Today is my crazy busy Friday with the added twist of Janice coming down from Bolton for lunch - take out from Artisano, over to my d-i-l's for her birthday, with mother's hair and nails back and forth squeezed in there. My father wouldn't give me a break and pick mother up for me today. What a guy. Then Ted and I have to go certify some cheques for a property closing in Collingwood (long saga not worth telling), then home for dinner.
Janice is my dear friend, the shopping expert. We talk all the time but only really see one another a few times a year. I wonder what she will have done to her hair this time. Last time I saw her was in February and she had a huge pink streak across the front and purple glasses. She reminds me a little of Garcia from Criminal Minds, but slimmer.
Janice sounds like a whole lot of fun. Good for her with the hair!!! Everyone needs a friend like Janice...
Jim and I had our belated anniversary dinner last night, and ate WAY too much! In fact, we still have most of the Caramelized Banana Cream Pie in the fridge, for later consumption. And, BELIEVE ME, it WILL BE consumed! (Description: "Creamy white chocolate banana custard in our flaky crust. Topped with caramelized bananas.") We each took two small bites last night, and slipped immediately into some kind of food heaven. We had a beautiful view of the Potomac river, and the lights of Washington, DC. Really nice.
The Kindle that I ordered for Jim yesterday arrived just minutes ago, so now he has his very own toy. We're both happy!
I was on the phone with our oldest daughter a couple of hours ago; she's going to be celebrating her 25th birthday on July 3rd, and we're in discussions about going down to Raleigh for the festivities. She's regressing: she wants to have a BBQ with sparklers, and make-your-own ice cream sundaes -- all to occur after a visit to a local "fun park" with her adult friends for a bit of laser tag, bumper cars, and go-carts! I think, though, that the party is going to be held the following weekend since our youngest daughter will be visiting from Arizona, and it will allow her to attend.
I don't know what else is on for today. I can only say that I ventured out yesterday to do a little clothes shopping -- I'm BADLY in need of some new clothes -- and I have to say that my local Macy's had the MOST HIDEOUS stuff that I have ever seen! It all looked like rejects from a 1972 Woolworth's! Not to mention the fact that it's now *summer* (okay, late spring), and all of the colors were either black, brown, or black with orange, brown with orange, black/brown/orange together -- NO pretty summery colors like blue, mint green, turquoise... ALSO, you either had to want capris or cocktail dresses. I didn't even like their handbags!
Oy... I guess I'd better start making myself some pretty skirts!
-- Edited by Moore ideas at 11:02, 2008-06-06
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Janice is late!! She was supposed to be here 10 minutes ago.
Anyway, Moore, I know exactly what you mean about the clothes out in the stores right now. They are putrid. I have to go visit Kaliyana again, but it's a bit of a trek getting there clear across town. Jones NY had some cute summer "poolside" dresses this spring - blues and yellows with bits of chartreuse thrown in. Expensive though at over $200, and the kind of dress that is so memorable, you'd only wear it the once or so. I passed, lol.
Doesn't it feel like a 70's revival, colour-wise? Ugly and uglier, lol.
So, oldest daughter is only barely a year older than son? Sheesh, that must have been fun for you back when two were in diapers. Gah.
Oh, yeah -- sixteen months apart. In many ways, it was a bit like having twins! I even had the double stroller.
We were married a long time before kids arrived, and I'd thought that perhaps we'd waited TOO long before becoming really serious about beginning a family. So, after our daughter was born, we were thrilled, and would have been happy to have had her be an only child, if that was the way that it all turned out. I always wanted LOTS of children, so I asked my OB/GYN how long I needed to wait before trying for a second child. He said to wait at least six months.
Month seven I was pregnant with our son! Who knew that it would happen so quickly, especially after having waited so long for that first one??!!??
My friend (the one who's about to move to Florida, and who's single) used to tell me, "What you and Jim need is to take those two for a nice relaxing week at the beach."
RELAXING WEEK AT THE BEACH????????? Yeah, right!!! Jim would chase one toddler down the beach one way while I chased the other one in the opposite direction. No napping on the beach for mom and dad, no relaxing on a towel with a good paperback. Noooooooo... We sat alert, and ready to spring into a sprint through the sand, at any given moment.
Jim finally got smart, and began to bring a large shovel with us. (My sister and brother-in-law owned a beautiful condo right on the water in Ocean City, MD, so we went fairly often.) He would dig a GIANT pit in the shadow of the condo, sort-of like a huge sand playpen, or he'd dig a couple of connecting pits, and it would keep the kids happy for decent periods of time. Also, it was nice and cool for them to sit in the damp sand.
And then our third one came along. After all of those years of waiting for the first child, our third one was a surprise baby, and she's only three years plus a couple months younger than our son.
KaeEll, those 1970s fashions were hideous the first time around, and they haven't become any more attractive with their revival. Ewww... However, to be fair, and to amend my first post a bit, I did see SOME cute clothes. The were all created for women UNDER the age of thirty...
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Well I would have loved to have had my little ones be 16 months apart. But after i had Jolene I had promised that we wouldn't have another one til we finished school. Well now I have and Vinnie is going to sea for several months in September. So I am getting my IUD taken out in the beginning of July so that even if he is gone the whole pregnancy (he was with Jolene so no biggy there) at least he will be back in time for birth. So we are looking at over 4 years difference. I was tempted to just wait another year because then Jolene would be off in kindergarten and I would only have to pay for 1 kid in day care. But I want a baby yesterday.
So today is my last day of essential freedom before I start work on monday. Good thing I think that working will help my diet a little bit.
The weather here is gross and rainy, I sure hope that we at least get some pretty grass out of all this rain. I was going to plant some more flowers in that area I talked to you all about but we will more then likely be moving in a little over a year so I am not sure if I want to put all that money into the yard.
Today I am not too busy at all. Not sure if it is a good soap day either
I'm back from the 4 hour running around marathon, lunch with Janice, d-i-l and the kids, mother back and forth AND my father, who claimed he couldn't help me out and pick up my mother from her hair/nails because HE had some lunch thing he wanted to go to, was still home when I brought her back. He could have saved me SO much driving, clock-watching, but no. He sat around like an old fart, with the furnace going full blast. It is 37 degrees C here today. I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit but it's hot. I'm just "a little" miffed.
The Y&R didn't record at all today at 11! I'm going to run to the grocery store for salmon in a few, then watch it at 4:30. Was OLTL any good today?
