I have been so negligent in posting. I know I know. I suck.

I try. Some days I wonder if I really need to share my day to day stuff. Other days I think of cute things to write down. Then completely forget as the coffee wears off. Pleh.

Our washer broke. Finally, after about 9years, the thing just finally gave. Lee and I bought it when we first moved in together. Not an expense we needed right now. We're making enough to cover a month's of bills, but I still have a tiny bit of taxes to pay, and cards to pay down. So, determined not to have to spend more money, Lee spent some time with google. Apparently it's a common problem with Kenmore washers as they get older. This little coupler broke, which makes the thing in the center of the washer agitate, and  because it broke, it wasn't turning, and making an AWFUL sound. So I drove around town monday morning and found a little used appliance store / repair shop and showed the old fella there the part. He knew what it was immediately (Note: Canadian Tire, Rona and Sears did NOT know what it was or where to get it). Cost us 25$ for the part, but Lee got the thing running again after work!!! Better than 1000$ for a new washer/dryer combo. (If we're gonna get a new washer, might as well get the new dryer, lol)

But then tonight I noticed that we have a headlight out. Sigh... Well, the car needs a servicing anyway. The thing will be paid off in February of 2010 too! Pretty soon we will have no more car payments. YAY!

Business is great. Lee and his partner are very very busy. We're having several web sites go pretty soon here. I spent most of today polishing one. And we have a few more nibbles. I have a couple more that we are waiting on feedback, and content. I can only make up so much crap to type in there.

I'm still mad at the douche who whined about my coding.

I made an awesome pumpkin pie tonight... from pumpkin! Not a can of brown goop. Actually quite easy to do. Even the dough. If you have a pasta roller, it makes pastry dough so much easier. Even the kids like it!

We might... repeat... might... be moving next year. Lee's business partner, and long time friend, might be moving into his father in laws old house, because the father in law is building a new house across the street from that one. Since his partner owns his house, he doesn't want to have to sell, or attempt to sell, so we may rent it from him. It will offer us more space, and we might turn the basement into our home office, setting it up to make some remote work easier. Not sure when this will happen. Probably next year. Will keep you posted.

Ok, all for now. Try to post before too long.

I leave you with a lol cat , or 2.

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Harriette Potter

My little ladybug

My little ladybug

It's over! Whew! Only 1 and 3/4 months to relax until Christmas :D

The ladybug costume is one I made for my oldest for her first halloween. There is a headband with those little boppers on it, but the paint was still drying on them.

It was gloriously warm all day too so I didn't have to worry about bundling them up very much. The ladybug outfit is from a boys size 10 sweater anyway, and my oldest is wearing a grey sweater of mine that is too small.

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And the lol cat to describe today:

Purehate

Meh. It's a long story. But this guy I had to deal with through our business, pissed me off. I was helping him finish up his project, and he's kind of a competitor of sorts, for one of our services. He was busy, and is going on vacation for a month so needed some help.

Took me 3 hours to finish the thing I was to do. It was suppose to be pretty basic, and it was. I thought I did alright. He then seemed happy, and asked for help with a 2nd project, doing the same thing, only it would be simpler. So I did. I finished in 3 hours, and had to finish up a section he just didn't get to yet. So I basically completed this one part for him.

Well, this morning he's all unimpressed, saying my work is unorganized, hard to read, and basically doesn't work. He has to redo it all. I followed his style of coding, and naming conventions so it would merge with his stuff better!!!!!!

But! I chose to not jump to conclusions and asked if SectionA wasn't working... Nope that was fine. (using sections instead of really what I did for privacy sake)

I asked if SectionB wasn't working, because I took an example of his to model how I did the work.... Nope that was fine too.

Well that was 80% of the stuff I did!!!

So I asked specifically what I did wrong, so I could figure out how to do it right another time.... Well! He's too busy to tell me what it was because he has to fix it all.

Translation: Im a jerk and I'm trying to weasel out of paying the bill.

I took a look at the changes that he made afterward, to my stuff. I can see now what he added, that might have been a good idea for me to add, but he didn't give me much in direction. I was suppose to finish up this little module for him, add this other function there. I didn't realize he wanted me to change some naming conventions in one part, or add more info to another.

