"I'm not the Baby Daddy!" and other stuff ...

Just for fun I'm going to Blog backwards today, so I'll start with my thoughts of today and go backwards ... where I'm sure to not remember 1/2 of the interesting things I thought in the last few days :)

First of all I'll address my Blog title for today; I was watching Maury, which pretty much explains it all but I love telling long stories so I will expand on the title. So I have a somewhat passing interest in watching the DNA testing, "I'm sleeping with your Mom", "I've been messing with your sister." and other fun topics that make up the human car wreck that is the MP Show. My favorite to date though is "I'm not the Baby Daddy and she's a Ho." The current generation seems to be pretty good at this one - it could almost be their logo. Now I sympathize to a point with the ladies involved, I've been around, I understand about having a little fun, and there was a time in my life that I had no idea how the reproductive cycle really worked. What I don't get is why these women aren't on birth control?!? I mean, even when I had no idea when exactly I was most likely to get pregnant(I didn't really find out until I started trying to have babies)I was on the pill. Forgive me if I'm out on a middle-aged limb here but isn't this the Aids generation? Should these young women be having unprotected sex at all? I mean if I was in my late teens now I would be terrified - the whole concept of 'when you have sex with someone you're having sex with everyone they ever had sex with and everyone THEY had sex with and so on...' scared the tar out of me when i was in my mid-20s. Ah well - it's sad that they all seem to feel that going on TV to find out who their baby daddy is(or isn't as the case may be)is such a wonderful idea, especially when you bring in 3(or more) men and NONE of them turn out to be the guy. Sad sad - and really in most cases I would be just as happy, considering the loser guys I have seen, to raise the baby on my own. I would just tell the kid "I'm sorry Honey - I know it's been hard but I have no idea who your Daddy is, I was really drunk that night and I just don't know." All the more reason not to drink :)

Okay on to other things - I could go on for 15 pages on this topic. here are my final final pictures of the two fridges deal.

Here they are with the pantry with them:


I have more shots of the back room and how it looks now but I seem to have neglected to upload them and it's pretty messy anyway so I'm not gonna do it now either :)

I dog sat T again this weekend and S and he had a great time:
Here he is - my S's bestest doggie pal.

And here they are playing tug with one of M's abandoned slippers:


Here is pretty S, winner of the slipper:


T is a total sweety and I love dog sitting him but I am always happy to see him go home as well, 2 dogs really are too much for me in a long term situation.M hid somewhere pretty much the whole time T was here, he ate his food but we never saw him after T cornered him on K's bed the first hour he was here.

Speaking of M(before you think I'm talking about Evil M)I love this shot - it's adorable when M & S sleep on the bed together:and before you all think I have forgotten the fact I have kids, a token shot of my Evil M:Those blue eyes get her away with a lot. Good thing I love her, huh? :)

M had a vet appointment today as well and has another one in about a week to have a tooth pulled. The vet is making money off us on M again and since he's 10 now it's only going to get more profitable for them /sigh/. In other recent events; even though I really really didn't want to I did my 3km walk tonight, S really insists on her walks. I'm glad once I'm out there moving but it sure is a pain when I'm comfy in my computer chair!! I'm hoping to get S's new harness and leash in the next couple weeks and hope I don't end up owing tax at the door.

I'm sure there is more but as expected I can't remember. have a great night all - I'm going to bed!

Cass :)

A tale of two fridges ...

To solve my massive fridge space problem I decided to buy a second fridge(second hand of course) thus doubling both my fridge and freezer space. I kept this rather off-beat idea a secret from J so that I could do it and be done and not have any arguments with him about it. I found a fridge that a nice lady was selling and arranged with a mover to move the fridge the 10 km from her house to mine. I was told this small move would cost "$50 to $60" which isn't cheap but better than trying to move such a big heavy thing myself.

Everything was planned to go down yesterday so once J left for work I shifted things around to make room for the second fridge and was very excited to get it all done. I then walked the kids to school as usual and walked the dog. I relaxed the rest of the morning and went and got the kids from school and we had lunch. Then Mom, M and I went to Nice Lady's house and paid her for the fridge. The movers were late so Nice Lady and I chatted about stuff for a half hour until they arrived. It was a pleasant visit and I will do my best to focus on that instead of how the rest of the day went when I think about yesterday in the future.

The movers arrived a half hour late and loaded the fridge onto the van but then there was a delay while on of them talked to their boss on the phone, they asked for money so I gave them the $60 that they guy had told me. I went to find out what was taking the guy on the phone so long and he got off the phone and handed me a bill for $221!!! I flipped "I don't have this! Your boss told me $60!" the guy got his boss back on the phone and I proceeded to tell him the same thing; "You said $60 to move the fridge! It's a 10 km room, what is this?!?" So he says "I meant $60 deposit." I hung up on him and proceeded to tell the guys to take my fridge off their van and that I wanted my $60 back. Of course I used a few swearwords and this was at the top of my voice. The one guy was trying to get me to be quiet but I kept yelling. They took my fridge back off their van and refused to give me my $60 back and still handed me the $221 bill and had the gall to say I still owed that!!! I ripped it in half, crumpled it into a ball and threw it on the ground and told them to get out of my sight.

