me in the end. Hubby hates reading to them. Mommy’s job. Sometimes it feels like everything is Mommy’s job. He has jobs too though that I never do so I can not complain, like feeding the lizard (it would be dead if I had to do it gross crickets and meal worms yuck) put out garbage and recycling (too late too cold it would sit there forever) snow plow the driveway ( I live in the snow belt so it is a good thing plus the snow blower is so heavy) lets see…. Scoops dog poop, most of the time if I leave him a detailed list he will do it. I do not complain how he does it as long as he does it. I used to say “you cleaned the sink with…. ?” but not anymore.

Changed the hamsters name to stinky. Oh god now I know why my Mother made my “disappear” when I was a kid. It shits EVERYWHERE except the litter box the sales lady told me I have to buy. Who ever said hamsters were clean animals lied. I made my niece clean the cage this weekend (I bought it for her but it has to live her cause her other grandmother hates them) She is like hey aunty this is a lot of work. I am like yep. The cage does not exactly have a permanent place. We move it around. It is currently on the kitchen table and hubby comes in and says “what is that smell” I said it is Stinky. I clean this stupid cage and scoop its poop daily yuck. I am glad it only has a two year life span.

And speaking of stinky. Lord my dog has bad breath. I was snuggling on the couch with Hubby and the dog decided to try to join us. Now remember my dog is 140 pounds of baby love. He is heavy when he lays on you! Then he is licking our faces. Yuck do you know where that tongue has been!!

Kids party on the weekend went well. They had fun and it was manageable. I was very proud of my son, he got his secret Santa gift and I knew he did not like it but he was very gracious.

Well I guess this is all of the alone time I got for now. I will try to keep up and set aside a ½ of work time to read blogs tomorrow….

Take care my blog friends…

Queenie

Hello All,

It has been forever since I wrote it feels like! It has just been so busy around here and at work. I took the day off today, called in sick. I was really frustrated because last night it took me 4 hours to get home. I was in tears on the way home saying I can't do this, this is crazy I can't spend 3 hours on a bus every time we get snow! I gave myself a headache which was the reason I called in. I don't care. I have things to do today anyway.

Tomorrow is my kids and their friend’s secret Santa party. So today hubby (who is off work) and I are going to tidy up and go shopping. It is nice to spend time with hubby. Our son is in school so just our daughter home so there is no fighting at least till after school!

The plan today is to clean up the living room and move the bar into place. We are determined! Well maybe good intentioned! I am sure with both of us home it will be much easier to get stuff done.

My co-worker called me to see if I was coming in. She is kinda a friend/not friend. We are friendly and chat but when it comes to work she would stab me in the back if it made her look better. But you know we have friends of all kinds right. Anyways, she asked me if I was coming in, I was like V it took me four hours to go home last night, I was stressed and got a headache. She is like ya well it took me three hours to get to my other job (very unlikely) and the roads are better today. I am like and your point is? What ever. I am sure she will be in with the manager making a comment.

I don't care.

Finally picked up something for my 13 year old niece last night. She is SO HARD to buy for. She says Aunty get me a gift certificate for a store. So impersonal. So I was looking at jewelry. She is not a girly girly so nothing dainty or anything. Butterflies are a big thing to us in our family (to us it represents my mom and my grandmother) so I found one that is black and silver but really nice. Not dainty kinda chunky. I also got her a bracelet that said Keeper, my mom's nickname for her.

I finally finished Scratches story. Printed it off and read it on the bus. It was amazing. He really should look at getting his work published. We can all say “hey I knew him when he was a blogger” ha ha

Have to give advice to anyone thinking about getting their kids a hamster DON”T. Dirty little things. We got Cloie a litter box, girl in the pet store says oh don’t worry they figure it out and like to shit in only one spot. YEAH RIGHT. It shits EVERYWHERE in the cage except for the litter box! She takes all the food out of the dish and spreads it everywhere. She sleeps in one specific tunnel and shits everywhere in it. What a pain in the ass. That is what I get for being a softie and getting my niece a hamster and volunteering to keep it for her. On a positive note, its life span is on only two years…..