He could have just asked: "Oh BTW, can you add the client info to this part as well... can you name these parts this way" and I would have done it. It often takes a 2nd pair of eyes to spot something the first pair might overlook without realizing.

Instead he chose to take the douchey route.

So I'm in a super bad mood today now.

Meh

Will post Halloween and kid photos tomorrow or Saturday tho!!!

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I was browsing the I Can Has Cheezeburger site yesterday, looking for more lol cats, and decided to try some of it's affiliate sites. I stumbled on the Roflrazzi. It's shots of celebreties with funny captions. Holy crap. I laughed pretty hard at some of them. I wound up reading 189 pages of photos (6 per page) and downloaded the best.

There were many themes: Star Trek, Star Wars, Jonas Brothers, Twilight.

I can't remember if I mentioned my hatred for Twilight yet. I went with a bunch of female relatives on Lee's side. I figured it couldn't be that bad. I was wrong. The pre-teen angsty dialog was making my skin crawl. The plot line wanted to make me smash my forehead into the chair in front of me in an attempt to knock myself out so I didn't have to watch more of it.

I think teens have moved on from a White Knight, or Dashing Prince from swooping in and rescuing them from their mundane life and whisking them away to their fantasy... to a vampire who look like he lost a fight with a container of glitter, and hasn't bathed in so long his hair sticks straight up on it's own.

Sigh.  <-- over emphasized sigh

For anyone who might not have enjoyed it all that much. Some lol-Twilights for your amusement:

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And My Personal Favorites

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I've developed a new fondness for naan. Well it's not completely new. We found a naan bread recipe last year, that calls for garlic of course, and used it to make pizza doughs. We would make up the dough, and roll them into balls that would wind up making a pizza about 8inches or so across, and froze them. When we wanted pizza I just had to remember to take them out in the afternoon and let them thaw. Then roll them out. This way Lee and I could make our own customized pizza, and I can make a simple one for the kids.

We were at friends a while back and we had some hamburgers. She had run out of buns accidentally but found some flatbread style buns she had bought at the store in her freezer. They made the best hamburger buns ever! They are much stronger than regular buns, as they don't fall apart after soaking in the condiments. You don't really need to toast them. And they're quite tasty!

The whole thing tasted new and different.

So now I'm using that naan recipe above to make flat bread once a week or so. Turns out my oldest loves it.

She doesn't like sandwiches really, as she prefers her ingredients to be separate and not touch each other. (She will eat peanut butter and grill cheese - but you can't take peanuts to school anymore). So I usually slice up a half of a wrap and put that, ham slices, and cheese slices into a container for her lunch. She can then roll up little sandwiches on her own.

But she likes the naan  bread, so now I can cut them into little wedges and put them in too, then she makes her own little sandwiches.  (I actually don't add garlic for her - will have to make 2 batches next week, one for us, one for them)

So this works out great. I can use them for hamburgers, or my own breakfast sandwiches, mini pizzas and kids lunches! Woooo

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I work on the computer, and we opened our own computer business, which is doing very very well considering we're still in our first year. So if this keeps going, and I can go into the office more to help, then hopefully we can pay off our debt and own a house... that is the extend of my dream right now. A house, on a large property with lots of trees for privacy. And possibly a hunk of land up north where it's sparsely  populated so that we can go up for summer vacations, or Lee can go hunt, or what have you.

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Mc11824

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No matter what kind of day I am having, there is an LOL cat to describe it perfectly!!!

Which may be why I love them so much. I know it's silly, maybe childish. But the little goofy photos with bad spelling make my day sometimes!

Meh

Today it's 'Meh' cat.

The youngest is still in her NO phase. She handled preschool much better today. She still cried when I tried to go but the teachers said that she was fine after a few minutes then did great the rest of the time. She didn't want to leave when I went to get her, and even behaved when we took coffee to Lee's office, and hit the dollar store for ice cube trays.

When we got home... well, nothing was going to make her happy. She wanted to play this game on the Treehouse TV Web site. (Lots of great games for young kids) So i put it on, then she didn't want to play it, but wanted to watch the cartoon that it's based on, which I don't have... and well, it went downhill from there.

She finally passed out on the couch.

I think I know why this one is having issues with preschool. It's because I didn't take her out as much, to a play group or other activities as I did my oldest. Oh well.

