there's a strange man in my house!

and he isn't stressy! or cranky! oh, that's cuz he just wrote his national red seal in plumbing. 4 years of school/apprenticeship all done. 3 weeks til we find out if he is a master journeyman plumber & gas fitter. obviously he passed, he's very proud of himself, as am i.

what a relief! no more school! or is there... UFV sent me a letter yesterday. "please attend the following information session for your LPN to BSN access program." SUGARSTICKS! i thought i had bona-fide decided NOT to go anymore, to be happy with the way things were, but now that i have this letter...OY! possible student again come september??? will keep you posted. thoughts? pro's & con's please.

jaimie is moving away, will miss my SIL. rosie has captured our hearts. roy & rosie are becoming fast friends. spring break is upon us...hope to do some lovely things with the boys...movies, bowling, lunching, baking and i also want to go to that place in van where you make & bake & take ceramics.

tlc baked today. fun fishy cupcakes. not fishy flavour...no no no, fishy decorated. see TLC for pics.

love, ROCKETGIRL, with Plumber for hire!

cutie-pie haylie

love, ROCKETGIRL xo

list of rather immediate wants

1. a vacation. warm & sandy, windy & sandy, not fussy.
2. the renos to be completed. i will even settle for re-started.
3. this AMAZING weather to continue.
4. peace in my head :)
5. the source yogurt commercial to go away.
6. a super duper fun weekend
a) 2nd wedding anniv.
b) steve is done school!
7. a shift tonight or tomorrow (to fund the list)
8. pedi/mani/massage/new hair
9. a new book. suggestions?
10. more cowbell! um, i mean coffee.


much love, ROCKETGIRL

2305 & all's well

good evening. & welcome to monsterpiece theatre.

anyone? anyone?

alrighty then.

where are we all at? what has been going on & what is noteworthy?
me, well, it's now 2306h and all is still well.
there's really something to be said for silence.
it was a long day. mentally draining. advocating queen. c'st moi.
nice little visit with our friends, singing to the iphone and now....
SILENCE! the kids are asleep, the furbabies...asleep
the husband,snoring...asleep!
me & my laptop, seeing the world.

one night shift tomorrow night. i just cannot believe that it is nearing the end of february. i'm having a bit of a personal struggle...i worry too much....end of story.
i successfully finished a 2 day cleanse. i can't even imagine doing it for longer. tomorrow i get to eat though. like EAT. well ok, maybe eat. but it's far more exciting than the leafy greens i have been eating for the past 48 hours. may 1st i hope to be halfway.

nighty night to you all. remember. life is too short. make sure you have an advance directive, forgive your "enemies" YOUR life is what YOU make it.

put THAT in your pipe & smoke it. (smoking is bad. just saying)


love,at 2312h,

ROCKETGIRL

i need ONE MORE DAY OFF!!!!Puhleeeeeeeaseeee??????

love, ROCKETGIRL xo

brickabrack

~ the 2010 winter olympics has begun. sorrow, grief, controversy,
goodness, GOLD!

~ i try so hard to never trash my ex. and i never ever do it in
front of the boys, but WHAT A DOUCHE. TOTAL LOSER DOUCHEBAG. indulge me.

~ it's valentine's day today...same as any other day really.

~ tomorrow is the anniversary of our 1st awkward date 6 years ago. i think. or 7.

~ tuesday is mason's 9th birthday. how utterly sad. my baby.

~ my throat is sore. if i get jaimie's bronchitis i will go postal.

~ i just ate a double cheeseburger, small fries & quinn's butterscotch pudding. those who know me well...well, thank you quinn.

~ don't judge me on the burger bit, it's not like i could open the Szechuan KD. (smooches RK), it's more of a conversation piece.


love, ROCKETGIRL

wishy washy me

ok. so i had a brilliant find yesterday. i found it in the furniture section on the kijiji online website here in abby. it was being used as bedroom furniture, which is what we would use if for...a lowboy. it's super big & heavy and i need to get a better look at it now that it's home, but i can't! it's just so heavy! i don't know that i love it the way i love the waterfall dresser...i guess i'm concerned that it looks too much like a dining room piece. it's well made, solid heavy wood...did i mention heavy???? if i keep it, it will need to be the first piece i do...then i only need a lovely old large wooden mirror to either attach or go above it...and a storage foot bench ottoman thing...to refinish also. so, you ask, what makes this find so brilliant if you don't love it? the price. it was free. take a look at the pics i did manage to get and tell me what you think...







love, ROCKETGIRL

"i guess we're dog people"

...according to Mason.

