Bit of this and a bit of that......

Good grief.......I'm such a slacker. Been almost a year since I last wrote anything. I still really miss the way blogging worked back when there was yahoo360 but anyway.... Let's see.....what's been going on? Mini-me moved out the end of January is is now a "big girl livin' the dream"! Much to her daddy's dismay, even tho things didn't work out with her current roommate, she is not moving back home and is moving in to a new place with a new roommate the 1st of August. "The Boy" managed to make it thru another year of school with no suspensions/expulsions and minimal "he's missing this assignment" phone calls. He's been single for over a month which I think must a record for him :P We finally managed to take a trip in the trailer on the 10th. Our wonderful "living the dream daughter" was heading up to Evolve music festival in Antigonish that weekend and since her current roommate ditched her once when they were out at the club, we thought it might be a good idea (since that was who she was traveling there with) to take a trip the same weekend to be a little bit closer just in case we gt the "MOM/DAD she left without me" phone call. So off we headed to Amherst. Quite honestly, I don't know WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF I was thinking when I decided THAT would be a good vacation spot, GOOD GOD!!! The blonde was really showing that day, cause I should have known the weather would be somewhat comparable to the disgusting heat Moncton gets. All I can say is thank god for AC!!!!! Like most of the trips I plan, I secretly plan them to be in areas where I have some dead people so on the hottest bleepin' day we drove the 20 minutes up to Oxford t check out Pine Grove Cemetery and get some pics of monuments. I have the best hubby and kid ever cause out they came looking for stones for my dead people so it didn't end up taking as long as it would have if it was just me. Found who we were looking for, jumped back in the truck at which time I realized "shit.....lost my camera case somewhere in there. At 30C temps, screw that, I'll buy a new one at the dollar store :P! Cause "The Boy" sometimes gets car sick still, I was sitting in the back behind him. We just had pulled on the highway and gotten up to speed (110km) when he decided it was to windy and was going to roll up his window that had been down while we were walking the cemetery. All I remember hearing is HOLY POOP (yes he said the word poop, I'd kick his ass if he said shit in front of me) WHAT THE HECK IS THAT???!!!! I thought he saw something OUT his window so look up and there is this freaky ass humongous bug that I STILL have no clue wtf it was. All I remember is effin big...effin brown....effin legs....and effin white! That and a whole lot of "effin" coming from ME in the backseat!!! As a parent, I can be good about censoring myself, but there was NO censoring myself when I saw that...I didn't even know I was saying it until AFTERWARDS! I'm crapping my pants......pretty sure The Boy was, but there's John's driving along like nothing is going on but with this big shit eattin' grin on his face??????? The window was now up...I stopped saying F-F-F-F-F and I turn to him and say what the f-censoryourself-heck are you grinning at????? He says I was just picturing the look on your face in the backseat if the wind had've grabbed that bug and thrown it back there with you......I can't remember if I censored myself with the reply...oops Needless to say, I am never going back to Amherst cause I'm convinced they have a Jurassic Bug Park there and something got loose!!!

More Tips to a Happy Marriage

MARITAL TIP #2 - Remember to always treat your spouse like a partner, not your live-in maid. When using q-tips to clean your ears, dispose of your OWN nastyass used q-tips, don't leave them lying around everywhere. If you fail to do this, and your spouse repeatedly asks you to please stop doing that and to clean them up, HEED THE WARNING. Failure to do so could result in you opening your briefcase at the office and a month's worth of nastyass stockpiled used qtips falling out on your desk ***I can't claim this lil gem for my own sadly, one of my friends did this to her husband***

Tips to a happy marriage

Marital tip # 1 - want to make your husband appreciate the things you do for him and don't do for him? Next time you are hanging up his button up work shirts, and you do up the top button so they don't slide off the hanger on to the floor, and he bitches about it the next morning when putting them on cause he overslept and is in a rush. After he leaves for work, go thru his closet buttoning up every M'f'n button on his shirts, including the cuffs. I guarantee he will THEN appreciate not only what you DO do, but what you DON'T do!

