The Dreaded Interview - Geo's Remix

THE RULES:
1. Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I will respond with five questions for you.
3. You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers. (Or if you have no journal, just post your responses as a reply here)
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

THE QUESTIONS: (Courtesy of Kingston)
1. If you were stranded on a desserted island, and you could only pick one food source to be provided as your sustanance at an unlimited amount, what would that food be and why?
I was going to say meat (steak/ribs/etc)... but I'm thinking that it wouldn't be sufficient for survival. So assuming that there will be some natural fruits on this island to provide me with my vitamin input, and assuming that there will most likely be fish around the island to provide me with protein. I would have to say RICE in order to provide me with my carbs, and rice goes with anything and is so much more flexible in cooking than pasta or bread. :P

2. What is--in your opinion--your greatest achievement?
Tough question... I always seem to have doubts and reservations about any of my achievements. There will always be something that I could have done better or should have done in order for it to have been better... but I guess if I were to choose something, it would have to be any of the VBS's. Being able to watch these kids grow up and being able to be there to help them and hopefully influencing them positively would be it I guess. I don't even know if that counts as an achievement... but yeah, otherwise, I havn't really established myself in my own life to consider anything achieived. Graduating high school would be an achievement, but I never put any effort into it to have it be considered great.

3. What is your favorite love song of all time?
"When God Made You" - Newsong w/ Natalie Grant

4. Let's say you were the last man on Earth and the entire human race depended on you finding a mate. The only mates left on Earth under this circumstance for you to choose from for some reason are the female teachers you've had in your life through elementary-high school. Which teacher would you choose? Describe her and tell us why you'd pick her.
First off... how do you even come up with a question like this??
I guess, technically, if I were the last surviving male on Earth and was depended upon to replenish the race of homosapians, it really wouldn't matter whom I chose. Or actually, I should choose them all and speed up the process. :P
But I don't know... I guess if I HAD to choose one... Mrs. Uitenbosch (grade 9 homeroom teacher and grade 7 and 9 math teacher). She was the nicest, most understanding, easiest to get along with, most respected, etc...

5. What would you rather do: become a YAC Leader or a Worship Leader?
Easy question. YAC Leader. Worship leading would be terrible... I'd have to sing and that alone should be reason enough for why I wouldn't ever be or SHOULDN'T ever be a worship leader. :P And I'm more of a back-ground type person, I realize you need to get out of your comfort zone, but my skills are better suited for background stuff, none of this center-stage business. So, YAC Leader... as long as I don't need to be the chair. :P

MY PHOTOS UPDATED: YAC Sleepover

Working Through The Holidays...

really, really sucks. 2 weeks holiday has now become a 2 day holiday and it bites. It's just not the same... sigh... oh well... might as well get used to it now. We can't all become teachers and get to enjoy the holidays. :P

Went skiing yesterday and it was pretty good. It was kinda cold, especially riding up the Angel ski-lift, but it was fun. I'm really sore now, but not as sore as I would have been if I had went snowboarding. :P

Played some Dutch Blitz today, haha, and that was fun as well. Philip is now called Mr. Cheat. :P

Time for bed, but I'll leave you guys all with this joke I just found:

A pregnant woman is in a car accident and falls into a deep coma. Asleep for nearly six months, she wakes up and sees that she is no longer pregnant.

Frantically, she asks the doctor about her baby. The doctor replies, "Ma'am, you had twins! A boy and a girl. The babies are fine. Your brother came in and named them."

The woman thinks to herself, Oh no, not my brother, he's an idiot! Expecting the worst, she asks the doctor, "Well, what's the girl's name?" "Denise," says the doctor.

The new mother thinks, Wow, that's not a bad name! I guess I was wrong about my brother. I like Denise! Then she asks the doctor, "What's the boy's name?"

The doctor replies, "Denephew."

Christmas Is Finally Upon Us...

and HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS, and Merry Christmas to the rest of ya. :P But wow, not what you would expect for a Christmas day in Calgary... +10 degrees... no snow... tons of sunshine, it's awesome, haha.

