Cell vs Land Line

I went away last weekend. I came back to 25 calls on my phone. Only two were personal. TWO!!! That is 23 unsolicited calls. 23 WHAT THE HECK!!!   We are seriously considering getting rid of our land line and just going with our cells. The price will be comparable, and maybe then my phone will be for my personal use and not for the convenience of all the telemarketers.

Telus says they can assist me by blocking those numbers, but can the block ALL the telemarketers???

Aylish

So, I get this phone call the other day. It's my two year old niece Aylish. She says "Gramma go home". I know what she is talking about. Her grandparents (my brother and his wife) were over from Wales for a three week visit. So I tell Aylish "I know your gramma went home. How are you?" She tells me she is going to Stay and Play. Then she says "You come too?" Awwwww. I guess if gramma can't come, then  Aunt Dianne will have to do.

And yes, I really enjoyed Stay and Play! Thanks for the invite Aylish. Ask again, ok?

School Frustrations

We've moved from an elementary school where the children ALWAYS come first. Now we live in a place where the children seem to be the last thing on the teacher/principle's mind. When did the children's safety EVER not be the MOST important thing. Aside from learning, safety should the NUMBER ONE!!!

A child was hit by a car in a marked crosswalk very close to my house. I will say, it was an unsupervised crosswalk, but then, all the crosswalks by this school are unsupervised. Some of them have children patrolling them, but to me, they are still classified as unsupervised. Since when do adult drivers pay any attention to little children holding stop signs. It just doesn't work that way.

Smarten up and get some supervision. At least on the highway crosswalks!

Reality TV

Oh my gosh! I love, love, love reality TV.

This has got to STOP!!! 15 Years ago I had an incident with 90210 and put my TV away for two years. Do I need a self imposed 'break' from TV?

Now my friends want me to watch:

...that would be at least 12 hours of TV including news. Can I afford 12 hours of TV per week?

The Week My Man Comes Home

My life runs in cycles. Two weeks with my man away, one week with him home, then back to work he goes for two weeks.

The week my man comes home, our whole schedule goes out the window. I've been trying to change that with school starting, but it is just weird. I used to put off making any decisions about the week he was home, just to see how he was feeling and if he wanted to do that particular thing or not. Now I just go ahead with my life, and he just has to fit into it.

I know it isn't the exact way he would want it, but it is very hard to change my life every two weeks. I like the life I've made for myself and James, and I would love to include Ron in it, every day, but alas, that is not how our life is right now. I hope Ron can adjust to our lives and our routine.

Too Old To Quad?

I tipped the quad over and as I was trying to leap free my foot got caught under the back tire. The large bruise at the top is from the tire rim. I am so lucky that nothing broke or I wasn't hurt worse. Some swelling and bruising, but I can live with that.