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I am one smart idiot.

Filed under: Blah Blah Blah, Ugh — Heidi at 10:36 pm on Friday, August 15, 2008

Somehow…somehow…I have successfully managed to lock myself out of BOTH of my Flickr accounts - one of which is a FlickrPro account with unlimited uploading for a year.

Yes, very smart of me…very smart. It definitely takes a “special” person to do this sort of thing.

Fortunately I can see that everything is still there, and there seems to be a common occurrence of “dangling” accounts, as those in the biz refer to the problem, so I’m hoping that the “Flickereenos” will be able to converse with the “Magic Donkey” and I’ll get my Heidi Chronicles back AND have it merged with my heidichronicles account.

However, this did not stop me from crying into my keyboard over it because I am hormonal I spent days uploading pictures to the damn thing and now I can’t even log in, much less figure out how in the hell I am supposed to get the pics in my blog - which I USED to be able to do without any problems.

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(Consider that outburst a whole shit ton of nasty swear words far worse than “shit.” Actually some of it looks more like math…which is appropriate as it also makes me swear .)

Anyhoo, I can’t focus on this any more, and I’m sure I won’t get an answer from them until next week, so I’m going to bed.

We’re bah-aaack. (Have been for a while now. Oops.)

Filed under: Aaron, BackBlogging, Blah Blah Blah, Elena, Family, Liam, Life In London, Medicated, Mommyhood, Travel, Ugh — Heidi at 5:09 pm on Sunday, July 13, 2008

We made it - and without much drama, from the children anyway. I can absolutely do the fly-by-myself-with-two-kids thing again.

It did suck that when we got to the airport and tried to check in our tickets had been canceled, but fortunately Aaron’s dad got us on the overbooked flight. Bless that man.

I wish you could have seen my trying to get through security with two squirrelly kids, a stroller, and two carry on bags - one with a laptop that I forgot to remove, not to mention the removal of three pairs of shoes, liquids, and the sneaking in of Starbucks in sippy cups.

I have to say, for as much as people complain about TSA, they certainly were nice to me. And so was everyone else. Some woman helped me get my luggage up on the security belt, and people were talking to the kids to keep them occupied so that Elena wouldn’t run away from me.  Liam also did a good job of keeping her in check with his arms wrapped around her neck.  Fortunately that was the most stressful part of the trip…everything else was just annoying.

We got into Chicago early, but our flight out was delayed an hour and a half. I walked all over that airport with my rolling bag attached to the stroller and my 50 pound backpack creating sweat marks where the straps came across my front.

Liam and Elena both fell asleep in the stroller while I was pushing it and of course woke up as soon as I stopped, but I had to slow down so that I could hear what the announcement was. Basically they were looking for people to take the first flight out the next day. I didn’t even bother talking to them about it until I heard them call for three more people. Thank goodness by the time I got up there they just needed two more, so it wasn’t even an option. Whew!

I have to say, the kids did great on the flight. Liam made friends with his seat mates, and we all three slept.  I didn’t even pull out the DVD players!

So, that said, our next trip is planned for October 24-November 9 (Aaron will come back earlier.), and our first trip in 2009 is planned for January 15th-ish through Feb 6th-ish.  I will be flying both ways alone with the kids.

“Alone with the kids….”  Ha.  Such an appropriate statement.    I can’t even express how happy I was to see Aaron waiting for us when we arrived - with bagels and water, no less!

And now I must go and try to catch up a bit with pictures from our trip.  It was crazy, but fun.

We’re here!

Filed under: Blah Blah Blah — Heidi at 4:03 pm on Thursday, June 26, 2008

We made it.  It was a bit of a mess thanks to the airline, but we’re all fine and well.

We’re in KC until Friday and then we’re headed to CA for the weekend.  Looking forward to seeing everyone!

Canadian Italian trumps the Brits’

Filed under: BackBlogging, Bday/Anniv/Holiday, Blah Blah Blah, Depression, Elena, Friends, Health, Home Improvements, Murphy & Macey, Number of the Day, Terrible Mother — Heidi at 10:29 pm on Thursday, June 19, 2008

We had a mini birthday party this afternoon for Liam…

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which was a good thing because prior to their arrival, my two children screaming “MIIIIIIIINE” back and forth at each other made me want to shoot them.

And Aaron got home from Milan.  That was a good thing too.

But later when he told me about the delicious Italian food he ate?  Then I wanted shoot him.

The fact of the matter is, we have yet to find any place here that serves good Italian food.  I’ve had better in Vancouver.  Seriously…can someone please explain to me how Canada can have better Italian food than a country within a two hour flight of ethnic epicenter?

I got spoiled and now I have no patience.

Filed under: BackBlogging, Blah Blah Blah, Elena, Friends, Liam, Life In London, Mommyhood — Heidi at 10:07 pm on Wednesday, June 18, 2008

In true Awesome Nanny fashion, Daniela called today to see if Liam could come play after school.

Elena was grumpy all morning, so it was no problem for me to put her down and send Liam on his merry way.  E slept until 4.15 and L ended up eating dinner at Penny’s.

How quickly one forgets the difference between having one child and two children. My afternoon was so easy.  There wasn’t any arguing about why L had to stay in his room, or asking for food, or drinks, or to brush teeth, or read during quiet time, or how to play “Guy Jumps Around” (Super Mario 4) on the DS.  It was just peaceful.

I got my payback though.  I fully expected Liam to be worn out and ready to go to bed at a decent time since he played hard this afternoon.  So, I put both kids in bed at  7.30.  Elena went right to sleep, but Liam procrastinated.  His latest thing is to tell me that he’s sick - that he has throw up in his stomach - and then ask for milk.

Dude…you don’t ask for milk when you have throw up in your stomach.  It just doesn’t work that way.

Anyway, he’s not sick, and when I asked him if he remembered why we don’t have milk at bedtime, he quickly recalled that his “teeth will get bleeded and he’ll have to have the drill at the gentist.”

Then I told him if he was really sick that he wouldn’t be able to go to school in the morning.  THAT certainly did not go over well.

Suddenly he was healed, and water was just fine.

He finally went to sleep around 8.30.  Not soon enough for me.

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