One of my favourites

1994 in the spring, at a hospital in Toronto.
Was in the delivery room and was told to leave because they had to do a emergency c-section. Mil was there and she is a nurse so it was reassuring that she said it would be alright.
20-20 hindsight, I was kind of glad not being there, I had a really weak stomach for blood.
Anyway in the waiting room for the duration with my Mom and mil.
The're yapping away and I'm nervously pacing the hallways.
One asks if we picked a name, which we did on the way to the hospital.
They then ignored me and started yapping again.
About 1 hour had passed, but it seemed like forever.
The nurse that kicked me out walked by and I flagged her down.
"Well what did we have?"
She would of walked right by if I didn't get her attention.
She told me a healthy boy, 8lbs 3oz and they would bring him out in a few moments as they had to clean him up.
As my wife was completely out in recovery, I was the first to hold him.
They brought him to me and the first thing I thought of was "I have to hold a baby."
I then held him and looked at him, he looked exactly like me.
A tear welled up in a eye and a big lump in my throat.
Wow, love can be that strong.
I found out that holding your own baby is easy, as is being a parent.
My wife had a rough first week or so and a slow physical recovery to get to her somewhat normal self.
That baby is now my almost 12 year old it manager and almost the same height as his mother.
Oh yea, he still looks like I did at that age.

Happy St. Pat's

I'm not Irish but I enjoy beer, so I had one with dinner. My Irish descent wife is out this evening but she has to drive so I imagine I'll have a sober wife return in around 2 hours or a phone call to pick her up.
I'm betting on the first one!
I've done a family history on both my fathers and mothers' side of the family.
From what I've learned I'm alot English and Scottish, with alittle Welsh thrown in. Grandmother's maiden names are Ramsey and Lockwood, not too Scottish eh?
On the Greatfather's side is Richardson, Crebbin, and Gibson. Just alittle English!
I can't give the wife's ancestory names but I'll give a hint, there are common Irish.
So our son has Irish, Welsh, English, and Scottish. I think that covers the British Isles!
Damn, we even gave him a very Scottish first and middle name and he has a tint of red in his hair.
Anyways I wore a nice green shirt today to celebrate this day. It matches my hazel eyes!

The sportsman show was good and alot of people there wore green. Maybe that was camouflage I saw in the hunting section.
We enjoyed the part on the peregrin falcon and we also saw the largest eagle from around three feet away.
It was also nice not to get up so bloody early and get waken up by my son instead of an alarm.
Tomorrow my wife and her friend (one of the nice ones) go shopping all day and I have free time. I have plans to straighten out the garage and work in the basement alittle.
And sleep alittle, you know a nice little power nap, around 2pm.

One more work day

I booked Friday off to be with the kid, it is March break here. So tomorrow is my last day of the work week and I'm glad.
I haven't had a long weekend since new years weekend and I'm kind of burnt out.
On our day off, the two of us are going to the sportsman show. We went last year and really enjoyed ourselves and plan to see even more this time.
That and sleep alittle more!

As far as Montreal goes for a tournament, most of the guys who will go are faithful. They just want to drink more than their wives would approve of and maybe go to the ballet.
During these tournaments, it's hockey, drinking, eating, and more, not always in that order. Sometimes the wives don't like the schedule and we don't want to listen, so that's our reason and I'm sticking to it.
We also have to get enough guys there to enter, not as easy as you may think.

I stopped a puck with my bicep yesterday and now I have a purple bruise the shape of a puck. Hurts like hell and I didn't get any sympathy, go figure!

Trouble with typing

For some reason I'm having trouble typing today.
It's always poor anyways but for some reason it sucks extra today.
I took typing in grade 10 and my teacher was this really gay dude. Until I met his beautiful wife. A cover or the guy is straight, either way I couldn't care. I think he pass me so he wouldn't have to teach me anymore.
In college we had a typing course we had to do and I cheated so I could pass. Didn't break any rules, just bended them to pass and get out of there alive.
So my maximum is 20, maybe 25 words a minute. Thank god for spell check and the computer.

My work week was long, almost 59 hours. The beginning was brutal, I wasn't feeling well and I still managed to make it to work.
On Thursday in my area that I drive, they received alost a foot of snow, which made driving difficult. In the place I pick up my truck, not a trace of snow.
Ahhhhh....... Only a couple of weeks till spring.
I don't care about cold weather for the most part, but snow and ice make my job alittle harder. I do like easy work days, you know , few calls, delays and a nap here and there.

