That's it!

SO I have decided.... it is time for me to end my time on facebook. I'm doing this for a number of reason.

1: I feel like it takes up WAY too much of my time. I'm always on facebook checking everything out. It is the first thing I do when I get up and the last thing I do before I go to bed. I don't think that checking my facebook is more improtant than my family and I want to stop wasting my time.

2: Facebook seems to cause problems, even when not intended to cause problems, like saying something that is taken in the wrong context, and everything is so public (even if you have your privacy settings set to SUPER private).

3: I started facebook having over 350 friends and aquaintences, after Ethan was born I decided I would only have close friends and family, since I didn't want complete strangers on my facebook. I kept running in to all sorts of people i had deleted and people had mentioned that I had deleted them on facebook to friends. It was awkward. Now it seems like what used to be a kind of university aged group that used facebook has changed to a huge span from kids as young as like 9 to seniors. It has all gotten a little much for me, I have to watch what I say, and remember who I have on my friends list.


I love facebook for many reasons, it is an extremely easy and fast way to keep in touch with so many people, it is great way to keep my family updated on our life, uploading photos is so easy, and so much easier than sending photos in email format. And it wonderful to be able to check out and see what everyone eles is doing.

I think from now on i'm going back to my good old hotmail account. It has always treated me well and it will hopefully help me cut back on computer time and allow me to spend more time with my little guy and Kelly!

I'm not going to delete my account, I have so many photos and videos on there and it is an easy way to look at them in order. On my computer all my photos are scattered all over the place. I just don't think i'm going to communicate with anyone via facebook, so everything will be done through hotmail or our telus mail!

Wahoo..... I can do this!

Reality TV breakdown

So as some of you may know i'm kind of a TV junkie. I feel like I watch too much, but I just don't care, it is all good stuff! I have a show for everynight of the week (minus Friday and Saturday).... So I thought I would give you my breakdown about what I think should happen on the reality TV that I watch!

So lets start with Monday: Dancing with the Stars

My favorite is BUSS, he's so cute, but he's not going to win. I don't like Jake (from the Bachelor) you know I feel like he trys to be so cute and humble, but I think he is fake. I have a spot in my heart for Kate Gosslin, I don't know, I just like her. Again, I don't think she is going to win. I think i'm going to say that Evan lysachuck or Nicole S (pussycat Doll) are going to take it. I don't think Pam stands a chance.

Ok so that is Monday(I also watch Two and a Half Men that night too).

Tuesday: Americal Idol and Biggest Loser

Biggest Loser I like the cousins, they work hard! And I really hope that Darius can take it. I like him! SO super glad that Lance and his crazy wife are gone. That lady drove me absolutely mental. I wanted to fight her everytime she was on the TV. For American Idol i'm routing for Crystal Bowersox or Siobhan. I don't think anyone can sing better than those two.

Wednesday: America's Next Top Model (and Cougar Town and Modern Family) --Two hilarious shows! Anyways Amercia's Next Top Model i'm going for Raina. She takes awesome pictures! Anyone eles watch it last night? What the heck was Tyra wearing? Some sick colouredbodysuit? She looked terrible!

Thursday: SURVIVOR (Greys' Anatomy and Private Practice)
So i'mtotally rooting for RUSSEL! He is awesome! Rob bothers me, Hopefully Russell can pull something off for next week! I also like Colby, but he doesn't seem as into it this year!

Usually take Friday and Saturday night off (with the exception of some movies)

SUNDAY: Amazing Race
Go Cowboys Go!!!

Sick and Tierd of being Sick and Tierd!

So it is the strangest thing, When Ethan wakes up he usually is in a good mood for about two hours and then he starts to lose it and all i can think about is getting him into bed for a nap and some ME time. But then he falls asleep for an hour and a half and I find myself missing him, bored and wanting him to wake up.

It is a blizzard again today, which I don't mind at all, just means I can't go for a walk (which is good and bad). I've been completely exhausted and sick lately, not so much that I can't do anything just enough that it puts a small damper on my day! So I guess the weather describes my sickness. If it was sunny out today I would be FORCED to be actaive and sunshiney bright!

