tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183684822024-03-20T05:30:57.549-03:00Anygma ThisEnigma is something puzzling, Anygma could be anything!Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.comBlogger106125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-24277534759544614762008-04-25T23:54:00.002-03:002008-04-26T00:16:36.724-03:00Updates on the kidsi'm proud to say that at the end of march, Vivian finaly had to do away with diappers. i knew she was able, but she didn't feel the urge to do without them. until, she became severely sensitive to them. the whole part of her that was in contact with a diapper became very red and hot. there's no other option. and she's doing very good without them for the most part. a few days ago, almost a month without diapper, she had an accident or 2. we're just not sure why. but other then that, it's great to be out of diappers!!!!<br /><br /><br /><br />tonight the kid went to bed with little pianos, and i asked owen if he'd like a bigger one, and maybe even some piano lessons, and he was affirmative. i think it would do him some good. he also loves to sing, and i cought him trying to play on the old beat up guitare and sing this afternoon. after all, musicians run in the family. but buying just one will be tricky piano will be tricky.<br /><br /><br /><br />an other thing Owen make sure i don't forget. he's getting a camera for his birthday hehe<br /><br />i hope little tikes cameras come on sales before then. because i'll have no doubts to buy 2 of them. will be interresting to see what they come up with.Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-57347862219070077832008-04-25T23:12:00.002-03:002008-04-25T23:49:52.412-03:00The dog daysso monday, i decided to check the SPCA listing before i went to bed, just for a kick... yeah i know it's been a long time since i blogged and i'm just being lazy, don't really feel like there's much interresting to talk about most of the time. anyway, so i checked the listing, and there was this nice dog, named Misty... she's been there for 9 months, her pups are all gone but there she is, and look like a very sweet companion. the next day, i decide to check back on her, thinking, she's not in any danger to me fast as she's already been there so long right? wrong!!! she's gone before i even get my act together. so i look around on petfinder, to see a wider area of pet shelters. then i see Lexi, her description is making me melt. the sweetest dog, she's good with peoples and all kinds of animals too, loves children, what more can i ask? gotta move quick this time, so i email the shelter and inquire about how i can make her part of our home... they send the form, i fill it and send i back. the lady who answered me told me to call the day before to make sure she was still there and she'd hold her for me for the 24 hours, so i can go get her. when i call... there's someone looking her up and can't decide between her and Benny.... they couldn't hold her until they picked Benny. so i had to call later, only to find out, they picked Lexi.<br /><br />like, what's going on? it's like it only take me looking at a dog for him/her to get adopted. but in the end, i leave it all up to God... it must all happen for a reason. If it's the right one, He'll make it possible. until then, i figure i'm going to keep a close eye on the listings because it could take quite a while to find an other one that seems suitable for our family... that same day, my best friend/msn buddy Nancy, message me, that there's a message on her intranet for a dog to give away!!! FREE!!!!!! almost too good to be true. <br /><br />i still have some issues i'm worried about until i see the dog, but i know since it's a private adoption, she wont give him away on us. sounds like a good dog, although he hasn't had much contact with young kids. but he's young too, so he has plenty of time to learn. and not sure how he'll handle our 2 cats. at the SPCA the staff is used to see lots of dogs and they have a chance to do a descent personality assessment. a pet owner only know so much because they've only seen their dog in certain settings. i'm hopeful we'll bring him home, but i'm still holding back to the fact there might be some traits that we can't tolerate in our home at this stage. <br /><br />What about Owen, he's excited and look forward to see the dog. wasn't sure if i'd see that day since at one point he was scared of them. he's looking forward to play catch and have a friend to play with. <br /><br />I think even my mother in law is excited about it... she called me yesterday and want to follow us and bring the dog back to our place for us hehe<br /><br />I know it's gonna be verry interresting and hectic for a while. our first cat, Daphne is absolutely not fond of having to share her turf. it took her a solid month to accept Misty, when whe adopted her last september. and funny thing is, when i went to pick up Misty, the rep at the SPCA asked me, "the cat or the dog" just to show that Misty the dog, that i firt thought about monday, would've been there for us then. but our Mistywas there for quite some time too, she was bored there, fed poor quality food, no room to play. she got fat, and no matter how good of a diet we gave her, with calculated portions, her weight didnt' budge, but i think it's starting to change, as she's taking a liking to the outdoors. i saw her twice springing up and down a tree at full speed, like wow. once you hit healthy weight, you're gonna be murder on those poor birds. so i'll have to get her a collar to attach a bell on it. i want to keep the birds, i even want to put more bird houses, so we can have more bug eating birds, there's so much mosquitoes on our soggy part of the woods. <br /><br />I also feel that there's a chance Misty might eventualy try cuddling wih our new dog. she seems that kind of cat. if it's that kind of dog we end up with hehe Daphne? don't even think about it, we'll be happy when she learn to tolerate. might take all summer. <br /><br />should make for a bit more action to talk about. and the fun of trying to find beaches where we can bring our dog too.<br /><br />will post pics once everything is officialAnygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-21814742140650664852008-01-04T10:29:00.000-04:002008-12-10T08:39:25.632-04:00I'm still alivedespite the fact i haven't bloged since sometime last year, i'm still here. either not much to say or too much procrastination. maybe a mix of both is to blame for the lack of updates.<br /><br />my computer also been used a lot more for passive entertainment lately. i've officialy became a big fan of The Biggest Loser and the kids have been requesting to view Ratatouille many many times. so much so that now i have this obsession with finding stuff i can cook all sliced up. or just trying to be more creative with what i cook or how i present it. here are my last 2 exemples<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAmb06SoZ58m0Zxsc2iVxOx7fwPOU9RApqgpBxUDfo9TvaX3HZvYjhMX08azt6zl8B-g3w46uh93iZF8AyBBFDdf_3gQNEy15kdPqkCR6m9YkIMVtpxVbTI9tIanjvvBcyKHfMnw/s1600-h/P1010023.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAmb06SoZ58m0Zxsc2iVxOx7fwPOU9RApqgpBxUDfo9TvaX3HZvYjhMX08azt6zl8B-g3w46uh93iZF8AyBBFDdf_3gQNEy15kdPqkCR6m9YkIMVtpxVbTI9tIanjvvBcyKHfMnw/s320/P1010023.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5151630848502305410" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgabwbgVOq56mf3jSY7QW31xeyXE5p5swnGrsczAx0G1BnLMkFE7HsYBi4gdvo-WSaGvnQ_uqQ5S1gusk_R_yciSyx4ivIXo8aPO68XFWplJzOlWxEekx0HIGjyvlx4U4UtD0pasg/s1600-h/P1010026.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgabwbgVOq56mf3jSY7QW31xeyXE5p5swnGrsczAx0G1BnLMkFE7HsYBi4gdvo-WSaGvnQ_uqQ5S1gusk_R_yciSyx4ivIXo8aPO68XFWplJzOlWxEekx0HIGjyvlx4U4UtD0pasg/s320/P1010026.