Love!

Okay just a quick thought....

I am in love with the fact that;

a) I am going out for dinner tonight with a friend to a restaurant with A/C without the child (that could be a, b, c, and d!).

b) I'm getting a sweet summer tan!

Also, I'm bakin' like a toasted cheezer!

I love this place for many reasons!

I love going for lunch at the mall (or dinner, i guess)! Malcolm thinks I'm a little WT for it, but I can't help it.

When I was little, every summer we would go visit my Grandma in Abbotsford BC and take a day trip with her and my Mom to Bellingham, Washington and every time, without fail, we would go for lunch at the mall. We would meet my Grandma's brother and his wife (who always wore a bad wig even though they had millions) and they would give each of us a baggie of $2.00 in change (even though they had millions).

So I think that's probably why I like it, plus you get to sit and watch people, which is one of my favourite things to do... it runs in the family, right Kayce?

But seriously, I could sit there for hours and I would have today if I didn't have the little lady with me!

Just call me Beth!

Today I was getting ready to go to the beach with my sisters, I put on my suit go into the bathroom to check myself out (cause you know you gotta, you're most likely not going to like what you see but you have to check anyway) and this is what I see... Beth Chapman, minus the do, okay mostly just the hooters! I'm pretty sure I didn't used to look like that!

...I promptly put on my black suit.

I was so Mad...

You know that book by Mercer Meyer, well it's the story of my life. My little lady loves that book and she and Malcolm have changed the words from, I was so mad, to, I was so mummy! Real Mature!

That is not the point of my post, the point is this;

How is it possible for your children know the best (worst) times to have a fit/tantrum?

In the grocery store when the cart is already full, in the doctors office waiting room, at the mall at 10:30 in the morning when only you and the old people are there and like today, when you have a crap load of things to do.

This whole move out of the city to a small town has been an adjustment for me, there is a lot more planning involved in my life now. So when I go "into the city" I usually have a long list of things that I need to get done (buy). Today it included:

-Pick up coffee table (on the other side of the world, seriously it took me at least an hour to get there)

-Choose and pick up paint for le monsters room

-Pick up quilt for previously mentioned monsters new bed

-Buy monster new church clothes (she almost went to church in a mini-dress on Sunday because apparently she's grown ALOT in the last two months)

- Go to Michaels so I can paint the monster a picture for her new bedroom (which I will be posting before and afters pics of in the next couple weeks)

All these things did not get done because somebody had a laying on the ground, screaming, arms flailing temper tantrum in H&M and it wasn't me! So to do the mother thing like I'm supposed to do we promptly went home so she knows that's not okay. Promptly, as in, after we got a blizzard... that still counts as parenting right?

Love these

I am loving the PC blue menu chicken strips.

I think the box is different now, but this is all I could find online...and I wasn't going to look for more than 10 seconds.

Normally I think chicken strips from the frozen foods section taste a little off, so much that I never eat them. I only tried these out of politeness one day because my sister served them for lunch. Well...I'm glad I'm so polite, or I would have missed out on these gems!
$8.00 for the box and that does us for 2 meals, not too bad if you ask me.
Give em' a go!

Oh and PS... they have meatless ones (they make me nervous), I've almost grabbed those my mistake a couple times because the boxes look exactly the same. If you're into that, be my guest but I'm just sayin', kinda like gag me! What exactly is in meatless chicken?

What the eff?

Seriously... I'm so embarrassing.
I just got off the phone with my builder, the conversation consisted of Lou (which I think is a cute girls name) telling me that she was sending a guy out to check on my house to see if my possession date needed to be pushed back or if they were going to make it in time. My response was... tears, tears and more tears! (Umm... hello dumb, dumb, you cry after you hang up the phone.) Nothing is going right with this Hell hole I'm going to call home (for now it's a hell hole, hopefully I like it after I'm done with these people). Apparently I'm reaching my stress limit!



P.S. If you would like to avoid the awkward convo with me, where you don't know what to say cause I'm crying my guts out, don't call for the next month or so.

If I knew then what I know now...

So we have been building a house for the past 11 months and I am now at the point that if another thing goes wrong I will send myself to the loony bin!
We were supposed to be in the house by Christmas, clearly that didn't happen. We have gone through more than one sales person, had to choose, and re-choose, and then choose our finishes again due to the retardedness of every person in the company (with the exception of our site supervisor, which is a relief because hopefully that means at least we will be moving into a soundly constructed home).
The newest drama in the house building saga is my floors, they tiled almost my entire main floor. I'm not sure if the installer was unable to read drawings, or maybe it's the english language in general, so that had to be ripped out and now there is not enough tile left to finish the laundry/mud room and front entrance and the other trades can not finish what they have to do until the floors are done. We'll see how far back that puts our possession date...
Also, every single one of my light fixtures is on back order, except the one in the laundry room, you know the one that nobody will ever see. They also ordered the wrong finish on my bathroom fixtures but apparently now the ones I ordered and paid for are discontinued. Funny how that happens...


Cute, isn't it?

I could go on for days about the problems I have had with this company, I'm not even exaggerating...days!!! These are just some of the things I have had to deal with in the last 2 weeks alone.
I will be glad when it's all done... if that ever happens!

Next on the list...

I'm training for a half marathon!!
Okay well technically I'm going to start training today, I'm so, so excited about it. Originally I wanted to do a halfie, then I thought that it would be too hard, so I decided to go for a 5K, but isn't the point? To challenge myself? So now I'm back to train for the half. I decided I wanted to do it a little over a week ago and of course I had to go get new running shoes, which set me back a few days. I'm doing the Hal Higdon training program and today is THE DAY! If you have ever wanted to run a race and didn't know how to train for it (like me) look him up, it seems pretty simple, he breaks it down day by day and before you know it you're running a half marathon, I hope...

Wish me luck! I'll keep you updated on my progress.

I couldn't stay away...

So here I am, again! I just couldn't stay away from the blogging world. 

Previously I had a blog which was mostly about my family's little life, but decided I didn't want that plastered all over the internet and instead of editing all my post I just deleted it all together, some may call it lazy... okay really I was just too lazy. 

I love reading other people's blogs but I was feeling like I was taking advantage of other people who spend time posting all sorts of useful information and I was giving nothing in return... so here it is, my contribution to the blogging world!

... I will post about something useful another day.