October 2008

Happy Halloween

by noelle on October 31, 2008

I took the day off work today so that Vlad and I could stay home and watch scary movies. So far today, I have watched the following movies: Jeepers Creepers, The Omen, Hocus Pocus, Sleepy Hollow, and Ghostbusters. I am hoping to squeeze another on in before the end of the night.

I went to my mom’s house tonight for Halloween to give out candy in her neighborhood. There aren’t very many children in my neighborhood, so I usually go over there. My mom made the best chilli for dinner. We were supposed to do the pumpkin pot pies, but we decided not to. We will try it next year. There were so many cute kids out tonight. Makes me want one even more! It made me sad to think that it will be at least until the Halloween after next until I have a baby to take trick or treating. I am just praying that I can be pregnant by next Halloween. I hope I don’t have any problems. I know I sound like a broken record.

Yesterday, I reinstated my Fertility Friend Account and bought the 1 year VIP account. I am hoping that I will not have to renew! I have also started taking a prenatal vitamin in order to be ready to TTC (that’s “Try to Conceive” in internet pregnancy lingo). Only 6 months to go, so I want to be ready.

Tomorrow is the first day of the November blog posting challenge. I am excited. I really hope I can do it, and that I don’t forget to post everyday. I am really going to try.

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30 Posts in 30 Days

by noelle on October 30, 2008

I must be nutso.  I just signed up to do 30 days of blogging.  One post daily for every day in November. I really hope that I can stick to this and really post an entry everyday, but I doubt myself already.  I have such a hard time coming up with things to write about.  I really need to start thinking of topics, but I figure the entries can be about anything, as long as I make a post. I have never done this before and have never had a month where I posted even 15 entries.  Even though I am a pessimist, and am already doubting my ability to do this, I am fairly excited to start this challenge.

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My Favourite Halloween Movies

by noelle on October 29, 2008

With Halloween only a couple days away, I have compiled a list of my 13 most favourite movies to watch during the month of October. Here they are in no particular order:

My Top 13 Movies to Watch During the Halloween Season

1. Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus
2. Poltergeist
Poltergeist
3.Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters
4. The Exorcist
The Exorcist
5. The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas
6. The Witches of Eastwick
Witches of Eastwick
7. An American Haunting
An American Haunting
8. Rosemary’s Baby
Rosemary's Baby
9. The Amityville Horror
Amityville Horror
10. The Shining
The Shining
11. Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice
12. Practical Magic
Practical Magic
13. Halloween
Halloween

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New Living Room Set

by noelle on October 26, 2008

Got new furniture for the living room. It is a vast improvement from what was going on in there before. Here is a before pic from a couple years ago. Its not a great picture, but it’s the only one I could find with a view of the livingroom. Don’t mind my sister in the picture:

Old Livingroom furniture

Here is the new improved livingroom set:

New Couches

Another Angle

New LazyBoy

I am so happy to finally be rid of my “University Student” couches. I am so in love with this leather set. It is exactly what I was looking for, and we got a great deal!

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Life

by noelle on October 22, 2008

My dad had a heart attack on Sunday.  He started having chest pains and his arms and jaw started to ache.  He told my mom, and she thought that it sounded like heart problems, so she gave him some aspirin and my brother took him to the hospital.  They did the blood work and his enzymes showed that he had indeed had a minor heart attack, but he was still having chest pains and his heart rate was hovering around 40 bpm which was alarming.  He stayed like that overnight, and in the morning, they did an angiogram.  They found that one of his arteries was 99% blocked.  By luck, the doctor that does the angioplasty happened to be in the hospital, so they did it right away since they already had him all set up.  Usually the patient waits an average of a week to get this done.  They were able to clear out the blockage, and they put a stent in his artery.  Medicine is so cool.

Angioplasty with stent

He will be in the hospital for another couple of days, and then he will be able to go home.

I have to say that I am truly happy that I live in Canada, and that my mother and father did not have to stress out about how to pay for this, or how much their insurance would cover.  When you go to the hospital here, the government picks up the tab.  It is comforting to know that if anything happens to me or any of my loved ones, that there is one less thing to worry about.


In other news, Vlad and I had our engagement pics done on Saturday.  I have not seen them yet, but I think they turned out really well.  I will be able to see them sometime next week.  I cannot wait!

I am running out of things to watch when I work out.  When I first started, I would watch 45 minutes of a movie each time I worked out until it was done, but it didn’t workout right all the time and I would have to stop working out to switch dvds.  Then I ordered the first and only (cries) season of one of the best shows to ever be on television, ‘My So-Called Life’.

If you haven’t seen My So-Called Life then I must tell you that, even though there is only one season, of 19 episodes that ends with a cliff-hanger (they did not know they were being canceled), that you need to watch this show.  It is awesome!  It stars a 15 year old Claire Danes and Jared Leto.  You need to watch this show.

Anyways, each episode is 47 minutes long, so it worked out perfectly, and because I loved watching it so much, it motivated me to workout everyday.  But that only lasted 19 days, as there are only 19 episodes.  So after ‘My So-Called Life’, I ordered the 3 seasons of another great show, ‘Roswell’.  That one was great as it lasted longer.  My only complaint is that somewhere from 1994 when ‘My So-Called Life’ aired to 1999 when ‘Roswell’ aired, they added more commercials or something, because each episode was only 43 min long.  When I was done ‘Roswell’, I didn’t know what to do, so I started watching My So-Called Life again (yes, I love it that much).  Now I am 4 episodes away from the end.  I don’t know what I am going to do.  I can’t even repeat Roswell, as I lent it to my sister.  I really want to find another show, with many seasons, so I can watch it for a long time.  I still have not got over the cancelling of My So-called life.  Booooo.  Anyway, here is some My So-Called Life, for your viewing pleasure:

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