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5151630861387207314" border="0" /></a>i found out that the combination of potato, sweet potato and onion taste fantastic. almost look like cheddar cheese too. <br /><br />my pre Christmas hunch came back to bite me in the rear end. i was looking at the little tyke's digital camera and was thinking it would be a nice gift for Owen, but in the end, we didn't get it. about a day after Chistmas, he started to say that my camera was his and that he wanted to take pictures with it. and he's been insisting ever since that he wants to take pictures and that i give him HIS(my) camera at once! i've tried to make him understand that if he stop having tantrums about it, we will consider it for his birthday. i'm thinking it will be a long 8 months for us all and i might just break down to surprise him earlier, earlier. i'm still thinking he should wait a few months and keep an eye for a sale. now, the only other question about this whole camera deal is, should we buy one for Vivian also? <br /><br />speaking of camera, mine decided to be fussy on Christmas day, and we came close to not have any captured memories of that day. not that it was a very extravagant reception. it was just our little family and my mother. very quiet day in perspective. my mother also had her camera but it decided to take a power fuss at the same time as ours. it's a relief that it finally accepted to function so we could have a family picture after probably 2 years where there were some kids pics and some of us but not all in the same frame. <br /><br />after 3 snow storms in 5 days, we are hoping to have a rest from shoveling. i'm not sure the windows in the bathroom will take an more. it was making some sound that had me scared it could break at any moments. yesterday was fairly mild and before supper, Andy was breaking off icecicles from under the glass roof of the sunroom, with a hammer and after clearing up enough of it, water started drainning. he wasn't able to give the same treatment to the bathroom section and it's probably all that water freezing again that was working the structure so much last night. it's now 20 below zero degree Celcius. (-4 degree F) and i'm some glad we finaly replaced the insulation that was removed last summer. we had a hard time maintaining acceptable temperature at minus 10-15 degree C (+5-14 F) and in the process burned a lot of wood. by the look of it, we won't have enough to last till the warmer days. we had ordered twice the amount of wood we ordered the year before, but we got a fair bit of crooked logs and hollow ones too. once cut, it almost look like we got just as much as the year before. that is not good. we will probably look into finding an other supplier for next year. hopefully one day we'll be able to pull the wood from our own land, but as long as all we have to transport the wood is a wheelbarrow, it's not a realistic option. <br /><br />that's about all i can think for now. I don't have a new year's resolution list, it's just business as usualAnygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-36040203586823683562007-10-27T17:12:00.000-03:002007-10-27T17:34:55.407-03:00Pancakes in a can?my hubby got into the habit of making pancakes every week on his swingshift. and since 75% of the family is gluten free, he has taken to make them with buckwheat. they taste a bit more gritty and nutty, but overall, still very palatable, not like the time i tried to make buckwheat soba... that was terrible. the kids didn't seem to mind but i did. now i would be totally rolling my eyes at this idea of <a href="http://www.batterblaster.com/">pancakes in a can</a>, as one more over processed, chemical cocktail of die and preservatives... but it's organic! my jaw nearly dropped. <br /><br />of course, it's still a product i wouldn't go for, because a. there's soy, and i think of it being healthy is a big deception and b. there is wheat and wheat has gluten :( but if they believed in health enough to care to select organic ingredients, and if it become popular enough, maybe they'll come up with other healthy varieties.<br /><br />i so miss pizzaaaaaaaaa! dairy is an other big no no here. even more so then gluten. *sigh*Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-59484847808993656852007-10-26T17:01:00.000-03:002008-12-10T08:39:25.880-04:00Hey Little Lulu<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPxWIZy3JW7kpbBlDEPTLyAzR3CxFpnDkYjM5UFgjH5pqTozXo_PzuMQoyFMNbKYaY0PnHdymW66qkk_SgOopZhA41ZdcDtd0Y3GTnwrMfaiSno_AIVWijlhmzKKYAihzVYjqekg/s1600-h/little-lulu_green-girl.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPxWIZy3JW7kpbBlDEPTLyAzR3CxFpnDkYjM5UFgjH5pqTozXo_PzuMQoyFMNbKYaY0PnHdymW66qkk_SgOopZhA41ZdcDtd0Y3GTnwrMfaiSno_AIVWijlhmzKKYAihzVYjqekg/s320/little-lulu_green-girl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125738437953360290" border="0" /></a>do you remember the little Lulu? she had her own TV show when i was a kid, but apparently she's much older then that<br /><br /><blockquote>Little Lulu first appeared in the <i><a title="Saturday Evening Post" href="/wiki/Saturday_Evening_Post">Saturday Evening Post</a></i> on <a title="February 23" href="/wiki/February_23">February 23</a>, <a title="1935" href="/wiki/1935">1935</a> in a single panel comic strip, appearing in her debut as a <a title="Flower girl" href="/wiki/Flower_girl">flower girl</a> at a <a title="Wedding" href="/wiki/Wedding">wedding</a>, strewing the aisle with banana peels. ~ Wikipedia<br /><br /></blockquote> so she was already stirring controversy back then.Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-9815196098055725652007-10-19T20:05:00.000-03:002007-10-19T23:25:37.614-03:00I’ve been tagged by <a href="http://crazymrsnancy.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Nancy</a>!<br />Here are the rules:Once tagged, you must link to the person who tagged you. Then post the rules before your list, and list 8 random things about yourself. At the end of the post, you must tag and link to 8 other people, visit their sites, and leave a comment letting them know they’ve been tagged.<br />Wow 8 people? you gotta be kidding me Nancy, i don't even know that many bloggers at all, i'm not even sure what random stuff would be worth blogging about me here. anyway, here are 8 random things about me :<br /><br />1. i don't like my toes toutching each other. <br />2. i will probably stare at the monitor for the next 20 minutes trying to think of something else to write. sometime it takes me very long to write a short e-mail or what ever else. <br />3. as a child i used to have dreams where i'm flying in the sky, seems that i lost that ability and i miss it.<br />4. i have a terribly hard time remembering people's name<br />5. my first pet was an iguana i named Akea<br />6. I can't play first person shooter games, i can't coordinate in it, i have this tendency to get stuck in walls. i tried to play unreal tournament once, for 20 minutes and had to lay down for 2 hours because i was too motionsick. <br />7. *random blank*<br />8. i used to enjoy watching little Lulu as a kid, and jumped on the dvds when i saw them in a discount bin, after watching a few episodes back, i changed my mind about her and the show... it's violent and sexist : i didn't remember her being that way, do you?<br /><br />sorry i dont' have 8 peoples to tag back, but you're welcome to take it at random and leave a note in the comments to say you did :DAnygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-89660955416288249372007-09-24T11:11:00.000-03:002008-12-10T08:39:26.242-04:00The New Cat in the House<div>Already 4 days since Misty arrived from the SPCA<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5113779339167004162" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYVb6k6Bkuthe-SQLu6iRZY6Q1BXxwygULSVpaKlEzVhNJXkWQY6TyMSA2V3OtjV_q8Y7LGsgzVp2SglZ_-25p6t8hO8wEnY9YhspaPwtdo90_H0ksYo0-GfvldTbi4vip4SCgLA/s320/P9200102.JPG" border="0" /> and we're very happy to have her. our first impression had made her our first choice and it look like we did good in listening to our gut feeling. she is gentle, playful, calm, affectionate. i still think she's not overdominating so that Daphne will not fell she's gonna loser her title of first cat of the house. and her play style is the one i think will lead to a good mouser. that was a lot of trait we had in mind considering the whole family and our needs and the new cat's wellbeing as a new member of our family. