Eady Tech Support Line

So apparently Kyle and I have started our own tech support line, though we never had an intention of doing so and were unawear of such a line. We have feilded 5 calls this week, which didn't just consist of 1 call but 1 initial call that stated a problem and several hours of research on said problem then several calls back to fix the problem. Well with a week such as this we have no phone battery left and have officially fried Kyle's computer. I am not trained for this, I can answer child care questions and child development questions but "Laura I have a virus that has wiped out my desktop and I can't get on the internet to check my work email!" is not a doable question for me. So when Kyle's computer broke this morning and he has spent a whole "all about having fun just the two of us" day freaking out and trying his hardest to fix it, all the while being mean with me and not accepting any answer I give him, I don't know how much of this tech support I can handle. I am thinking I definately deserve a REALLY good birthday and Christmas present. What do you think? I think I shall pass this on to my sister in law Danna and my mother in law Sylvia and say we deserve a really good present for just staying with an Eady man another year. I guess most would not understand that, but anyone out there with a Eady man will understand and join the deserving of presents crowd. Ah what a great dream!

How Much Do I Love The Little Mermaid? Too Much!

So as most know by the pictures of my computer that I have posted on my facebook, I am a HUGE fan of Disney Princess but more specifically The Little Mermaid. This was at first all to do with the fact that growing up kids need heroes that look like them and well no one has red hair, well I guess Jessica Rabbit did but she isn't so much for kids, and what would I have turned out like if she was who I looked up to. Anyways I absolutely LOVE the movies now and the music probably more so. So when I heard at the end of last year that there would be a Little Mermaid 3 released this summer I was over the moon. The first movie was released in 1989 and I never got a copy of it, instead my Mom got me every other movie....not the same. Then the Little Mermaid 2 Return to the Sea came out in 2000, I don't remember that movie too well, though I am sure I seen it a few times. Just before Kyle and I got married The Little Mermaid Platinum Edition DVD came out and Kyle bought me that to cheer me up because I was still really sad about being so far away from home (though now my apartment is home). It took him months and a little more than he wanted to pay but he also got me The Little Mermaid 2 Return to the Sea on dvd from ebay. Now all I had to do was wait, a talent I do not have, I never wait everything has to be now. So when The Little Mermaid Ariel's Beginning was released yesterday there was no waiting, Kyle even offered for me to take the car at midnight and buy it at the 24 hour Walmart. I didn't need it that bad, plus that is well passed my 9 o'clock bed time. So I woke up early and got myself all ready for a long walk and started my journey to Walmart, I walked all the way there and back, only stopping to shop at Walmart, get a cinnamon melt at McDonalds (they are so GOOD by the way), and a quick stop at the corner store to get a slushie. I was gone a total of 2 hours, and I must say today waking up with sore legs I am not sure it was completely worth it. I think I got half way there before I thought I should have just gotten up and drove Kyle to work so that I could drive there and back, coincidentally it was around the same time as I realized that the road was alot more hilly than I have ever noticed. To Kyle's amazement when he got home I hadn't even watched my movie, I was being a good wife and waiting till he got home so we could watch it together (Kyle likes the Little Mermaid as he has a thing for red heads).
Now for the review, it was like 77mins, so not very long. As a big fan who looked forward to this movie I was a bit disappointed in the way they took it. I was aware in buying and watching it that this is Disney's last straight to dvd sequel so I knew it wouldn't be amazing but I thought that it would be better than it was. It was a prequel as could be told by the title. The two things that bothered me was the Ariel's mother's story line and the fact that it never explains how Ursula became the sea witch (she isn't even in the movie at all). However if you are a big Mermaid fan you will not care so much as well it is another installment of a great movie, and the music is just as catchy as the original.

Honeymoon Redo #2

Pics from our honeymoon, it was a nice unit at least.

So as most people know I was less than impressed with the way my honeymoon went. Nothing ever seems to go right for us.

