A mohawk is a type of hat

The first month of the year has passed and everyone has now fell comfortable into the year 2010. New jobs, new schedules for the semester, and the old worn out saying said of retailing clothing stores – “A new year, a new you!”, supposedly.

I deny that I’m in denial

I’m afraid it’s not much of an update this week; ever since the New Year, everything’s been fairly consistant and routine. Cooking, cleaning, sleeping (cough and watching Inuyasha, cough) and looking after Sebastian. Speaking of which, he’s fallen ill. He can barely breathe because his nose and chest is congested and he can barely sleep at night, which goes the same with me and Amy. We took him to paediatrician and they didn’t really diagnose him with a certain illness – either way, he gave us a big list of medication – steroids and antibiotics. They make him very irratible, and make him stay up crazy hours, poor baby.
Uni has started again, and my classes have been harder than ever. You know, when all the 6th form teachers said that there was going to be a lot of reading, well they sure as hell weren’t lying! $600 worth of books and any free time I get I read, and even then there isn’t enough time.
Last weekend we went to Baton Rouge and went to Amy’s old friends’ house, Chloe and Lea. Big and modern, with an open kitchen – something I wish to obtain after my degree! Lea had a pet baby flying squirrel that she saved from her late cat – it’s no bigger than the size of your palm, and it’s very domesticated, very cute!
Whilst we were there, were heard a rumbling in the attack – turns out that there has been possums living in the attic, and their dad just caught one in a cat cage. He didn’t let it free because it would more than likely climb back into the attack from the outside, but instead he kept it inside because it was cold out. Sympathy for these creatures, amirite?
We went to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie and in a way I guess it made me a little bit homesick – the accents, the comedy, the culture. However, aside from that, it was a pretty good movie. Robert Downey Jr played Holmes outstandingly, and he looked exactly like a guy I used to know called Mark Jackson; it’s that trademark smile, I’m sure of it.
This February will be my first year celebrating Mardi Gras, which is on the same day as the Brit’s pancake day. I will be experiencing a flurry of parades and floats, carnival celebrations, and traditional food home to New Orleans. I’ve already had my first King Cake, which is a cinnamon type roll, which can have various flillings, with a layer of icing. The sugar colours purple, gold and green coat the top (the Mardi Gras colours). There’s a small plastic baby inside the cake, and whoever gets the slice with the baby in it has to buy the king cake for next year.
My half-arsed New Years resolution is to get back into my art, as a hobby (and who knows, I might sell something, baha), so if you’re interested, be sure to look out for my deviantart page.
Until next time then, I bid you fair well. Or as Amy says, “Peace out, girl scout” ~

No pictures of me this post. Maybe ’cause you guys keep making fun about my FLIPPIN’ FACIAL HAIR – I’m still not going to shave it. Also, I have skype now, but it lags like nobody’s business on my lappy, I’m gona have to sort that. Either way, the username is benjamin.ng3 – feel free to add.

My knees wet themselves

New Year has just passed and I hope you all have had a Merry Christmas. I feel that I’ve regressed just a little bit – I’ve been surround by so many toys for Sebastian and Jasmine, that I’d be lying if I said I didn’t play with any of them. As a moment of ‘derp’ I happened to have left my camera at home so most of the pictures are from Christmas Eve morning at home before we headed to Baton Rouge and at New Years. This was Sebastian’s first Christmas that he’ll remember so me and Amy did everything to make it the best for Sebastian. We opened our presents to each other on Christmas Eve. For Christmas, for his main presents, Sebastian got a big CAT(erpillar) truck and an indoor basketball hoop (it’s plastic, it was only $12, we’re not spoiling him that much /gooby). Other bits and bobs included pajamas, little trucks, colouring books, etc.

Happy Holidays

It’s 12:30am, and the kids are still up and running, and not sleeping – Sebastian being two years old, and Jasmine being 5 years old. That’s some intense holiday spirit.
Missing you all back home – yes, all of you. Too many to name.
Hope y’all have a good one~

Love,
Amy, Ben and Sebastian

McRib – it’s so good because it’s made of LCD

Joyous times! Everyone is back from university to spend Christmas at home: putting up decorations, making fires, drinking hot chocolates, and from what I’ve heard there’s been a fair amount of snow back home. Snowball fights aplenty, I assume (Amy sneak peaked what she got me for Christmas, and they’re some skeleton gloves and I love them so). Oh happy days!
Things down my end have been pretty busy. The semester is over and done with, I’ve paid my tuition so my classes for next semester are secured, I’ve been mailing stuff overseas left, right and centre. I have finished my finals and got my semester grades back (Anthropology, A; Psychology, A; English, B; Math, B; meaning a 3.5 GPA so far – not like that means anything to you brtis, lol). Furthermore, since me and Amy’s semesters are over with, we’ve decided to keep Sebastian home a lot more rather than sending him to daycare, which means less computer time, but more parent-son bonding! The busyness never halts, no rest for the wicked I say. I plan on rearranging the kitchen, since it’s my territory, and to pick up on my cooking skills – more importantly though, my art skills. All I’ve been doing in is doodling resulting in no real art pieces. New Year’s resolution anyone?

It’s so hot he has to eat gloves with it

Pitter patter pitter patter, and here I am sitting by my christmas tree at this ungodly hour, typing, with fairy lights radiating over my shoulder, listening to the rain beat against the ground, with mugs filled with hot chocolate dotted around the table. It is a mellow scene at this time of year.

It’s raining leaves

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She wrote dark poetry, sarcastically

Did everyone have a good Halloween? I saw most of your pictures, you drunken bums.
For Halloween,

Your breath smells like miasma

Unfortunately this isn’t going to be much of an update – Sebastian has had a respiratory infection for over a week now (yeah, he was sick on his birthday), and the hectic weekend is finally catching up to him. Though recovering, he’s still coughing violently, unabling him to sleep for more than half an hour without waking up choking – it’s meant sleepless nights for all of us in the house, so not much has been going on apart from looking after our sick Sebastian.
He misses his friends at daycare so much; he keeps asking, “See Judy? See Maggie? See Alison?” – Indeed, he is a ladies’ man!
I will rant about the healthcare system in a later post, because the day before his birthday, he was unable to see a doctor in Lafayette – his doctor back in Baton Rouge wouldn’t fax over confirmation or information to a doctor in Lafayette, cause it would mean that Sebastian’s doctor wouldn’t make any money off that visit. So, on his birthday, shit-early in the morning, we had to drive all the way to Baton Rouge (60+ miles away) to see an affiliated company to Sebastian’s doctor, and then drive all the way back to get ready for his party.
Sucks right?
But anyway, today I’m having to skip class to look after him because, he was feeling fine last night, until he started hacking half way through trying to go to sleep, deeming unwell to go to daycare this morning.
I’ll end by posting some pictures up from the weekend after the break, and promise they’ll be a more exciting post next week, as I’m heading to New Orleans (for the first time) for Halloween, which shall be interesting..!
Until then, cheerio chaps.

Flutter by, butterfly

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend, and already, the American Halloween festivities have begun.
(click below, and it’s totally worth it too, ’cause there’s a mini gallery at the end)