Emma’s Journal

I just had to post these pics here. The first one I swear she looks like she was trying to dance, hehe, with her hand holding the edge of the dress.

The second one with her little grin. Gotta love the rolls on her arms.

So after the recital we just came home. Little E was playing around in my room as I was in the living room feeding the baby. She was really quiet and mother’s always know, that when the room is quiet, most often they are up to no good. hehe. Anyway, she came out with her sweater on and jeans and said I’m going out to play with the girls. (my oldest and my neice). They just came in the house about a half hour ago and we put a movie on for them. I decided I better get all their pj’s on, chances are they may fall asleep watching the movie. As I was helping E get dressed, she took her shirt off and started laughing. She had a little girls bra on, which belongs to my 10 yr old and she had 2 nursing pads in the bra and was laughing about her new boobies. (these ones are quite puffy) That’s what she was up to while in my room! HAHA.

1.Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line 4.

“A hundred years ago, the average white American could expect to live for only 48 yrears; nonwhites to age 38. Infectious diseases, such as smallpos and tuberculosis, claimed tens of thousands of lives, particularly among the young and the poor”. This is taken from one of my nursing texts from school. My computer desk is plauged with them.

2.Stretch your left arm out as far as you can & catch air?

Yah, I caught air.

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?

Oprah, well didn’t see all of it, but watched it cause it had some of the actors from Grey’s anatomy on it today

4. Without looking, what time is it?

I would say 7:47pm, Jeopardy is on in the background.

5. Now look at the clock, what time is it?

7:53pm. Good ol’ Jeopardy.

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?

My typing and my oldest daughter R, brushing her teeth. lol. And the fan on in the bathroom and of course ‘jeopardy’

7.When did you last step outside? What were you doing?

I last went out at about 4pm. I was taking the baby over to my mother in laws. A lovely 2 minute walk, because I’ve mentioned before I could spit at their house they live so close.

8.Before you started this survey, what did you look at?

I was looking at Tonya’s Blog, then I was thinking hey I never did so that survey, must do that now, kids are all in bed. So here goes. Before that I was talking to my aunt on MSN.

9.What are you wearing?

I am wearing a green and pink striped t-shirt with my pj bottoms that are blue with ugly cats on them. Yah, totally don’t match but I just had to mop my floor up since my son “spilled” his juice on it. urgh.

10.When did you last laugh?

Earlier in the day when my son came in after he fell off his bike and said, “you know what, this sucks, my bike is bent, maybe pa can bend it back”. Anyway, after pa fixed it he said, “pa you should be one of dem mecanicicks”. (he had to go to speech therapy for a year and still prounounces words funny at times) I thought it was pretty cute.

11.What is on the walls of the room you are in?

My nursing degree parchment, my business degree parchment. Ummm, a mirror and an ugly painting of a clown my hubby loves. I will not let him put it in the living room so it stays in here, hidden.

12.Seen anything weird lately?

Not that I can remember.

13.What do you think of this quiz?

It’s all right, just another random quiz to get to know more about me.

14.What is the last film you saw?

Over the Hedge. We took the kids last sunday.

16.Tell me something about you that I don’t know.

Lets see. I worry alot. And I worry about things that I have absolutely no control over, for example the impending bird flu epidemic/pandemic. urgh. I would rather not know about it then to hear it on the news. After taking my microbiology courses, I know too much for my own liking about how the world is “overdue” for a pandemic, etc. So yah, that’s it. Also I am addicted to pretzels and diet pepsi. Yah didn’t know that either.

17.If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?

Get rid of terrorism. That just plain old sucks. So that goes with world peace eh?

18.Do you like to Dance?

Not unless I have about half a pint of vodka in me.

19. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?

Well my first child was a girl, I named her Rebekah Brianne.

20. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?

If she were a boy, I would have called him Ethan Tyler. Ended up, that’s my son’s name.

21.Would you ever consider living abroad?

No, but I certainly would live closer to town than out in the wilderness.

22.What do you want GOD to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?

Have a seat and enjoy the rest of your life

I booked E’s appointment too for her immunizations. Her’s is for June 15th. I hope she doesn’t flip out too much when she gets the needles. She has to get 2 at this visit. Ack. At least with the baby she has no choice but to get them, but E will fight you like there is no tomorrow. I hope she does well. We shall see.

The weather around here is getting so nice and warm, but with that are TONS and TONS! of black flies. OMG, I actually think I have a “phobia” of them. I cringe everytime i see them come near me. I would rather stay in the house 24/7 then go out there and get attacked by them. Hubby is trying to get my gazebo together but for some reason he’s “stuck”. LOL. It seems that only by like 1/4″ it is too narrow for the bars at each end to screw into the main part.

