So a bad thing and a good thing that happened on my birthday
I started the day off cleaning out a web full of spiders from inside a closet. That was nice.
Now the good thing
There was a bikini car wash in front of my work complete with monster trucks.
Happy birthday to me
Sunday, July 28, 2013
44. Really?
Dammit. It was my birthday on Friday July 26th. God, i thought we had a deal where i would skip birthdays from now on. How the hell am i 44? I act like a kid most of the time. So i'm young at heart? Anyhow i worked all day and caught a cold. The family took me out for a really nice dinner at a place in the states called the silo which was featured on tv. Excellent food and excellent company. Thanks to Kath and Diana for trying to give me a happy birthday once again.
Camping
So jumping from Canada day to July 6th. For years I've been wanting to go camping with Kath. I used to camp all the time when i was a kid and in the 90's i would go to Sherkston Beach with my buddies. Of course those Sherkston times involved a lot of alcohol.
Our friends Darren and Alex and their children were going camping and asked if we wanted to go. Not sure how she managed it but Alex convinced Kath to go. Diana was pretty excited as well. The plan was to on the 6th and come home on the 8th. We'd go swimming at the beach and we'd eat awesome food and drink around the campfire. We were going to be about an hour outside of Toronto.
The drive up was pretty cool. We got our tents set up in record time. It was a pretty nice camp site. John and Rachel had lent us some camping equipment including a tent to sleep in. We ate an awesome lunch and dinner. Diana and i got to swim a bit at the beach. After the kids went to bed we had a few beers and talked around the campfire. It was an awesome night. Kath seemed to have a good time. I thought i had won her over with camping. Then we went to sleep. That's when the trip took a turn for the worse.
I fell asleep quickly and found myself waking up every hour. It seems I'm a little too old to sleep in a tent and my back was killing me. I fell back to sleep. Then around 3 am it started to rain. We had left the windows open to get some air in the tent. We woke up and quickly shut the windows. Some rain got in and my feet were soaked. We went back to sleep until roughly 9 am. The rain let up for a tiny bit but continued all damn day. We managed to get some tarps up so we would have some shelter and keep dry. Darren got the fire started and we had a great breakfast, lunch and dinner. Around 5pm we decided to give up and get the f--- out of dodge. We weren't gonna stay another night in the rain. We packed up the cars and got our asses back to the Niagara region.
Diana had a great time and we loved the first night. I think we may be done with camping--unless we rent a camper or something. So it turns out camping is a younger mans game. Oh well.
Our friends Darren and Alex and their children were going camping and asked if we wanted to go. Not sure how she managed it but Alex convinced Kath to go. Diana was pretty excited as well. The plan was to on the 6th and come home on the 8th. We'd go swimming at the beach and we'd eat awesome food and drink around the campfire. We were going to be about an hour outside of Toronto.
The drive up was pretty cool. We got our tents set up in record time. It was a pretty nice camp site. John and Rachel had lent us some camping equipment including a tent to sleep in. We ate an awesome lunch and dinner. Diana and i got to swim a bit at the beach. After the kids went to bed we had a few beers and talked around the campfire. It was an awesome night. Kath seemed to have a good time. I thought i had won her over with camping. Then we went to sleep. That's when the trip took a turn for the worse.
I fell asleep quickly and found myself waking up every hour. It seems I'm a little too old to sleep in a tent and my back was killing me. I fell back to sleep. Then around 3 am it started to rain. We had left the windows open to get some air in the tent. We woke up and quickly shut the windows. Some rain got in and my feet were soaked. We went back to sleep until roughly 9 am. The rain let up for a tiny bit but continued all damn day. We managed to get some tarps up so we would have some shelter and keep dry. Darren got the fire started and we had a great breakfast, lunch and dinner. Around 5pm we decided to give up and get the f--- out of dodge. We weren't gonna stay another night in the rain. We packed up the cars and got our asses back to the Niagara region.
Diana had a great time and we loved the first night. I think we may be done with camping--unless we rent a camper or something. So it turns out camping is a younger mans game. Oh well.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Best Canada day ever!!
I should probably tell you all about the best thing that happened to me this month. For that we need to go all the way back to July 1st. Canada day.
The night before Canada day on June 30th i actually found out about an exciting event being held in downtown St Catharines the next day. In the market square there would be ponies and face painting and bouncy houses and hot dogs, There would also be a band playing. That band? They were a big band in Canada in the 80's and early 90's. They had a top 40 song in America. They also sang the theme song to the awesome Lethal Weapon movie and they had a song featured on the final episode of Miami Vice. Yup i did try and sell Kath on the show with all those facts. She didn't seem impressed. However Diana wanted to do something to celebrate Canada day and the event was free. Kath decided we would go. For the record Honeymoon Suite was not the great thing that happenned to me that day as mentioned in the first line of this blog.