Grandma Matlock (Eady) got us a condo for our honeymoon, which was only going to be a 3night 3day honeymoon as Kyle needed to be back at work. It was really nice of Grandma to do this for us as we had previously decided not to have one so that we could get settled in our place and also visit all the family that had come from all over for our wedding (also we had to pay for the wedding and as 2 young people just out of school we didn't have enough for a honeymoon as well). Anyways it was near the Horse Shoe Valley ski resort, I think the place we stayed at was called Carriage Hills Resort? Maybe? Oh, I don't know. Anyways it was way out there and I knew we were way far out there when the lights of Barrie pasted us and the road ahead became dark again on our way up there. So we drove to the resort and got there around 10pm, a late start to the honeymoon the day after the wedding but hey still a honeymoon. Until the receptionist said that we could not check in without the people who made the reservation, and of course it was so late there was no manager working. So we could call Grandma right? Wrong, she and her husband were vacationing in Hawaii at the time, besides which she lives in California and I doubt this receptionist was going to let me call long distance on their phone. So we drove home, stopping once to have dinner about midnight at a McDonalds. The next morning we got up to call our parents to let them know where we were, as I was still a teenager and well that is imprinted in every teen to call home when you sleep over somewhere different than you said. That afternoon Grandma called and said she talked to the people and they would now let us check in. Well after fighting out whether we should bother driving all the way back up there or just stay home since we almost would have to turn around and come right back home, we left for the honeymoon yet again. This time we knew that there was nothing around for miles so we stopped at the last grocery store we knew, which was still 30 mins from the resort. We checked in and then did nothing! There was nothing to do, it was down season so there was no one around and no activities running. There was a pool, half indoor half outdoor, but it was October so it was cold. I did go to the hot tub once but it was too hot so I sat in a lawn chair in the pool area while Kyle braved a swim. On the way out of the pool building we seen you could rent movies so we shelled out the $5 a movie and got The Family Stone for me and The Hills Have Eyes for Kyle. We stayed up extra late so we could watch The Hills Have Eyes in the dark and needless to say I didn't sleep that night as I was terrified. The only thing that saved the boring trip was there was a hot tub in the unit so I would play in there until Kyle filled me up with champade (I seriously don't have a clue on how to spell that) and I almost tossed my dinner in the tub, that was my last hot tub for the trip.

So this past year for our 1 year anniversary we got a hotel room, the honeymoon suite. This was going to be better, Kyle said I could eat out every meal and eat an entire birthday cake myself! Awesome! Yeah but he is cheap so he went with the hotel that was like $50 a night. Oh yeah it was everything $50 can get you and more. No mattress cover or sheets on the bed and the in room hot tub? The first use the jets fell off the side of the tub. Yep it was just an experience. I was so sick from the look of the room and the fact it was on the bad side of town that I didn't sleep a wink the whole weekend. So 2 times terrible honeymoons. With all that being done Kyle promised this year would be better, especially since this may be the last anniversary without kids.

So this years plan he came up with last night. It is almost as good as the other trips. We have an appointment to get our teeth cleaned at the dentist, I know! Great husband! I could have a spa day but a dentist appointment is so better. Then he said McDonalds for breakfast, and he will give me all the money I want because he is taking me over the river to shop as much as I want. Then back to St Kitts for a Keg dinner. Now I am not sure how this could possibly go bad as not one part involves sleeping any where other than my parents house which will consist of an air mattress on the floor of my old bedroom (which is now an office that NEVER gets used).

With less than 2 months till my anniversary I can't decided whether to be excited for the plans of scared of what on earth could happen this time around.

Markets

I have a couple pictures from markets a couple weeks ago when we had the 1 big stand on the grass. This is an odd weekend for markets as where we usually are in the arena parking lot is where they have the ex so we need to move to the baseball diamond. Anyways this is what markets looks like for the most part.

Vacation

This is Jim
Uncle Dave and a couple pickerel
The view from the deck.

