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10月31日

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

 
 
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
 
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10月30日

Birthday Over...

And I'm beat!.....
 
It was a long day,
Went out for lunch with my friend Rick.
 
There is just no way to recapture your cool after getting the birthday bumps in public at the age of 38......other than to sit back in your seat (gingerly) and pretend it didn't happen!
 
I should have known something that would happen....After all this is the same guy who played catch with me as the ball over a pool table when I was 16....
 
Came home returned a few calls, did some surfing on the net, tore the house apart looking for my keys and then I ran for the bus to make it to my Mother's for dinner and cake.
Dinner was chicken with caesar salad, cake was angel food with whipped cream and fruit, (no candles.)
 
Came back home to my friend April waiting at my door with yet another cake, (this one with candles.)
 
Gifts:
 
Set of canisters with little wooden spoons attached, very cute and look very nice in my kitchen.
 
Two pair of funky socks. I love funky socks! the crazier the better!
 
Vanilla Bath salts.
 
Two vampire romance novels, I'll let you know how they are when I'm done.
 
Well I'm off to bed.
 
Big hugs and thankyou to everyone for your kind comments and birthday wishes!
 
Have a wonderful Monday!
 
Cindy
10月28日

Mothers Trump all.....

All week everyone has been asking me what I want to do for my birthday tomorrow....
And really I had no idea what I wanted to do, I came up with a couple of ideas but no one else wanted to do them......
HEY!
It's my birthday and you asked!
And what's wrong with going to the race track and the pumpkin patch?
OK so none of us have ever placed a bet on a horse in our lives and don't really have the money to throw away, and the pumpkins are rather small this year......
 
SO, I had settled on just staying home and if anyone wanted to come over they were under orders to bring take-out and wine....
 
That was until my Mother called this morning.
I am now under orders to go to her place for dinner and cake.
 
Should be nice.
 
Take care all!
 
~P.S.~
Don't you just love the Whistle at the beginning of this song?...I do it, always makes me smile.... :)
 
10月27日

22 years ago today

I met my best friend April....
It was at my 16th birthday party, another friend brought her. (my birthday is on the 29th, we just had the party on the 27th.)
There was about 25 teenagers in the house...
It was CRAZY!!!
As I remember it I'm surprised that the police weren't called.....I think my Mother warned the neighbours....LOL!
The house was a HUGE mess, and April was one of three people that stayed all night to help me clean up.
We've been friends ever since.
She was there when I had my daughter
She got married in my house, and I was the Maid of Honor.
Just a tip....
Don't ever try and pull a wedding (with a 100 guests) off in 3 hours, it's a nightmare! We did it but I (not the bride) almost passed out during the vows!  
Good thing her Dad was standing behind me and caught me....LOL!
The only reason we had such a short time to get ready was because the plan was to have the wedding at the beach....
Just the Bride and Groom, Best Man and Maid of Honor and ofcoarse the Official.
Great idea right?
Hmmmm, maybe not! 
The wedding date was March 5th....And we live in BC.
April stayed the night at my place, I woke up before she did and looked out the window.
I woke her up by saying:
"Ummm April? I don't think we are going to the beach...."
She asked, "Why?"
I said, "It's snowing."
 
It was a crazy whirlwind, but it all worked out.
The mess was almost as big as my 16th birthday.....I didn't make her stay that night to clean up...New hubby pulled her out the door....LOL!
 
To April
Heres to many more years of friendship!
Cindy
10月26日

Must see's

I don't really have anything to write about these days, since I'm not really working at the moment....
I'm seriously thinking about going back to StarBuck's, I thought about it a couple of months ago but I still had all the kids and sort just put it on the back burner.
 
Now that I don't have any of them, and the one I'm supposed to be on call for hasn't been here in a month...I think I should get something else.
 
When I worked for StarBuck's before I really enjoyed myself, I never really had one day where I didn't want to go to work, I hated the 90 minute bus and skytrain ride but once I was at work I always had a good time.
 
