The past few weeks

Well I'm back from my break and the past few weeks have been interesting. What to talk about...

Final Exams:
I had 5 exams ranging in topcs from Ethical Theory to Stastics to Operations Management to Calculus to Economics. It was a real wide range. I think I did alright in Ethical Theory and I did ok in Economics, but those other 3 classes I'm not sure. They are heavy math and I'm not a math person at all. In any case If I have to take them again I'm going to pick prof's that speak English for a change.

Late Night Study Sessions:
We did 8 of these nights working from 10 PM to 6 in the morning. It was really busy at the start but as more exams finished there were less people that were there. It was easy work but we really worked with some useless sacks of sh*t there. Like comeon on if you're goingto put "reserved" signs on the door then put them up nicely and when you take them down, take the tape off so they don't stick together in one big pile. How hard is that?
I really liked when we came back after a few nights off and the carts were so messy that it took 45 minutes to clean it up...There was popcorn in the coffeemaker and popcorn oil all over the place.

Working:
I've had a long weekend from hell and a really nice and easy weekend so they have evened out. The long weekend, there was a machine down so the hospitals kept me really busy. That added to the patients coming into emergency with all their problems just made a busy night even worse. Don't get me wrong I still like my job but some weekends are better then others.

The Wedding:
Plans are moving along with it and we have a lot to do in may. We built the arch for the hall already so it can be moved and put in place. That will save 2 hours work at the hall. We have to meet with our photographers (Lindsay we've gotta meet sometime.), we're meeting with the priest today (he just rebooked our meeting to later today as he has to go to a funderal), and Jacqui is meeting he seamstress today. I'm getting my pants hemmed by Jacqui's mom and we're adding up the final numbers for how many people. Busy times.

My Friends:
I'm sorry to say that I haven't really had any time to visit to talk much with any of my friends. Working those two jobs thsi month and studying for exams have made that almost impossible. I know that next week will be better and that I can go out with them. Gotta make time for friends.
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Well that's it for now. More to come. (oh and I turned comments back on now)

Taking a break

It has been just over 2 weeks since I wrote anything on my blog. Yah that is a long time on the internet but interesting things have been happening in my world.

2 weekends ago my aunt came into town with the new baby. It was my first time to see him and he is just a wonderful little baby. It was a good change to reconnect with my family and even though I had to work that weekend (as I work every weekend) It was still nice. See the picture of my new cousin with me.

Just this past weekend Jacqui had family on her side come into town for her wedding shower. I think about 30 people where there and it was a good time for her. As my mom said "You got a big haul" and she was quite right. Lots of gifts were showered upon Jacqui and she really enjoyed it.

While Jacqui was getting ready for her shower on Sunday I was having breakfast with my good friend Mark. We decided to go to Smitty's and just have a chance to visit. It was unexpected that he came into town so it was good to see him. We asked Zack but he was at a pancake breakfast at Melissa's (Lindsay's sisters) Church. Blessed pancakes must be really good...I've never had them before. Anyways It was good to visit with Mark and hopefully he'll have another unexpected weekend off where the 3 of us can go out again.

I'm now about to enter my final exams for this term and time is getting shorter for me. You can expect this to be my last post till the end of April when these classes are done and I have more free time to write my thoughts and feelings.

See you later.
-James

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.