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>i'm still amazed how we could find all of it in one single cat. Now we have to be patient and hope Daphne will adjust. for normal cats, it can take up to 2 weeks before they can interact together in a civil manner. let's hope Daphne is normal hehe </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>i'm some glad i found <a href="http://www.petvideo.com//index.cgi?channel=32">these video tips</a> for cats. </div><br /><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5113779347756938770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvXkJ0whgaLLsHQNMvz3rT8hng3Ly0wFVPZ_SNtsk1vTSXP0H5I-APcvFCJ60IXRgJorpz4mc1agg0htm0rxcMAGguSmUW7W2MZmutmB0KaO1Hh9uoZgymx5m3hAuZMRfzsgfPnQ/s320/P9200100.JPG" border="0" /><br /><div></div>Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-48952558588061259312007-09-17T23:15:00.000-03:002007-09-17T23:50:32.614-03:00Mice inc.this morning, i found evidence that our family cat found the mouse she lost the night before. we had quite a few guests entertaining our kitty cat last year and from what i hear, there is a lot more mice populating the fields this year. in a store where they used to sell 7 traps a year, they now find them leaving the shelves 7 a week. if that's any indication... Daphne will have plenty to share in the fun.<br /><br />so we're waiting to be aproved for adoption. that could take up to 48 hours. and then hope the cat we felt would have the best personality for our family will still be there.Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-63338163096358910352007-09-10T22:51:00.000-03:002007-09-10T23:07:53.875-03:00Bread Machine is Historya while back, i don't remember if i blogged about this, but i got myself a <a href="http://www.cuisinart.com/catalog/product.php?item_id=483">bread machine</a> that had a gluten free cycle. since that's what we need to eat and we save over $1 a loaf if i make it myself (it tastes better too). <br /><br />for many weeks it did make good breads and i got in a groove of mesuring several loafs at once so on lazy days, i only need to dump a bag and the wet ingredients together and it goes fast. the machine does most of the job and i only need to make 2 quick check up on it. <br /><br />the last 3 loafs turned out differently, they were not as dark... the last one, i even felt it needed to have an extra 10 minutes added at the end and still i think it wasn't quite well baked. so my guess is that the convection fan gave up<br /><br />so i dug for my receit, get my info together to figure out what course of action i would take. and it just happened that there was about 7 days left to the store's exchange/refund policy... i figured i'd exchange it for a new one... would be quicker then sending it to the repair shop. but there was none in stock. they gave me my money back. and that's not that bad either, because if i decide to get an other one... i'll have a new warranty to go with it. i can't complain with that hehe<br /><br />the only thing is now, i got to get used to do it the old fashion way... in the oven. we'll see what catastrophe i mannage to wip up this time hehe <br /><br />then again, if it turns out well enough, i might just save the counter space and forget about the machine. get a few bigger bread pans and use the rest of the money for something elseAnygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-72507396118240929582007-08-29T21:11:00.000-03:002008-12-10T08:39:26.671-04:00The Urge to Paint<div>so now that the kids both have their own room, and Owen's room has been on the primer eversince we moved in. i feel the urge to paint it before it get too cold to be able to ventilate apropriately while getting messy. there's also the entrance that is on the primer and should be painted soon because i dont think it could endure an other wash. even though it would be very nice to be able to paint the whole house, it's really not in the budget. and there's some room that will need some renovation done before going near the paint bucket. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>so i'm trying to find ideas to paint the room in a creative way, not just one solid color. i had a picture in my mind of a girl's bedroom decore idea i saw a while back, it was pink and green. then i saw these things last night...</div><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104293282022799842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglJvRfOSQSz6_OG23ytNP6-9Rdk4l4R8rFrmdmUgL6SRExwL2W9XJAllSxQF1DJQF2j4iyZlmbMpyX2wCUuZF9wnooM5gaMYEEBFXvKXAyHB4dd-X5U7xCc8xtqTL_5AXPgbP0Pw/s320/GirlsRoom.jpg" border="0" /></div><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104293282022799858" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6ncWa3kHEIND0X_F21_KQVCELKCMkBHhTVk1Cv1dkcpLk4XmCao7K83PuEcbmuZI5O3jGBff_eo9vWwsPWC3yQQox5NzvYNp5QHNtG92nfbNAhrOv_TvK0NcIuBoRRT6KCs40tA/s320/RoomDecor.jpg" border="0" /></p><p>and also this sweet artic flower garden toutch you can find <a href="http://www.markgansor.com/childrens-gallery/little-girls-room.htm">here</a></p><p>now, i'm not gonna spend hours trying to find what i have in mind for Owen's because it apear to be even more difficult to find boy's bedroom decore images. but i had a few ideas:</p><p>- the beach/sea, nice blue sky, some clouds, a plain, birds...</p><p>- a night sky with the planets, a rocket, the moon... </p><p>- or, 2 tone blue with <a href="http://www.stellarvision.com/">this</a> kind of effect. maybe some fireflies and wild life/nature accents.</p><p>i like the glow in the dark stars idea so much, i'd put it in every bedrooms, cause i'm sure Vivian would like it too and so would I *grin*</p><p>i just have to figure out how to make the night sky as acurate as possible with all the constelation and what not.</p><p> </p>Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-61754754061359410782007-08-27T23:34:00.000-03:002007-08-28T00:17:19.815-03:00Easy going can only go so fari'me a big fan of co-sleeping, and i enjoyed it very much. in fact, i would still enjoy it if it wasn't for the fact i had to draw the line last night. this time i'll call it a safety issue.<br /><br />I don't have to worry about her falling off the bed, she does fine in her bed or mine. she's mostly gentle and non intrusive sleeping buddy. but what happen before she goes to sleep, while i'm out of the room is a different ball of wax. and she knows when she's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong. because last night after hearing a lot of uncommon noise, hubby decided to go take a look and as he opened the bedroom door, she was rushing to her bed.<br /><br />couldn't find anyting incriminating at the moment, just layed in bed while she fell asleep in hers. then came back down. when came time for me to go to bed. i didn't notice anything while stumbling in the dark to get under the covers. some times later. it was getting a bit brighter. i guess it was around 5-6 am, hubby was getting ready for work, and i came to realise that something was stuck on my tigh... a termometer case? what? hmmm, it should be in the baby care hard case in my drawer... with a safety lock. and the thermometer was, beside the bed on the floor. *sigh* <br /><br />then i found the bottle of Holy Water... finaly empty! again, was stored in a drawer with a safety lock on. and she had gotten her hands on it once before. that's why i say... finaly empty. i was taking my temperature, as i always do in the morning when i picked the Holy Water bottle and showed it to her... she turned around and started crying, even though i had not spoken a word.