Duxford Girl

Check out the change.org link on the right of my page. An Edmonton radio station is giving away a Russian "mail-order" bride as a prize.

Cmdr. Chris Hadfield tweeted a picture of himself with Elton John today to which someone replied "did you get to sing Rocket Man with him?"

I wish I'd thought of that.

Hey! Guess who just figured out how to add stuff to the blocks on her blog? Granted, it's a good thing that social networking sites provide the correct code to do such things because it would probably take me weeks on my own to figure out the code to do it myself. Although, I did mess with the code a bit to get one of the things to look the way I wanted it to.

As some of you may have noticed, my blog has been very inactive for the past several months. I've been dealing with some health issues that I will talk about at a later date. Having said that, I'm feeling better and slowly but surely, re-organising my life.

1 - If my car has heated mirrors and back window, why can't all the glass be heated?

2 - Why am I still having to de-ice my car at the end of March?

Another year to muddle through. I haven't had a great past two months as my total neglect of this blog is evidence of. At the end of October I started to slip into a depressed mood that I hadn't felt since well before the birth of Junior and I've continued to spiral downward since then. I think that I'm starting to come out of it but I feel so tired, as though I've actually been physically ill these past two months. I had hopes of my vacation at the beginning of December snapping me out of it but instead I just ended up more miserable. A nasty bout of insomnia made my days off anything but restful and the resultant exhaustion meant I skied with no hustle or enthusiasm at all. Once back at work, I slammed out some OT while the getting was good but I feel as though Xmas never really happened.

It hasn't been all bad, of course. The Wee One has enjoyed Xmas to the fullest between toys and food and visitors to charm. He did fall asleep half-way through our annual trip to Zoo Lights but it's to be expected when someone is being stubborn about napping. Our party on Boxing Day was small but fun and we all managed to stay up chatting until 2 am. In spite of bringing in the New Year at work, we did our best by bringing in food, dollar store hats and counting down 2010 using the railway time signal on one of our radios.

As I denied myself a delicious eggnog latte at Starbucks this morning and instead opted for my usual skinny latte (another Xmas without my fave holiday treat as punishment for not having ALL the baby weight off) I had to ask myself if November 3rd was not a bit early to start depriving myself of the caloric joys of the season.