Missing you
Absence makes the heart grow Fungus, decay, loss, sorrow, woe, and worry Emotional complex, broken A friend once told me “Life gets in the way” It was too long time ago he told me that Life has kept us apart …
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Alex is a rockstar!
Today started off like an ordinary day. I got up, showered, went to work, had breakfast, and prepared to go through the motions of an ordinary day. Then I got a text message from Alex. Her water had broken. We were at …
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A Tale of My Wedding
A year ago, I got married. Something that until a couple of years ago, I never thought I’d do. I’d been bitten hard, and I couldn’t do it. Couldn’t even imagine it. It takes the right person, and the right situation, to …
Surprise weekend at Bow Lake
Surprise weekends are a good thing. Especially if you have a good place to go. We have no standing rule that says we have to go anywhere, though. Although the “rules” (such as they are) suggest that staying …
Amy's ready to kill me, I swear...
[This entry originally posted on How To Get Lost: Amy's ready to kill me, I swear....] I complain a lot. Unintentionally, I swear, but I do. (Amy says I like to complain, but I actually hate it. I don’t even realize I’m …
200 days until I get married
200 days. It almost doesn’t seem real. Yet in about 28 and a half weeks, Alex and I will become wife and husband. A year ago, I was stupidly busy. (Not that I’m not now, but still…) I was doing a lot of things …
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It's freaking cold in Calgary
Minus 34. Celsius. (Not that it would matter much more if it were Fahrenheit.) That’s 14 degrees below my thermal underwear threshold (that would be when I put them on). That’s what it was on my way to work this morning. …
New Years Eve in Calgary
It’s an interesting start to the year, to say the least. Alex and I spent the holidays partly apart. As such, we ended up having Christmas Eve on New Year’s Eve. To make it interesting (as if being together wasn’t …
Busy December weekend
I think Alex and I need to stop packing so much into a single weekend. It’s gonna kill us. Friday night was Light Night. Being fairly warm (thanks to a chinook), we went out in search of Christmas lights around town, …
12 Days of Christmas at Heritage Park
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? No, I’m not dead. I wasn’t abducted by aliens. I wasn’t held hostage. I took a bit of a break. I had to. In mid-September, I suffered a bit of a breakdown. Too much stress that I’d allowed …
Cold hike in Kananaskis
Someone had the brilliant idea to go hiking in Kananaskis. Apparently this person didn’t realize that it’s almost winter. (And around here, that means it is winter.) We all started off at Phil’s on 16th Ave. Alex and I …
More weekend antics
Yeesh. Antics is putting it lightly. Here’s the short version (‘cuz I really don’t feel like typing it all out): had to work saturday to finish performance management reviews; god I hate writing them went to jim’s …
New cell phone for Hallowe'en
Another busy weekend at hand. Where oh where to start? I guess first off, I’ve finally had to give up my old Nokia brick cell phone. My faithful and antique companion has served me well since arriving in Calgary so many …
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Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra's Mozart on the Mountain
A busy weekend this most certainly was. But it was a fun, productive one. The first major thing was on Saturday. Mom’s in town to help out with Nana’s recovery from surgery (she had her knee replaced at the beginning of …
BC Vacation - Calgary to Fairmont Hot Springs
I so wanted to get my butt out of the office, almost from the moment that I was alerted to the problem on MBUSA.com’s live server. There’s nothing like trying to diagnose the cause of a homepage failure when you’re not …
Surprise weekend in Edmonton
It’s been a while since our last surprise weekend (see [[Surprise Visit to Drumheller]]), but not for a lack of wanting. We’ve been that busy. Either Alex has had to work (the joys of working in the medical community) or …
2004 Calgary Dragon Boat Festival
This weekend, we went for a little paddle. Five hundred metres in about two minutes and five seconds, to be precise. This weekend was the 13th annual Calgary Dragon Boat Festival, or the Alberta Dragon Boat Racing …
Troubles trying to get home
Travelling is never easy. Especially when my best friend Murphy is along for the ride. I rose late (catching up with sleep lost the night before), and met up with Craig, Jill, and her daughter Jamie in the concierge …
Birthday Camping in Kananaskis
This weekend, Alex and I went camping. It was the first time I’d gone camping since about 1997, before I’d moved to Vancouver. Seven years is far too long a dry period. We weren’t camping alone, though. My aunt and uncle …
Mini-golf and sandals
Saturday started with the hope of going out to Elbow Falls to try and do some hiking. Notice that I used the word “hope”. Hope turned to not, with the realization that the weather wasn’t likely to cooperate …
Canada Day in Banff National Park
Our fair country has been around for 137 years, now, and it doesn’t look a day over 100 — we’ve still got all the problems we did back in ’67. Alex and I had a fairly action-packed day. We started off with a jaunt over …
Surprise Visit to Drumheller
This weekend was a bit of a surprise. Not that it suddenly appeared from out of nowhere, but that until something happened, I had no idea what was yet to come. The weekend started with the one thing I did have control …
Jazz Up Your Weekend at the Banff Centre
Alex and I have been seeing each other for a couple of months now, and we felt it secure enough to try something a little adventurous: a weekend away from the city. Exactly how we found out about it, I’m not sure (I …
My first dragon boat practice
Last night, Alex and I headed down to the Glenmore Reservoir. Reasons were two-fold: One was to have a picnic, a little meal on the edge of the largest body of water in the immediate area. The other was for Alex’s dragon …
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Try This Triathlon and the 2004 Lilac Festival
When spring is in full-swing in Calgary, there are always fun things to do. The only problem, though, is having to choose which ones — once the warm weather hits, there can sometimes be a few too many things to do all at …
Victoria Day Long Weekend Aftermath
15 years ago tonight, the Calgary Flames won the Stanley Cup. Tonight, they have only three games until they win it again. It is, admittedly, a nice way to start the week off after a long weekend. The first long weekend …
Weekends, relationships, and parties
Friday night was not fun. Erin and I got together after work, headed down to her place to eat pizza and watch Indiana Jones movies. Or at least that was the plan. We watched the second half of “Last Crusade” …
Therese gets her doctorate in psychology
I love seeing old friends. I just hate seeing them leave. Therese was in town this weekend. Not really to visit with people so much (though that was one thing she did), but to defend her dissertation — the last step in …
Giving online dating a try
Way back in early August, I learned the awful truth that Therese and Stuart were moving to Montreal, ne’er to return. (Okay, that’s an assumption. They might, but I ain’t holding my breath.) Needless to say, I suddenly …
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