Can't believe I haven't posted since August 29th.
Eep! Sorry about that...
Things here are moving along. The Wondertwins started high school last week and so far, so good. I tried to put the fear of the Semestered system into their brains by telling them how different it is than a term system (what they're used to). I told them that you simply cannot skip a night's homework or your screwed. They cram way too much into a four month period for you to get behind, so you had better stay on top of things!
Apparently I did this a bit too well. The Girl had a bit of homework to do over the weekend and when she realized she had forgotten the required sheet of paper at school, she nearly cried.
Whoops, bad Momma, huh?
My babies turn 14 on Wednesday. I cannot believe it. They are growing up too fast and I miss them. I'm sure, come January, I'll be happy that they're so independent, but right now, it's kind of sad.
Work is work... I've discovered (the hard way) that I am just not capable of working a 40 hour week on my feet anymore. I tried last week and halfway through my shift on Friday, I was not doing so well. I'm pushing it now at 36 hours. Hell, some days I'm pushing it just trying to get out of bed!
Chip is doing well as far as I know. If the expansion of my stomach is any sign, the child is growing at a phenomenal rate. The little one is kicking me more and more each day and Mossy finally managed to feel two good ones a few nights ago. I have to remind myself that while I've been feeling movement since week 11, this is all brand new for Mossy. His excitement is infectious and soooooooooooooo adorable!
I have another busy week at work (scheduled for 40 hours, but trying to knock it down to 36) and with the kids' birthday, Mossy's early morning trips to the gym (seriously, the guy is up at 4:50 or some such sick hour to get to the gym) and regular stuff, I'm not sure when I'll be able to blog again.
Hopefully I will manage to get on again before September 30th. I'll be incommunicado then for about 10 days as I'm heading to Newfoundland for a couple of days, just to help my Mom and Dad get home. Dad is going to do the 3 day drive and Mom and I are going to fly home on October 3rd and then stay at her condo until Dad arrives from Newfoundland. While I'm kind of looking forward to it, I'm also dreading it as my Mom isn't well and has deteriorated over the summer. It breaks my heart everytime I see her.
Our Prime Minister has just called an election on October 14th. Isn't that neat? Just over a month away and then it's over. No endless year-long barrage of campaign ads and disparaging remarks. I don't know how you in the States do it!
Nevermind the fact that Sarah Palin is one of the scariest women I have ever read about. I think she'll have the rest of the country turned into Jesusland before you know it...and God help you all!
That's it for now. I'm off to try to have a nap before I head to work at 1 pm.
Happy Monday, everyone!
About Me
- Penny
- I'm a 38 year old Canadian gal. Married for the 2nd time to my DH (Mossy Stone).
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6 comments:
You have a safe trip, darlin'. I hope Mom has improved since last you saw her and the two of you get some quality time together. She hasn't seen you preggers for a long time now! She must be so thrilled about the Chipster!
Uh, hope it doesn't change your opinion of me, but I like Sarah Palin...not crazy about the NRA thing, but she does come from a state where you're born with a gun in your hand, so I guess it isn't a stretch. I kind of like that she has a spiritual side, too. And you can't knock the gal's courage of her convictions, whether you agree with her or not. I mean, she avowed she was pro-life, and could have not let Trig be born when she found out he had Downs...but she had him and calls him a 'blessing'. To me, I'd rather vote for someone that I don't agree with and lives their ideals, than one who is just giving me lip service about his or her ideals and lives by a separate code. I dunno, just me, I guess. I don't like having smoke blown up my ass (it will ruin my autopsy). But ya know what? You don't have to like Sarah, and have the freedom to say so. Even if I don't happen agree with you, it doesn't change the fact that I will fight to the death for your right to express yourself! Good on ya, baby!!!
Everyone has the right to their opinion, and I am never one to shove my opinion on another...however, Sarah Palin is not a woman that necessarily lives up to her ideals. Her water broke in Texas and she insisted on flying back to Alaska to have Trig. 11 hours, I believe, on a plane, in labour with a high-rish pregnancy. There isn't a perinatologist that could make sense out of that choice. It's almost as if she was hoping to lose the baby.
She is against abortion for any reason...even rape or serious illness. That means a good friend of mine - had she been American and under Ms Palin's rule - would be dead. The abortion of her fatally ill baby was the only thing that saved her life.
Ms Palin is also not squeakly clean. There is an inquiry into some behaviour of hers in Alaska that (at least to me) shows she is as corrupt and prone to blowing smoke up your ass as the rest of them.
I am just afraid of people that wish to mix church and state.
But no, Ma, your opinion of Palin doesn't mean anything has changed about how much I love you.
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I guess I can forgive you for your lack of posts. Since it was six months between posts for me, twice. Try not to overwork yourself. Hope your mom is better than you remember her, and can stay that way. Keep us updated when you can.
I believe that the inquiry thing is something that Obama's campaign came up with as a panic move when they found out about her appointment, but I'm not sure of that. Just what I hear on the news. There are also vicious email petitions circulating about Palin trying to ban books back in 1996, including some of the Harry Potter books. This has been deemed a hoax email (it was proven to be directly lifted from another email intending to discredit another politician) by Snopes.com, my internet hoax Bible. And if anyone cared to research the email, you would note that some of the books were written after 1996, which means they could not possibly have been on any list written at that time and is blatant falsehood. As you can see, in the US (and it may be the same as in Canada) the internet has become a very powerful tool to sling the mud against an opponent and everything you read must be carefully weighed before taken as gospel. Who really knows? Only the people who were there, and I wasn't one of them. But to be truthful, I don't read the stupid emails and get very angry when politicians, either side, start dirty campaigns. I fear that both campaigns will be fighting dirty this election - there's so much at stake and the country is in rough shape. I blame myself, I admit I voted for Bush, twice. It's important for people to know the truth, but the truth about politics is that the people never really do know the exact truth.