I kind of feeling normal now. Last night my 11 year old came into our room at 3 in the morning complaining of being warm and having a headache. My wife gave him something and he went back to sleep. This morning he's doing a science project at my bil's house (who is a teacher) but I think he may have what I had last weekend.
My wife is at the accountant's right now, which means all will be negative this weekend.
She has to stay positive, otherwise she will drive me nuts.

This week she must have blamed me for all things wrong in her life. After pretending to listen I said to her that I must be evil.(I like that line)
Anyways she's got the winter blahs and it doesn't help when I work as much as I do. She feels overwhelmed with her work load and all things going on during the week with the house and son.
To be honest, I would change positions with her in a minute, not our jobs though.
I like being home and she doesn't as much.

I don't know about some of these

In my truck, driving and listening to tunes and then comes on the biggest piece of crap that I heard almost ever.
Nickelback singing a tune called "Photograph."
This poor excuse for a slow tune was turned off imediately and another station put on.
Def Leppard was on singing another piece of slow crap.
Aaaaahhhhhhh........
Almost punched the channel buttons to talk radio.
Had that on for awhile until I tired of all of Canada whining about the hockey loss to Russia.
Put on the music again and another piece of crap from I think Poison.
Now I like almost every type of music and can tolerate most of which is not for me, but I don't know about metal bands singing ballads.
Some musicians can pull it off, ie: Lenny Kravits can and I don't really even like him.
Neil Young is another, along with The Rolling Stones, Zeppelin, The Foo Fighters, Nirvana and countless others.
My contention is that these bands who try and do slow stuff and it stinks, must know there selling crap to their buying fans.
Plus I have to listen to it!
My rant won't help get this crap off the face of the earth, but it made me feel better.

A quick note about Olympic hockey, which I know Michelle is looking forward to reading.
Canada lost and came 8th and you would think that someone important was shot and killed.
It's hockey guys, get over it.
We're not the only nation on earth who plays this sport and that is what it is, a sport.
Plus so far we have 20 other medals in other sports and we should be proud of all ot them.

What was I thinking?

Saturday, we were invited to friends in the neighbourhood. European family, married 15 years with 2 children, a boy the same age as our own and a girl , 7 years old.
This fellow likes to drink tequilla and so do I. He found this out and
he also doesn't like to see your glass empty, at all!
This gentleman goes to Mexico around twice a year on business, so he has 8 different bottles of tequilla sitting at his home.
The two of us polished off a bottle and a half on Saturday evening.
OUCH!!!!!!
What the hell was I thinking?
I had trouble doing that when I was 25, let alone 42, which I'm supposed to be now.
I had a hangover that would have killed a horse on Sunday.
This had reprecussions that went to Monday.(Just dry as a desert)
I'll never drink that much again.
Well at least until the next time.
Which will not be anytime soon.

During my hell state on Sunday, we managed to watch "Ray." Though my head ached, my stomach heaved and I laid on the couch like I was dead, this movie didn't do it for me.
I thought it was good but vastly over-rated and Jamie Foxx was good but not worthy of a Oscar.
I was disappointed. (at the movie, not my stupidity)

Saturday Morning

The kid is off to Rochester with his grandmother to visit his cousins and uncle. Me other half is having a mid morning nap, because she is feeling exhausted and just because she can.
So here I am with a half hour alone to write a blog and to read a few.

What's going on with my life?
Well I haven't mentioned here too much that my tendonitis in my left shoulder has bothered me for 3 months and is as bad as it ever has been. I finally went to the chiropractor last evening and today everything is much better, not perfect though.
My chiro gave me some exercises to do and said to keep icing it down.
Believe it or not, this has affected my back on the left side, and the front of the shoulder muscle right down to my chest.
I asked if could be genetics and the chiro said probably not and then I mentioned my family history and then she said it was possible. My father, brother and I think my granfather have been affected by this.
It sucks!
On the positive side, it forces me to exercise.

