Oscarisms

These are some pages I made many many years ago about Candy.

I have a lori (type of parrot), for close to 20 years. During the summer she lost use of one of her legs, the vet was not sure why, we babied her all summer. Changed her eating areas, her cage LO, and tryed everything to help her. She never did regain use of the leg. Friday morning she was her normal self, I played with her, and she talked with me. At noon she did not have use of either leg. She was on the bottom of her cage suffering, like a bobble head, side to side, it was horrible to see. I took her back to the vet. He suggested that the prognosis was not good. We could have MRI'd her, x-rayed her, waited for a diagnosis, or upon his suggestion humanely put her out of her suffering. It was a horrible decision to make. DH was in tears, the two kids were bawling. My bird just coo'ed at us, and kept saying come here, come here, she wanted us. She looked at us. It was a horrible decision to make. I hate having someones life in my decision making power. My kitchen ...

My neice turns 29 today. She was born way back in 1980. Such a long long time ago. When she was a little girl, I had her so much of the time. When she was "little" her Mom would drop her off with my Mom and me and she would be with us for weeks or months at a time. When I left home at 17, for some reason my sister stopped dropping her off at Moms and started dropping her off with me. I worked, went to school, was a single parent in all intents and purposes to a child that was not my own. This continued for years. Once she started school, she would get left with me for the summer, or holidays. I often had to scramble to find child care in a city that I was not familiar with. At times I thought she would end up with me permanently. I took her places, bought her things, she went travelling and camping with us. I sent her to camps. Basically she was like my own kid. Or so it seemed. Then I got hurt, I couldn't do the things I used to do. Money was more of an is...

Monday is Canadas Thanksgiving: I am thankful for: 1) Living in a country as great as Canada 2) Having my two children with me every day 3) Having a job 4) Having the ability to be creative 5) Thankful that I have those friends in my life that mean so much to me.

In August I wanted blue streaks in my hair. Being a dark brunette the hair person said blue doesn't work that well so went with magenta. The magenta looks pink on me. WHen I had it retouched in September DD wanted hers done. We did it peekaboo so that most of the time it is not visible. A friend french braided it one day, and wow was it visible.

Kids off to school today, one of the few mornings DS didn't put me through the wringer getting ready to go. Tony won the NASCAR race yesterday, woohoo, and Mark is still leading in points. Girl Guides went camping Friday night, and Saturday night. Very cool weather around 2 degrees celcius, which is about 35 F. Although it didn't snow on me at home, it did snow saturday night on the girls. They moved from the tents into the eating building and slept in there. She loved it though. I am seriously trying to cut out TV, I have eliminated all the CSI shows, the Law and order shows. I am trying to not even have a tv turned on. Some are creeping in on me though. Dexter is riviting for me, I love the vigilante in it. Biggest Loser is still motivational for me. Then there is SUrvivor, and the same night in Flash Forward. I still like Flashpoint as well. Although I thought it was cancelled. Saturday nights are still Americas Most Wanted. If I am what I watch I must be one ...

Calgary broke a recorded record temperature for a high for the first day of fall. Never in recorded history has it been that warm. It even made yahoo news. We are enjoying the hot temps, and the kids have been playing in the sprinkler. Lots of fun.

APATHY ap⋅a⋅thy  /ˈæpəθi/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ap-uh-thee] Show IPA Use apathy in a Sentence See web results for apathy See images of apathy –noun, plural -thies. 1. absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement. 2. lack of interest in or concern for things that others find moving or exciting. 3. Also, ap⋅a⋅thei⋅a, ap⋅a⋅thi⋅a  /ˌæpəˈθiə/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ap-uh-thee-uh] Show IPA . Stoicism. freedom from emotion of any kind. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Origin: 1595–1605; ( Synonyms: 1. coolness. 2. See indifference. Antonyms: 1. ardor, fervor. PROCRASTINATE pro⋅cras⋅ti⋅nate  /proʊˈkræstəˌneɪt, prə-/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [proh-kras-tuh-neyt, pruh-] Show IPA verb, -nat⋅ed, -nat⋅ing. Use procrastination in a Sentence See web results for procrastination See images of procrastination –verb (used without object) 1. to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost. –verb (used wi...

Pure desolation in places, something along the lines of what I think hell might look like. Then around a curve in the path is pure beauty. It was at this particular basin that you really could believe you were standing on a real live volcano. Pretty nerving to think that. Most of Yellowstone looks so similiar to our parks and our non-volcanic mountains it was easy to dismiss the volcano theory. This basin though really made one think about it. There are more thermal "things" in Yellowstone than the rest of the world put together. We were told # 2 is Iceland.

Old Faithful (saw it go off twice) Buffalo In Yellowstone Yellowstone Hot Spring Yellowstone Hot Spring Elk in Gardiner Montana I could have kept living in fairytale land for a lot longer. We went to Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, Kannanaskiss Park, Waterton Park, Glacier Park, and Yellowstone.

I am between here and there. I won't be back until September. Bye Y'all

Man you rock, you totally rock. Even though I didn't get to see the rain delayed race (one of my favorites), it was awesome to know Tony won. WOOHOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For a man that had such issues with temper, that often interferred with his driving, being his own boss has done wonders for him. I think he is like me and wanting to be in control. Keep it up Tony!

DD starts at SunnyBrook for her very last week of camp today. She is surprised and shocked at how fast the summer went by. There are two baby black bunnies left and the Mama.

Did some running around for some last minute camping things, did marshmellows int he backyard after supper on the BBQ.

I got my hair done, with pink highlights on the under layer, I really like it. We set up the tents in the back yard with trial run for camping out.

Went out to G for the evening, watched some TV then sat in the hot tub, discussing times past. Not sure if that was good or bad, but man I loved the hot tub. We really need one. I hit a check stop on the way back into town. It was funny, my drivers liscense was in my purse behind my seat, and the registration was on the far side of the van under the passenger seat. The RCMP was very nice about it though.