freaky

the view from our hotel room window.  wow.
eli at the very top of the mountain

riding up the gondola



fondue-ing at the grizzly house



chewing like crazy on her hand

c.j.'s quilt top is complete

i think i had a picture like this of me chewing dads thumb, but it burned in the fire...

it is thursday.  do you know what we are doing tomorrow?  flying to l.a..  do you know what that means for today?  laundry, fold, sort, pull out bags, clean, pack, consolidate, pay bills, return movies, email teacher, the list goes onnnnnnnn.  

what happens to me right before a trip is kind of like watching the weather channel when a hurricane is brewing.  things are pretty calm about a week out, maybe some clouds forming, winds are picking up, then as the days go on and the time draws near, i get bigger and windier and freakier and pretty soon i am a category 5 hurricane coming down on haiti and there is no stopping it.  i am a big ball of freak out and it stinks.  

SO, yesterday i started thinking ahead and began the laundry.  it is done, just strewn throughout my house now waiting to be packed.  BUT it is done.  when eli got home from school yesterday, we packed his bag.  DONE.  now i just need to worry about me and ida and the house.

 

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the other day on my way home from getting my hair done, i stopped into crave.  they sell cupcakes. enough said.  i haven't been down there in ages, due to the gestational diabetes and all, so when i walked in and they asked me what i wanted i bought a dozen large and 1/2 dozen small, just to eat in the car on the way home.  that was 2 days ago.  i am pretty certain that i have eaten 75-80% of those cupcakes.  it has been a haze.  the scale however has confirmed that and i am showing i have gained 5 pounds.  that is not good.  i had the fortune of becoming 20 pounds lighter than my pre-pregnancy weight about a week after ida was born.  it was kind of freaky, i thought maybe i was dying or something.  but now when i look back at that i can attribute it to the heathy choices i was making when i ate.  isn't that funny, eat well and lose weight?  eat crap and gain weight?  i think i am on to something...

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easter in banff.  it was great.  the hotel was perfect, 2 thumbs up.  the weather was super.  the gondola was fun, fun, fun and the mini-hike to the top of sulphur mountain was sweet.  we ate at the grizzly house which is a fondue joint.  the food was good, i always forget how labour intensive fonduing is, the ambiance was slightly freaky, kind of kinky weird, a little too "swinging '70's".  i mean any restaurant that sells a thong with their restaurant name plastered on the tiny little piece of fabric that makes up a "thong" is kind of creepy in my books.

all in all it was a good little get away.  we ate way too much banff crap like fudge, carmel apples, pez, more fudge, hot chocolate, pastries, another carmel apple...........  maybe that is why my scale is screaming at me.

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lastly, i finished c.j.'s quilt top yesterday in efforts to be able to fold it up and think about it when i get home.  i think it turned out good!?!  it is a quilt for a guy, kind of dark, more masculine than anything.  with the neptune-ish fabrics as the theme, i wanted the quilt to feel like and be like a big blue wave washing over him, hence the navy sashing and border.  i am trying to find dark navy minkee for the back so it will be soft, soft, soft and will bind it with the sea wave pattern in the quilt to tie it all together.  such a process.  will be fun when it is all done.  now i just need to find some freaky old lady to quilt this sucker. 

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will post next from sunny l.a.

i will make it, i will make it, i will make it.