We have our annual valentines party this evening, which is abit of work, but will be nice to see old friends. I think people expect us to have this party, but next year we might do something different, like go out to a club with all these people.
Sil won't be there, along with her hubby, they planned a romantic evening, which might be cancelled due to a sick kid. Sucks for them!
Wife's best friend that I don't like is bailing, like a good friend would on a regular basis.(sarcasm)
Must go and do chores!
Go Canada go!

My Saturday

Today in Toronto was like a spring day, about 10 degrees celcius, so I washed my car.
First time this winter, so it took about half the afternoon. It was a beautiful day!

In the morning I had to go to my annual Transportation meeting at a hotel by the airport. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Excuse me, I was dosing off just thinking about it. Same old about insurance costs, fuel prices, safety, recruiting , etc........
One funny thing happen though. I received a aniversary pen for me being there 5 years. They showed a picture of me on the slide presentation that had to be the worse one I ever took. When they took the picture was a few weeks back at work at 6 in the morning. I was doing my paperwork at this table, leaned over, hand on face, hair messy and still really tired when safety man says "Scott, look up." I did and he took the picture.
When this went up today, all the guys at my contract were laughing and I'm sure I'll hear about it sometime next week.
The pen I gave to my wife, it's too wide for me to use at work. It is nice though!
Maybe one day they will give money as aniversary gifts, but I'm dreaming.

Small world out there.
My son's buddy's mother dropped him off here and I was chatting with her. It turns out she knows my sister and she actually even went on this girls weekend away with her and bunch of other girls. Her ex sil is a close friend to my sister as well.
In this area where we live, there is a couple of thousand people, so it still is a small world.

Nosey bloggers

You want to know about this woman I don't like, here goes.
C worked with my wife for about 4 years or so, a fellow sales rep, like my wife.
You would figure a sales rep would be anything but shy, but this woman would never carry on a conversation with me. Trust me when I say that I'm very easy to talk to and not threatening at all. Basically I'm a really easy going guy. Nice as well! You can add polite to that! Well you get the idea about me.
Anyhow, she would whisper in my wife's ear right in front of me instead of talking out loud. If you have something to say privately, go in another room or talk on the phone the next day. Anything but whisper. I hate whispering!
When she was a single woman(actually she was a single mother) she would drag my wife to every bar, not that my wife's arm needed that much twisting. My wife was a married woman, not that both of them cared at the time, but in my books a true friend would say something like "you are married, maybe you shouldn't be double dating with me."
I investigated my wife's behavior and C was involved with her at least 3/4s of the time.
A couple things sealed my opinion of her.
First was a concert, that huge outdoor concert in Toronto with The Stones and AC/DC among others. I love music, going to concerts but because of costs and the fact they are really loud and my wife doesn't like loud anythings in her life, I haven't gone to one with or without my wife in ages.
What does my wife do, she goes to this bloody concert with C. What does C do, tries to set her up with another guy. Nice eh? Double dating at a Stones concert. I really get angry just thinking about it.
Two, at my wife's birthday party a couple years ago, a bunch of friends went to a club to celebrate. C showed up with her boyfriend and spent the evening ignoring everyone and playing pool across the bar.
Her boyfriend is a piece of work as well. The nicest lady in the world went up to them and started chatting, you know trying to make them feel welcome and just being friendly. When she found out he was an electrician, she jokingly said that maybe he or a friend of his could do some hired work for her.
His reply, "you couldn't afford me or my buddies." Actually she could, paid off house, good job, no kids and no husband, sounds like she could easily.
We have this annual Valentines party every year and she's coming this year. I tell my wife that I would prefer she doesn't invite her but she still does.
Oh well she won't talk to me anyways.
Trust me when I say there is more.
Now they work for competing companies with the same territory and they still talk shop, blows my friggin mind.

Re-reading that makes my wife sound not so good. Oh well, she wasn't! She occasionally snoops around and reads these, thinking that I'm up to no good.
Ironic isn't it, but never once have I strayed or done anything harmful to this marriage/relationship.
I'm loyal, hard working, don't do drugs, hardly drink(I do like beer) honest, decent provider, good cook, great father, have all my hair, slightly over weight but not fat, and pretty good looking, so I think that infidelity hasn't been my fault at all. Funny, I used to blame myself about her affair but I figured that I wasn't the readon eventually.
Why am I with my wife?
Well I don't know exactly and when I figure that out I'll let all you nosey bloggers know with a nice long blog.
What I do know is that I'm here and my son is downstairs watching a movie with his buddy and tomorrow we'll be together as a family. That wouldn't happen if I wasn't here and that is what is important to me most of all.
Maybe that's the reason, but I think there is more than that.
My wife seems to be better and that's good for the 11 year old IT manager, and for me, for now....

