New Glasses!

Well It happened. I went to the eye doctor and found out that I need glasses. It's not that I can't see, I can see better than 20/20 ( 20/15 in fact!) but the muscles in my eyes are wanting to go outward and not stay straight ahead. So I have a prism put in these glasses and that will train the muscles to go back to normal. Does that make sence?...Lets try an example

You know when you see people walk and they walk with thier toes pointing outward like the penguin? Same thing with the muscles in my eyes. The glasses will make them normal. The good news is I should only wear them when I have eye strain or when my eyes are tired. So it should be less than 10 hours a week. If I wear them too much then my eyes will get used to them and become dependant on them. I don't want that.

Here's a picture of me with my new look. I picked some cool glasses (hey if I only have to wear them for at most 10 hours a week, they should be cool)

Now I just need to prevent (or quit) dropping them.
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Ok now it's time for my friends to give me lots of praise for my new glasses...come on....

So Many Cell Phones

It's been a week since I updated my blog and boy did I want to do it sooner. Time to play around on the internet is getting shorter every day.

Last weeked brought me 8 new cell phones. They weren't mine but they were our new work phones...That means however that I needed to program all the phones as they went active on Monday at 0600 hours. I had 48 hours to do it in...Very tiring to do that and your job on top of it but I got it taken care of. Over 200 phone numbers entered in later and I know those phones like no one else. My boss was very happy that I completed that.

This week I've been studying for a economics exam and I have a Calculus exam tomorrow. Once I get those out of the way I have a paper due on Tuesday that I need to work more on. I know what I'm spending every moment until then on!

Anyways There will be more news tomorrow night...Got some good stuff coming up. you'll see!

"A celebration of James" - Zack

Well at long last I finally decided to write some of the things about last Saturday. It started at about 9:30 AM when Zack came over and I loaded up my skis, snowblades (really short trick skies), and my ski bag into his Jetta and we headed off to blackstrap for a day of skiing. We got there and Zack got his snowboard equipment and I got ready. We headed over to the chairlift but when we got to the top it was bloody cold. I mean really cold...So about 40 minutes later we went into the lodge for a hot chocolate and Zack ended up injuring his ankle or something like that. A tendon was strained I think. So while his leg was on fire I went out for a few more runs myself and I had a good time. 2 hours later from when we arrived, we went back on the highway and came back to Saskatoon. It was really good we came back when we did becasue the highways were crap and we probally would have been stuck if we waited later. Good timing on our part.

So we got some clothes from our houses and trunks and we went to my parents to go into the hot tub to relax a bit. Mark came over there and let us and we ended up going to Montana's for drinks and supper. It was a good meal and a good time just visiting with him. Mark doesn't come into town that often now with his job but it was good timing that he came when we did.

We had about 2 hours before we were meeting everyone at "The Broken Cue" so we went to McNally Robinson so Mark could buy a new book and we went and played some racing games at Ruckers for a while. Mark kept on telling the 17 year old girl that this was my stag and he was having a good laugh about it.

8 PM we arrived at the Cue and we played pool and visited till about 11 PM. It was good visiting with everyone. Let's see....Randy (Jacqui's Dad), Jim (My Dad), Bob (My Uncle), Grandpa Harold, Nathan, Dallas were the older ones and then Zack, Mark, and Scott were there. I also had My Friend's Kerri and Lindsay there and that was good as it wasn't a traditional Stag night for me but as Zack said..."You know it's not a normal stag for you. I guess it's more of a celebration of James". So everyone was to celebrate me dammit.

I'm told the food was bad (as Mark had a wing that was bloody on the inside) and the beer was going flat or already flat. Randy wasn't happy about that and I'm told he had talk with the owner about the service there. Otherwise it was a good time there and I enjoyed being with so many people who were thinking about me.

After pool, the younger croud went to BP's for another snack and to chat a bit. It was a nice end to a great day.

I would like to thank my friends who were there to share this moment with me. I only get one of them and I want you to know how much it means to me. Thanks!

