New Schedule For Aaliyah

So this no facebook thing has really given me time to organize something that needed to be done. I have been following a different schedule, now I finally took the time revamp it. Now that Aaliyah sleeps differently than before and she requires a lot more physical activity in order to tire her out and needs more things to do besides one main thing all day. So I took the time to do so and I use this really neat website that helps me keep myself organized it is called Listography. Here is my daughter's new schedule:

*Wake Up Time, 8:00 to 8:30 am
  *Breakfasts
      *Monday _Scrambled Eggs, with orange juice
      *Tuesday _Fruits and Yogurt, with apple juice
      *Wednesday _ Toast with Jam or peanut butter, with milk
      *Thursday _Oatmeal and brown sugar with and side of fruit with milk
      *Friday _French Toast and sliced banana's, with orange juice
      *Saturday _Cereal with apple juice
      *Sunday _Pancakes with fruits and milk.
*Outside Play Time 8:30 to 9:30
  *Winter Time
      *Snow Forts
      *Snow Man
      *Food Coloring Snow
  *Summer Time
      *Bouncy Ball
      *Sprinkler
      *Sand Castle
  *Fall
      *Leaf Crunching
      *Park
      *Hide in Seek (back yard)
  *Spring
      *Side Walk Chalk
      *Planting
      *Puddle Splashing (rainy days)
*Snack Time 9:30 to 10:00
  *Monday Grapes
  *Tuesday Carrots Sliced
  *Wednesday Pineapple chunks
  *Thursday Cheese & crackers
  *Friday Asparagus
  *Saturday Aaliyah's choice
  *Sunday Something homemade ei:Pie,cake or struddel
*Arts & Crafts 10:00 to 10:30
  *Monday color
  *Tuesday draw
  *Wednesday paint
  *Thursday masks (glue and construction paper)
  *Friday card (for family member)
  *Saturday plaster molding
  *Sunday Aaliyah's choice
*Free Play 10:30 to 11:30 while I prepare something for lunch
*Lunch Time 11:30 to 12:00
  *Monday Chicken Salad
  *Tuesday Sandwich (change filling every week for variety)
  *Wednesday Sweet Potato Fries
  *Thursday Nacho's
  *Friday Homemade Mac & cheese
  *Saturday Homemade Pizza (Half healthy, half meaty)
  *Sunday Chicken bites
*Relax Time: Story or TV Program Time 12:00 to 12:30
*Nap or Movie Time 12:30 to 1:00 to 1:30 Depending on how long movie is or how long Aaliyah sleeps
*Snack Time 1:30 to 2:00
  *Monday Peanuts
  *Tuesday Raisins
  *Wednesday Pretzels
  *Thursday Cheerios
  *Friday Cookie (Homemade)
  *Saturday Apple Slices with caramel
  *Sunday Aaliyah's choice
*Play Time Together 2:00 to 2:30
*Music Time 2:30 to 3:00 Head, should, knees, toes and happy and you know it and itsy, bitsy spider and the alphabet.
*Cartoon, Movie or Play time while Mommy prepares supper 3:00 to 4:30
*Story Time or Play time with Mom while food is in oven 4:30 to 5:00
*Supper Time 5:00 to 5:30
*Play Time with Daddy and Mommy in backyard 5:30 to 6:00
*Bath time 6:00 to 6:30 wash, then let play for a bit (while daddy does his computer stuff
*Family Time with DADDY!! Bible reading or veggies tales 6:30 to 7:00
*Light snack yogurt with fruits, then let Aaliyah run around the house for 1 hour 7:00 to 8:00
*Story time with bottle 8:00 to 8:30 As soon as she falls asleep put in bed.
*Spouse Quality Time 8:30 to 9:00 Talk, Cuddle and other things. LOL

Anyways if you are a person who likes to be organized or has a list for everything I think this site may just be for you. So go check it out.

