Catch up...

I read many blogs... and some of them are simply amazing!   I think the one thing I aspire to the most is to update the blog more often, daily even, if I could! But this week, it just wasn't happening! So here is a quick update to bring y'all up to speed!

Thanksgiving Weekend... was awesome (except for the snow). I settled on making Ham for dinner. I picked up a spiral cut honey ham instead of the usual small black forest ham. I spent the extra money thinking that the spiral cut will make for nice leftovers - and I was right! Reg has enjoyed many ham sammies this week! I had enough left to freeze 5 bundles. Good eats! Instead of making scalloped potatoes I opted for hashbrown casserole... note - here in the west they refer to it as "Schwartz's Potatoes"... regardless it is a fav in our house! In a weak moment I was talked into a can of pie filling to make Raspberry Pie... but changed my mind when it came time to make it and went for a Sour Cream Apple Pie instead. I am glad I did! It was yummy! BTW - pie filling is not cheap here! I shelled out $6.59 for that can of pie filling! I won’t do that again! We didn't do much on the weekend, lots of TV watching and keeping warm inside the house. I did some scrapbooking and cleaning... the usual weekend activities for me!

Roxy ... has been SICK SICK SICK! It all started on Sunday. She complained that her chest hurt (and no, not from growing boobies I was told). I figured since it was choreography practice they wouldn't do much stunting or real physical stuff - but I was wrong. She finished the four hours in complete pain.... and pretty much went to bed right after we got home. By the sounds of it she had a doozy of a chest cold. She slept nearly all day Sunday and Monday. Tuesday morning came and she was no better. I couldn't believe how much she was sleeping! I called the health line and was told it could be a cold or flu or H1N1. Hmmm... that was reassuring!  They said there really wasn't any reason to go to a walk in clinic or the Doctor because she is 'healthy' they wont test her for H1N1 anyway... so just 'treat the symptoms'. So since then she has been taking night time cold stuff and it makes her sleep but she is now starting to feel a bit better. Of course she has multiple cold sores and described it to me as "some sort of ugly". Because this week’s practices are choreography she had to go into cheer... I hope she didn’t infect too many other kids! She wanted me to get her homework from school so she can do it on the weekend so I think things are looking up!

Reg... is working hard like usual. Last week he was offered a new job (for the same company) as Superintendent. This is the job he really wants to have! Problem is... it was in Regina. He politely declined (thank GOD) because we are finally settling in here and really; who wants to live in Regina? It was certainly good to be asked. To think that they feel he can handle that role. If only one of the Superintendents from Calgary wanted it... then he could have taken that position! And we can stay right here where we are! On another note he had a CT scan scheduled for this week on his ankle/foot to find out what was missed on the x-rays that were taken. He is still in plenty of pain and has very little range of motion with his foot. He went into the Hospital and was waiting for them to inject the dye (some sort of a special CT scan?) when the technician noticed that the things the Dr wanted to be imaged wouldn't be able to see using this test? Um... what? She asked him why his Dr didn't want him to have a MRI... and the answer to that was simply that the CT scan wait is only 1-2 months and the MRI wait was 9 months! I guess she went over to the MRI lab and found out they had appts for that day! What luck! He had to wait 4 hours until the appt time, but he did get the MRI done and he didn’t have to have the dye injection! So whatever issues are in his foot they will know for sure using the MRI. Even though he feels he had to waste a half day of work I am happy they got the test done! Now he just was to wait until the end of the month to see the sports Dr again.

Casey.... is good. She is starting to develop a real personality. Mostly she is good but has her bratty moments! I hope this wont last forever... just for a little while! Her new favourite game is to find a washroom door that is open... go in.... find the end of the toilet paper... get it firmly in her mouth... and then... (and here is the really fun part) RUN as far and as fast as she can until someone catches her. So far she has wasted at least two rolls of TP. At this point in all the washrooms the toilet paper roll is now stored on the back of the tank, where she can't reach it. Someday it might make it back onto the holder on the wall. Her housebreaking is getting better. She will have a few good days in a row now. We signed her up for Puppy Training and she starts her first class on Saturday. At the same school we also go to "puppy playtime" which is basically a puppy safe play group. The puppies must be under 20 weeks (they enter adolescence at that age) and she is in the large breed room. She looks SO SMALL compared to the other puppies but I guess they have a lot that are 18 weeks old right now. She is super shy too (Reg calls her Chicken). The first week she didn't leave my lap except to visit some other humans. She wanted nothing to do with the other puppies. This week was better; she left my lap a few times but came back when another puppy was being too aggressive with her. It is fun to just watch the puppies play together. In two weeks at puppy playtime they have a "Halloween howl"... prizes for puppy costumes, extra special treats, they will play bobbing for wieners (I am not making that up) and find the hidden cookie. Sounds like I should take my camera! I am excited for Roxy and Casey to start the real 'training' tomorrow! She knows 'sit' and sometimes 'leave it' and Reg is working on 'shake a paw'. So far she is proving to be pretty smart!

Me... Not a lot going on... except, work is crazy - Thanksgiving, getting ready for Christmas, new phone systems may or may not go in before Christmas. Lots for me to do. I am trying to get more scrap booking done and want to start on the Christmas shopping soon. I will be super busy all of December so I am thinking this needs to be done for my own sanity by mid November. I do have a bit of an announcement... although some of you may already know... my friends (the best in the world!) are throwing me a birthday party. Since I live here - and they live there - they have all chipped in for me to fly back to Kitchener on my Birthday weekend! So, this does mean you are invited to my party on December 12th! Save the Date!!! It will also mean that all Christmas presents won’t need to be shipped! YEAH for saving money!   I will send more details when I have them. But have to say YEAH! I am very excited and humbled that they would do this for me. I was really thinking of just ignoring my Bday again, but they had other ideas!

This weekend we don't have too much planned.   I am doing more work in the office (secret craft room) and Roxy has some cleaning to do!   The Pythons Family day is on Saturday and I am not too sure if we will attend or not.   It is at the Calgary Corn maze... this may come as a suprise to you but I am not much of a fan of corn mazes!   Although I have a superior sense of direction (Reg disagrees) I get so frustrated when I am in a corn maze (without GPS) and apparently it is huge.   Plus, Roxy is still feeling yucky so we might have to take a knee on this event.   It would be a good photo opportunity ... wherever cheerleaders go they end up stunting (like in a Movie Theatre or a Shopping Mall for example) so would probably get some pictures!   The weather is doing a complete turnaround!   It has been cold (high of -6 most days) and snowy for the last week or so.   But today it turned around.   I hear it should be 17 tomorrow, so at least the weather will be nice if we do go!   I hear Ontario is getting the cold and snow next.   I hope everyone manages to stay warm and cozy this weekend!