sleepless

Frauline F and DarkMirror will appreciate my pain tonight = I'm sleepless. I think it may have been the smell of one very wet baby that woke me up. She fell asleep early in her track suit and we didn't get to change her before she dozed off like a drunken frat boy, face first into the boob. So sweet!

So I've tried to alleviate some worries by paying bills - not as tragic as it could be though the money tree on the porch is not bearing any fruit. Maybe more fertilizer?

Willow has now rolled all the way across the bed, is upside down and spread eagle. I'd take her picture but it would be cruel to wake her up with the flash. Just use your imaginations gentle readers, and don't forget that it still smells mildly of pee. Must concoct hippie room spray made of vodka tomorrow. May drink vodka.

The good news is I think I've scored a babysitting job where I can bring the boo. I'm all excited. The bad news is I'll be on the freedom 85 plan. This should motivate me to find something I like to do though. Suggestions for jobs that involne no stress, much reward moderate cash and time off are welcome. Must not require a license, co-ordination or a sense of direction.

Ok - I'm going to try and nod off by reading a doomsy book about the future of the planet. Should make having no money look irrelevant. Ed, take care of your finger little Eddie . Dark Mirror_ I love you and am so proud of all the things you're doing right now. Go team face stuffing!

hugs to my imagined legions of fans

peace out

Macaroni and cheese

Can someone please tell me why I can't eat macaroni and cheese every single day? Because I'm going to.

Lets look at the nutritional rundown:

It has 15 percent of my daily iron and since I'm going to eat the whole box, bump that up to 45%
2% of Vitamin A, again really 6%
11 G of protein (33g when you count the fact that I'm just gonna dig into the whole pot)
8% of my calcium (24%)
18 % of my fiber ( times three is ...)

As for fat and calories, I don't want t o make this list too long and bore you.
It's economical at a dollar a box and takes 7 minutes to prepare. The ideal food.

Maybe I'll eat only macaroni and cheese every day until Christmas and then see how I feel. I bet I'll feel great. I'll blog about it and become famous, get an endorsement deal form the good people at KD

*Disclaimer: Tyren if you are reading this, it's a bad idea. Seriouly. ( but then again , see list above .. )

oranges

Willow eating an orange is the funniest, most heart hugging thing i have ever seen. It's like watching a chubby klutzy orangutan. I give her a mandarin, peel most of it and leave some skin for grip and she sucks out the middle fiercely with big slurping, guzzling noises like she's going crazy on a portable orange boob, orange juice dripping down her hand and pooling in her chubby wrist folds.

Priceless.

back in 2008

Hey gang!

Sorry for the long absence but the computer was broken so I couldn't post pictures and I've been living online life in superstruct. I think that the Willow bug is stiring so I'll post some pictures quickly and tell more stories tomorrow!These are woolen longies Emily and I made out of an old wool sweater. They need some adjustment but they work - and for 0 dollars vs 35 for a new wool soaker - they`re great!
You can find step by step instructions here: http://www.bumwrapdiapers.com/pages/pattern.php. Ilike the pictures!

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Gaming for the greater good - Superstruct

Tyren -

I heard about this multiplayer forcasting game on CBC - where you project what your real self will be doing in 2019 and how you will deal with various issues - like climate change, food shortage, a pandemic, power struggles and major security breaches. "Your mission is to come up to real solutions to those problems by doing things like blogging, making videos and uploading photos online. You play the role of yourself, but 11 years in the future." (CBC website)

One of the cool things is that they are going to use this information to project what people really will do when faced with these challenges and in order to get people to share ideas about how to actually deal with these issues.

I've created a profile and thought you might enjoy this too. You can earn " badges" by writing stories about yourself in the future, making vidoes.. it looks super cool. Check it our here:

http://www.superstructgame.org/

On getting things done

I'm tired today - see last nights post -- I just couldn't sleep, I've been reading a bit online about parenting to shore me up and spoil myself a bit. I found this quote, and it made me feel better about not getting much done today:

“Cleaning and scrubbing can wait ‘til tomorrow, because babies grow up, I’ve learned to my sorrow. So hush-a-bye cobwebs, dust go to sleep. I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep!” Author Unknown.

Little bug is sleeping right now - all chubby writs curled under apple cheeks - and watching her chubbiest chubbiness sleep is a limited time offer. One day she'll be a tall whirling dervish like another girl I love and she may not sit still long enough to stare at!

Jelly beans for breakfast ..

I can't sleep, and this song keeps running through my head - it's by Dusted and is simply beautiful.

