This week has been busy. And by busy, I mean spent cuddling on the couch 24/7.

How is it today already!? And by today, I mean Thursday.

Will has been 'stuck' in town (oh, gosh darn, hey?! ;) ) due to weather at his home, and I've been sadly showing him my psychotic life... armpit cellulite ... routine of the day while he's been hanging around. And by hanging around, I mean being TOTALLY awesome. And by totally awesome, I mean, HELPING!

Yah, he's a handy boy, that Will. And who doesn't love a hot dude in a tool belt!? He tells me I have to put him to work, so he doesn't get too bored. BORED!!!?? Cuz playing "what's the baby gonna put in her mouth next" games are so NOT boring!

Okay, fair enough--
So he has fixed the broken ottoman. Good thing I owned wood glue! Whoda thunk!?

He has fixed my piano! Not that it sounds any better when I butcher play music on it, so I think I'm gonna be asking for my money back on THAT one! ;) Fixed shcmixed!

He has fixed my rear passenger door on my van. Which, if he did nothing else for me in my entire life, I'd be happy just with that! I have hated having that door broken for SO long, and Mr. Fix It got it to work in just an hour... WHILE babysitting for free entertaining a dayhome kid who is fascinated by tools and cars and all that 'boy' stuff.

He has also built shelves for me in the basement for my food storage that Chris told me he'd build MONTHS ago! Look how pretty!!! During naptime, the two of us set to work on this Shelf-Reliance can holder. We decided that all dating couples should have to put one of these together before getting married! ;) Lucky for us, we got it together without losing an eye getting TOO badly hurt in the process. And by getting hurt, I mean Will scratched his back on the waterheater by accident. I did NOT push him into it have anything to do with that one!

So, now I've got a cleaned food storage area, and I realize how little food I actually HAVE down there in case we all die of swine flu ... I use all my grocery money on Redbulls ... of emergency.


Suffice it to say, dating a handy-dude is kinda fun for me! ;)

I'm actually finding it hard to accept the help. It's just the type of person I am. I mean, really, I've been doing this type of stuff on my own since Chris left the house. But, in all honesty, Chris wasn't that handy, so I've been doing it on my own since we've been married. And by doing it on my own, I mean doing it POORLY just to get by. Like the "shelves" in the garage Will made fun of me for. :( And by shelves, I mean a 1x8 put on a few brackets to hold junk.

I come from a family of women who DO. They are handier than most of their spouses, generations passed down through generations of handy-women who marry incontinents... incompetents non-handy-men.

But apparently I make a good dinner, so at least I've got something to offer back! And by good dinner, I mean I open a can of spagettiOs like no one's business.

Not Me Monday.

It's NOT that time again-- hosted by MckMamma, here's another week's version of NOT ME MONDAY.

So, I was NOT making breakfast for Mimi this morning, when I did NOT see two bags of macadamia nuts on the pantry shelf. I totally am NOT craving White Chocolate Macadamia Nut cookies now! Unfortunately, I do NOT have to go to the grocery store this morning if I'd like to make those, seeing as the stash of white chocolate chunks in my Pantry is so NOT plentiful. As IF I keep that type of stuff in my cupboard! I'm always NOT worried that Paul will all of a sudden show up and raid my food cupboards again, like on the X-weighted TV show! ;)

I am NOT happy about finally attending my own ward yesterday. Seems like, well, a month of Sundays since I had been there, what with holidays, conference, and travelling to temple-city to visit Will.

Will is NOT teaching me soooo much about myself. I do NOT feel a different sense of respect from him than I've felt from any man before. I do NOT enjoy spending HOURS discussing our fears and our futures, reading journal excerpts and do NOT enjoy the growth of our relationship while watching him 'semi' parent my kids, and him watching me. It is NOT odd for me to remember that we're both "dating" each other's children too, and that's just the way it is with single parents. I did NOT get a long email from his ex, after the post that was SOOOO not intended to start as much drama as it did!! It was NOT a nice letter, to which I was grateful for.

I was NOT slightly annoyed with Chris again this weekend. Not because of something he technically 'DID', but.... well. Friday night he did NOT want to come see the kids after work. I do not have a problem with that, and know that my kids do NOT need that time with their father. I did NOT plan my 'movie-date night' with the monkeys like we have done often. I did NOT expect Chris to have better things to do after dinner (although, I did NOT forget that his girlfriend was out of town, so technically, he DIDN'T have anything else to...ahem... do). I was NOT a bit put-out when he did NOT decide to stay through the movie with us. It did NOT make me feel kinda intruded upon seeing as it was MY evening with the kids and my 'thing' with them, but I did NOT keep my mouth shut about it. In those type of moments, I do NOT appreciate that, as another single dad, Will can explain Chris' side a bit, and do NOT understand that my comfort is not more important than my children's need to be near their father as much as possible. And, yes, even Chris' need to be near his children.

