Busy and Bureaucracy.

Tomorrow starts our weekend.

However, we're going to have to go to Toronto, likely tomorrow afternoon, to visit the US Consulate. LP needs to get his US Citizenship straightened out, and get his US Passport. We have an appointment at the Consulate at 8:30 on Wednesday. In the morning. We're thinking that we'll go to Toronto tomorrow to avoid having to leave the house at 5:30 in the morning. However, between now and when we leave, we will need to...

Make two copies of

• My passport
• Skeeve's passport
• LP's passport
• My report cards
• My tax returns
• Jon's death certificate
• Our marriage certificate
• LP's birth certificate
• LP's passport application
• LP's SSN application

Print out two copies of the Periods of Physical Presence list
Pick up two pre-paid Canada Post Express Packs
Mail taxes
Get $130 in US cash

It's likely to be a pain in the butt. I mean, we're to expect this to be a two to three hour gig, and even then there might be a 4-6 week waiting period before we find out about whether they accept his citizenship. And all this because the hospital is dumb.

I've gotten very little done this week. And on the homefront, the weekend looks like even less is going to be done. Sad, but true. Maybe next week, I guess. At the very least, I should be able to get diapers and regular laundry done. But, we will get the big important thing done - LP's dual citizenship.

April Fools... or maybe not?

So for my April Fool's "joke" I updated my Facebook status to say that LP is now walking. One of the comments on that status, neither calling my shenanigans nor falling for them completely, asked "alone or holding on?" It was at this point I realized that my status is entirely true, albeit slightly misleading.

LP does walk. If you hold onto his hands and are patient, he will walk to wherever he wants to go. He doesn't even crawl properly, and he's actually, technically, walking. Wow.

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In other news, I've locked Static in the cat crate. She's yowling pitifully, but I really don't care. See, I've locked her up so that I can take the gallon jug of Nature's Miracle Advanced (Just for Cats!) that we just bought and apply it liberally to the carpet where she's been making my home her litter box for the past ten months. I was letting her slide on it (not on cleaning it up, but on it happening at all), thinking at first that it was the pregnancy hormones from me driving her batty... Then that it was the introduction of the baby that threw her off... And now LP is a week shy of eight months old (when the hell did THAT happen?!?!), and there are just no more excuses. All there seems to be is my house smelling like cat piss. All day. Every day. And I'm sick of it. So she's been penned up, and I've applied all but the bottom inch of that jug to the floors where I know she pees. It is currently "curing" or whatever it does while you wait for it to work, and then in another half hour I'm taking out the vacuum and "stiff bristle brush"-ing it up. In another few days, Static will come out again and be amongst the population. If she's still peeing all over the house, she will be leaving. I can't cope with this, and LP should not have to put all his toys away in a box with a lid - every night - so that Static will not pee on them while our backs are turned. Especially not now while he puts everything into his mouth. I certainly don't want him *eating* cat pee. Gross, much?

In other news, it's a beautiful day outside, and I'm looking forward to spending probably at least some of it washing my curtains and throw rugs so that they're also cat-pee free. I've got the windows open, and it's a little chilly to have all the doors open, too, but tomorrow it's supposed to be in the 70's, and I'll be buggered if I leave the whole place closed up - or worse, let the breezes spread cat-pee stink through the house. I'm so hoping this works. So very hoping it works. *nodnod*