All About Me And A Bag Of Chips!

Been a hard few months...

When DH and I discussed who would relocate etc. It was decided (by me) it would be easier for me to come over here, I packed my three suitcases and came. I have never regretted that decision and for the most part have made a great life here on my own terms. In the last few months though, my mother has passed away and on Thursday my beloved Grandma passed. It is so hard to be away from friends and family at times like these. I wish with all my heart I had the cash to jump on a plane every year, but we just don't, and it sucks. I have such amazing memories of my Grams and will miss her more then words. :(

In other news, my darling sister has sent me a care package stuffed with 25 lbs of yummy goodies I can't get here! I am pretty sure she sold a limb to pay for the shipping of it, but it will be here very soon and I know it will cheer me up (not to mention, make me plumper LOL) So I can't wait for that!

In yet other news, apparently today is a "school free" day, ummm, who knew??!! Not I, I didn't find out until I went to drop S off at school and it was like a ghost town. Do I get the clueless mom of the month award? LOL In any case, she decided to go off to the pre-school/after-school place with L and play with her friends there.

Lastly, I have to go this afternoon for my H1N1 vaccination, someone hold me, I so don't want to go!! Oh and fingers crossed they finish my bathroom ceiling today, I am so done with this all!

Until next time...TATA!!

Sigh...

Things have gone off the rails...

The bathroom was to be completed by today, that is what the contractor told us, alas, it will not be finished now until Monday, possibly Tuesday. The painter was in yesterday and did the first layer of plaster, that had to dry 24 hours, then he will be back today to sand and do the second layer, that has to dry 24 hours, which brings us to the weekend, and of course no one works on the weekend. SO that means he will be back Monday to felt and paint, not sure he will do both coats on Monday (I sure hope so), but we will see! Still trying to be Zen about this, failing quickly at it. The upstairs peeps came by yesterday night because they expected it to be all finished and were not very pleased to hear it was stretching until Monday...sigh.

On the sick kids front, both are feeling better. L keeps throwing up a bit at 5am, mostly phlegm (yuck, I know), but is perfectly fine the rest of the day and S has been fine also, but both are home today again. I figured why send them for one day, they can chill and be all perfect for Monday!

Speaking of next week, Tuesday is my little guy's birthday. Alas with all the bathroom bruhaha, and the sickness, I didn't get to plan a party. :( I am going to make him some yummy chocolate cupcakes and spaghetti, both of which he asked for his special birthday "dinner". I also need to find a BEN 10 book for his gift, but who knows when I will have time for that...sigh.

Lastly, our new TV arrived yesterday and I LOVE it! My eyes went all wonky watching it though since we have been watching a small 14 inch for the past month! LOL

With that I will wrap things up again for this week. I hope you have a fabulous weekend and until next time..TATA!!

When it rains it pours...

If you read my update from yesterday you know I had L home with me because he was sick, well, the school called me at noon yesterday to ask me to come get S, as she had threw up all over the classroom. :( So the poor little pumpkin has been laying in bed with an upset tummy and low grade fever since yesterday. Needless to say, both are home with me again today.

Yesterday was L's parent/teacher meeting and it was all good! He is a wonderful little guy with a fabulous imagination, has many friends, is always smiling and polite, just a joy to have around. The speech person will be in in a couple weeks to test him and a few others, but they said that they have been really paying attention to his speech and they don't think there is any problems. They have just noticed that when he gets excited he throws in English words, which is totally normal and fine and they have no problems understanding him, so that was good to hear.

