in need of a grateful friday post.


the way this morning has been going
has put me in real need of doing a grateful friday post...
a friday-i-love...
a friday-remind-me-of-all-that-is-good
because this morning has been so bad.

first.
a quick vent of the bad:
8's getting in trouble at school for not
staying in the same place
in lineup for the bathroom
and apparently he had already rec'd two pushpins
(their "warning" system) which no one saw fit to let
us know about...i have no problem with discipline
but i would like to know about it before it reaches
detention...it annoys me when people preach parent
interaction but then don't hold up their end.

then, the small things:
pms-cranky, still cluttered house, cold feet, bills,
missing nail clippers, no milk, slight headache AGAIN,
8 missing his hat and gloves, 12 forgetting to wear her
boots home and having to walk to school in her indoors,
husband's computer just stopped working.

and now...
my friday i love...friday i'm grateful.

- pink tinged clouds this morning
- it's friday
- the car is full of gas
- bought a new journal in anticipation of doing this
(which maybe, i will get at on the weekend)
- tomato juice, ice cold with a smattering of salt and pepper
- no shovelling...yet anyway...
- the thought that even on a rotten morning...things could
be so much worse...to remind myself of that.

happy friday to you...

mixed...


my daughter 12's mixed cd as chosen by herself...
(i was not even home at the time)

  1. Take on me- AHA
  2. Love Shack- B-52s
  3. Girls just wanna have fun- Cyndi Lauper
  4. Under Pressure- David Bowie and Queen
  5. Hungry like a wolf- Duran Duran
  6. Don't bring me down- ELO
  7. Always something there to remind me
  8. Love is a battlefield- Pat Benatar
  9. Mr Roboto- Styx
  10. Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen
  11. I'm a beleiver- Smashmouth
  12. Walkie Talkie Man- Steriogram
  13. Wake me up before you go-go- Wham
  14. Iron Man- Black Sabbath
  15. Bullet with a name on it- Non-point
  16. Jump-Van Halen
my eighties baby....i'm so proud.

renovating gkgirl style....

sigh.

here is how a small project renovation
happens in our household...

my husband decided to build a new bed for eight...
perfect...
done with no real misery.

then decides to hang our new tv on the wall...
in the corner...
therefore needs a "corner contraption"...
welds one out of steel...
done...

leads to having to build a new cabinet to hold dvd player
x box, dish box etc etc...
this needs to be painted black...
almost done.

leads to deciding to wire the computer up to the tv
so that we can access everything on our computer from the
x-box controls and he can also provide a third router
for my laptop...
in the process of doing this
nicks a hole into the rad and water starts spraying...

this gets welded and then,
the furnace won't work.

we go to bed.

get up this morning and suddenly decide to take
12's bed out and put 8's bed in her room, in a new revised position
(chopping the legs off) which leads to deciding to put
old tv cabinet in her room which leads to 12 hours of
taking her room apart so this dream could become a reality...

meanwhile...
husband is painting new cabinet, making new drawer fronts
for 8's bed, chopping legs off 12's new bed, fixing the furnace
and making pancakes...

and that is how we do "one small project".

gah.

SPC (celebration...two days late!)

christmas eve
with my husband's family
which we do every year...
this year's included
2 new babies,
family home from away,
meeting family of new family joined,
hugs,
lots of pictures taken,
food shared,
presents ripped open,
compliments on the new living room furniture,
12's scoffing down of her favorite meatballs on toothpicks,
shyness on my part,
the yearly singing of rita macneill's working man
followed by silent night,
long drive home,
anticipation of what the morning will bring.