girls are weird.

30 January 2007

i deserved a break yesterday

I am ashamed. I did something so naughty yesterday, so hideously unlike me. Yesterday...I got lunch at McDonald's. DON'T LOOK AT ME! DON'T LOOK AT MEEEEE!

I had a wicked craving for a fast food burger and McDonald's is the only joint in our area. It's also on the way home from the grocery store, which is exactly when the craving hit precisely at noon, and they have a drive through. Damn them for making crappy food so convenient! I ordered a meal for myself and the healthiest thing on the kid's menu for Jack (a burger, carrot sticks, and an apple juice) and slinked guiltily back home.

To sum up the meal, I'll recount my son's assessment of it. I unwrapped his food and he said "Wot's dat?", pointing at the burger. I told him what it was, and he promptly opened it up, flung the meat across the table, and proceeded to eat both buns.

Oh, I would kill for a decent burger right now.

[posted by: Lisa Durbin] --

23 January 2007

ring the alarm

Yesterday, Auntie Caroline took us to the fire station - it was very exciting! I've been looking forward to it all week and had been making "nee naw" siren noises all day long. I sat in a real fire engine and got to meet a few firemen. We even got to see them in action because they got called out to a fire. The truck left the station with the lights and siren going! It was loud, but we didn't mind. A fireman gave us a little stuffed Dalmatian dog toy, and we also got some great stickers saying "I met a fireman" and "I've seen a fire engine." The firemen were very nice, although they weren't lounging around shirtless like they show in some movies. It was a very good day and I'm so happy that we went!

Oh, and Jack came along too.

[posted by: Lisa Durbin] --

17 January 2007

marathon man

On April 22, my fabulous husband will be running his cotton socks off in the London Marathon in memory of his cousin Adrian. He's never run a full marathon before (he ran the Great North Run half marathon a few years ago), and he's been training diligently in the mucky English winter weather in preparation. I'm so proud of him for taking on such a mammoth task and for doing this to honour a wonderful young man who was taken far too soon.

Paul has a page set up for donations here. Our company will match donations up to 1,000 euros, so every single penny counts. Please, please sponsor him - this is such a worthy cause and he looks really cute in running shorts.

Thank you!!

[posted by: Lisa Durbin] --

04 January 2007

that's right, i have no life

Ken Russell is on this year's Celebrity Big Brother. WHY? Seriously, my jaw is still sitting on the living room floor from last night. Jermaine Jackson is also in da howse, and his brother Tito is a judge on a celebrity singing show on the BBC. I'm both terrified and intrigued by this sudden influx of Jacksons to this country. Other amusing Big Brother celebs this year include Leo "I've Still Got That 70s Perm" Sayer and Dirk Benedict. It tickles me that viewers under the age of 30 are confused as to who these people are (as reflected in the reactions of some of the other "celebrities".)

It's going to be an interesting 25 days. For those of us who don't get out much, that is.

[posted by: Lisa Durbin] --

02 January 2007

happy new year!

Amazingly, I managed to stay awake past midnight and ring in the new year with my lovely husband. I even had a glass of bubbly, because that's the kind of party animal that I am. Then I went to bed. Rawk on!

It's been a grand year, but then again, the last few years have also been grand. I expect the coming year to be grand as well, but extremely tiring. I never make resolutions, particularly when I'm pregnant. What am I going to give up, water? Vegetables? Doing housework? Wait, I like the sound of that last one. What we do every year is we eat like fiends during the holidays and then get back to something resembling a healthy diet when the holidays are over. Take today, for example. So far, I've had a bowl of my favourite granola cereal, some wholemeal bread with chickpea pate and soup for lunch, an apple, and I'm planning on making grilled salmon with salsa verde, salad, and potatoes for supper. My halo is a'shinin'.

We had a fantastic Christmas, and the best part was seeing Jack getting excited about everything (unlike last year when the whole Christmas concept eluded him). He discovered the word "baubles" (that's Christmas tree ornaments back home) and enjoyed pointing them out on our tree sounding a lot like the fish from Finding Nemo: "Baubles! Baubles! Baubles!" All of his presents actually did arrive on time, restoring my faith in the Early Learning Centre. His new favourite sentence is "MY digger" with a warning glance at the dog should he venture too close to said vehicle.

My big present from Paul was a spa day. A spa day! A whole day involving a massage, body scrub, facial, pedicure, manicure, floating around in a pool, and lunch. Oh yes.

I hope you all had a fabulous holiday. x

[posted by: Lisa Durbin] --