Well if I had a child
What a child it would be
Never have to bathe
Have sweets every meal
Wear their favourite clothes everyday
And go to bed when they want to
Have jelly beans for breakfast
And run free wherever they please

If I had a child
What a child it would be
To see them play in the flowers' shade
Pick apples off the trees
If I had a child
It would be the child God made


It is so gorgeous and rich and simple - just like a child.

Changes

I'm having a restless night - due to a restless day - which involved a big mess in the kitchen, lots of help from Emily, and my caving in and buying a fake Swiffer - may all my friends and the green gods ( esses) forgive me. I just couldn't touch a mop today. Also, the Swiffer ish thing will help in my efforts to keep sir Kitt Katiest, the chubbiest, cuddliest, most persistent, dog like and stinkiest cat, clean.
That was a run on sentence. Here are some short sentences to make up for it. My apologies. Apolgies to my English teachers and the language at large.
Anyway - the restlessness caused me to change the blog template. I was never comfortable with the margines on the left. Let me know what you think - I thrive on feedback and suffer when there is a lack of it. I loved report cards as a kid... yes, just like Angela on the office. I'm not proud of this, just admitting it. Also, I ate double stuff Oreaos for dinner. You're jealous.

Willow's latest passion

Willow's latest passion is paper. She loves to touch it...


Willow loves rip it....


She loves to eat it.

all..



upYummy!!!!

Will blog for cash?

Hmm. ..
I am on a search for ways to stay home with Willow-bug that will not result in poverty or over exhaustion. It has also occurred to me, while filling out the interests section of my profile that my brain may have turned to mush lately - or maybe not as recently as I'd like to believe. It's been awhile since I was able to sit down and finish a book, attend a class of any kind, follow through completely on a ...

So I ran into this site while fiddling with blogger, looking for recipes, and trying to distract myself from my existential crises . It's called blog her ads and if you write for them they advertise on your site and pay you. I'm not sure how much but this bears looking in to.

The other thing is that I've decided to learn. Of course, I'm hoping to go back to school in January but I think that I'll start now with the following idea : I will learn one new thing every .. day? week? two days? Every day I think. A Buddhist friend of mine once said that he tried to learn three new things every day and it impressed me. I think I'll start slow.

So if I start a blog about learning one new thing every day -- with pictures of course-- I would be working towards both goals. Make cash at home, expand horizons. Wish me luck! Teach me things!

Happy talk like a pirate day!

Yargh! It's talk like a pirate day, which I celebrated by eating pirate cookies



Apparently, these cookies are a Canadian creation - all I know is, peanut buttery deliciousness abounds in every bite!

Willow celebrated with her usual brand if grrr ing and grunting - seriously, that child sounds nothing like pebbles and everything like a surly pirate. I noticed today that she probably gets it from me - ooops. Me and the gang at DnD night. I applaud her sturdy pirate - iness - here

For Max, who I know is a fan of all things pirate, and who I've thought of lots today, I submit the following song, written by the guys who came up with talk like a pirate day, for the enjoyment of the G rated set:

A Children's Pirate Shanty
by Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers
(can be sung to the tune of Monty Python's "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK" - or make up your own!)

Chorus
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
I stay up late - till half past three!
And that's a peg below me knee!

Yo Ho, my friends I have a tale
of treasure, plunder, sea and sail
my story's bigger than a whale
it gets so deep, ye'll have to bail.

Chorus
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
I stay up late - till half past three!
And that's a peg below me knee!

I like to fish, I like to fight
I like to stay up half the night
When I say "starboard" ye go right!
Me ma, she says, "Ye look a fright!"

Chorus
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
I stay up late - till half past three!
And that's a peg below me knee!

I've got no hand but that's me hook!
I pillage stuff but I'm no crook.
Me booty's in this chest I took.
They'll write about me in a book!

Chorus
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
I stay up late - till half past three!
And that's a peg below me knee!

And that's all there is to this song.
I hope it hasn't been too long.
A pirate's life might just be wrong
So grow up nice and big and strong!

Chorus
I'm a pirate! That I be!
I sail me ship upon the sea!
I stay up late - till half past three!
And that's a peg below me knee!

and if you'd like help talking like a pirate - go here : http://www.talklikeapirate.com/translator.html

I'm off to read and starfish.

I love fall food

mmmm..
we just ate roasted pork and veggies - butternut squash that looked like cut up chunks of sunshine, sweet potatoes, carrots and onion . We drank a white wine called " Big and lucious" which I picked for the name and because the description said it's taste had " a hint of buttered toast". Yummy - and nothing like permanent marker Tyren!