Anyways, I thought Christmas was really good this year. Even though I got my first taste of working through the holiday season, all things still worked out. Thank You God. I didn't get much sleep with all my after-work shopping, but at least I finished shopping on-time, haha. And it wasn't really "rushed" shopping either. I got a lot of thought into most of my gifts, and I'm quite happy about what I gave people this year. So far... only a few bad choices... 1) got the wrong hat for Crys, whoops, but I tried... and that was honestly the only one there at the time, haha, as King and Karen can attest to. 2) The book I got King was a bad gamble, cause he already had it. Otherwise, everything else, I havn't heard anything bad from, hehe. Tony was really happy with his gift, so that's great. Nathan was really happy with his gift as well. So, I've broken even at least, haha.

Candle-light service was really good last night. Short, simple, to the point. Very refreshing. It was disappointing that there was no pot-luck though, but oh well... maybe next year. Carolling was... to me... quite stressful, haha. I'm never going to agree to take charge of anything that has anything to do with chinese people, food and traveling time, ever again. BUT, it was good to see that the MAJORITY of everyone showed up on-time (mostly) for church this morning. That was my biggest fear with organizing carolling this year... that it would end up going late as usual and everybody would be too tired to go to church.

Anyways, spent time at home after church today just cause it felt like a home-day. An R&R day. And it was good. I got to play with all 3 of my new Game Cube games, haha. James Bond is going to take some time getting used to with all these different axis and such... but it seems pretty good. Thanks Leo. Played some soccer with Janet afterwards, and it was pretty stressful trying to beat the computer together on professional, haha... but pretty easy to do individually... hmmmm... :P Thanks Jon Mah for that one. After that, I decided to give Mario Sunshine a go and it was good. Confusing right now cause I don't play much RPGs, but I'll figure it out sooner or later, haha. But I really need to find some time to learn how to play my bass guitar though, ack... so many things to do, so little time to do them in. :P

Wow, I wrote a bunch today... and didn't even realize it. That means it's bed time, night all. Merry Christmas again, and have fun for all of you who are braving the Boxing Day Madness tomorrow. :P

Edit: I just noticed now... but Andrew and Christine Lee gave identical christmas cards this year... haha, okay, that's all.

Edit Again: Found yet another centipede in my washroom, ACK! This time, I was taking a dump, and when I stood back up, I saw the centipede right between my feet, and I was like, WHOA!! but now it has gone down the toilet.

Edit Yet Again: Holy Camoly, I just realized that I spent roughly $530 on gifts this year... that's roughly $200-250 more than I usually spend. Wow... good thing I have this extra temporary job this year. Wow... well... better to spend on other than on yourself. :P Again, hope you all liked your gifts this year, but wow... 530... wow... it sure didn't seem like I spent that much, but wow...

My Workplace

So, this is what my workspace normally looks like. Well.. the decorations have only been up since this week, but that's basically my open cube. And this is what happens.

Christmas Is Almost Upon Us...

and it has been a hectic schedule heading towards that day. Last week, I went shopping after work every night except for Monday night. :P I hit Market, Sunridge, Northlands, Crowfoot, Chinook and Westbrook. And I hit Christian Pub before the Church Banquet, which was last night, to finish off all my "Teir 1" gifts and was also able to finish my "Teir 2" gifts. The great thing was that I was able to give all my gifts out during the banquet so I don't have to worry about it anymore, and I even won a prize as well. It was 2 red crock pots. They look pretty nice, but I really don't know what I'm going to do with them. Maybe, like Jacksons frying pan he won a few years back, they will come in handy in the future. OR, they will become perfect gifts this year, haha. It's great that they're "prizes" and not "gifts' haha, cause then I can re-package them without re-gifting them. :P

Anywho, I was able to finish my "Teir 3" gifts today... some before and some after B-Jo's birthday dinner. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BJ!! I hope you enjoyed your dinner... as with all the other 35 of us who showed up. HOLY CAMOLY, 35 people showed up for dinner tonight!! But it was good, Chianti's during Cheap Pasta night is always great, haha.