Getting Caught Up On Other Things

I guess that having my facebook locked on me is a good thing. I am taking the time to write more of my book and also going through the chapters that I already have and edit them as well. Also, I totally forgot about this really cool site that my cousin Sabrina (click her name to view her blog) has referred me to for buying decent photos for really cheap for possible book covers. It is really neat, and the cool thing about it is, every week you get to download one free image. Not only is it for authors and writers looking for a good book cover, if you are a photographer you can also sell your photos on the site as well. You can find the site for the photos Here.
On another subject is I have been writing my book and uploading it chapter by chapter to on this site which is been created by Harper Collins the publishing company which is called authonomy and the cool thing about this is once you have at least 10,000 words up you can send your book out into the community of this site for other fellow writers/authors can read it and they give you a review on it; if they wish to. And if you got something good and people keep reading your story and referring to others joined to this site, you're more likely to get it reviewed by authonomy itself and some people end up with great deals and they publish your book and edit it for free and help you market your book. So this spare time away from facebook for me is doing me well, because I am actually taking the time to get more of my book written along with editing the chapters I already have. Which is a slow process, but once it is all said and done it feels very rewarding.
My plan on saving my extra money that I have mentioned before in three or four post prior to this one for the makeup course; I want to take it is going good I hardly spend my pocket change and I think by the end of the year I will a bit saved. I figured I would share the website for the sake of it, because it is really cool and the home page is always filled with really creative looking makeup pieces so click here.
Well I best be on my way for now. I am looking for a decent recipe to prepare for breakfast on christmas day. And every single link that shows up on google almost every post is a recipe for a strata and I do not want a strata I want something really healthy and full of fruit and possible a yummy christmas pancake and I doubt I will find the best recipe to try anytime soon. I also have to go and catch up on my friends blog since I have so many to read, since I had my three week vacation a while back to New Brunswick, I was hardly on the computer to keep up with his posts and if you wish for a nice read here is his link Dave Smith's Blog.

Facebook Or No Facebook

I officially right now hate facebook. Well the people working on behalf of technical support. So what is going on right now is I have been locked out of my account. And they can't even tell me why. So we repeatedly done a reset password and a recovery default password over and over and I still can not get logged onto my account. Which is now currently ticking me off. Before this Jacob guy from technical support decided to help me he ran a scan through my computer to check for any 'infections' as he called it. He was trying to convince me to pay $99 for some other person through the tech support to go through my computer and take out or delete these 'infections'. I told him I do not have that kind of extra money to be throwing around. He then hesitated to even try and fix my account until he realized that I was not going to be paying for it, he then sighed and gave in and tried to help me access my account. Which he utterly failed, what a complete illiterate. He is tech support and could NOT fix my account. Then says after fifteen thirty minutes of entering facebooks 'default' passcode which was '12345' he then says 'oh yeah, ummmm these kind of situations on facebook take time and probably near to 24 to 48 hours, so you're going to have to wait until Monday, then you can call me back and we can continue this'. Like what the heck if he knew that then why didn't he say so at the first attempt of entering the new reset password in the first place? So here I am facebookless for the whole weekend. If I do not get onto my account I will have a melt down. I have all my pictures on there from back when I first signed up for facebook, which is not on my current laptop now. They are old ones and the only copies I have. I will be pretty ticked off. I even wrote Mark Zuckerberg himself on facebook and told him that he has imbeciles working for him. Well I did not call his employee and imbecile, but I pretty much in a more professional way told him that this guy was not cut out for technical support.
I will be relieved if I get my account back, then I will take all my pictures and save them to my computer and also burn them a dvd just in case, then from there on, I might just deactivate my account. So the question is, should I or shouldn't I deactivate it? I really don't know anymore. I really feel like crying about now. Facebook is my only interaction with my parents and brother down in New Brunswick, besides skype, but they don't like skyping all the time.
I am thinking now, that if it were not for the fact that I have a really good fan page for my Poetry book I published, then I would deactivate my account. So I guess for now I might keep it. I really do not know at the moment, because I know right now I am speaking in the heat of the moment and I am just more angry then anything.
I guess I know how the people felt back when I was working technical support for HTC cell phones and if I could not fix the issue and we had to send their phones to get refurbished they were pretty ticked off at me. I guess I know how they feel now. Speaking of technical support for HTC my friend Dave Smith works there who is also a blogger on here. Just wanted to let ya know I am thinking of ya. Hope all is well.
Anyways later everyone. I am done venting now.