New bed

Well I was dragged to a couple of furniture stores yesterday in search of bed posts and dressers yesterday. The more I go into furniture stores, the more I realize I hate shopping.
Anyways we're in these stores and I'm looking at the prices and I'm thinking two week vacation instead of a dresser. I see bed posts and I see the ocean, lounge chair and cold beer. Bed side tables are visions of sand between my toes and sunscreen at 9 in the morning.
Ahhhhh....... dreaming.........
I guess eventually we are going to buy this stuff, after all our bedroom furniture is old, cheap and shabby. We're just starting to look and when we find something we BOTH like we'll wait for it to go on sale and then buy it. I'm figuring a year or so will be the timeline.
I say BOTH because it will be my wife picking it and if I don't hate it, then that will be us BOTH agreeing on it.
This morning she asks me my opinion on this bed spread we have. I told her I hated it! She was suprised and she said she never knew that. I'm a man, why would I offer my opinion on a bed spread?
My take on bedroom decor is not to make it look so "girly."

Last evening we watched "The 40 Year Old Virgin." What a funny movie and we both enjoyed it. Kids should not see this movie, abit too adult.
The part with him getting his chest hair waxed is priceless.

The kid and I recently watched Serenity, a sci-fi flick. Not bad, about a 3 out of 5!

Today the Christmas decorations are getting packed properly and stored in the basement crawlspace the right way. We put them in boxes and off to the side when we originally took them down. I might even get on the roof and take the lights down since we have no snow or ice here.

Next week I have my annual transport meeting on Saturday. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Anyways I'll have to bring up the vacations again to the head cheese. 2 years ago we had this management goofball do our schedules and all he did was bugger it up. Last year someone else did the vacations when Mr. big cheese received alot of complaints about goofball. This year goofball is doing the vacation schedules again. Yikes! Nip the problem in the bud, maybe....

Tomorrow in Canada is our federal election. After 13 years the Liberal Party seems headed down to defeat.
I'm not a Conservative, Liberal or a leftie per say, but I really have to say that the Prime Minister is looking bad.
Usually I vote for the local candidate, a person who could get things done for our area. This election I want the Liberals out, but our Conservative candidate is complete whackjob. What to do? The NDP is an option, though I don't believe in their platform.
I met Jack Layton once. He was at the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto and he was standing outside in a poncho and moccasins. I went over to meet him and shake his hand. At the time he was a local politician who always look after his area with alot of press, good and bad.
But a pontential Prime Minister in a poncho and moccasins, I don't know.......
Anyways I am going out tomorrow to exercise my right to vote!

I didn't realize!

What I didn't realize is that I haven't blogged or read others lately.
I just have been busy and haven't thought about it.

Yesterday we had a ton of freezing rain and driving was tough. I was driving to this town called Burford and I had to drive half on the gravel shoulder to get to this customer. I decided to just go back to my warehouse after that and I was lucky that it was early.
I was home early and the worse of this storm came after I was done work.
Today it snowed in my work area, which just made it the roads had the zamboni on it.(that is a ice cleaner for you non Canadians)
Tomorrow will be about 5 degrees, which is good since I'll be on the shore of Lake Erie.

I'm being beckoned by the kid, it's American Idol night.
See you later!

This week is "the rude people week"

Maybe I'm used to the Christmas season when there is goodwill between all or maybe it is the January blahs, but what alot of ignorant peckerheads out there.
Today I'm going for a coffee and I open the door for a lady on the way in and she doesn't say a bloody thing. I even let her order before me and not a thank you or acknowledgment.
On the way out I hold the door for someone else and the same damn thing.
These wern't young people either!
Oh well!

My sister had a bone removed from her hip and grafted into her hand today. From everything I know(which isn't much) she seems to be fine. That's the news from my parents anyway which is good enough for me.

I broke down twice this week and that makes it 4 times this year already. That's about as much as last year total. Thank goodness I'm paid by the hour.
At least I thought until I received my pay stub and all my down time wasn't paid for.
Phone the payroll clerk and it was taken care of, but still I would have like that money now.

