I just read this, and initially it made me giggle. It seems so drastic to restrict driving in this manner. (Cars with even numbered plates can drive on one day and odd numbered on the next.) However I guess I shouldn’t be shocked, this is from the country who’ve implemented, successfully a system that only allows one child per family….
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Driving Restricitons in China
Sunday, July 20th, 2008I did not go and get dead,
Monday, March 24th, 2008Hello.
I think I have a totally excusable reason for my lack of posting, but it’s not that! We’ve finally moved and we have none of those complicated internet thingys. We get it tomorrow, there will be rejoicing!
So until then I am in a deli, hijacking Adam’s super-dee-duper laptop to read my emails and such. (I love my laptop, but it’s harder to type on than this one)
I have some blog entries that I need to get up and running, they’ve all been written and edited, in my head. Stay tuned! They will mostly involve Trixie. Does that make me a mommy blogger? Is that a good or bad thing? Should I care, should I be labelled? I refuse to be labelled! (heh, I was watching some “My So Called Life” yesterday. )
While I have time a wee Trixie related snippet.
Today Adam and I are taking our sweet baby to get her passport so we can take her home and get her a REAL passport, (suck it jparks!, hee hee.) and as we were leaving home at an early hour to come here to first check our email we were congratulating ourselves for being organized and leaving the house in good time. However when we got to the deli we realized that we forgotten the documents for the passport. Apparently we aren’t as organized as we thought. I will take credit for the properly packed diaper bag though, thank you very much. (If we’ve left the house 10 times with Trixie, the bag has been properly packed 4 times. Parenthood, it’s great.)
Well Adam should be here to pick me up shortly, after having gone home to get the stuff for the passport.
more later.
36 Weeks and lovely Internet people!
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008Yesterday I was 36 weeks pregnant. It’s rather exciting because I’m one week away from the baby being considered full term, a place I never thought I’d get to. So surreal.
Along with being 36 weeks I am tired. Tie, to the -erd. Yesterday it was toss up between sleep and eating, eventually eating won out because it’s hard to sleep when one’s hungry. I blame the sleepyness and hunger to the baby gaining an ounce a day! That’s a lot!
So with being pregnant comes gifts I’ve learned and I’ve been spoiled by people that I didn’t expect to spoil me. Lovely Internet people! Lisa at Random Outlaw sent me a lilac moby which was perfect because I had also ordered a chocolate one so that Adam wouldn’t have to wear a girly colour, and now we each can have one! YAY! Thanks Lisa! I love it! Regan gave me many many outfits for the baby, all for 6 months and later, which shows how genius she really is. And cute! It’s nice to know that I will have a totally stylish baby in spite of my lack of style. Thanks Regan! I will take many pictures of the baby being cute and well dressed!
It makes me feel so loved to have people I’ve met online give me gifts! What a lovely place the Internet is! Also on the message board I frequent we’ve done 2nd and 3rd trimester swaps so I’ve gotten gifts from other women who are in my due date club, which is so fun! Such nice people!
New Year Round Up
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008I would have titled it Year End Round Up, but today’s the first, so I’m late.
Remember last year when I did the meme where you posted the first line from each month? Let’s do it again!
A Year in Review
Well, Blogger has been having some issues with our blog, and then we went on vacation.
In case you’ve been wondering why Dea and I have disappeared for the last few days, we’ve been moving into a new place.
So today mother nature lets me know that I’m not pregnant. For those playing along, that’s bad news in Chez Berkan.
I’ve returned from the Great White North, which is really more brownish than white right now.
Today I went to an injections class.
I haven’t made it a secret that Adam and I really want to have a baby.
No really it’s still Canada Day.
Chachi seems to have eaten something not so good for his little tummy again.
My glasses are in the other room, and well it’s hot and I’m pregnant.
We had an ultrasound today to check up on the Murp and make sure that her heart is okay, as there was a small chance that she would have inherited Adam’s funky heart issue that nearly killed him as a baby.
To please the masses.
As of last weekend all of the baby’s grandparents know that we are planning a home birth.
New Years Eve.
Monday, December 31st, 2007Looks like tonight will be a nice and quiet night for Adam and I. We don’t have many plans for tonight, a movie and something bubbly, champagne for Adam and apple cider for me.
As I was checking my blogs out today I see that many people made a resolutions list, or a non-resolution list. I generally don’t make one because I never keep them, and then I feel like crap when I realized I suck. So I try not to make them, but still nagging in the back of my head is the ever resolution to lose weight. However this year I get to not make that resolution, even quietly because I am pregnant, and I shouldn’t lose weight right now. Not even right after I have the baby, I have a buffer.
It’s the best non-resolution ever….
Sometimes Facebook creeps me out.
Monday, November 19th, 2007I like Facebook for the ability for me to keep in touch with all of my friends at home in a really easy manner. I like it because I’ve been able to reconnect with some old friends from high school. Sometimes it’s fun to run across your ex’s profile and see that’s he’s not aged so well, then you can gloat a little. And sometimes I get really creeped out when skeletons from childhood friends past emerge and leave me messages, all shocked that I’m married and grown up.
I send back nice messages that, YAY California is wonderful, I have an amazing husband, yadda yadda. But what I really want to say is “Dude I’m 30, so my being married isn’t that weird! And also there’s a reason I don’t have my maiden name on there!” But I don’t instead I end up friending them, and they languish on my friend list, and we never converse again.
Sometimes Facebook is so weird.
But it’s a great place to put Chachi pictures! AND SCRABBLE! I haven’t mentioned the scrabble. I loves the scrabble so!
Recipes
Sunday, November 4th, 2007Did you all know that Rachel Ray‘s EVOO has been added to the Websters Dictionary this year? I don’t know what I think about it, after all EVOO is an acronym, not a word, although in colloquialism it has become a word. Anyhow that is neither here nor there.
I’ve updated my recipe blog, with 3 new ones. I especially love the chicken one, perhaps I will make it tonight, although I only have marinated artichokes.
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007Do you know that feeling when you are so hungry that you’re nauseaus? But the thought of food makes you want to rip your toenails off with chopsticks?
Okay just checking.
So I’ve had to add the word thingy on my comments. I’ve been getting spammers trying to sell you all viagra. So just to be sure, I don’t want to sell you viagra. I’m sure if you need it you can find it, but I’m not selling it.
Now to find me some sturdy chopsticks….
Oh, Fun Project!
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007Karen over at chookooloonks had a really fabulous idea to start a journal written by various bloggers. The premise is that each blogger would each complete a page in whatever manner they want, be it art, prose or macaroni art as Karen wittily suggested. After the blogger was done then he or she would mail it to the next recipient who would do their thing then forward it on. Finally when it reached everyone who was interested, it would be sent back to Karen, who is going to dismantle it, frame the individual pages and sell them, donating the revenue to charity.
I think it’s such an amazing idea. I already have a plan of what I’m going to do. I’ll keep it mostly a secret, but there’s going to be a Deadra original poem and lots of colour! Since I’m 22nd on the list, I expect it will take some time to get to me, but that also means I’ll get to see the 21 pieces before me.
So when I get it I’ll tell you all about it.
Oh and did I mention how excited I am to do this? And what a great idea it is? I really love that it will benefit a charity and in a way unite a lot of strangers.
Creepy Website.
Monday, May 14th, 2007I came across this website that tells you what sexual offenders are in your area. I don’t know if they have a Canadian version of this. But in any case it’s a little bit fascinating and a lot creepy.
(my zip is 94086)