As far as taking the 11 hour flight to get home to Alaska before delivering Trig, I don't know about the details. I'd like to think that she wanted to be near her own specialists. You know yourself as a mom of twins, and soon to be mom of a Sprog, that your water can break up to 24 hours before you go into labor (and sometimes longer than that! I took care of a woman whose water broke in her sixth month, once.) So perhaps she was not in hard enough labor to warrant immediate placement in a Texas hospital. She's had four children, knows her own body and her own labor, and there has been some distance between the birth of Trig and the birth of Piper, her fourth child. And I'm sure she was in immediate contact with her Alaskan specialist before taking any risk of flying home for 11 hours. For all we know, she may have had an emergency medical staff in attendance on the flight, just in case something happened. But that's just it - we don't know.
As far as I'm concerned, I hate politics. I hate the game, I hate the lies. I hate that you get one face on a candidate, fall in love with it, and then when he's elected, his true colors come out and he shows himself to be a liar, a dolt, an adulterer, inept, or anything else totally different from what you thought you were getting when you elected the guy. Kind of like marriage - everyone is on their best behaviour until the preacher says "I now pronounce you" and the honeymoon is over...and you come to find his stash of cocaine and his works hidden in his underwear drawer while you're doing the laundry.
I don't know if Canadian politics are any cleaner than American politics. I don't even know that much about our own politics. I just know that I hate them. Why can't people just mean what they say and say what they mean?
I still like her as a person. Will she make a great vice-president? I don't know. I think she's strong enough. I think she has conviction and courage. Are they for the right things? I don't know. And we won't really know until she's elected, if she is.
But I do know that I do not like two things about Obama. One, I do not like his lack of executive experience. His whole career has been aimed at getting himself into the Presidency. I don't think he's been up against tough enough stuff to qualify him. Just my opinions... Two, I just have this really edgy feeling about having a president whose last name is the same as the first name of the man who is trying to singlehandedly destroy our county through terrorism and barbarism. Talk about your religious extremists? Like it or not, and I've tried to talk myself out of it - I just can't help the association between the two because of the name. I know, it's nuts. But when you think that John Kennedy won over the women's vote based on the fact that he was cuter than Nixon, it needs to be factored in. And all I've heard from him is 'talk, talk, talk' about change. No plans on how to change, just promises to change. Don't forget, we just elected our first black Democrat governor in MA who ran on the same platform of change, and believe you me, he has changed NOTHING in the Commonwealth. So I think I also draw on that association, as well. Pie in the sky. I would truthfully rather be promised nothing, and find pie on my plate!!
Frankly, my mind is still open. I like Palin, personally. I like McCain and wanted him to win the nomination in 2000. But my mind is still open and I'm wondering whom they Independents will nominate. That could be an interesting choice and may even make a huge difference in the election, for both the GOP and the Dems, if they put up the right person and not some crazy nutbag.
I just remembered one more bias against Obama - Hillary is stumping hard for him. Anything that Ms. "Fat, in Ugly Pantsuits" states automatically goes into my 'recycle bin'. The best thing Obama could do for his campaign would be to tell Hillary and Bill to lay low. They may cost him more than they gain him.
But you know what? You go ahead and blast away at Sarah Palin, if you want. You are certainly entitled to have an opinion, Penny. And I respect those opinions and will take them into consideration. It's not like your vote is going to offset my own...you don't have a voice in this election. So go right ahead and blast away and I'm going to be interested in what you have to say. Your insights have always provided me with food for thought and my tired old mind needs stimulation and a bit of dust-shaking from time to time, especially during critical periods in our nation's history, like the present. And I thank you for the stimulation and lively debate, honey!!! And the words "Stuff it" will never come from my mouth, or my fingers, where you're concerned. I respect you and your fine mind far too much to discount anything you say or feel!
Thanks, Larrikins. I've missed you!
Motherdear: You know what? I'm totally with you on two important points:
(1) I hate politics and all the damn games.
(2) Doesn't matter who's in office - not much changes (if anything) and people will hate him/her by the time their tenure is complete. Same bullshit, different face.
I'm not thrilled with Obama either (but the bad guy's name is Osama...not Obama. lol). Again, I'm too cynical about any politician to want to vote. We have to vote here on Oct. 14th, and I'd just as soon not bother, but I will do my civic duty...fat lot of good it'll do.
Love the comments though, Ma. It's great to have you back.
You're right, his name is Osama. I have a tendency to make up my own names for cowardly world-class criminal murders, and after 9/11 I had changed his name to Obama Sin-Laden, because it fit (to my warped mind). I just forgot I did that!
But still - Obama's name does sound a lot like Osama's, and that gives me the oogies. And what about the first name? Barack??? Sounds like my poor little dead Milo, when he was coughing up a hairball!!!!!! ;-D
Still waiting to see what the Indies put up for a ticket. I wouldn't vote at all if L&M and Kal didn't get on my ass about it. Like you, I find it an exercise in futility and it just gets my BP up with all these campaign ads prior to the election. Plus my voting record stinks...Bush, twice? (Well, actually, the first vote was anti-Gore, the second anti-Kerry). Nixon, twice?
Where's Harry S. Truman when you need him?????
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