What Now?

So I kinda figured out how to do this thing! lol....I made it somewhat pretty! I developed a weird obsession for pink and black back in high school (thanks Jess) and when I saw that design I had to have it. My problem now is a name?? I can't be the newbie page for the rest of my life. Hopefully over the next few days I will have this down and be a blogging pro. -this is where you nice people are supposed to leave a comment on a good name for me and where/how to get a cute header to match the new pink and black Victorian thing I have going on here!!-



What is with the no bagging, no bags, need a quarter to get a cart, grocery stores these days? As I mentioned, we have just moved to the sticks, aka Elmira, ON, and there are only 2 grocery stores here. One is a foodland which is like a Sobeys and then a NoFrills. NoFrills is the target of my attack right now. I understand that by not having to pay extra staff members that would be bagging your groceries or rounding up all the carts at the end of the day allows them to give you better deals on your groceries but have you ever tried to go to those kind of stores with more than one child. Or just one child for that matter. Here's my experience today...
First off, as we pull into the parking lot we realize we have no quarter, which you need in order to 'borrow' a shopping cart. The thought of having to do a load of groceries with two children and no cart begins to make me panic. So after a 10 minute search the car for fallen change mission, we find a quarter!!!! Tah-Dah!!!!! In the store we go. (I should mention that I was not by myself but I think most women can relate to how much men like shopping no matter what its for.) So we rush in the store in fear of being attacked by the massive bee swarm that has collected in front of the store, only to find that the bees have made a nice new home in the bin of apples at the front door. Thank God no one was stung, that could have been disastrous! The trip continues with a few trips to the bathroom, a freak out over 'big juice' (powerade...my son, Goober (PS not his real name), has developed a weird obsession with this stuff), a freak out over some nesquick (this one by my hunny, over nesquick...seriously) and then the check-out. Oh-My-God!!! My daughter, who is 7months old, begins to scream in hunger (it was right around lunch time so her freak out was understandable). Daddy left with her to the car, leaving me and the 2 and a half year old to unload the cart, pay, pack our own groceries in boxes or whatever you can find lying around there and get the heck out. The nice lady offers Goober a sticker seeing my frustration already because he can't help but climb up the side of the roller thing, play with the register beside us (they honestly need to put a half door or something up there, ya know where I mean???) so he takes the spider man sticker and throws the rest back at her...oh, he did say thanks!! good for him! We pay and the groceries are waiting on the other end for us. But of course they have to put 2 separate roller things (why can't I remember what those things are called?!?) at the other end and only enough room for one anorexic person to fit. No way are you going to get to 2 ladies with their borrowed carts and boxes and kids and groceries and, AND!!!!! !! GRRR! As if that isn't enough Goober proceeds to try and pull at a little girl minding her own business at the next register. When she finally leaves almost in tears he moves on to the boy on the other side of us who is on top of the roller thing (someone please help me!). GREAT!!!
When he finally came within arms reach, remember I'm trying to pack groceries into a damn dog food box, he got put in between the cart (which is in everyone's way) and the end of the roller thing. You'd think this was the end. No. He then takes it upon himself to push the buttons that bring the groceries towards you...ya know that thing that always squishes the bread. Of course he couldn't just ruin our bread he had to do it to the other lady beside us. Then...WE LEFT!!!! But on the way out he had to get one last kick in there and he ran into like 5 people trying to get to the free paper box so he could grab about 50 of them and...yup, you guessed it...THROW!!!!!
After a few swear words and a very fast dash to the car, which almost ran us over cause daddy was trying to meet us at the front so it would be easier, but, I was on a mission and wasn't stopping till I was as far away from the store as possible. Shove the groceries in the trunk that is already to full with strollers and bumbos and crap, take the borrowed 25cent cart back to the store to get my GD quarter back and go the eff home.
Now other than accept the fact that I have a 2 year old that probably...no, isn't going to behave all the time, I decided to blame it on the store for not having bags and charging me to borrow the cart. I feel better!!!
Conclusions....Ladies, ALWAYS go shopping by yourself to a store that will give you a cart FREE OF CHARGE, give you the BAGs to bag your groceries and also put the groceries in said bag and into your cart. They have nice little docking stations to put the cart back in that are practically beside your car and when you get home...put the bags under your sink and use them as garbage bags!!! YES!!! Problems solved!

What a LOSER!!!!