It's the time of year when I can light candles at dinner time and curl up in a bundle. The house smells like good food ( we had the stairwell cleaned today so no more eau de kitty litter). squeaky is sleeping through the night and we are going to watch a movie and eat cookies until I fall asleep. Pirate cookies!

Perfection.

fairy houses and kitty cats

Emily moved into her new house in the Glebe with all of her roomates ( Maks, Alex and Tarek - and Emma almost lives there too -- ) so I thought I'd post a few pictures from our recent visits and some views from the lovely walk home.

Willow playing Piano with the littlest of the two new Kittens - the little fluff ball is a blur because she never stops moving, except when she's asleep. This kitten is 6 weeks old and actually crawled into a tiny orange sized hole, in Emily's room.

Emma and Willow playing piano - Emma plays really well actually, though she'll tell you that she can't. She played some Fiona Apple this morning after breakfast. Willow doesn't play so well, but she loves to pound the keys.

Emily and Willow in the new kitchen - Emily made us waffles and fruit this morning -- deelicios. I love that corner winndow and all the plants. I covet this kitchen. You might have noticed that Emily's hair is getting pinker and pinker. She's dying it with manic panic, one part at a time when she feels like it the ADD way! So far, it's actually red and pink and bright pink.
Willow and I were strolling home, when I noticed this " fairy house" in the bottom of a tree. Note the dangling fairy and the door. Very random as it wasn't right in front of a house. I think that it might be a work of guerilla art - so much to the surprise of a couple walking by, I stoped and stooped to take a picture. Arrow, I thought you might enjoy it.

This was the front yard of another house on the way home - Tyren, it seemes like your type of thing - there was water running down the rocks and it reminded me a bit of the Zen garden that we went to see. Sorta of mata nui ish too.. I love the yards in the glebe - wild flowers, rock sculptures and clover, so I'll probably be posting more.

This is a picture of Willow with the home made D20 that I was telling you about, Arrow. Pretty awesome!

and finally, dad and Willow - you can see in the back ground what I've done with the kid corner and bit of how the dinning room is set up. I think that it's much warmer looking. Tomorow, we'll be putting up Maks' art - I'll post more pictures then.

xoxox

Winding down

I'm winding down after several nights of being up since 1 am - I've been a bit restless lately. The good news is that the house is clean and I've decided to start a painting project, more on that later. The bad news is that I'm sleepy, but I figured I'd take the time to post some of my favorites of the pictures that Tyren took last week. Tyren, if you get the chance, you have posting rights on here too - so go ahead and add some of your own!




I really like electric poles right now - and the airplane trail running perpendicular to the wires is a nice contrast.

Here - the tree in the foreground adds interest and the street gives the picture direction
I love the street sign against the tree
I like the angel here - majestic

Agian here - the zig zag of wires and airplain trails makes me happy - and traffic lights facing in and out are interesting. I cropped out the edge of Dad's head : )

Tyren and Arrow, I hope school is going well - Max, I'll have to do a special pirate segement for you. So much love, big hugs and kisses xoxoxo

Raw food fest

Today, Willow and I went to the Simply Raw Food Fest in the Glebe. To my surprise, Willow loved the largely sprouted, dehydrated and juiced food even though there was lots of garlic - note the carrot and ginger juice all over her face- that was a particular favorite! Emily says that I have a Hippy baby - Yay




Emily was there....and so was Emma




and Tarek - though he wasn't actually sideways - I just don't know how to fix this.


I really enjoyed the food - which was largely free and all delicious and I would love to try out a few recipes, especially because the food looked beautiful and Willow loved it so much, but I think that raw food is something that I'll do every once in a while. Now that I'm a full on carnivore, my digestive system can't handle all the fiber : ). Also, can you imagine Dad's reaction if we switched to the all beets and sprouts all the time channel?

Hmm.. almost makes me want to try it!



Tyren - Here are some of the puictures that you took the other night:

For some readon , I love the electric pole - I'll post more tommorow - right now, the formatting is driving me batty! I'm off to drink tea.


Love you guys!

welcome home

Hey guys,
Dad and I are setting this up so that you can keep in touch from over there. Be patient with us - we haven't done this before and will be learning as we go! We'll post pictures and stories and you can comment back - suggestions are welcome.

For now we just send all our love, big "huggies" and kisses. It's getting late here - almost 1 am and I should really try to get some rest before squeaky wakes me up howling for souses.