Yesterday was insanely hot, and I was crazy enough to go out and do some errands but luckily  a neighbour was just leaving and going the same way I was, and insisted  on giving me a lift and buying me a coffee.....We had a nice chat in an air conditioned coffee shop.

Then I went on to do my errands and take the bus home, by the time I got home I was SOAKED.

Then most of the night last night it was hard to breath.....But honestly I don't want to complain because the winter and cold Spring was so hard on me that I almost welcome the insane heat.

Today it was still very hot but not as bad as yesterday.....I went out again, but this time I was smart and had a bottle of cold water and a water mister with me......

 

*Here is how to make your own purse/backpack size water mister.*

Take a empty or almost empty body spray bottle, clean it out really good  and fill it with cold water and put it in the freezer for 10 minutes and you are good to go.*

 

The body spray bottle works really well because the spray is very fine, so you get cool without getting soaked.

I tell you it saved my sorry butt today.

Just about 2 hours ago my Mum came by with Tessa's bus pass (for summer school.) and  just as she was leaving I said I was going to get the dog and for a walk to 7 eleven to get an ice cream...She (my Mum) says "Oh I want an ice cream too, hop in and we will go to Mc D's." (She likes the ice cream cones there.) So off we went and I bought her a cone and I had a really good cherry milk shake, I didn't get Tessa anything because, 1. She can't have ice cream and 2. she is staying the night at a friends.

So I have the house to myself AND I don't have to work tomorrow......YAY!

 

 

 

It has been a LONG 2 days around here.....

Wednesday night around 11 pm my puppy Ami started whimpering and when I petted her head she yipped in pain and was restless and listless  at the same time basically just not Ami I ended up staying up all night with her, and in the morning I set up an appointment with a vet.....It was very upsetting to see this normally hyper, playful, cuddly pup in pain and sad...Wanting to play and cuddle but afraid too because it hurt....It was so sad it brought me to tears....I pride myself on being a bit of a hard-ass but when it comes to my animals and the kids I get very emotional when they are hurt and I can't help them. Anyway Ami continued to be all listless, in pain and sad........

That was until my friend April showed up, (Ami's first Mommy.) then she was FINE no pain, happy and playful, I could even pet her head and scratch her ears without her yipping, (almost screaming) in pain. The turn around was/is AMAZING!....It's so nice to see her happy pug smile again, she even went on a multi-dog doggy date...lol! (a neighbour and her friend took their 4 dogs and Ami to the dog park.) Ami had a blast, she LOVES being with other dogs.

I cancelled the vet appointment, I will take her in but not just yet, I will keep and eye on her and take her in when I don't have to borrow money to do so.

 

Then about 3pm I get a phone call from the Mother of the brother and sister asking me to keep her kids over night because she was on her way to the hospital.....Her husband was there and in very bad shape......The forklift he was operating went over an embankment with him in it and his leg was crushed.....But after 5 hours of surgery, a couple of hip to knee rods and six months of recovery and therapy he will be OK.

In the last 72 hours I have had about 6 hours of sleep.

Because if you remember from my previous posts before all this happened I was trying to fix my sleep pattern.....Now I have to keep myself up until about 10 pm tonight, I want a nap but if I take nap I will sleep the day away and start the vicious cycle again. 

I hope eveyone is having a WONDERFUL Friday!  

I am trying to keep myself awake...All I want to do is crawl into bed...But I can't, I have to fix my sleep pattern otherwise I'm not going to be any good to anyone....

I went to the school to pick up the one boy (as I don't get the brothers until tomorrow.) and HE WASN'T THERE! I had a second of pure panic when I couldn't even find his teacher, I went to the office and  secretary told me that his sister had come to get him earlier in the day ........Well GEE thanks for calling me the CARE GIVER of the child!

So I gave the secretary a small piece of my mind because one it's the second to last day of school...And  2 I don't have that much to hand out willy nilly.