<br /><br /> and also found a tube of tootpast completely flat in the same drawer as the baby care kit... not suposed to be there? hmmm, did you eat this? a muffled yeah, came out of her. not sure if she really did, how much there would've been originaly in it when she found it(we did not notice any unusual symptoms from her)... but i was not a happy camper. maybe it was a snack form the night she had that smelly poop durring the night(usualy she doesn't poop at night) but i wrote it off as too many goji berries, cause there was a lot of seeds in her poop... to many unsafe behaviors in one session. no child proof devices are safe with her... the ensuite bathroom door in our room has a safety door nob, that she can open, and then she can climb to reach what ever she feel like. although we don't keep much that could seriously harm her in there... facecloth, Q-tips, electric razor, comb, hair elastics...<br /><br />we had started thinking about getting her into her own room for a bit, but figured, we should get a closet organizer first, and with the chelation therapy comming soon, for probably 6 months, it's no time to risk getting pregnant, so co-sleeping with 2 years old daugher was not a rush to terminate really, until last night. i'm kinda sad, because i really enjoyed co-sleeping with her... I love my son dearly but when it comes to co-sleeping, it was only good when he was fast asleep, cause when he'd wake up before me, especialy after he mannaged to sit on his own, i would often have him bash his head straight on my nose as a wake up call. very fidgetty and rough. still to this day, it's nearly impossible to cuddle with him without getting hurt, unless in the lazyboy, that minimized the hurts. no refinement in cuddliness what so ever.<br /><br />now, this is only first night, and it seems to go well so far, but i'm not making myself any illusion. i'm expecting some resistance at one point or an other. hopefully, we'll be able to address it in a way that makes everybody happy.<br /><br />now it's my turn to go to bed and see how i'll adjust to the new arrangement. it's been over 4 years of co-sleeping with the kids, now back with hubby. hopefully, we'll last at last a year heheAnygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-23726348114067424832007-08-24T22:15:00.000-03:002007-08-24T22:26:42.717-03:00Lead HeadOwen and I went for some test to find out about heavy metal toxicity. and the results are in. i was expecting mercury, but lead came instead. it explain a lot of stuff and the good news is, there's chelation therapy to help get rid of a good portion of it. i will try keep up on the blog the progress of our wellbeing through the next 6-9 months. <br /><br />since my msn buddy is gone to NY for the weekend. i think i'll just go find something to do now.<br /><br />by the way, I want to thank you Nancy for your weight lost tip... no carb in the evening might be what i needed... on top of my walk. <br /><br />i'm off to go make some facecloth and <a href="http://www.diapersewing.com/clothpads.htm">cotton pads</a>. look like i'm seriously getting allergic to disposable ones (TMI)Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-16486805636643438632007-07-18T17:19:00.001-03:002008-12-10T08:39:26.837-04:00First time at the beach<div>2 days ago, when i woke up, it was so nice out that i decided I should no longer delay and bring my kids to the beach for the first time in their life... after all, we live in the maritimes, it's almost not normal for them to have never seen the beach. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>They loved it! so much so that, back at home, while eating lunch, Owen was asking to go back. and i know he's not going to give up. he still talk about the broken moose. oh yeah, i just realised that i didn't say anything about that here yet. since Facebook happened to me, i got even more lazy. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>ok, so here's the story... my dear husband hit a moose on his way back home from work over a week ago. he called me to tell me so i knew it couldn't be too bad. that kind of encounter can be fatal. and he wasn't hurt but just mannaged to bring the van home but that's about it because it was not really not in that good of a condition. hubby was trying to talk on the phone to get all the insurances in order but Owen was inssisting he wanted to talk on the phone also. so i took him to see the van. his reaction was that the moose must be repaired... interresting perspective.<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5088636617943496754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoG-igneKXfwc9GOO7t3IWZh327YY7jcxn0BVfpzDa-p3xEfAGGqdY6DA-rP8r7UlauvHs8KXIUQPzX07dZ6ToYTYAe7NAihi4XQN-s4AIhP6G3u5HIr6n8PgjaHmF6_bseDFU7w/s320/P1010023.JPG" border="0" /></div><br /><p>ok, now to the fun stuff. it was so long since i went to the beach myself that i had forgotten how good it feel to walk on the sand. we were so limited in time, because Owen had therapy that afternoon. so we only spent 30 minutes at the beach and i didn't have much time to enjoy it myself because i was too busy taking pictures of their first experience. and that evening i stayed up late to compile it in a video. i wish we could've stayed longer but i realise that anything more and we would've burnt.</p><p></p><br /><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ncT3k1jZDKQ" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed>Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-38788433396487487892007-07-04T18:14:00.000-03:002007-07-04T19:11:43.638-03:00My birthday in historyNancy tagged me...<br /><br /><br />For this meme, you go to Wikipedia and check your birthday - then post 3 events, 2 births, and a holiday. And, of course, tag 5 people<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_18">August 18</a>:<br /><br /><br />events:<br /><ol><li><a title="293 BC" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/293_BC">293 BC</a> - The oldest known Roman temple to <a title="Venus (mythology)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_(mythology)">Venus (mythology)</a> was founded, starting the institution of <a title="Vinalia Rustica" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinalia_Rustica">Vinalia Rustica</a></li><br /><li><a title="1775" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1775">1775</a> - The <a title="Spain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain">Spanish</a> established a presidio (fort) and the town came to be called <a title="Tucson" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson">Tucson</a>, <a title="Arizona" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona">Arizona</a>. </li><br /><li><a title="1868" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1868">1868</a> - <a title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">French</a> <a title="Astronomy" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy">astronomer</a> <a title="Pierre Jules César Janssen" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Jules_César_Janssen">Pierre Jules César Janssen</a> <a title="Discoveries of the chemical elements" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discoveries_of_the_chemical_elements">discovers</a> <a title="Helium" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium">helium</a>. </li><br /><li><a title="1938" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938">1938</a> - The <a title="Thousand Islands Bridge" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_Islands_Bridge">Thousand Islands Bridge</a>, connecting <a title="New York State" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State">New York State</a>, <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a> with <a title="Ontario" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario">Ontario</a>, <a title="Canada" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada">Canada</a> over the <a title="St. Lawrence River" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Lawrence_River">St. Lawrence River</a>, is dedicated by <a title="U.S. President" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._President">U.S. President</a> <a title="Franklin D. Roosevelt" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>. </li><br /><li><a title="1941" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1941">1941</a> - <a title="Adolf Hitler" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> orders a temporary halt to <a title="Nazi Germany" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany">Nazi