My current mood?

Really, no words are necessary!

No phone calls, no email !

Yep, she's officially ignoring me. The woman who backed into my car I guess is hoping I'll just go away... To those of you who know me... well you know, don't you!

ps... as a former insurance ajuster I hate to type these words but... ummmmm....
My neck hurts! (no laughing!)

Wow... small bump in front end $$$$$

Ok, my license plate holder was pushed back into my bumper, which chipped . I figured a couple of hundred max... two estimates later, one's almost $700.00 the other $600.00. I was gobsmacked! I have three stage, clear coat paint, the bumper has to come off to be fixed properly...yada yada. I called the woman who hit me and she was less than impressed. I don't blame her really. She was at at drive through getting her dinner and to make it worse, the guy forgot her Pepsi! She's not having a good day either. She told me "they" paint their own cars in their garage (at their home I assume?) for $50.00 all the time. I'm not too sure about that one? It's still a good car and well, I'm more comfortable with a real body shop. I emailed her the estimates and am waiting for her to tell me what she wants to do. I hope I didn't make a mistake in judgement by not calling the Police etc.? She seems nice though, so likely all will be well :)

Long gone are the days of $50.00 fender benders I guess. All I wanted to do was get a new paper that didn't smell of cat pee! sigh...

Happy Tuesday... fffffffffffffffttttttttttt!

So lets see... Day started by going to get the newspaper. The one that used to be delivered into my mailbox and is now tossed onto my porch with an elastic around it. I picked it up and... a cat had peed on it! Yep, that's twice in a week. We have a few, (few defined as 169) strays in the neighbourhood. So... I had to go to the store to get Bob a new paper. I was on Caron Avenue, waiting behind a blue Sunfire to make a right turn. She was going straight. She started to go, changed her mind and backed up into the front end of my car.

Ruining my accumulating record of two years and one month for not having a car accident! I think this is number 11 in 9 years or maybe 9 in 11 years though I think the point is moot as the basic issue is obvious. I'm a magnet. I have a "please hit me" arrow over me. I do know that this happens only when I'm alone in the car... well except the one time I had 7 kids in my Town Car, all but one happened within three blocks of my house, the other in front of my work and it doesn't matter what I'm driving. Towne Car, Comet, Olds 88, Olds 2 door sport, Grand Am I've smacked em all up! So far the Malibu has escaped my magnet (shhhhhhhhhhh!.)

I want one!

New species, Antarctic Ice Fish... No red blood cells! How cool (pardon the pun!) is that! Think my vandal fishies would adopt him?

Oscar afterthoughts

For everyone I know under the age of 30. Some movies I think you should see. (Not in any particular order) Oh and please note *there is nothing wrong with your tv, many are black & white!

Marnie, The Birds, Mrs. Miniver, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Wait Until Dark, Backstreet, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Imitation of Life, Rosemary's Baby... All the "Planet of the Apes" films, Soylent Green, and any and all original, dubbed Godzilla movies! OMG when they used to hold marathon weekends I thought I'd died and gone to Japanese Monster Movie heaven! (I'm only talking about 10 years ago!) Big Sinbad fan too... all of them.

I'm still a big loser!

So, had a party AGAIN, last night. T'was an interesting one. We played cards AGAIN, I lost every time AGAIN!

A rising star!

My friend's daughter, Danielle, is starring in "Annie" next month! I can't wait to see/hear her. Ummm her Daddy may have a complete nervous breakdown by then! It's tough when "Litte Girls" start to grow up eh?

To Danielle, a slight paraphrase... I think you're gonna like it there!

The incredible tubes of the interweb!

You just never know what you're going to find. How about a pic of youself from 41 years ago, in another country? Me, in my brownie uniform, in Germany! (Second from left of the front row)

The weeping ...Judge Larry Seidlin

Ummm, not sure really what to say about this one. I'm wondering... maybe he's really the father of Anna Nicole's baby? What a disgrace. Wonder how long he's going to be wearing those robes?

I feel badly for her. That last video was pathetic. Her lawyer/boyfriend should be in jail. I'm sure he sold the footage, he as much as said he was going to on the tape.

These are a few of my favourite things...

Debbie's spinach dip, Susan's peanut butter squares, Nancy/Craig's pasta thingys on a toothpick, Patty's wine (hehehe), TBQ's ribs, Kelsey's beer battered fish, Keg's prime rib, Sinbad's surf & turf, Elias' Deli rueben, my own pasta salad, fried won tons and cow.

Can you tell I'm hungry?

Fireworks is a messy business!

Wow, and I thought I'd cleaned up some messy firing sites!

It's springish!

The windows are open to air out the house. (*note Bob & Mich aren't home to whine about the cold*) The birds are singing, the snow is melting and all is right with the world! Well, my world, my immediate world, stuff's not so great say... in Iraq.

Loser, loser, loser

Played poker last night at Patty's. Kept coming in second...

Happy 3rd birthday Tyler!

Happy day to you-ooo.

I have to quit my job!

I'm sorry Robin but this is my new life dream! I'm going to do this for a living from now on.

