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K it has been a while since I posted and I figured out why...well you can read why on the new blog. Click the link on the title to go there and see all the new stuff there.

Enjoy it because you won't see updates here anymore!

James

Going Away!

That's right I'm leaving town for a couple of days. I'll write a post about Christmas when I get back but from the 30th till the 4th I'm going up to the lake to relax and start the new year on a good note.

I want to read, play the gamecube, watch movies, shoot fireworks ( yep I got fireworks, I'll take pictures if I can) and eat a lot...Not to mention have a wonderful time with my loving wife. These past months working all the time have really resulted in me needing to take some time off. Gotta keep the honeymoon going somehow.

Note to Zack and Lindsay: We'll have to do something in January...Think about it.

Note for Jane: I hope that you had a good Christmas in Prince George. Jacqui and I can't wait to hear about your trip...You take so many trips and we take so few.

See you in the new year!

New and Old

It has been a while since I've posted but I've been feeling just like Zack has. Sure lots of stuff have been going on but it's not interesting...or not worth me sitting at the computer and writing about it. So for the millions of people ( or 3 of you ) who look at this site here is what has been going on since my last post.

- My boss told me that she was ending my contract (9 months early) at GDML in december because the person who I was replacing took a permanent position in the lab. So I had to re-apply for a full time permanent position. I found out today that I got the job again. So I got hired for the same job that I was doing on a contract but now permanent. Woo hoo better benefits!

-I received my two awards on the 21st. They look like candy dishes with the GDML logo and the award name on them. Very nice.

- On the 21st my work car reached 111111 kms on it. I took a picture of it at work when it got there.

-Jacqui and I had our 6 month anniversary on November 20th. Look at how time flies already!

-We had our first oil fondue on the 22nd...Yummy. The chocolate one came after. I was so full from that.

- Computer got some bad viruses that ate my anti-virus software. I had to wipe the comptuer and reload everything. Wasn't as bad as I expected.

-Done my Christmas shopping!

That is about it for now.

6 Years!

Not many people know this but 6 years ago today I started dating Jacqui. 6 years! I've been hearing on the news that you can kill someone and get out in less then 6 years. Not that being with Jacqui has been like a jail sentence but I wanted to keep things in perspective.

These last 6 years have been wonderful with her and I can't see spending my life with anyone else.

I love you Jacqui.

Awarded!

This week I found out that I will be recieving 2 awards for my work at Gamma-Dynacare Medical Laboratories. One of them is the Innovation award and I am the only winner this year for our region. The Transportation Department won the Team Performance award ( so I get that too) and I was nonimated for the Team Player award but lost out on that to another good member of staff.

I like my job and I like doing those little extra's to make my job more enjoyable. I guess that is why I'm getting an award. I'm not really sure what I get out of it (if anything) but a paid day off or cash would be nice. LOL!

The letter for the Innovation award is below ( I blacked out some personal stuff)

Halloween 2006!

Well this past weekend was the time for halloween parties, so we went to two of them. Friday night was Jacqui's friend Leah's party and we had a good time there. A small group of about 12 people and it was fun. A good chance to chat and play some games too. One of the guys came as a flasher with some big "privates" that he flashed everyone with as they came in...what a way to some into the house eh?

I guess I should tell you who we were... I went as Lucius Malfoy from harry Potter and Jacqui went as a fairy. take a look at some pictures below.

On Saturday we went to Nathan's house and there was a big party. I would guess about 40 people in the house and it was really decorated up. These pictures are with the flash as you couldn't see things that well in the dark.

What a great party and very cool decorations there. Anyways a picture is worth a thousand words...
1:Jacqui on the left and my Mom as Tinkerbell on the right.
2: Me as Lucius Malfoy (How did I do Jane? Like the staff now as a cane?)
3: Jacqui, Me, Christine as the Mad Hatter and Curtis in the back as a wrestler (can't remember who)
4: A cage for a skeleton that dad made. (more will come on his decor for the house in a later post)

Hope you had a fun Halloween!

Shortest Blog Post Ever

Happy 24th Birthday Zack!

Jacqui's Birthday Week Part 2

This is a continuation of Jacqui's Birthday Week. We left off with a DVD and Chocolates on Tuesday so what did Wednesday Bring?