Then I came back home and went over and gave the sister hell for being so inconsiderate and thoughtless, she knows full well that unless I'm told otherwise I go and get her brother.....and she just kept saying to me, "I just didn't think to call you."

Well DUH! and I wouldn't have been so ticked off if it wasn't like the 20th time she "Just didn't think."

It really just set my mood to bad for a good hour or so.

I even called the Mother and gave HER crap....Because she has also "forgotten" to call in the past as well.

You know I try my best to always be thoughtful of others, say what I mean and mean what I say....And If I say I'm going to do something or be somewhere I will do my best to be there and get it done, I am only human and sometimes I fail but, for the most part I am VERY considerate of others.

Is it so wrong of me to expect the same consideration?

 

GAWD! I want to go to bed......

I know if I go now I'll wake up at a ridiculous time and I will never break this vicious cycle.

Well I'm going to go for a walk maybe drink a bucket of coffee and try and stay up for a couple of more hours.

Blah Monday.....

I don't like Mondays....

It's not like I really have to work on Mondays I only have the one boy today....It's just that I don't like Mondays.....

I was looking on a bus line web site to find out how much it would cost me to go visit a friend of mine in Washington......

 

(I started this much earlier in the day and I wasn't having such a good day....It was just blah! It did turned around a little later in the day.)

 

Any way... As I was saying , I was looking up the cost of a bus ticket to Washington..The price is reasonable but how I get there is a little messed up I think....You see I live only about 20 or so minutes driving distance from the border crossing, (then it's about a hour to 2 hour drive, depending on traffic to my friends house.) but the only place I can get a bus to where I want to go is downtown Vancouver....Which adds another hour and 20 minutes onto my travel time...Not that I mind really I just think it's a little messed up is all.

 

As my day went on it got a little better then the "blah" it started out being....

I was cleaning and found $20......WOO HOO! I really needed it too! Now I have enough cream and coffee to last until payday....It takes such small things to make me happy...LOL!

 

I took the one boy to the store with me......It still amazes me after all this time what his Mother let's him get away with when he is out in public and that he STILL tries to get away with it when he's with me.....I have very simple rules when we go out :

 

 

Like we always do when I buy lotto tickets Tessa and I start dreaming of what we would do....

And of course we went through all the normal things but, I think Tessa doesn't get the point of the game....LOL! As we are going through what we want and where we will go...She pipes up "What about the boys?"

I asked "What do you mean?"

She says, "Well it's your job to look after them. You wouldn't just leave them would you?"

Well my first reaction was, "HELL YEAH!" because after all it's just a game right?......Then me being me I thought about it seriously......
I really can't just stop looking after these boys, no matter how much I want too some times, not after what happened last time.....It maybe because she can't (or won't or just doesn't know how)  take the time to find or pay for quality care.

Every time I've taken time off, I always hear about what a nightmare it was or how one of the kids got hurt or hit.....It's always something, and never anything good....

What a dream crasher eh?

Normally I work 6 days a week looking after the boys but for the next couple I'm going to be working 7...OY!

It's for a good reason though, the Mother is taking on some extra shifts so she can pay for the boys to go to a day camp in July...She also has to pay for my bus fare so I can pick them up from said day day camp, it's not that far, so it's not that big of a deal...I just know by the end of this Summer I'm going to NEED to fitted for a straight jacket...LOL!

Happy Sunday All!

This is something I found while doing some late night surfing:

 

Went to the Doc's today....Really what a waste, it took me a hour to get there Then I see signs all over the place stating that you only have 10 minutes with the Doctor and the Doctor will address ONLY 2 of your medical concerns, after that if you need more time you need to make another appointment...which by the way will take 2 weeks.....It's sad really, with the shortage of Doctors and the restrictions the government puts on them....makes getting good care almost impossible....

 

On the plus side I did get my meds (before I ran out this time.) and I am going to be referred to an eye doctor to get my really bad wondering eye fixed.....

I had it fixed once before when I was 5 years old, but in the last couple of years it's gotten really bad again...Think "Mad Eye Moody" when I'm really tired.