On the bathroom front, things are moving right along. Yesterday the bricklayer came and did his thing and right after the carpenter came back and put the ceiling back in. Today the painter is suppose to come and plaster two times and them tomorrow he will be back to paint and they will be finished. They have been moving along pretty fast, but I am starting to loose my patience and just want them out so I can shower, plus with two sick kids and the dust and plaster powder..blah. They clean up after themselves every day, but there is dust in every corner of the bathroom. So give me strength to make it through these last two days! LOL

In other news, I had my Mørten's Aften dinner last night, a day late, but I forgot it was on the 10th. I haven't felt like cooking this week, so I ordered from this yummy place that does gourmet type take out. They have a set weekly menu that changes every week and this week was roast duck, homemade red cabbage, brown sauce, prunes and potatoes, plus something that I had never tried before, but according to DH is traditional, pouched apple with ribs jelly, it was all pretty damn tasty and I paid 95 kr, which is on par with what you'd pay in a restaurant, I would guess. Looking over their menus I see at the end of November they are having a "Thanksgiving" menu with turkey, sweet potatoes, mushroom gravy and cranberry sauce. I think I may have to try that one!

And lastly, fingers crossed, our TV should be in today, so can't wait for that! That is it for today, have a good one and until next time..TATA!!

As the world turns....

Update Time!

As of 7:30 am on the dot, the bricklayer arrived and is pouring the neighbors bathroom floor, hence also filling the holes in our ceiling! Apparently, this is how GOOD contractors work and just pisses me off at how bad the ones we hired to remodel were...grrr. So, things seem to be moving along on that end and I assume that the plan hasn't changed and the carpenter will be by tomorrow to rebuild the ceiling.

Of course everything can't possible go as planned, L woke up feeling sick and threw up a couple times, SO that means he is at home with us and there will be no Christmas shopping today. :( I am bummed the little guy is sick and really bummed I don't get to shop. I was really looking forward to a day out with DH. Anyways, what are you gonna do, such is the life of parents!

We have a parent/teacher meeting about L today, or should I say DH does, since now the subject of said meeting is sick. I am hoping that everything goes good with that!

With that I will wrap things up for today and will be back soon with another "edge of your seat, super exciting" update. LOL Until next time...TATA!!

They are prompt and whoot a new TV!!

7:45 on the dot and the peeps were here to tear out my bathroom ceiling, the dude was rather chatty and talked my ear off for the hour it took him to tear it down. Now the plumbers are in drilling holes and will be moving pipes etc. The tearing down guy said he would be back to rebuild the ceiling Thursday/Friday, but his preference is Thursday, so we will see!

In other news, if you remember, about three weeks ago my TV blew up, again. They told us last week they were going to go ahead and fix it, but come Friday of last week they decided to go ahead and scrap it. We found out today that they ordered us a brand new TV and it is WAY better then the old one, it is bigger at 40 inches and has all the latest stuff on it...score!! If I had known we'd be trading up I would have kicked the TV ages ago. LOL

That is about it for today, I'll be back again soon with another update from the "bathroom tales" aka "I hate my upstairs neighbors" (OK, I really don't hate them LOL) Until next time..TATA!!

Weekend in Review!!

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Good Monday morning peeps! Today marks the start of a crazy and sure to be annoying week. Renovation on the upstairs neighbors bathroom starts today and tomorrow at 7:30 sharp they will be down in my bathroom ripping out the ceiling...sigh. The contractor stopped by last week to take a peek at what he would have to do and was really apologetic and said they work really fast when they are intruding on the neighbors who didn't plan for the renovation. So apparently Tuesday they will tear out the ceiling, then the minute they are done with that the plumber will come in and move the pipe that needs to be moved, then the minute he is done the bricklayer will come in and redo the ceiling and re plaster it and the minute that is dry the painter will come in a paint, Thursday or Friday at the latest and it should be all done.

DH decided to take three days off this week, well two work at home days and one vacation day, we are planning to get the majority of the Christmas shopping done and also have a parent/teacher interview about L and a breakfast get together with S's class. Please let this week go by fast! LOL

OK, so back to the weekend! Saturday we had to make a trip to IKEA (my most favorite place on Earth LOL). Of course I had to drag my butt out of bed at 7:30 so we could get there right when they open because IKEA, on a weekend, qualifies as one of Dante's levels of Hell!

