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I think my mind must feel something like processed meat does. I was at a conference on the weekend and I’m away again this weekend at another conference. I’m starting to feel like my world is whirring by like one of those crappy apple rides at the Fair. I’m having a really hard time processing all this information. I know I learned so much, but now what? I’m going to have to think of creative ways to use all of my knowledge.
Ive discovered that I think out loud. I have some friends that think out loud so much you cant really hold a conversation with them especially if you think out loud too because theres alot of talking going on. I think its worse for Morgan cause he thinks better when no ones talking and so a outside thinker and an inside thinker cant both think at the same time. Ive decided that part of the problem I’m having processing all my info is that there aren’t enough hours in the day to think that much out loud. Good thing I ordered the MP3’s and they’ll be here soon.
Emily took her fist three steps last week. It was the night before I left for the NWCEC conference. My grandparents were there and they even caught a picture of her in mid-first-step. I’m waiting until they email me the pic and then Ill post it. Today she took 6 steps by herself. She was trying to catch auntie Gracie-dog.
Well I’m off to join the circus. Ill be back next week. I’m really looking forward so some semblance of normalcy next week. I haven’t seen Lindsay and Olin or Lana and Gabe for ever and Its Gabe’s 1st birthday next week. I’m going to have to get my act together for the week after because Its Emily Birthday too. I’m going to bake a sweet action cake!
Is it true that sequels are never as good as the first movie? I’m pretty sure.
For Example:
Jurassic Park 2 “The Lost World” - Bites
The Lion King 2 “Simba’s Pride” - Lame
Aladin 2 “The return of Jafar” - Crappy
Batman Returns - Slit your wrists bad
Bring it on again - actually in this case I think number 1 sucked too.
Home Alone 2 - Need I even go there. Number 3 doesnt even have Macaulay.
Meet the Fockers - Again with the prequel sucked too thing.
Speed 2 - Big time suck…how can it be speedy on a cruise ship.
Star Wars Episode 2 - Biggest waste of time ever.
Dumb and Dummerer:When Harry Met Lloyd - Yawn
Ernest Saves Christmas - Oh Brother this was bad.
Shanghai Knights - What a letdown
The only Sequels that are better than the firsts
Toy Story 2
X-Men 2
The Mummy Returns
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Star Wars Return of the Jedi.
Don’t even get me started on Remakes.
Anyways. I was just thinking about my sequel CD and that got me thinking about these. Gotta burn a few more for the trip.
Emily has been having a seriously rough crybaby day. I now know why they call them crybabies. I’m not sure what the problem is, but she’s been extremely emotional all day. She cried for the last half of church and everyone all the way from the front could hear her in the nursery at the back. She had a little nap and then was at it again. AHH. Ok I’m actually ok with it today. I think if I was headed to Kamloops as planned I might not have been as calm and cool about it. I really hasn’t been getting to me like it does sometimes. I’m just trying to be there for her. Who knows maybe she’s teething again and just not showing the same signs as the last time.
I’m trying to get my house all cleaned up before I go. I’d rather come home to a clean house than a messy one. So I’ve even resorted to setting the timer to help me remember to change the laundry over. I’m hoping that at least the main floor and the bathrooms will be cleaned up before I go. We’ll see. I’ll clean most things, but I’ve decided not to clean up Morgan’s salsa dish that he left downstairs and let grow stuff. It’s nasty. I don’t do nasty. So far thats the biggest problem with having moved the T.V. downstairs. I’m enjoying watching less T.V. and not having the T.V. clutter in my living room, but I’m really hating the dishes and pop cans and other crap that keeps getting left down there. I’m more ok with clutter than dirty stuff, and since I’m trying to de-clutter the dirty stuff frustrates me even more.
A bunch of my Youth left today for a week long hardcore discipleship school during spring break. I’m pretty excited for them. They are going to be challenged and learn so much. I’m hoping to see some great things come out of this experience. I think they are really going to love it.
My lungs have been alot better in the last few days. I think I finally kicked my cold. HA! It took a long time, but I’m glad its over. I like feeling like me and not like some lethargic snow beast who whines alot.
