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life

Two Weddings Down; Just Mine to Go

Gary and Jackie both beat me in the wedding race. It hasn’t really bothered me up ’til now, and in fact it still doesn’t bother me. What bothers me is the harassment that I’ve been getting lately. “When are YOOOOOUUU getting married Jeff?” I told you, I don’t know now get off my back already.

I know Anna-Maria seems to be the perfect girl for me and now does seem like a pretty good time to get engaged, but I’m thinking am I really ready? Is there any good reason not to? Last time I was engaged it was a close call. I’m really glad that I didn’t get hitched and not that Anna-Maria is anything like the previous girlfriend, but at the same time I think we are pretty happy the way we are and I really want us to both make sure it’s the right thing to do. There is the whole issue about whether Anna-Maria will change her name, but when it comes right down to it, it’s actually not that big a deal whether she’s Anna-Maria LeMaistre or Anna-Maria Milner. The important thing is that we are happy. I’m thinking this post is a touch on the personal side but what the hell is this blog for if I can’t even post what’s really on my mind. I guess that’s why I shouldn’t go telling everyone about it if I want to have a place to vent without feeling like everyone is reading my mind. Anyway I digress…

Glen and Jackie’s wedding reception was absolutely wonderful tonight. Anna-Maria gave a particularly beautiful singing number — I don’t know what anyone who suggested that she should do another song was thinking, because it really was perfect. The slide show went down without a hitch and many people came up to me afterwards to compliment me on it. I’m glad they liked it and even though it wasn’t nearly as good as I would have liked it to be, it did really feel pretty good that so many people told me that they liked it so much.

Since Tracie was so nice as to plan me that big family get together back in June, I thought it was only fair if I planned a house warming party for Gary and Tracie for the weekend of August 23rd or 24th. When I say plan I actually mean, tell them to get ready because we’re coming. It should involve a BBQ, a large variety of pop and chips and perhaps even a piñata. Everyone loves a piñata!

On a completely different note, I’ve been thinking about finishing my degree in the States lately. I’m wondering if I can take a similar (if not the same stuff) that I’m taking at the University of Lethbridge under the pretence of getting a Bachelor of Fine Arts only get a Batchelor of Science degree at Cal State Monterey. If I’m going to do it, I’ll have to do it by this January otherwise I will probably not be able to use all of the classes I have taken so far. I’ll keep you updated.

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Miscellaneous

Isn’t It Ironic?

I showed up at work tonight and wouldn’t you know it – nobody else was there. I talked to Michael, the 400 lbs supervisor, and he said that he thought Pattie had given me a call to tell me that there is no work until next week. Now I should have been happy about this right? I mean especially after I was just complaining that I had to go to work. Anyway he looked at the schedule for next week and I was off all week. I thought well isn’t that great first of all they tell me not to come in for a week because there’s no work and then when there is work I’m still off. Just then Les came in and I asked him about the schedule. “What you want to work?” I thought he meant right now so I said, “Yes”. Ok, come in Tuesday at 5:00.

It would have been nice to have another week off. The grass is always greener . . .

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Miscellaneous

Back to Work

When I think about going back to work in 45 minutes, I just don’t feel good about it. I’ve had a week long vacation from my telephone survey job and now they want me back. It’s a good thing I had that other job though, because if I were relying on just my pay cheque from Environics to pay the bills, I’d be pretty mad at not having any work this last week. As it stands I’ve enjoyed only working at the pool and don’t feel like making any phone calls tonight. I’m planning on getting tomorrow night off and I already told them I couldn’t work on Saturday. I also got the day off on Saturday from my life guarding shift.

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Miscellaneous

Wedding Reception

I unfixed / re-fixed the tape with Jackie’s wedding on it. Though I haven’t tested it yet, I did get it back into the broken – but working state, that it was in before. I don’t have a camera to test it though. Anna-Maria has been stressing about her singing at the reception but I think she’ll do just fine. She never did ask anyone to play the piano for her, so I am not sure what her plan is. Is there someone that will be able to play for her? Well I’ve been coming to the blog for the last few days and have been disappointed with the lack of posting lately. So for those about to post I salute you.

