Car-less in Edmonton….

Well technically van-less.  We sold the last of our vehicles today!   We now have a snazzy rental car.  Its a Ford Fusion.  

Off to dinner at my mothers for our Good bye to Canada dinner!  Wuhoo….I hope there’s booze.

Where are you?

Ok so the traffic feed is driving me nuts!

I would love to know who are the people who visit my blog…so go ahead and post a comment.  Tell me who you are and where you know me from…come on, make my day!

Whining gets you what you want.

This is the lesson that I’ve learned this week.  We are nicely settled in my friend’s house for the next 10 days until we jet off to our new home overseas.  The kids are doing great and there is NOTHING better than staying in a house with a kitchen, laundry facilities and internet access!  Back to the title of this post, I am typing this post on my nice, shiny new MACBOOK!  My hubby was sick of hearing the ongoing whining and concurred that I too needed to get a laptop before we jumped the ocean.  So I got a pink hard case and off we go!

I’m in love.  Here’s me sweaty and laughing my ass off at the night of crazy at Carrolls house last weekend.  Just so I can show off fun things to do with the new Mac.

Elijah lost his second tooth!

With no help from anyone (read his sister)…Elijah’s second tooth JUST came out.   He is very excited and quite sure that the tooth fairy will bring him a toy.

 

Here is his letter to the tooth fairy.

Dear Tooth Fairy,

My tooth came out.

Your are going to buy me a toy and bring it.

From Elijah

I like a man who gets to the point.

Our new house…

Whoops Rebecca I thought I had posted them..here’s a couple so you get the idea.  I’ll do a better post later we are running around today!

Poop…no kitchen..

So we didn’t get that beautiful kitchen in my last post.  Oh well, hopefully we’ll find something soon. Tomorrow we move out of our house and into my friends place….I’m hot, I’m exhausted oh yeah, and I had to go to the ER today because I have a cyst under my arm that got infected.  Because you know, I really don’t have enough on my plate. Funny story though, the doc told me that men never get to the point of full on infection like I had because they can’t stand the pain.  He was curious why I didn’t go in sooner, so I filled him in on my last few weeks.

So hopefully this thing doesn’t get reinfected and I can have the cyst removed when I get overseas.

It’s frickin’ hot here right now cause you know if you can’t move at thirty below zero,  do it at thirty above…shit.

I just bought a kitchen…

I just bought a kuche.  You know a kitchen.  From my computer….

We now have a place to live, a kitchen to put in it and a bank account in Germany.  Here we have a messy house, moving boxes and one million appointments over the next two weeks.

I would like to say that I’m maintaining my delightful personality and witty charm.  I would be lying.

In two weeks (and one day) we are boarding a plane, leaving all our friends and family and moving to Germany.  I’m so excited I could spit.

Here’s my kitchen.  We have a small space so this will be perfect.  It’s being installed next week.

Orphans (and Adoption) deserve better.

Maybe Hollywood has run out of ideas.  Maybe studio execs care only about the bottom line.  And YES I get that it’s “only a movie” but I really get a bad taste in my mouth over the new movie Orphan.  I’m glad to see that there are others out there that raise their eyebrows.  Would it be acceptable to call movie by some other group name (say Asians) and suggest that this ‘group’ is tainted in the way.  That if you bring one of ‘those’ people into your home your life could be damaged beyond repair.  I don’t know, it just smells bad.

I don’t think that people take this stuff seriously but this is a pretty vunerable group of people and making a movie for profit showing them as damaged just doesn’t make any sense to me.

There are hundreds of thousands of kids trying to find families through the foster care system and there are millions of orphans world wide.

Orphans do deserve better.

Do not covet thy neighbours goods…

What about your husband’s?  Can you covet thy husband’s new laptop? Besides didn’t George Carlin knocked down the commandments years ago with the explanation about the economy and how if we didn’t covet the neighbours good the world economy would collapse?

A while ago, I started talking about wanting a Mac.  Nothing.  You could hear crickets with all the lack of chatter coming from the husband direction.   Didn’t even remotely register.  And then this new job in Germany.  Turns out the school is an Apple school.  No PC’s allowed on their network.  Brilliant if you ask me, no chance of a virus, don’t get hacked…smart move.  So what does Mr. PC do?  Goes out and buys the sweetest little Macbook.  Damn him!   Okay technically, I’m using it right now to write this post so it’s not like he’s being stingy with it but I was the one that wanted a Macbook and he got his first.  I think Mac survives because of the cute little stuff you can get.  Like the blue hard shell case Scotty picked up yesterday.  Yes, you need a case but Apple goes that step farther by making it see through so you can see the apple on the back of the laptop. Sooooo cute.  I’m sooo getting one next week.

Here’s my daughter the monkey at the park, not only because she’s the cutest mc. cutie pants but because I wanted to see how the new mac did with the pic install…..stupid hubby.

Oh please, oh please, oh please….

Hopefully ONE of the two very determined people who are seeing the car this afternoon will buy it! IT’s such an awesome little car…it’s been good to me and now needs  a new home. I think the money spent on the detailing will get it sold. I do solemnly swear that I will be much better cleaner/housekeeper in the next phase of my life.