So today I'm going to polish up my resume and fill out an application, and see where it goes from there.
This time I'm going to apply to one closer to home! And only for part time.
 
Now here is my must see list.
 
Criminal Minds
 Numbers
Law & Order (all 3)
CSI (vegas only)
Bones
House
Grey's Anatomy
Ghost Whisper
Medium (if it ever comes back)
Stand Off
Desprate Housewives
Surpernatural
 
Have a great day all!
Cindy
10月25日

Observations...

The odd little things you catch yourself doing.....
 
I'm not going to tell you some of the more whacked out things I do....
You guys already know how much of a Ding Bat I can be...LOL! you don't need to know anymore then that....hehehehehe!
 
I caught myself doing something that made my daughter laugh and made me feel good as well as nostalgic.....
 
Most of the time I call my daughter "Baby girl" or "Dear heart". Because well that's what that is what she is....
 
But today I caught myself calling her "Little One."
 
It made her laugh because she is taller then me, and made me nostalgic because that is what my Father called me, no matter how old I got I was always his "Little One"
 
I haven't heard those words in over 8 years now and I miss them but now it's another sweet memory I can share with my daughter.
 
She was 6 when he passed and her memories of him are fading, and every memory I can remind her of is a treasure.
 
Bye for now.
 
Cindy
10月24日

2:30am ....

And I have no idea why I'm still up, but I have to say the show my cats are putting on for me is quite entertaining!...LOL!
They are doing laps around the house chasing eachother and nipping at eacother's tails.
It's very cute.....Yes Poopster IT IS very cute to us cat lovers!....So there....!
I hope everyones Monday went well, mine was boring and long as it seems to have stretched on into Tuesday.
Take care all!
Cindy
 
7:00 pm
Today I read my horoscope and this is what it said:
 
Scorpio:
Unsafe conditions may exist around the house, dear Scorpio, which may result in accidents if they are not rectified. Some may not be readily apparent, so warn family members to be careful. This is not a good day to do any heavy work around the home, so if you are planning major repairs it might be a good idea to postpone them. This is, however, a good day for planning such repairs, as you can be especially methodical right now.
Hmmm, maybe I should have stayed in bed......LOL!
Have a great night!
Cindy
10月23日

How Old is Grandma

How old is Grandma???


Stay with this -- the answer is at the end. It will blow you away.


One evening a grandson was talking to his grandmother about current events.

The grandson asked his grandmother what she thought about the shootings at schools, the computer age, and just things in general.


The Grandma replied, "Well, let me think a minute,

I was born before:

 

' television

' penicillin

' polio shots

' frozen foods

' Xerox

' contact lenses

' Frisbees and

' the pill


There was no:

' radar

' credit cards

' laser beams or

' ball-point pens

 

Man had not invented:

' pantyhose

<>' air conditioners'

 
dishwashers

' clothes dryers

' and the clothes were hung out to dry in the fresh air and

' man hadn't yet walked on the moon

 

Your Grandfather and I got married first, . . . and then lived together.


Every family had a father and a mother.

Until I was 25, I called every man older than me, "Sir".
And after I turned 25, I still called policemen and every man with a title, "Sir."

We were before gay-rights, computer- dating, dual careers, daycare centers, and group therapy.

Our lives were governed by the Ten Commandments, good judgment, and common sense.

We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions.


Serving your country was a privilege; living in this country was a bigger privilege.

We thought fast food was what people ate during Lent.

Having a meaningful relationship meant getting along with your cousins.

Draft dodgers were people who closed their front doors when the evening breeze started.

Time-sharing meant time the family spent together in the evenings and weekends-not purchasing condominiums.


We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CDs, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings.

We listened to the Big Bands, Jack Benny, and the President's speeches on our radios.

And I don't ever remember any kid blowing his brains out listening to Tommy Dorsey.

If you saw anything with 'Made in Japan ' on it, it was junk.

The term 'making out' referred to how you did on your school exam.