Vandal fishies... the movie-woah... 76 views in youtube! More than the fishies above!

My fish are vandals!

Note the knocked over castle right of the white columns! Michie says it's feng shui, I say if you knock over a building, it's vandalism dammit!

Bah!

Personally, I think it should be mandatory to have a neck to win a grammy! (Centre "chick") Oh... singing stuff that doesn't make my fillings hurt helps too.

Sunday outings

Well, Bob (next door,) Susan and I went over to Patty's (radio reporter) and fixed her dishwasher,(well Bob (next door) fixed the dishwaser,) we drank wine (yes at 1pm on a Sunday, what's it to you?) and picked up her antique radio.

I came home, finished up the new aquarium. Not sure if 8 gold fish isn't a tad too much for a 30 gallon but we shall see. I took the 5 gallon apart but am leaving the 15 gallon running just in case. Someone needs to tell the little beggars that they now have a ginormous amount of space. All 8 of them (and they are NOT small fish,) huddle in one corner. They need to expand their horizions dammit!

Patty, me and some other friends/work mates/family went to Dean Martini's for a VIP night where we were tres VIPish. Free drinks reserved seats and ballots for a $1000 diamond necklace. Hope you don't have to be there to win as I left just after 11pm. (old)
If I win, hmmmm... I don't like diamonds. Cold/hard/colourless... EBay?

I must go to bed, Cable's coming tomorrow. I have a firm appointment... between 8am and 5pm! My upload/download speeds suck. (pardon the techy term!) I called, I explained I had eliminated my computer/moden/router as the cause and that he should run a line test... He didn't believe me, we chatted, I techy talked him into running a test and... ta da... problems on the line. Massive spikes. I already knew that as they fried my RAM two years ago and I bought an $80.00 power bar that my cable goes into before the modem. The problem? I am house #1 of 500... re-set me, you get phone calls from 499 other houses. I will still let them come out and tell me the same thing. Then make them change my wires. Sometimes, it just doesn't pay to be #1 :(

AA

This is my favourite God-Daughter Alex, the fact that she is my ONLY God-Daughter has no bearing on the subject! With her, is Aryanna, the newest member of "the family." Now, she's getting old in that she will be 2 this July but she's still fairly new. I'm not ready for any newer ones... if any of the younger generation are reading this!

Living at the "end of the world"

It is a gloroious sunny day here. The snow is now melting a bit and all is good.

Michelle & I went grocery shopping and enjoyed the weather. I talked to my Sister Sandra and Mario in Sturgeon Falls and they too have a lovely sunny day. Cedric, Mario's son, is busy doing a 600 piece jigsaw puzzle. I used to love doing puzzles. Now, I'm old, half blind and can't sit in one place for any length of time without freezing up...

Why did I move here again? We all know the world, well the Ontario world, ends at London. Keep in mind kilometer #1 of the 401 is here though most don't think about it past London. I wouldn't if I didn't have to!

Hello? Anybody out there?

Ok fine. I sent the link to here out to family and friends and other than Susan, not one email, comment or mention. If I knew how, I'd use photoshop and draw moustaches on you all! :þ

If you're in the neighbourhood... hint, hint

A brilliant 3 year old (well 3 in 6 days)

This is Tyler. My friends' (Ann & Joey,) son. He will be 3 on Valentines Day. Today while on the phone with Ann I could hear him talking. Ann had told him that if he wanted to help Mommy cook he had to pick up first. Well, here's this two year old explaining/bartering why he did not want to pick up and how that should not effect his being able to help cook! It went on and on and I was convinced! Mommy held out though. hehehe... I told her she's in big big trouble when he's a teenager. He's a smooth talker that one!

I have no patience!

Yep a mere 24 hours later... there are two fish in the new aquarium. I will wait a day to two and toss in another so what I said earlier would take a month, will only take a week or so. Hope they survive it.

The kitchen drain is 98% fixed. Leaving a 2% teensy drip that Bob (husband/not next door) will fix on the weekend as he is on afternoons and working overtime to 4:30am!

Today, Bob (next door,) got a parcel from Canada Post. It was an antique radio he bought off EBay. We accepted delivery for him as there was no one home at his house. Michelle comes home from school and does up a ransom note from cut out newspaper letters... "We have your radio. One chocolate pie for one radio." We attached a knob from my antique radio to show the seriousness of the note! (Being that radios don't have baby fingers or ears to lop off and send along with ransom notes, a knob had to do.) Mich put the note in their mailbox where Susan found it upon arriving home from work. She came over with chocolate muffins which Michelle found acceptable.

UPDATE: The chocolate pie was delivered today, Saturday! T'was very good!

Oh one more thing. I decided to give the show "Lost" one more try. What a waste. I actually started watching it during commercials of another show. What happened in that one hour should have taken about 10 minutes. I'm done with Lost. They've lost it. The first season was great. Now it's just a mess. I am a huge fan of Heros! Best thing on tv in a long time. I hope they don't get mired down and lost like Lost!

Is it bad that it's raining in the basement?

