Category: Miscellaneous

I’m back in Lethbridge with Anna-Maria. Zee did a great job putting the place in order while I was gone. It turns out that Zee’s ride to Vancouver seems to have decided not to actually go, leaving her stranded at my house looking for another way to move out to BC. Her mother did offer to take her out there before and it looks like she might just have to take her up on the deal, well, I’m not sure what she’ll do but I’m sure she think of something and be out of here soon – not that I minded her here cleaning up the place… :) But I’m sure she’ll love it out on the coast.

Anna-Maria is up in the air about whether to go with her family to New Mexico for the next week or so. She is going to miss seeing me again until after her Montreal trip if she does in fact go with them. I’ll probably go see her at the airport in between trips, if I can swing it with work and everything, but still it would be really nice to hang out with her until she leaves for that long stint in Quebec.

So for tomorrow I haven’t really decided what I’m going to do. I would like to go Kayaking in Calgary with Corry but me being here in Lethbridge and he being in Medicine Hat and me not having anyway to get my boat from here to Calgary presents kind of a problem. I feel somewhat guilty about the lack of kayaking overall this summer and I know I’m going to regret not having gone much once school starts and the snow begins to fall. Alright not much else to say right now, so I’ll post again if anything interesting happens.

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 . . .

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.

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.

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).

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.

While in Disneyland Anna and I took in the pirates twice, once in the theatre and once, of course, in the Disneyland park.

We missed seeing the premiere held right in Disneyland by a couple of days. However there was still such a great atmosphere to see that movie! For one thing most everyone in that theatre is on vacation. They are there to have a good time, and a good time we had! When the movie started the audience responded with applause and cheering, and as each actor made their debut appearance in the show, again the sound of an appreciative audience filled the theatre.

The thing about clapping in a show is – while it may seem really out of place in a place like Lethbridge or Medicine Hat, seeing a movie like Pirates right in Downtown Disney felt like we should applaud, like it would have been rude of us not to show our appreciation. I remember the first time I ever went to a show where the audience clapped was in Manhattan at the biggest theatre in the city. It was the opening night of “Lost in Space” and the crowd there was electric. There’s a pretty good chance that the actors in the movie were there that night because we had just been to the taping of Dave Letterman where Mimi Rogers was on the show promoting this movie, and since it was opening night it would make sense that she would have been with us in that theatre. Anyway despite Lost in Space being a truly horribly crappy movie I’ll always hold a certain fondness for it in my heart because of the memories associated with seeing it in that atmosphere.

Back to Pirates of the Caribbean. The thing to remember about this movie is that its main motivation is a ride that opened in 1967. The storyline does require you to suspend your belief in reality and may result in a disappointment for some but the Disney-ness factor of the movie will win out overall, if you let it. I can’t give my highest recommendation for this movie, because honestly it could have been better, but I by no means give it two thumbs down. I think it’s a pretty good show that deserves at least a Matinée viewing if not a full fledged night time $9.00 US viewing (but I only recommend paying $9 if you are in Downtown Disney). My thumbs are definitely higher than Dads.

I feel bad for being so busy lately. I hardly have time to see Anna-Maria, let alone all the million other things that I should be doing. I still haven’t even arranged a place for Anna and I to stay on Thursday night. Also I need a place to park the car in Calgary and hopefully I’ll be able to get a ride to the airport at 4:30 or so in the morning. I know I’m insane for going on this trip but you only live once, and as I heard the bachelor on “For Love or Money” state, you should live life as if you’ve already lived it, only this time you’re not going to have any regrets. So that’s what I’m doing, living life to the fullest. Now since I don’t have time to be writing this I’m going to sign off now with just a quick update on my life.

Anna and I are going to Disneyland for the weekend.

My two new roommates are working out great.

My old roommate is gone and my food is no longer at risk of being eaten.

I have to be at work at 9:00 to teach swimming lessons, guard for the rest of the day until 5:00 and then be at my other job as close to 5:00 as I can manage. I’ve been getting there at 5:45 and they don’t seem to mind. I think they are just happy to have me as an employee.

I did set up an FTP site for mom and she would be able to upload Jackie’s wedding slideshow pictures there, except I understand her computer is screwed. It’s not like I have time to work on that slideshow anyway. Sorry everyone I’ll have a little more time … actually I won’t really have any more time, but I’ll try and squeeze it in when I get back from California. In the meantime I need to finish up the website I’ve been working on.

I came home early from work tonight because the tuna sandwich that Anna so lovingly made for me wasn’t sitting well. In fact it was “not sitting well” so badly that it didn’t just not sit, it actually got up from where it was sitting and decided it liked being vomitted into the toilet better. I’m feeling much better now, at this point you’re probably not.

You know the thing about throwing up, as gross as it is, it sure does feel a lot better when you get the poison out. That’s all I have to say about that – for now.

Jackie and Glen are having their reception in Medicine Hat on August 2nd (correct me if I’m wrong). Jackie just called me to ask if I would put together a slide show for her. I would like to but with all the things going on right now, it’s going to be a struggle to find the time. Maybe if Mom scans 50 pictures of Jackie at Earl’s house and Jackie emails me 50 pictures of Glen, together with the video footage that I have I can put together a really great show.