I do remember my oldest going through a phase where nothing was how she wanted. She refused to eat dinner for weeks and I finally have to give her something afraid she will get sick from not eating (usually fruit to make sure she got vitamins). Most of the time, spending 3 days in her room was enough to get her on track again. She still has bouts of craziness.

For instance, if she gets some sort of special treat, not necessarily food, but some fun event that maybe she never did before, then she refuses to listen to me for days. If I decide that the kids have been good, and decide to get some fast food for lunch (which we dont do often), then she thinks she can have ANY food she wants any time she wants, and I don't get to refuse her.

Which usually makes me regret doing anything nice for her some days, because she turns into Super-Brat afterwards.

Once I got her a couple timbits in the morning, then we went grocery shopping, and she couldn't understand why she couldn't have EVERY junk item she saw. Usually she asks, then when I say 'No', she is fine and moves on. But because she got her timbit, then anything goes.

"This is why Mommy drinks."

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Having one child in school for 6 hours has been rather surreal. When she was in kindergarden we walked her up to school, came home, I got 2 hours to do stuff, before heading back out to pick her up... Now I have several hours of time.

My youngest is going through the terrible 3's. There is no such thing as terrible 2s. Both ours were much better behaved through the 2s than the 3s. Then when they hit 4s they try to reason their way out of things more, but usually easier to handle.

She was ok the first few days that her sister was at school. I tried to take her out for short grocery shopping trips but even that didn't seem to entertain her. I also think she wasn't feeling well so she laid on the couch a lot, and her temperature was up a little. Now she is saying NO to everything and freaking out every morning over nothing, to the point I swear she's gonna burst a blood vessel in her brain.

This morning, we got 50 feet from the house and she wouldn't stop blubbering so I told my oldest to go ahead and walk to school by herself. That was hard for me to do. However, the back way involves no street crossing and is very fast. Just down a half block, through an empty lot, and in the back gate of the school yard. She looked uncertain at first, but then seemed rather excited that I would let her do that.

The school really is VERY close to us. And I thought next year I would let her walk, but I just didn't feel like dragging, then carrying a simpering mess with me the whole way.

Tomorrow the youngest starts preschool, which she seemed to enjoy at the open house, where we got to visit with the teachers. I am hoping that after a few times at preschool she will settle and be more excited to go out in the mornings. I think she might be bored with me at home, even though I am trying to give her some activities to do. Painting, etc. Might have to take her to a park if I have the car (There is a nice one downtown) more often.

Sigh...

I need to spike my coffee today I think. ;)

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Mc11824

Well, today is the first day of school up here in the frozen northern wasteland called Canada. My oldest is starting grade 1 today (half day today). Which means I get 6 hours of time almost to myself for the first time in 5.5 years! Woooooo.

Don't get me wrong. I love my kids. I don't really want to be one of those parents on my facebook page who is constantly going on about every moment they get away from their children. I'm excited for my daughter, because I know she enjoys school (so far). And I get a little more uninterrupted time for work related stuff! Working from home is not easy with small children.

The other one will be starting preschool this fall, mon-wed-fri mornings for 2 hours. This week is just an open house / orientation meet and greet, and next week she has her gradual entry, then the week after that she starts her preschool officially. So that will then become 3 days a week with 2 whole hours to MYSELF!!! What will I do? Probably work... preferably nap! lol

Garden is going gangbusters out there. Tomatoes are ripening daily. And the deer like the taste of squash flowers... buggers. I dont think I am going to get a single pumpkin this year. I had like a half dozen flowers going ... before the deer ATE THEM ALL.

Zucchini

You can see the size of the zucchini I just pulled out of our garden. We've always managed to get nice ones. Other plants like pumpkin or potatoes are hit and miss every year, but these always do well. The hard part is finding enough recipes to use it in. I bake a lot of zucchini bread in the early fall.

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And here is just what I have in the way of tomatoes in the fridge. There are still tons out in the garden. And this is even after I used a bunch in last night's dinner! Time to make soup today I think.

:D

This fall I am planning on canning as well. Can't let all this go to waste. We've been giving some away but still... the bulk of the tomatoes will probably ripen at once.

I need more coffee....

all for today!

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