Pot Garden

I grew a little garden in some pots this year in the yard at the side of your old shed.  It was pretty good for a while and we definitely made the most of the basil plants which made my lunchtimes excellent by kicking my tomato sandwiches up a notch. BAM!  I grew 4 herbs, oregano, basil, thyme and the dreaded cilantro.  I hate cilantro but the lady digs it a lot.  Tragically Mr. Cilantro did not have enough pot (that'll make anyone unhappy) so he didn't really grow all that well and now he is nothing more than coriander seeds.  The tomato Plant grew big and tall and probably gave us about 9 tomatoes.  Three or Four were certainly not going to get eaten as they just looked bad and had some spots on them.  The one I did eat was yucky, and hopefully the rest will turn red soon and I can try again.    It's getting late in the season now and I am not sure if they will be good enough to eat or not but hey, if they're no good I can always throw them at some bleeding heart protesters.

 

Today's My Moms Birthday

Today's My moms Birthday and she's coming to watch the M.F. while I get the rest of the stuff out of my house next door and move it over here.  It's exciting and I have a gift for her that will likely make her cry tears of happy. 

In other news I HAVE 1 FOLLOWER.  Yaaaaaaaay.  Officially I have a fan base.

The Best Day Ever (This Month)

So yesterday started out like your regular mundane everyday. (Without internet, t.v., telephone, or job)  And by the end of the day I was worried that I should stay inside in case I was struck by lightning.  That would have been the only thing that could have put a damper on my day.

So the first good thing in my day was waking up and playing with my smiley boy.  M.F. is a good time when he's not screaming about the lack of boob he's getting.

Second was that the phone started to work which then lead to the entertaining part of the day where we received about 10 phone calls from Bell which then resulted in us making 4 or 5 calls back to them to find out what the fuck was going on.  Typical of the reasons I left Bell in the first place.

Then the T.v. guy came to hook up our cable and give us a new PVR.  Bell cable is something new to me and I have lost some of my beloved channels (teletoon, Tsn).  Tsn isn't really lost but I don't feel I should have to pay for it since I don't really watch much except for OTR and since the host is a dink I won't really miss it.  Instead I'll experiment with Leafs Tv and Raptors Tv.   We have some new HD channels for free but my HD tv is an older model and I can't really tell if it will be worth it to pay for new HD channels.

Next up we received one of our many phone calls from bell and the person on the other end starts telling me about how they want to give us a promotional discount as new customers and that our service will be installed next Wednesday.  Whoa! Says I.  That shit is supposed to happen this afternoon.  So I hand the phone over to the lovely Lisa who is handling the setup of these services and she recognizes immediately that this is some telemarketer doing something called "assumptive closing"  She knows this having worked in a call center before and was trained to do this.  Then Lisa phones bell to find out WTF is up and as she is on the phone with them I go out and meet the internet guy that just pulled up.  He hooks things up and TADA!!! I'm back in the World of Warcraft (which i had been missing dearly as it was almost 16 hours since my last log  in =P )

So that's the the foundation for a pretty good day.  Then It happens.  1 Day after I had vowed to re-renew my job search.  The long distance phone ring......Lisa answers......smiles and says he's right here, hands me the phone and I hear a voice I was so scared I would never hear again.

"Chris! Rick Colton here, what are you doin?"
My responce in a very meek and frightened voice "uh, waiting for you?"
Rick in his ever fear inducing way: "are ya nervous?" 
me: "oh ya"
Rick: "Why?"

me: "I wasn't feeling to confident after my interview and then when there was no call on Monday or Tuesday I started to get worried."
Rick:  (knew I was at home freaking out) "Well I'm calling to let you know that we are going to hire you."
me:  "Oh thank you soooo much, that's great.  This is great."

He said he didn't know when I would hear from HR but figured at the beginning of September.
the Lovely Lisa immediately broke into tears, as did my mommy when I called her and told her, and then Lisa said "Don't you wanna come over here and kiss me?"  my reply "Fuck no! Lets go shopping and order a pizza!!"

...And that's all it takes to make my best day ever, being told my job search is over and I am embarking on my first real Career.  It's very exciting.  I can't wait to be a full fledged Instrumentation/Electrician

It Makes my boy happy.

Mighty Relocation

So yesterday I had  Cobra and the Shawnz come by and help me move all the really big heavy things that wouldn't fit through the doorways from my old shanty to my new much more regal shanty next door.  I really appreciate their help and patience with all the lack of planing for the move.  Almost everything we need to live is over there now with the exception a few smaller things i can move myself today, or whenever i feel like it.  I'm a little bit sore today I am sure the other guys are too.  Mama and M.F. are still sleeping over there and I am back here in the old shanty because it still has internet and I wanted to do this and craft a little war.  Moving right now would only disturb their peaceful slumber.  My Sith of a kitty has taken to the new digs really well and hasn't tried to run outside of his new Deathstar.  I'm sure it's only a matter of time before he feels the need to travel out and hunt down the rebels.  The new place has central air and is not sinking as much as the old one was.  There is even a basement to store my victims in.  It's nice and cool so it's unlikely the smell of rotting corpses will permeate the neighbourhood.  Grandma and Aunt Katie came by to help Mama with the move (and managing her monkey farm).   Aunt Lori took the little M.F. for the day and said he slept pretty much the whole time which is his general modus operandi.  That's enough blogo-writing for now as I'm bored and have some druiding to do. The firs pic is the old shanty (Known as Graceland) and the second pick is the more regal shanty (I think I'll call it Mighty M.F's Lair of Family-tude)

My First Blog Post

Because other people I know have created blogs, mainly Johny Cobra and his lady friend Missy Aggravation I have decided to create my own as I tend to forget everything and Cobra says it's a good way to keep track. Even the easy stuff.  I'm a new parent and it's not something I spent anytime in my life preparing for.  I spent a lot of time looking after other peoples kids and now I have my own.  I hope to use this space to keep track of my parenting attempts whether they be fails or successes and to have something for myself to look back on and hopefully learn from.  So for now here is a picture of my budding family at stage one.  The little Robot is about 6 weeks old and the rest of the robots are rusty and the nameplates are covered in grime.