It's been awhile I know but what can I say. The holidays were very busy and I promised myself that after the holidays I would blog. But here we are in March and I still have nothing. Busy at work, with the kids and nothing to say. I'm gonna try to post more but I am not about to make any promises I'm not sure that I can keep. So bye for now.

My NHL Experience

Slack or no slack this is my story and I am sticking to it. Last night I had the absolute pleasure of attending my first Toronto Maple Leaf game. We hired a sitter and shuffled off to Buffalo. Feeling the energy as I entered the HSBC arena dressed in my Kaberle jersey and seeing all the Maple Leaf fans was pure magic. However as we took our seats the magic was soon replaced with doubts, after all we are talking about the Maple Leafs. The end of the first period found the Leafs on the board and all the Leaf fans in our area in good spirits. The second period equally amazing, 2-0 for the Leafs but one period to go. As their record suggests the 3rd period in not their thing. Sure enough they didn't let me down. Who goes into the 3rd period up by 2 and end up tied 4-4 ? Oh ya, the Toronto Maple Leafs, that's who. Okay overtime, they start with one in the penalty box and Sundin, McCabe and Gill on the ice. What could possibly go wrong? Well with that combination A LOT. The whole game Gill did nothing so what better way to reward him then by putting in for OT. The game winning goal was scored with 3.7 seconds left on the clock. The ass kicker was that it was McCabe who scored the goal. Now if your a Sabers fan that is good news because he scored on his own net. What kind of an idiot does that? One that makes that much money should never make that mistake. Unless they change things the cup will never be theirs.
They need to rethink some key points.
-Maurice needs to give his head a shake
-McCabe needs to play like the money he is getting paid
-Gill needs to go
-They need to get some defense (except for Kaberle)
-Tucker needs to play like Tucker

Blue and White

A little behind I know I've been busy. These are a few pictures from the Blue and White game we attended September 16/2007

Finally!!!!!

I know that is has been awhile since the last bathroom update, but I have been very busy. Since I last posted the bathroom biz a lot has happened. (I so wish I could post some pics but I am having trouble uploading pics for the time being. ) I am very happy to report that my bathroom now has paint, the medicine cabinet has been installed and the lights are hung. It took us awhile but the shower is now operational and we couldn't be happier. It took us half a day to measure and cut all 5 pcs. to fit in the damn shower because the walls are not square. The other half of the day was spent gluing all 5 pcs. to the wall. After the 24 hr waiting period I taped off the walls section by section and began to caulk the seams. I was happy until I got to the last seam. You see I didn't get the tape on straight enough so I pulled it up to fix my line. It figures that when I moved the tape it pulled the panel with it. I was not impressed. So out comes the glue and another 24 hr wait. Now I am happy to report that the shower curtain is hung, and we are very happy shower people. Now on to the next task (and it is a hard one) picking out a counter top. I thought this would be easy, but OH no. Way too many choices, this could take some time.

I'm Back!!!

Thought of the Day...

Handle every situation like a dog

If you can't Eat it or Screw it..

Piss on it and Walk away!!!!

Holidays!!

Just to let you all know I am going on holidays for the next two weeks. Yeah!!!! A girls gotta have a break, right? I will be sure to blog and update on the bathroom as soon as we return from our camping trip.

Getting There!!

The walls are up and the taping & mudding have begun. The new tub is very well liked but we can not wait to try out the new shower.

Next on the list is the tub surround which should
be a challenge, after that the rest should be a piece of cake and the wall is almost ready for the medicine cabinet to be installed.

WE'RE GETTING THERE!!

A Work in Progress!

Our bathroom didn't start out all that bad. We thought it would be an easy job and I think that is where we went wrong.

This was our original tub which had been painted in the past and had since began to rust.

The mold was not nearly as bad as we thought it was going to be.

This is the fire wall that separates our house and the one we are attached to. This is the reason why we hired a plumber. We were not confident enough to try it ourselves simply for the fact that it would all be hidden once the wall went back up. It would be a lot of work to fix it ourselves if it leaked.