What else is on tap before Christmas finally arrives?

Tomorrow, I must finally finish organizing the Christmas Eve Carolling, haha. BTW, I have informed my parents that they are not allowed to let ANYBODY in if they come early. If you come to my house early, you will be told to wait in your car till we all arrive. So, you might as well come out and enjoy the Fellowship we will all be having as we go carolling together.

Thursday, I will be going to Long and McQuade with Jenny and possibly Philip to guitar shop, or violin shop for Jenny. I'm planning on buying a bass guitar becuase we are desperate for one at church and I might as well pick something up. Give me a new hobby to keep me away from playing computer games all the time.

Friday, extended family dinner and family secret santa, excluding our long-lost cousin who apparently will not be showing up again. Possibly play hockey, but I doubt it.

Saturday, finish preperations for carolling and then it will be Candlelight Service and carolling, followed by church secret santa.

And then the big day comes Sunday!!

Oh, and just as a side note to all of this. TSN has Calgary ranked 3rd in the league, whereas the Deadmonton Spoils are ranked 15th. :P

The Mah Whisperer

So, my first horse was named Little Hooligan and I played it probably twenty times and it won about... 20 times. Hehe, it actually did have a perfect record. It wasn't a very cool horse though, it was normal looking... black with white stockings, nothing as cool looking as Sam's horse was. BUT it did win a lot, so that is what matters.

Actually, I lied. I didn't have a horse. I was unfortunately attending UofA at the time that this Sega Horse Racing fad came along, so I never did get into it with everyone else. I remember coming back every long weekend, and every Sunday, I'd have to come with you guys to Eau Claire just to watch you guys race your stoopid horsies, haha... and I actually thought of purchasing one, but figured I'd only play it once a month and it wouldn't be worth it. Now, if only I knew that purchasing a horse would give me blog points later on in life, THEN, I might have actually purchased one. But I am unfortunately not very strong in the force and can not forsee the future as well as Master Yoda, so therefore, I must give up sole possesion of first place and fall back into a tie with Leo... once again. We've only been tied for about 90% of the time since this blog points thing started. :P

Anyways... been shopping every day after work this week and I'm still not even close to being finished, sigh... and I havn't started wrapping gifts yet... or even writing Christmas cards yet, ACK. Back out shopping tomorrow... this time, not as a loner, as Jenny will accompany me and hopefully give me tips. :P

And work... has been tiring, but okay. I got bumped over from SP (Samaritans Purse) to BG (Billy Graham Evangelistical Association) for this week. Apparently, BG is extremely far behind on their own data processing, so I got sent over to help out with their load. So, now instead of entering donation ammounts for OCC (operation christmas child)... I get to enter book/calender requests so that they get sent out. More boring stuff... but oh well, you got to do what you got to do. And I got chocolate from the BG staff for helping them out (even though I'm really just told to do it by my supervisor, haha). Okay, that's all.

Christmas Eve Caroling

Here is the list of songs so far... if you think one (or more) of them should not be on the list, let me know. If you think one (or more) other Christmas carol has been missed, let me know as well and I'll put them in.

1: Angels We Have Heard On High
2: Away In The Manger
3: Deck The Halls
4: Do You Hear What I Hear?
5: Frosty The Snowman
6: God Bless Ye Merry Gentleman
7: Hark! The Herald Angel Sings
8: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
9: Jingle Bells
10: Joy To The World
11: Let It Snow
12: The Little Drummer Boy
13: O Christmas Tree
14: O Holy Night
15: Silent Night
16: Silver Bells
17: 12 Days of Christmas
18: We Wish You A Merry Christmas

And currently, we have 3 houses.

Your Prize

I thought this was pretty funny. Maybe it's because I'm a Star Wars geek... but maybe it's funny in it's own right and you found it funny as well.

