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Back to work

kasper — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:13:09 +0000

After a sweet 2 week holiday (spent at the exotic…home) I am finally going back to work tomorrow. Feels like I just left, I’m not really sure where the time went. I will say that it was relaxing though.
So I will rewind back to New Year’s Eve when my Dad took us out to dinner. We went to my favourite chinese restaurant Imperial Buffet. I had made the reservation the day before for 5 o’clock and thank goodness I did. You should have seen the mob of people we passed on our way out who were waiting to get seated. We always tend to get to a restaurant as early as we can for little D’s sake. There is always less of a crowd and we can still get him home in plenty of time to have a decent bedtime. When we got home we opened our Christmas presents – yes we had not opened our gifts from dad or vice versa. Little D had pooped out when opening his gifts on Christmas day so I decided to cut things short and figured we would try again when he was more interested. In fact, he didn’t open his last gift until yesterday afternoon!
Saturday we drove to Paris (no not that Paris) to meet up with my Mum and do a little shopping at Mary Maxim. It’s one of the few great places left to buy good yarn so I go there whenever I get the urge to start a new project (thought I don’t tend to finish as many as I start). My new knitting project is going to be a prayer shawl for my retiring Principal who is moving on to become a pastor. I’m not totally sure it is appropriate as they are usually used for grieving or ill people who need prayers, but I figured he would at least see the thought behind the gift. While I was there I picked up an origami kit I had my eye on, and finally splurged and bought 2 cross stitch kits that I have been looking at for a while.

I have already started on the hands which will be for little D and then I’ll do the feet which will be for baby x.
The biggest news of the holiday is that I managed to get little D potty trained! Okay, not 100%, but pretty close. With the exception of the first night (Monday) he has been sleeping right through the night and waking up in the morning dry, which I think is really incredible. He hasn’t been in diapers since waking up Monday morning and since Tuesday, has only had 5 accidents. Now we’re still having issues pooping on the potty, but peeing seems to be a done deal. I think he daycare teacher is going to be thrilled. I just went out today to get him more underpants so that he will have a supply at daycare instead of diapers. They’re so cute too. I mean they don’t have anyone special on them like spiderman or anything, they’re just so small. I had to get him an XXS, but they’re still a wee bit too big for him. I am prouder than proud can be. I’ve heard the horror stories about how long it can take and all the pull-ups and bed wetting, but I just got him to throw away all his diapers (just figuratively, I’ve still got them bagged up for the next one) and told him that this was it, he’d have to do his best to get to the potty to do his business or he’d have wet underpants. You never cease to amaze me kid, you make me proud!

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Merry Christmas to Me

kasper — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:49:07 +0000

It’s just occurred to me that I’ve been rather out of control when it comes to online shopping lately. It’s not like I’ve won the lottery or anything, I guess it’s just lack of self-control. Usually my frugal self will argue with my self-gratifying self and eventually win. But I suppose my frugal self has either been inundated with hormones, or maybe even gone on holidays. Either way I’ve been getting quite a few packages in the mail lately, and I thought I’d share what I got.
So it all started with the 120 palette that I bought off ebay. Though I like it, I think it might just be a bit too extreme for a subtle makeup gal like me, so I ventured over to Coastal Scentsto get the warm palette and a few inexpensive brushes. Then it was on to Everyday Minerals to finally get the stuff out of my wishlist: a flat top bush, 2 full sized foundations, 1 full sized blush, and a whole bunch of sample sized goodies including eyeshadow and brow colours. Shortly after that I saw a coupon code to get a free travel set of makeup from EyesLipsFace so I thought I would check it out. I ended up getting: an eyelash curler, nail polish, lipstick, lipgloss, eyebrow kit and 3 waterproof eyeliner pens. If you’ve ever checked out their stuff it’s ridiculously inexpensive, but when you slap Canadian shipping on it, it’s not such a great deal, so I probably won’t buy from them again. Besides, my wonderful free travel set had 2 smashed eyeshadows which of course had to be black and silver and covered all the other shadows, blushes and lip glosses to to point where I probably won’t be able to use any of them.
Away from the makeup purchases the last online indulgence came after reading Jenn’s post about EdenFantasys. I couldn’t believe the selection of toys. Have to admit it made me drool a little. I admit, I went a little wild in my order as I got 1, 2, 3 toys, some toy cleaner and a lock box for the toys (oh so important in a house with little eyes).
As for offline purchases, I got an Iomega 1T external drive to use for system backups and hopefully videos that I’ll be making with our new Canon FS200. The camcorder is a gift between hubby and me. It’s something that we both wanted and instead of getting each other little inconsequential things, we opted for the one bigger gift and will leave it at that. Besides, I think since little D is 2½ now, Christmas is mostly about him. Besides, with all the money I’ve unconsciously spent on myself, I definitely don’t need any more stuff.