I needed to pick up a new mattress for S because the one she has been using is about 5 years old and was super thin, so now she has a nice thick and comfy one. L needed a new adult size blanket because he was still using a kiddie size one and it was becoming to small, of course that meant I had to buy a couple new sheet sets also. LOL Alas though they were sold out on the Christmas shaped cookie cutters. I was so bummed, but I saw some for sale this week at another store, so all is not lost yet!

We headed home after and got everything assembled and set up and had some yummy panini sandwiches for dinner. Sunday was a clean the house day, laundry etc. The kids also made their "Dear Santa" letters so we had an idea on what they want for Christmas and for dinner we had some yummy Italian food from my FIL's restaurant. So all in all a not to bad way to spent a couple days!

With that I will wrap things up for today, I hope you have a good one and until next time..TATA!!

H1N1...

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Yesterday both kids had DR. check ups, S's was just a routine check up and L had to get his 5 year vaccinations, both are doing fabulous, which is great.

After their appointment my DR. asked me if I had given any thought to the H1N1 vaccine. I had'nt really to be honest. I didn't think any of us were high risk and I just tend not to be overly worried about these types of things, well turns out that "I" am high risk, who knew??!! That in combination with the fact that both kids bring home every decease known to man, puts me in a very risky group.

Anyways, my DR. (whom I LOVE, seriously, I lucked out with this one) gave me a bunch of papers and web sites to read (she knows how much I love to Google LOL) and told me of course it is totally up to me, but she would encourage me to get it.

I spent the good part of last night reading the info and discussing it with DH (who wants me to get it because he is scared now at finding out I am high risk) and decided I am going to go ahead and get it. I am not 100% comfortable with the decision but I have young kids and I need to be around for a long while for them and if the vaccine will lessen my chances of getting it and any complications, then I guess that is a good thing.

Let me tell you though, I better not find out 10 years from now that this vaccine wasn't properly tested and every one who received it is going to start growing a second head, cause I'll be pissed, majorly pissed! LOL

Until next time..TATA!!

Things that make you go Hmmmmm....

This is an AD that appeared in the paper I was reading yesterday, who thought this was a good marketing idea??? LOL Seriously, only in Denmark...

Flippin 'Eh!!

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies: A Book of Zombie Christmas Carols

"This book takes over two dozen of our most beloved Christmas carols and shreds them limb from limb, rewriting them from a zombie's point-of-view. Tiny tots' eyes are no longer aglow - they're in a bowl. And Mommy's not kissing Santa under the mistletoe - she's chewing his face. Nobody - not Rudolph, Old Saint Nick, or even those three Wise Guys who traveled afar - is spared when the undead come knocking."

Words cannot describe how much I enjoy the zombiefication of classic novels...ATTENTION SANTA...this book must be in my stocking on Christmas morning or it is gonna be a very cold and lonely 2010 indeed! LOL

Until next time..TATA!!

Little Update...

Just a quick update, after speaking with my own DR. (whom I LOVE LOVE), she told us to hold off on the penicillin for a day or so because it sounded more like the flu to her then pneumonia and since our feelings were leaning in that direction also, we agreed to wait.

L spent most of the day yesterday laying on the sofa and watching cartoons and sipping ginger ale. He had some dry toast in the morning and kept that down, so things were looking up. Around 4 o'clock he started to get more lively and his temperature was pretty much back to normal. He asked for something to eat, so I suggested another toast, but no, toast wasn't gonna cut it I guess, he wanted a PB & Jelly sandwich. I didn't think this was the best of ideas, but he ate 3/4 of a sandwich and a dried fruit stick and both stayed down, so all was good.

He then decided he was feeling well enough to go play some Wii, always a good sign. He is of course home today with me again (you have to be fever free for 24 hours, plus I just like snuggling with him), but barring some relapse he should be better to go back to school tomorrow.

So with that I will call it a day, thanks for all the good wishes and emails that you guys sent and until next time...TATA!!