Also: I appear to have misplaced my Smallville Season 1 DVD's... Did someone borrow them? This is why we have you sign DVD's out... cause I have a horrible memory. Anyways, no rush on returning it... just let me know who has it please, pretty please. Your prize may very well be a toyyoda. :P

UPgraded

Okay, so the Pink Kryptonite Lovers page wasn't QUITE the upgrade... as some of you have pointed out (especially JENNY) that it was more of a downgrade. So, here is an upgrade (hopefully)... it's not much, but considering how much I know about computers and HTML and everything like that, oh well. If you have any opinions/suggestions, let me know. I'll see what I can do. Otherwise, welcome to the re-vamped Lost in Geospace Blog. haha.

In other news... it has taken me over an hour to get to work for 2 of the 3 days this week. Thus, I have been late (only by 10 minutes) twice. Stupid traffic. Stupid drivers that don't know how to drive. I mean, do you really need to drive 40 below speed limit? ACK! And strangely, I've been getting rougly 8-9 hours of sleep every night, but I still feel exhausted every morning and want to take naps during the day. So exhausted even now... I actually closed my eyes during my lunch break today and ended up falling asleep... sigh, haha.

And also... I will be away this weekend in Vancouver. Get to catch up on some nice weather, hehe. I don't care if it rains, just as long as it's above 0 degrees.
Okay, that is all. Good Night.

The Longest Day

So, Friday is my longest day. Which is why I need to post now, at 7 in the morning in order to get my 2 points. :P Otherwise, I will not come home again till 3am Saturday morning, sigh... 20 hours.
Off to work in half-ah-hour... work till 4:30... head to church... pick up my mom from Greyhound station at 7ish... head back to YAC for gym nite... possibly go eat/drink or just loiter at church afterwards... go play hockey at midnight... finally get home at 2:00... take a shower... go to sleep... doesn't seem like a lot, but it still adds up to a 21 hour day (since I wake up at 6). So, got to go now, eat breakfast, pack hockey equipment, pack gym equipment, pack work stuff and go scowl at rude/bad/slow drivers during rush hour traffic.

GO FLAMES GO

Seweet. 10 wins in the past 11. Tied for first in the Northwest Division alongside the Vancouver Canucks. 4th in the Western Conference (granted, we've played more games than most teams... but if those teams were to win those games to match games played with the Flames, we'd still be 6th in the West) We're also 8-2-0 against Division rivals (Vancouver, Edmonton, Colorado and Minnesota), which will be a huge bonus since we play up to 1/4 of the overall games against them. Crappy thing is we play the Eastern teams so little. Which means that Phaneuf (who really deserves a Calder) will likely be overlooked by those Eastern voters who never pay attention to what happens in the west.

Anyways, I finally finished collecting all my pins for the Flames 25th Anniversary Pin Collection. No more having to go to Esso or Max every couple days, haha. I'm so happy I found a Jarome Iginla pin though. I didn't think they would be sold in such greater numbers than every other pin, so I had to drive to 4 different places just to find one. But, I finally found one, so my collection is complete.

The collection seems pretty good. Seems they got a good list together for the top 24 players all-time. Though, I have to say that my favorite all-time Flame will have to be Theoren Fleury. What about you guys?

My All-star line up would be like so: Not based on skill, but on my liking them.
1st team:
Theoren Fleury - Joe Nieuwendyk - Jarome Iginla
Al MacInnis - Gary Suter
Mike Vernon

2nd team:
Gary Roberts - Doug Gilmour - Joel Otto
Robyn Regehr - Dion Phaneuf
Miikka Kiprusoff

3rd team:
Tim Hunter - Lanny McDonald - Joe Mullen
Paul Reinhart - Phil Housley
Fred Braithwaite

Oh, and it's Pizza day tomorrow. We're getting pizza from this place in the NE called Coco Brooks or something like that. And I hear that they are REALLY good, and they have really unique pizzas. I'll let you know how it is after tomorrow. I ordered an Egg and Bacon pizza... wonder how that will turn out, haha.

