Definitely worth checking this one out.

Here’s what I turned a link to friendly www.musingmama.ca into:

http://5z8.info/protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion.doc_j7b6z_warez

and they also shorten it

http://5z8.info/ip-stealer_loh

… Well I think it’s funny.

I was going over the Musing Mama analytics today and found out that if you Google “definition of skiido” I’m the first result.

So a skiido is what you get when you spell ski-doo wrong. Which is a snowmobile.

Thanks for Googling!

Last night Marcus woke up at around 11pm, came into our bed, was up again at 2:15AM, 3:30AM, 5:30AM, 7:20AM and finally 8:30AM. He slept in the crook of my arm most of the night. Every time he woke up, I nursed him back to sleep. He actually used to sleep better when he was a newborn.

Ideally, he should go to bed at the same time as Kylie (8:30PM) and sleep until 2AM. I’ll nurse him, then he can sleep again until 8:00AM (like Kylie). There are plenty of babies who sleep through the night at 6months but with breastfeeding I’m trying to be realistic.

Here’s what I’m going to need to accomplish:

• Convince him to fall asleep without being nursed.
• Get him to go back to sleep without waking up Kylie. (excessive crying)
• Get him sleeping in the crib instead of my bed.

Here is the strategy:

1. Start with the “spend 30 minutes trying to get the baby back to sleep before nursing” technique, except at around 2am when I want him to nurse, eventually getting him to stop nursing as much at night.
2. If he wakes up anytime other than the desired times, wait a minute to see if crying escalates. If it does, go in and check on him, and shush and pat without picking him up. Proceed with Ferberizing.
3. End every day with a good and consistent bedtime routine for both kids.

Sleep training will be starting tonight. I am already exhausted, and it’s going to be a difficult stretch for the next few days, but the payoff will be amazing.

As the day draws to a close I am happy to say that I completed everything on my to do list. With a screaming baby and a 6:30am alarm tomorrow I wont bother to update with photos now, but expect them later tis weekend.

I will, however, be documenting by big city adventure in issue 1 of: A day in pictures

The 24 hour challenge

I’m heading off to the big city Saturday morning and want to get the house clean before then. Above you can see the photos of the messy rooms I need to clean.

Here’s the complete list of what needs to be done:

• Clean all rooms photographed above
• Tonnes of laundry to fold and put away
• Pack the diaper bag for Marcus
• Make sure I have everything before I go
• Do dishes
• Sweep floors

All of this with a 2 year old and a 6 month old.

I have about 24 hours to get everything done. Can I do it? We’ll have to see.

Perhaps I can issue some type of personal reward for myself… Maybe to the tune of extra spending money?

My little brother is tearing my family to pieces, specifically my mother. He’s a compulsive liar who manipulates his way into getting anything and everything he wants. For years I’ve been making my mother realize this and finally she gets it - but it’s almost too late. Now, faced with the realization that her son needs help, she needs to seek action now - before he turns 18 in 6 months.

But what options are out there for a sociopath? She’s leaning towards a boarding school for troubled teens, which I think is a great idea.

So where’s the battle? When mommy and daddy got divorced, there was a lot of bitterness, resentment and unresolved issues. Neither party chose to accept any responsibility and blamed the other for their relationship’s demise. To this day they are unable to be civil with each other.

For that reason my mom refuses to talk to my dad, and I have become the go-between for all information regarding my brother’s condition. I am then having to explain to both parties why the other is doing this, feeling that, etc., and neither seem to listen to anything I (each other) have to say.

Today I decided that I was sick of being the mediator and called it quits. Hopefully some good will come out of this and they’ll decide that it’s stupid and petty to harbor negative feelings of a marriage that ended 8 years ago.

All I hope now is that baby bro gets the treatment he needs and doesn’t hurt himself or anyone else in the process.

I declare 2010 year of watching movies you always heard were good but have never seen.

This month, I have started to watch some of those movies that I just never got around to seeing. The three I’ve watched so far have been American Phsycho, American History X, and Fight Club.

It happened that I watched those movies in ascending order. American Phsycho was a really good psychological thriller, with a fantastic (be it open) ending. American History X followed the lives of some skinheads in the 90s, another wonderful movie with a twist ending. Finally tonight I watched Fight Club - and I would like to ask the world: Why didn’t anyone tell me this movie was so good? I loved the narration and the humour - Plus I’m pleased that I worked the twist out about half way through.

Considering American History X and Fight Club were both on my IMDB top 250 list, I decided to updated my 101 in 1001 list.

Here are the updates:

- Watched American History X and Fight Club

- Saw two movies in the theatre; The Princess and the Frog and It’s Complicated

This morning my husband came home extremely distraught. It was 7:45 am and he had just come home from his morning walk. For the past 5 months, he’s been going out every single morning for an hour to get himself in shape – partially for my benefit and partially so he can be around for our two young children. When the weather started to dip he began heading over to my mother’s house to walk on her treadmill.

The quickest way from our house to her’s is through the field of Grand Centre Middle School. As far as we were concerned, walking trough there at 6:30am and returning at 7:30am was perfectly acceptible – the first school bell doesn’t ring until after 8.

I’m sure he looked pretty silly wearing a trench coat and shorts out in -20, but the coat would cover most of his legs and being cold does burn more calories. Everytime he passed someone he assumed they were thinking “What a nut! He must be so cold!”.

Neither of us were prepared for what one of the janatorial staff said to my beloved husband this morning. “People think you’re crazy you know… I mean they actually think you’re crazy, like there’s a pedophile or something coming through the school because you have shorts and that long coat on.” He explained.

Nobody should have to explain to someone that they`re not a pedophile because of how they look.

This is a fantanstic example of what our society is coming to. People use such harsh words in totally inapporopriate situations. `He wears shorts and walk through a schoolyard  before children are there, so he must be a pedophile` is the same as saying `She wears a hood and walks past a closed bank every day, she must be a bank robber`. Neither have any merit, but they do hurt peoples feelings.

What would happen if this person told someone else, and when he  takes  our daughter to school they all of a sudden think her father’s a pedophile? What happens if a child at this school goes missing? Is my husband to blame?

Please think about what you’re saying and the romours you’re spreading. They’re likely untrue and surely are hurtful. My husband is a loving father to our 2 year old daughter and 4 month old son – not a pedophile.

Since Deacon has been doing this, I thought I’d copy his idea and do one of my own.

The idea is this: Pick a few games that you’ve been meaning to try out or play more of, set a playtime goal for each one, and try and accomplish it before the deadline - a week. As someone with very limited time to play video games (cleaning, cooking, working, childcare and nursing consume most of my day) and someone who loves to make and check off list, this seemed like a fantastic idea to me.

Unlike my husband, however, I’m not going to set unrealistic for me hour long goals. Instead we’re aiming for 20 minute playtimes here, something to pick up and play between loads of laundry or while dinner’s cooking.

• That new Harvest Moon game on the Wii (0/20 minutes)
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 on 360 (0/20 minutes)
• EVO Search for Eden on Wii Virtual Console (0/20 minutes)
• Mischeif Makers on Wii Virtual Console (0/20 minutes)
• Wii Fit Plus on the Wii - For working out purposes (0/60 minutes)

For a total of 140 minutes or 2.3 hours or two hours and 20 minutes.

Other goals for this week include trying to finish reading “Does this clutter make my butt look fat” even though it’s a terrible book. I’m almost done and therefore invested. Expect a review soon.