Rosie is lovely. she is so chubby & funny. sharp little baby teeth, raspy little baby bark, which i think we have heard no more than 5 times. oh does it make me giggle. she is doing wonderfully with her crate training. she goes in at night, whines to pee...runs straight to the paper, then goes back in her crate. YESSSSS! take that Roy!

busy week ahead...not with work...thankfully. hoping the weather stays comme ci comme ca so i can start on my end tables.



love, ROCKETGIRL

words to live by

my dad has a few favourite phrases;

for instance' "don't let your meat loaf" is his signature farewell
his most repeated is "don't shit the small stuff"

my dear gf has brought that to my attention lately and it made me think just how right she and of course my father are. life is too short to shit the small stuff.
i'm going to try and keep that forefront in my thoughts right now...it's so true

having said that....our new doggy, does not shit small. is this one of those small stuff things??????

be kind today, think before you speak, love what you have.

love, ROCKETGIRL xo

names that begin with R

needing your help...we quite possibly maybe potentially might be getting a new puppy today...same style as Roy, but different colour, and a girl. will keep you posted, it's a good week to get a new puppy as i only work 1.5 shifts and can be home to train...we shall see. in the meantime...needing cute names that start with "R" to complement little Roy's name...

love, ROCKETGIRL xo

"she can't really afford that much"

happy weekend to you all. i just gotta say. working one day, then one day off, i could get used to that. the problem that i have been facing lately is that i don't feel happy going to work lately. uh-oh....i didn't want to feel this way about nursing. whatev. i guess this will pass.

many moons ago, when Mason was in utero, i refinished him a beautiful old change table. it was what i thought could be a lovely hobby...that never panned out. not the right time, blah blah blah. it's always been a wish of mine to have lovely lovely period pieces, refinished to my liking, done by my own hands....so i bought these



look at these cutey pie end tables that i got at the local thrift shop! 9 bucks! that's right!



i'm gonna sand them all down with rocketboy's new palm sander and paint/distress them a lovely brown, add some lovely retro knobs for the drawers et voila! new side tables for our bedroom!

and then there's this.....la piece de resistance! so far....



how gorg is that lovely highboy! best part is, hubby loves it! phew! so it will get the same treatment...sanding, priming, painting. i just need a lowboy, a mirror, a long bench and then i am home-making a headboard....just wait! see, i hate all the bedroom suites of today, and for an ungodly amount of money...cost effective, unique & gorgeous....that's what i want.

love, ROCKETGIRL xo

angst. if that's how you spell it...

so far so good. this set, dare i say, has been really good. two nights to go. don't groan, don't feel sorry for me. i cannot wait to do two nights back to back. been a while....i miss day sleeping, it's true.

weekend update; the spaghetti lobster was a total & utter hit! he said he was shocked i actually made it, as in took his request seriously. he said i needed to cook it for his father, which is the ultimate compliment, as my dear FIL is the best seafood cook i know. i made a peach cobbler type dessert from bakerella's website for dessert. there was a brief moment of panic when steve inadvertently came into the kitchen and saw the amount of butter i was using...he got over it, and ate it, and loved it.

i learned some new nursing terms this week and have thusly woven them cleverly into my charting. obtund & natal cleft. feel free to use them in your charting. go ahead. on a side note, i bumped into my old manager today who said, "i really miss you" ha!

i have utter fear & panic growing in me tonight. i heard some very distressing news on the weekend about a classmate of q's & more disturbing news today about one of his friends. i feel like i will never be able to protect him & safeguard him. i am so afraid and fearful for him in these formative years. i feel like it's august again....all those panic attacks about middle school.

my best friend, it's his birthday today. i love him with all my heart & soul. he gives me far more than i could ever give him. he does more for the boys & i then i could ever hope to repay him for. does that make sense? sure it does. i love you my steven.

love, ROCKETGIRL xo