Pizza Hut, McDonald's, and instant coffee were unheard of.

We had 5 &10-cent stores where you could actually buy things for 5 and 10 cents.

Ice-cream cones, phone calls, rides on a streetcar, and a Pepsi were all a nickel.

And if you didn't want to splurge, you could spend your nickel on enough stamps to mail 1 letter and 2 postcards.


You could buy a new Chevy Coupe for $600, . . . but who could afford one?
Too bad, because gas was 11 cents a gallon.

In my day:

' "grass" was mowed,

<>' "coke" was a cold drink,

'
"pot" was something your mother cooked in and

' "rock music" was your grandmother's lullaby.

' "Aids" were helpers in the Principal's office,

" chip" meant a piece of wood,

 "hardware" was found in a hardware store and

"software" wasn't even a word.


A
nd we were the last generation to actually believe that a lady needed a husband to have a baby. No wonder people call us "old and confused" and say there is a generation gap... and how old do you think I am?

I bet you have this old lady in mind...you are in for a shock!


Read on to see -- pretty scary if you think about it and pretty sad at the same time.


This Woman would be only 58 years old!

 

10月22日

The age we live in.

My daughter is spending a lot of time at my Mother's house on the weekends, and even one or two week days because of cadets, Tessa is so into it now she goes 3 times a week she would go more if I let her...LOL!
 
I don't mind really it's a good program for the kids.
 
She looked so cute and serious polishing her boots yesterday, (she did a really good job too!)
 
But the point of this, is that because she is spending so much time away from home I have been doing a lot of parenting over the phone and the Internet!
The surprising thing to me is that she's NOT trying to get away with anything.
 
A lot of kids that are given as much freedom as she is would be slacking off on the homework and trying to skip school.....
 
She's not, if anything she seems to be thriving! Her grades have not dropped she's doing better in school than she did last year in every class, (except Spanish, she just doesn't get it.).
 
I find it strange that this is going on when really not all that long ago (about 5 years) I didn't have a computer in my house.
 
Now if the thing fails I'm lost.....LOL!
 
But then again this maybe working for us because we are both making sure to talk every day.
 
Bye for now.
 
Cindy

Ok it seems....

The me of the waking world and the me of my dreamscape are not on the best of terms.
I have said for the last few months I have been suffering from nightmares when ever I lay down.
I remember some of them but most of the time I just remember the feelings.
Well now it seems I'm getting vocal in my dreams....fighting back maybe?
Tessa has said she's heard me cry in my sleep but nothing too loud, she figures it's because I'm having night pains.
But apparently, I've gotten louder....
I had a interesting visit from my neighbor this morning.
She knocked on my door, she looked a little embarrased and had a hard time saying what she wanted to say...
I invited her in for coffee, after some hemming an hawing she finally spite it out bluntly....
 
Neighbor: "Could you and your boyfriend keep it down?' Poor girl was so red faced.
 
Me: "Huh????, I don't have a boyfriend."
 
Neighbor:" Well I heard some noises last night, someone, (meaning me) crying out and thrashing about."
 
My bed frame is very old and does creak with every movment but I didn't think it was that loud!
 
Me: "Oh I see,I wish I was having that much fun in my bed....LOL!"
 
I don't think she found that as funny as I did.
 
Neighbor: "My older son heard it and was disturbed, so could you keep it down, my son is at an age where he sort of understands what's going on and it bothers him..."
 
Me: (to myself) "My God what she must be thinking!"
 
Me:(to the nieghbor) "Okay not that it's anyone's business but, I don't have a boyfriend, I don't have one night stands or anything else like that. The noises you heard last night were me having a pretty good nightmare."
 
Neighbor: "Oh, I'm sorry..."
 
Now I should feel sorry for her because I know that it was hard for her to come over but GEEZE!
Even though she said sorry I don't think she believed me!
Like I need any more reasons to fear going to sleep!
 