Fun Facts from Samaritans Purse

Did you know that the country of Lao had more bombs dropped on it during the Vietnam War than all of Europe combined during World War 2? That's CRAZY, and considering Lao is 2 countries away from Vietnam, you have to wonder how many bombs Vietnam and Cambodia had dropped on them. YIKES! Sad thing is that most of them are still undetonated, so it's kinda like a mine-field.

Samaritans Purse has also produced over 40 million litres of CLEAN water in Sri Lanka since the Tsunami of last year.

Operation Christmas Child collects rougly 7-10 million shoeboxes per year from the 10 participating nations (Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Finland) and distributes to over 80 nations worldwide. However, they will NEVER enter the same location more than once. Yet OCC, which has been operating since 1993, has barely scratched the surface of reaching all the children in need around the world.

Edumacation

I finally got into EMR (Emergency Medical Responder) for next semester at SAIT! I'm so happy that I caught the registration opening this time, instead of missing it like last time and having all the classes get filled up. That leaves me with a HUGE peace of mind now. It means that I'll finally be able to start working towards a full-time occupation instead of this jumping around with temporary jobs or doing nothing at home all the time kinda life. But for those of you who are wondering what EMR will get me. It is the first of three courses that need to be completed in order to be a certified paramedic. It is also with being a certified Emergency Medical Responder that I will be able to go on ride-alongs with actual ambulance crews and determine whether or not I am fully capable/suited for such an occupation. Hopefully I will be, cause it would really suck if I was going into something that I won't actually be able to follow through with later on. It would be another waste of a year or more. And honestly, I've wasted enough time at UofA already. It's time to figure out who I am and stick with it and become something/somebody instead of being such an immature kid that isn't capable of living independently of his parents. Sigh. Getting into this course gives me a sense of peace, but there's always this sense of dread that accompanies it. What if it doesn't work out? What if you're heading in the wrong direction again? What if you can't do it?
Hopefully, all goes well with my plans of registering into Mount Royal for their Bachelor of Nursing program for next fall. Having that as an option will definately help calm me down.

But back to the present. Work has been going well this week. I'm so tired in the mornings though and I keep drifting in and out during devotions in the morning, which is HORRIBLE, so I shall have to head to bed earlier tonight. Otherwise, all is well. I'm doing a good enough job that I got a second monitor set up on my desk so I can work on different things than the rest of the team. Well, other than the other guy that got the 2nd monitor as well. But it's good, it's much easier using the 2nd monitor to read scanned cheques instead of having to read peoples ugly handwriten info on envelopes. But for those of you who is curious as to how the Operation Christmas Child program is going... we have collected roughly 160,000 shoeboxes nation wide with more still coming in.

Oh, and welcome Mr. Giggles to the blogging community. You will find him linked under his alias: Kenric.

Sweet, Free Stuff

Haha, I love working for Operation Christmas Child. They keep bringing over stuff that can't be sent over seas in a shoebox, so we get to get a bunch of awesome free stuff. Most of it is edible stuff, since only hard candy gets sent over, so we get tons of chewable candies and chocolates, haha. But today, they brought over some sort of protein drinks cause it potentially can freeze and burst and destroy many shoeboxes. It tasted pretty good, and we all seemed to have a burst of energy at the end of the day, so that was really cool. And I don't know if it was because of the protein shakes or maybe I'm getting more energy these days because I'm not sleeping my days away, but I had so much energy when I got home today that I decided to work out. Right now, I'm thinking that I really should start drinking protein shakes more often, cause wow, the effect that they have on you is HUGE! You guys really should give it a try, cause look at what it did for me...
















Technically, that isn't me. I say technically, only because Jackson says I say technically all the time in inappropriate sentences. However, that really isn't me, haha. We don't even get anything that gets taken out of the shoeboxes, all those stuff gets sent to charitable organizations. Though, we do have 4 huge boxes of Old Dutch chips that the warehouse sent over, why? I don't know, but I don't care, haha, free chips is fine with me.
And I don't know if that picture is real or digitized, but that's just gross. How in the world does anybody get to be like that anyways?

