About Parking Lots

I know this is starting to be more Kristen's Complaints than Kristen's Contemplations, but I need to vent somewhere!
You need to slow down in parking lots people!  They are not roadways!  There are people walking in them, with carts, with strollers, with small children!  And no, speeding up and then slowing down just for the speed bumps is not acceptable.  The speed bumps are there to keep you slow - there's a reason for them, and it isn't to annoy you.
When backing up, look behind you please.  Small children may be there. 

Random Thoughts

Things that are bothering me right now:

-The plan to build a mosque at Ground Zero.  Really!  I think that's completely tacky, insensitive and completely unnecessary.
-Jay walkers - esp. those who are texting, listening to their iPods, or on their cell phones
-People who don't signal, particularly on the 401
-the fact that I'm in a larger city, yet have to go to 2 or 3 stores to fill my grocery list, when I used to have to go to just one when I lived in Saint John
-that it takes much longer to go anywhere here, even to the bank and back
-ignorance and intolerance of those of different cultures from Jane Average white woman in Toronto (yes, I will stick up for the veiled woman whose limited English doesn't let her express what she needs to say)

Jeremy the Bee

A Day in the Life of Olivia - 6 months -Medium.m4v

Jeremy 3

Jeremy is 3.  Jeremy insists his name is Jeremy 3 (and gets upset if I print it without the 3 on the end).  He also often says, "Me three!"  instead of "me too" - not because he's the 3rd to agree, but because he's 3.

Memories!

Well one place did it and the memories came rushing overwhelmingly back.  Wonderland.  Or the place formerly known as Wonderland, now Castle Fun Park.  My parent and I took the boys mini-golfing there in the Under the Sea theme course and as soon as I set foot inside I could have been 16 again.  Oh my goodness, I didn't realize how much time I'd spent there until now.  And specific memories too.  I knew exactly every shot to play.  Where the troubles were, what the tricks were.  The love octopus.  The crush talk.  The inside jokes.  Wow, it was all there still hidden inside some sort of web in my brain.  So Taryn, Casey and Sarah this one's for you.

Elijah the prophet?

We've known for a while that Elijah hears from God (whether he knows this or not remains to be seen).  We're pretty sure that he has the gift of prophecy.  This week when we were flying home he was scared of the airplane door.  He has flown a lot and has never been scared of this before.  I later read in the news of another flight leaving out of Calgary on Westjet (same as us) on the same afternoon had an emergency landing in Winnipeg because of a woman trying to open the airplane door mid-air.