Lazy, lazy, lazy

kasper — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:53:59 +0000

I’m such a slack. I have no idea where my weekend went. I guess between watching movies and working on my new layout all the time just got sucked away. I really want to get this new layout finished up, but it seems that I keep changing my mind about how it should look. Maybe by next weekend I’ll have it looking spiffy enough to put up.
I started doing the Weekend Snapshot and was really looking forward to making myself take some photos so that I’d be able to post along with everyone, but I’ll refer back to the first statement of this entry. That’s right, I’m a slack. We were supposed to go to London to my Aunt’s house for my Mum’s “surprise” birthday. The “surprise” part is a joke because my Gran told my Mum to ask us (my brother & I) if we could come down to her party. Seeing as she already knows about it, it’s not exactly a surprise. I talked to her Friday and she said that she had been practicing looking surprised. I was really looking forward to seeing everyone and showing off how big baby D’s getting, but it got postponed due to weather. We got a dumping of like 25-30cm! As I suspected it was sunny on Sunday and melted the snow pretty fast. That figures. So we’ll be heading south next weekend instead. Since I don’t get out and do stuff much, find myself being inflexible when plans change. So with the family doing nothing interesting over the weekend, I once again have no photo to show for it. We may actually make it out of the house today and drag baby D through the snow on his sled, so if we do I’ll be sure to get some photos up. FYI I don’t post baby D photos publicly (or mine either for that matter), so if you’re interested in seeing them let me know here and befriend me in Flickr.
I did manage to get some things straightened out about my maternity leave. So, I’ve been in to work and done the paper work, here’s how it’s going to play out. I am taking an Infant Care leave after my maternity runs out. This will be unpaid, but I don’t have to return to work. I will return to work on June 30th for 2 weeks until our summer starts while hubby takes 2 weeks holidays to stay home with baby D. When I go back to work my unpaid vacation time (20 days) will be processed and paid out to me which will hopefully help get us through the summer since I can’t claim EI. Then I will be back full time for the new school year in mid-August. The other hitch of this scenario is that my Dad (Mr. Financial) thought I was insane to even consider such a stupid idea when we discussed it a couple of weeks ago. To go without money when we’re stretched as it is would be suicide. It’s true, it will be extremely hard on us but I feel that it’s what’s best for baby D. So on Thursday night we all went out for dinner and while I searched for a good way to break the final news to my Dad, he said ‘so March Break is coming up, I guess you’ll have to go back to work soon’. “Actually no.” ‘Oh, so you are staying off until August?” ‘Yup, got it all cleared through work.’ And that was the end of it. No arguing, no yelling, no ‘you can’t possibly afford to stay home’. It was sweet. So one less thing for me to worry about. Yay! Now I’ll just have to think of something else…

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Weekend Snapshot

kasper — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:06:06 +0000

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Yesterday we made the trek up to Orillia to visit hubby’s mom for her birthday. Actually her birthday was last weekend, but my dad was curling so we were carless. (I really need to get a car!) The snow this winter’s been a bitch, but nothing compared to what I saw up north! Sort of puts things in perspective for me. I’m usually not to crazy about going up as I find it fairly boring. Unlike my family, there is very little conversation. I’m not a very social person so I certainly don’t help in that respect. So when hubby volunteered to go pick up KFC for dinner and his sister and niece said they wanted to go too, all I could think was that the dreaded silence between his mom and me might swallow me alive. It ended up not being nearly as bad as I thought. It’s definitely easy to talk about the baby, plus she went on about all the concerts she’s seen at Casino Rama, so the time flew by. We all managed to gorge ourselves on chicken only to forget about the 3 cakes that hubby brought from work. It’s handy for get-togethers, but mostly it’s just evil that my husband delivers for a pastry company. It was an extremely long and interrupted day for the baby so I was happy when we finally got home around 21:30. As exhausted as we both were we ended up staying up to watch the Academy Awards, though hubby was snoring on the couch before any of the important awards were presented. I was disappointed to see that Juno didn’t win anything monumental, but figured that it probably wasn’t mainstream enough. Great movie. If you haven’t seen it do. And check out the soundtrack too. It’s very quirky.

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Lazy, lazy, lazy

Weekend Snapshot