I am NOT annoyed with the rabbits in my area who keep eating all my flowers! I did NOT plant over 150 bulbs last fall, and am sure that 140 have been dug up and eaten already. grrr. I am NOT considering killing the mo fos with some serious poison or pellet gun some drastic action against said hoppers. I'm not a fan of bunnies/rabbits/hares to begin with, seeing as I have a permanent scar on my arm from a rabbit bite. It's NOT a big scar that people are always shocked about when I say a bunny did it. I may or may NOT have deserved the bite, as I was 8 years old and did NOT scold the bunny immediately after he was NOT done mating. Word to the wise, post-coital rabbits do NOT need a bit of down time before you get them all angry at you.

I do NOT have a nice quiet week. It is NOT cold and snowing yet again, and I am NOT looking forward to MAY!!!! YAY.

I am NOT going to go make those cookies now. tee hee. I do NOT want to discuss what the scale is saying lately. :)

Six Word Saturday

It's Saturday again. Time to play along with Cate at Show My Face. (see the button on my sidebar)

My six words for today:

I Should Really Be In Nashville!


Yep. Today is the Nashville Country Music Marathon I should have been running in. First marathon I 'committed' to (didn't pay the fees, though). First marathon I trained for. First marathon I ditched. :(

Life happened. I trained for 10 weeks. I was more than 1/2 way done the 18-week program when I "lost it" in January- all those Issues Episodes and asking Chris to leave and.just.everything. It would have been fun and personally rewarding to be running on that marathon road right now, ready and trained and fit. But I had another road to follow, I guess. And it's still bringing me some personal rewards. Where one door closes, another opens.

So, I will keep on running. Literally and figuratively.

Besides. I still don't have my passport! ;)

Last Night's Prayer

After I sang his favourite bedtime song, Bear said his prayers, and got into bed.


Bear: Mom?
Me: Yah, Buddy?
Bear: Does Heavenly Father hear our prayers?
Me: I believe so, yes.
Bear: But how?
Me: (uh...) Well, He's God. He has heavenly powers that we don't understand. We'll understand when we die, but right now, it's not important for us to know HOW he hears us, just that we know He DOES.

*walk to door*

Okay, goodnight hun. Sweet dreams!

*begin to close door*

Bear: Mom?
Me: What is it, bud?
Bear: When ARE we going to die?
Me: I don't know. When Heavenly Father thinks that it's time for us to go back to Heaven, I guess.
Bear: I wish it was now.
Me: *?????? * We still have things to learn on earth before we go back.
Bear: Yah. I want to go back home soon.
Me: *smile* You will someday. But lemme keep you for a little longer, kay? Goodnight sweetie.
Bear: Goodnight Mom.

Where There's a Will

Okay,
It's Thursday. I am sunburnt. yep. TOTALLY sunburnt from Monday afternoon, when I went outside with the kidlets and wrote in my paper journal on the deck. I was out for about an hour, but came in, SUNBURNT!!! Wow.

Then. Today I was up and got to shovel my driveway. Sunburnt. Shovelling snow.

Welcome to Calgary.
Then, the bus didn't come. So, seeing as how there were too many kids for me to safely transport the school-aged ones to school by myself, they have a snow-day. AND, they have the day off tomorrow for parent-teacher interviews, so it's kinda a REALLY long weekend.

On other, non-related news, I am so unbloggified lately as if you didn't notice. Slacker over here is having a hard time finding fodder to share. Not that I don't have THINGS worth blogging about, but it's nothing anyone else really finds that entertaining. That, and I found out recently that Will's exwife-to-be also reads my blog. Um, wierd, but whatever. Apparently she tried to use it as ammunition to hurt him, which only works if she actually thinks that what I write in the blog is the whole story. She's not very friendly to me, but whatever. I wrote her another post the other day-- one similar to the one I wrote for EF, but it was TOTALLY full of 'blue air", and have decided just to keep it in my back pocket for another day. Stay tuned for it, I may just air it eventually. :P Nonetheless, everyone say Hi to Sarah.

But, I will share a few pics he so awesomely sent me to share with "my peeps" here on the blog. From the past weekend. (no, no swimming pool shots-- THANKGOODNESS!!) (My personal fave-- awww)

And, we're taking polls for what Will's last name should be! He and I sat around laughing this morning at funny last names.
Our favourite was "Spank". HAH!

So, seeing as we missed Word Verification Wednesday yesterday because of my Idon'tfeellikebloggingaboutthegaymissionaryinourward attitude (NOT joking about that last part!), let's play What's Will's Last Name?

Tuesday Tunes- Ten Top Tabulated

It's been a long time since I Tuesday Tuned' ya.