So since summer is almost over and Kyle and I haven't had a vacation since our anniversary (almost a year ago) we decided it was the perfect weekend to stay up at Rice Lake with my parents. This also marked the first time we have left Sugar home alone for more than 15ish hours, but she was perfect (although VERY affectionate when we got home to her). So we had to do markets but it was a great day not too busy but just enough to sell almost all the fruit we had. Then it was off to Kyle's friend Dirks cottage just 5km from where we stay on the lake. Then to the trailer. Ah pulling all the way down to the lake and seeing the sun, sand, and all natures glory made Kyle and I think, "why not put some money aside and see if we can buy a trailer here sometime?". Oh yeah that's right reality time. We got into the trailer which is nicely placed on the site in front of my Uncle Dave's trailer. Luckily he was there to set us up as propane and water get turned off when my parents leave, so he turned everything on for us as we went through the car getting everything out, well that seemed like the end of vacation right there. When we got into the trailer it seemed as if the lake had come to meet us, the hot water tank blew a hole and there was water running down the kitchen and into the living room. So after hours of trying to soak up all the water with the only 2 bath towels still left in the trailer, my parents arrived. Well I guess no one seemed to pay too much attention to two young adults who were clearly over their heads since as soon as my parents got there the neighbour came in with a wet shop vac and was able to dry everything out. So first day wasted. Kyle and I were beat after such a day, we had gotten up at 2am and dinner was being served to us at 10pm so we didn't get into bed till about 11. But dinner was Uncle Dave's chicken wings, which could burn your lips off and put hair on your chest, man they were great! So you would think we would sleep in Sunday right? I mean 21 hours up the day before sleep was going to be a must. Wrong. The trailer isn't for vacation it is for fishing, so Dad was up and happily sounded like a moose in the 32' trailer waking the rest of us up at 6am. Apparently you need to get out early or I don't know the fish may just not want breakfast??? So up we were after only 7 hours of sleep (which is never enough after markets), the closest church is an hour away from us so we decided just to skip out on that and mom took us out for breakfast. I had barely even started to eat before my numbness kicked in and I couldn't move or do anything. I ended up only eating 2 of my 3 pancakes and then fighting the losing battle against the numbness. She took me back to the trailer and I promptly grabbed my blankey and bear and pinched my eyes closed as hard as I could. Two hours later when I woke up feeling like I had just blinked my eyes, I was not feeling any better. However I happily followed Kyle out to the docks so he could go for his swim. We had dinner together and then Kyle and I left to head back home, getting here just after 10:30.

At my parents trailer there are these wild cats that have been there forever, but a few years ago my Dad called one Sandy and decided it was his outdoor cat. So since then we have all made a point of calling the cats/kittens over and letting them eat with us. Each year it seems like the kittens that are born get more and more tame. Some people around the park even end up taking some in and keeping them (that's how my parents got their kitten Onyx). So this year there were 4 kittens born under the trailer and the mother taught them that we were friendly and could be counted on for food and milk. A couple weeks ago some people with a shelter captured all the wild cats except for the kittens under the trailer, so now mother less they will gladly take attention from us and one that Kyle named Jim will even come inside and make himself comfortable in your trailer. So as an animal lover I spent most of my time out playing with the kittens. I named them all as well. Jim had a light patch on his chest and was the friendliest, then there was the grey cat Shy, then the runt of the litter a black with 1 white whisker I named Wink, and lastly a black with white patches on his shoulders I named Humour. They were all so cute and small I wanted to keep one, however Kyle seems to think that 1 big fat cat that sleeps in bed with us is enough so I didn't get one.

Summer Reading

So I realize that summer is almost over, however with the Olympics on tv there isn't much to fill my time so I started my summer reading. So far I haven't read alot of books but I do have a list of books I would like to read before the fall comes and I once again become a slave to the tv set.

Read So Far:
-Twilight
-New Moon
-Socks

To Read:
-Eclipse
-Breaking Dawn
-Something Borrowed
-Something Blue
-Baby Proof
-Love the One You're With
-The Host
-Harry Potter Series (re-read)
-Romeo and Juliet (re-read)
-Pride and Prejudice (re-read)
-Winnie the Pooh Series
-Wuthering Heights
-Animal Farm
-Lord of the Flies (re-read)
-The Catcher in the Rye
-The Wind In The Willows
-To Kill a Mocking Bird
-Little Women (re-read)
-Of Mice and Men (re-read)
-The Destructors
-The Screwtape Letters

