Um...Yeah...What the Hell?!

Ok so if this story hasn't already reached you, I'll be very surprised. All I can say is ...WOW! Feeling not so good about traveling anywhere anymore. I tend to agree with the DJ on my fave radio station in Calgary...bring back the death penalty in Canada for freaks like this. Yeah, yeah some of you may have serious opposition to this for various reasons, but seriously for a crime like this where there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever about who did it, well, I just don't think this fruitloop is gonna be rehabilitated. Absolute craziness! Hope my mom makes it here all right (being as how she's traveling by bus).

On another note, I got to play "the closer you get, the slower I drive, so just get off my ass already" game today. I really wanted the guy to follow me into the parking lot so I could inform him that if he had rear ended me and hurt my kids that he would have been sued to the max. Knowing my luck he woulda snapped and killed me though....people are so stupid. And speaking of bad drivers, my God, do people not know the turning radius(es) of their vehicles? Or are they just retarded when trying to get in and out of parking spaces. Uh....people you gotta turn that round thing that sits in front of you (BTW it's called a steering wheel but I don't want to overload your brain by trying to give you too much info all at once). You can't just go in reverse then get a deer in a headlights look when you figure out that you have no room to turn anymore. Sheesh....too many dumb people have driver's licences.






So Ryan has discovered a new use for cherry pie...appearantly it's good for your hair. I think this looks cool, kinda like he received a pretty serious head injury. Man that was fun to get out but it was great for a good laugh.

Upgrading

Well seeing as how Paul has received his awesome new promotion (and subsequent pay raise) I have decided we can start improving our standard of living (ha! I just needed an excuse to go shopping, lol). I bought a lot of stuff this week. Let's see, Ryan got a new "big boy" bed and bedding, Rosie got a loft bed, P and I got new bedding (really stellar bedding that Paul says is just weird) and the bathroom got a new shower curtain. Oh and the kids got some cool toys from Ikea (a dragon for Ryan and a crocodile for miss Rosie). And Rosie got a bunch of new clothes for preschool.

Fishocide

So yesterday our adorable 17 month old son unwittingly destroyed our fairly expensive planted fish tank. Not the tank itself but all the living (or rather now mostly dead) things in it. Meio had a rather complicated CO2 reactor built (actually his entire filtration system is quite weird) to help the plants. Appearantly Ryan got his mitts in there, disassembled part of it, releasing all sorts of not so good for the fishoes/plants stuff into the water. I think we've lost all but 1 of the fish (and some of them were not cheap) and we have yet to see if the plants can be saved. So we chalked it up to a learning experience...just because you think your little kids can't reach something, does not mean they won't think of a creative way to get into what they're not supposed to.

On a happier note, I managed to get Rosie into a preschool for September, yay! She's very excited and I am totally shocked that she is actually old enough to begin such a venture.