Another Day, Another Dollar

Lee's back to work after the weekend. At least he got some sleep though... the 3 of us napped yesterday afternoon while Brianna played in Isaac's room. Supposedly he'll be home by 5:30pm... I doubt it :(

Even though Lee said he'd do the dishes over the weekend he didn't get any done so today has been a cleaning day for me. I've got 2 loads of laundry done, 2 loads of dishes done (and the 3rd soaking) and 75% of the porch done.

I've really got to get the pictures of clothes taken and list everything on the Cornwall selling board. I got pictures of everything else at least. I really wanna make some $ off this stuff. We're supposed to be yard sale-ing this weekend too.

The day started off bad with Brianna getting up at 2am to eat a peanut butter sandwich. Dead giveaway was that she "wasn't hungry" at breakfast. Let's hope we can get chores done and the rest of the day through without picking fights. She's finally earned enough stars to go to the park for an hour so it would be nice for her not to be grounded tomorrow so we could do that after school!

A Visit From an Old Friend

So Lee's old High School buddy Leslie came to visit yesterday and overnight. Lots of fun to be had! We had a big BBQ and some drinks. Once the bug were biting too much we moved from the back yard to the porch. In my cleaning spree yesterday I kinda forgot to eat (lol) so ended up feeling like crap. I think being tired didn't help.

This morning we had some bacon and eggs for breakfast (and I informed Lee that I expect the sausages and pancakes he didn't make, for breakfast tomorrow!) After some pictures in the yard we said our goodbyes for now. Hopefully we'll see him again later in the week when he's back in town!
Off to Ottawa! Had a great visit with Isaac. We went upstairs to play, something I think we'll do more often cause there's toys there that Olivia can play with too. Isaac and Brianna had loads of fun playing with some ride on toys, racing around. Had a great lunch of leftover BBQ *YUM*

Much Better Rest of the Afternoon

So Lee's coming home early on Wednesday was a fluke. Last night he didn't get home til 7:30pm. Supposedly he'll be off by 5pm today which would be nice cause Leslie's coming.

Brianna had a much better time after her little timeout. I made brownies and she helped me make 2 different kinds of muffins. I still have to make the frozen berry dessert I was supposed to make yesterday.

Got my workout in last night. God my upper body strength sucks. I'm lifting 3lb weights and almost died lol I think I'll squeeze in a little workout between laundry and cleaning since we'll be kinda busy tonight!

Another Day Home

After spending yesterday picking nits out of Brianna's hair we are on about the 8th washing of her hair to get the vaseline out. Happily, when I checked her hair last night I did not see any nits. But her hair still looks like she hasn't bathed in a month so I kept her home again. She helped by sweeping and washing the floors after I explained to her that while yes, the floors are normally Lee's job, we are doing his chores because of the insane hours he's working now.

Life was going great until she decided that in order to keep Timmy out of her wet floors that she'd lock him in the linen closet and spray him with Windex if he tried to get out. OMG I swear I'm gonna be bald.

So she got to sit on her bed doing nothing with Grandma watching while Olivia and I went to the grocery store rather than coming with us and getting a treat after. She did do fairly well upstairs though. She's now in the tub washing her hair again. Hopefully we can keep having good behaviour so she can help me bake while Olivia naps.

Oh! And Lee actually got home at 5:30pm yesterday! Soooo nice to have him home "early".

Getting Kicked off of PRMR

Arrrrgggg! I am so pissed right now! On Monday, I did my update on PRMR as usual. I went back Tuesday morning to check it over and found that Syd posted at 8am (5am his time) that I made mistake and he was fixing them. WTF?! Who gets up a 5am to check a game?! So anyways, because of this the Forum Hosts have decided to kick me off PRMR and make a whole new board with a whole new host account. The Forum Host zmailed me about it all full of I make mistakes, I don't get along with Syd, blah blah blah. Humans make mistakes people! I check my updates but when someone's getting up at 5am to find mistakes there's no way in hell I can find them and fix them! And I never talk to Syd, how can I get along with him or not? Holy crap I'm peeved.

On a high note I'm down .8lbs!

New Landlord

So the new landlord took over today. He's a non-smoker so now I can't smoke in the shared porch. Crap. I mean, it won't be so bad right now cause it's warm, but the winter is freaking cold! I'm gonna see about extending my back deck up to be able to put up some weather sheeting just to block out the wind.

Lee got home a whole 1/2 an hour earlier today. Said something about Monday - Friday now. So is that *this* Friday? Leslie's visiting this Friday so that would really suck. Hopefully it starts next Friday since a bunch of guys worked Sunday this week. Would be good for the pay cheque though. Especially since this landlord (Sebastian) isn't gonna be like John and let me pay over the course of the month. So hopefully all these hours will let us pay this month's rent quickly and have at least most of it for the 1st next month.

Made another chocolate banana bread today for the freezer. Used raspberry extract, goes with chocolate so why not. Think I'm gonna make Peanut Butter and Honey Muffins tomorrow. Maybe another bread-type thing too.

Brianna's home to help me tomorrow. Discovered nits in her hair tonight *sigh* So she's got a head full of Vaseline and tomorrow we'll wash it out with vinegar and pick nits. Hopefully we'll get it all in the first shot. But at least she can help me with some baking.

First Day of New Hours

Lee didn't get home til 7pm! What happened to 5am-5pm??? So he was gone yesterday for 15 hrs. And this is how it's gonna be til all VA's work is finally caught up... on TOP of doing their own work! Poor Lee! He got to take a shower, spend about 10 minutes with Olivia before she went to bed, spend about 20 with Brianna before she went to bed, on the computer for an hour then went to bed himself. Only to get up at 3am to start all over again! *sigh*

Olivia is an absolute crank today. I dunno if it's the crappy weather or what. I put her down for 2 seconds and she screams like someone ripped off her arm! Maybe it's teeth. She is walking more often now. Rather than dropping to a crawl she'll walk if it's a short distance between where she's going. And she's loving to clap now. She figured it out a few days ago and we always sing Patty Cake when she does it, she loves it!