Wow. I am so glad Christmas is over. Are we like, mental, or what? We totally over extended ourselves and went crazy with the visiting and crap. Plus I run a retail Mecca...If I just worked, came home, got nude and went to bed everyday - I would be STILL be over extended because work is INSANE at this time of year!!! I really don't need to look for outside sources to suck the energy out of my existance.
*Beware - HUGE run on sentence coming up below!
It was so busy. I am so tired. And the flu and strep and croup whatever else could float around us in that building to be brought back to our homes to attack us - did. I was supposed to have 4 days off starting today. Someone had strep so I had to go in and close this evening. But dammit - I am taking three days off. Even if they burn the place down - I ain't going in.
Speaking of burning the place down - the one thing I as the kids at the store not to do. They tried to do today. They had to call an electrician in to fix some lights that were going wacky and making the electrical smell.
T brought up a valid point though...if we make fire - hot firemen will come. Something to condider for the future.... ;)
Speaking of the dreaded work place - I am going to Toronto, centre of the universe for four days in February. Yippee. I'm pretty bummed about it, for a maryiad of reasons. I will miss my big J, I'll miss my Vivi and the rest of my girls. And I'll miss my art class. That just really pisses me off. Not much I can do about it though. Just breathe, build the bridge, and get over it.
So...I saw Mom at Christmas. We had two get togethers with wine and guess who showed her affection for aged grape juice? Yeah. She's just so precious. And I especially loved her when my in-laws were here and she got sloshed and started acting like a grade A jack ass. Parents are funny. My mother is not.
I didn't see Dave, my Dad. He didn't come to the dinner we had planned at Spiffs place. No call nothing. I figure he must have had an anxiety attack. We are a bunch of rowdy freaks, who can blame him. What made me sad though is that he didn't call us at Christmas. Now tell me - who the fuck doesn't get a call from their Mom or Dad at Christmas? What is that??? Totally unacceptable. If we don't call him, he needs to be the Man, the Dad and call us. He's totally afraid of us. Doesn't he realise HE'S the Alpha Dog of our pack? Poor Dad. I told him he is a silly old fart. He agreed that he often is.
I also saw the other Dad, Craig, and Leslie for Christmas. Their visit was just lovely. Leslie was feeling really comfortable with us now and it was super nice. Leslie does this really funky thing with her hair where it is all kind of piled on the top of her head using some little clips. She and Vivi were trying Tiaras on and they looked so damn cute together! I think Vivi had a really nice time with her other Grandma. They were really good with the kids.
Boxing day was fun...I shopped my butt off. I didn't really find much to buy though. My main mission is always to hit Cotton Ginny and buy their sweaters at 50% off. That is such a smoking deal for a nice sweater. I got four. I love them. Microfleece. Kiiiittttyyyyy.
No worries - Big J knew in advance. There is no pending divorce.
What else....I gave Tamara the other half of her Brangelina sandwhich for xmas. We kinda did a secret Santa thing. I got T, Jer got Kerry. We didn't know what to get Kerry. Cubbie said Jeans. Jer nixed that. He was NOT going to get Kerry something boring. So off we went to best buy for a gift card. We walked in the door, got into the massive line for the check outs, and did a shwack of shopping right from the line-up! We found a W.o.W. gift card to add to Kerry's gift, and then I had a zen moment. Seriously - there were angels and trumpets and everything! From the line I found a keychain version of Cranium for T. Tell me that wasn't just up her Alley. Plus - it's torture for my brother if she can rope him into playing any given time & place. So it's awesome! heheheh. >:)
Tomorrow I am going to try to re-photograph the painting I did for Vivi. Once I get a proper pic, I need to find a monster frame for it. Who knows how long that will take.
We have had some shitty internet happening lately. I had to put some really shit, small pics on the Arocat Art page. Jer freaked at the net people and it got up to pace again. Now I have redone it that way I had originally intended. I wanted nice big pics so you can see the detail when you click on them. Looks a lot better.
This weekend I am going to try to plow through a bunch of Jack Reid painting excercises. I have been wanting to get through his book for a long time. He really is gifted. I love how he explains Watercolour technique in his book.
Also, my fave bookstore - Southcentre Indigo (Love it there!!!) had a Robert Bateman book on for 19.99. I so bought it. I want to take some time to drool over that this weekend too.
Speaking of books - I bought another book there on Boxing day. It's a big coffee table book also, on Mythology. It has all the myths from Egyptian, Roman, Greek and Myan cultures. There are some from other cultures too. It's very beautiful and it was on sale. Natch. Love it.
GOD I LOVE BOOKS.
I'm such a geek. Hard to believe I dated the whole football team and used to skinny dip with bouncers to get into the bar at 15.
Just kidding about dating the entire football team. That was just a nasty rumer.
Spread by my 12 year old sister.
Actually - the rumor was a tad dirtier than that. But she only told Big J. When she first met him. He married me anyway. ;)
What else is new...
OOOOOOHHHHHH! I have a new love in my life. It's name is...well. Actually there is no name becuase naming your Starbucks mug, no matter how much you love it would be mental. BUT I do love it. Tamara got me for the secret santa and she bought me like, the absolute best gift I have ever recieved!!! It's a special steel 'to go' mug for putting loose tea in. I really adore this mug. See why we had to adopt her? She is just so awesome. I'm glad she and Spiffy got their heads screwed on straight. Together they just rock. Besides - no one can replace Tamara. Seriously. She was meant to be part of this clan. Sometimes you inherit in-laws and they just fit so good. Like you can't even remember what your life was like before they were part of it.
It's true! For all you Mother's that hate your daughter in-laws. I'm telling you - it's cuz your son never found a Tamara. I'm pretty sure my sister makes a pretty fine daughter in-law too. Me, not so much. If I had Corie's Mother in-law I would rock at this gig. Jer's family really intimidated me, so it was a very rocky start. I was just super quiet, shy and insecure. His mom seems to hit it off with Tamara though - see. Proves my point. She's like every Mom's dream daughter in law. I'll have to tell her that theory.
Tamara got me two awesome teas with my mug - Earl Grey and Earl Grey Cream. They are so yummilicious. Then I was drinking so much that I was getting over caffinated. So I picked up some decaf teas for the off hours. At Tea Desire in Southcentre Mall, I found a Green Tea that is Earl Grey, also a Roiboos that is Earl Grey (both decaf) plus I bought something that is called Sencha something and a white tea that is fantastic.
The mug has really changed me life. Seriously!
Ways my lovely mug has enriched my life:
- No more drated Timmys line up
- No more being tempted to eat nasty Timmy's food
- More water intake
- Green tea = anti oxident and other beneficial qualities
- Lovely warm beverage all hours of the day
- You can reuse the tea leaves
- No more sugar in my tea
- Less waste! Tea bags are so overpackaged.
- I can 'cheers' Vivi and not spill
- I can say to Jer 'fill my mug with water beotch'
- Binoo can't drink out of it. She's always stealing my beverages!
I'm sure there are more ways the cup has blessed me, but I'm too tired to be creative.
Speaking of tired...It's time to sign off. Adieous. Happy 2007.
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