So I've determined that the 18 visitors, people that love me, that have visited my page is probably just me checking back a ridiculous amount of times to see if anyone has read my page.
How are you supposed to get people to read this stuff?? Have something interesting to talk about? Do something exciting and tell everyone about it? I can't help it if I'm a boring stay at home Mom that doesn't do very much. I guess I'll write this new post and see what happens from there.
This weekend my family and I celebrated the 50th wedding anniversary of my Grandparents. The same grandma that loves to take me and my 2 children shopping all the time! We went to the Keg for supper and that was AWESOME!! I can't help it but when someone places a big bloody piece of meet in front of me, I go crazy!!! So that was fun.
My family is all about car racing. My Uncle raced. His sons both race. One son races a stock car, and the other go carts. My dad has always been involved with them too as my uncle is 20 years his senior. So this weekend was the last race of the year, the big Oktoberfest Weekend at Flamboro Speedway. The plan was to go and have a huge group of people. Some of my friends some of my boyfriends family and my dads family. As many of you know, things don't always go as planned and my dad ended up going and racing my his self. I feel so bad and I hope everything went okay for him.
So my plan right now is to post my blog-site (if that's what its called) on as many facebook groups as I can and see if anyone will read/comment. I know I'm a loser but I need some sort of excitement in my life!!!! I wish someone will leave me the most awesome-est comment and I will be able to roll with that!!!!!
Chat later!!!!
xo

Newbie!!!

So because all I do all day is surf the web and read other peoples blogs and wish it was me with the witty comments and sarcasticness (if thats even a word?$), I've finally decided to activate this blog and let you all indulge in the life that is mine. So I'll give you all a little background/overview of my life and then get to chatting!!
I am a 20 year old mother of 2 children. My son, lets call him Goober for his sake, is 2 and a half. He will be 3 in December and I've spent the last year dreading the fact that in September of next year he will start Junior Kindergarten. I think he is the smartest 2 year old on the planet and I've convinced myself that him and my daughter should take over the Children's Place add campaign.
My daughter is 6 months old and we're going to call her Princess, God knows that's what she is! I think she is the smartest 6 month old on the planet. Those two children light up my life and my world basically revolves around them and my addiction to TV and the internet! You'll find out more about that later!
My wonderful fiance, Rob, is the final piece that completes my everyday life. We've recently, like last weekend, moved out to Elmira. For those of you who don't know, Elmira is the size of a peanut and consists of a Tim Hortan's, McDonald's, No Frills, Shoppers Drug Mart (the old little kind), and that's it!! Horse and buggy's have their own parking garage at the grocery store and the smell of horse manure periodically leaks into my house! How Nice!
I am a blog virgin. So I don't really know what I'm doing or supposed to write about or if I'm 'allowed' to swear or what the etiquette is of blogging. Feel free to let me know! I figure since this is my first blog I will just spew out as much about myself as I can in hopes of getting some insightful comments and have something to write about tomorrow.
I am writing this blog in the commercial breaks of 'The Hills' because I am an avid fan of the hills and God forbid I miss the one night that 2 brand new episodes air back to back! My plans for the week on when I visit or go shopping all revolve around my reality show lineup. Tonight we visited Rob at work (he works night shift) on his 5 o'clock break, to be sure that we were home in time to make supper and have everyone off to bed in time for the hills to start. Now, not all plans can work out perfectly and today is no exception. We were at his work a 5pm so we had to miss the Y&R. That is not too much of a big deal because I can catch the one and only re-run tomorrow at noon or like any good soap opera I could tune in again next week and know exactly whats going on. Tomorrow is a sit-at-home-all-night night and big Brother 10 will be on! Right after Big Bro, 90210 will make its second week on air. As much as I looked forward to the season premier of it last week, I was disappointed, as I think many people were. I discovered the problem is that everyone wants it to be 1990 90210 and its just simply not. No one has pale skin anymore and goes to school in flats or running shoes. Its all dressed up and glamorized, but so is 2008. I have to keep that in mind when watching tomorrow. It is 2008 and as much as I wish it was 1993 and everyone at west Beverly high was wearing a neon scrunchy...they wont be. Boo!
On Wednesday we are having a 'play-date' (PS I hate that word.) but thankfully, kids play and we, the mothers, still get to watch Americas Next Top Model. That's another one that I was disappointed with the premier. They are trying to make it into a 'show' with plots and scripts and excitement...its a REALITY show...gimmie the pretty girls taking pictures and that's it. It was very cheesy in my opinion. Thursday we will shop in the morning with my sons favorite 'older' person, my grandma (his great grandma) Barb. She is hilarious and such a trooper. She is currently going through treatment for breast cancer and is such a survivor. And she still wants to take me and my 2 kids shopping!! Love her!!
Back to my obsession with television, after shopping Thurs morning we will defiantly be glued to the TV for the eviction on Big Brother and then the season premier of Greys Anatomy!! OMG, I can't wait for Greys to be back! How I've missed that show. I have not always been a fan of McDreamy and the rest of the sexy crew but last year about mid season my co-worker forced me to watch and I've been hooked ever since! Friday is kind of an off night. Usually that consists of movies and popcorn on the living room floor with blankets and pillows and dad comes home to us all sleeping on the floor! Lucky him, he get to carry us all to bed after hes worked a full night and we've laid on the floor and watched movies!! Muahahahah!
I think I'll leave it at that for tonight. Maybe with some encouragement from you, my potential fans, I will know a little better tomorrow what I am doing. And if not I will just fill this page with my obsession with the computer!! I swear I should be on that show Intervention just not for booze or pain killers, just modern technology!!