Wednesday September 13th
Today brought 2 bottles of Icewine...Yum...icewine We drank a bottle of it on Thursday for Jacqui's birthday supper and this is like drinking nectar, simply wonderful. Each bottle is 50ML so you drink it slowly. You don't need a lot to enjoy it.
Later we went over to her parent's and had birthday cake with my Grandma's, and both our parents and my cousin Casja came too.

Jacqui got the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire game for our Nintendo Gamecube from my parents and money from the grandma's. Her mom and dad (well her mom picked it out but he got his name on the card) got a lot of different things for her ranging for perfume to a pill timer to a Su Doku hand held game. what a haul...

Thursday September 14th - Jacqui's 24th Birthday!
Jacqui's actual birthday finally arrived and she had to wait till I got home from work. When I changed out of my work clothes she got a Tetris DS Game for the Nintendo DS. Jacqui loves Tetris and I know that she will play this game for many hours.
We had a wonderful supper at home with our Teryaki Chicken and rice and we had some chocolates and drank our icewine. What a wonderful end for Jacqui's birthday week.

Jacqui's Birthday Week

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Yes my lovely wife Jacqui is going to be 24 on Thursday the 14th. To celebrate her birthday I didn't want to just have her birthday on Thursday but to go wild and give her a birthday week with some special gifts though the days leading up to her Birthday.

Monday September 11th:
I was running late at work so I would be delayed in coming home...it was only a few minutes but I took the excuse and bought Jacqui two dozen roses for her 24th birthday...My dad days that when she is 50 I should give her a picture of 50 roses.


Tuesday September 12th
Today I told Jacqui that I was going to be late and I came home with some other gifts...We have been out of town a lot and this was the only chance I've had in months to buy her a birthday gift. It was a quick trip but I knew exactly what I wanted to get her...

The DVD of Empire Records. Jacqui had this on VHS but she watched it so many times that it wouldn't rewind less you sped it to the end and then forced the VCR to rewind it....DVD's don't have that problem.



Today was also 24 chocolates................ok 27 chocolates but that was because they didn't sell boxes of 24...3 chocolates for me then! Why did Jacqui get two in one day? Well she was saying that she would really love something sweet like chocolate and I had the box all wrapped up in my bag...so she got it early.
What tomorrow will being you'll just have to wait and find out.

New Contract, Old Job

Well Tuesday September 5th came and it meant that I got to start my new one year contract. I'm still working wit hthe same company but instead of spending every weekend working I'm now working Monday to Friday and it is more bankers hours then late night or early morning hours.

The nice part about working Monday to Friday with GDML is that I now have my own car to drive around. I'll spend the next year driving this car...I think I'll call her Emma (Come on Emma...Did you get the simpsons' quote there) but I'm still thinking about it. Below is a pic of the car...Wow a 2004 Ford Focus Wagon. This one is a middle of the road one as it has power mirrors and heated seats. No power windows or adjustable steering wheel but oh well, the heated seats will be nice this winter.

The car was really dirty when I got it because quite a few different people were driving it and you always seem to take better care of a car when you are the only one driving it. It is sitll kinda dirty but I socked it down with soap then I got a STAT call so I had to do a quick rinse off and then go pick up the STAT. Oh well, it'll happen.

I'll write more about my first week and about the long weekend but I have to get up and go to work tomorrow then we're off to the lake again.

Oh Zack, I hope your foot gets better ( see his blog, link on the right)

Nintendo DS

It finally happened. After some saving and selling my old system on E-bay I had enough money to buy a Nintendo DS Lite. The Lite is different from the normal DS and many people say it is better. I know that Mark likes it and he has a normal DS. Here's some pics.


This first one is a little dark but it is worse with the flash on. It is the DS lite itself. Very cool looking.

This next picture is with the TEGO skin on it. Very cool and I got it free (read my post on how I got it below)

So with some left over cash I bought Big Brain Academy for it. Very cool game and it makes you think. Just what I need right? Well I've played it at the lake these last 2 weeks and it's been worth having when you have a free minute.

That's all for now.

