Does the phrase "leave well enough alone" not mean anything? lol

January 24

Does the phrase "just leave well enough alone" not mean anything????LOL

I know, I know, I said I was going to leave my hair alone...lol

Well that didn't last long now did it...

I noticed that the colour started to turn shades..I mean why not, its not like I have given it much of a break right? LOL

So me, being me,,, I went and bought some more bleach and a slightly lighter hair colour and went at the process again.

I knew this time that I wouldn't have the multi coloured phases (the light brown, orange and yellow) to go thur since it was already pretty light, so I thought it would be a breeze...

WRONG!! LOL

I applied the bleach, waited till I got the pale shade recommended, and then rinsed it off. But wait, as it dried it wasn't just pale, it was white. The good news is I know what I will look like with a head of white hair in another ten years... well if I still have any hair left that is....LOLPMP

So when poor N came home from work, he was shocked to death... I told him to look at it this way...with me changing hair colour all the time he could just pretend I was another woman...LOL I thought it was funny....

I had to wait till this morning to colour, since its so hard on your hair bleaching and colouring all in one day, so I went to bed with white hair and got up this morning, all optimistic that the hair colour would cover it fine...

Wrong!! LOL

Since they don't give you all the info on the hair dye box that one needs to make an intelligent and informed decision on colour choice....LOL I picked up the wrong shade... more on this to follow.

I applied the dye, waited the 30 minutes and rinsed... It was a cross between silver and white... can you picture it?? If I joined a Punk rock band I would look perfectly normal!!

All I could think was,,,I have to go to the Dr's office tomorrow and all the people that would be staring at me!! Oh Lord!!

Not to panic, I called the 1-800-idiot hot line and spoke to a Representative.. this is how the conversation went...

Hello, this is Marie, how can I help you?

Hi, Marie, I have a colour problem

Alright, can you tell me what colour you used?

Yes, it was colour LB03

And what colour was your hair before you started the bleaching processes?

It was a medium brown

And what colour was your hair after you bleached it?

Well sort of whitish

Oh, that is a problem.. can you describe the colour that it is after applying LB03?

Yes, its a combination of silver and white now.

Ok, the LB03 that you chose has a 30% peroxide solution in it which lightens hair as it colours, the bleach process is not necessary. (this info was NOT on the box) LOL That colour would of worked better on your natural brown hair colour.

I start laughing at this point.

Well at least you can laugh about this most women who call me are in tears.

Yes, well, its better to laugh at this point. Tell me, is there a solution to the colour problem?

Yes, you need to use hair colour "B" light blond

Light blond, I repeat? won't that still make it "too" light?

Well you can't use anything darker or your hair will turn green

Green?? I repeat, (again I start laughing)

Yes, green.. you can't go darker than light blond

Ok, I guess I better not put this light brown colour in it then....(laughing really hard by this point).

Oh goodness NO, don't put anything brown on top of that colour!

(I'm still laughing) well I will go buy some and see what happens I guess .

It will turn out fine if you stick with the colour "B" light blond. Would you like me to send you some coupons?

(My laughing has subsided at this point)That would be great, I'm sure I'll be using them...(laughing all over again)

All I need is your address.

I give her my address, thank her for her help and hang up, still unsure of what colour my hair will become in the end.

The worse part is I then had to get dressed and go out into public with this hair colour. I got to Shoppers and I was laughing the whole time, thinking, everyone here knows I heading for hair colour....LOL

The good news is that by the time I go to the Dr, it will be something other than what it is right now... hey it can't be worse?! LOL

I think it would be cheaper and easier to go to a hair dresser and get it done "professionally" from now on. I always wanted to be blond before I die, at this rate, I might die trying...LOLPMP

Yeah xmas break is over

January 09

Yeah, School is back in session

I never thought that I would say this but I am soooo glad that school is back in....lol

That was the longest 2 weeks ever,, well 2 weeks and 1 day,, for the crappy snow storm we had and they closed the schools... JJ demands so much attention that I am just worn out. Its constant, do I want to play this, or that... do I want to go make something with playdough...all starting at 6am!!

I thought I could get him to sleep until say... oh, I don't know a reasonable hour like 8 if I put him to bed later at nite... NO, that didn't work.. I tried unsuccessfully for 2 wks! I let him watch a movie from 7-9pm every nite infact...he still got up every single morning at 6am!! Have you ever played the board game "mouse trap" at 6am????  lol  It really isn't fun...

Let me tell you, that by 2pm everyday he was ready for a nap,,, no, not just because I was...lol but because he was soooo grumpy and tired and stressed that he really did need some down time... Now this is where the problem starts,, JJ figures that he is "too big" to take a nap, "naps are for babies,, and Nannies"... Those are his words...

One day I sucked him into lying with me on the sofa to watch a kids movie,, and he fell asleep.. But, he was so mad that he fell asleep that he never fell for that line from me again.. I know he forced himself to stay awake every day during Christmas break.

