I sleep better tonight. I went up to read just after 10 last night wanting to get a good sleep because I haven't been up early in 2 weeks. I read until just after 11, turned the light out and slept like a rock for the next hr and a half. Then I was wide awake, tossing and turning with my brain going a million miles an hr. I tried everything to distract my self relaxation excersises, reading, peeing you name it, to calm down but nothing was working. I was just getting more and more tense. Nothing in particular is bothering me, it was just "one of those nights"
At 3 I finally couldn't stand it anymore, got up and took half a clonazipam, just enough to relax me a bit and let me get to sleep. It worked but then I was making up for hrs not slept. My alarm wasn't set, my daughters wasn't set and my usually wide awake at 5am son was still sound asleep untill the phone rang at 7:36.
I don't know how we did it but we did, kid one out the door at 8, kid 2 out the door at 8:15. I had my first coffee at the bus stop.
I never really did totally wake untill about 11 and then it was time to clean the mess the kids made over the holidays.
Ready for bed and hoping bed is ready for me,
ju

My sisters and I did it. My kids have been doing it since they were 2 years old.
This year my daughter did the whole thing start to finish, used to be they were only allowed to do the smarties.



She will be 15 tomorrow but still wanted a smartie cake !
Smiling cause there always seems to be a few smarties that just won't fit so you have to eat them right away.
ju

but really it is more like an evolution. People come and people go for many diff reasons but the kitchen remains a constant, the warmest and most fun place to be.
mwah!
ju

Kissing booth
FREE!
get em while they are hot.
Puckering up,
ju

old friends and new,
happy 08.
ju

Through the rumour mill I have found out that I have super powers. I find this incredibly interesting and would love to rule the world but alas I am only human.
Lets consider longevity and the ability to speak up.
I do not, nor have I ever had a "bat phone" hot line to NN or NN-J. I am sure they would cringe to even think of that.
What I do have is a voice IF I happen to run into either of them. I chose not to bother them with trivial bullshit, but address issues that have been repeated many times. (profile bdays fixed today)
End of story part one.
Part 2.
I find it incredibly interesting when an "old" member choses to resurface and the "new regs" chose to not say hi or even acknowlege them, in the same way they chose to ignore newbies.
The most facinating aspect of all of this is IF people paid attention they would realize that I am just a member with some history that predates some of you, rather than this super power you seem to want to think I am.
I cannot see prv, I have no influence on how the site is run. I AM a member just like the rest of you.
Should you chose to ignore this that is your problem not mine,
ju

for fixing the birthdays in profiles )

club house sandwiches tonight and come hell or high water I'm gonna have red meat tomorrow! I love turkey but 4 days in a row is my limit.
Went shopping today and got really lucky. New winter coat $20 (I love boxing day sales) AND found $5 on the floor at the beer store
I thoroughly enjoyed my 24 hrs alone time. My daughter is home now and I missed her. Judging by the greeting I got she missed me too. While she was gone I was talking to my neighbour and have found a source for volunteer hours for her. In order to graduate high school here you have to have put in 40 hrs of voluteer work. She should have her 40 hrs by the end of grade 9 now, great news!
My son is staying one more night with his dad doing the guy things he doesn't get living in a house full of women. That is ok with us cause it gives us a chance to just be.
Feeling refreshed and content,
ju

No need to go into great detail how it happened, it just did.
Digital christmas presents, incorrect discs, try to fix it, lose all family pics from 2007.
I have to thank a wonderful friend who happens to be an NNer,
justcuz got the majority of my family pics back for me. I am thrilled!!!!!!! Had a few teary moments watching them reappear. Very few things are irreplacable, pictures, being memories are among the priceless.
This time I owe you big time cuz,
Thank you so much for giving me a year of memories back,
ju

First off found out today the kids will be going with their dad tommorrow. They were invited for 2 nights, only one wants to stay both.
My son got an indoor basketball net for Christmas that says things like "That was all net" when you get a basket. It was attatched to just about every door in the house until he decided it needed to be over the back of a chair in the livingroom so he could watch tv and play at the same time. He played pretty much all day. Just before dinner he freaked!! He threw the ball and lost it. This ball has to be about 4" so not tiny but it was GONE. The 3 of us looked everywhere for the damn thing. It was driving me insane last night, how far can a ball go in the house?? He was pretty upset about it because he loved that game and other balls just weren't cutting it. That ball was nowhere to be found yesterday.
This morning I looked again thinking its an orange ball ffs I would have to be blind not to see it. By this time the majority of the xmas mess had been cleaned up but the ball was still missing!! Went to shower and on my way through the livingroom I stopped to look yet again! As I was looking behind the TV for the 4 millionth time it occured to me. The back of the cabinet is open, where the DVD player etc sits. Bent over opened the doors and sure enough the ball had gone behind the tv bounced and landed on the back of the shelf.
Sherlock Holmes aka,
ju