Happy Lent?

The words 'happy' & 'lent' really don't seem like they should go together, but I don't really know how else to phrase it.  'Merry Lent'?  'Blessed Lent' maybe?  Or 'Suck it up & get over yourself'?  Ok, to be fair I'm just as bad at getting over myself as the next person.  Whatever way you want to refer to it, it starts today.

For lent this year I am giving up t.v. shows.  It might actually be more accurate to say that I am giving up shows on iTunes or streaming tv via computer.  I never get home in time to watch most shows (because of my job usually and now due to building a house), so I catch up that way.  Either way, they are gone for a while.  It's only around 20-40 min of tv most late evenings, but it has slowly crept into time spent on better things (time with Super Lu, homework for my class that is now due in 5 weeks & I'm out of extensions with, sleep, reading, exercise, etc.)  It might sound ridiculous to you, but those 40 minutes have really stolen away some important things in my life.  The flip side is that at least I laugh more often (which is good too!).  Did any of you decide to give something up?

On the dad front, Sparkles asked me yesterday what 'sexy' meant.  She's in Grade 2.  She already had an idea as I asked her what she thought it meant - I just explained a little more.  I wish I could remember the words she used because it was quite entertaining.  It seems like the phrase 'doing all that there' came up a few times.  To clarify: she was talking about hair & makeup & clothes.  I'm really glad she feels like we can talk about these things though!

On the house front, I feel like a different man this week.  Having Mouth here helping for a few days was a huge boost.  And it worked out that I put in over a full week of work before he even showed up, so I didn't even need to take vacation days.  Nice!  I sometimes forget how acclimated I am to working in the frigid cold - it felt balmy this past weekend hovering around the -22C mark, but Mouth reminded us early (& OFTEN) about how cold it was!  I think our record was making it out the door 40 seconds one morning before he started complaining about it.  Putz was even out with us for a couple days too!  Super Lu was again awesome in taking care of the kids while we worked hard.  I really enjoy working with results orientated guys.  We get stuff done and laugh while we do it.  But we do get stuff done!

Here's me & Mouth putting up exterior walls.  

I'll get a few more pictures posted of our progress soon, but overall it was a very productive weekend!
Later,
I.B.