I made this list based on "all time classics/must reads", however I am not sure how much I may like the books listed. I am also not sure how many I will get through on this list. To be fair thought the books I have read so far have only taken me one sitting to read through, I got that fast reading skill from my mamaz. Kyle has decided that since I seem to love reading and I got through books so fast he might make it a weekly outing to the library for me to get new books and for him new movies. I am also going to go through boxes of my old stuff and see what kind of books I can find there. However I know that I will have a day or so of not reading as The Little Mermaid 3 Ariel's Beginning comes out in less than 2 weeks and I plan on watching all the movies as part of a "Little Mermaid Fest". Thinking about it I may not want to stop though and make it into a "Disney Princess Fest", I just love Disney Princess. However that won't be soon as Kyle has lots of movies for us to watch and I have lots of books to get to. Maybe my love will rub off and Kyle will give reading a chance? Maybe a book that got made into a movie that he likes? Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? But not likely, though he has promised to read Twilight before we go see it in theaters (not a promising thing though as it comes out Dec 12).

Apparently Magic is Real

Ok so I will admit I watch Criss Angel, and get aggravated because I know magic isn't real I know he isn't really doing that. But what if magic was real. I have a magical power. I wish I could write that I can do something cool, like super hero magic. But alas not so true for me. However I do have a magic power, it is electrical, and I know how I got it too.
So the story starts for this super hero on a planet called Earth, in a small town called Niagara Falls (hahaha small town, yeah right). Anyways I am a very oral person, I learned this while studying child development, apparently I am stuck there in oral purgatory for maybe ever. Anyways so I put things in my mouth or chewed them, I still do so don't ever give me something too small. Back then I had a small tape player, that's right tape not cd or mp3, I took the cord out of the side of it and for some apparently good reason, at the time, I decided that that little end with the 2 holes in it that was very much so still plugged into the wall at the other end was totally suckable. I should probably add here that I was probably about 10 at the time, old enough to know better but still young enough to need to experiment. So I went to town sucking and chewing on the end, and as everyone would know and guess I got the shock of my life. I still remember how it felt, everything went white and I could not see or hear for a while (like maybe 5 minutes). Anyways since then I have had the magic power of simply touching something electrical and completely destroying it. I have never been able to get anything nice since it would just break with a single touch. So that's not really so magical as it is unfortunate right? Well that was only half the power. I can with a single touch fix something that is broken electrically. However as with every magic power there are rules, the only one in this case being that I cannot fix what I myself have broken. Which sucks because that would save me alot of money on my car insurance....no wait that is Gieko. So this power is at time useless and upsetting because well nothing ever lasts. However I write this today as Kyle's printer was left on in a storm that blew the power, so it was gone never to print again. He has worked on it for months with no luck, not even the service team at Epson could bring it back. So he had given up, all was lost as a super hero story would go. Until I sat down and touched it, and wouldn't you know that thing started printing and doing it's job faster and better than before. All in a days work I say. Now I need a super hero name. Kyle also adds that my legend is a legend of legendary proportion. For those out there wondering how in the world I am typing this and not breaking everything, and wondering how I built a computer without any damage, I have this to say, it took all my effort and some precautions (like esd bracelets) for me to touch the items inside the computer. Also not everything was left unharmed, the usb ports were usb1.0 however in completeing and using said ports they are now 2.1 without any possible way of that happening. And if you don't understand that computer talk, neither do I.