Well, another exciting evening! Bob (next door) came over to help me fill the new aquarium. While downstairs hooking a hose to the tub, to save me from carrying 159 buckets of water through the house, he stepped on a rug and asked me why it was soaken wet. Then we noticed water pouring out of the ceiling. Ah... the kitchen drain pipe, which I had just doused with "Drano," let go. There are now buckets under leaks in the basement ceiling and under the sink. The cupboard door's open to let it dry out and the cats find this the most interesting thing ever! Can't stay away from it.

Bob, (my husband, not Bob next door,) came home from work at 12:30am and dismantled the drain. I'm off to Home Hardware shortly to get the pieces we need. Then I'll have to do a massive sink full of dishes.

The new aquarium is full, the filter's running and I'm excited to start putting fish in it soon. Need to wait a couple of days though.

My friend Patty (radio news reporter,) came over during all the hoopala and stood drinking wine while all the assorted water tasks were completed. She also bartered an old radio for Bob (next door) inspecting her dishwasher which is not working as a trade! (Acutally she just offered the radio long before the dishwasher came up but still, all in all, everyone made out well tonight!

Then we sat sipping wine and chatting for the rest of the evening. I needed that after all the drama!

My daughter Michelle

EDIT: I somehow deleted the comments on this post! Sorry Susan... I'm still learning.

I just realized I've spoken of my cats, fish, friends, work, neighbours... and not my baby! Well, my baby is 20. Today she came home from University, walked in the door and said, "my face almost fell off this morning." It was a tad nippy out. I noticed when I opened the door to bring in the paper! (hehe that's as much of outside as I did today! Oh wait, I did put the garbage out, had to walk across the whole back yard!) She tends to speak in hyperbole and I cannot for the life of me figure out where she gets it! ;)

She's smart, pretty, funny and tons of fun. She's quite serious though. Very studious, committed and forward thinking. I've always thought she was adopted. Or a changling. She says one day she'll tell me who her real Mother is, when she thinks I can handle it. Did I mention she's a smart ass?

Well enough about her for now as I could go on and on. She's pretty great.

bragging Mother, signing off

A frigid Monday morning...

Well it's so cold outside I cannot see out the windows for the frost. Yesterday, I went out to my car that hadn't been started in 2 1/2 days and when I turned the key, it made noises I did not know cars could make. It did start and after a bit even ran!

So the poker party was good, I even won a couple of games. Good friends, good food and drink in a warm house on a very cold night. The Cops came by... hehehe... no, we were'nt busted, a friend, working in the neighbourhood, stopped in for a couple of minutes. Nice to know he's keeping an eye on us!

Good thing the Super Bowl was in Detroit last year not this year! Some rain is nothing compared to what they would have gone through in this weather!

Well, I've set up my new 30 gallon aquarium. No water in it yet might do that today. It will take quite a while to get it fully functioning and get the fish from the two aquariums I have going into it. Should be done within a month or so. You can't just plop 8 fish into a new tank. I think once it's been running empty for about a week and the bacteria culture is established I'll take one from each tank every 4 or 5 days and add them. Bob and Susan, (next door neighbours/friends/Michelle's other parents,) gave me a huge rock/plant thing so I think I'll skip putting gravel in and it should stay cleaner longer.

That's my excitement for today. Of course it's only 10am so there could be more later!

One moment of which I am very proud

We had been getting calls from a 1-800 number that listed the caller as "Ontario." We'd answer, say "hello" and no one was there. This had been going on for some time, much to our frustration. On day I picked up and yelled "hello, hello, hello..." I actually triggered the computer to answer. It was a recorded message telling me to call about a Collingwood vacation weekend. So I did. I told "Brian" to take me off the list and never call me again. He tried to say it would take a couple of weeks, I told him if it happened again I was calling the CRTC and Bell. Brian got a tad snippy with me and I was less than impressed. so............

Then I had a great idea. I called their 800 number (their dime,) and when they answered, I was silent. It gave me perverse pleasure! Usually they hung up, one girl was very determined and so I decided to actually speak: I asked her "so, how do you like it?" She asked me what I was talking about. I told her that we had been plagued by their misfunctioning computer dial program for weeks and I wondered how she liked answering the phone and getting silence. She sighed and asked for my number so she could take me off the list. I told her I had already done that. So, of course, she asked me why then was I calling... I told her, "just for fun." She hung up, so rude!

I did this for a while, just hitting redial as I played on the computer until... suddenly... My calls were refused! Yes folks, I was blocked by a telemarketing firm!

Score: Pat 1/ Telemarketers 0 !

Well,welcome to the balmy South of Ontario. Tomorrow's weather? -28 degrees celcius for the windchill! Gusts of 60km/h! So much for the banana belt!

I'm back - almost two years later! yikes

Lost Sheep returns!

I'd forgotten about this blog I started and decided to be more dedicated once I remembered.

So... what's on my mind today? I'm having a poker party on Saturday night. A bunch of friends come over and we play hold 'em. Some play for fun, some try to play like they're Phil Ivy (you know who you are!) some really just come for the party, not the poker but we have fun. I'm looking forward to it.