I’m doing the 32’s dance all day today. My sister is home for a few days house sitting. So today while we were visiting I stole a bunch more of her clothes. I have nothing to wear right now. Typical girl statement hey? But I really don’t, all my clothes look either tacky(Ill admit it sometimes I have bad taste) or like drapes. So Yippy I borrowed some of Roxy’s Clothes. Its pretty much the best thing in the world because I borrowed a couple of pairs of jeans and they are both 32’s. I don’t think I’ve worn 32’s since high school. So that’s my dance of joy today.
Tonight we had these missionaries from Romania come to speak at our youth church. They are such interesting people. I love to chat with them. I have the hardest time at missionary updates because I want to drop everything and move to their country and save babies and fight off snakes and tell savages about Jesus. Ok well maybe not that extreme, but their presentations always make me cry and I just really get emotionally recked. I love it. I don’t ever feel like I’d rather not see it and live my extravagant life. I’d much rather be challenged to action. Heres my action today. Check out their Website. It’s pretty cool.
I’m getting all excited for my conference at the end of this week. I was supposed to be leaving tomorrow, but now I get to leave on Tuesday. I’m glad about that because I get an extra couple days in my own bed and Emily doesn’t have to travel as much. I’m a bit sad that I wont get as much time at the coast to see friends, but I don’t have to rush back on Sunday I could stay an extra day or 2 if I want to. I’m going bra shopping! (just a tidbit no one needed to know, but I’m excited about anyways.)I love gift certificates.
Oh and I invented a new drink. I call it an African Haze. It like a London Fog, but with rooibos (pronounced roy-bus) tea. Soo Good!
I’m trying to get everything all packed for my trip. I’m taking a break from the hustle and bustle of packing. I’m probably going to have to leave a couple days early and drive a couple of Youth to Kamloops for a spring break discipleship school. Rather than drive to Kamloops and back on Sunday and then leave again for kamloops on Tuesday I think Ill just carry on through to Richmond on Sunday night. I’d be more inclined to come home on Sunday if the highways weren’t all closed. I’m pretty sure I have to take the Coquihalla anyways.
I’m burning a bunch of CD’s for the trip. Morgan can’t come with me anymore so it’ll be my first trip down by myself and with Emily too. I’m going to be all nice and leave my iPod for Morgan while he is at work. I’m trying to decide what I’d like to listen to. I have a few audio books I could take or maybe just make some playlists of good driving tunes. I wonder if I Google driving music if Ill find any suggestion for the best road trip music.
I officially hate doing Laundry. ok maybe not as much as vacuuming or taking out the garbage, but I hate it all the same. I don’t mind all the first part, but I really don’t like folding it. Plus I never catch it when it’s done so everything is wrinkly. Some one in my house take serious issue to there being wrinkles in “his” clothes. Not that I get in trouble or something, but he still wont wear stuff with wrinkles.
Haha. This really awkward guy just phones to see if Morgan would take a survey. I said “Morgan Hates surveys, but if it’s important I could take it”. (Morgan always thinks I’m crazy for talking to telemarketers).Lately I’ve been getting alot better at saying “No Thank you” and interrupting there schpeel. But this guy sounded so awkward I just didn’t want to hurt his poor(probably Emo) feelings. Turns out I cant take his dumb survey because I’m not 25. Stupid regulations. haha.
Well…Emily is waking up so time to get back to this whole packing/laundry/craziness experience.
Gotta love Freecycle. If you aren’t a freecycl-er you need to become one. Ill admit, 100 Miles freecycle group isn’t very big yet, but its getting better. Its this group set out of Yahoo, where you offer things you have to give away for free. Ive got a fee boxes of baby clothes and other cool stuff too. Today I replied to a lady and lent her some maternity clothes. Its nice to be able to help each other out free of cost. If I never see the clothes again…well at least I wont have them in my house forever.
I’m slowly making the transition to all my own food for Emily. I found this cool book at the library that gives alot of good recipes for making baby food.I didn’t sign the book out tho cause I had late fees and no moneys with me. I’m going to go back tomorrow and get it. I think we are pretty close to using all our own food. Ill be glad to see the end of the jars. They aren’t exactly cheap either. I really like to know what I’m feeding Emily. I’m skeptical of jarred food.
I made it to the gym this morning!Yay. Ive been sick and then busy and then a day or two of lazy so I hadn’t been in a while. I was pretty happy because altho I hadn’t been eating amazing I did still lose a couple of pounds over the weekend. 12 to go until goal 4. I’m excited that all my hard work is paying off. I think it even convinced my mom to join the gym too. Total since Jan 1st 35lbs. Total since Christmas 42lbs!!um…yay me.
