She flies thru the air with the greatest of ease

Yesterday's meeting was informative yet unsuccessful as we hit a dead end with our plan. There were a lot of great ideas, but unfortunately the product developers are not able to proceed with our plans until the software bigwig agrees to look at our plan. Sound confusing? That's all the details I can give ;) basically we use a software that could be improved with this plan of ours. If successful it would be a very big deal for long term care facilities. We have all the connections and templates it's a matter of the software agreeing to try it. Blah.
The doctor is still pretty convinced that we will make it happen, I'll just keep working until needed again I suppose.
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Cute side note my mini me sister has been texting me non stop for the past 24hours; one of her birthday gifts was a cell phone! As much as I enjoy the texts, shes 13! Geez.. Most the texts are followed by "hehehe" which makes me laugh each time.
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So my adventure today consisted on myself and my mom driving to Montreal and taking flying trapeze lessons! My mom has done it a few times, and I had been making fun of her for it but decided to check it out. It was hard! My muscles hurt sooo much, and I'm pretty sure I pulled a muscle in my butt. The class was just over 2 hours, the first was spent practicing more basic moves such as pulling your legs onto the bar and swinging upside down. You have to time things just right, and keep good posture for the harder moves to work. My mom was practicing more advanced moves, shes actually pretty good. Once you learned posture and technique they brought in the catcher and you had to swing from your bar and they caught you while swinging on another. I am pleased to say I successfully did it! :) I was so nervous and scared but it was fun. Might even go again.

Happy Birthday Mini me :)

Today is the birthday of my 13 year old half sister :) I was trying to arrange for some flowers but not too sure yet how that turned out. I thought about calling her too, but chickened out in the end. Cause you see to call my sister that would mean calling my dads house and this is not something I have ever done before. I thought I was ready but I'm not.

My little 13 year old sister is the oldest of my two half sisters (the other is 10). She looks a lot like me, except she has brown eyes instead of blue (one of the few differences). Side profiles are very similar, both dark brown hair, long faces with our giant foreheads we inherited from our father. I myself am pretty close to being a genetic mix of 50/50 between my parents (who happen to look similar) my little sister looks like our dad and nothing like her mom.

Now the fact we look a lot alike may not sound like much, she is after all my sister. But consider the fact we met for the first time only 3 years ago. Whoa, surprise not only do you have a whole family you knew nothing about, there's a small child who is like your clone. So similar that even you confuse her pictures as your own, mini me clone. It was overwhelmingly exciting and terrifying at the same time when I first saw her picture. I imagine the rest of the family probably felt something similar seeing me a grown version of my sister.

She's a pretty cool kid. I don't know her that well yet but were getting there. I know she is quiet and shy, anxious at time, enjoys soccer and volleyball, fashion and animals. According to our family her mannerisms are similar to mine, I'm still looking for those. I had a blast dancing with her at my wedding :). She mails me letters every now and then totally cute. They usually consist of something along the lines of " hi how are you here is a picture I drew you"

I'd like to have her stay with us this summer but Hubby thinks she might be too young still. I don't even know if her mother would allow it. Either way we will be planning at least one weekend there this summer. It's hard to go often but I do get 3 weeks of holidays and still have a week thats unplanned...

I'm such a chicken I can't believe I couldn't call.. I sent a text message instead. I hope the flower plan worked out.. Maybe tomorrow I will have enough guts ;)

Happy Birthday BabyG :)

Today my little sister turns 17! Which makes me feel really, really old lol. I didn't make the trip to my moms house (45mins away) due to potential of bad weather, but I already told her I would take her for her first manicure and pedicure :) so we will have to plan a date for that.

So in ode to her birthday I thought I would tell you a little bit about her.

BabyG came into my life sometime between my 10th and 11th birthday. She was still a baby at the time, not even able to walk. I think the first time I met her was when my mom took lil brother and I over to my stepdad's old apartment. I instantly was smitten with this little girl. She had blonde hair and big blue eyes, cute as a button. I adored any babies but especially her. I was excited because I knew I would get to play with her often and if I was lucky she would be my sister someday (I desperately wanted a sister).

As BabyG grew from a baby to a toddler she became my little sidekick. It was obvious that I was her favorite ;), her own sister was too busy playing with lil brother to pay much attention to her, and lil brother had no use for a baby. I loved having her around all the time, she chatted non stop. Like seriously non stop, and you could get her to say the funniest things. I remember once at my grandparents house my grandfather made her and my little cousin sit on the screened porch for dinner, he didn't want to listen to the chatter lol. BabyG quickly became the little sister I had always wanted. If someone needed her to do something or ask her a question they always asked me first, I would then turn and ask her. If you skipped me she would either not answer or come to me first before responding.