My Gameboy Sold

That's right it sold. It was an interesting 7 day auction that saw 12 bids on it. The auction ended with it selling for 56 dollars USD or about 62 dollars CAD. I was very happy with that and now the money order is on the way so I can put that toward my Nintendo DS fund.

My parents are going to Alberta ( the land of no PST) so I gave them money and they are going to buy my DS there saving me some tax. Good deal for me.

I'm also getting a TEGO skin for the top of the DS that will help protect it and make it stand out. I'll take a picture when it arrives and gets on the DS. Those tego skins are cool because you can put them on almost anything from PDA's to Laptop's to cell phones to gaming systems. Check out the link and buy one for yourself...I got mine for free...


FREE? How did I get it for FREE you ask? Well I've been entering icoke credits this summer and I've been getting free stuff. One of them is the skin for my new DS. Free movie passes are good too. So drink Coke and get free stuff!

Woo Hoo DS for me!

Buy my Game Boy!

OK I've hopped on the eBay wagon. It's time for someone to buy my gameboy because I want a Nintendo DS Lite. Jacqui says I'm a geek but she helped me list it on eBay.

Look at all the good stuff you get:
-A very good condition Game Boy Advance SP (no little kid fingers on it)
-Cool charger (good for keeping it working)
-A charger base (for when you don't want it just sitting anywhere)
- A clear cover (so you don't wreck the finish when you're eating ships and playing)

YOU GO BUY IT NOW!

The last 2 and a half months

Alright it's been a while since I've made any posts on here so I'm going to be writing them now. It's been an interesting past few months and I think I can share them with you now in written form. My friends I've seen have heard a lot of it but there is more to tell also.

So this week I'm going to be adding in posts and stamping the date published as when the events took place.

Ready to look at some backposts on here? Go for it. Everything between the post "3 sleeps till the wedding" and "the last 2 and a half months" is a back post and is new.

I'll add to this list though the week. Go and read:
-Our Wedding Day part 1 - added July 30th
-The Gift Opening - added July 30th
-James' New Job - added July 30th
-At the Cabin - added July 31st
-Our Wedding Day part 2 - added August 1st.

Enjoy.

James' New Job

Well it's not a new type of job but it is different. I applied for a courier position full tie and I didn't get it the first time around. But a week later I found out I got a contract postion for 1 year working 37.5 hours a week (full time for us).

So Starting September 5th 2006 for 1 year I'm going to be working Monday to Friday (and every 6th Saturday) instead of working every weekend. Now I'm going to be able to go out with my friends and have people over on the weekends. I'm excited.

Now you might be saying "James why are you taking a 1 year contract?"

Well the answer is this. I'm going to be taking some classes online this year and I didn't want to be working for only 2 days a week. I feel that I can take the online classes and work. The hours at work aren't bad and I know I'll have time to get the course work done. I have 3 classes ot take and I'm going to take 2 at once and then 1 after that. Each class can take up to 6 months so that is 12 months at most of online classes for me...See how it matches up with a 12 month contract?

Well it's going to be excitiing for me but we'll see how I feel a few months into it.

At the Cabin

Well it's happened. With not taking classes during the summer I've actually had the chance to enjoy it. So we packed up some bags, grabbed the dog from Jacqui's parents and went out to the lake.

Fur Lake is located by the town of shell lake and only has a handful of cabins there which makes it nice and quiet to visit.

We went out to the lake twice, each for 5 days so here some pictures from both times. (the pictures are small because Blogger was having problems during uploading)

Here is Jacqui doing some scrapbooking during our 2nd trip to the lake. During that week we did over 30 pages for our scrapbook....That is a lot but it is well worth it.

Here I am sitting on the deck one evening while we are in the middle of a Scrabble game. Jacqui loves playing Scrabble and I'm starting to like it too.During our first week we had a lot of rain and here it is coming off the cabin beside ours.On our last day of our 2nd trip Jacqui's Dad came out and took Jacqui fishing. Look at what Jacqui caught!

So yes we had lots of fun out at the lake and we're planning again to go in August before I start my new job.

The Gift Opening

The wedding night was great. (wink wink) There, that is all I'm going to say on that. Well we did Stay at the Saskatoon Inn and breakfast brought up to us in the room was good too. Now I'm done on that part.