Twilight, A Must Read

Ok so this past week I have done not much of anything, Kyle was kind enough to give me a whole week of doing nothing so that I could recover. He has been sweet and patient, but at times has gotten frustrated at my lack of desire for eating. Although it isn't like I didn't suffer from my lack of protein, working markets almost killed me this week. Who would have thought that after a week of pretty much no food, getting up at 2am and working all day under a tarp in the sun I would almost pass out and totally barf everywhere. My head was spinning and apparently I was pale enough to warrant some concerned looks from everyone. It didn't help that I slipped and hit my nails against the wooden handle of the peach baskets ending in with a large splinter of wood under the nail. That wasn't even the worst part, I had an allergic reaction to the cherries, never been really allergic to anything, so now I have these red spots all over my right hand, they hurt but hey at least I am sitting here in my apartment now knowing full well that cherry season is over for yet another year. Sunday wasn't too much better, my head was still spinning and thus began another week of "man my tooth hurts" and "I wish I could eat a Quiznos Meatball Sub".
So that aside I took the week to read a book I had been wanting to read for a couple months now. Going back a couple months I was watching some previews for movies coming out and came across Twilight. Since I seem to be "enjoying" vampire movies lately I decided to watch the preview, very nice. Enough to capture my attention for a couple hours. I read more about it to decide if it was a movie I would waste my money on, and I read about it being written by a member of the church (that assured me that it would be a book I could actually say that I read and feel safe no one would be like "hey that was an inappropriate book you told me to read"). I also came across reviews hailing it as the new Harry Potter. Now I cannot claim that I have read all the Harry Potter books, however I did start with the third book and finished the series. I loved them very much, they had to have been the best written books ever, I could picture everything just perfectly. So that being said about Twilight, I then needed to read it. There were far too many holds on the library copies for me to ever read it before the movie. So I bought it off of amazon.ca, received it within 24 hours, and had finished it 14 hours later. It was amazing I could not put it down. So with that being said I now sit here very impatiently waiting to receive the next 3 books in the mail. Now looking back at the trailer I am happy that I read the book first, as the movie doesn't seem to be exactly as the book (though the Harry Potter movies were missing some parts of the books as well). I would definitely recommend this book to everyone. So that was my week, I still stand by my statement that women who are home without children really have nothing much going on. Nothing ever seems to be new with me other than a project I am working on or the odd time I actually get to leave the apartment and do something fun. I do think that blogs are best saved for updates on babies and staying up to date on peoples lives that are full of things other than teddy bears and other snuggles. Oh well I have nothing better to do.

New Bear Update

So I have been looking for the material for Kyle to make my new bear out of. The thing is I wanted the same material as the other 2 bears, but in purple this time (as purple is my fav colour). So I had bought this material at Fabricland, and so I went back to get some more in purple. So we have officially gone to 5 stores just to find that they don't sell that pattern of material any more. But you would think that they would have told us that at the first store when we asked, but no they said to try another one since they didn't have a large selection at their store. Well after being told to look at the next store, look at the next store, at the last store we were told they no longer make it and what ever they have on their shelves is the last of it. Well they did indeed have that material on the self, in green/red/or pink. So now I am not sure what to do, I guess I can look at Fabriclands where ever I may be until I find a pattern material that will work and hope that eventually I will come across 2 or 3 meters of purple. Maybe this is some sort of sign that I shouldn't get rid of Bluetooth, or maybe it is simply that it was almost 5 years ago that I bought the material so it would eventually happen that they don't sell it anymore. Either way it doesn't look like I will be making that new bear anytime soon.

Long Day, Lots of Pain

So as some people close to me know, I had dental surgery today. Well that didn't go the way it was supposed to. To spare the disgusting details that I unfortunately got to witness, not much got done. The post from the broken tooth was removed through a hole drilled into the back of said tooth, and that was pretty much it. After an hour the Dr said that he couldn't finish so left the back of the tooth open. How open could that be you might ask, well the post was put in following an emergency root canal 10 years ago. So said hole goes all the way up to the top, fun stuff. So I was ok, I mean the Dr said one month and he will close it, just fine I can do a liquid diet for like 1 month. Oh if only it were that easy. There were no appointments available until...get this...Oct 6. Yeah so like just over 2 months of open hole tooth. The first day has gone terrible, but Kyle bless him has been so caring. I have been moody and mean and crying since the freezing came out, and lots of periods of sleeping. But he has been trying to get some foods that I am able to eat without hitting that freshly open tooth. I am however thinking that even though I don't trust Tylenol or any medicine it may almost be time to think about something for the pain. However Tylenol, or any pain medicine, will knock me out for 3 days at a time. Kyle would enjoy such peace and quiet around here! I shall be off to lay back down now....I am just happy to have my blankey and Bluetooth right now to cry into and suggle. The new bear updates will come maybe later this week...