First Day

Well, just got home from my first day at work. All in all, a good day. I was able to wake up at 6:30, eat breakfast, take a dump, take a shower, etc... and make it to work... err... 2 minutes late, but now that I know the exact time it takes to get there, I'll be there on time from now on (hopefully). :P The team that I work with seems really great thus far. Though, out of the 12 of us, there are only 2 guys. :P And only 3 of us is probably younger than 30. haha. Oh well, it's all good.
Didn't do much today though, just went through orientation and some training. Orientation was long, but pretty interesting. Got to learn a lot about the Billy Graham Evangelistical Association. I never knew that Franklin Graham used to be a huge rebel and didn't actually accept Christ till the founders of Samaritans Purse brought him into the fold. Interesting, very interesting.
Anyways, training was cut short today cause our trainer is sick and couln't speak. So we ended up going over to the warehouse and helping out with the shoebox inspection. Which was great, too bad we don't get paid to do that all day long, haha. And also, those who are interested, there is an open house this Saturday around 1-4, so if you guys want to drop by there and learn more about the Association and Samaritans Purse and such, you're welcome to go. :P I'm thinking of volunteering for that day... debating whether or not I should go and help Flora and AC move though...

Bruised and Battered

Oh man, I'm so sore. I'm so glad I don't start work till Thursday, haha, so I still have 3 days to recuperate. Recuperate from what you ask? Well, first off, my ego will be forever shattered from snowboarding on Friday, haha. 25% of me thinks I should give snowboarding more of a chance, especially since I bought the Sunshine card this year and have the potential of going at least a couple more times this year. The other 75% thinks that I should just purchase my own skiing equipment so I won't be tempted to try snowboarding ever again, haha. But I have to admit that snowboarding/skiing conditions were great on Friday (except for the ridiculously long line ups - - it took us over an hour just to purchase lift tickits) and that it was fun going snowboarding with a bunch of friends. But snowboarding hurts. I was bruised and battered after Friday from falling every so often and I still can only go heel, no toe. Everytime I tried to go toe, I would flip on my face, sigh.
I also ended up missing YAC (whoops, bad example) but there was no way I was going to make it on time, so I figured that it was better to go for dinner with the people I went snowboarding with instead of showing up late, hehe. Shockingly, even though I was bruised and battered, I ended up going to play hockey that same night. It was good, I actually did not feel overly tired or sore and it was a good day of cardio for me, haha.
Then on Sunday, we ended up going to go play some football again. Luckily, not tackle since there was no snow whatsoever, and the ground was like frozen solid. But on my first run of the day, I ended up having both my feet slip out underneath me while I tried to dodge Kingston and ended up wiping out really badly, sigh, more bruises. Luckily, I didn't wipe out face first when Sarah came after me and threw the football right between my feet (while I was running), sigh... never block a pass going for her again, haha, she's CRAZY!!! :P
But there you have it. All bruised and battered from a weekend of some awesome sporting events. :P I don't regret any of it, haha, except maybe choosing to go snowboarding instead of skiing. :P

Birthday Bash X 2

So, Happy Birthday to both Sylvia and Jacklyn.




So this weekend has been pretty busy (in a good way). Busy enough that I didn't have time to start Civilization 4 yet, haha. But it was good. The Youth Rally on friday night was awesome, not quite as many people as I figured there would be, but overall, still awesome. Hockey was pretty good, still need to improve on my skating though. The only bad thing this weekend was that I felt like I was fighting a fever after hockey and throughout Saturday. Which sucked, cause I wasn't able to enjoy Yamato's, and I ALWAYS enjoy Yamatos. Got to enjoy 2 birthday parties which was really fun and it was nice to see some of my high school friends again. Watched DOOM, which was okay, not a movie I would buy, but it was pretty good. Though the first person shooter style of filming (for about 5 minutes of the movie) reminded me why I don't play Doom, haha, man, I got such a bad headache after that 5 minutes. :P Also played some tackle football and I'm still sore. My right knee is still bruised, but I guess that's because we decided to go with tackle even though the ground was iced over and there was no soft patches anywhere. But it was fun, good times... and some scary times, haha, especially when you see Mr. Alred coming at you either to tackle you or to bull you over to get to his endzone, haha. Ahh... hopefully the weather next week will be decent enough for us to play tackle again, haha.