Germany's</a> systematic <a title="Euthanasia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia">euthanasia</a> of <a title="Mental illness" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_illness">mentally ill</a> and <a title="Disability" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability">handicapped</a> due to protests. </li><br /><li><a title="1969" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969">1969</a> - <a title="Jimi Hendrix" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Hendrix">Jimi Hendrix</a> plays the unofficial last day of <a title="Woodstock" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock">Woodstock</a>. </li><br /><li><a title="2005" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005">2005</a> - <a title="Dennis Rader" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader">Dennis Rader</a> is sentenced to 175 years in prison for the <a title="BTK killer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTK_killer">BTK serial killings</a>. </li><br /><li>2005 - <a title="2005 Java Blackout" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Java_Blackout">Massive power blackout</a> hits the <a title="Indonesia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia">Indonesian</a> island of <a title="Java (island)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(island)">Java</a>, affecting almost 100 million people. </li></ol><br />Births:<br /><ol><li><a title="1587" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1587">1587</a> - <a title="Virginia Dare" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Dare">Virginia Dare</a>, first English child born in North America (d. <a title="1588" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1588">1588</a>) </li><li><a title="1750" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1750">1750</a> - <a title="Antonio Salieri" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Salieri">Antonio Salieri</a>, Italian composer (d. <a title="1825" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1825">1825</a>) (if you saw the Mozart movie, he was the movie narator)</li><li><a title="1992" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992">1992</a> - <a title="Frances Bean Cobain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Bean_Cobain">Frances Bean Cobain</a>, daughter <a title="Kurt Cobain" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Cobain">Kurt Cobain</a> and <a title="Courtney Love" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney_Love">Courtney Love</a> </li></ol><p>celebration:</p><br /><ol><li>saint of the day: August 18 <a href="http://americancatholic.org/Features/SaintOfDay/default.asp?id=1111">St. Jane Frances de Chantal </a>(1562-1641) but according to wiki it's <a title="List of saints" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_saints">Roman Catholic Saints</a> - Saint <a title="Helena of Constantinople" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_of_Constantinople">Helena of Constantinople</a>, and <a title="Saint Alberto Hurtado" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Alberto_Hurtado">Saint Alberto Hurtado</a> </li><br /><li><a title="Australia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia">Australia</a> - <a class="new" title="Long Tan Day" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Long_Tan_Day&action=edit">Long Tan Day</a> (also called Vietnam Veterans' Day) named after the <a title="Battle of Long Tan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Long_Tan">Battle of Long Tan</a> </li><br /><li><a title="Buhe" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buhe">Buhe</a> in the <a title="Ethiopian Orthodox Church" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox_Church">Ethiopian Orthodox Church</a> </li></ol><br />euh, sorry i couldn't help myeslf and went overboard hehe, it was interresting and ...<br />woah, good thing blogger started saving drafts automaticaly... i would've lost everything. for some odd reason, my computer crashed.Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-52827296245349299862007-05-13T21:45:00.000-03:002008-12-10T08:39:27.512-04:00Happy Mother's Day<div>and a special day it was!</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>first, i get to see some animal drag a scarf or something across the driveway, or so i thought hehe. with closer look i realise it's a mother duck with a row of duckling following her</div><br /><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064213500009644146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYYmd2rVNjpYw5jRV426AGvGXeLdypzebMYIRM8cuwG9kAmVXUPTeogUrkubAB4Yh0QZ4fSLClTlG3l62NLWuQ-VuMyrVlIOKX923VsP45SsZnfRnQa1GrI1X1CVT7wbkH-mzEhQ/s320/Duck+family+crop.jpg" border="0" />it was getting quite far by the time i was able to grab the camera, it's not a very clear picture.<br /><div></div><br /><div>then at mass i get a vision while praying, very beautiful... but sorry, no pics. then i got back home and i play a bit with the rubic cube i bought friday for the kids... and i finishe it for the first time in my life, ever... with some instruction mind you but even then when i was a kid we had a cube and an instruction book on how to solve it... a book! and i never mannaged. this one came with one page instruction hehe</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>durring my nap, my dear husband come and get me because he's over his head, trying to get the kids in the house and there's a hummingbird in our kitchen! </div><br /><div></div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064213508599578754" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6vWoe7Mfyuo4rPCa5Hm0nVx9WOtq-VDGCydOyTtf-gUYA-ukhX0L0sSMiD_vyJtKnW8v87P5FueJkRCzhgvaClgEN5ipFRR6y3rrQu26a8gTRVKAZoEfFsqDz9D7AyVLDvIwYKQ/s320/hummingbird+in+window+02.JPG" border="0" /><br /><div></div><br /><div>if that's not special enough that i was able to take an upclose pictur of it... i was even able to toutch it before it flew away. </div><div> </div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5064213521484480658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqShWCdbjye79Sbu_6bDkYMDDe2A6JiQoBHm2xZOPXpXDWBwA3MMszGmDLR_gvKWrwIOxme9EQjnfXzhuccpsUBybkVpcxZdn3teCpU26YFPXrsk6to1wYpgo5M-EDY9F3UDKz8w/s320/Hummingbird+on+net.JPG" border="0" /></div><div> </div><div>what are the odds of one person toutching the fasted bird there is?</div>Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-69938870432949735812007-05-10T23:09:00.000-03:002008-12-10T08:39:29.048-04:00Wildernes Bliss<div><div>Unless you feel like you've swallowed a porkupine. noting too pleasant. i'm so sick of colds. seems Owen catch one everytimes he goes to the center, and then he gives it to us. i'm taking a break. </div><br /><div></div><div>aside from that, we did see a porkupine last week i think. i'm losing track of time. i'm so frazzled. but here's a pic. <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063120705710718994" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvuWmI2A3s6YegRUT7F_Hwqd9ldzE2BiL4PB2dGAthzyNlbJj5S7fgr7tKo1t1UHS6vpt8YGWVc6dwdZnp6qtVxpT7qoTovNnZIQvlUh0vlvnRwmFN2UgkXLFoFX42MXch7iQrvw/s320/Porkupine.jpg" border="0" /></div></div><br /><p>This sunday afternoon, i was gearing for my afternoon nap, when i realised all i was able to do was stare at the ceiling fan and wonder at the beautiful blue sky outside. so i got up and we went for a walk on our trail. not much eventfull, Vivian was tired and couldn't walk straight on the way back so we carried her for part of the way. but i did see a hoof print, and i thought it was a dear track, but my mother thought it was more the size of a moose. now that got me worried about going back on the trail by myself. I was hopping to start walking every day and use our back wood trail but with the prospect of seeing a moose. i opted for the road the next day.