The weather here has been mild for January, up around 10 celcius. All the snow has melted and being a trucker I like it that way.
Kind of feel sorry for the ski resorts and the kids who got ski equipment for Christmas.

Follow up to Margaret who I wrote about last week. I saw her in the video store and she was drunk out of her mind. That was at 6:30pm. Something is not right there and that's too bad.

Sunday Evening

The last day off for the 11 year old IT manager and it's been long enough. I don't know why the school board does this but they should have been off the Wednesday before Christmas and back last Wednesday.
Oh well, he enjoyed the time off. Most people here had to work last week, except of course the teachers.

We took all the decorations down today and I finally looked at the remainder of my gifts. One was a cordless drill given to me by my mil and her hubby. My mil has a habit of taking everything given to her back so when I saw the receipt in the box I was tempted to take it back, like she does.
But I didn't because I doing the right thing.
It would have been poetic justice and kind of funny though.

My new years resolution is to exercise more.
Well it starts next weekend with a small workout on Friday on the way home from work.
I'm tired thinking about it!

My sister's broken bone is actually a disease and she has to have a operation this week. It could become cancerous if left too long. It was caught in time and everything should be fine.

Hopefully work this week will be reasonable, last week I worked 52 hours in 4 days. That's too much! Taxes kill me with that many hours and besides, I'm kind of lazy.

Happy New Years!

What a way to start the new year, up after 4 hours of sleep because of all the food I ate last evening.
Well at least I like the solitude!

What we did on New years Eve?
My family went the next town east of here and went skating at 8ish. At this complex they also had musicians, face painting and decorations everywhere, so it was nice.
I've played hockey there before but I forgot how nice this rink actually is. Truth be known, the place I play is a dump, but it is where my buddies play and ice is ice.
We then went to this families' place right after for snacks and drinks. This family is mostly Italian so the word snack should be replaced by 4 course meal.
That's why I woke up, I'm just not used to eating that much period, let alone after 9pm.
It was nice to be in that environment though, kids running around everywhere and not quiet.
I was completely dry last night, not one drop of booze.
I decided to stay this way earlier in the evening when I said I don't need anything at the beer or liquor store. I still find it different to not have one drop, but it certainly nice to wake the year up feeling not hungover.

My feelings on New Years celebrations differ from most friends. Some go completely nuts and drink their faces off, which means to me a hangover to start the year.
Some do the same old boring stuff every year. I have this buddy who goes to the house of this other friend with his wife and then sometime in the next month they kind of complain that it was boring. I bet you that they do the same thing next year.
I like to be with family and I like to try something alittle different every year. Last year we went for appetizers and then a movie. We've been to parties, dinners, dances, outdoor events, concerts, well you get it....
Nothing fancy, but with the people you want to be with and different.

Another topic!
We were at this Boxing Day party last week and I have this issue with these friends.
I've known these guys since I was a kid, literally. 3 guys were there and me, I known them since I was 7, 14 and 15 respectively(wives and kids were there as well)
2 of them go out to the garage and get stoned and I think it is rude to keep on doing it. I used to smoke dope, alot of it, but curtailed my use as I got older and became a dad.
I figure if they invite me over with my family they could wait for a few hours and do this shit later.
I'm stuck sitting there in a room by myself waiting for them to come back. I'm talking about 2 hours out of 5.
The one guy does this and he has a teenager. What's Daddy doing out there doesn't hold water anymore and he's going to deal with that sooner than later.
I'm not against smoking dope and I'm not a teetotaller, but I'm against rude and thoughtless people.
The one guy I left out is a toker as well but he actually cares how some people feel and he finds it rude as well. He may go out once for 10 minutes and that's it. He can wait for the kids to go bed and he may do it then.
The patience thing wears thin as you get older.

New Years resolutions!
To be healthy and happy!
Read more.
Be with friends more.
Make some new friends.
Exercise more.
Be more patient and understanding.

Happy New Year to all my blogger friends, good health and happiness to all of you!

Boxing day

Today is a paid day off in Canada and I'll take it anytime they offer it.