Unorganized Blog

Don't you just get annoyed when you log onto blog about something? Then as soon as it you are logged in, it seems as though you cannot find the words to say what you want to say. I know what I want to say, but sometimes just getting it out is just really annoying. I am not at a loss for words by any means, more so at a loss of how to put my words in order to make what I have all jumbled up in my head make sense to everyone else. I think differently than other; at least I think I do. I am sure if someone could share my thought process with me for one day they would definitely not understand what I was thinking of, but I get it and understand it in my own way.
I guess this is what I get for not writing regularly here on blogger or even in my note pad on my laptop. Anyways whatever! It is halloween day and I need to get some last minute things done. While on the topic before I log off I might as well share what I am doing costume wise for my little one. I have this really adorable handmade tinkerbell style outfit. So, therefore she is going to be tinkerbell, but I am also doing a little bit of makeup. Before you crazy moms out there that are against makeup on a baby let me say something first. No I am not plastering her face in cover up and all the stupid stuff you see other Mother's do. I am doing the look off of the movie Ever After (it is a cinderella story, for those of you who don't know the movie well), and if you look at the picture on google image if you google ever after makeup, it is a sheer shimmer with rhine stones. It is more of a masquerade look. So I am taking that look and making it fit the tinkerbell/fairy look. With my own added touch to it to make it look more natural though. I will be sure to take some photos and share with you what I have done for her halloween makeup look.
Well that is all for now folks. Eww I sound like the pig off of merry melodies saying the 'that's all for now folks saying.' LOL.

My Passion

Besides writing poetry and novels, I realized I have been pushing away what has always been my passion. And what made me realize this was the tv show 'Project Runway'. To see how much passion the people put into their designs and how much they love to design clothes. It got me thinking of what I have always wanted to do since I was twelve years old. That is a beautician; a more fancy way of calling yourself a makeup artist & hair stylist.
I had come across this at home training course for a makeup course here in Edmonton last year when we first moved here and been keeping my open for the opportunity to save my loose change and left over money for it, but then kept dipping into it. So now I am going to be more responsible and not spend my extra money no matter what. The kit costs near $1585 for the whole learning kit give or take. The kit comes with over 30 dvd's and most of them being over three hours long. It also comes with a makeup kit with the basic colors and also professional makeup brushes. You do a lot of projects and take photos of yourself after doing an assignment or project and upload it to your personal account you have with them and they grade your work. You learn everything from the comfort of your own home and  I can easily do this during my daughters nap times. She sleeps for a good hour, so I could do an hour a day for however long it takes me to do this.
I almost forgot how it made me feel when applying makeup on myself or a family member and friends. I have done a plethora of my friends makeup for christmas formal dances and such along with my own. Let alone my own makeup for my own wedding. Also my best friends wife for their wedding day as well (at no charge, since I am not professional). Although, she loved it. So from this point on for however long it takes me to save up for this kit I will do it until I have the money to do so.

Stuffed Meatballs

Oh yummy yummy yummy in my tummy. My mother and I just finished a batch of stuffed cheese meatballs. We divided the batch, half balls filled with mozzarella and the other stuffed with herbed havarti cheese.  As for seasoning we put italian seasoning, garlic powder, pepper and salt into the beef with a dash of sriacha sauce. And it smells so good. Mom just pulled the meatballs out of the oven. The aroma is just flowing all through the house right now and my mouth is salivating as I am writing this.

I am sorry that I did not think to take a picture. I will try my best to remember in future posts regarding food.

How Do You Tire Out Your Toddler?

I have been trying to find ways to tire out my wee one, but the baths before bed time don't work for me and I can't seem to get Aaliyah engaged into walking around the house long periods of time during the late evenings at all. I get her to climb our stairs with myself following closely behind, but she will only climb them about two times, which is not enough to tire her out. I even tried letting her play in the pool about an hour after supper hour and let her just play that does not work either. I even take her to the park down the street and she plays like crazy there, but it is not enough to get her tired out. So what I am wondering is what the heck am I suppose to do to get my energetic child to sleep so easily.
If you saw her for yourself you'd think she drank a bunch of redbull's and coffees. Oh the joys of being a mom can be so tiring at times.