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Spring where are you?

kasper — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:17:35 +0000

Just when I thought the weather was starting to become more spring-like, mother nature decides that winter isn’t over yet and dumps snow down on us. How depressing. I must say that I pretty much shut myself in the house during winter, so with the nice weather I had just managed to get my son out of the house and into the sunshine. We did have a couple of nice days there before it got yucky and cold again. Hopefully this Easter weekend will be nice.
With the change of seasons I get antsy to get my house all cleaned up. It’s such a mess at the moment. I should really be holding a garage sale to get rid of a ton of junk, I’m just so unorganized. As I start to put away my winter stuff I start thinking what the hell did I wear all of last year when the weather was nice. I always feel like I don’t have enough clothes. Me and every other woman out there I’m sure. Mind you in the last couple of years I’ve managed to donate 4 garbage bags worth of clothing to the Salvation Army. I am in desperate need of new pants. Of all the shopping I could do I absolutely HATE shopping for pants. They just never seem to fit properly. I usually go for the petites since I’ve got short stubby legs, but often enough they’re too short or the regulars are just too long. I suppose I could just them hemmed, but I’m just to lazy for that kind of commitment. When I get all frustrated with clothes shopping I can always just buy a bag…have you seen the ones at Lucky-Brand? Oh man are they ever sexy!
So as it works out this year, Easter Monday is my little man’s 2nd birthday! Holy cow, I really can’t figure out where all the time went. I have been madly painting his bedroom to get it all ready for his birthday. Okay, so I started it over the March Break and it was supposed to take like a week, but as per usual with me I decided to do more and more things and therefore it’s taken that much longer to get done. The horrible thing is, the poor little guy has had to bunk with his dad and me since then. Hope it won’t be terrible trying to get him back into his own bed when I finally get his room done. I’ll post some pics of the the before and after in another blog entry. Unfortunately I wasn’t thinking of doing before and afters so the before is after I’d already cleared the room and started patching holes, but hopefully you’ll get the idea.

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More shoes?!

kasper — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:55:56 +0000

So once again I am plagued by the “I let real life get in the way of my blog” guilt. The title of my website pretty much says it all. I really don’t know where my time goes. I haven’t uploaded photos to Flickr in I don’t know how long, mainly because of the daunting task of removing the red eye from the majority of shots. Why when I use the red-eye setting do I still have this issue? grr

Let’s see, what’s been up lately? Well, on Sunday we went to the Mama’s and Chicks Spring Show. I managed to get a free ticket from the woman in front of me who had an extra one. Hubby went in ahead of me while I stayed behind to fill out ballots for the prizes, but when I joined him I thought it was funny that he said ‘everyone’s trying to sell me stuff’. Well duh. That’s sort of the point of the show. I really wanted to get a wrap to carry baby D around, but was told numerous times ‘absolutely not!’. I have gone the sling route before and been totally unsatisfied with them. While I was still pregnant I got a ring sling, which I found fairly complicated to use and just didn’t feel confident enough to be hands free. So then I got a snuggly type of carrier which was seemed too small even though baby D is on the small size for his age, so that was out. Finally I saw a hip carrier at Walmart on the cheap so I tried that one and found that the strap was cutting into my neck so I returned it. The wrap at the show was a ‘Cuddly Wrap’ and hubby was not about to shell out $65 for a long piece of fabric. We did however manage to pick up a couple of things: a ‘Gertie ball’ the ones with the nubbies all over, a travel placemat, and a pair of SqueakyFeet. I love these shoes, as I am slightly baby shoe obsessed.

They have little squeakers in the heel so that with every step you know where your child is (or at least have a rough idea). The squeakers can also be taken out if/when I get sick of hearing that much squeaking.

Monday we all (our little family of 3, plus my Dad and my brother and his wife) went out for dinner before my Dad left for Germany. I’m not much for Greek food, but since my Dad likes it that’s what where we went. It was actually very yummy. I wasn’t overly impressed with my brother and his wife. But then I rarely am. They just seemed so distant. When my Dad tried to talk to them they didn’t seem interested.

Yesterday morning I got a call from my friend Nancy to meet her to go shopping. I didn’t have very long since my Dad needed the car to go out for his weekly lunch date with the guys but I did manage to meet her for an hour. I really wanted to get those foam puzzle mats for the deck since it’s pretty old and I don’t want baby D crawling around and undoubtedly getting a splinter. I had in my mind that they would be multi-coloured, but the store only had 1 set of blue. Nancy mentioned that she has a set of mats with the letters on them and would bring them to our parenting group on Thursday.

As for now, I’ve just gone over everything that needs to be done around the house with my Dad. He (mr. generous) is actually giving us $80 to buy plants for the garden! So we are just about to take my Dad to the airport where he’ll be flying to Germany and staying for 5 weeks. It’s so weird every time he goes though. We get really close just before he leaves. Like we’ve been doing dinner together (our 3, plus Dad) for the last 4 nights. Then over the 5 weeks he’ll be gone, we get into our own routine. Like free car for me – yahoo! And when he finally gets back, the relationship is a bit strained. Hope we can plow through that this time around. Anyway, off to the airport…

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Spring is in the air

kasper — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:23:31 +0000

What an absolutely glorious day it was today. I’m so glad I decided to get myself out of the house or I would never have known just how beautiful it was out. I’m not exactly sure of the temperature, but I think it was like 5 or 6°C with the sun shining brightly. Hubby called from the road (as he does numerous times a day) and we discussed how nice it was outside. He said he heard on the radio that we’ve had so much snow this year that the giant snowbergs that have accumulated in mall parking lots won’t even have melted by the end of the summer. Wow, wouldn’t that be sight in July? A big pile of leftover snow.

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So anyway, I had mentioned to hubby that there was an outfit for baby D at Wal-Mart that I was lusting after (yes, you can lust after baby clothes), but that the price was keeping me from buying it. He didn’t think it was too much to pay, so that was the go ahead I needed. Since we are going to London tomorrow for my Mum’s birthday celebration (it should have been last weekend but was postponed due to weather) I thought that would be a great reason to have a new outfit for baby D. Never being one to manage just going to Wal-Mart for the one thing I wanted to buy I ended up also getting him a 2-pack of pjs for when the weather gets a bit warmer and a striped t-shirt and pants.

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