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sunday morning butterflies and family

March 30th, 2008 @ 6:37 pm

Yesterday while Shawn and I were painting the last stupid wall in the stupidly large room, my sister phoned and asked if I would like to go to the Botanical Gardens to see the butterflies on Sunday morning. Surprisingly enough I did want to go, so I said yes! I tend to get up fairly early lately (sigh) and I knew I would be up and ready to go by nine in the morning. Shawn stayed home and slept in. ;)

So off we went today. I squeezed into the back seat with my niece in her carseat (I need smaller hips to do that comfortably!) and with my brother-in-law driving and my sister shotgunning we were on our way! (How come my spell checker doesn’t like “carseat” but “shotgunning” is ok??)

I have to say though I had a fantastic time with my sister (yes, I KNOW) and her family, the whole Botanical Gardens slash Butterfly Exhibit was really underwhelming. Sad, but true. And even though we got there at almost opening it was still packed with people and people with their bloody SUV-HUMMER-TANK strollers. Jeez, people! Bring a smaller stroller when you go to a place that has a path hardly big enough for a person to walk through single file! I swear people can be so self-centered and it drives me crazy! Anyhow…

The few butterflies we were able to see were, um, big and I guess pretty. *grin* Some were nicer than others, and I did get a couple of nifty shots. (Which I am about to make you suffer through, you have been warned – especially if you find butterflies creepy and disgusting. ;) )

(I thought these flowers were pretty!)

And that’s it. Scared you, didn’t I? Heh.

When I got home I also took some shots of my puppies out in the yard…

When I got home Shawn was up and had the living room pretty much cleared out of painting crap, only for us to realize we’re probably going to need a THIRD coat on the stupidly big wall as it’s not covered very well and you can still see the yellow-green through the darker green in a lot of places. I have no clue why this wall would need three coats when the other walls are fine, but this means we need to buy more paint and hell if I was going to do that today. So I guess we’re painting next Saturday, too. Argh! Might pick up my cream/white type paint as well so that we can to the trim around the windows and then when we’re ready to buy the moldings we’re putting up, I can paint those too.

So that was my weekend… painting and butterflies. Also there was a lunch with Ravi at the Peel Pub and then I picked up my last two months worth of Buffy comics and then I took a nap. Heh. I am old and decrepit (a phrase I am teaching my 19-month old niece “Aunty Cat is old and decrepit and can’t keep her leg contorted at this angle so you can play with the velcro on her shoes much longer.” What? I was squooshed in the back of the Toyota! ;)

Back to work tomorrow… a big whoppin’ 5-day week. Ugh. Last week was like, the longest 4-day week in history, I swear! I don’t think I can make it through 5 days! And sadly, my Super 7 only won me a free ticket and not the 5 million jackpot.

PS – I am about to tackle answering the comments on the post two below this one. You know the one where I craved attention? Yeah, that one. :D

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two years… really?

March 27th, 2008 @ 8:12 pm

While Shawn and I were sitting in the living room tonight trying to figure out what we wanted for dinner, talk turned to our house and how we’re happy where we are right now, but don’t plan on being here forever, but we’re at least enjoying making this place ours.

But then… I suddenly said, “Oh my god! It was two years ago TODAY that our place burned down!”

“Can’t be,” said Shawn.

But it’s true. March 27, 2006 was the night of the fire. The fire that burned for over four hours. The fire that changed everything in our lives.

This also means that I have been in this job for almost two years. It’ll be two years on April 10.

So bloody much has happened in the last two years that it’s unbelievable. Un-frickin-believable!! A year in my in-laws’ basement, a year in our new home (almost). It all just seems like it passed in the blink of an eye, and yet, so very, very long ago.

Sometimes time and life are scary.

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*poke* *poke*

March 25th, 2008 @ 7:53 pm

I used to have more readers out there. I used to get comments more often. I know I have been a posting slacker the last year or so and I am pretty dull now that I no longer complain about my job and other things.

But still. I miss my reader comments. I miss my blog friends and my readers.

I miss the attention. (HA HA! Kidding!)

So, I offer you out there a challenge… for those of you who read me once in a while, for those of you who have been around a long time, for those who might actually lurk and never comment (I know there’s at least TWO of you out there who do this…)

Leave me a comment. In one or two words describe how you think of me (PLEASE be polite, because I can tell you in two words what I know about myself OVERLY SENSITIVE! :) ). I’d like to know.