The Gift Opening was at a hall in Martensville and we had about 50 people I think show up for it. It was good to see everyone that day as the whole wedding was a whirlwind of activity.

There was lots of good food and I think everyone got thier fill there. For those who drank too much last night, a cold beer was there waiting for them. (I'm told it helps a hangover)

What a list of gifts from many wonderful people. With all the cash from family we've decided to put it toward a bedroom suite when we get a house...Maybe I can get a entertainment unit too.

Other gifts included
An Indoor electric grill, 800 euros (300 from Mark) for our honeymoon, new toaster, coffee maker, wok, grimmauld place sign (from Jane, see the picture), duvet, sheets (1 set was 800 thread count), Crystal bowls, dishes, cutlery, royal albert tea cups, a wine bottle fridge, deep fryer, art, and a lot of other things that are making my eyes spin.

We didn't have a lot of time to really enjoy them right away because we had to leave for Paris the following morning. They were all really wonderful and we'll get a lot of use out of them in the future.

On to the Honeymoon!

Our Wedding Day part 2

Well we were on our way to have pictures done...But first we got o travel in the RV. Now my grandparents gave us the RV to use and it was really nice as we could have cold drinks in there, mirrors to use and lots of places to put our stuff so that was quite nice.

We first went to Picture Perfect to get studio pictures done. That took about 2 hours and was quite boring. Now Jacqui told everyone not to go across to Arby's for something ot eat as she didn't want them to spill anything on thier dresses or suits...Well when we went in our pictures of the two of us they ran over and got something...Way to Listen!

EDIT: Yah ok...I know Zack didn't go to Arbys as he felt it would just be a tease until the supper. I forgot to put that in but Zack reminded me about it today.

Next were the photos at the University. We went in front of the college building because they finished restoring it this year. This is where Lindsay really shone. Zack's girlfriend Lindsay and really do some amazing photographs and we were quite sorry that we had to pick photos from Picture Perfect as her's were much better. Oh well we paid for them already so we had to pick some.

Anyways Lindsay did wonderful pictures (see my profile picture for an example) and there were a lot of them too. I would highly recommend her to anyone wanting wedding or family pictures (or any pictures for that matter).

Final part of the wedding day comes in part 3.

Our Wedding Day part 1

What a wonderful day. It all started early for me (well not as early as Jacqui) but I was up at 8 AM and had a good breakfast and paced around the house and started to get myself ready. At 10 Zack, Mark and Brett came over and we went over to the hall to help Randy move the beer in. Finishing that we returned to the house and put our suits on.

12 noon came and we went in the RV to the church while we had some pictures taken before hand and where I sat in a chair getting more nervous all the time. Don't get me wrong, I was excited about getting married but I didn't want to screw anything up in the Church. I'm not comfortable in churches and I didn't want to remember forever my screwed up wedding service where I dropped the rings, or fell down the stairs or something stupid like that.

Anyways Here is Jacqui walking down the aisle. When she was walking down my heart stopped. She was so beautiful in that dress that I can't describe it properly. You'll just have to look at the picture for yourself.

We did it, we got married. (yah that description is a little weak but what do you want me to say) The church service was a blur to me and I wanted to get it over so I could get to the kiss. That is the important part in my eyes.

There were lots of pictures after in the recpetion area of the church and then we had to go and get pictures done and Picture Perfect....

What happens next? Look for "Our Wedding Day part 2"

3 Sleeps till the Wedding

Well this week has been interesting to say the least. With the wedding being this week it has brought out some of the worst in Jacqui and myself. We're fighting like crazy...mainly because we've been running on little sleep and also because we have a long list of stuff to get done. Things like cleaning the house, packing for Paris, and final wedding stuff that only we can do.

We're still excited for the wedding but I can't wait for it to be over. by last week I was tired of the word "wedding" but it is going to be coming up a whole lot more in the next few days...maybe a walk to get a slush at Mac's will calm me down.

Anyways we were given some Euros as a wedding present from some people that couldn't make it to saskatoon so that is really cool...just a little "fun money" is a good thing.

Oh and 2 nights ago I went to London Drugs and picked up Ski Resort Extreme for only 5 bucks. I love skiing and being able to build my own resort is interesting. Can't wait to play it some more.

Anyways this is my last post until we return from Paris...Until then!