You know how something tastes So good that you eat way too much of it?

Yeah. that’s me right now. This evening we loaded up the car and headed to Subway for dinner. I had the Chicken Terriaki(sp?) sub and ordered a foot long instead of my usual six inch. My reasoning was that I would be able to have the other half for lunch the next day.

Except it was sitting there taunting me! Calling my name. I gave into temptation and ate it. And now I feel ill.

(except the part of me that is my nummy flavored mouth! Oh man, I can still taste it!)

I feel so bloated, and oddly, tired. I need a fat burner or something. Or to go on a brisk walk (except I hate walks) (how many times have I used Except in this post now?)

What do You do when you’ve eaten too much? How do you get the too full feeling to go away?

I’m totally and absolutely jealous – and for no real reason. I mean. I DRIVE a car to the school.

You see, today, and for the rest of the week I will be heading to the school to pick up the boys. L needs to be shown with an adult present a few times how to get home before I entrust him to his nine year old brother. (we live two blocks away from the school). But this afternoon when I got to the school, in my CAR, I was instantly jealous of the little pack of moms standing by the front doors. They had the COOLEST strollers.

My favorite on, cus yeah, I was staring at them like a man does with a nice car, was a Two Seat Indie Twin All Terrain strollers.

It looked exactly like this, only blue. And it had babies in it.

I remember when P was in kindergarten,I would have the baby – he was just a few months old – in the stupid umbrella stroller that was too low – and I am short – so it hurt my back. B was two years old and hated the walk, so I always ended up hiking him on my hip as I struggled to push the baby in the stroller – and I had to do it two times a day, there and back. Don’t even get me started on how hard it was trying to get those stupid wheels through the snow!

I Wish I had All Terrain wheels back THEN!

We are going on our very first vacation as a family. A REAL vacation, not just camping for a few days!

I wanted to go somewhere exotic, and you can find some sweet ass deals on things like Caribbean villa rentals, but the flights were so expensive, we had to shelve that. Eventually, just me and Hubs will get out and do something exotic, but for now, we decided to make this vacation about the kids.

In a stroke of pure genius, my cousin bought a house in Calgary. And then, Even more genius, she invited our family down next summer. the awesome thing about Calgary is it’s proximity to some awesome things.

An hour and forty minutes from my cousins house is the Royal Tyrell Museum

This museum has some of the LARGEST, complete dinosaur skeletons. The boys (and us) are going to LOVE it.

Next, right IN Calgary is the Callaway Park, a huge amusement park:

I’m a little scared of this part. I don’t like roller coasters!

An hour from Calgary in the opposite direction of the museum is the Banff and the Rocky Mountains. the boys are very into mountains, they have never seen them outside of TV and pictures, so this will also be exciting. I am looking forward to getting lots of Mountain pictures, and hubs is hoping to see a lot of wild life!

I think that this vacation is going to be awesome, and we will save at least $500 on hotel bills by staying with my cousin!

I’m pretty excited!

Last Christmas My inlaws bought a beautiful new TV. A High Def TV that made Hubs salivate. They wanted the TV becuase in our town we have only one cable provider. If you do not want to get cable through them, you need to get satellite TV. And a lot of satellite channels are in High-Def.

My In laws, decided three days ago to do just that. They paid 250 for the set up, the boxes, dish and what have you. When they went to the satellite store, the woman used a permanent marker on a sheet of paper and marked all of the channels that my In laws would receive with the package they ordered.

Seemed like a pretty good deal.

Fast forward a day. The man comes, installs the satellite and tells them it will take one to two hours to get the signal fully downloaded (or something like that). They waited the hours and then Hubs went over to help them get everything programmed and working right. The problem? Even though the lady at the desk told them they would have over 290 channels with their package, they were only getting 17.

Yeah. 17.

So my inlaws drove back into the city the next morning to have a chat with the woman – keep in mind they have only had the satellite for one day. The woman said yeah, you get all of these channels with your package, but you have to subscribe to them for 3.99 a set. Uhm. What? If you tell someone they will get 290 channels, if you circle the channels for them, and say this is what you get for what you are paying, you cannot go back and say, but wait – you need to pay X amount more to subscribe to them!

That’s considered a rip off.

So, the inlaws canceled their satellite after a day and a half, totally disgusted, AND out $250, because the satellite company has a clause in the contract saying that if you cancel withing one year, the equiptment goes back to them.

So. WE won;t be getting satellite, that’s for sure, but I can also guarantee that Hubs will still be looking at tv deals so that he can find a good priced High-def Television. it seems that not only do the newer channels all come in High def, so do his games!

When L and I got to the school, his class door was still shut, but not more than five minutes past before his teacher, Mrs. F arrived and ushered us all in. L found his wee little locker and hung up his coat, he switched his “outside shoes” for his “inside shoes” and gave Mrs. F the required box of Kleenex. The kids were all told to look around, then choose a book and sit on the blue rug and wait for teacher.

L was impressed with all of the toys the class had. He was very enthused in particular about some jumbo blocks. They look like lego bricks but were easily the size of my cat. And the cat is FAT, remember!

There are sixteen children in L’s class, from three years old to five years old. Some of them were obviously scared and worried, but most of them were very pleased to be going to School.

On the way to the school, I had asked L, “What do you want to learn at school this year” He told me “I want to learn songs,” he was quiet for a minute before he continued, “and I want to learn how to write my name”

L, sitting on the Blue Rug

On a more somber note, Why do all my children hate me? No really. How hard is it for them to just PRETEND to be sad that i am leaving them all alone at the school? not one of my boys was sad the first day of school. I knew L was excited to be going to Pre-K, but come ON! He’s just four years old! I mean, I don;lt want him crying and scared, but at least say “I will miss you mommy”, not, “Go home, I need to learn and you are in my way!”

Yeah. Dropped the boy off for his first day of Pre-K and now I have all this free time to myself. I will have every afternoon, in fact, to myself.

Maybe I can work out one of those fancy schmancy health plans where I drop off the boy and then do an hour on Wii fit. or I can take the time to catch up on the laundry which is seriously behind. I could even take the time to have a nice relaxing bath – BUT OMG THE HOUSE IS TOO QUIET TO DO ANYTHING!

I mean. Even the DOG is quiet.