Happy Monday everybody.

A weekend full of childrens birthday parties. Woohoo! It wasn't too bad. All the grandparents came over on saturday with arm loads of dolls, colouring books, and candy. I told then I wasn't really that big on dolls but they calmly explained that they weren't for me, they were for the girls. I thought it was kind of strange anyway, seeing as it wasn't my birthday and all.
Sunday involved going to a place that had all this padded playground equipment and video games with an additional 4 more kids. Luckily we only lost one, the other three were safely returned to their parents at the end of the day. A good time was had by all.

SPECIAL UPDATE
We have vegetables! I know that doesn't sound very exciting but I'm excited about it. Many of the peas plants have peas growing on them, small beans are showing up on the bean stalks, a small zuchini is growing, there's the starting of a squash, the pumpkin vines are going crazy, and the potatos have thoroughly taken over their quadrant of the garden. Within the next couple weeks we should have vegetables we can eat! Very exciting.
I don't know if I've mentioned this before but this is my first attempt at growing vegetables in a garden. That's why I'm excited. -:)

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Whew, just made the last train by mere seconds this morning. I swear they let the idiots out every morning to play in traffic.

Went to the dentist last night. Unfortunately it was a bit anti-climactic. Dentist couldn't pull my tooth because of the way the roots are, so I have to go to a dental surgeon to get rid of the last of my wisdom. They also found that I've been walking around with a temporary filling in one of my teeth for the last 23 yrs due to the fact that the root canal I had when I was younger was never finished! What the hell? So after I get this wisdom tooth pulled they have to drill out this temporary filling and finish the root canal.....great fun.

*singing* These are the zombies in your neighbourhood. *end singing*
Oh, a zombie with a blue glowy growth out of his ear. Those are funny. They don't really appreciate you laughing at them though. They get all tense, turn funny colours of red and purple, sputter a bit, and walk away. Of course that just makes me laugh more.
Zombies behind me talking about going to a restaurant with $50 hamburgers and $20 bottles of water. Makes me want to reach back and smack them. I won't smack them though, don't want to get rotting flesh stuck to my hand. Even after you wash your hands the stench just sticks to you.
I can see up that one's skirt....that's just wrong. *shudder*
*singing* They're the zombies that you meet, when you're walking down the street. They're the zombies that you meet each day. *end singing*

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Monday morning. On the GO train. The zombie hordes await. And I forgot my book. And so I post.

I have to try to get a tooth pulled today. One of my wisdom teeth, the only one left actually, still needs to get ripped out due to a massive cavity. Yanking the tooth was put on hold until I had benefits again, which I do now. Unfortunately yesterday something happened to the last wisdom tooth and it's been hurting me ever since. (On a side note, the guy sitting in front of me has now hit me with his joe louis twice since the last stop.) So I'll call the dentist this morning to see if I can get in today to have the thing yanked out of my head. Hopefully I can get in.

So, what's happened in the last while?
The garden is doing well, potatoe plants are flowering, pumpkins are budding, so is another squash type plant that I forget what it is. Beans and peas seem to be doing pretty good as well. I still have to run the poles in for the beans but they aren't that far along yet anyway.
We retied the straw bales and stacked them in the shed. The shed got a good tidy up as well.
The hose has been reconnected and a sprayer head put on it so I don't have to lug water around the house to the garden.
Additional faucet pieces have been put on in the kitchen and bathroom to cut down on water usage.
The furnace got a new electrostatic reusable filter and the prefilters got a good cleaning.
Almost all the wallpaper has been removed from the bathroom walls, and a lovely mintish green paint is underneath.
The backyard is now sporting a few new items I didn't think I'd ever see in a backyard of mine, a kids swingset, a sandbox, and a little wading pool. Lots of stuff for the kids to do outside.
Ant traps have been put down, mouse poison has bee laid, and the wasp and hornet nests have been well sprayed.
I think that's about it for the house at the moment.

My mouth is killing me.

The zombie hordes have filled the train and are current at rest, silently stinking up the air around them. Some further turning their brains to mush with ipods so loud you can probably hear them in the next car. Others pretending to read. Others grunting and gurgling to each other in the incoherent babble of the undead. My head hurts with the stench of them, which is just compunding the pain in my mouth.
At least the view outside makes me smile a bit, even though I'm headed into the city that I've come to hate. Nature makes me smile. The creeping vines taking over any structure they get near. The roots of sumac trees busting through dirt and concrete alike. Nature reclaiming this concrete and steel wasteland of the zombie hordes.

Wish me luck my friends, the battle begins.

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