As we grew up she started to not need to be around me anymore, I think part had to do with the fact that there are 10 years between us. She started to become closer to her actual sister (sister 1) and for a few years we barely even spoke. She stopped being a chatterbox, and became really quiet. My step sisters have both parents they need to split their time between (unlike lil brother and me), and without saying how I think as she aged BabyG started to feel the strains of divorce. Divorce can work fine when both parents are mature about it, but let's face it that's not usually the case.

BabyG and I are not as close these days as I would like us to be, but her finally being a teenager has definitely helped. We are always on different stages of life but now we are able to relate. She has grown into quite the smart and responsible young lady (awwwwww). We have had a few really good chats, and she was a bridesmaid in my wedding (I saw her absolutely hammered that night it was hilarious). I confide in her at times, and although what she tells me is limited I hope she will comfortable enough to confide in me again.

I tend to have a bit of a motherly instinct or protectiveness over BabyG. I'm sort of like it with all of my siblings but a bit more with the younger ones. Her nickname comes from the obvious fact that she is the baby of the family; but also like I mentioned before she is a blonde, blue eyed petite sort of innocent pixie looking girl. She gets away with a lot more than her older siblings ever did, and she has her parents (especially her dad) wrapped around her little finger. It's fairly obvious that in the eyes of her father she will always be a baby, and although she is becoming an adult she will always be my kid sister. I pity the first boy she brings home ;) between her father, myself, and lil brother (who barely speaks to her but would clearly put anyone in place who messes with his sisters) that poor boy won't know what's coming. ;)

Oh speaking of having parents wrapped around her finger; I have made an observation. She has this ability to shall we say "manipulate" For lack of a better word. Girls got skills ;). Luckily she's not evil, nothing wrong with get what you want.

I will have to admit I keep a close eye on her facebook ;) and there is lots I know about her even without her telling me lol. Which is why I know that despite the craziness she has been exposed to in her life she will do just fine. I think I mentioned before she is a lot like me, she has traits about her that she's picked up from all or at least most of her siblings (she has two other step siblings), but there is a lot in her that is me. Even my mom sees it and has made that reference. I'm not sure if deep down she is as troubled as I was as a teen but she has enough sense and maturity about her that in the end she makes the right decisions. From what I understand she has some deep conversations at times with my mom. I had a pretty deep one with her last year in the back of the car on the way home from a bridal show in Toronto. She's a good kid, and if I may say so she's turning into quite the knockout ;)

So happy birthday BabyG :) I hope your year is awesome and filled with many fun filled experiences. Love ya kid

A melting pot entry

This post is going to be a little bit of everything. Or not really everything but the few things things I would have wrote about during the past day if I had not of forgotten my iPad (works iPad) at work. And yes we use iPads at work, I'm sure I will describe my job at some point.

First of all I do not really enjoy cooking, and don't tell my husband but I'm actually cooking dinner while posting this. If he knew he would probably claim that's why I "always" burn stuff. In fairness I don't always burn things but I do have bad timing. Something is always ready way sooner than anticipated. Tonight I'm just cooking sausage penne and with the risk of jinxing myself I will say its pretty hard to mess that one up. We bought a BBQ recently and I can't wait to use it. Or should I say for Hubby to use it ;) one less part of dinner for me to do. At least I try to cook, I have a friend who hasn't a clue of where her kitchen even is.

I spoke with one of my sisters yesterday (I have 5 total); since I'm not sure if I want to use names on here or not I will follow the lead of my fav blog and refer to her by the affectionate nickname I've always used (I don't think she knows I call her this). So back to my story, BabyG just recently returned from a two week trip to nicaragua. She went with her school and stayed with a host family. They were introduced to a completely different lifestyle and poverty that was much different from what they'd seen back at home. Plus they got to do a little sightseeing which included a volcano, a jail, some boat ride where they met a monkey and some other interesting sights. I wish I had the opportunity to do things like that when I was in school. BabyG is in a special language stream since she went French emersion public school. She is already bilingual and taking more French, Spanish, and German classes in high school. She is a pretty smart cookie when she wants to be; which I phrased like that because she takes after me in so many ways, one being our slacking in high school. So anyways it was kind of nice to talk to her on the phone, this is something we never do. Her birthday is on Sunday and I will do an official blog intro birthday post then. One thing about her you probably have guessed, shes not a baby anymore. I will explain her nickname later.

My last point today will be brief but I feel the need to vent. Why is it that we adults simply cannot act our age? Is it this bad in every field? I've heard nurses can be catty (I am one) but I find all professions working in long term care are and can be equally as bad. A conversation I had yesterday was taken out of context and the person I was speaking to purposely brought it up to someone else which made me look bad. Not cool people time to grow up. That is all on that I said I would be brief, I'm sure I will write about work frustrations plenty of times.