On Sunday I went grocery shopping and it ended up being $250 for a week? Doesn't that seem like a HUGE amount for two people and a mini man? How much should weekly groceries cost for a family our size? On the plus side of the expensive groceries, if you spend more than $200 dollars at Superstore you get something for free, so this week was a giant Spiral Ham. So that is nestled nicely in our fridge, it will feed an army, not sure when i'm going to cook that!

I am a Wheel of Fortune junkie, I watch everynight while i'm feeding Ethan to sleep, last night they had a prize of a vacation to the Turks and Caicos, it looked gorgeous and it is different than all of the regular hot spots. So I have decided that Kelly and I will go there for our honeymoon. Unfortunately it can't be for at least a year and half, we need to save. I'm still very exciting. I'm craving a vacation!

Well little buddy is up, fruffling in his crib!

Hissssss

So i've come to the realization that I am not as good as I thought I would be with writing blogs. I thought it would be alot easier to come on everyday and write about my day.... Oh well I will keep trying.

So on the news last week a man in Calgary was cleaning under his TV stand and when he moved the TV stand there was a SNAKE... like a yucky orange poisonous one. It wasn't his, it had been a neighbors and somehow gotten into his place. So that got me thinking, last summer one day Kelly looked out and turned around and said "DON'T Look outside". Not thinking that there was going to be a freaking SNAKE outside I looked and on one of the trees twisted all around a little tree was like a freaking python (well I don't know the exact type) but it was like 7 feet long and like thicker than my upper arm at it its thikest (which is pretty big.. i have muscle arms..hehe). There was a group of people around it just chilling out. WHAT THE HELL? What kind of crazy people are living in my building, or were they just visitors who brought their disgusting pet snake for a visit? SERIOUSLY, who does that? And who has a pet freaking snake.... SICK SICK SICK.

So since that day I've convinced myself that the owners of that hunk of reptile lived in the condo next door and it has always freaked me out that it could get in. It is weird so many people in Alberta have snakes for pets, I don't get it? They aren't cuddles, they are gross little mutants that slither around... I can't wait to get outta this place so my mind will be at peace that there will not be a gross snake attempting to break into my house.


Anyways in other news we went to check out this little town called Wabamun yesterday, it was a teeny tiny little town but quite cute, there is a huge mill of some sort and the train goes RIGHT though town. But it is right on a SWIMMABLE lake... kind of unheard of in this part of Alberta (Granted there was a sign up saying that the lake does get the itch so it is doubtful that I would siwm in there). We took a bunch of pictures and I realized how fun it is to explore all the little places around here. SO we are planning another adventure for next week!

I'm babysitting again today, Serioulsy, my life is so much easier with two little guys, they keep each other occupied for hours, when Ethan is alone he gets so bored and wants me to play with him, I've never had the house so clean as it is when I watch Nolan. I don't leave the house, but they both go down for two naps so I do a workout while they sleep! It snowed quite a bit over night last night,I thought about heading out to the swings this afternoon but that plan has been bamboozled!

I wonder when Ethan will understand the word 'no'. I'm really good at saying it and in my opinion he understands me he is just really good at ignoring me. Life will be so much easier when he gets it, understands it and obeys!

Don't touch the toilet Ethan
Don't pull the cats hair Ethan
Don't hit the TV Ethan
Don't scream Ethan

I could probably go on and on, and there are things that are actaully ok in our house, it seems like i'm saying no a lot for no reason, And i know there are lots of people who don't believe in the word 'no', they believe you should just distract, well sorry i'm not one of those people, 'no' will be used in our house, and 'no' will soon be understood in our house.

So this morning at 6:30 Kelly woke up and put his barefeet in cat puke, disgusting yes, but HILARIOUS... OH YES.... the best part is that this is the second time this has happened to Kelly in the two years we have had Fabian! Pukey way to start the day!

It is a blizzard here, so much for the spring weather but I love the snow so I welcome it! I'm sick again today, I almost thought about chaning my flight form the 2nd of April to today so my mom could watch Ethan and I could sleep, but I can't take Ethan away from Kelly for that long.....

BUDGER!