I was so mad I was shaking like a leaf, as you can imagine. I apologized to Nice Lady several times during and after my yelling at the crooked movers and told her I would be back for the fridge as soon as I could either yesterday or today. Nice Lady was very nice about the whole deal even though I had just thrown a huge fit in her driveway in her neighbourhood. I hope she knows how much I appreciate her kindness both in selling me the fridge and putting up with the confusion over pickup.

I got in the car where Mom and M were waiting and burst into tears(why do we women always have to cry when we're angry?!) and told her what had happened and then said "I'm sorry! What a mess!! Just take me home!!". On the way home I did my best to calm down but it wasn't easy. When I got home I called a couple of my friends to see who was around to help - one of them had offered to help me move the fridge and told me to cancel the movers on Friday and I didn't, now I wish I had! No one was home and Mom suggested we get my Grandfather to rent U-Haul van and a fridge dolly and move it ourselves so that is what we ended up doing.

We got the van and headed back to Nice Lady's house, luckily she was there as it was time to get kids at school by then, we left M at my friend J's house(Thanks again J!) and I had left a note for my other two when they got home. Once there Nice Lady said her husband had decided to pick up the kids at school so she was home, finally some luck! I'll tell you now; fridges are heavy - very heavy. With some help from Mom I got the fridge up the ramp and into the van and together we secured it so it wouldn't move while we drove. With a final apology and big thank you to Nice Lady we were on our way at last with my fridge!

Of course with anything getting it on the van is only half the job. I knew it was going to be way harder to haul the fridge up the 4 stairs into the house and swing it around and get into the kitchen. My house is very hard to get things into, although you'd never know it with the amount of stuff we have in here! Once up on the small back deck and nearly falling down the yard stairs we got the fridge swung around to go into the back room off the kitchen only to find that the door was in the way. So we removed the back door and were able to get the fridge into the back room. Once again we had to swing it around to get it thru the kitchen doorway but finally it was in!

I will tell you now yesterday I was tested to the limits of my temper as well as my strength. It took me every ounce of determination to pull that fridge up those 4 stairs and I will never move another fridge into or out of a house ever again and the next time a friend offers to help me I'll take it!!

Total costs: Fridge $100, To get the fridge home $110(60 to bad movers - 50 to U-Haul). I learn some expensive lessons $Priceless.

Okay now for the fun part; Pictures!!

The back room before moving stuff:

The back room after moving stuff:


My kitchen now(if you want before shots look at my House Tour Blog):

And a bad shot of me - I look at touch insane but I was going for very tired/happy/hope J doesn't yell at me:

I spent this morning cleaning my old fridge(which is the smaller one in the shots - the new one is where the old one was) and putting all the food where I want it. I have a hard time believing I had all that food in only one 18 cubic foot fridge.

Here are the final shots of both fridges:


And that's the whole story!!

Cass :)

Look! I made one bed into two(Sorry no pictures)...

Okay so my 4 year old has been complaining about sleeping in her own bed for a while so finally she had a fit last night and complained that K shook the bed and that bothered her. I think what bothers her is not being able to see her sister at night since she was above her.

Yup, was, it's been a while since I put the bunk bed together for K & M, I even Blogged about it. It was a very eventful day. Today was also a very eventful day - this morning I got up(reluctantly, I love fall but it makes me sleepy as well), took a shower, got dressed, made sure everyone ate something, and sawed that same bunk bed in two.

I did it right, measured and everything, even used a square to make sure my line was straight all the way around the parts I sawed. I impressed K with my strength when I removed the side rails from her part of the bed(it's pine and a well placed hit with my fist popped the dowels thru the side of the rails so I could remove them). Mostly I impressed myself by getting it all done. I had to move a couple wall mounted shelves, which is never fun when you have walls made of lath & plaster, but I did it with a minimum of yelling and swearing ... okay - make that moderate yelling and swearing.

That was almost all I managed to do today and I will have to try to play catch up tomorrow(starting with an extra long walk for S who got no walks today) - which includes laundry and housework as usual, yeah I've fallen off the clean wagon again.

This afternoon I had a rare Mommy afternoon out with my friend L who took me to see Momma Mia, which was a lot of fun and I enjoyed it a great deal. Now I have to go empty the kitchen composter into the big backyard one and send children to bed. I promise I will try to get those batteries charged for the camera soon as I know my posts are more fun with visual aids :)

Cass :)