Ack. So many days late!

Well, I really enjoyed my Christmas. :)

Fun times with friends and family, with plenty of good eats!

Looking forward to going back to work, though. Pretty weird saying that, I guess I just miss having something,... correction,... anything, to do.

It's been a while since I have done anything in regards to school applications, so I think tomorrow I will get up early enough (before 11am) and work on some of those things. I would really like to have them out before Jan. 15th. It's pretty stupid how I was so prepared to deal with these applications like 4 months ago, and now that the time has finally come to apply things aren't really coming together and I am beginning to really panic!

Canucks beat the Flames two in a row! Pretty awesome, 6-5 in OT, shablamno Salo!

New Year's should be pretty cool. Christine's parents are away in Taiwan, so we can use their really posh penthouse suite. I don't imagine a ton of people will come, but even if 6-8 come and just enjoy some games and drinks I think it'll be alright.

Anyways, sorry for late updates all you blog readers..., Jessica.

How's Brampton? I never see you on MSN for chess!

MyBirthday Party

...was the smallest, but best ever.

Judy came over at like 6 o'clock and we watched James Bond: A Liscence to Kill. Then we ate dinner, and played a round of Matio Party. Then Phil came back, we all talked and shared stories and opened some gifts (thanks Jessica, btw. I loved both gifts a lot). After that, we played Cranium, this trivia game that also has like pictionary and humming, and charades type elements to it.

Had a blast. Phil and Judy won, though. Definately good laughs had by everyone.

Now, I am off to have a post-birthday lunch with my mom. Should be interesting. =/

Holiday in T - 2 days!

Well, one thing that rocks the socks about working at a university is the paid vacation.

At 1:15pm on Friday I will have a 10-day break (weekends included) before I have to go back to work!

The best part of it all is... that I like my job, and when I do go back I won't be complaining. x)

Yesterday night I sent off two of my SLIS applications out. The first was to the University of British Columbia, and the second was to the University of Western Ontario.

These two schools are by and large by top two choices, and I think that's why I was so eager to send them out. One thing that is really annoying about the whole application process is the subtle differences in each application procedure. Where one school wants one transcript, another wants two. Where I have to have the transcripts sent from the office in one case, a seperate school would want them sent by me.

Even the online application thing is screwed up. On the UWO application is asks me to give a brief statement of intent. What they failed to mention is that the online statement is to serve in place of the hardcopy one I was working on for months!!!

That left me pretty miffed. I emailed them to see if I can submit the hardcopy as the 'legit' statement, but still no answer.

Anyways, things are generally good. Just lots of school application anxiety.

It'll pass... I hope.

As for weight. Gonna skip today, Christine is in the bathroom, and I don't feel like intruding and this is the only time all day I have to check.

Oh wells.

G'nite!~

2:23am

...and I decided to stay faithful to my Sunday update.

I could have waited until tomorrow night, but decided now was as good a time as any seeing as I still haven't figured out what do with the wedding pictures.

On the topic of the wedding, it was awesome. I did the part of Best Man as best I could and did an OK job. I got a spankin' new keychain watch for my troubles.

It was a pretty emotional evening for the most part, and in the end I am just glad that my dad is finally settled down with someone he knows he spend the rest of his life with. He used to be so jaded about women, I didn't believe he would ever be married again, but just the right woman landed in his lap.

The reception was awesome, homemade samosas, currey, tiramisu, and chocolate butter cream cake.

I was pretty good about drinking in spite of all the free alcohol.

You'd think with all the food and treats and drinks I woulda put on a pound or so..., but ... regardless of the dozens of beef samosas and chocolate butter cream roses... mmm..., I am down to...

279.5. Not much of a difference, but a loss is a loss, and I probably won't be eating that much again in a long time. So all smooth sailing for now.

G'night!~

First post of the New Blog

Well, a lot has happened since February 2nd of 2006, which was the date of my last Blog update. There are several reasons why I have come back to start blogging again, and with a clean slate:

Firstly, and probably most importantly, I graduated from university and also got a job in a library. The job is fun, relaxing and pays very well. However, sometimes it's rather slow, and this is something I could do while on the job.

Secondly, I decided I would definately make a push for grad school. I really would like to either stay at UBC (less likely), or attend university at the University of Western Ontario in London, (not UK, OK?). I think it would be interesting to document my progress through the application phase.

Thirdly, I finally have something to write about. More accurately, I not only have more to write about and also reasons to write. Not only is school coming up, but I also feel other goals and happenings would be important to transcribe.

Also, I am in a blog pissing contest with Jessica as of now.

So ok,
first post.

My dad is getting married tomorrow, and I am to be his best man. It is a very religious ceremony and I will be his best man and as a result have to lead the procession in prayer. Seeing as I have been in a catholic church a total of one time before this, and every other time I had ever been in church the sermon was delivered in Greek, I really don't know what to expect and am really, really nervous.

I really think its a beautiful thing that my dad finally found happiness with a woman who will treat him well, and more importantly has at least the slightest thing in common with him.

I just feel like it's important that this be a special occasion for him, and I have a feeling I might mess the whole thing up. I have to deliver two psalms and a letter from some apostle to the Corinthians. I don't even know the apostles name off by memory!

All the passages are really sweet, and I only hope I can get the memorized in 12 hours. :X

Here they are!

A reading from Paul to the Corinthians.

Strive for the greater fifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.

If I speak in the tongues of mortals and angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knoweldge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient: love is kind: love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way: it is not irritable or resentful: it does not rejoice in wrondoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends.

The word of the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm

Refrain: The Lord fills the earth with His love.

They are happy, whose God is the Lord, the people he has chosen as his own.
The lord looks on those that revere him, on those who hope in his love.

Our soul is waiting for the Lord.
The Lord is our help and shield.
In him do our hearts find joy.
We trust in his holy name.

May your love be upon us, O Lord.
As we place all our hope in you.

General Intercessions:

The response to the prayer is: Lord, hear our prayer.

That every day grows of their lives, Nim and Tom may renew their desire to grow in love for each other and the gift they make today of their very selves: let use pray.

For all who are married in the Lord, that God will help them grow in love and sustain them in their efforts to give of themselves to others: let us pray.

For God's holy people, that through this celebration we all may grow in our desire to serve and love the world: let us pray.

For the world, that in its hunger for love it may turn to Christ and acknowledge him as Lord: let us pray.

For our community, for ourselves and for each other, that we may accept the challenge placed before us today, and make love a way of life: let us pray.

And that's that...


On a more personal note. I finally have the time, and maybe the drive necessary to fix my self. Those of you who know me well, know that I am injury prone and perpetually ill whether it be one thing or another. Well, after moving in with Christine I gained 20 pounds in about 2 years... Well that's not too, too bad considering what was being fed me. However, when I broke my arm and went in for foot surgery last summer, I became dreadfully lethargic, and gained over 40 more pounds.

So here is the deal, Blog. I am going to go from the current 280 pounds I am now, (just weighed) and get back to the 215 I was before I moved in with Christine.

That is 65 pounds to lose. I don't really have a set time frame, but I would like to report in at least once every two days to see how I am doing with the loss.

It seems pretty pathetic to do it this way, but I have a pretty bad memory, and I must constantly remind myself that I used to be a rugby playing, arm wrestling, pec flexing beast, and I would like to be that way again.

Rawr!