Since my son received numerous gift cards he wanted to spend some of them.
We went to Future Shop (a Canadian version of Best Buy) to spend his money and to get me a surge bar.
This store was packed!
What the heck was I thinking?
Anyways he bought a video game and gave me the rest for this surge bar. That was nice of him, good kid and all but the this surge bar is for him anyways. We lined up to pay for about 15 minutes so it wasn't to bad.
Then we walked to the book store which was a 5 minute walk. He didn't buy anything because he couldn't make up his mind and the store was also packed. He received abut 4 books yesterday so he will be busy for a month or so anyhow.
Then it was off to Blacks to process some digital photos. We played around there for a 1/2 hour and printed about 5 photos.
For the first time in I don't know how long, I actually enjoyed shopping.
Shhhhhh......... Don't tell the lady of the house!

Christmas Day

Well the day is finally here and here I am blogging.
Turkey is in the oven, veggies are prepped and ready to cook and the table is set.
We had a late lunch, church service went to around 130pm and we had leftover Chinese food. Then sil phones and asks if we can come over by 5pm, but we'll have yet to eat dinner at that time.
Plan was originally to walk over there after dinner and open presents and have dessert.
Sil said her kids go to bed by 8pm and blah blah blah.....
Not!
She has her in-laws over and they will look after the kids, so my bet is she and hubby have plans to go out.
We'll get there around 7pm after we eat, like the original plan.
Bah humbug!

We usually go to Christmas Eve mass, but this year due to time restraints we went today at noon. Not as crowded and that's the new tradition, all agreeing.
Priest was alittle dry and bland though!

Son received a new tv today and he had no idea he was getting that. My idea of course, really wanting to reclaim my livingroom.

My wife and I had a budget for each other and we were supposed to adhere to it. We both did!
I got her a dozen pink rose, some books, golf stuff and other stocking stuffers. The flowers were her favourite.
I received some clothes and some reading material.
All in all a nice Christmas!

The last day of running around

I have today off! Not waking up at 430am is nice and I could get used to it, but unfortunately I picked one of the worst industries for regular sleep.
I'll have to pick better next time.
Already at 930am and the panick is starting to set in. Not for me, I could care less, but for the lady of our house.
Food for Christmas Eve, Christmas dinner, breakfast for two days, clean bathrooms, let's wrap this, is it enough, what about the turkey, money money money, and now calling from her cell phone asking about things we already discussed.
My way of thinking is that you do what you can do and if it is not enough that Christmas will happen anyways.
Plus I'm professionally trained in the kitchen(though I've lost most of my skills) and cooking and preparing food is not a chore for me, it's kind of fun.
I woke up this morning and my son was eating breakfast already. I was alittle disappointed that I didn't get to make him that meal, so I immediately made him lunch.
My way of nurturing and feeling important.
That and I like to eat!
So after all the store chores this morning, that's it. (except running to the local grocery store tomorrow for one perishable thing)

4 days to go

My son has a Christmas hyper going, any others having the same thing?

Phyllis Gretzky passed away this week from lung cancer. I mention her because she is the mother of Wayne Gretzky, arguably the best hockey player of all time.
Wayne's talent as a player are obvious but I figure the way he has represented Canada over the years, he is a better person.
It was from his upbringing!
Thoughts are with his family.
My area where I drive my truck is Brantford, the Gretzky's home town. Brantford is a kind of run down blue collared town about 30 minutes west of Hamilton.
When Wayne became rich and famous, he offered to buy his parents a new house. They refused and still live in the same house and in the same town. They never abandoned this town and basically put it back on the map. (after Alexander Graham Bell)
Listening to most people I deal with there, there is always a Gretzky story, and always positive.
I find that quite impressive!

My wife announced that she wants to see this movie with me. Brokeback Mountain is the name of it.
It the story of 2 gay cowboys.
Well I consider myself open minded and definitely not phobic, but I really don't want to pay 30 dollars to see this movie.
I'm trying to figure out if it is because they are gay, or I hate to see most chic flics at the theatre. I don't know!
I saw Philadelphia and I quite like it, but that was on video.
We have a friend who is a opera singer and some of her friends are gay. I thought they were nice and it didn't bother me when they were being affectionate. (bothered my wife though)
She's going to see it with a girlfriend.

My day off on Friday is going to be interesting. I'm supervising a skating party for around 150 kids. Actually I'm one of many who are voluteering and I'm looking forward to it.
I like field trips with the kids.

