Friday, November 20, 2009

All Quiet

So it's been pretty quiet since DH got back from his trip. We're slowly trying to get ready for the holidays (very slowly). I keep hearing about all these people with their trees up, lights on and baking done and I'm just sitting there with my mouth open going..."How in the world have you done this already!?! It's not even December yet folks!"

We're hoping that maybe in the next few weeks we can get ourselves out and get a freezer. I have very little space in our fridge freezer and really would like to start baking soon. No idea what I'm going to be making but I do have some cherries (for a pie) and blackberries (for a crumble) that are waiting to get made into something.

I will say though that I have managed to get a jump start on some things...Christmas shopping! So far I've bought

I spy bags for some of the kids

Two of these purses for sister in law and step mother in law (not this fabric)

Two of these credit card holders to go with purses (not in this fabric)....there may also be a third one in the pile for myself *whistling*

Cute little apron for my secret Santa name pull in my family.

And two of these belt buckles for brother in law and my secret Santa name pull for Hubby's family.

Hrm now to figure out what DH needs...and to vacuum the floor. I just noticed now there's a weird black dot on my card photos. I really hope it's fluff and not a bug.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

All By Myself

Okay now I'm going to have that song stuck in my head

"All by mysellllllfff.
Don't wanna be
All by myselllllfff anymore"

Okay that's outta me now.

So Hubby was away for 5 days in Dallas Texas at a conference. It was cute because before hand he tells me
DH: "So you want to go on vacation?"
Me: "Ooooh sure. Where?"
DH: "Dallas"
Me: *blink* *blink* "Ummmmm...."

Dallas isn't really on my top list of places to got. Heck I'm sorry to say it's not even in the top 75 (yes I have a list) but I'm sure it's a wonderful place to visit but with the little vacation time I have right now I didn't really want to use it by going to Dallas. So I'm home...single...until Wednesday.

To pass the time I took over the couch in the living room and did these:






Also I did a stupid thing on Tuesday night. I was making myself a snack after work of cracker and cheese and as I was slicing the cheese I managed to slice my thumb open as well...and I mean really slice it. Like I've never bleed that much before in my life sliced it.

I was looking up numbers for clinics, finding out how deep a cut has to be before you need stitches. It took almost 30 mins for the bleeding to slow down/stop but thankfully I didn't need stitches. The whole time though I'm thinking "OMG...okay don't go into shock.You'll be fine. You can still drive if you have to. You're going to be okay...(I'm not very good with blood)." Thankfully though all was fine and I finally calmed down but it was definitely an interesting night.

What's weird though is as I was starting the cut I was telling myself "don't cut yourself". Plus while I was waiting for the bleeding to stop I was mad because I had a huge craving for cheese now and couldn't cut any as one hand was bleeding and the other was trying to stop the bleeding. I was not impressed!

So now I'm trying to function with out the thumb and I must say it's been interesting. I never knew how much I used the thumb on my left hand before but now that I can't use it it makes doing some stuff a little more interesting. I hope I'm back on track soon. Don't like using my index finger in place of a thumb...but I do get a lot of sympathy from Hubby so I guess it's not all bad ;) .

Thursday, November 05, 2009

I Remembered!

Yay I remember to grab the memory cards out of the cameras this morning. So here's what's been going on lately:

First it was sad to pack up and say good-bye to the old place

It was such a mess in the end though


and very empty

We had some great times there and it was our first place but we really did need the room.

When we got to the new place the first thing that had to happen was the wall in the garage had to come down.

It's a fire hazard and not allowed and the last thing we wanted to do was get strata mad at us

The guys had fun though taking it down until it came to the framing and they forgot to bring a drill.

But it did come down only to fill the space with all our storage items.

The other major project that Hubby worked on was the tiled wall in the living room (and matching wall in the kitchen nook)

The boys went to tackle this and...well I'll let the pictures show what I ended up with in the end





I'm not letting them touch the kitchen nook now!

But no we'll get it down in the end however we're calling a professional as the wall is two layers of drywall and Hubby just doesn't feel comfortable tearing down two layers then putting them back up. I just hope I don't have to wait too long before the wall gets fixed. That hole in the wall isn't exactly what I was picturing!

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

I Feel Bad

I feel bad. I've been neglecting this blog. It's not that I've forgotten about it it's just...I don't know. I've got all these photos of what's going on and I feel so bad because I either keep forgetting to take my memory card out of the camera or don't have the energy at night to make a post. I will say that the last few weeks have had lots of ups and downs for Hubby and I but more on that later. For now I've just got to tie that piece of string around my finger and try try try to remember to get those pesky photos off my camera.

Oh and PS...I was getting tired of the old colours and thought a change was needed.