We used our China. See I knew having it in a good spot would mean we would us it. Thats what getting organized will do. It wasn’t exactly a China kind of dinner, but the place setting looked faboo. We just made some Tacos. I am loving this whole Mexican themed week. Mmm.
Today my friend Lindsay and I took each other out for lunch for our birthdays. We were going to go to Paninos, but it was full so we went to The Moose instead. I had a London Fog. I could rave forever about the wonderfulness of the London Fog. Its a steamed milk with a shot of Vanilla and Earl Grey Tea. Its like goodness in a cup. Ive started ordering my London Fog with Skim Milk and Sugar Free Vanilla just to make a bit healthier choice. I’m not the biggest fan of Splenda products, but once in a while I don’t mind. It makes a big difference in the sugar content of my Latte.
Emily had breakfast for the first time today. I hadn’t needed to give her breakfast before because she always has a bottle. The last few days she hasn’t really wanted a bottle in the morning or at bedtime. She wont drink much of it. She still seemed kinda hungry today so I made her some Power Oatmeal(See recipe). She ate loads of it. It was neat.I’d like to keep moving away from Formula. Soon She can have Goats milk. Not only will it save us a fortune, I think It’ll be better as just a drink than a meal for Em. I’m looking forward to the change all right.
Today I was so cute I got a free bottle of liqueur.I just asked if they sold this vanilla flavored stuff in bottles smaller than my head and the lady was like “um…No”. So Morgan piped in something like “but what if it tastes like draino”? So she found us a small bottle attached to another bottle and stuck it on Morgans bottle of wine. We were looking for different things to cook with like wine and well anything else too.
We bought a couple of spices today because I insist that the ones that came with the jars are old and nasty. I wonder how long spices really last. I’m not sure, but I couldn’t handle it today so we had to get some new ones. We didn’t replace them all just the main ones we use all the time like cayenne, cumin and paprika. We are still on our Mexican food kick. Tonight is just tacos, but we’ve started making our own taco seasoning and fresh salsa. We were all excited to make corn tortillas from scratch, but Safeway didn’t have mesa corn flour. So no homemade tacos for us. I make good flour tortillas, but Id like to learn to make corn ones too.
We went to the Amnesty concert at PSO today. It was really good. My dad is the Guitar teacher at the school so he sang a song and his class played a couple too. My “extra” Dad, Mark, played a few songs too. They sang Pretty Vegas by J.D. Fortune and it rocked. I had a really hard time not dying laughing because there was this kid who was using his ability to play guitar to educate his school in…well I’m not really sure, but his taste in music leaves something to be desired. It was pretty bad alright. It reminded me of this one time in Bella Coola when this lady got up to sing and she couldn’t really play guitar and she had her mom stand behind her with a rain stick going “ooohhh aaahhhh oohh eeee”. It was so awful, but My family was sitting in the front row so we couldn’t laugh which ultimately meant we couldn’t look at each other at all.
Today Morgan and I were talking about cute kids names and he said ” If we have an ugly kid we’ll have to name him Eugene or Waldorf”. I’m not sure why, but I found it absolutely hilarious. And just for the record no we aren’t pregnant again. We just like names thats all.
I took a ton of pictures of Emily today. I’m not happy with our camera again. the flash suck, but if you don’t use it Emmy is way to fast an all the pics end up blurry. I took some that turned out ok, but I’m overall not happy with the way they turned out. Im hoping to take alot more pictures again now that we can be outside more. My camera take great outside pics, but not so great inside ones. I want to get some more pictures of me that look like I look now. Being 40lbs lighter does a lot for ones photogenic-ness.
We are taking a week off. It’s pretty fun already. Last week was so busy with the play that Morgan and I hardly even saw each other. So we are going to try to do as little as possible. I’m sure the week will still zoom by, but maybe Ill get some laundry do and eat a healthy dinner or 2.
Speaking of healthy dinner, tonight, Morgan made Chimichangas. They were so good. Whole wheat tortilla and loads of bean and fresh salsa. Mmmm. I’m loving Mexican food right now. We are trying to learn how to eat Mexican, Mexican food not Canadian, Mexican food. Hello 20 giant handfuls of cheese is a little overkill don’t ya think? How can you possibly add more junk and flavorless stuff to food than by adding stuff like that. We are trying to become better eaters and find healthy alternatives to the things we love. I find it fun and tasty too.