Family tree - new NB resource

Even though I have now been tracking my family tree since 2007, I still consider myself a "newbie" to it all. It's hard not to when some of the other researchers you are in contact with have been researching almost as long as you yourself have been alive! One of the things I have noticed often since beginning to research is that there are an incredible amount of people out there that seem to be content with just taking whatever info they found on-line and adding it into their own information without doing their own homework to see if it is even CLOSE to being accurate. Myself, I am the complete opposite, I am almost OBSESSIVE about verifying details. If I find something out there that possibly fills in a gap I'll make a note of it then start digging into on-line birth records, death records, marriages, etc., etc., looking for that one document that will confirm or deny the claim found before I even think of adding it into my own research. I just like accuracy (as much as you can be accurate with people that have been dead for 100-300 years!). Sometimes, when researching your family tree looking for those "missing" family members, you get lucky and come across an on-line resource that fills in some of those gaps. Today was one of those days. A big thanks goes out to another family tree reasearcher, genaddict, who has posted the burials for Lower Brighton Cemetery in Brighton, Carleton County, New Brunswick. The booklet, originally compiled by Hubert Bryant of Woodstock, NB in 1992, can be found at the following link: http://genaddict.livejournal.com/8510.html

Gen Gathering - New Genealogy Resource

A new resource I was just directed to that some may be interested in http://www.gengathering.com/index.php Looking for some info on a family member who moved far from home? Or maybe who is just far from where you make your home now? The above site has a bunch of researchers who are willing to help out if and when they can. You will need to create a user name and password and then you can check and see if there are any volunteers for the area where your people made their home.

So I am completely and utterly EXHAUSTED!!! Why you may ask?? Cause I damn near had a heart attack this morning! Well two!! Around 3:45 this morning my 17-year-old was yelling MOM in my face and shaking me (she must have tried whispering for awhile which didn't work LOL). She says I think there are racoons outside my window again trying to get in. She mentioned this a few weeks back but I thought she was either dreaming or a tad insane (that would be from her dad's side of the family). So I drag my "you just scared the crap out of me - someone get the defibrillator" butt into her room and slowly peel back the curtain, looking side to side. Nothing!!! (Damn my husband and his insane hillbilly inbred kin - no offense to any inbred hillbillies I may have as friends ). Nicely told her there was nothing there while resisting the urge to smack her in the head with her pillow. "Mom, I know something is there!!! Rae (her cat) was hissing and growling and I could hear something picking at my screen!!! I know it's those racoons again," She says to me! "Dev, there's nothing there, look", as I peel back the curtain. HOLY FFFFFFFFFF WORD I SCREAM...and I did not say fudge! Two faces come running towards me like I am the tastiest piece of leftover chicken carcass they have ever seen! Will racoons eat carcass covered in poo cause I am pretty sure I damn near crapped my pants! Apparently they felt guilty about scaring my child and me and felt they needed to apologize by putting on a show for us. By indulging in some HRA - hot raccoon action - RIGHT THERE!!! OUTSIDE HER WINDOW!! She starts yelling OMG STOP!!! I DON'T WANT TO SEE RACCOON PORN!! As if it isn't bad enough I am almost having a heart attack, on the verge of pooing cause they scared me so bad....now she wants me to pee myself too laughing at her Raccoon porn comment? I need a nap!

Loaded Potato and Chicken Casserole

2 pounds boneless chicken breasts, cubed (1") 8-10 medium potatoes, cut in 1/2" cubes 1/3 cup olive oil 1&1/2 tsp salt 1 Tbsp. black pepper 1 Tbsp. paprika 2 Tbsp. garlic powder 6 Tbsp. hot sauce Topping: 2 cups fiesta blend cheese 1 cup crumbled bacon 1 cup diced green onion Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Spray a 9X13" baking dish with cooking spray. In a large bowl mix together the olive oil, salt, pepper, paprika, garlic powder and hot sauce. Add the cubed potatoes and stir to coat. Carefully scoop the potatoes into the prepared baking dish, leaving behind as much of the olive oil/hot sauce mixture as possible. Bake the potatoes for 45-50 minutes, stirring every 10-15 minutes, until cooked through and crispy and browned on the outside. While the potatoes are cooking, add the cubed chicken to the bowl with the left over olive oil/hot sauce mixture and stir to coat. Once the potatoes are fully cooked, remove from the oven and lower the oven temperature to 400 degrees. Top the cooked potatoes with the raw marinated chicken. In a bowl ix together the cheese, bacon and green onion and top the raw chicken with the cheese mixture. Return the casserole to the oven and bake for 15 minutes or until chicken is cooked through and the topping is bubbly delicious. Thanks to my FB buddy Vicki for giving me this recipe.