Maybe I should just switch rooms with Tessa.
Yeah I think that would be best, the nieghbors won't hear my nightmares, and I won't hear her kids fighting over what cartoon to watch at 6:30 in the morning.
 (which I have not complained about)
Have a great Sunday all!
 
Cindy
 
10月20日

I got tagged!

By siobhan at first I didn't think I could come up with 50 but once I started it wasn't so hard.
I think I will tag patty, poopster, and Tanya (Sorry the link wouldn't work)
 
1.My daughter's laugh.
2.My daughter's smile
3.A snuggle
4.A hug
5.A kiss
6.Dancing in the rain
7.Dancing on speakers
9.Mini mosh pit with the kids
10.Coffee
11.Real cream
12.Sunflower Seeds
13.Meeting up with old friends
14.Making new friends
15.My blog friends
16.Going to the movies
17.Wrapping up in a blanket fresh out of the dryer
18.Going out for coffee
19.Going to the beach
20.People watching
21.Window shopping with a friend
22.Sneaking back to a store and surprising a friend with what they admired in the window
23.Making a big dinner for friends
24.Watching scary movies in the dark
25.A long soak in a cherry scented bubble bath
26.A good book
27.A good pair of shoes
28.Plaid flannel jammies
29.Pink fuzzy slippers
30.Trolling through antique shops and second hand stores
31.Funky watches
32.Smiling and winking at a hot guy on the street, or grocery store...(then disappearing)
33.The big leafy tree in my back yard
34.When my cat curls up in my lap when I'm trying to type
35.When my daughter snuggles up to watch a movie
36.Laughing until I cry
37.Riding horses
38.Swimming laps until I can't move my arms or legs
39.Good hair days
40.My nieces
41.My nephews
42.Shocking my brother
43.Comments on my space
44.Colouring with or without a kid around
45.Pumpkin Pie
46.Walking in the park
47.Going to sleep to the sound of the rain
48.BC in the fall
49.The smell of my daughters hair
50. And yes my Rick Springfield collection ( Come on! Admit it, around #40 you were thinking I wasn't going to mention it..lol!).
Have fun coming up with yours!
10月19日

Feeling the need for a road trip again

I'm really feeling the need for a road trip.
I used to love it when my Dad would show up at my house and say, "Pack a bag, your coming with me."
I would throw a few things in a bag, and a few more things when I had my daughter...lol! And off we would go.
The drive to Prince George from Surrey should take anywhere from 4 to 6 hours depending on who's driving and how many stops you make.
I really don't know because I don't drive and my dear Father always made the trip last 10 to 12 hours!
We would always take the long way around, stopping in every small town or map dot along the way basically every time we ran out of  "Timbits" doughnut holes for those of you from the US. We must have eaten thousands of those things and never got sick of them.
Too bad I recently lost my taste for them....meh that's another story.
My favorite time of year to road trip is in the fall. I love BC in the fall , it's all red , gold , green and yellow with cool clear nights and the faint homey smell of wood smoke drifting on the air even in the city.
 I would love to just pack a bag and hop in the passenger seat with a decant driver and just go!
 
What else I would like to do is relive one day. Just one day, and the funny thing is I don't want to relive a happy day, I want to relive a pretty bad day, horrible really.
It's not that I have to fix anything I did, I did nothing wrong, or even change what the other person did.
In the grand scheme of things it wasn't that big af a deal....But it did break me for a while.
What I want to change about that day is how I reacted to what happened.
I wish I had the strength I have now, that day.
 
Cindy
 
 

Some People...