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friends

Marilyn Monroe – A True Story

Anna put her hands in the cement mold of Marilyn Monroe’s outside Mann’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. I kid you not when I tell you that Anna said, “Oh they’re really hot”. Even after all these years, who wouldn’t expect them to be?

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movie

Jeff Milner Movie Review – The Italian Job

The Italian Job is one of those movies that I see the preview and I think no way Jose. But it was at the Movie Mill and hence not the regular gouge you get at the other theatre so Anna-Maria and I went.

The movie, while not by any means plausible, at least didn’t ooze fake-ness, which in my opinion is a common downfall for action movies. I really liked the settings that they chose for this film and with the all-star cast, I couldn’t help but like this film. The computer hacker that can take over the world from his laptop and explosive that seem to cut through buildings with laser like accuracy aside, I enjoyed the action in this film and it’s “Ocean’s 11” style theme of bad guys outwitting badder guys. The settings were great with a boat chase in Venice, some beautiful Italian mountain shots and of course my favourite, the Hollywood and Highland finale.

If you were just on location two weeks before then of course that is going to make any movie more interesting. So I recommend if you can find The Italian Job playing in the cheap theatres, go see it, and if not – then it’s worth the rental price.

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Miscellaneous

Water Restrictions

Currently there is a water restriction on watering your lawn if you live on the South Side of Lethbridge. I of course haven’t watered my lawn all year except for once last week and once yesterday. The ban started yesterday… oops.

I figure I have been quite the conservationist up until now anyway so they should cut me some slack. It was weird because when I started watering yesterday, I looked down the street and nobody was watering. “That’s odd” I thought, but then thought here I go watering my sickly, ant infested, dying lawn. (Most of the ants are gone – but there are still a few stragglers and I’m out of diamaceous earth).

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Miscellaneous

Wedding Reception Slideshow

Anna got me a camera from the school but it hasn’t been working with my computer so we are going to have to find another one. This is the only one available at the University and this is clearly the reason it was still available. Anyway I have the pictures of Jackie so now I just need to get this video and the images of Glen and I’ll be cooking with gas.

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culture

Star Wars Kid Update

An interesting Star Wars Kid update from Waxy.org, the place where the Star Wars Kid gained a lot of his fame, has an update about the money they donated to get him an ipod. There is also news of a petition on the net to try and get him into Star Wars Episode III. For those of you that haven’t been following the Star Wars Kid saga, check out this nifty link and then view any of the Star Wars Kid clips. In other Star Wars Kid related news, apparently his family is pursuing legal action against those responsible for the video being leaked onto the net in the first place. They’re going for a cool $225,000 CAN.

Also of interest on the Waxy is a story about a car accident that killed 10. It happened just a few blocks from where we were vacationing last weekend. (Hollywood and Highland is probably something like 14 miles away with an approximate travel time of 24 minutes). Anyway it’s a big story in the news right now about how this 86-year-old man drove through the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market and hit a bunch of people when he mistook his gas pedal for the break and then (I assume) panicked. I found their writeup to be ++informative.

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life

On the Road Again…

I got up early this morning and headed for Medicine Hat. Mom really wanted me to fix up her computer which, as you can probably guess since I’m posting this from Medicine Hat, is working fine.

I did talk her into buying a new 10/100mbps network card that is noticeably faster than the 10 mbps card they were using previously. I recommend upgrading if you are still using a slow one. The new cards cost about $20 but I they are totally worth it.

So in case you are curious all I really had to do was uninstall the newest version Kazaa, some virus software called bullguard (which by the way was the main problem) and I think something called mynet or mysearch, I’m not exactly sure what it was but I guess you collected points by using it or something and I was like, “No, this is not right”.

So now that’s they are gone the computer is running as smoothly as ever. Perhaps I’ll give Anna-Maria a call or maybe I’ll just chill here for a while watching TV. Either way, I’m planning on staying over night in the Hat and driving back to Lethbridge tomorrow before 3. The survey place has me scheduled to work all night Sunday, and frankly I’m beginning to think about quitting that job. I guess I should just think about how I’m in a tight spot for money what with my impulse trip to Disneyland and all. (So worth it by the way — still no regrets whatsoever!) Speaking of Disneyland, still no word on whether Anna has decided to take the job or not. She is moving however, she’s already packed up her house and the landlord has been showing it to potential tenants.