Coffee a Day Keeps Me Sane

I am one of those people who can't seem to get through a day without a cup of coffee. I only need one cup or somehow I get these headaches and some people don't like to be around me as much (COFFEE=HAPPY). It just so happens that by the time I take Nugley to school I have enough time to stop at Timmie's and wait in the drive thru to get my special wake me up juice before having to get Choo Choo to her school. Today was a special day though, as I rounded the corner of the drive thru I got very excited to see a new sign up. It has now begun to Roll Up the Rim to Win. So I took Choo Choo to school and had some nice coffee. When I finished I did roll my rim and I did win. I won a free coffee!! And the best part is, this is just the first day. Think of all the other days I could win and maybe evn a nice car. I know I shouldn't get my hopes up but you never know.

Bring it on!

So I have recently decided to sign up for ultimate frisbee. I have never played this before and I am not too sure of how or what to do but I thought that this would be fun. We'll have to see how it goes and how many times I will be able to catch the darn thing. Luckily this is only a fun league nothing too seriously, at least not yet. I hope I don't get too beat up. It should be a good time and get me out being more active. I've had a hard time doing that lately. It's probably because of the winter. I get home at night after it is already dark and I am tired from the day. The morning is too hard to actually get up and do a run before work. The family I work for just got a treadmill and said for me to use it whenever, so I may just take them up on that. Maybe I'll wait until the whole surround sound thing is put together so I at least have some music or tv to listen to. Anyway I will give you an update on the frisbee when I can. I start on Thursday. Wish me luck that I don't make a total fool of myself.

The Office

So this past week I have been working in an office. I usually work in the office every morning but since the kids and mom and dad went to Mexico for the week (Doc's Conference), and the secretary just left for 2 weeks, I was asked to work in the office. So here I am as we speak (alone). Usually it is quite busy. But since there are no docs there are no patients and there is no paperwork to file so I have been sitting here for the past 3 days with pretty much nothing to do. I take the faxes off the machine when they come or rather if they come and I take the messages off the machine which today I have counted 6 messages for the whole day plus whatever comes over night. There is one line for the phone that I can't ignore which is the "private line". This is the line that other doctors use to get information quickly. Also the Birth Unit uses it in case they have one of our patients in the hospital and needs some extra info from their file. Today that hasn't happened at all. So after all my ranting and raving I have definitly decided that this is not my calling. I think that I will stick with dealing with noisy active children.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!

Winterlude

I know I haven't written in a while. So I am back and ready to write again.
February 3-18 is Winterlude time in Ottawa. Where people from everywhere come and enjoy the cold and the snow. I was lucky enough to go downtown to
see it all. I had some family come up from Toronto and NJ. I don't remember the last time they were up at this time of year. We had a nice lunch in the Byward Market and then ventured off to see the sights. I went along with my Grandmother to see the ice sculptures. There were so many different ones and when we were there the sculptors were still in the process of creating their precious figures. This was one that I liked a lot. It was done by some Inuit people. My Grandmother went to visit Nunuvut this past year so she had lots of things to tell me about their culture. She was definitly in her element. After all the sculptures and trying to find everyone again (10 people is hard to keep together) we all went on to the canal and had a Beavertail (apparently they taste better there). That was probably the best part of the whole thing. So apart from the cold cold weather it was a good good day.