This morning Emily was being particularly whiny. I’m not sure what to do about whining if its just whining for no good reason. I was trying to be attentive and sensitive to her needs, but since I couldn’t figure out what she needed I just decided she needed me. So we played with a big pot. I let her hit it with a big spoon which is her new favorite toy. She crawls around everywhere with her spoon. She even tried to go up the stairs with it. I filled the pot with her toys and we made toy soup. I was trying to get her to stir the pot, but she was more interested in just hitting stuff. I even got the occasional smack by accident.
Only 2 more shows left in the play. I don’t think I’ve blogged about it at all so here’s the catchup stuff. I’m running Lights for the Community Theatre production of “Annie Get Your Gun”. Its been pretty good. The cast has been really high energy and even the mess ups have been really funny. We’ve been sold out every night. We are even going to put on a Sunday Matinee as an extra show. I’m looking forward to the play being over. I like doing it, but I get so busy that I don’t have any time for anything else.
I only made it to the gym 3 times this weeks. I ended up going to the Dr. again. My lungs still aren’t clearing up. I had to get a puffer and some extreme cough medicine. I think I’m feeling better today, but now Emmy is coughing even more. I think her coughing just woke her up. Poor little tike.
Today is a super day because I have officially lost 40 lbs since Christmas!! I’m pretty happy about that. Ok no I stoked to the roof. I went to curves today and I wasn’t particularly excited to work out, but once I stepped on the scale I got all excited and worked really hard. Only 14 pounds to go until shopping day. Thats gonna be so fun.
I think Emily is growing again. She always gets so sleepy when she’s growing. Normally her morning nap is only an hour, but today she’s slept for almost 3. Yesterday she had a really long nap too. I like it when she has long naps because she’s always in such a good mood and I get a lot of stuff done. Like blogging.
I am almost all the way through sorting my little kid boxes. Morgan and I sorted them all out yesterday afternoon. We managed to get rid of a lot of silly things and garbage. I find that if you keep something for enough years, even if it is garbage, it becomes sentimental. Like I really need the paper bag I got from the CN tower in grade 10. “Keep the memory, not the clutter”. Maybe I’ve been watching to much mission organization. I think Im going to put together a mini scrap book for each of our trunks. That way special papers and pictures and things can be remembered without just being a pile of misc paper in a box. I keep adding to the list of de-cluttering rules in our house. Here’s what I have so far:
1.No cardboard boxes allowed!
2.Keep the Memory, not the clutter.
3.If you haven’t seen it/used it in the last 2 years is gonzo.
4.If its not mine or yours, whose is it?
5.throw out that, it’s crappy!!
It’s a start anyways. Oh yeah. I found my foreign currency too!! Yay.
Last night at Timmy’s Roxy *very loudly* says so everyone can hear “Happy 30th Birthday Courtenay”. These people at the other table are all like “oh thats nice its her 30th birthday”, but its not! I’m only 24 today. So there. I had a sweet Birthday, minus being sick and Emily being a total butt head. We are both still sick and it sucks. Speaking of sucks…
During My oh-so-great birthday dinner at my parents, I was taking a sip of my float while my mom was taking a picture, but it took her forever to take the picture and so as smart as I am I replied with this extremely witty line ” I cant suck forever”. That was followed with immediate looks of shock and absolutely no need for a joke having done all I needed to burn myself.
Today I braved my fear of the word perm and got one. All I said to the lady was “Don’t make me look like a poodle”. I spent the next 3 and a half hours being permed and “voila”. I’m a poodle. Ok its not really that bad. I actually like it. Its going to take some getting used to, but I really do like it. All it took was a clip and I was looking a bit more like me again.
I braved another fear and signed up for Curves today. I start tomorrow at 8 am. I think I am excited. I wasn’t so sure, but today I tried some of their machines and thought they were ok. I did an initial weigh in and am so stoked. Only 17 lbs until I get a big huge shopping spree. I’m 177lbs today!!
My Dad got me a special treat for my birthday. A round of IRN-BRU’’s for everyone. This little shop in town sells them. That made for an extra special birthday. Thanks Dad