So, I'm picking my ten most recently added to my Youtube favourites list. Some of them are better WITH the video, and some I just like to listen to. But, here's a few songs/artists that maybe you haven't heard before, or you have.

The Man Who Can't Be Moved: The Script (Love the song, AND the video)

Like The Sun: RyanDan (suggested by my sista, Kiki. Love this song, video is cheesy. I played this one on repeat for a while.)

All I Need: Jack Wagner (good ol' 80s tune)

I Told You So: Carrie Underwood (saw this on American Idol, and loved it. I had never heard it from Randy Travis before, so I'm glad they played this!)

Good Mornin' Beautiful: Steve Holy (I sing this song a lot. I sometimes wake up my kids to this song, but usually I wake them up to "Good Morning, Good Morning" from Singing In The Rain... they USUALLY love it. Except when they're super tired and annoyed with my goofy dancing! :) Muahaha, yes, when it comes to dancing ridiculously in the kitchen, I definitely got that from my mamma!)

Vulnerable: Secondhand Serenade (Will introduced me to this band, and I have TONNES of their songs on my list now.)

Scorn Not His Simplicity: Sinead O'Connor (this song reminds me of my brother, who was born with Spinabifida. It also was a song that brought me to tears when my father had his aneurysm, and we weren't sure he would pull out of it being much more than a vegetable for a while.)

The Call: Regina Spektor (I found a few songs of hers I liked, but this is the most favourite one. It's from Prince Of Caspian (Narnia) if you recognize it. )

How Can I Be: Nela Otuafi (I just stumbled on this song, but I like it)

Asleep At The Wheel: Bloodhound Gang (for fun. Good driving and running song. And reminds me of my youth. And also reminds me of driving home from Will's place when I'm tired! ;) )


So, there you go. An eclectic collection of songs you may enjoy.

Nope, Not Me Monday!

Today I did NOT wake up tooooo tired from the great last few days. I will NOT catch you up on my absence:

I did NOT enjoy picking up Will from the Airport on Wednesday night, and did NOT love watching his kids' joy in greeting their father. I did NOT love watching his reciprocated happiness and my heart did NOT take a picture in that moment. And I did NOT wish the same thing that he did when he threw a coin in the fountain at the terminal. When I did NOT ask him what he wished, he said I knew already...Some things you just know.

I did NOT then have a busy-ish week, and did NOT LOVE sitting down at the dinner table, all seven kids around us. I did NOT love having a priesthood holder in the home to 'preside' over dinner and delegate prayers, etc. I was NOT raised in a home like that, and Will was NOT either, so it was nice for me to somewhat return to my roots and enjoy a home being run the way I want it to be, entirely.

I did NOT feed 18 people pizza on Friday, stressed with trying to get LL out the door to a Brownie Camp. I did NOT get totally frustrated at the fact that I couldn't find any of her required things on the list, and did NOT nearly have a meltdown in front of all those people! It was close. But no tears. Thankfully.

Chris took the kids to his place, and I did NOT then enjoy a movie with Will and his kids. I did NOT enjoy sleeping in the next morning, as Will's kids were NOT SILENT! (mine are usually pretty good, but I still usually have to wake up to make sure they're not flooding the kitchen or something) Will and I then did NOT take them to the wave pool again. I did NOT think Will's super sexy enjoy myself and did NOT totally tire myself out!

On unrelated notes, I did NOT talk with Will's ex on the phone for the first time, and no, I did NOT freak her out talk very nicely with her.

I did NOT drive with Will's daughter back to L-town *(2 hours away) to drop them off at their mother's, and she and I did NOT have a great heart-to-heart. "Girl talk". It was NOT fun dancing like a goof in the car with her.

I did NOT forget to pull out my camera the ENTIRE week! I will NOT be begging Will for a few pics from his personal camera I can post for ya'll here, perhaps. They will NOT be rated G! ;).

I did NOT wish this week didn't have to end... I did NOT enjoy every moment with Will, and do NOT find myself falling for him more and more each minute. I do NOT think he's great. I do NOT find it funny, however, that my brother and his girlfriend announced their engagement recently, only to have my OTHER sister and her boyfriend announce theirs. They are NOT getting married a week apart (to make things easier for travelling family members) and I have NOT have NUMEROUS people ask if I'm going to complete the trilogy by announcing my OWN engagement. Uh, I will NOT let you know.

I did NOT get a little miffed with Chris about HIS girlfriend staying over at his house while our kids were there. I am NOT a bit perturbed about the fact that he got on my case over the kids meeting Will a few months into dating, but now he's only known HIS girlfriend for a few WEEKS! I did NOT think that was a bit annoying.

And I am NOT totally tired. And will likely NOT go to bed early.