You know I really hate having to depend on others....
The person that was picking up Tessa for her cadets is now bitching about doing it, and it's not like I don't pay them, I do.
But apparently it's not enough, but I have a feeling that now matter what I pay they would still bitch....
What really ticked me off is that they said it to Tessa not me.
The only reason I didn't phone and give this person a piece of my mind is that I'm really trying to to not confront people when I'm really angry....I have a habit of letting my mouth run away with me and letting people know just what I think of them..And it can get pretty ugly sometimes, and in this case if I don't remain calm and rational, it will go down hill really fast.
I know for a fact that they watch out for Tessa and all but their ideas about what's best for the kids and my idea's are so very different.
I have written about them before, the children aren't allowed to do anything...
And Tessa is going to get into drugs and all sorts of trouble because I let her go to the mall with her friends.
I feel for the kids really, the girl doesn't have any other friends then Tessa, and even at that Tessa won't go to her place any more because of how the Dad talks to the family.
Everything has to be done his way at the exact second he says it.
He would hate it if I ever happened to come over because I will not let him order Tessa and I around like he does the others.
If he wants something he must ask not order.
Honestly I don't know how the wife puts up with it!
Anyway....
Tessa got her uniform tonight, she looks so good!
I will TRY and get a picture, she doesn't want me to take any but you bet I will when she marches in the Remembrance Day Parade.
Have a great day!
Cindy
10月18日

For my friends to east....

Winter: When the world slumbers, and rests for the renewal of spring . Clean white snow, with snowangels and snowman, warm woolen mittens and hotchocolate by the fire.......... What a load of crap!
Winter: When the world slips and slides on grey slushy muck, red runny noses, soggy woolen mittens with chapped sore hands, and stupid westcoast drivers, most of whom are seeing snow for the first time, or so you would think by the way they are driving....
 
Now fall that is the season for me!
 
Have Fun all!
Cindy
10月17日

Quiet not boring.

Well my day ended up being quiet, I won't say boring.....
 
Tonight though Tessa went to sleep pain free, thankfully!
She said something to me that was sorta sad, (and fits in with Diane's comment as well.)
 
She said "Now I know how you feel everyday...I'm sorry and I will try and help you more."
 
I don't want her to feel like that or that she needs to curtail her life to help make my life easier, that's my job not hers.
Yes I feel pain, I have every day of my life and not that I'm super woman or anything, but I've learned to live with it.
Don't get me wrong I have my days where I don't think I can get out of bed on my own, but on those days I grit my teeth and let out a whimper or two and get out of bed.
 
I'm luckier then most because once I get going I'm more or less OK to go.
Over the last two nights I have tried to teach her some of the coping techniques that I have learned, but like when I tried to teach her to swim,(I taught disabled children how to swim but I couldn't teach her.) she just didn't want to learn from me. So I just focused on giving her whatever comfort I could.
 
Tonight she went to sleep very easily and didn't ask for a pain pill, hopfully she won't come down with a REALLY bad cold like she has in the past after other growth sperts.
I do have to say this is one of the worst she's had in a long time, hopfully she won't have one for a while.
 
Happy Wednesday all!
Cindy
 

Morning

Had to drag Tessa out of bed again this morning, even blarring RS isn't working...LOL!
Can't really blame her though.....
For the second night in a row I had to give her a pain pill for her legs, major growth spert.
The fact she asked for the pills tells you just how much it's hurting her, and nothing we try is helping her.
She seems fine by the morning, just a BEAR to get out of bed.
This morning she has a whole new set of aches and pains because it was her first cadet guard practice.
I'm so glad she has found something she enjoys as much as she does cadets.
Well my day looks boring, if that changes I'll let you know....LOL!
Have a great day!
Cindy
10月16日

Ok so I have something else to say.

My Mother is a cool old bird.
 
Now I know most people would say that everyone loves their Mother....And I do, she is my Mother after all but....
We've never been all that close, I was always and still am a Daddy's girl. So much so that when he died, I said 4 of the meanest words I have ever said in my life to my Mother.
 
So mean in fact that I believe that no matter how good of a person I am or how many good deeds I do I will rot in the deepest part of hell for those words alone. (If my daughter said something like that to me I would curl up and die.)
 
But even before that she always held her self away from me and as time has gone on I've come to understand why a little better.
I think it was/is her way of dealing, when I was young I was in and out of the hospital, back and forth to doctors and all the stressful stuff that goes along with having a child with a disability, as well as having 4 other children and to top it all off she was a single parent.
 
