Hello all, You shold know that I am no longer writting here as I have moved to Blogger. My new address is www.jenreallyspeaking.blogspot.com See you there. Jen

It has been my observation, over this past summer, that there is need for a new class to be taught in our Schools and that is a class teaching Etiquette. I am not suggestiong that this class should comprise of "use this fork for salad" and "you should send a thank you card when you recieve a gift",though these practices have been lost too, but instead one that teaches the importance of technology etiquette. Let me explain. I have noticed the ridiculous amount of people who have come to Subway (where I work) to order their meal with either a cell phone or even worse MP3 player attached to their ear. This means, they are preoccupied with their device and become very annoying as customers. They take too long to order because we are now in competion with the person on the other side of the phone or, they cant hear me asking "do you want cheese on that?" becasue they are in another world with Fall out Boy or the Pussycat dolls. As a result of this unnessicary competion, the service becomes slow and the costumers in line become anxious. I have also notice in my own home how we are robbed of communication and community living when these devices are present. Just the other day I was sitting in my living room with my husband (whom I love), my brother's in law (whom I love as well) and other neighbourhood kids (love love love). I realized very quickly that though there were many people in the room I was alone. You see 2 of them were playing videogames, 2 more were listening to their MP3 players (loud enough for us all to hear) and the other was on his laptop. We attempted to have a conversation with each other but we found we could never get the attention of those using their favortie peices of Technology. That is when this blog came to mind. Don't get me wrong, i do appreciate the convenieces of Technology, when they are used appropriately. I do fear though, that if things arent changed, we may loose human interaction as we know it. Tell me fellow bloggers, what are your thoughts? Do you suppose somthing could actually be done about this or are we doomed to live in a society where manners are lost.

We have gone and have since returned and I have finally uploaded some pictures. If you are interested pics from the conference and the vacation are there. Our visit with family was so nice and to be honest it was rather difficult to leave but once we were on the road and much pray and tons of God's grace i stopped crying.. LOL Seriously though we had tons and tons of fun and are now enjoying some time with Chris' brothers Donald and Robert. They are 13 and 14 and are fitting in very well with the Madoc Gang. While we were home we Golfed, laid on the beach, played on the beach.. peed in the Ocean, ate Lobster,scallops(at smiths), haddock, mussels, damaged a golf cart, ran over a rock and lost a hub cap, went out with friends, celebrated my Parents 25th wedding anniversary, played bocci ball, walked the dogs, shopped, laid around, ate alot of Straw berries.. you know the usual vacation stuff.. anyway I really should get back to finding my house (everything got dropped when we got home) Jen

The Mouse gets alot done! I have discovered that when I am home alone for an entire weekend I can accomplish alot. Chris left early Saturday for BC as most of you know from reading his Blog, so I spent that day scrap booking, doing the dishes (thanks hun), cleaning and packing for our Vacation. I also managed to meet with Skate Park people about our ALl girl Skate day, have a shower and get plenty of rest. Today I went for walk, read my bible, went to church, emailed some folks, visited with friends, had a swim, made supper, wrote this blog and updated my msn space. I aslo rearanged the Computer a little since this one is now mine to use. So, as I said I have managed to complete many tasks and find myself feeling well accomplished. This doesn't mean that I wish for my husband to go away more often, it does however, make me curious as to what else I might accomplish between now and Wednesday.

I am so Excited about this upcoming week.... We're heading off to the Maritimes! Wednesday Chris and I will be venturing off to PEI to visit with our family there and the week after to NB. In NB we will be celebrating Mum and Dads 25th wedding anniversary and the following week will involve a CA Conference. When we come back to Ontario we will have my Brothers in Law with us. I am so pumped for this summer to get well on its way! I hope to take pics of our trip and post them for all to see. I am sorry that this blog has been so boring... I have been very busy and when Chris is home I am not aloud on the computer I'll write again Jen

I'm sad to say that Our family of two is going to be this way a little while longer. We have recently been informed that our baby never grew and will not be arriving in November. Our hearts are broke and yet there is comfort in knowing that Our Lord knew this baby even in the womb. We are trusting that we will still meet this baby someday, just not while we are here on earth. Thank you all for your prayers.

