For a fleeting moment...

Something catches the corner of my eye as I sit typing away at boring invoices in my old grey cubical.
I turn slowly to look out the window with out removing my hands from the key board. I see balloons. Two sets of two, each with one yellow and one blue balloon.

I stopped what I was typing to stand and watch them float up higher and higher into the overcast sky until the wind whisked them away out of my sight.

One big day-dreamy-type-sigh later I am back banging away at the key board, only now my face holds the smallest of smiles for a fleeting moment.

the journey is over

We have our selves a new vehicle to call our very own....she's a beaut all right. Words that have been used to describe her so far are "peppy" ,"more vroom" & my personal fave "you look good in it"


It was long and some times stressful journey but we are happy with the out come so far. We just brought her home tonight!


There are a few quirks right off the jump for me that may seem a bit trivial to some but stand out-right to me as small hurdles to get over.

The elbow rest. It just doesn't feel right. I had no idea I rested my elbows so much while I drive. Is this something I have always done or have just grown accustom to in my beloved Blazer after all these years together? This newby is lacking the elbow comfort I so apparently enjoy.
I'll get used to it.

The seats. The bottom part where your..er..bottom goes, it doesn't seem long enough. Not quite. It's like I am suddenly a gangly legged giant.
I'll get used to it.

The passenger seat. When you are sitting it you are the shrunken head beside the gangly legged giant. It seems a bit low compared to the driver with only two adjustments compared to the 10 point the driver has.
We'll get used to it.


Seems like a lot of 'getting used to it' for something we just signed our life away for....well there are definitely positives too.
Of course there are or it wouldn't be in the garage right now while the poor Blazer gets kicked to the frigid out doors. I wonder if the Blazer is sad? No matter! We have a kick butt new vehicle that has some get up and go, lives life in All Wheel Drive and is going to take us places baby!! oh yeah...we are going places!!

Welcome home Subey! (working on the name)
I do feel a little bad for the Blazer though. It just got kicked to the curb. It has always been a garage truck and she and I...well, we're tight. We had some good times. She is like an old glove with a hole in the thumb. I'm glad we're still keeping her.

Pictures to follow when time allows and the sun shines down. Don't forget to wipe your feet first.

Mr.& Mrs. Shovel Hands

That is our new name. It is a good representation of what we have become. After last nights mega shovel-the-four-foot-drifts-off-the-roof-a-thon followed by the now-we-have-to-shovel-up-this-roof-snow-which-turned-to-cement when it hit the ground-a-thon.

We are looking forward to turning in our snow shovel hands for some sturdy sand shovel hands one day. That's what keeps us sane.

Why do we live here again?

just call him 'The Bieb'

Nathan got a hair cut. You in blogger land may not be able to tell really, but trust me, he did. he had some sort of perma bed head situation taking root so something had to be done. He wanted to grow his hair longer and we needed him to do something to tame that mane. So we compromised...he didn't have to get it cut cut, more shaped.

He wanted his hair like Justin Bieber...

Although he didn't quite have that much hair, we are well on our way to having our very own 'Bieb' in the house. Let's time this trend shall we.

Won't the real Nathan please stand up, please stand up, please stand up......whoooot!

*I apologise to the nice person I stole the photo of Justin Bieber on the Internet from.

Spanish Wednesday

Every Wednesday night I lose my husband to his other love...language.
He has become pretty darn great at Spanish in his 6+ years of casual study. It has helped us out a lot on our travels tremendously!

I know he would like to spend a heck of a lot more time engrossed in his quest for Spanish fluent-ness but instead he spends his time helping with home work, building snow forts, driving to various practices and events as well as studying for a new career in Fitness...all this and looks too!
Fix the truck, renovate the house, shovel the driveway, start the fire, fix this, fix that and "could you also please help me with my school project?", eggs every morning.....phew.

We appreciate you Terry, Ter, Ter-Bear, Bear, Step-dad and BFF. Thank you for being you.

late night dinners

It was a late one tonight. Not getting dinner ready until after 8 is too late in my books, especially when I have been going to bed at 10pm every night lately.

We still have to eat and it does beat getting take out, I hope.



So what does a family of 5 minus one make for dinner in 20 minutes (or less! yes!!) late on a Tuesday night?

Well, hamburger helper on steroids of course....

And by steroids I mean lots and lots of veggies of all kinds. And by hamburger I mean turkey. Throw in a couple of nuked potatoes and wha la...a semi-healthy one pot family dinner.

I've got to look into taking some kind of speed cooking class, we need some pep around here...in 20 minutes or less of course.

cactus buddy & thoughts

Look at him......Just look. Isn't he cute? He needs a name. He makes me smile.
What do you think of skinny-alien-cacti-dude? It has room for improvement.

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On another note, I recently took a couple of brand spanky new vehicles for test drives. A first for me. I don't believe I have ever set foot in a new vehicle before...the new car smell isn't all it's made out to be.

This whole searching for a new vehicle isn't as fun either. I am getting a little tired of telling our life story to every sales person we come across. Please stop trying to be my life long friend, I am here to check out your vehicles for possible purchase, tell me it's features, sell me well and you may make a buck. But be real. Please be real, I just need some one to be real. Get what I am after?....I think I should stretch out my search, make it my mission to find a car salesperson in this city who can give it to me straight.

This is a lot of money to spend after all, a big decision to make. Each vehicle has their pros and cons it's so hard to decide.

Plus, the one thing that is hard for me is how much time a salesperson will spend on me, taking me for test drives, writing down the #'s, doing the up-selling all while becoming my BFF, it's hard to have some one waste..er..I mean spend all that time on me and then I don't buy their vehicle. Will they be mad at me? What if I park next to them in the mall one day in my new 'other' vehicle? Awkward, after all we were pretty close for 30 minutes.

ooooh man! I like my truck. It's hard to let it go.

I know it's time for something new, we just haven't found each other yet.