Well this morning Ethan woke up bright and early, around 6:30 and I just let him fluff around in his crib and he fell back asleep!! YAHOOO... so we eventually woke up for good around 8:30. our new routine is to put a movie on in the morning (not a kids movie, a mommy movie). I have been recording all sorts of movies on our PVR... so this morning we watched "Catch and Release" (which really made me want to go to Boulder Colorado if anyone is every interested in a road trip).

Ethan went back to sleep at ten for TWO hours. Sometime I wonder if I should be worried about how much he sleeps. He goes to sleep at 7 wakes up at 8:30 or nine, heads back for a two hours morning nap and for another afternoon nap for an hour and a half.... He seems fine though and i'm not about to argue with sleep when I hear others talking about their child that doesn't sleep....

So while Ethan slept I made a banana bread (which chocolate chips for nutrition). I got my new Alberta Health card in the mail today (with the name Leslie Jane Rogers displayed on it). So I had to go get it laminated. WELL the copy centre at Staples was darn busy and I chose not to bring the stroller in, so I had Ethan in my arms, sweating (it was really hot in there) and then this grumpy looking lady comes and just STANDS in front of me. I didn't want to cause a ruckus so I didn't say anything, instead I inched closer to her to make my presense known, Ethan also helped me in this mission, screaming in his loudest voice. She knew I was there first, hag... anyways her husband, who was very nice finally realized we were an inche away from them and said "oh were you guys waiting'. ummm YAH think? NO we were just standing here for fun...

Anyways no big deal, sometimes things just really tick me off, So we headed over to Superstore for some pictures and groceries, While we were there I checked out the boy's clothes (of course) and I kind of had a small panic attack (well not to really but it got me thinking). I don't have any summer clothes for Ethan! The weather is getting nicer and all i have is long sleeve shirts and pants. I need to stock his drawers full of shorts, T-shirts and sandals... NOW my mission is to persaude Kelly that i'm going to need a little bit of money for this task!

It is very warm outside, 12 degrees, It is not sunny though, which I am happy about, sometimes the sun pisses me off, it means I have to be HAPPY and SUNsHINEY smiley... BARF, it's sunny every day here, that is a lot to ask!

The Weekend

I didn't make it on here all weekend, not because I was crazy busy, mostly because... ya ok don't really have an excuse. On Saturday I was supposed to teach a spin class at the gym, unfortunately on Saturday I woke up sick again, so I cancelled that. We had another baby birthday. This time Sabriel turned one, it was very cute we had a great time. Ethan has a new sound (more of a screeeeetch) so he was screaming the entire birthday party. Kelly came with us. All of the baby daddy's were there, it was nice for them all to meet and for Kelly to see who I hang out with on a daily basis! Pretty much that was it for Saturday, I fell asleep at 7:00. Kelly stayed up and watch a movie, I was too tierd to do anything!

On Sunday we had another condo showing, so we wooke up and did a major clean. Ethan and I went to Virginia's to pick her up and headed to Once Upon a Child, surprisingly and sadly we didn't get a thing. Virginia did very well though. I will have to try the south side one. Ethan's clothing stock is depleteting quickly! It was a BEAUTIFUL day on Sunday so we went for a big walk and made dinner.

The Celebrity Apprentice was on last night, There was nothing eles on so I watched it, It was good. I'm rooting for Curtis Stone! The women's team was just a little bit too annoying for me. And of course last night was the Amazing Race so I watched that as well. (I am rooting for the cowboys in this one).

Now it is today, Ethan didn't wake up until 9, can't tell you why but i'm not complaining, it is another beautiful day out so we are going to go for a walk in the sunshine and I'm heading to work at four. Another exciting day in the lives of the Quilter/Roger family.

Operation get fit has taken a small slwo down, I just did a home work out in front of HOW to Lose a Guy in 10 Days... I would say fairly successful, food wise though, the chocolate chip cookies and those damn mini eggs are just calling my name every second of every day, trying soo very hard to resist temptation.

I cant WAIT to get back to the island for a visit with my parents, they just got back from Mexico, (SO LUCKY). Two and a half more weeks I guess and Ethan and I will be flying back for Easter, leaving Kelly here to fend for himself!