Friday, November 11, 2011

Oh the joys of naming your child

Let me first tell you that T doesn’t take naming our child seriously. However, he has enforced the following rules:


1. The name has to be gender specific. Therefore the name is not something both a male and female could be named – I.e. Kelly, Cory, etc

2. The name can’t also be a thing or verb. I.e. Colby is a cheese, Hunter hunts animals, and Chase is a verb.

3. The initials can’t spell something stupid like FAT or ART or CAT.

4. The name cannot be a name suggested by a family member (specifically his mother). All family member recommendations will be black listed.

5. The name cannot bring back a memory of another person who has that name.

6. The name should be able to have a nickname (the cooler the better) if possible

7. The name cannot be shortened or lengthened by adding ‘Y’ at the end of it. I.e. Kimmy, Tommy, etc.

8. The kids name cannot rhyme with anything that would allow other kids to pick on our kid.

So you can see this task is not an easy one. Especially when T will randomly tell you two letters that he thinks should be in his child’s name…, or will randomly toss out names like Roland, or Warren etc to wind me up.

This is probably another reason for the high blood pressure!!

A recent before bed conversation went like this:

Me: “Do you have short-list of boy names yet?”

T: “No, I haven’t had time to think about it”

Me: “You’ve had over 8 months, what are you doing now?”

T: “What about Russel?”

Me: “T”!

T: “What about Neil?”

Me: “Can you be serious please?”

T: “What about Dan?”

Me: “Nope, I made out with a Dan once”

T: “Well, we can’t just rule out names of people you made out with or there will be no names left!”

Me: “T!!!!” and slapped him.HARD.

T: “How about you just give me a list of names of people you haven’t made out with?”

Me: “T, shut up and go to sleep”

Then there is silence and I think he’s fallen asleep……….

T: “I think I should be a comedian”

Me: "SHUT UP AND GO TO SLEEP”


I let 24 hours pass and again last night approached the topic. And again he tried to be funny but I told him it is now ‘crunch time’ so he told me that in the end I would be the one picking the name anyway…. at least he knows that now and I won’t have to fight with him at the end!!!

Thursday, November 3, 2011

What is up?!

These days – everything. That’s why I’ve been MIA. Too much to do!


Here is a little sneak peak at the nursery:


I could show you the rest but it is currently a disaster area and will be until after my showers are over and everything gets sorted and put away… hopefully in some ‘nesting’ phase everyone keeps talking about.

I’m attempting to get all, that’s right ALL of my Christmas shopping done before December 1. I had about 70% of it done before November 1, but I’ve started slacking as when work is done and I get home I hit a wall of exhaustion and nothing gets done. So daytime online shopping it will have to be…

Only.. I don’t have a lot of time anymore to online daytime shop as I’m attempting to put together some kind of organized training binder for my mat leave coverage as up until this point I’ve only had jotted notes in my ‘If I get hit by a bus’ folder. I officially have 34 days of work left to do all my work, plus quarterly end work, plus training of a new person who hasn’t been interviewed/hired yet, AND on top of that miss work for a million upcoming appointments….

Speaking of the million appointments – it was discovered at my last appointment (3 weeks ago) that my blood pressure is on the high side, too high to finish out those 34 days, so I’m monitoring it, but I can’t say it’s getting much better. Oh how I used to love stress as I worked and performed much better under it, but now if it’s going to cause medical issues with the baby it has to go. I’m thinking I’ll hit the couch and import my hottie waiter from last Christmas’ trip to Mexico.

But before I give up any kind of social/fun/on the go lifestyle I’m going to a book signing event for Jann Arden tonight. Now for those of you Americans who don’t know who Jann Arden is…

You can find her website/blog HERE.
And you may recognize this song (my 14 year old broken heart sang it repeatedly and it's still a classic when I play sad song dj):



And for shits & giggles she actually sings a song called ‘Janeen’ – which is definitely NOT about me :)

Jann is probably my favourite Canadian female artist, and I’m all about Canadian music. Maybe an upcoming blog entry will focus on it? I’ll add that to my list of things that need to get done!