Stupidity
I got a bill in the mail this week for a doctor’s visit from June 2004. This appointment was suppose to be covered, I checked before hand because it was to see the fertility specialist. My doctor referred me, and I checked with her and the insurance. So I’ve complained and they are going to get back to me. The manager will call in the next 24-48 hours. And I’ll be asking him/her why they would wait 11 months to bill me. It’s not like we’re quibbling over a few dollars, it’s $185. The funny thing is we didn’t need to progress with the fertility specialist, we got pregnant before we had to go any further past the initial blood work.

Mother’s Day was pretty good. Geoff was kinda grumpy most of the day, but the steak dinner was yummy. I got some phone calls and some cards (both paper & electronic).

We finally got our A/C fixed, and I couldn’t be happier. Our apartment gets pretty warm, but not like the Irvine place did. People don’t think Denver gets so hot, but it does.

I gotta put a question out into the void…why is Gwen Stefani singing about bananas in her song Hollaback Girl? Geoff thinks it’s great, but he’s always liked bananas and he’s always had a thing for Gwen.

I’m a bad friend. I called Lisa in Vancouver this morning, and woke her up. It was 8 o’clock her time, I figured she’d be awake. She gets back today, and she said she’ll call me tomorrow.

Scrubs season finale is on tonight. And next Tuesday the season one dvd comes out. I’m hoping to get it for Christmas. Until then, I’ll have to make due with summer re-runs.

Not much else is going on. We’ve gotten Elijah’s passport sent off, and Geoff sent off his info to renew his Canadian passport. He could tell you forever about what a stupid pain in the butt the whole process is. My passport is still good until 2008, then I can go through that trouble.

Well, I’m gonna close with a quote from The Princess Bride.

Vizzini: I can’t compete with you physically, and you’re no match for my brains.
Westley: You’re that smart?
Vizzini: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Westley: Yes.
Vizzini: Morons.

Your Mother Was A Hamster
Happy Mother’s Day!
Here is a picture of my gift from Elijah. Just gonna spend the day doing chores and hanging out. Geoff is making me steak for dinner. A pretty good first Mother’s Day. 🙂

Well That’s New

I’ve never had such a good dentist appointment before. The hygenist was very nice (Jane), and the dentist seems like an alright guy. And for the first time ever…no cavities! So my teeth are all nice and clean, and I’m set to go back in 6 months. The office is just up on Colorado Blvd, so it’s a short walk there. And lucky Geoff, he gets to go tomorrow.

He is lucky, because Elijah was good for him this morning. I hope he’ll be a good boy tomorrow as we go get his passport photo taken. I’m a little worried he may fall asleep on the walk to Sears, I want him to stay awake so it will be easier to get him to be good for the photographer. Then we need to get his passport application filled out and sent, since we leave for Alberta in 46 days.

Caught the strangest show on Cartoon Network on Sunday night. Robot Chicken. I don’t know if the fact that it is on at 12:30am makes it funnier or not. But it’s a little messed up, and a little funny at the same time. Kinda has some inside jokes, and they jokes come fast.

Gotta go be a mom, so I’ll close with a quote from Kids In The Hall.

Filipino kid: You are American?
Tourist: No, I’m a Canadian. It’s like an American, but without the gun.

Functional
I’m always amazed on how I can function on little sleep. I’m not happy about it, and I’m probably not quite myself, but I’m functional. Sunday night Elijah was up EVERY hour. Had we not had appointments to donate blood Monday morning, I don’t think we would have gone. The Bonfils blood center was awesome. The staff was nice, the donation chairs are the best, and the snacks were good too. We’re eligible to donate again at the end of June, but since we’ll be in E-town, we’ll donate once we get back.

Family Guy returned to tv on Sunday night, and in top form. The first 5 minutes were hilarious and it just kept on going.

My results from the Cherry Creek Sneak are not on the web, because I didn’t bring my number with me to the race (I didn’t know I was suppose to). They took Geoff’s info from him though he forgot his number too, so his info is available. But there is a picture of me in the race.

I doubt I’d order it, since Geoff took a picture of me. We’re hoping one of him shows up, since I missed him crossing the finish line. I do have one of him before the race started.

The baked spaghetti turned out excellent, it was very tasty. I used some directions from a few different recipes, and was very pleased with the results. It inspired Geoff to make his own dish last night, it was rotini pasta with chicken in an a la king type sauce.

Well, it’s looking to be a beautiful day out, so I’m going to go for a walk with the boy. Up to Target, then hitting the bank and the library on my way home.

I’ll close with a quote from Overboard.

Annie: I don’t belong here, I feel it, don’t you think I feel it. I can’t do any of these vile things and I wouldn’t WANT to. Oh, my life is like death. My children are the spawn of hell, and you’re the devil. Oh God.
Dean Proffitt: But baby, we LIKE you.

Muppetational

The Muppets may be coming back to primetime tv. I for one am keen on the idea, I love the original series, and the short-lived Muppets Tonight. In a few weeks ABC will be airing a muppet version of The Wizard Of Oz. It’ll be good to have something entertaining on television, because haven’t we all had enough of reality tv.

Have you seen the commercials for Craft Corner Deathmatch? It’s got to be the most pathetic show premise. Seriously. Extreme crafting. Ooh, I must tune in. (I’m being sarcastic, in case that’s not coming across.)

Not that I have time to go to the movies, but I’m intrigued by the trailer for Crash. Sandra Bullock and Brendan Fraser? Hook me up! Oh, and about going to the movies, I saw on the news the other day there is a theater here that has Mommy Movies Wednesday mornings. Essentially, it’s for moms to go to the movie and you bring your young kids. The lights are up a little more, and the sound isn’t as loud. And if your child fusses, the people there understand, because they are moms too. Dads are welcome too, I think they just like the alliteration. I may have to check it out one of these Wednesdays.

