Home is where my stuff is

It'll be two weeks I've been in Sudbury soon, living out of my luggage at my Mom's place, and I'm already going nuts. I love my Mom dearly, really I do. But I'm too much of an independent person who likes things her way to enjoy this setup for long. It's not that I don't love my Mom. It's more that I miss sleeping in my own bed, eating my own food, watching my own TV and playing on my own computer. I know where the comfy spots are on my couch, and I much prefer the look of my red micro suede living room furniture to my Mom's semi-formal dusty rose colored things. Heck, I couldn't stand living at home after college... Love my family, love my space.

Eh, it's for a good cause. I got my job, Gunther's transfer is looking more promising by the day, G Jr is loving the attention he's getting from the family he didn't get to see very often, and I'm sure GIII would too if he knew what was going on. All that needs to be done is get out of my Mom's place and into our own house, and we're set. Shouldn't be too hard.

And don't get me started on the lack of transportation... I don't think I'd be too horribly bored if I could get out of the house while my Mom was at work. My car is still in Edmonton right now, but a good friend of ours is going to be flying out and driving it back for us early next month, so I won't be without wheels for long. But unless I want to take a rambunctious 3 year old and a growing like a weed infant on city transit, I'm stuck here until my Mom's off work. Well, I could pick her up and drop her off, but I really don't feel like packing the kids in the car at 5:30 in the morning. G Jr would wake up and there would go my sleeping when we got back idea.

I know... These are really minor things to gripe about in the grand scheme of things... But you get used to things being a certain way and it's hard to change. As is, I'm slowly getting used to the fastest speed limit in town being 30 less than what I'm used to travelling at, the lack of malls to wander on crappy days, and the fact that all my scrapbook supplies will have to be mail ordered. The rest is taking a while.

Like there was any doubts...

Well, we're in Sudbury. We being the whole family, minus Gunther. I hope the house sells quickly. The sooner it sells, the sooner Gunther can head this way. And phase 1 has already been executed and is successful.

I got the call a few hours ago. I got the job for Technical Trainer, making more that I was for the other company I was working as a trainer for. (No complaints there!) Like I said before, I was confident that I was the best candidate they could find, but it's still nice to know I beat out anyone else who tried. Bout fucking time a good job pans out for me in this city. Perhaps this is a sign of things to come. Perhaps Gunther's transfer turns out... (the company got bought, so there's still hope.)

G Jr's at his Grandpa's place having a "sleep over". So I'm down one rugrat tonight, and GIII is contently sleeping on me... And now I know we'll be ok here. I've got work, Gunther can get work, and we'll be able to start again. Nice to have things work out.

OMGWTFBBQ

Point and click typing is a royal pain in the ass, which is why I haven't updated in a while. And I'm going to be sorry I haven't after this one. So much has gone on in the past few weeks, it's scary.

G Jr and GIII are still doing good, so no real worries there. GIII does have a slight newborn hernia that will need surgery soon, but aside from that he's doing exceptionally well. So fear not, the kids are alright. It's everything else that is questionable.

We've been slowly working on the move back home to Sudbury plan until the beginning of this month when it got forced into high gear for us. On October 2, the company Gunther and I work for went belly up nationwide.While Gunther is still working for them on a day by day basis so they can keep the contracts alive for whoever wants to buy them, I'm off the list, along with a load of other people. So there goes my health benefits. And who knows how long they'll need Gunther?

So, we needed to speed things up considerably. We'd rather be broke in Sudbury than bankrupt in Edmonton. And that's when we put the house on the market and I started looking for jobs in Sudbury.

As it stands right now, I've got a job interview for a technicial trainer position in Sudbury on Wednesday (I'd like to see them find someone more qualified than me in the area), and so me and the boys are getting on a plane tonight to head out east. Gunther's sticking around to move our stuff and sell the house.

So I'm going loopy, still have to pack, people coming by to see the house, GIII won't let me put him down and G Jr is doing everything in his power to make my head explode... And then I get to fly the red eye with two kids to Toronto, then spend 4 hours in a car with my father in law... I'm going to need copious amounts of booze when I get in.

Point and Click Typing - cruise control for Mommies

To think, GIII should only be a few days old, yet a month has already passed. The days are slow, but the weeks are fast. He's growing quite well, and aside from being gassy and hating it (you can rarely get a burp out of him, and he squaks in pain and frustraition when he tries to toot), he's settling in well.

I can't help but be smitten with my boys (even when G Jr doesn't listen or when GIII keeps me up all night). Looking at my youngest makes me realize just how much my oldest has grown. Oddly enough, I miss the baby stage. This coming from someone who swore she would never have kids.

It's been a challenge. One-handed computer work was easier with G Jr because of the setup. I had abig desk where I could move the keyboard in range of my free hand and still be able to reach my Pepsi or snack. The chair I had had fixed arm rests that would hold my lap pillow snuggly. This desk is tiny and the adjustable arms are busted. Mind you, at least it provides me an intellectual outlet in compairson to children's television programming, which is the only channels G Jr will let us watch :P

So, I've become a user of the on-screen keyboard in Windows. You want to see slow? This makes 2-finger typists look like they're breaking the speed of sound. But it's better than nothing and without it, this post would not be... But now my mouse hand's tired...

Alive and kicking... albeit not too energetically

GIII will be 3 weeks old tomorrow, and to think that I shouldn't have met him until this coming Monday. He's healthy and growing, but gosh, the idea of 3 extra weeks of sleep?

Eh, I can't complain too much. Gunther's been the best man ever, waking up in the middle of the night with GIII and letting me sleep on those nights when he knows there's no way in hell I'd be able to sit upright for more than 15 minutes with a warm baby against me. And giving me the chance to nap in the evenings on the days when I do get up with the little guy. Not to mention, helping out the other day when we were on "concussion watch" with G Jr after he and the sidewalk had a face to face meeting... Wonked his head so hard he vomitted... You'd think that with all the years I've protected his head (and protected other people/things from his head), that he would try to give it the same respect... But he wasn't paying attention, and neither was another kid, and *slam*. It happens.

And so, I'm in a fog and taking my fair share of advil to stave off the head pain caused from broken sleep (and the fact that when I do get some shut eye, it feels like someone's increased the gravity in my bed 10 fold), but it's worth it. G Jr's been good considering. Sure, he's acting out and he's at that age where he's going to "assert his independance" (read: argue every little thing he can think of), but he still likes his brother. Even though he has told me a couple times to put the baby away so I could get him some juice or tuck him in when he was lying down on the couch.

And GIII, while he still thinks night times are a perfect time to be awake, is getting better at staying asleep for longer periods of time. He's filling out, getting chubbier (his arms and legs are still spindly though, mind you they didn't fill out for G Jr until he was about 2 months old), and eating like its going out of style. I have this sinking feeling he's going to be bigger than his older brother. Which might be a good thing - someone needs to put that boy in his place from time to time :D

So, sleep and decent food, and perhaps a shower during daytime hours is all I really need. Other than that, I'm doing pretty good for someone who hasn't got anyone other than her husband to help out. Everyone I've talked to in the past 3 weeks from around here is absolutely amazed that we've made it this far without flying my Mom out or hiring a nanny. Guess Albertans are wimps :P