</p><br /><p></p><br /><p>on my way back from my walk the second day on the road, i came across one of my dear neybor. we talked for a while and she reassured me not to worry about moose or even bears for the most part. they're usualy shy and will get out of their way to avoid us if we make some noise, like singing hehe</p><br /><p>so the next day i went on the trail again. it was nice but it looks much shorter when walking it without the kids. i didn't see the hoof print again, but i remembered to bring my camera this time and took a few pictures of nature. </p><p>this is what i think is an animal track beside my foot</p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063125284145856546" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3-4rRQo0NCZlrAyRFel3R_UWV4-hlYD78I1rKJpNLMSj8iUPkuHocjQpvjVKHZg_Guil0KIPHd15_ixr12nC2UkzVKJQd0q4gCzrcoVjt3UYWFjJ7rycZXflShvyEb-TirweS5Q/s320/P1010052.JPG" border="0" /></p><p>the river looking upstream</p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063125305620693042" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhrBswhik99rvdYrIJtAIu8b5wwWY86V2u7HXYWHdA_QaGPTLKPF1GZ8bSLV6PCWQcbNKg4zCBlp-QIKlt_WfYc5X70NUZRPh_VAJLwMKYFZ4mp_GxhJ62jNjoffBy0v5U-0OhUg/s320/P1010054.JPG" border="0" /></p><p>the river looking downstream, the tree across is the dandy work of a beaver</p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063125314210627650" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzBHrGf7ngAqQCnGVGQXwSK_xW5w09D9SEDh7N2f0Nhx0SYWFKbIKshvoDOCL6SIYpGU0JMnNdGwSQAD6eb6eR6aRgbi7MQY4L2-qL8c2puJhWnHFEb9ig6CKirH-D-hIsXjC9Qw/s320/P1010055.JPG" border="0" /></p><br /><p>you can see again, the tree across the river, that one was down when we went for our walk on sunday. the one across the path, blocking access to the river was fell since then... busy beaver</p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063125331390496850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9NqzUWi-BD3QQB-oSEsQFk3gJaEbr8XNfoSxO77fvcjmRAHCtnOWcDGcZF1I5yfsHCHega5dqfD0UyIcpokWdrtrCxi1wKloMOyqs0F6dMUbCzZSKOBAqHMMkn7IGGIwIZvGlMQ/s320/P1010059.JPG" border="0" /></p><p>and this is our trail with the river at my back... facing my way home</p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5063125339980431458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm0wGrN12XNV4KHYumfB6wTx_xD5iDkph_P3EgIWTal2ruLOV1zmKzyl_We73Q-HNmPteuweyQsGuxo975AI4Xdzg9e30h-Xtu11R4ByDXMEd1o56PavTGv2FnqlIA_e51joQDMQ/s320/P1010061.JPG" border="0" /></p><p>so i'm planning to walk everyday as much as possible. although, there's also the garden that will require some of my time soon. there's a man that came with his tractor tiller yesterday and started tilling when he realised the soil was too wet, so he'll have to come back a bit later. we hadn't really decided how big to make it, but after putting sticks near the spot where the grape vines and the asparagus were, the man ended up ripping up a patch 20'x50'. i think it will be big enough hehe</p>Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-34773684685031611762007-04-17T21:45:00.000-03:002007-04-17T22:11:52.444-03:00The Winter of SnotAs if we have not seen enough cold and flues this winter, an other one is fierce at claiming that the winter hasn't given up on us yet. Owen started coughing last night and although his temperature doesn't amount to official fever, he's warm to the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">touch</span>. today, he dragged through his ABA with red groggy eyes. it's spring MR. weather man!!! send us some spring weather... some REAL spring weather <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">PLEAAAASE</span>!!!! <br /><br />Yet, <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">I've</span> heard Owen is not the only one to suffer the sneezes. Since we can't get away from it, some peoples decided to make a little <a href="http://www.apoteket.se/orkestern/">orchestra</a> with it. <br /><br />We had planned to start an other round of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">ozonation</span>, this time in the attic, scheduled for tomorrow morning. it was the soonest we could find a convenient time for it... Owen's booked to attend his ABA at the center, i have a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">chiro's</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">appointment</span> and Owen also have to see the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">ortophonist</span>... i hope it's not too <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">demanding</span> for his snot filled head. it will complete the full house <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">ozonation</span>... we have mice and ants in the attic and hope that it will deter them from feeling home. <br /><br />we didn't think much last night about leaving the attic trap open, but we can say today that there are 3 mice fewer up there now. i heard some noise upstairs and Andy went to check and our cat was playing with one and so he <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">cough</span> it in a jar. today, she was guarding my <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">lazy boy</span> as one had made it it's refuge and one didn't survive our mice hunter. we first thought about letting it open again tonight and let Daphne go at them for an other round, but she might still be tired from her last crazy night and kids not letting her sleep through the day. and i also was wondering about the risk of letting them migrate before the "O<span style="font-size:78%;">3</span>" day.<br /><br />we were hoping to keep a live mouse in a trap. we heard that it help <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">attract</span> the others in the trap, but the first one we <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">cough</span> last week, escaped, and today, the other one died. there's the young mouse left but it's the one Daphne injured. don't know if it will affect its longevity. the other problem is that it <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">appear</span> the mouse are escaping the trap... not much of a trap then is it?Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-52971084496848303642007-04-14T21:40:00.000-03:002007-04-14T21:42:13.698-03:00weeee<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="350" align="center" border="0"><tbody><tr><td align="middle" bg style="color:#999999;"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blackfont-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;" ><b>Your Quirk Factor: 45%</b></span></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#cccccc"><center><img height="100" src="http://images.blogthings.com/howquirkyareyouquiz/quirky-3.jpg" width="100" /></center><span style="color:#000000;"><br />You're a pretty quirky person, but you're just normal enough to hide it.<br />Congratulations - you've fooled other people into thinking you're just like them!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div align="center"><a href="http://www.blogthings.com/howquirkyareyouquiz/">How Quirky Are You?</a></div>Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-39662514764938806532007-03-27T22:54:00.000-03:002008-12-10T08:39:29.347-04:00I found a new addictionever fell in love at first bite? this weekend, it happened to me, we went to bulk barn and found a new serie of snackage. decided to try the pumpkin seed one<br /><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046788636835843554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXa0F6mgeAxaPcHnQcaCfPOpj24PNIZwkrK54Nf8JqO0vFBKA-5cYGX6-9Dhepm4GXQo-nI54YtXjIYHMOmhhL-qr379BHexexOoqCV2nqwlcBR9lYTqG-MDiu1-1OEeUyposFZQ/s320/P3250079.JPG" border="0" /><br />it's so good, my hubby had to go buy the 3rd bag of it today. we can't keep em in stock. at least, i'm not the only one who can't get enough of em. i know the kids love them too. then again, if they didn't like them, there would be more for me. ah well, at least, it's full of good nutritional stuff.Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-17786295754931002072007-03-25T20:45:00.000-03:002008-12-10T08:39:29.478-04:00What would you do?if, one day, by accident, you stumbled on a piece of creation that looked strangely like something you did years ago? has that ever hapened to you?