So from 2pm to 7pm its like walking on egg shells with him, so he doesn't get pissed off over some little trivial thing and then have a meltdown. He had 8 of those in 2wks.. and I can honestly tell you that I don't miss those episodes at all!!!!!!!! One fit was so bad that I had to resort back to "taking his toys" away from him for a day or two. I know that the experts say that, taking what he likes away from him will work...but it doesn't.. I think it takes alot of stanima on our part because its more punnishment for us than for him. 


When he looses his toys as punnishment for out of control behaviour, it then means that we are the subject of his attention. We are then the spotlight for his activities....We have to listen to him say "this is boring" a zillion times for one thing...lol

It is worth it in the long run, it does teach him consequences I guess.. but oh man its rough!!!

I found that since he started school he realizes that he has to follow rules everywhere not just here. Before he use to tell me that "I was mean cause I had rules".... I haven't heard that much since he started school.

When we do finally get him to bed and settled down,(which is a big chore), if you ask him in the morning, how he slept,, he will tell you that he is "nocturnal" and doesn't sleep at nite...

I used to try to tell him that he does sleep, but he would argue that he didn't. I finally had to take a picture of him sleeping to prove to him that he slept at nite... he still argued with me,What a kid....

This morning I was so excited about him going back to school so things would go back to a somewhat normal routine and I could get something done around the house without him wanting all the attention... And guess what, he didn't wake up at 6am like he does every morning.. nope,,, I had to wake him up at 7:15 and then he didnt' want breakfast, he just wanted to go to school...

Of course he had to "shave", brush his teeth and comb his hair first....LOL I didn't account for the new "primping time", so we almost missed the bus! 

So I have time to do my housework, and some online stuff again before he comes home at 2pm. Yes life is good.... Well untill March Break anyways.....

How much turkey can one eat?

So tell me, just how much turkey can one eat? LOL As I already wrote, brother D took us out for xmas dinner...we thought he and I were going to get away with not having to cook a big turkey dinner this year at all...HA HA that didn't happen.

N's Mom came up from NS to spend xmas this year with her two boys (N and W). She stayed with W and had xmas dinner with them on xmas day. N invited her out to our place for boxing day dinner,,yep you guessed it, turkey and all the trimmings...LOL

We bought a turkey, not just any turkey... a 30lb turkey. I mean this sucker was huge, I didn't even think it was going to fit in the fridge without major shelf moving and adjusting. We got it home and I dug out the roaster pan,,,LOL it wasn't going to be cooked in that!!!LOLPMP The humongous bird's ass would barely fit..LOL

So N went to Wally mart, no roasters, stopped at Sobeys and bought two of those throw away tin ones....what was he thinking? LOL Then he thought about checking out Zellers and sure enough they had a nice large one there, bought and bagged and he brought it home. We struggle to get it back out of the fridge to check it for size,, and luckily, it fit like a dream.

Now you may be asking yourself, why would we buy a 30lb turkey for just four people...well, we had invited N two kids, my two, all the gr.kids and the rest of the family, which would bring us up to 13 people. See the rational now?LOL

Problem was after having a nice green xmas, we were suppose to be lambasted with a boxing day storm...10-15 cm snow, freezing rain... just real shitty all around ya know..

So I am up at 8am making the famous "Parr" stuffing, doubling the recipe for this big turkey sitting in the fridge....lol I keep looking out the window in the kitchen hoping and praying that the storm would go away...like that was going to happen....

At 10am the turkey, fully stuffed in every orifice I could find,, goes into the oven to cook for the next 6 hours. The snow starts around noon, the freezing rain starts around 1:30 and by 2 :30 calls started coming in from family canceling...LOL D called after getting back to town from taking T out to her mothers, and just didn't want to take a chance on the roads after dark. B called to say that F had to work from 3-7pm so they would miss it, S called to say that the kids didn't want to go down for a nap so they wouldn't be coming, N did a sigh of relief because he was going to go in and pick S, and the two gr.kids and he really didn't want to travel on slick roads either...

N's Mom showed up at 3pm saying the roads were getting slippery. M called at 3:50 to say that J was sick but she was bringing her brother R and they weren't going to be here at 4pm.  S called back to say that she wanted to come, N didn't want to go out after her so I had to tell her I would save her some...like that was going to be a problem with a 30 lb turkey..

So we ended up with 6 people, the meal was good... but suffice to say we have turkey left over... and a large ice cream container full of stuffing, another full of gravey. We have had turkey sandwiches, another full turkey dinner and today I made a huge pot of turkey soup, with the two cats twisting in and out around my legs as I cut up the dark meat into the pot. Yes, I did give the cats some...lol

I finially broke down and put the rest of the turkey in freezer bags. I love turkey sandwiches with some ranch dressing instead of mayo....but I think its run its course and decided that we just couldn't eat any more turkey for a day or so at least... am I starting to gobble?? 

How many sleeps till Christmas?

