Things ah gotta dooooooo...

It's March Break, and that means party time with the kids. Oh yes. Already today we've had the big fried egg breakfast, the dog walk, and two stop motion animation Playmobil videos. I haven't even started doing laundry yet!!

Please feel free to have a little party in the comments section. You know the deal: get along, kids, turn off the lights when you leave the room, don't touch my piles of papers, clean up after yourselves, blah blah blah, and could you try to keep it somewhat G rated since my mom's figured out how to turn on her computer and get the internet going. You know? I've caused her enough grief already. Please let's not make it worse.

Okay, discuss amongst yourselves the following observations:

1) Sometimes I think I'd like to go totally Amish/ tree hugging rebel and get off the grid. Yank out all those ugly power lines. Sort of a solar power/ generator/ candlelight combo. It's fun to dine by candlelight! Even if it's just spagetti! But I don't know if I'd have enough juice to run my computer and then I couldn't quickly churn out brilliant stories and do this blog thing so I think I'll have to stick with nasty old electricity.



2) Speaking of which... we are so reliant on computers it's scary. Seriously. You know how my mom is onto this now? They only got a push button phone, like, ten years ago. Now she checks the TV listings on the internet. Because when you have a whole evening of TV watching, you really do have to plan it out...

3) I don't know about you but we haven't had a serious blizzard in decades.
See this photo? It was taken in January 2007. I hear it doesn't look like this now at the farm, and that the bottom rail of the fence is covered in snow. There are few big drifts out there. But it's not like it used to be. (I'm going to be an old codger now and tell you how it used to be.) In 1977 we got stranded at our neighbour's because we couldn't get the truck up the road the next quarter of a mile home. There was snow inside the truck. Okay granted they weren't much big on weather stripping in 1955 when that truck was built but still. When I was a kid pretty much every winter somebody would show up at the door frozen and begging to use the phone because their car was stuck in a five foot snowbank. Now, if it snows, my son's bus gets cancelled. Do you remember having indoor recess because it was too cold to go outside? Wha??? Ever heard of a scarf? Wimps.

4) My husband and I are going away for five days in April. FIVE DAYS. Just us. Yep, just us and a couple hundred of the Canadian music biz's best and brightest.
We are going to party with Nelly Furtado. Ha ha ha ha! Look out, she's a maneater! I better keep Jethro well guarded or she'll start gnawing on his massive forearms. His right arm is huge. From all the mouse clicking. Editing vocal tracks. Click. Click. Anyways. I get him all to myself, when he's not shaking hands with suits, and when I'm not flirting with guyliner punks in their 20s. It's gonna be awesome!!


5) Saskatoon Saskatchewan is officially the Most Romantic City in Canada. Why? Because it is rather hard to get there. Might as well make the most of it. It will take two plane rides, then a cab, then a portage. I'm kidding about the portage. Check it out, me, former farm girl, joking about how remote Saskatoon is. Geez.

6) You really should watch the Juno Awards. It's more fun than the Grammy Awards. I mean it, I'm not just saying that.

7) I'm going to be up to my ankles in sloppy mud and covered in horse hair this upcoming week and I am soooo happy.
(This is me with the King in April 2006. I hope I'll have a nice spotted horse to brush the winter hair off of this spring.) Come on, admit, I wear them coveralls pretty okay.

8) Here's something I like about myself: I feel great in coveralls and barn boots and my earflaps hat. Once or twice a year, depending on who's up for an award and who's up for getting married, I take a shower and put on a dress and some makeup and boots with a higher heel than my riding boots and I clean up pretty good. Sometimes just getting showered and getting my butt out of the desk chair is a big deal.


9) It's almost time for my semi- annual haircut.


10) OOO! Speaking of which! It's Friday! I've been getting out of my Friday Johnny habit lately. Time to stock up. (sigh) He's so perfectly wonderfully awesome.