I’ll close with a quote from The Muppet Show.

Statler: Why did they want the igloo?
Waldorf: I don’t know. Maybe somebody must have broken their ig.

Almost May
Is it possible for April to feel like the month went on forever, and also feel like it flew by?

Next week, I’ll be donating blood and going to the dentist. Not on the same day. But it will make the week interesting I’m sure. I’m still trying to have a routine in my life. Geoff will have to stay home with Elijah while I’m at the dentist, so that may be challenging for him. Sometimes Elijah can hang out with Dad and be good, sometimes, he just screams because Geoff isn’t Mom.

Katie, Katie, Katie, what are you thinking?
Tom Cruise? I’m a little disappointed, but what can you do?

I’m going to try to make a new dish this weekend. Baked spaghetti. I figure we need to inject new dinners in the rotation once in a while. Some meals we used to eat I grew tired of, like chili. I think I may be ready to reintroduce that. I’ll let you know how it turns out.

Well, I should sign off. I’ll close with a quote from Pleasantville.

David: I know you miss her, I mean, you told me you did. But maybe it’s not just the cooking or the cleaning you miss. Maybe it’s something else. Maybe you can’t even describe it. Maybe you only know it when it’s gone. Maybe it’s like there’s whole piece of you that’s missing too. Look at her, dad. Doesn’t she look pretty like that? Doesn’t she look just as beautiful as the first time you met her? Do you really want her back the way she was? Doesn’t she just look wonderful? Now don’t you wish you could tell her that?

Good Day, And Welcome To The Great White North
I wanted to wait until we told the family first, but now I’m ready to let y’all know when you can see the Armstrongs on tour in Alberta. We’ll be flying up on June 19th ( & 20th) and coming home on July 1 (Canada Day). Since we don’t fly out until 5:30 on the 1st, I will still get to celebrate Canada Day, at least a little bit.

Here’s a picture from many moons ago when our circle of friends used to celebrate Canada Day together. This is Geoff, Jason, Karen and Doug at Fort Edmonton.

I should check to see what Cowtown does to celebrate, perhaps a parade. Who knows, this may be Elijah’s only Canada Day celebration. One never knows what the future will hold. I’m trying to not get ahead of myself and make solid plans, there is so much I want to do! Lisa’s having a party, a “come meet the baby, and oh yes Melissa and Geoff will be there too” party. And a trip to Banff is a must.

We had to fly out on different days, but we get to fly home together. The things you have to deal with when flying on points. Not sure how I’ll work out the carrying of luggage (mine & Elijah’s) as well as his stroller/carseat. But for the 1st time ever, I’ll get to pre-board!

Yesterday I called Mike to tell him & Meg the details of the trip. We spoke for an hour. It was fun, we talked a lot about tv/movies, and how they are settling in Calgary. We’re hoping to have one night when the 3 of us can go over and check out their place. Also to give them one-on-one time with their nephew.

I’ll close with a quote from Red Dwarf.

Toaster: Howdy doodly do. How’s it going? I’m Talkie, Talkie Toaster, your chirpy breakfast companion. Talkie’s the name, toasting’s the game. Anyone like any toast?
Lister: Look, I don’t want any toast, and he doesn’t want any toast. In fact, no one around here wants any toast. Not now, not ever. No toast.
Toaster: How ’bout a muffin?
Lister: Or muffins. Or muffins. We don’t like muffins around here. We want no muffins, no toast, no teacakes, no buns, baps, baguettes or bagels, no croissants, no crumpets, no pancakes, no potato cakes and no hot-cross buns and definitely no smegging flapjacks.
Toaster: Aah, so you’re a waffle man.

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Mmm, Ice Cream Cake

What’s better than ice cream cake? A free slice of ice cream cake. Cold Stone is giving away free slices of ice cream cake from 5-8pm tonight. Visit the Cold Stone website to find your nearest location and see if they are participating.

What’s Happening
Today the Armstrongs participated in their first family activity, the Cherry Creek Sneak. Elijah and I did the 3.1 mile walk, and Geoff did the 5 mile run. My race started at 8am, so we departed for the mall at 7:20am, walking of course. It was a cold walk, but once we got there (7:55am) it was time to go. Geoff stood in the cold waiting for us to finish (50 minutes), then his race began 9:25am. He finished his race in 42 minutes, but we missed him crossing the finish line. He was very pleased with his run, and we hope to see if his picture will be posted on the Sneak website on Tuesday (I’ll let you know if it is). All this excitement has caused Geoff to finally post on his blog. Yeah, he has a blog, and he hasn’t posted on it in 8 months. Hopefully it won’t be another 8 months between posts.

The weather did not get any warmer after we were done our races, so we opted to take the shuttle home. It dropped us off a few blocks from home. It’s raining now, so we were lucky the rain held off until the Sneak was done.

In travel news, we may just use our points to get one ticket home and buy the other, or we may try to fly out on different days. The only problem I have with flying out on different days is I will have to have a note from Geoff saying I am allowed to take Elijah out of the country. And I don’t really want the stress of someone having a problem with the note.

Not much else is going on. Just being a mom, and trying to stay sane. I hope to arrange some tea dates for this week, and get to Hallmark to buy Mother’s Day cards. Oh yeah, and I have to make an appointment to see the dentist (play horror music here). It’s been two years since I’ve seen the dentist, and then it wasn’t so much fun (crown lengthening). I find most dentists aren’t so nice, so I hope to luck out and find a good one.

I’m going to close with a quote from What About Bob?

Bob Wiley: There are two types of people in this world: those who like Neil Diamond and those who don’t.