Wow Christmas is in like nine days. Hard to believe. I love watching the kids open their stuff and get all excited. I am looking forward to the party for their friends tomorrow too. I am inviting the kids Mom’s so it will be nice to hang out with them as well. Maybe become a little friendlier with them which would be nice.

What else can I say….

I am going to try to download the kids picture with Santa today. I asked Hubby to help me out so hopefully we will have time and we figure it out. Motherless child gave me some pointers so hopefully we do ok!!!

Well my break time is coming to an end. Have to let Gracie play on the computer till Hubby gets back and shovels then we are off to start our shopping.

Will check in later blog friends

Queenie

I am trying to decide what to do today. My Dad took my kids to the city to a birthday party, hubby is at work and I am on my own. I kinda feel for a nap but then I think what a waste of time and all of the things I need to get done. Clean up stuff ect.

Stayed up late with Hubby last night wrapping presents and watching Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Was an ok movie. Hubby really liked it. Finished my wrapping though so that is a good thing.

Wanted to be intimate with hubby last night but he had a headache and wanted to watch tv. I think it is so infrequent now that we do have sex (like monthly if I am lucky) that we just can not be bothered anymore. Makes me sad because I think we are both only in our mid 30’s and married 8 years and the sizzle has fizzled a long time ago. We don’t spend a lot of time together. With our opposite off days and his late shifts and my early mornings we just don’t seem to connect. We just seem so used to it, so settled. God I hate that word settled.

I don’t know, I am definitely more interested then he is. I do not believe either for the record he is getting any somewhere else either. He like me works comes home and takes care of the kids. Neither of us have any spare time. Funny how people think that though, my Latin friend is like “oh he is so cheating on you, men can not go that long” I say well maybe him and late night computer stuff take care of itself.

I wonder is a penis like a normal muscle. If you don’t use it you loose it? If you only do it monthly will it not last as long because it is not in shape?

I tried to get him to take these pills made from something from a goat. Suppose to increase a men’s sex drive. Ok NOT. I think is this the fate of my sex life for the next 30 years? Down hill already?

Shit that is depressing…….

OK I think screw it (ha ha no pun intended) I am going to take that nap. Will check into blog land from work tomorrow, I am really dying to read the next chapters of Scratches story….

Queenie

Hi All,

Today I got up with intention of cleaning and I ended up building a snow fort outside. Several actually. The neighbor’s kids came out too. It was fun. It reminded me of when I was a kid. My brother was snow fort building extraordinary. He would spend hours out there......

Anyway, I was reading blogs yesterday and Hockey Mom did a grateful list and suggested we all should try it.

So here goes…………

I am grateful for my house. It may be messy most of the time but that just shows you there is lots of life in it. It keeps us safe and warm and it is a heaven for our family and all our friends who feel welcome here.

I am grateful for my husband. Even though sometimes I would like to toss him out of a speeding vehicle. He is my rock, my common sense when I don’t remember where mine is. He knows me better then anyone else. He is my quiet when I am a storm. He has a strength and warmth that make me feel safe and loved.

I am grateful for my kids. They are amazing people. They teach me things about myself. They are the reason for getting out of bed some days. My greatest achievement and pride in my life is being a mother. There is no other feeling like it.

I am grateful for my pets. My dog gives me unconditional love and patients that sometimes you just can not get from a human! Plus he is an awesome listener.

I am grateful for my family. As weird and quirky as they all are we are close in our own way and if you take on one of us you take on all of us. My Dad is a great guy. He always lets us know he will be there if we need him.

I am grateful for the time I had with my Mother. I miss her very much but I have learned so much from her. The best parts of me as a person and as a mother come from her. She was a wonderful person.

I am grateful for my job. As much as I HATE commuting, my job provides me with the money I need to take care of my family. Although I wish that job was in the town I live in.

I am grateful for my friends. There are all different kinds and I am close to them in different ways but they provide me with the outlet I need sometimes.

I am also grateful for the blog and everyone in it. It is nice to express myself and share that with others and read their stories as well.

Ok I think that is it for now because my son has decided to do an “experiment” in his bedroom and that makes me think that I should run up there and make sure he is not making a mess….

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend, check in on the blog later…..

Queenie