My Bathroom

Its really funny how one small idea can lead to so much trouble. No matter what we did nothing worked. We tore down ugly wallpaper and painted but nothing helped. One day we came up with the brilliant idea to redo our bathroom. It is really small so it was nothing to think that we could do it and it would only take about two weeks. It wasn't really that bad of an idea. Take out the old and replace it with the new. So off we go on our quest to find the items we need and of course the things that I like (at the right price). Over a couple of months we find everything that we need. We did not pay full price for anything except for the tub. Whohoo!!

So we take the time off work and begin our task. It took several trips to remove the vanity, toilet, tub and the walls. Once the mold was gone we had a clean slate. Not a problem, or so we thought. First problem was that none of the electrical was done properly. So my husband spent a whole day rewiring what was there and added a new plug. Next came changing the ceiling fan to a new bigger model. When we removed the old one we found out that it was hanging on by a thread. Not safe, I just thank God that the roof had never leaked.

Installing the tub was a task all in itself. It is really hard to install something so big especially when the floor is not level, the drain is not centered and the pipes have to be moved. This was something we did not want to try by ourselves so we called a plumber. Little did we know that was going to be a problem. The pipes are located in a hidden wall so we thought get someone else to do it right the first time and that would be that. Well the guy comes and sets us up. Buddy leaves right after for an out of town wedding so we have to call the guy on call because his weld did not take. Good news I hear, the guy can't come until Sunday (this happened Friday night). No problem lets hang drywall. Give me a power tool and look out. I am not just a pretty face I can actually do things.

It's been awhile but all the drywall is up and we are back in action. We had to take a break because of other things that had been going on. Our next task is to hand the tub surround. The problem is that the floor is not level, the tub is level and the walls are nowhere near being straight.

What next? I don't think that anything else can go wrong. I just want to give up. All I can do is thank God we have a second bathroom.

Enough!!

What is with all the comments from the peanut gallery? I mean do you all care that much, I don't think so. Is a girl not allowed to take a break? Really come on, you don't have anything better to do? God forbid I spend a little time away from the computer and get some quality time with my kids? Not really all that time away. I have been checking in but only for about 5 minutes at a time. Now that school is over and dance is done I don't have all that much free time. As bitter as I sound about all of the comments I would like to say THANK YOU for checking in from time to time.

So You Think You Know Everything

>>"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with your right. (Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)
>No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple
>>"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt". (Are you doubting this?)
>Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing
>>The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. (Now, you KNOW you're going to try this out for accuracy, right?)
>The words 'race car,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes). (Yep, I knew you were going to "do" this one.)
>>There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous" tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. (You're not doubting this, are you?)
>There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious." (Yes, admit it, you are going to say a e i o u)
>>TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard. (All you typists are going to test this out)
>A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
>>A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
>A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
>>A snail can sleep for three years. (I know some people that could do this too.)
>Almonds are a member of the peach family.
>>An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
>Babies are born without kneecaps They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
>>February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
>In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
>>If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
>Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
>>Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!
>Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
>>The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
>The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. (Good thing he did that)
>>The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
>There are more chickens than people in the world.
>>Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
>Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Now you know everything! ( : > )

Yummy

How can you stand it? Two posts in one day, I don't think I can take it. This is from my yummy file. I honestly have to try and find some yummy for the guys.

Orlando Bloom

Where are You??

Okay, its been like a month and still nothing. Well here I am again with nothing to say. Now I know in an earlier post I complained about no one reading this thing because they are too busy on facebook. I know 'poor me' well I am sorry to say that I have not posted anything in some time because I to have been too busy on facebook. I do not know what it is about that thing but I can't stay away. Its not like I have hundreds of friends, or a ton of pictures to look at but there is something about it that keeps me coming back. I do like that I have found friends that I have not talked to in years its nice to get caught up. Its nice to drop by and say 'HI' to others that I have had the pleasure of knowing through the years. Its also nice to post funny pictures of these friends, but not so nice when they post some of me. Suck it up and move on is what I always say.

So from this moment on I promise not to complain that I get no hits on my blog and I also promise to pay more attention to the laundry and less attention to facebook. Well maybe I won't promise about the facebook thing but I will try. Lets not get too drastic. Baby steps, we don't want anyone to get crazy now do we.