Ok, so that question is over with...lol anyone with a kid will know exactly what I mean. Christmas has come and gone for another year, it was a green xmas actually and I'm not sure I can even remember having no snow on the ground xmas day. But let me just say that for the record I love "Global Warming" LOLPMP

I hate snow, that phenomenon only comes with getting older I think, because as a child I couldn't wait to dawn my snow suit and get out side.... those days are only faint memories now...lol

Anyways, we had to go outside before bed time xmas eve and sprinkle some "reindeer dust" that Jacobs teacher had given him. The idea is that you sprinkle this magic dust in the yard so that the reindeer can see the glitter as they fly, and then then know where to stop. They eat the oats while Santa unloads the gifts.. Jacob was certain that "Rudolf" would eat the most.

After getting Jacob settled, Norm put together his "train" bank and we put out the gifts and called it a nite. I set my watch to go off at 6am, I wasn't excited or anything...lol I was so afraid Jacob would pick that morning to sleep in and we were going to be running on a tight schedule as it was. It went off and I quickly made a pot of coffee then went up to the living room and turned on the tree lights. With (new)video camera in hand I went in to wake up Jacob.

"Jacob, I heard the reindeer on the roof... I think Santa's been here", I said.

His head shot up off the pillow and his eyes sprung open, it was seconds and he was down his ladder and running out towards the xmas tree.

"Your right Nannie, he has been here", he exclaimed... excitement was building in his voice. "Awesome, Awesome", he shouted as he got closer... Santa brought my "Diego rescue center..LOOK, LOOK". (awesome is the new word lately) LOL

It was then rip and tear mode for the next while, the "awesomes", growing louder and more frequent..LOL He is so funny,,,

Papa and I opened ours, we got some really lovely things... as always, Santa and family was awfully good to us.

After a couple hours of playing, I managed to convince Jacob that he should stop playing long enough to eat and then we got ready and packed up the car to go to Stacie's place for yet another xmas present opening. Jaron and Jordan were excited and having a ball opening up their things and Jacob joined in... sometimes helping them rip and tear,, of course there was more choruses of "Awsome"...LOL

We let Jaron and Jordan have a nap and Papa, I and Jacob went home to play for a little bit and then get changed to go out to supper.

Uncle Doug decided to do something a bit different this year and he took the whole family out to dinner at the Delta. THANKS DOUG !!

I was shocked at the amount of people who came out to eat xmas dinner,,,I never imagined that there would be that many people not cooking at home.

We had a choice of a sit down Turkey dinner with all the trimmings or a buffet dinner. We all chose the buffet, and it was really good.. especially with the smuggled in olives(thanks to Doug)..we all had a laugh sneaking those around the table. Olives are a family tradition..

There was soup, turkey & gravy, stuffing,mashed potatoes, chicken Kiev, salmon, mixed veg, salads, king crab legs, shrimp, sushi, smoke Salmon and cheese cakes, puddings and jello it really was a spread !!

All in all the kids did pretty good at keeping the noise level down considering all the excitement that they had to deal with. And I didn't notice anyone in the restaurant giving us dirty looks,,,but then I had my back to the majority of them...LOL Jordan tried just about everything once, Jaron and Jacob did their usual picking but got a good fill too. I know Norm and I were stuffed, and it was a good thing there wasn't a couple of lazy-boy chairs handy or everyone would of heard us snoring! lol

After dinner we all waddled out to our vehicles and headed down to Doug and Trinda's for more gifts and laughs of course... that is evident by the picture of him with the "Orca" mask on and him modeling his new coat....LOL

We played a clip of "Ajax Liquor Store" on the CD player and really had a giggle. Vicki and the twins are all excited about going to Disney in Feb, they don't know it yet...but I'm buying a really big suitcase..(so I can go too) LOL

It was a great Christmas, with a really great family and loved ones..... Hope your xmas was just as special.

How many more sleeps is it till xmas?????? LOL

JJ's first xmas concert at school

Well what can I say, it was adorable, funny, cute...every adjective(those are adjectives right? lol) that you can think of. He was all dressed up in a white shirt with a stripped tie and black pants, picture it, 5 yrs old and looking so handsome. Now if that doesn't make you go awh..... I don't know what will ! He stood dead center and looked a bit nervous when the curtains opened and he saw a gym full of strangers looking at him.... Oh I remember that feeling, how about you?

I stuck my arm up and waved, he saw Papa and I and a big smile came on his face and the fear faded for a moment at least. The kids did a good job with their songs, the actions that went with them was amusing, and the curtain director cut off the show prematurely before JJ got to place the "pretend" present under the tree... I don't think you can fire a child curtain director can you? lol

All in all, it was a good time, he enjoyed himself and once he was convinced that he would look "handsome" and no one would laugh at him, he was fine with getting dressed up. I will end by telling you that when we arrived at school and he was in his classroom taking his coat off and putting his "indoor" shoes on, he spotted another classmate wearing a shirt and tie. He walked over to the boy and said "I have a tie too, like it?" The boy answered "yes". JJ then said," we are the only two looking handsome today", I just about cracked up. Kids, they say the darnedest things!