My neighbourhood is crazy expensive!

Ok, so I live around Calgary and am just now realizing how crazy expensive it is to live here when a house down the street from me is selling for $379,000, and it’s a basic bi-level…..yikes! I’ve always wondered what we could get for our house, but now I know.

I’m a bit shocked, but really shouldn’t be. After all, Calgary is supposed to be the central hub of Alberta’s oil saga. I’ve even read blogs (written by an ‘Easterner’) about how Calgary’s real estate is similar to that of Rochester, New York with suburbia havens loaded with “new Targets” (yeah, the idiot says there’s Targets in Canada … duh!) and malls going up all the time. Actually, he’s way off mark, not only about the Targets not even existing in Calgary, let alone Calgary, but that it’s not being slammed with new malls and shopping delight everywhere. Just rows and rows of shoebox houses that cost upwards of $400,000 with lots 30′ wide, yes, that’s 30 feet. My point? Is there ever a serious one in a personal blog?

Dang look at those legs

Kids’ first hike

Originally uploaded by shmode.

I’ve always thought my husband was hot, of course I’m biased, but DAMN, look at those legs! He’s incredibly sexy I think because he’s oblivious to it. The other night I suggested he grow a goatee/mustache thing and the next morning he shaves down his overgrowth from the weekend to do just that. FRICK it looked hot. He’s even got some greys shooting through in his stache and on his sideburns (he’s 33), making him look even more yummy.

Ok, I’m gonna hurt myself .

I Think I’m in Love with Pink

I’ve always loved the song “Stupid Girls”, but today, I saw the video on another blog site (http://shapeofamother.blogspot.com/, sorry, not smart enough yet to post the video itself – ETA the video is now gone, sorry!). OMG that woman is awesome!LOL! The video had me just crackin up and cryin at the same time at the awful messages we send our girls. I mean seriously, what is up with the fact that there is a ‘girls’ section and ‘boys’ section for everything? Why is it when girls wear their boyfriend’s clothing, it’s sexy, but when a guy does it, he’s a cross-dresser? I hate the messages we send our kids, boys and girls, that women’s bodies are to only be idolized as sexual icons. The reason women cannot go topless is because of sex crazed fifteen year old boys, according to my husband. So, we’ve taught these boys that boobs are not normal, mammoriphically correct bags of fat that happen to feed babies, but are there for their viewing, feeling, sucking, fucking pleasure. How does that help me when it’s 30° C outside and the underside of my boobs are now floating on a lake of sweat?

K, I’m getting off topic, as usual. But Pink’s video said it all, a little girl sits in front of a tv can see a medically enhanced woman dry humping a car while she washes it, because she’s gotta sell her video/new fandangle sponge/or advertise her porn video. Yay, she can also flip the channel and see on the latest talk show 2 women fighting over one fucking man. Hello, dumb asses, there’s plenty more where he came from, find one cuter, or better yet don’t find one at all. I don’t find that her video is man bashing at all, not even one bit, but bashing women (especially Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, etc) who are idiots and instead of behaving a certain way because it’s a part of their nature, they behave in a way that is appealing to others (mostly men).

K, I’m off my soapbox now, but check out her video, it’s awesome (on that blog, scroll down a smidgen and I’ll see if I can figure out how to post it directly here).

Camping at its best

Elbow Pass

Originally uploaded by shmode.

Yeah, I know, not the most ‘catchy’ title but I digress.

Most people who know me, know I LOVE to camp. It’s almost like it’s been bred into me. We camped when I was a child, so it just seems natural that I continue on. Now, I do own a trailer, so it’s not backcountry camping all the time, but this year we started hiking as the kids are now old enough so camping in areas such as in my picture are absolutely feasible. And yes, the water is really that green. The picture was taken by my dh, a photographer (so for courtesy sake, please don’t steal it).

This is a picture of the Elbow Pass, a short day hike in the Kananaskis Country. Who wouldn’t want to go here? Now, I gotta tell you about the coolest toilets I have ever seen. Yeah, beautiful sites, but the toilets, WOW! Ok, I know speaking publically about public outhouses isn’t very kosher, but when have I ever wanted to be kosher?

So, picture a normal, new looking outhouse, 2 storeys off the ground with a giant solar panel on one side. Inside is a normal looking outhouse, but the smell isn’t. Meaning there isn’t any. None. Nada. Zilch. Curiousity got me, and disgustingly I looked inside the can. The toilet is a system of composting human waste safely so that leeching isn’t an option. Who would want to ruin an environment such as that so you can take a shit without guilt? Anyway, so the compost is obviously human waste, slight heat (provided by a giant propane tank on the side), and after every ‘use’ a person takes a scoop of readily available wood chips and puts it into the pot. COOL! Sadly, even after being away from this beloved toilet for 3 days, I’m still boasting about it. I’m really pathetic now. But I’m ok with that.

Hello world!

My absolute first attempt at bloggin. Hard to believe that I’ve been posting, browsing, playing, peering online for a solid 8 years and have only started blogging today. Is it to be as time consuming as I’d like to make it? ) Here’s hoping.

Is resentment a norm for every marriage female within a marriage? I haven’t ever heard of a man being resentful that his beloved partner doesn’t do enough around the house, but ask a woman and you’ll never get her to shut up, including me. I actually made a list of my ‘chores’ around the house, added on kid responsibilities and my schooling and I’m beat. THEN, I get the joys of loading a trailer up for camping every freakin two days because my love of camping overbears my inane desire to smack my dh upside the head with a laundry basket everytime he asks, “is the trailer packed yet?”. Where’s a great ‘grrr’ emoticon when you need one.

*sigh*