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />i'm asking that because it just so happened to me last night. i stumbled on <a href="http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml07/07125.html">this</a> (look at the foot), and it imediately reminded me of some pendent i made over 10 years ago in college, while taking a jewelery making class.<br /><br /><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046015556204239010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxFjFwGxB52tdKCFG2CHZAGZ1PFiwZJqVY_7R7Dxje9uQZNc10-LB7nx-Yt61g7C0JYE7GMpHNrJpMtG5vLgm3s01ZP2w6eHQGXTGfXKuxlkm5sUqUuSeziRkYi2qclW1XWTqPKA/s320/File0090.jpg" border="0" />theirs is cheap and full of lead and mine is sterling silver though. so mine is worth much more then just $1. and i'm not selling it. i've got a hunch my daughter might want to ware it someday</p><p> </p><p>Chantal, standing on one foot</p>Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-3662541779611675852007-03-22T22:11:00.000-03:002007-03-22T23:11:55.881-03:00tag you rit...blog it!Random Questions Share, taken from <a href="http://thescatterbraintina.blogspot.com/index.html">Tina</a>'s blog<br /><br />1. Taken a picture fully naked? nop<br />2. Painted your room? yes, i was the first i knew to paint a bedroom brown, they laughed at me, and now i see brown walls in almost every houses hehe<br />3. Made out with a member of the same sex? Nope<br />4. Drove a car? YES<br />5. Danced in front of your mirror? Yes, although it's been a long time<br />6. Have a crush? yes<br />7. Been dumped?Yep<br />8. Stolen someones heart? I guess so yeah, hope they'll forgive me<br />9. Gotten in a car with people you just met? yeah, more then once<br />10. Been in a fist fight?nop, just karate sparring<br />11. Snuck out of your house? does sneeking in count?<br />12. Had feelings for someone who didn't have them back? yep<br />13. Been arrested? Nope<br />14. Made Out With A Stranger? yep, verry strange<br />15. Left your house without telling your parents? nop<br />16. Had a crush on your neighbour? Nope<br />17. Ditched school to do something more fun? no<br />18. Slept in a bed with a member of the opposite sex? I would hope so....<br />19. Seen someone die? yep, my dad<br />20. Been on a plane? Yes<br />21. Kissed a picture? don't recall<br />22. Slept in until 3? yes, i did work night shifts a few times<br />23. Love someone or miss someone right now? yes<br />24. Laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by? yes<br />25. Made a snow angel? yes<br />26. Played dress up? yes<br />27. Cheated while playing a game? nop<br />28. Been lonely? yes<br />29. Fallen asleep at work/school? Yes<br />30. Yelled at a friend? probably<br />31. Felt an earthquake? yes although at first we thought it was the dog at my friend's appartment that was shaking a leg hehe<br />32. Touched a snake? ick, no, don't want to. i had an iguanna for a while and that's as reptilian as it goes for me<br />33. Ran a red light? no but missed a stop once<br />34. Been suspended from school? nop<br />35. Had detention?no<br />36. Been in a car accident?yep<br />37. Hated the way you look? yep<br />38. Witnessed a crime? not dirrectly, but i saw the crowd gather around the victim<br />39. Pole danced? no thanks<br />40. Been lost? yep<br />41. Been to the opposite side of the country? only in my mother's belly<br />42. Felt like dying? yep<br />43. Done something you told yourself you wouldn't? yeah<br />44. Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? yep<br />45. Caught a snowflake on your tongue? YES<br />45. Sang in the shower? yes, best acoustics in there<br />46. Made out in a park? maybe<br />47. Had a dream that you married someone? a few months ago i dreamed i was gonna marry my hubby... like we weren't married yet, wierd huh?<br />48. Glued your hand to something? nop<br />49. Got your tongue stuck to a pole? nope<br />50. Ever gone to school partially naked? nope<br />51. Been a cheerleader? nope<br />52. Sat on a roof top? dont' remember<br />53. Didn't take a shower for a week? maybe, when i had mono, i think<br />54. Too scared to watch scary movies alone? Don't like them<br />55. Played chicken? nope<br />56. Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on? No<br />58. Been easily amused?small things amuses me<br />59. Mooned and or flashed someone? nop, eu wait, yeah once, is there such a thing as half flash? hehe<br />60. Cheated on a test? no but someone thought i did so i agreed to his allegation saying i was getting my answers from God, i got the strangest look from him hehe<br />61. Forgotten someone's name? all the time.<br />62. Slept naked? yes, but with kids it's better to have PJs<br />63. Gone skinny dipping? yep, once, it was very dark<br />64. Blacked out from drinking? Yup<br />65. Played a prank on someone? sometimes<br />66. Gone to a late night movie? nop<br />67. Made love to anything not human? ewww, nooo<br />68. Failed a class? yes<br />69. Choked on something you're not supposed to eat? no<br />70. Played an instrument for more than 10 hours? No, i don't think i could do anything for that long<br />71. Cheated on a boy/girl friend? no<br />72. Thrown strange objects? define strange<br />73. Felt like killing someone? no<br />74. Felt like running away? yeah<br />75. Have you ever ran away? no, had nowhere to run to :S<br />76. Made a parent cry? yes<br />77. Cried over someone? YES<br />78. Had sex more than 3 times in one day? i don't think so<br />80. Had/Have a dog? no<br />81. Own an instrument? yep, wanna buy a bass guitare? i also have a guitar but i keep that one. wish i could have a violin and i sometime miss my piano<br />82. Been in a band? no<br />83. Drank 25 sodas in a day? no<br />84. Broken a CD? Yes<br />85. Shot a gun? yes, at a pop can<br />86. Had feelings for one of your best/good friends? yep... married himAnygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-13517593479610019052007-03-16T23:36:00.000-03:002007-03-17T00:08:08.597-03:00An other day bite the dustStarting with thursday, ya ya, how about living in the present, right? well, that's what happen when your making other plans. ok, so trusday, got up at 5:30 to get in town for 8am... no wonder i'm so out of touch with time, i'm not made to function this early. but none the less we had to be in town because at 10am we had to be at the optometris for Owen's eye exam, yeah, that one we've been preparing for oh, a month now? and figured it would be more timely to do is work in town before the apointment. and 30 minute before going to the optometrist, i had to put drops in his eyes. ahahah, more like 45 minute before i should've prepared fore, cause it took 15 minutes to put 2 drop in each eyes. and as much as we hated it, we had to do it by force, because, he just wouldn't cooperate at all. never, did i ever had so much trouble putting droplets in one eye. and had to be careful not to poke his eye in the process. that's enough already to ruin all the work we had done to get him to look into the machine. but i brought the secret weapon hehe, the one to break fear.<br /><br />so for sure, we got to the machine, and he was more prudent around it then the last time. he would sit behind it, but wouldn't assume the position to look into it. that's when i take him down from the seat and stand Vivian in his place. she looks, she does it very well. she does it so well, Owen figure, if she can do it, so can i. and we get the mesurement we need for his new eye prescription. now we only need to choose his frame. and pay for them.<br /><br />after that food was in the order. Ponderosa, as usual, it's the easiest place to get something they'll eat. and a girl to go with that? euh, not sure where the girl come from. they sat beside us for a while and the girl started palying peekaboo with Owen and they had a blast. didn't eat much though. isn't that a first sign of love? ah well. hehe, he's still to young to even ask her name so what can you expect.