And it gets really sore after a whole day of trying to keep it straight......(sometimes it scares the younger boy...LOL!)

When the Doc asked what eye....I just looked at him and about a second later he says, "Got it, it's the left one....And we will try and get you in quickly...." You see when I let my eye relax it really moves, I think it even disturbed him or impressed him that I can control it as much as I do...LOL!

So yup, I will be going under the knife again....Don't know when but, I know it will happen.

 

Have a great day or night. 

Tessa wrote this on the picture for Mo, you can't really see it in the album so I thought I would put on here for you to read...

 

Live free...Be who you want to be.

Be unwritten.

Be undefined, stand out in a crowd.

See amazing in the mundane, learn to fly without wings.

Fall without fear, cry when you are sad and smile when you are happy.

 

Listen to loud music.

Tell bad jokes just to get a smile.

Stand back up when you fall.

 

Walk along a rainbow to find a pot of gold.

Listen to old ghost stories around the campfire

and have tea with those ghosts in your closet.

 

Write stories, draw freedom,

be outspoken.

Be a basket case, be unquic, be wild. 

 

 

 

 

Well I've been busy trying to get my house and mind ready for the summer break........It's slow going in both areas....The idea of having a 3 maybe 4 kids all summer is daunting.

But I need the extra money so I will suck it up and do what I have to do to get through it.....I see a bottle of wine or 2 in my future, how about you?...LOL!

 

Today is the last day of school for Tessa until she starts summer school (for one class.), and Sports day for the younger ones. Since their Mother's have to work I'll go and root for them.....Should be fun they are all on different teams so I have to wear 3 different colours, (red, green, and purple...EWWW!)

 

Tessa was showing me her year book, pointing out the teachers she has now and the teachers she will have next year.

Tessa had told me about this one teacher that uses a teddy bear hand puppet in her teaching.......(she is a grade 11 art teacher). Okay when she told me this I thought it was a joke or just a one time thing....That was until I saw her (the teacher's) official picture in the yearbook...There she was with her puppet, his name is Jack and they were wearing matching sweaters!

When I saw this I said to Tessa, "This has to be a joke!"

She said, "No Mum, she even leaves Jack in charge when she has to leave the room." Apparently she (the teacher) talks TO and THROUGH Jack all the time!
I just shook my head and asked "And the Principal is Okay with this?"

Tessa said, "She's nuts, but she's a REALLY good teacher....LOL!"

The grade 12 students even started their end of the year prank early by stealing Jack and going to "Build A Bear" to make a copy, then they mailed parts of the copy back to her.....Mean I know but this woman mourned Jack and replaced him with "Jack Jr." On  Tuesday the grade 12's gave the original Jack back to her....Right before the food fight they started to distract the teachers from the orange smoke bombs being set off on the other side of the school....(yet another end of year prank). Yeah the school was shut down for the rest of the day to be aired out.

 

Later tonight or Sunday (haven't decided yet) Tessa and I are going to see "The Happening."

 

Have a GREAT Friday all

• 4 Dogs
• 4 adults
• 2 teenage girls
• 3 younger kids

(Yes, it got loud in here.)

 

Ami was SO happy to see her other family, she had a blast playing with the other dogs and for the first time since we've had her she didn't get all sad and act bratty when they left. I think she knows this is her real home now.

 

The 8 yr old I look after didn't like all the dogs and noise, because he didn't come and sit with me like he normally does when it gets too crowded in my house I didn't know he was having a problem until I went over to the kids play area to see what they were doing.....Then I saw him sitting in a corner with a big throw pillow held in front of him (like a shield) and his jacket on with the hood up over his head....Aww, poor kid! I got down on the floor with him and asked him if he would like to come sit with me....He said no but he wanted me to make the dogs and people go away, I said that I would have Tessa's Uncle put all the dogs but Ami out in the truck but the people were going to stay a little longer....When the dogs were gone the pillow came down but the jacket with the hood up stayed on, I asked him if he was cold he said no, then when I asked him why he had his jacket on he yelled at me, "I TOLD YOU TO MAKE THE PEOPLE LEAVE TOO!" (I was surprised to say the least.)