We're all moved in, and I realize it's been forever since I blogged last, so I decided to update you about our move adn let you know week by week how our pregnency is going. Our move was very quick and we were settled within a few short days. I have almost all my pictures up and everything out of their boxes and into their new homes. The new place is very cozy which is nice, howver we seem to have accumilated more furniture then we need. Well the main extras are Chris' office things which hopefully will find a more perminant home elsewhere before November. You see his current office space is to become the baby's nursery then. We are trusting God and his people that it will all work out! I am doing very well, health wise that is. I haven't been sick at all just occasionally nauseated and very tired. Poor Chris has decided that he doesnt like "pregneant Jen" as I have been a little bit moody... Mostly on days when i am very tired! Okay so he'll argue that I'm ALOT moody, but thats ok because he still loves me. I will be putting pictures online once I start to really show.. right now I just look like I forgot to suck it in... but Im sure by next month I will look a bit different. Any way thats all for now Love Ya

Ok So maybe it was my inability to make the compter sing that hindered me from uploading my photos. And perhaps it had nothing to do wtih the fact I was using a Mac at all. I am sorry Chris and I am sorry to all those out there who may have been offended by my prevoius blog. I love the mac.. LOL

So I tried to create a photo album for this site, while using my dear sweet husband's computer (as mine is on the FRITZ big time) And it wouldnt let me and from what I understand based oin the Help guide, I need to be using micosoft stuff not macintosh stuff.. I'm sure that you are laughing at me now Chris. I have a sad computer vocabulary and my understanding of how it functions is rather limited I am also certain that there is a way around my cunundrum. Until Chris returns from Montreal, however, I will not be able to create a photo album. So until then....

So Chris and I are downsizing.. big time. The place we are in right nowis 1900 square feet (bigger then the average bungalow) and we are moving into a two bedroom appartmen that could probably fit into my living room and kitchen. Its a nice little apartment with a gally kitchen and l shapped dinning room and living room a good sized bathroom (about the same as the one we have now) and the best part of all is the walls are purplish pink with a teal like border around the top of the wall! In case you don't know me very well, I am being quite sarcastic when I say that it is the best part. I am really not a fan of the 80's style. I was once long ago, you know back in teh 80's early 90's but not so much anymore. I'm going to ask if we can paint the living/dinning room. The land lord said that she painted 2 years ago! this means that somewhere out there they are still selling this hideous stuff.. Oh dear. Any way I do want to praise God for this apartment because he gave it to us, it is going to save us approximately $200/ month. This is a nice thing to have. Any way that is my new news for now.. Ps we arent movin until april 1st becaue you have to give 60 days notice here in ontario but PTL the new land lord is holding her apartment for us (its actually available now)

 Okay, so today went as any day goes. I got up, got dressed, cleaned up, called mum, had kubch with Chris and went to work. So far so good. My shift at work was even good tonuight, no last minute customers, no unexpected buses, no missing money from the till. I got all my dishes done and even prepared extra Backups and I was still out the door by 9:15pm and this is where the fun began.
 You see it had been raining here in Madoc since I got to work at 3pm and it is quite cold out infact it had be -16 the night bee. So, as you can well imagine the parking lot was a solid glib of ice. I braced myself as I stepped out of the back door. Thankfully there was a fence like wall along the path that I had to take, so I clutched the fence and slid my way across the parking lot. It was like being in grade one and stepping out onto the ice at the arena for the first time and your skates are really dull so your feet are slipping out from under you. (do you have the visual yet) This fence like wall was a great help until it nolonger existed... unfortunately the wll was only 4 feet long and I was on my own after that. I took my first two scoots with out my security wall and felt as any child does with their trainning wheels off. TERRIFIED! then I realized I was still standing on my own two Feet and not yet on my bottom. SO I now felt much braver and began a quicker shuffle across the lot. (I am now about 7 feet from the door) as i enterd the wide open space of this parking lot I realised that it was slightly slanted... not by much but enough to make me slide without any effort on my part. Unfortunately it was slanted towards the opposit of where I was tying to go."I'm going to be here forever!".
  I decided it would be better to travel straight ahead instead of fighting the hill so off I went right left right left etc.. until I reached a mound of ice covered snow.. ANY way Finally made it to the Front of the store a good 10 minutes later (it normally takes like10 seconds) then I made it to the road which was slush and marched my way home.
  Oh yeah.. by the way the reason why I was walking was because our car is in the shop.. a kid backed into it and it is being fixed.
  Now for the next exciting event of the night. As I am typing this I am listening to the music that came all inclusive with this appartment... The sound of Rain drops slopping into a metal bowl... make that four metal bowls... Our roof leaks and with each rainfall comes the music. We dug out the bowls and found ourselves laughing hystarically at our predicament.
  I plan to take a picture of it and put it online but I will make no promises, as you know I am not very good at keeping this page up to date. I hope you enjoyed my entry if it made you laugh then my adventures were well worth enduring!

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