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13:27 heather from dooce.com will be on the Today's Show on May 7th @ 8:30am to talk about 'mommy blogging'. Gonna try and record it! #

so now that we did our taxes, i have to tackle one month of dirt, dust and grime that's accumulated around our entire house. i've spent most of this morning on our top floor (master bedroom and bathroom ensuite).

it was pretty dirty and took longer then i had planned.

but now, i'm sitting on my bed looking around at how clean everything is around me. i'm walking back to the bathroom to smell that freshly, cleaned smell.

i'm doing whatever i can to avoid the rest of the house. i feel like so long as i stay up here, i won't feel totally discouraged with how much more i have to do.

but alas... i'm hungry and need lunch so i will have to face our very dirty and messy downstairs (the worse at this moment).

ho hum.

i've had one of those mornings... where the momentum of it started to keep
on going downhill until it ended of with a not-so-good note. plus, i
couldn't leave for lunch until an hour later and by the time i got to my car
my hands were shaking so badly from feeling weak that i could hardly get my
keys out.

i didn't know where to go. so i went to a nearby mall with a variety of
choices to choose from as far as food goes. of course, when i get there, i'm
reminded of one of the things i hate about north america... what i would
have given to all of the sudden appear in the streets of bangkok or better,
one of the southern islands... where i can walk down the street munching on
fresh foods from the street vendors (mmm... thinking of the fresh pineapples
from our 2001 trip to thailand). i ended up, evidently, settling for
americanized pad thai - not satisfying at all.

i walked around as if lost, not at all sure where i was going. and then, a
familiar, wee face stuck out from the crowded food court. she was so little
but her big, innocent eyes were unmistakenable. she spotted me just as i
spotted her and within a second or two, her already big eyes appeared even
bigger and brighter as she showed recognition.

a little hand rose up into the air and waved at me as i waved back.

it was cathy's little girl, having lunch with her grandparents.

her and i had a great little conversation. and it was definitely needed
because i was so unbelievably bummed out that all it took was a three-minute
conversation with her to cheer me up.

08:40 adobe cs3 - FINALLY! you just don't understand how unbelievably happy i am right now... sniff - i'm getting all choked up! #

10:40 i'm irked by how many people waste paper (and don't recycle) around me at this moment... #

08:34 my allergies are a killer this year! my eyes are so itchy i'm almost chafing the skin around my eyes from all the rubbing. #

08:19 tim horton's kicks starbuck's ass. #

a busy weekend - 2 birthday parties, dinner at cath's house and buying chaeli her very first bike!

Being girly in her new pink dress

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On the balance beam (kid's bday party)

First bike and first bike ride

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15:20 learning to make a blue-ish, liquid chrome, metal effect in photoshop - got it. i rock. #

08:23 "you harajuku girls.... damn you got some wicked styles..." #