She worked hard, and made some mistakes, but did the best she could with what she had.
But even with all the absolute crap and out right disrespect I put her through, I can still call her up and ask her for help when needed. (Like I just did not a half a hour ago).
 
So yeah My Mum is a cool old bird!
Thanks!
Cindy
 

Happy Monday!

That's all I got today.
that's it, that's all!
Complete blank......So.
 
HAPPY MONDAY!
10月15日

Tis' The Season..

For things to go BUMP (or in this case CRASH!) in the night.
I was sitting here just minding my own business, when all of a sudden the quiet of my house was shattered with the sound of breaking glass!
The sound seemed to be coming from the direction of the bedrooms, now I couldn't even pass this off as Tessa dropping something because she had fallen asleep in the living room.
I thought maybe it had come from outside, but no all the windows are closed, I know this because I closed them all about a hour before..
 
The cats?
No, one is in my lap the other is sleeping with Tessa....
OK now I'm getting a little weirded out.
I pick up my trusty cane and start to take a closer look around the house:
 
(anyone else notice I'm using my cane a lot lately and not necessarily for walking?)
 
The Kitchen:
Nothing is amiss, nothing has fallen from the drying rack, and the clutter is just the way I left it after my midnight fridge raid.
 
The Hallway:
All is well.
 
Bathroom:
Still nothing...
 
Bedrooms:
Here again all is as it should be...
 
I go back to the front hall, to the room I didn't want to check but knew I had too...
 
The Kids T.V. Room:
I hold my cane tight, and open the door and flick on the light quickly....
And nothing! No broken glass.
 
Now the really strange thing about this is it didn't sound like a dropped glass or a rock through a window.
It was more like the sound you hear when too much pressure is applied to a glass surface or if you pour hot water into the wrong kind of glass.
 
But there is no broken glass in this house, I have looked all over!
No cracked mirrors or pictures.....Nothing!
 
It couldn't have come from the nieghbor, the walls are thin but not  THAT thin!
 
And no I have not lost enough of my mind yet to be hearing things.....At least not yet.
I don't know, maybe this is just the start....LOL!
Or just the fact that I sorta half watched/listened too about six horror films today, Tessa had control of the t.v.
 
Well I'm off to try and sleep now.....I wonder what the rest of the night shadows have in store for me.....
It's a good thing I don't scare easily!
Night all!
Cindy
10月14日

This week...

Has been a LAZY one.
I haven't done a thing!
I didn't even work, I didn't get my little guy this week mother was off work early so she didn't need me.
I was going to go to a Cadet general meeting but I had to do a interview for the Co-Op....grrrr I hate being the one doing the interviews!
And what these people must have thought when I walked in late, all pasty faced and holding a massive box of tissues, and yes I wore my fuzzy pink slippers....Hey! I didn't wear my PJs! (thought about it but didn't do it).
Tessa went to a school dance on Thursday, no don't ask me why they held it on a school night I have no clue but she had a great time, she danced so much that she was sore in the morning and I mean SORE her legs hurt so bad.
She tried to stay home but mean Mommy that I am made her do a few stretches and go to school.
And when she got to school one of her teachers made the whole class stand and do 20 minutes of stretches, when she told me this I laughed, she didn't understand why we both said to do stretches when they hurt so bad.
I asked if after the excorsise her legs felt better?
She said, "Well yeah."
I said, "There ya go, when will you young'uns get it? We old people know what we are talking about!" LOL!
I'm not so old that I don't remember dancing on the speakers all night long, and dragging my ass out of bed on rubber legs and going to school or work....Ahhh the good old days! (before arthitis).
 
Okay, now I really know just how much time I have spent in my sick bed this week....
My cats WON'T leave me alone!
I don't let the cats in my room so I guess they missed me..lol! I'm trying to type but it is not easy with these two walking on the key board!
I hope everyones weekend is going good.
Take care.
Cindy