Oh remember the post about the DVD camera, well I got my response. Apparently when we bought the camera, the salesman sucked us into buying the “expensive” disks. Well they are DVD-RAM, where you cannot finalize them. The only kind you can finalize are the DVD-R. URGH! I protected it from being able to record over it and that’s all I can do. Crappy for me. I did however buy the el cheapo ones that I can watch when you put in the dvd player.

Ok, enough ramblings. Must make supper and do the homework thing.

This is her 2nd pregnancy and she’s 20 weeks along. I was talking to her last night asking her if she was going to ask if she was having a girl or boy. She said was. I was asking her how her visit went last week and she said she was measuring exactly at 20 wks and heartbeat was perfect. So she gives me a call and I said, well is it a boy or girl, she’s like GUESS??? I said, boy, she say, TWO! I’m like what the hell??? TWINS!!!!!!!!!!!! She’s all like, I can’t stop thinking about it, and I’m roaring at her saying, I=ME, I can’t stop thinking, and I’m not the one that’s pregnant with them. hehe.

She was telling me how at the ultrasound the lady put the wand on and then she saw them. She was like, ok, tell me that’s a head and a belly, the lady put up 2 fingers. I would have died. There aren’t any twins in her family either. I just can’t believe that the doctor had no clue, never suspected a thing! When they were measuring the babiesss, they had to get one in the image anyway, the other little one would creep his head around the corner and get in the pic. How cute! She still doesn’t know what the genders are, but she’ll find out, the u/s lady said she couldn’t get a good view. I just had to post about this, I’m so happy for her.

Saturday my little brother in law borrowed my video camera. It’s a DVD kind that once you finalize the disc you can watch in the DVD player. Anyway, he used it to video tape his girlfriends dance recital. So he came over and I went through the instructions and finalized it for him. Easy as pie! We were able to watch the video, even on our Xbox.

Then I thought, hey it’d be a good time to get our DVD’s finished the ones from Christmas and when the baby was born. So I proceed to do the exact same thing. Except that the option for finalizing is not there with my discs. I’m like, what the hell??? I don’t understand! I did exactly the same thing as I did with his disc so what is going on? Why can’t I do that! Anyway, I get a little more pissed off and tell hubby, I would love to just throw it through the window, but logic sets in and say, no you cannot fire your video camera out the window that’s not sensible. So I walk away!~

Needless to say, I never did figure that out. I just don’t have a clue. I did email the company stating exactly what model camera I have and what the screen shows me, I’m waiting on a response now. Just makes me so darn pissy when I can’t figure things out.

Emma in Canada thanks for telling me how to do that. Hehe, I just had to try it out!

This is one of those getting to know you quizzes (is that a word??, just doesn’t look right to me LOL) Anyway, I got it from Tonya’s Blog. Ok I’ve so been meaning to ask this question because I have no clue how to do this, but when I insert a link, how do I get the name to come up so that it’s like the url attached to it. Hopefully others will play along so we can check it out.

Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Waitress at a pizza place in Ontario (i was 16 at the time, job lasted for like 2 weeks, ahaha, that’s when I moved back home)
2. Personal Care Worker (I worked at a small option home after I finished my first year of training in nursing school. I basically took care of 3 people for 12 hrs a day, cooking, cleaning etc. It was a relaxing environment, but pay sucked)
3. Registered Nurse (that’s the current one, and will be for the rest of my days working, of course right now I’m off on maternity leave!)
4. I don’t have a 4th to list, I was a professional student. I blogged before about how I did 2 degrees. I had my first daughter at age 17 then went off to local university and started my BBA, then decided after my 3rd child, VOILA i’ll be a nurse then started my BScN, finished my BBA then finished the nursing degree. See, professional student, with a pile of student loan debt.

Movies I would watch over & over:
1. Pretty Woman (i so wanted to be her when i was younger, LOL)
2. Rock Star (I love Mark Wahlberg, hehe. awesome movie, cause i LOVE the 80’s)
3. Shrek & Shrek 2 (they are so cute, AND there is a 3rd Shrek coming out next yr, yippee!)
4. Beaches (I cry EVERYTIME the headstone comes up, LIKE as if i don’t know it’s coming!!)