<br /><br />then we went to Sears to pick up my new <a href="http://www.hoover.com/FloorMate/xq/asp.H3030/CatID.19/ProdID.241/ModID.1910/qx/FloorMateSpinScrub500.htm">machine</a>. guess what i've been doing since then. euh, floors. one by one, i'm getting them all done. it's a lot better then being stuck doing the same room for a week. can i tell you my feeling about floors? i hate texture. dirt get stuck in it and it's hard to get it out. next time i get floors redone, i pick smooth surfaces. <br /><br />now i just hope the roads are not too bad tomorrow morning. because i want a chicken!!! the only place i can get them is at the farmer's market on saturday. chicken and other meat products. all med and chemical free. <br /><br />ok now that i'm all cough up with time. i better go do what i should do at this time... bed time<br /><br />Chantal, no time for time or time outAnygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-3466972864224636162007-03-10T21:34:00.000-04:002007-03-10T22:09:32.151-04:00Hey! smell you later!!!We came home today to a thunder fresh smelling house. no more bad smell and if there were critters, they should be gone too. the house was flooded with ozone made up from the oxigen that was occupying the house, so in other words, there was very little oxigene left to breath if any. i'm hoping that it's also the end of colds. i'm sick of runny noses and feeling under the weather. <br /><br />on our way back home, i made a stop at frenchies, not so entusiatic about what i found for me, it's not the greatest, but i found a lot of nice stuff for the kids. i had to make 2-3 round of elimination, because i knew it was gonna be too much for my liking at the cash register. why is it so easy to shop for the kids and so much more difficult to shop for me. i hate shopping for me. on the bright side, i saw a friend i hadn't seen in a long time.<br /><br />on thursday, we took Owen with us to the team meeting so we could take him to the optometrist's office after for an other session of positive enforcement to get confortable with the eye exam mashine. it went pleasingly well, he looked into it and was even able to get a few readings, although he would move at the last minute and we're not totaly sure the mesures are acurate but it's gonna be different with the drops in the eyes next week. so that evening, Owen went to sleep at 10pm, after we stopped at the restorent at 9pm for a late supper. what bugs me is that while we were sitting, eating our meal, a group of young peoples came to sit at the table right next to us and felt it was a dishonor to sit so close to a "2 years old" pfft! why not pick an other table? they even complained about the table, the service and anything they could thing of complaining about. rude! rude! so rude!!!<br /><br />and last weekend hehe, i'm going backward am i? hehe last weekend, i had the blessing to meet father Melvin Doucette. we attended his retreat on the prayer of contemplation. it was verry interresting and he also celebrated a healling mass. maybe i'll try to go see him in P.E.I. with my mom this summer. If only we could have more priest like him.<br /><br />so there's been a lot of "out of routine events" lately for the kids. hope it will not affect the routine too much<br /><br />don't forget to move your clock ahead an hour tonight, if daylight saving time apply to you. <br /><br />so it's later then it really is and i really should go to bed now. dunno how i'll be able to fool my body but i don't like the idea of losing 1 hour tonight :|<br /><br />Chantal, losing timeAnygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-63024470479005236412007-03-01T22:52:00.000-04:002007-03-01T22:58:33.906-04:00Self exploration<embed allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" enableJavaScript="false" src="http://dna.imagini.net/friends/swf/widget.swf" quality="best" bgcolor="#000000" width="340" height="240" name="widget" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="bgcolor=#000000&i1=http://dna.imagini.net/i/RESIZE_-5A36BB17.jpeg&c1=I am the clay in the potters hands. 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width:340px;height:25px;margin-top:0px; border-top:1px solid rgb(150,150,150);background-color:rgb(0,0,0);padding:5px 0 0 0; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:11px;"><a href="http://networking.imagini.blueorange.co.uk/vdna.php?uid=12867-c183&srv=iwebcl5" style="color:rgb(255,255,255)">Read my VisualDNA</a><span style="font-size:10px;color:#cccccc">™</span> <a href="http://dna.imagini.net/friends/" style="color:rgb(255,255,255) ">Get your own VisualDNA™</a></div>Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18368482.post-78049349966738477002007-02-28T21:36:00.000-04:002008-12-10T08:39:30.375-04:00Owen VS Optometristit's been a struggle for over a year now. it's to make us wonder how we got him to look in the machine the first time. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyc-xddfGEAd-PUqadfAAqyho8UNQgLa3J1Y9g3cKf4EvL0hbe1cfzGThn-Efp-kqVqjbw63c_vUBVVr8rFRRbXh_K-RdEk-RpD4GqkSFhKRpEF3CXGtXz6W5qvuJwmXDG5nR7Ow/s1600-h/P2210050.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5036765523280849634" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyc-xddfGEAd-PUqadfAAqyho8UNQgLa3J1Y9g3cKf4EvL0hbe1cfzGThn-Efp-kqVqjbw63c_vUBVVr8rFRRbXh_K-RdEk-RpD4GqkSFhKRpEF3CXGtXz6W5qvuJwmXDG5nR7Ow/s200/P2210050.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>this time around they got a new machine, with a more interresting picture then a plain boring white star</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY2Y1mOzkMfEO-u-F3pWUC07pyH51Kal67ylThRB094UzvF_0UNcy15rU4nZSqtl8TcTmpdNc6OnbNxFJ6q4mUDXYgXPnq18je8VDSSP6iX7Ux_Xa5TtTjZvq3GiVRm3qrC2YpTQ/s1600-h/P2210048.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5036765527575816946" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY2Y1mOzkMfEO-u-F3pWUC07pyH51Kal67ylThRB094UzvF_0UNcy15rU4nZSqtl8TcTmpdNc6OnbNxFJ6q4mUDXYgXPnq18je8VDSSP6iX7Ux_Xa5TtTjZvq3GiVRm3qrC2YpTQ/s200/P2210048.JPG" border="0" /></a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>he got interrested in seeing the image of the farm, but when he got to the machine, again he froze. didn't want to get near it. so i thought, if he sees his little sister look into it, he'll get more curious about it and what to know what he's missing out on.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3JFeP3TlkDVu27qcfBmrT96vKNQiRsaHFB79x9U_X5uaMIrmfnfuPaEvJS-hRKOJ-sondcUUewcw8bN3aZxd8G_7hkMhsVaE7Asd9EZx2cBQ1O4f822a39vJlzupMXU0G8h8dQ/s1600-h/P2210053.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5036765536165751570" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3JFeP3TlkDVu27qcfBmrT96vKNQiRsaHFB79x9U_X5uaMIrmfnfuPaEvJS-hRKOJ-sondcUUewcw8bN3aZxd8G_7hkMhsVaE7Asd9EZx2cBQ1O4f822a39vJlzupMXU0G8h8dQ/s200/P2210053.JPG" border="0" /></a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>just as i thought, it worked, even though he wouldn't trust the machine completely and wouldn't get his chin on the chin rest. it's progress and we're working on it.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuVjXBavxIrONn8qLXzqxv-KfG_JhGMOACu2L_g7v2Fk-dTNS3g9yDir0aPsPdFw4ZxYgTTIeLsKxNsQU1ms8uUF7iqQDSv0NTXokYkWWBQ1das-x5iJGsHTj15AJscsB4FcaaIA/s1600-h/P2210055.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5036765531870784258" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuVjXBavxIrONn8qLXzqxv-KfG_JhGMOACu2L_g7v2Fk-dTNS3g9yDir0aPsPdFw4ZxYgTTIeLsKxNsQU1ms8uUF7iqQDSv0NTXokYkWWBQ1das-x5iJGsHTj15AJscsB4FcaaIA/s200/P2210055.JPG" border="0" /></a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>that was actualy last week, we went again this morning, before his speech therapist's apointment and he did put his chin down, but not very long at a time. the technician felt she could have oportunities to take the mesurements, but each time she adjust the machine to do so, the moving parts and little noise make him suspect something and he moves away. so we plan on going again once more before his actual apointment. hope it works well. or i might have to resort to gravols.</p><p>Chantal, eye eye</p>Anygmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06341368942569684512noreply@blogger.com0