My friends said that they would leave, I said "No, finish your coffee."

And I put the boy in time-out, my friend (who is the BIGGEST push-over when it comes to kids.) thought I was being too hard on him because she knows he doesn't do well with strangers or when it gets too loud, (he has some developmental delay issues.) I told her I didn't think I was because none of the people in the house at this time are strangers to him, he knows them all, yes I understood that all the noise got to him and he was more then likely in need of a nap, but that was no excuse for him being rude so when his time out was done I made him apologise to everyone....MAN! was he pissed at me for the rest of the day....LOL! But he wasn't rude again....lol.

 

Tessa is staying over at a friends tonight so I have the house to myself....It's nice and quiet.

I think I'm off to bed to read for awhile.....Have I mentioned lately how much I LOVE my bed? No? Well I LOVE MY BED. :)

 

Nite Nite.  

At the moment......

Everything I have tried to do to day.....FAILED or was WAY harder to do then it should have been.

• Buy dog food- Couldn't get the brand I needed because they were out of stock and they don't know when or if they will be getting more in, because the price of good quality rice is too high due to the price of fuel. had to spend a hour reading labels to get one that had the most similar ingredients to try and avoid doggy diarrhea.

 

• Get to the lab for blood work done- Tessa had to stay at school later then planned and I had all 3 boys, I decided to try and take them with me not easy but should be doable right? WRONG. As soon as the youngest one (he's 8) saw where we were going he freaked out and I couldn't calm him it didn't matter what I said or did he wouldn't go in the building. It took a little work but I figured out what his problem was....Trust me part of it was him being scared but, part of it was him playing it up in the hopes of getting a treat....He gets away with this with his Mother quite often. By the end of this little drama, it was too late to get the blood work done.

 

• Get an appointment with my doctor- I phoned and asked for an appointment time, the receptionist asked if I had seen him before, I said that yes I had but not at this new office...She then says that she has to confirm with him that I am one of his patients and she will call me back, this confuses me but I say OK because I know how messed up our medical system is....Then as 4:30 approaches and I have not received a phone call yet I phone the office. I get the same girl and she is very snotty with me, saying "I didn't promise you I would call today or even tomorrow..." It turned into a very ugly conversation after that. I will bet you that she won't even tell him I called but little does she know that I have a couple of ways to get what I want. One: April is seeing him tomorrow and I have asked her to ask him to give me a call. Two: The results of the blood work I'm getting done WILL go to him and he WILL call me Weather she likes it or not.

 

I have a few minutes before I have to go get all 3 boys, I don't normally get all 3 boys on Mondays and Tuesdays...but extra hours and all that so it's cool.

I went to check on the one boy's older sister who is home with the flu a little while ago....All I can say is OH MY GOD!

Now I am in no position to judge someone on their house keeping skills,(I mean REALLY! Last night my Mother came over and gave me crap about how cluttered my house was....LOL!) but the state of this other house concerns me greatly.

One because the Mother is normally a neat FREAK and two it can't be healthy for the kids.

When I got back from checking on the girl and phoned my Mother to get her opinion on how best to offer help.

I'm really not sure how to do this because I don't want to hurt her feelings but I do want to help her get her house back to the way it was.....Does anyone out there have any ideas?

I'm up WAY too late AGAIN.....I thought I had finally gotten over this insomnia thing......mmmm guess not.

The price of gas is insane!  And it is affecting prices at the grocery store......It's making things VERY tight.....I hate having to rework the budget...I'm not very good at it...I guess I better get good at it because it doesn't look like prices will be going down any time soon.

Happy Tuesday all!

I was up WAY too late, it was 5: 20 am when I finally crawled into bed.......I just couldn't shut my brain off.

I slept for only a couple of hours before I had to get up and let the dog out.....Tessa is up now I think I'm going to go back to bed......

Have a WONDERFUL Sunday!