I’m curious.

(and I like the attention… *wink*)

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drooping

March 24th, 2008 @ 3:15 pm

My eyes are drooping shut. My head is swaying as I try to stay awake… but the problem is that it is already after 4 o’clock and it’s too late to take a nap. If I nap now, I won’t sleep tonight and I have to get up to go to work tomorrow. Argh!

Plus my laundry is still going…

At least I now have 3/4 walls done upstairs. I did the third one all on my own as Shawn is at work.

I just don’t think I will be able to stay awake much longer.

Hey, there is a commercial on TV just now with David Suzuki in it. About conserving energy or something. I don’t really know. I just think David Suzuki is cool. Heh.

I had my parents over for lunch today, too. Made me and my Mummy some grilled cheese. My dad brought it own bagel and bologna. Heh. It was nice to have them over. I love my parents.

Ok, I feel dizzy I am so sleepy. Maybe I’ll go lie on the couch and watch the Ellen show and see if I can stay awake..

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spackling – my new calling in life

March 23rd, 2008 @ 8:40 pm

I don’t think I have ever thought of spackle as something relaxing, but I swear to god it’s one of the most cathartic things ever to fill in little holes on the wall with plaster and smooth it all out. I was having so much fun!

The painting, however? Not so much fun as… OW! Darnitall my lower back is KILLING me! I didn’t think I could get off the couch earlier this evening. Jeez.

I woke up about a quarter after eight this morning (ugh, and it’s a long weekend, too!) my throat is still really bothering and so after I made my self a nice cup of tea, I broke out the painting supplies. By ten to nine I had taped the floor and the ceiling and put the paper and plastic cover thing down and started to paint. Shawn got up a little after ten and by then I had pretty much finished the wall by the backdoor and we started on the wall on the side of the kitchen. By 12:30 two walls were done – not even full walls and I was ready to collapse. Ugh. Of course I also hadn’t eaten yet…

So we ordered chicken, watched some TV and then went back up around three to put on the second coat on the two walls.

It’s a little difficult to tell how dark the new green is, but it’s really nice. As you can tell, the wall on the right of the photo looks really yellow next to the new paint. Hard to imagine it’s really green. More like a tennis ball. Ugh. It was nice at the time, but after a year with the walls so obvious without furniture in the room and then with our new furniture it just didn’t work. It was way too yellow-y for me and when the sun it it boy did it aggravate me!

Tomorrow Shawn has to work and I have the day off. My intention was to paint the front wall with the window, but with the way my back is feeling today I might just leave it until next weekend when we do the full wall. We’re breaking it up because a) OW! and b) the dogs will have nowhere to go if we moved all the furniture to the middle and they are out of sorts enough as it is with just a couple of things moved around. Plus, Annie has a tendency to lay against walls when she lies down and she’ll just be stuck to the wall. As it is she already slipped on the plastic sheet on the floor, wiped out and skidded through some drops of paint on the sheet and we had to give her a strategic fur trimming since green isn’t really one of her official colours.

I will be very happy when the room is complete. The darker olive-like green really makes a difference in the room – for the better, thankfully.

When I haven’t been painting, or buying paint supplies, I have been reading up a storm this weekend. I have already gone through two of the four books I bought on Friday. I have one review up so far and am working on the second (in-between reading and painting, of course!) over on my book blog. I like books. Yum.

I also love sunrises and sunsets. Tonight I had fun with the sunset through my front window.

I rather like this shot.

Oh! We also had the in-laws over for dinner (finally!) last night and Shawn and I made our baked pasta thingy that we made back in December when my boss came over. It was yummy. I made cherry pie (I only ever make cherry pie…) and Shawn’s mother made Shawn a belated birthday cake, so we had a lot to choose from for dessert! There will be other chances to have the entire family over again and this time, hopefully, the guests won’t fall like dominoes to illness and back pain like this time. Probably in the summer months when we can have a BBQ! And have the backyard available to us for more room to wander around. By the summer, I am HOPING that our yard won’t still be filled with 10 feet of snow (not kidding…).

How was YOUR Easter weekend?

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