If I'm reading this correctly:

Joss Whedon is directing Wonder Woman? It's like combining pie with ice cream and then adding liberal amounts of more pie and ice cream!

Oh, happy day! Almost as happy as when I found out about Bryan Singer working on Superman Returns!!!

I made stew today! Mmm. I am also very tired.

Ever have one of those dreams where first off, it's in the first-person (being that you are an active participant in the dream, rather than an on-looker) and secondly, when you wake up, you feel even MORE tired? Like you've been busy working the whole time? Yeah. That was me last night.

Part of the dream was really creepy in that a war was called, and I was listening to the radio and I kid you not, I was listening to Adolf Hitler's voice speaking to people, and it was in German but I totally understood it. I could not tell you to save my life now that I am awake what was said, but in the dream it was clear as day.

So my job is going well. The people there are really nice... it's kind of like being on another planet actually because they are all proactive and team-work oriented, and a billion other things that my previous place of employ was not. They actually broke into applause when an announcement was made about a tax bill balancing out perfectly the first audit in... yeah. It's funny.

I work 8:30 to 5 for now, but on the 27th I move on to the help desk end of things, which will change my hours and also change what exactly I'm doing. All I'm really doing now is keying keying keying. Which is fine, it gets me used to some of their terminology as well as gets me understanding the tax aspect of mortgages a little better (holy CRAP do some people have high taxes... seriously!).

This post is sounding boring and I apologise for that.

When I'm not busy saving the world war and filing tax entries, I'm reading whatever I can get my hands on.

Can we say too many projects? Yes. Yes we can.

New job is awesome. I'm learning a lot and am just exhausted at the end of the day but I love it so far! Everyone is hella nice. Can't wait until I get to regular duties though as typing out tax info may just make me go blind... hah!

God bless Gawker. Hilarious photo-blogging on the Oprah show.

The best bit is the comment under the photo fo Nan Talese..

Guess who got a job?!?!

So I signed up for bowling. Initially I was hoping it would be for Mondays but unfortunately it filled up fast, and since I signed up late, I got stuck on Wednesdays. I do know some people playing though so that's good. The sucky part is it sort of conflicts with C's Brownies night, but SO said he'd pick her up if I dropped her off, so it's all good.

Hammer was nice enough to drop C off last night, since her daughter Z is also in Brownies and SO wasn't feeling so well. He seriously needs sleep and he isn't feeling well so it's bringing on some insomnia. Poor boy.

I was a total slacker last night for supper too and just made some re-heated schnitzel & rice but the kids didn't care so it was all good. And SO is just glad to be fed most of the time he doesn't complain, haha.

Tonight it will be chicken balls, egg rolls, and pineapple rice.

Now to fold laundry. One of my top 5 of hated household chores.

Huh. Well, there you have it. A new party in charge in over a decade. I felt like calling Hell to see if it had frozen over yet... and look at that voter turnout! Twice the reason to call!

(Screen capture from Elections Canada website... http://www.elections.ca)

I have a job interview Monday... eeeeeeeeee I'm nervous! It's at the bank where my mom works, she gave them my resume and they were all "if she has even half the work ethic you do she's hired" and hooray! Because I totally do (which is clear if you've kept up with my journal over the years or if you've known me long, but may be news to some of you newlings).

It's working the mortgage help desk, which is fine because I worked there as a student lo years ago when the bank was under a different name. The lady called me last night to set it up... unfortunately I didn't get the message until this morning, but she wanted me to call her first thing Monday to set it up...

The hours are PERFECT too, 10 am to 3 pm so I can drop the kids off in the morning and pick them up in the afternoon! Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy

hopehopehopehopehope

There are days where nothing pleases me more than good conversation with an old friend. Today was one of those days, and I was blessed.

Not that there was anything wrong with the previous site design; I wanted to change things around a bit. I feel better when I am creating something which explains why I have so many dang projects on the go. That's me in the background picture. Yup. I'm so vain. And the song probably is about me. (haw haw)

C is sick; she has a pretty nasty cough and a bit of a fever but that didn't stop her from pestering the kitten most of the afternoon. K is just getting over something so it figures. My throat feels scratchy but is also sore from the tooth extraction.

Today my little corner of the world was covered in ice. It was beautiful but also a pain in the arse as I had errands to run and clearly didn't get around to half of them. It took me ages to scrape all the ice off the car because we need a new scraper. Put that on the list of things.

I feel zonked but it's probably from broken sleep due to caring for the kids. Hopefully I'll get some real rest soon.

Criminals sure are getting sloppy...

So the tooth? Extracted just this morning. The dentist abashed agreed that it was probably his doing that it had to be removed in the first place. A messed up filling killed the nerve. *sigh*

It's a molar and you can't even tell when I smile that it's gone, so that's good but now... owies. The freezing didn't hurt, the pulling was very weird but nothing I wasn't used to, having had 4 impacted wisdom teeth extracted in a similar manner (I had them done 4 weeks in a row, 1 per week instead of going under and having it done all at once).

Thank goodness for Motrin.

I spent an hour with C tonight holding her while she cried. She is terribly lonely and upset and says she spends more recess time by herself than playing with anyone. Most of the girls in her grade are paired off with someone. Adding insult to injury is the fact that most of the girls in her class are ones she's had little exposure to; the ones she knows better are all in the straight grade 2 class. For whatever messed up reason, the classes seem to segregate even on the outside and while sometimes she does play with her friends from last year, they more or less have their own agendas. The one girl K that she was starting to spend more time with was apparently whisked away by the ("really bossy mom, I mean I know I can be bossy but I've been so good but this girl is MEAN") girl Em and I don't know. ("Mommy, why doesn't anybody like me? Why?") What do I know? How do I repair a seven year old's self esteem?

She kept saying over and over that "All I really want is just one really good friend, mom, I don't need an army, just one. Just one." And she cried oh she cried and I cried too between trying to encourage her to just "ask others to play" ("But I do that mom, and they just ignore me! They just walk away and ignore me!") I don' t know if I'm getting the whole of it but I don't think she'd lie about the fact that she's spending her recess time alone.I have tried to teach her to be more assertive but I know her and if she says she's tried, she has tried so now what?

(And maybe, just maybe, I feel for her because I remember being little and lonely too. And that never goes away does it? It took me years to learn to be strong and to say "to hell with it" when nobody wanted me around, and I learned that my own company often was better than that of anyone else, but I will be damned if I just stand by and let her feel that way, so what do I do? Here is a girl who is cutting my heart out with her words and I don't know how to make it better. Here is a girl trusting me to somehow make it better, and I feel completely and utterly useless.)

OH MY! I WANT!

There are way too many to choose from, but I love the devil ducks best I think.