Just so You Know

13 Things PMS Stands For:

1. Pass My Shotgun
2. Psychotic Mood Shift
3. Perpetual Munching Spree
4. Puffy Mid-Section
5. People Make me Sick
6. Provide Me with Sweets
7. Pardon My Sobbing
8. Pimples May Surface
9. Pass My Sweat pants
10. Pissy Mood Syndrome
11. Plainly; Men Suck
12. Pack My Stuff
and my favorite one.
13. Potential Murder Suspect

Blah, Blah, Blah!

Three tiny little words that quite honestly annoy the hell out of me. I am guilty of using this expression a time or two but I go out of my way to avoid it. These words (from what I understand) are used to fill in a boring part of a conversation. Honestly if it is that boring don't tell it. I suppose it can also be used as a filler, well just don't bother to fill me in. If the conversation is not that important then do us all a favour and do not tell it. I do know some people that tend to over use this phrase and I just want to smack them. Honestly save yourself the trouble and just don't tell the story. In my opinion listening to blah, blah, blah in the middle of a story sounds like you are burping and I just don't like it.

The most annoying thing yet is I am reading a new novel by J.D.Robb and she actually used this expression in her book.

How??

Can you believe that these are the same people

Nosey or Concerned?

Yesterday, home from work and dance, weather is nice, I decide to BBQ. So in the backyard I go to cook up some baked potatoes and pork chops. After a few tries the dumb thing finally lights and I am off to the races. Here I am, armed with a spatula in one hand and the tongs in the other. The kids are throwing a ball at (I mean with) the dog between the squeals, giggles and the barking I hear the faint sounds of sirens in the distance. The sirens are getting louder so I start looking up in the air for smoke but then they stopped. I must admit that my curiosity did get the better of me and I did wonder where they could have gone. All of a sudden I look over my fence and my questions have been answered. It seems the street over from mine is the answer to my questions. From my backyard I can see a fire truck and firemen going door to door and I must admit I became NOSEY. Not having a backdoor is usually annoying but not today. I was so excited when my daughter announces that she has to go to the bathroom. So I close the BBQ and bark the rules to my son about what not to do while I walk my daughter to the front door. While I open the front door for her the gate flies open and here comes my son running like his arse is on fire yelling that he has to go (it seems that on the short 3 second walk to the front door the urge to go has struck). So as I turn to go back into the backyard I see a police cruiser flying down my street only to stop at the end to block traffic. So because I am NOSEY, I have to take a peek. So all three of us trot down to the corner to see what the crowds of people are gathering around for. Seriously, people are flocking out of their homes with pets and children and are gathering on their lawns. I see a couple walking their dog down the street and see them stop across the street to talk to some of the people gathered. Of course I strain to listen, and to my NOSEY surprise I learn that there is a gas leak. That is right I said a GAS LEAK. So, now I am CONCERNED I turn my kids around and head back home. CONCERNED because I have my kids so close to a dangerous situation and because I am BBQing three houses away. Once we are all sitting down to eat and my kids are asking a million questions. So I started to think, the pregnant women with the two other kids, NOSEY. The elderly couple with the cute dog, CONCERNED. People need to get their priorities in check. I mean its a GAS LEAK not a cute kitten stuck in a tree.

Lyrics of the Day!!

Just because it's hump day and I am feeling alittle silly, this one is for the guys.
HAPPY WEDNESDAY!!!!

"Her lies they won me over quick
She ruled my mind, my heart, my dick
I took the line, the hook, the bait
And now I'm sick from what I ate."
-The Trews

Women Are Evil By Nature

A woman went up to the bar in a quiet rural pub...
She gestured alluringly to the bartender who approached her immediately.
She seductively signaled that he should bring his face closer to hers.
As he did, she gently caressed his full beard."Are you the manager?" she asked, softly stroking his face with both hands.
"Actually, no," he replied."Can you get him for me? I need to speak to him," she said, running
her hands beyond his beard and into his hair.
"I'm afraid I can't," breathed the bartender." Is there anything I can do?"
"Yes. I need for you to give him a message," she continued, running her forefinger across the bartender's lip and slyly popping a couple of her fingers into his mouth and allowing him to suck them gently.
"What should I tell him?" the flustered bartender managed to stammer.
"Tell him," she whispered, "There's no toilet paper, hand soap, or paper towels in the ladies room.

Lyric of the Day!!

"What hurts the most
Was being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
And never knowing
What could have been.........."
-Rascal Flatts