Entries from October 2009

October 28, 2009

cooking with gas

J:
Reason #85 – only 5 minutes to the KH (and only 3 sets of traffic lights) instead of 20 minutes and 15,000 lights.
Reason #84 – we will have two cookers, but only one of them will be in the kitchen
To elaborate, we had to buy our cooker in advance because the kitchen designer needed the [...]

October 25, 2009

some reasons from rosie

Reason # 88 – Having a REAL breakfast bar!
Reason # 87 – Having a HUGE closet
Reason # 86 – NO MORE SHARING ROOMS! Done with that for the rest of my (single) life.

October 23, 2009

90 days limited guarantee

Reason #90 – being SO much closer to Twice the Deal Pizza (and the Lancer)
Reason #89 – having our own phone number

October 21, 2009

less cash on gas

Reason # 92  Being local to everything I do.  All my activities (apart from the school) are located in the south of St Catharines, and right now we live at the northernmost point in the city.  (about a 3 minute walk from Lake Ontario).  So I spend a good amount of my time travelling – to the Kingdom Hall, to the ministry, [...]

October 19, 2009

family photos

J:  So R promised that I would upload some photos of her parents’ visit on the weekend.  Well somewhere somebody is enjoying a long weekend, so I’m only technically late.  Enjoy…

October 19, 2009

space – the final frontier

# 98 Everybody has enough space to hang all their clothes
# 97 A whole room for bags, coats and shoes Woo hoo!
# 96 Space in my kitchen to store food for a week
# 95 Being able to buy a book and not have to get rid of one to make space on the bookshelf
#94 The [...]

October 16, 2009

friday again

R: The end of another week. Four children in bed and asleep by 8pm on a Friday night. The definition of good parenting.  Please allow the smugness.  It will have evaporated by tomorrow morning by which time there will be four children running around the house causing kaos and at least one of them shouting [...]

October 15, 2009

windows 7

J:  see what I did?
Anyway here are the latest photos (more at flickr):
Inside, the electricals have been roughed in, as have the heating ducts and the plumbing.  Nothing is hooked up yet but that won’t be long.  The (SERIOUSLY UPGRADED) kitchen has been ordered too.  Although there is still lots to do it feels like [...]

October 15, 2009

99 bottles of beer on the wall

Reason #100 – we only have 100 more reasons to think up
Reason #99 – now we are less than 100 days!  Rebecca will want to cook again, that’s a top reason…

October 12, 2009

Size doesn’t matter

Reason # 102  The kids will all have their own room so when one of them wakes up, they won’t wake up any of the others, so I won’t be disturbed at 1.30 in the morning by the sounds of multiple children in the kitchen quietly trying to make chocolate milk, which is actually quite [...]