Well, Crystal is much better today, and I didn't have any near car accidents, and I didn't spill any coffee or anything else on myself, so all must be back to normal. Arianna is waiting to hear from Tim Horton's as they told her they would get back to her about a job. That will keep her busy and hopefully happier as she will have her own money. Crystal has a birthday party at a friends house on Saturday.

Ok, i think I've been having a bout of bad karma lately. First I get to work in the morning only to find hot chocolate spilled on the front of my blue shirt. I had made Crystal hot chocolate in the morning at breakfast, apparently I must have missed the cup. The next day, some schmuck cuts me off at an intersection while he turns left into oncoming traffic which just happens to be me. Thanks too some impecable swerving in which I managed to miss him and the snap on tools truck waiting at the intersection on my right, Then Friday, I was on my way to Tim Horton's in the monrining on my way to work, whilst in the Tim Horton's drive thru, the day care phones me as crystal has a tummy ache. Sooo, friday, I didn't make it to work at all. Can't wait till Monday to see what happens to me then.

Where do they find these people on American Idol. I read an article today that said our brains protect us from knowing how bad we really are at some things. apparently singing is one of the areas that our brain covers for us.

second piano lesson tommorrow, so far Crystal has decided that she doesn't like to practice, at least not by herself. She practiced good today while I was helping her. We shall see how things go tommorrow.

cdefg, cdefg, cdefg, cdefg, Crystal's piano lessions started today. She seemed to like the piano lessons.

Merry Christmas

with the right words you can change the world. as quoted from the new charlottes web movie. I think we will have to take Crystal to see that, it looks like something she would like

well, I was this close to going on a helicopter ride to fly over the diamond exploration site at fort a la corne. Only the weather came in to play at the last minute and the helicopters were cancelled. darn. After getting over the initial fear of what I might feel like in an helicopter buzzing around in the sky, I was actually quite excited. oh well, probably will have another chance in the spring.

well, I found an interesting msn group about personality disorders. Hmmm interesting indeed.

well, it will soon be Christmas, I don't think I am very excited about Christmas this year, it feels more like a problem than a blessed event. It will be nice though to have time off with Crystal and Arianna, I expect Gerald will be working most of the time so we won't have to worry about him either, whoopie.

You Are a Christmas Sweater!

Over the top, colorful, and totally flashy. You're not afraid to be a little tacky.

What Crappy Christmas Gift Are You?

well, Hayden is certainly growing, he was quite happy in his new toy on Thursday. Next he will be rolling all over the place and bouncing and jumping around in bouncy toy like a crazy man

shine, shine, shine, spit, swirl, shine, spit, shine shine shine, Arianna trying to shine her air cadet boots.

well, I have now officially been 1800 feet under ground, no that's not a typo, I have had a tour of an underground uranium mine in Saskatchewan. complete with steel toed rubber boots, coveralls, a hard hat with a miners light attached, and a battery pack, and some sort of safety breathing apparatus which I have no idea how it worked. something about follow the yellow?? then I went to tour the mill where they turn the ore into a saleable uranium product worth 50 dollars a pound, there are 1000 pounds in one barrel. too bad it's so hard to carry a 1000 pound barrel of uranium. what a heist that would be. The flights there and back were pleasant much to my surprise as for the most part I don't like the completely illogical concept of flying in something that weights as much as a plane full of 29 people.

well tomorrow will be my last day at work for the next five days or so, I will be in saskatoon at the canadian chamber agm and on tuesday, I will get to fly out to maclean lake and mcarthur river lake mine sites. That should be interesting. Makes for a long day though, as we fly out at 7 am and fly back at 8 pm.

well, we went to pizza hut tonight. One of the restaurants in this City I haven't been to before, even though it has been here for many years. After today, I now know why, perhaps some instinctive esp would regularly convince us to go elsewhere and save us the experience of pizza hut in p.a. The first clue was when the waiter spilt the pepsi on the table, or maybe when they didn't give crystal a kids menu even though they have one, or maybe when we got our pizza before our appetizers or perhaps when the pizza we ordered was not the one we received and were told to eat while they made us another one. Ah yes, the benefit to all of this, we got to take home two pizza's one we wanted and didn't get to eat (at least not at the restaurant) and what was left of the one we didn't want but got to eat oh yeah and we also took home the breadsticks as while we wanted them and actually got to eat them, we were full of pizza by the time they came and so didnt eat very many. oh well, at least I have supper for the next three days!!!

well, it certainly has been a long time since our last post. Due mostly I suspect to the annoyance of dial up in rural saskatchewan. We still have dial up, but at least dial in an urban centre, just that much faster, and hopefully that will only be for a short time until I have time to phone the high speed people. Oh yeah, that would the monopoly people, sasktel. Canadian Idol this summer has just been a sorry state of affairs, especially if compared to the supernova competition, which I have to miss now, because I only have the two free channels. ahhhhh life sucks with crappy tv. Not to mention the drastedly cold that I have somehow managed to catch from somewhere. My nose is so stuffed that my teeth hurt. ahhhh, maybe I will go to bed, and get some sleep, my nose can't possibly be as stuffed tommorrow as it is today.

well it's a done, done, done deal. Taste of Prince Albert is over, with a 10 percent increase in ticket sales over the previous best year's ticket sales the event was a great success, over 9000 people in four days, with ten restaurants and thirty menu choices, great weather, great local entertainment and a super promotional job.

whew, do my feet hurt or what, oh yes they certainly do. From 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. all day long on my feet, organizing the taste of prince albert, where food is tantalizing and the entertainment is interesting and exceptional all for only 1.25 a token, as opposed to 2.00 a token in Saskatoon, albeit the choices are many more as we have ten restaurants and saskatoon has more participating.

So the whole thing about the superstore adds to attract people to Alberta is annoying. Perhaps Saskatchewan should run an ad stating "move to saskatchewan where living is still affordable." and guess what there's work too.

well, the first batch of clover blossoms are boiling for tea. The field is full of blossoms so it will be pick, pick, pick for the next while. The black pansy jelly is fabulous. with access to more flowers for each batch the flavor and color is more intense and quite delightful. Now, just to order some jars for the syrup and the jelly. Then I have an opportunity to display them at the tourism centre in pa and a small organic restauant in the city is interested in trying a few things. If only I had the time to concentrate more on the flowers. oh well!