First Wedding Present

Well it's been a while since I wrote to my blog but I wanted to share with you the first wedding present. Jacqui and I were talking about a digital camera. Ok I was talking about it and Jacqui was saying "yah it would be nice" but I kept on talking about it. Anyways Jacqui's parents said that they would get us this camera as part of our wedding presant from them and then we could use it, test it out and then take it with us on our honeymoon. Super stuff.


So we picked up the camera and we got money for a SD card for it (which we'll get whern we find a good one on sale) as well.

It's Polaroid PDC 5355 camera. It is 5.3 Mega Pixels with a 3X optical Zoom and a 4X Digital (making 12X total...Math woo hoo!) It's really nice and we're going to test it out and see how it prints different sizes so we know what to expect for when we go to Paris. You really wouldn't want a crappy pictures of the Eiffel Tower now would you?

Now with the camera in hand I can stop telling people "I want a digital camera" over and over. Now it's "I want rechargeable batteries for it" (and that is now on our registry).

Expect me to write more tomorrow on how my Saturday was. Good times but long day.

Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie

Ok i'm not Grandpa Simpson walking in to get his pension but Jacqui and I did go to Sears today. We did our wedding registry. It took about 90 minutes to walk though the store and we only selected just over 50 items. Among my favorites are the Digital Camera (a 6MP Sony for less than 300 bucks) and the home appliances.

We've told people that we're only registering at one place so if you print out the list and see it somewhere else, more power to you.

The registry can be found here and all you have to do is enter in one of our names and select Saskatchewan.


....PS... I would really like the digital camera as I want one for Paris.

We're going to Paris!

Sounds exciting doesn't it? Well yesturday Jacqui and I booked our plane ticket with Air Canada to go to Paris. We'll leave on May 22nd (2 days after the wedding) and we'll come back on the 30th. It's going to be very exciting. We were thinking that we would go in October but when Jacqui saw this deal we thought it was worth it for a few reasons:
1: It saves us over $1000 bucks on airfare
2: We don't have jobs set up after school and they probally won't be there on the day after graduation so we should go.
3: It ensures that we don't put off our honeymoon.
4: We don't have to go on a "mini-honeymoon" then take the real one in October.
5: The jobs we get will be happy that we don't need the time off in October
6: The hotel looked like they had a cheeper rate for this time of year
7: Wedding money could be spent on the trip (if Jacqui goes for it too) LOL!

The Trip there is a real milk run though. Saskatoon to Toronto... wait for a while...Toronto to Monteral...Wait for a little while... Monteral to Paris. Reverse that on the way home and it makes for a 24 hour trip each way.

We've booked the Hotel now. We're staying at the Hotel Saint Honore which is only a very short distance from the Louve. and is central to a lot of attractions and other things we want to do. Lucked out on the rate of about $100 bucks a night.

The picture looks like a nice little hotel. The insides looked nice and the reviews were good.


Now we're looking at airport transfers to and from the hotel and we're looking at a river tour and the hours and costs of the attractions.

Closer to home we're going to try to work more at the University to have extra cash as more money is always a good thing. I wanted to save up and buy myself a digital camera but I don't think I'll get one now unless it is a wedding present. So if a group of people are looking at getting me something I could use a nice digital camera. (I won't hold my breath)

More on the trip to come.

Our Trip to the Lake

Well we made it back from our vacation to the lake for a 5 days. It got really cold out there. Way colder then it was in Saskatoon. It got as cold as -37 degrees C (and that was out on the deck protected from the wind). It was much colder walking out in the wind to go to the outhouse.

I don't care what anyone says, when you have to go outside to take a crap or wizz MY minus 37 (plus wind) will beat your minus 37 (plus wind) anyday. Something about dropping your pants and feeling the wind whip up your backside from the outhouse or whipping it out in the cold to pee in the snow.

Anyways go over to Jacqui's blog (link on the right...that's it go over) and see some pictures that she put up of our trip.

It was a good trip, I got no homework done, Played The Sims 2 for about 12 hours this week and read "The DiVinci Code" (it was a good book). Now it's back to the grind of work and school...oh well, at least I have the Olympics to watch.