My Dad, My Hero!!

Many of you received the email telling you that I had no choice but to change my email address.

The spam was unbelievable.

Then I talked to my Dad.

He gave me a link that I have since downloaded. This thing is amazing!

It's called "spamfighter". It has blacklisted all those nasty emails that I know have come through face book, (sorry, I am convinced this is the root of all evil...but so much fun) but it also read my address book and allows all the good stuff to come through.

So Dad, thank you. I Love You! You save me from spam email hell!

The After School Phone Call

From #1Son

"Hi Mom, how's your day?"

"Fine, how is yours?"

"Okay, but we have a problem"

"What's that?"

"Well, you see, Dad's not home and we're locked out"

"Well, get the key from the hiding spot."

"We would, but THAT'S the problem"

"Why?"

"Well, there's a rat's nest in there, with rats in it."

"WHAT??????"

"Seriously Mom, there's a rat's nest in the barbeque. I can see the key but I'm not going in to get it."

"I DON'T BELIEVE YOU...."

"Seriously, there is."

"Take a picture, I need proof if I'm ever to going to use that thing again."

"We'll see....maybe I'll take a picture. But what do we do until Dad gets home?"

"Go to the neighbours, I'm sure they'll let you rotten little shits in. They don't know you all that well."

Please, rest assured, any burgers you have at my house will not be grilled in a barbeque that once housed a rat's nest.

We'll buy a new one. Just kidding. There wasn't any rat's nest.

However, we've found a new hiding spot for the key. It's around their necks. It'll make it easier to strangle them later.

What I learned today...

When you start to lose weight, the wrinkles in your face, you know, the ones that the fat was hiding, well, they start to show.

And your pants, they have to be pulled up everytime you stand up.

Oh, and your boobs shrink too.

I don't want to kill them

But I also don't want to torture them either.

We've had these things for 2 1/2 months.

They usually don't make it this far, they're barely hanging on by the end of December.

They're doing quite well right now in February.

But its almost time for them to be replaced with springtime Tulips (despite the -34C my thermometer is showing).

Oh what to do, what to do....

Consequences (aka You're In Deep Doo-Doo)

We have a snowmobile. I might have told you already, but if I didn’t, now you know. And this snowmobile is giving both SG and I more grey hair than we ever could’ve wanted.

You see, #1Son thinks he’s somewhat invincible in everything that he does, and this includes riding this sled. While we try to keep a pretty tight reign on him, we do have to let him have some freedom.

The sled and #1Son are currently grounded. Have been since last Sunday. He went out with a buddy to the river. We told him how far he could go and that if he didn’t respect the boundaries that were set, there would be serious consequences. (Yeah yeah, I know, fancy words but apparently it’s not okay to say “you don’t do as your told, you’re gonna be in deep shit.” to your kids anymore) And he respected the boundary, however, neglected to take his faithful companion (read cell phone) with him....and then was gone for 2 hours. I was getting kinda panicky when SG headed out to find him and his buddy. You see, his buddy had HIS cell, but it was turned off. How nice is that? SG found them, safe and sound, and told #1Son to get home NOW!!!. Then #1Son proceeded to drive over a metal pole, and then land himself and the sled into some trees. And as such, consequences were levied.

#2Son is learning to drive the snowmobile. He is very careful and cautious. He doesn’t go too fast and he just tools around in the back yard site. One Saturday (prior to the grounding) #1Son was at work and #2Son wanted to take me for a ride. So, I bundled up and headed to the back bush with my baby. I had to request he go a little faster due to the fact that we were barely moving. This was difficult for me, riding behind my youngest son.

Anyway, we were in the bush. We missed the turn.

We got stuck.

Then we got un-stuck.

It was fun, despite the fact that I had to use muscles I never knew I had to get this thing unstuck and moving again.

I'm not sure how I feel about this snowmobile thing...

You've Got Spam!!

I think someone sold me out. Either that or face book is a nasty, nasty thing!

So you all received the email where I notified you that my email address has changed. This was needed due to serious amounts of crap I was receiving and it was getting increasingly harder to find the real mail versus the junk mail. And, I must say, it is really nice to be able to open up my email now and just see mail from those I want to see mail from.

But, just for fun (and because I said I would) I decided to open up the old email address this morning to see if there was anything in there from someone who didn't change my address. I'm currently in the process of bringing in message 138 of 737... The last time I checked this account was on Monday, the 4th. Today is Saturday, the 9th.

There were a couple of you...it's a good thing I know how to sort alphabetically (it's the easiest way to recognize a name). So, yeah, let's get that address book changed.

And.... I say face book because none of this happened BEFORE I signed up. I'd be interested to hear from other people on face book to see if they have found a huge influx of garbage mail since joining.

Thawed out once again

Well, I’ve thawed out from spending the day on the movie shoot last week. It was funny because I was back in town on the weekend and they were still shooting. I was at a girlfriends place on Saturday night and when I left you could see the keg lights set up on Main Street outside of one of the hotels. Being as nosy as I am, I took a drive down that way and saw a few of the faces I had spent the day with last week. When I got home I wanted SG to come back to town with me so he could do some sniffing around as well, but alas, he had the better sense and instead we went to bed.

As well, were almost back to normal here as far as computers are concerned. We did some reformatting over the weekend and have been trying to get them back to a state where you can actually use them. I think we’re getting close. I’ve been having a heck of a time reloading the programs that I had burnt to disc, so I need to spend some time on the www to download them again. And…well, who has time to do that! For example, I need to download service pack 2 for XP in order to install iTunes. And I need to get Firefox again. And both of these are kinda big in size and well, tying up the phone line for that amount of time…talk to you in a week!

One of my friends has discovered facebook as well. That's gonna keep me busy once things are back up and running around here. I usually take a peek at lunch and well, lunch is only an hour and she's got about 6 hours worth of stuff for me to look at.

#1Son started his second semester yesterday. It’s gonna be a tough one, but we shall see how it turns out. I didn’t get a phone call (and many parents I know did) indicating that he failed anything, so this is good. This time around, I’m not so sure…heavy load he’s got and frankly, I’m very worried about the Math – Pre Calculus don’t you know. He hasn't had to do any math since last May! Yikes.

That’s it for now. We’ll return to regular posting once all the services are up and running!