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Insert the Shocked M$N Emote Here. December 15 2006

Filed under: General — pamalamadingdong @ 10:55 am

My boss, you know that lying coniving one?

QUIT.

Her last day is Dec 29.

On the one hand I’m like WHOOPEE! Cause well you know, the lying and all.

But on the other hand, kinda boo, cause we did have fun working together and she was always very accommodating.

ANYWAY, I’m off to shop. AGAIN. This time in town cause well I am never ever entering another city as long as I live. I had the urge to shove the last guy of the barbershop quartet! SHUT UP! GOOD LORD like the ambiant noise isn’t TOO loud as it is! Let’s add 4 guys and some sort of stringed instrument.

So I will stay in town today. And I might even finish up. Although I never actually feel like I’m finished, ever. I always feel like it’s not enough.

 
 

Report Card December 13 2006

Filed under: Parenting — pamalamadingdong @ 9:32 am

Yesterday was report card day at Brendan’s school, and the boy was a tad excited when he and finally met up at home.

He was hovered around while I opened it up.

We owe the kid some money. You see we have a deal, $5 for every A.

($100 if brings home ALL A’s, which thankfully this time of year, he did not)

He did however bring home 7 A’s. SEVEN A’s. And 6 B’s. Not too freaking bad if you ask me.

So we owe him $35. He’s pretty stoked about that too.

His teachers were along the lines of….Brendan is doing great and is naturally smart which has led to some great test scores, but if he would actually study he’d do even better.

Which I totally agree with, but that line is going in one ear and out the other. EVERY test is a A and every test I say…

“um..you coulda like got an A+ if you woulda studied eh?”

“Whatever dude”

Tonight is our parent/teacher interview (which I cannot attend, but Chris will) and we will be addressing that VERY subject. How do you make him study. you see when he first was all “I don’t need to study” I was all “Fine, don’t study and see what happens”

All the while thinking to myself, heheheheh it’s early in the year, one bad test mark will not kill him. A! B+! GAH!

Oh well, I guess I shouldn’t complain, things could definitely be worse in that area.

Off to work I go.

Hi ho Hi ho Hi ho Hi ho.

p.s.

8 sleeps!

 
 

I totally broke the internet December 12 2006

Filed under: General — pamalamadingdong @ 12:21 pm

We were ASSAULTED by spammers yesterday and shut down (DoS much?).

My blog had 600 000 spammer hits. I feel utterly violated. I feel like i should call someone.

I mean who knew I was THAT fabulous? Fabulous enough to bring an entire website down on it’s knees with the sheer VOLUME of my fans er spammers.

Asshats! AlL OF THEM!

No  run yet this week also no weighing. I haven’t even had the time. Shopping this weekend was hectic, as 1000000000 bloggers have bitched and moaned about before me. SURPRISE IT’S CHRISTMAS & ThE MALL WAS BUSY!

Suddenly I’m a small town girl, we headed out to the city for shopping this weekend and I nearly had a nervous break down. PEOPLE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. Not even rude people, just people shopping. Sensory over load.

And then? We went to wal-mart.

MOTHER OF THE SWEET BABY JESUS, it was horrible. And by this time we were starving but didn’t want to take the time to eat. The first aisle was all CHOCOLATE and even better than that ALL CHRISTMAS CHOCOLATE. We picked up a ton and then went…no, and put it back. We were too frazzled for real shopping, it was pathetic. We are light weights. I like my tiny little mall, with a dozen or so (useless) shops. I love that I know most people I come across now (even though it still freaks me out a little), I love that our busiest days are no where near as busy as their slowest days.

Anyway, Noah is home sick again…his cough took a turn for the worst, but he has no other symptoms. I would take him to the walk in clinic but we might come out with the plague, an appointment at our family doctor would take a few weeks and I’m sure we’ll have a good handle on it either way by then.

In other news…

FEFFIE COMES IN 9 DAYS. NINE OF THEM!

And here’s how my coming 9 days will look…work work work bake bake bake clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean shop shop shop bake bake bake work work work and then begrudginly work work work work, disgruntly work work work.

I think I will run tonight. Or maybe today, it IS a cold cold rain (rain?) today though…yeah tonight in my mom’s toasty basement. This will be the beginning of the end of runs at my mom’s tonight, she just purchased an LCD tv, and feels the need to put the old on in her basement, where my father can watch hockey out of harms way and smoke his brains out.

No more running there for me. Oh well, seems like a warm winter so far, I think I can drag my fat ass outside.

HOLY RAMBLE MUCH? If I was redhead I’ve have a perfect tagline.

“the redhead, she rambles.” 

 
 

Dumber Than I Look December 08 2006

Filed under: Running, another stellar moment — pamalamadingdong @ 9:36 am

“Dumber Than I Look” post, take 2.

Since take 1? Was devoured by wordpress, never to be seen or heard from again.
the abridged version…

Decided to run home from work yesterday.

Packed bag of winter running stuff night before. Had to wait till morning to pack COLD winter running pants.

Got kids up in the morning. Rush rush rush dash dash dash. We were running slightly behind.

Got Brendan out the door on time.

Continued rush with Noah.

We were both ready, I dashed to get my heavy winter running pants. And then put them in my bag. Only when I opened “my” bag I found 5th grade math homework and a bright red lunch bag.

D’OH!

That’s right. Brendan had taken my bag with him to school (or so I thought), running shoes, RUNNING BRA, fabulous winter running shirt. Sitting in a grade 5 class and I was already 5 minutes late for work.

I had my father in law drop off Brendan’s bag to him, but didn’t mention bringing my bag to me as this would only cause confusion that I was in no mood to deal with.

All day I kept thinking “Bren has $300 worth of running clothes with him, he’s dead if he loses or forgets it”

Anyway…loooooooong agonizing non-running story short.

He had gone to school with NO bag, I just assumed he had taken my bag with him when I saw his bag. MY bag was in another room entirely.

Cause I’m smart like that.

No run yesterday, obviously.

 
 

December 06 2006

Filed under: General — pamalamadingdong @ 11:35 pm
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Chris and Noah, Wednesday night, after swimming lessons. They really kick the kids butts, plus Chris uses any excuse for a quick and handy nap.
We’ve had a chat and have amicably decided that father in law can drink himself into whatever oblivion he wants, but we won’t let it affect our family, specifically our children.
So from now on, one wiff of booze and the plug is pulled on whatever visit was underway. At this point I trust him not to drink when he actually has the children with him, he lost complete contact with Brendan last time that happened (years ago).
Anyway in other news…another hour on the treadmill. Tonight it said I went 1.7 km. Which clearly is a slight under estimation I would think.
Tomorrow I work until 1 pm, I think I’ll run home after that. See how it goes anyway.
On ward!