Played hockey last evening.
We have this lady who plays with us, a decent player. She brought a couple guy friends to play with us.
One in particular was a rather slight guy with long red hair peekig out of his helmet.
We couldn't figure out if this person was a guy or girl at first.
First shift he went after my defence partner by chopping his stick at the other guy's. I skated over and gave him a fore arm and he went into the boards lightly.
My partner laughed and said I might have hit a girl.
A couple of shifts later he was getting alitle rowdy in front of our goalie. One play he had a clear chance to score and I went over and pushed him over, without even trying. He fell to the ice and avoided me the rest of the game.
We still at this point didn't know if this person was a guy or girl.
He was a guy!

A few things about me!

A few things that maybe you didn't know.

1: I'm a terrible typer
2: I'm 6'1" and weigh 220lbs
3: I have all my own original hair
4: most of it brown
5: I like to be cold
6: though I like southern vacations
7: wanted more than 1 child
8: but I think my kid is the best
9: I'm the youngest in my family
10: I think my parents like me more than the others
11: I know they trust me more
12: they made me executor of their will when I turned 18
13: afraid of drinking too much, might lead to a drinking problem
14: did every drug around by the time I was 23
15: quit cold turkey without 1 single problem
16: I like to cook and I'm good at it
17: I like to eat and I'm good at it
18: I'd like to read more but I can't seem to find the time
19: I'd like to exercise more
20: always find an excuse not to exercise
21: used to think I should be smarter, sometimes still feel that way
22: usually don't care though!
23: tequilla is my favourite alcoholic drink, straight up and on ice
24: I'm having one right now
25: I drank the same brand of beer for almost my whole beer life
26: I drink premium and brew pub beers now
27: I don't drink whiskeys
28: they make me go weird
29: I know too much about alcohol
30: I know little about computer
31: my 11 year old shows me
32: I worked part time and stayed home with my son until age 5
33: wouldn't trade one minute of that time with him
34: I'm not vain
35: though I consider myself good looking(thanks Mom)
36: I like my job
37: I would like to do something else one day
38: Not a clue of what to do though
39: only ever dated one non brunette in my life
40: haven't been on a date in 19 years(wife not included)
41: I've been asked out a few times on dates while married
42: didn't go, but ego felt good, real good
43: don't remember my dreams
44: don't own any animals
45: consider myself a cat person though, they don't bite
46: best fight I ever saw was between 2 girls
47: like action, sci-fi and bio films
48: like hard rock, blues, reggae and some classic rock.
49: don't mind some jazz as long there isn't a brass section
50: opera and classical, no thanks
51: a friend of ours is a opera singer I like to watch her sing
52: like roller coasters, wife doesn't, son working on him
53: don't play cards, wife hates them so I just stopped playing
54: horrible at trivia, choke under pressure
55: don't get this poker craze
56: love play-off sports, any
57: forgot, like comedies
58: pornoraphy bores me, but doesn't offend
59: like genealogy, but haven't research in over a year(time, time, time)
60: like to garden

11 days till.......

Well really if you count the fact that today is almost over, then there really is only 10 days to go.

Starting sometime tomorrow and ending Saturday, we are supposed to get a foot of snow. Yes 30cm of snow in the Toronto area!
Anyone who lives in areas that don't get snow and dreams of a white Christmas, well we're having one and you can have it.
Once it is all said and done, Christmas day will be pretty and then comes the 26th. Christmas is done at that point and the snow should melt and we should have a mild winter.
Well that's what I ask Santa for!

11 days and I haven't got a gift for my wife. Worse is that I don't even have a clue of what to get her.
We decided to keep it simple for each other and I hope she keeps to that. Otherwise your going to read a blog dated the 27th about the great gift I received and how comfortable the couch is for sleeping.

I returned to work on Tuesday to find my replacement had drove over a metal chock(a safety block for the wheel) and punctured a trailer tire. Good way to start the week!
Later I discovered he hit a fence post and put a 12 foot scrape on the side of the trailer and also ripped off the placard holder at the same time. I got that fixed this morning.
This is a easy, well paying truck driving job. All you have to do is drive safely, deliver the product, do the paperwork properly and be nice.(once in a while)

I'm going to bed in a few minutes since I'm going to have a really long day tomorrow. Snow sucks!
To be honest I like winter, just not when I work. There is too many morons on the road who can't drive in winter weather.