My To-Do Lists

For Will (aka, the "honey-do" list)

-Finish taking apart my kitchen, including removal of the kitchen sink.
-purchase Costco-size bag of disposable dishes so I don't end up doing my dishes in the bathtub
-Replace missing sink with NEW sink in NEW location
-Move existing plumbing (via basement ceiling) to NEW sink location
-buy NEW sink that will be put IN new location
-get the electrician to actually SHOW UP one of these days
-ensure that there is no mess to clean up!
-continue to love me in the seriously best way I've ever been loved, put up with me more than anyone ever has, and make me think that, 5 pounds heavier or lighter, I'm still absolutely beautiful.

-take out the garbage. It's Tuesday tomorrow and I ALWAYS forget :)



For Em (the teenager)
-clean your room. As in, use some sort of disinfectant... ie: bleach? Peroxide? How about Fire?
- remove all my contents from your room before starting said 'disinfecting fire'.
- apply same procedure to downstairs bathroom.
-reapply same procedure to downstairs bathroom... let's be serious... it's pretty bad in there!
- put your laundry away
-practice your piano
- teach me how to be wayyyy cooler than I know I am. (*note to self, how was I so much awesome-r BEFORE I had a teenager?!)
-attend singing lessons, as you're a GREAT singer.
- stop slacking in school. Your mother's gonna think I don't care about your grades!
- call those two boys who gave you their phone numbers this weekend! Esp. the one I have the "cougar-crush" on!
- be absolutely gorgeous, as you always are.

-*ahem* lose the 18-year old boyfriend.... it seriously stresses your 4 parents out!



For Myself (aka: the lists of the lists list I'll never finish!)
-finish the LIST for the insurance chick who needs EVERY. SINGLE. PIECE. OF. THE THOUSAND. STOLEN. THINGS. from the van written down with distinct and very deliberate recollection of its origins, colour, price, sexual orientation, race...blah blah blah
-finish the list for the Burnaby Police station where the vehicle went missing from of said things above.
-finish the list for the Coquitlam Police station where the vehicle was FOUND of said things above because, well, quite frankly, the two don't communicate and I'm getting the run-around of who's in charge of what files and who's registered for dealing with the insurance adjuster and who's on first.
-finish the laundry. (hahahahahahahahahah. Oh, I funny)
-help Will finish the renovations. (hahahahahahah! I even funnier!)
-pick out the granite for the countertops.
-Travel to Calgary to see samples of said granite.
-pay for said granite.
-sell right breast, and possibly left ventricle of heart in order to PAY for said countertops.
-be thrilled for losing 5 pounds of breast tissue. Hey, if that's the ONLY way to lose weight lately, I'll take it.
-go for a run. Seriously. Until Thursday. Non-stop.
-stop eating like a cow.
-attend play practice for "The Sound Of Music" where I play a nun. yah. laugh it up, guys. *I* play a nun!!!
- look into getting into school/ a full-time job
-look into restarting a dayhome, as I am currently already watching kids 3 days a week.
- buy a new computer so I can blog MUCH more often and feel like I'm not completely cut off from the world.
-sell left breast to pay for said computer, as money is unlikely to crawl out my butt anytime soon.
-Submit taxes to accountant to be filed for 2009.
- rejoice in tax season totally screwing Will and I up this year and making it LOOK like we have a LOT more money than we really will this year.
-learn how to eat mice.
-call gramma, who probably has the recipe. And for those of you who think I'm kidding-- you don't know my gramma!
-jump up and down with joy over Chris' new job...with less child-support.
-remember there are hidden blessings in so many things.
-look into selling my spleen so I can celebrate Will's *40th* birthday in a few weeks!!!!!
-look into taking a trip in September with the kids to be sealed in a temple? (Salt Lake? San Diego? Vancouver? Guatemala?)
-love more. Pray more. Read more. Teach more. Exercise more. Clean more. Work more. Save more. Play more. Listen more.
-argue less. eat less. sleep less. criticize less. judge less.

No Time--

--For a real post.

Basically, the Olympics were awesome; the losing the van-- not so much!
I got home after cheering Canada's hockey team to victory over the USA and watched my sister's 8 kids for 8 days.

Then I went back to OUR house, where we've started ripping out walls and tearing down cupboards (we equals Will). Our NEW cupboards are ordered and ready to be installed, but we still haven't picked out flooring or countertops or ANYTHING. It's a bit of a time thing.

And to make everything THAT. MUCH. MORE. FUN-- our computer completely crashed a day or two before we left for Vancouver, and while we were out there, it was determined that it can't be fixed.. So instead, we're having to buy a new one! So, about once a week, I steal over to my in-law's house and pay bills and TRY to catch up on everyone's lives at their computer.

But, I have laundry that needs doing, and a house to renovate, children to take care of and food to prepare, weight to manage/lose and insurance claims to be filed, and blogging... well, after a month, I'd be surprised if ANYONE still reads this anyways! ;)

Point being, I don't know WHEN we'll have another computer, or MORE accurately, when I'll find the TIME to be at the computer! Just know that I really do miss reading everything about you guys' lives (those who blog or facebook) and when I get a better chance, I'll upload photos and updates on how crazy life's been lately!