Places I have lived:
1. Kingston, Ontario (Canada)
2. Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (Canada)
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Four tv shows I love to watch:
1. Grey’s Anatomy
2. Desparate Housewives (Did you see the finale last night??? Will Mike live??)
3. America’s Next Top Model
4. Deal or No Deal (right now that’s what i enjoy watching)

Four places I have been on vacation:
1. Ontario to visit family
2. Moncton to visit family and that encompasses my big list of vacationing (i haven’t)
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Four websites I visit daily:
1. My blog list ( I check em out daily, when it’s a rainy, yucky day and hubby is at work, i do it more than once)
2. My email.
3. Pregnancy Today’s Message Board. (I joined that site first when I started messaging while i was pregnant, that’s actually how i found other blogs and created one in january)
4. The weather network, (i suck, i wish for no rain)

Four of my favorite foods:
1. Manicotti
2. Anything pasta, i love italian food
3. I love chocolate, but can’t really have it (sugar makes me worse with my crohn’s)
4. Pizza

Four places I would Rather be right now:
1. I’d love to vacation somewhere nice and warm and sunny!
2. Shopping, (but I’d have to have a ton of money)
3. At a great italian restaurant, because I hate to cook and am hungry
4. Sleeping soundly knowing I’ll get an uninterrupted 8 hours of sleep for the night.

Four songs that make me cry: (Don’t make me cry but I love the following)
1. Gone Going, black eyed peas with Jack Johnson (dont really love it but it’s good)
2. Here I am (INXS new song, LOVE it)
3. Wisemen (James Blunt, I like all his songs actually)
4. And some classic 80’s tunes!!!

What a crappy Victoria Day we are having. As long as I can remember it’s been referred to as “hiking day”, since the kids have the day off they go out and do the hiking thing. LOL. Anyway, the weather here has been absolute shit. No joking. It’s been raining for days. It cleared up the day the boys went “missing” for about 3 hours. Then started up again. AND it’s supposed to rain everyday until Thursday. UGH! So the kids are stuck in the house. They are watching a movie on TV right now and baby is snoozing away.

The weather has been so cruddy we haven’t had a chance to put the gazebo together. :*( So I’ll have to wait, of course who the heck wants to go out in crappy weather anyway.

Yesterday, we took the kids to the movies to see Over the Hedge. It was pretty cute. A good family movie. The baby was excellent again. We went out for dinner before that since the show time that we originally wanted to go to was sold out. So we had to wait for about an hour before the other one started. The place we went to had kids items on for $2 on Sundays. So it was cheaper to go there to a fast food joint, and the food was way better. I got the best thing ever, chicken cordon bleu with cherry chips. Yummm. It was a good weekend overall, despite the whole incident that occurred the other day.

Well, I just had the scariest experience ever! My son, the BOY, was out playing with my nephew. (remember past posts about hyperactive soul) Anyway, I’ve mentioned this before where we live is in the country and we are surrounded by family so you can generally let them drive their bikes and know they are safe because every house around here is the in laws.

So the sister in law comes down to pick her son up. I said, they are out riding their bikes they were going up your place and around their grandmothers. We all live so close to each other I could practically crawl to the other houses, so it’s not a big area we are talking about here.

Well we start yelling for them to come home, no answer. I’m like oook, they usually answer, so yelling again, nothing. I have the baby and she’s like I’ll go down his aunts house and grandmom’s maybe they went down there. Now they know that is a little further away but they shouldn’t go there without asking. So she drives down, and no boys found. She comes back to the house all in a panic, saying she can’t find them anywhere. Well my heart nearly stopped. I started calling the inlaw’s houses because maybe they were inside. So I called his grandmom, and i’m like do you have any idea where ethan is?? Then she’s like, he was around here about 20 minutes ago but i didn’t see which way he went.

Then the pond down in the woods came in my mind. I’m like, OMG, maybe they thought they would go down there, I dont’ know why they’d try without an adult, they totally know, they aren’t allowed down there, but I figured I should check since they weren’t answering us. All I could picture in my head were the 2 boys laying face down in the water, ohh what an awful feeling. I left the baby with sis in law and rann like the wind (super unathletic here) and yelling their names the whole time. The pond is about a 15 minute hike in the woods too. So after running for what felt like an eternity (all sexy in my pj’s and wife beater, boobs just flinging everywhere) I see my hubby’s cousin who’s like 21 come around the corner. I was yelling, are the boys with you and he’s like yah. I’m like omg, boys, you are sooooo dead! Oh it was like Christmas to see them. But boy did that cousin and the boys get spoken to.

So my son is grounded again. He’s not very impressed.

My hubby’s uncle and aunt came to the house and announced that they are expecting (she’s been trying for 6 yrs) anyway we were all excited and happy. I’m so excited for them, she’s due in December the 21st.