And My Photos under my Internal Links section has been updated again. Tons of photos this time round. Quite a few stranger photos that I would love to delete whenever possible, but some artsy-fartsy person wanted them, haha, so I guess I have to keep them for a while. :P Check them out, if you want them, try to save the photo, if that doesn't work, leave a comment, send me an e-mail, call me or message me on MSN and I'll send them over to ya.

Occupied

So, seems I havn't updated in a while... which is weird. It's not like I'm busy or anything, but whatever. Age of Empires 3 has occupied my free-time recently, haha. It's a good game, so people who like strategy games, look into it. It's pretty good. I can't compare it to the 1st or 2nd one cause I never played the 2nd one and I don't remember the first. But I've enjoyed this one so far.

Also confirmed is that I will be starting work with Samaritans Purse on Nov. 15 for approximately 6 weeks. As for what I'll be doing exactly. It will not be handling the shoeboxes in the warehouse, but it will be handling the monetary donations that come in with the shoeboxes. So, it will be data processing. The cool thing is that there will be devotions every morning, and MWF will be combined devotions with the entire Billy Graham Evangelistical Association.

Currently un-occupied is the English Side Pastoral position, which we tried to fill today by trying to persuade Pastor Kat to come back for good. :P She says she'll pray about it. :P It was really nice seeing her back and her sermon on Sunday was really good as well.

Oh, I also took Elijah around the block for a 2nd tour-of-trick-or-treating after dinner tonight and it was pretty cool. Didn't get much candy cause most of the houses had closed down for the night (IT WAS ONLY 8!!) and then he said... "id cowd", so we went home. :P






My Photos Updated

Birthday

Okay, my bad. Seems some people thought that my birthday was when I posted that last blog, but it wasn't. :P It was today... or actually yesterday now. Friday the 14th. The cake was added on to the Thanksgiving Feast. But yeah, thought I'd clear that up, and because I don't have much to blog on. Just that... I GOT TICKITS TO THE FLAMES GAME ON MONDAY!! Phoenix... not exactly the same as Edmonton tonight... but oh well. Get to watch Gretzky's first game as coach... at the saddledome. :P And Jenny's right. I am getting old. Very old. I felt so dead... so tired halfway through hockey tonight. Maybe it was having 2 dinners tonight... or maybe it was because we played 4 on 4 because we didn't have enough players... but either case. I'm the youngest guy there, I should be able to outplay them all. haha. not even close. And King. Your brother has way too much energy. I mean, near the end of the game when most of us is dragging ourselves around the ice, he's flying around, haha. And he even goes for some extra laps after we call it quits. Sheesh. :P Okay, that is all. See you all tomorrow for Fright Night. :P

Edit: Thanks everyone (especially Jacko for organizing) for the surprise dinner, and the gifts and the warm wishes. It was great. And thanks Flono for warning me in advance, even though you didn't intend to, haha... I'm sure they'll get you back for that. :P And Fright Night... oh, the memories.

Happy Thanksgiving/Birthday

Ack. I'm getting old. And I still have not established myself anywhere. Sigh.

But Thanksgiving. So much food. :P My parents had 40 ppl over last night and only half the food was eaten, so you can guess at how much leftovers we have for this week. Haha, no need to cook this entire week... well, except for the Cell Group dinner. But yeah, now the only thing left for this week is for me to get a job. But since I'm pretty much done waiting for the hospital to call back, I shall go drop off a resume at Christian Pub... and if nothing comes out of that, then I shall go for Superstore nextweek.

My Photos updated.