We arrived downtown and there was a lack of parking. I figured we would give up and go home. We eventually found a spot and went to the show. We looked around for a bit. Kath pointed out a big guy with tattoos at a food line.
"that looks a lot like Colin" she said.
If you remember Colin was one of my best friends for years. We met in grade 10 and had a lot of great times. We liked the same music and he actually got me into Bruce Springsteen. He was the best man at my wedding. We had a falling out in 2007 and hadn't really talked since. He called me when my dad passed away three years ago and then that was it. My mom ran into him a bunch of times and i guess he asked about me. I've been wanting to call him for the last year but kept chickening out.
"nah," i replied. 'that's not him. Too many tattoos."
We walked a bit further and ran into a guy named Billy. He is Colin's brother in law. Sure enough it was Colin we had seen and Billy said i should go say hi. I gotta admit i was really nervous. What was i going to say? I walked up and said hi and we shot the bs a little. Then Kath and i ate lunch. Colin came back over and we started talking. He asked if i would walk with him for a bit so i did. Turns out he had been thinking of calling me for awhile also and he was nervous to do so. We caught each other up a bit and exchanged phone numbers. We both hate talking on the phone but don't mind texting. So that was cool.
I have to say that after our conversation i felt like a million bucks. I got my friend back after all these years. So thanks to Kath for agreeing to go. Oh by the way Honeymoon Suite still sounded great after all these years. All hail the Suite!!
The night before Canada day on June 30th i actually found out about an exciting event being held in downtown St Catharines the next day. In the market square there would be ponies and face painting and bouncy houses and hot dogs, There would also be a band playing. That band? They were a big band in Canada in the 80's and early 90's. They had a top 40 song in America. They also sang the theme song to the awesome Lethal Weapon movie and they had a song featured on the final episode of Miami Vice. Yup i did try and sell Kath on the show with all those facts. She didn't seem impressed. However Diana wanted to do something to celebrate Canada day and the event was free. Kath decided we would go. For the record Honeymoon Suite was not the great thing that happenned to me that day as mentioned in the first line of this blog.
We arrived downtown and there was a lack of parking. I figured we would give up and go home. We eventually found a spot and went to the show. We looked around for a bit. Kath pointed out a big guy with tattoos at a food line.
"that looks a lot like Colin" she said.
If you remember Colin was one of my best friends for years. We met in grade 10 and had a lot of great times. We liked the same music and he actually got me into Bruce Springsteen. He was the best man at my wedding. We had a falling out in 2007 and hadn't really talked since. He called me when my dad passed away three years ago and then that was it. My mom ran into him a bunch of times and i guess he asked about me. I've been wanting to call him for the last year but kept chickening out.
"nah," i replied. 'that's not him. Too many tattoos."
We walked a bit further and ran into a guy named Billy. He is Colin's brother in law. Sure enough it was Colin we had seen and Billy said i should go say hi. I gotta admit i was really nervous. What was i going to say? I walked up and said hi and we shot the bs a little. Then Kath and i ate lunch. Colin came back over and we started talking. He asked if i would walk with him for a bit so i did. Turns out he had been thinking of calling me for awhile also and he was nervous to do so. We caught each other up a bit and exchanged phone numbers. We both hate talking on the phone but don't mind texting. So that was cool.
I have to say that after our conversation i felt like a million bucks. I got my friend back after all these years. So thanks to Kath for agreeing to go. Oh by the way Honeymoon Suite still sounded great after all these years. All hail the Suite!!
There's a Sharknado coming!!
Holy crap its July 22nd. I guess its time for my 2nd blog of the whole month. I really have no excuse. I will say that i have become obsessed with the made for tv film Sharknado. Whats Sharknado you may ask? Well its one of those God awful made movies by the sci fi network in the United States. They have a history of terrible creature movies such as Mega Sark, Crocosauras v gatoroid and the popular Sharktopus.
This time out its a film about a terrible hurricane in Los Angeles. It branches off into a tornado which is able to pick up all the sharks in the area from the ocean. No other sea life just sharks.Then the sharks cause all sorts of trouble and killing everybody while the city floods. Its really is a terrible movie. Oh and Ian Zierring and Tara Reid are the stars of it. That should tell you a lot about it.
I went into work a week ago and i hadn't even heard of this masterpiece. Everyone at work was talking about it. I found out even celebrities were talking about it and it was trending on twitter, I went home after work and Kath had been talking about it with some of her friends as well. So we decided we would watch it and we did. I joked about it on facebook and then some of our buddies suggested we do a segment on the pod cast about it. We were able to get our friends Kate and Paul in on the fun and we recorded a pretty funny show. A week later i can't stop talking about Sharknado. Its pretty sad.
This time out its a film about a terrible hurricane in Los Angeles. It branches off into a tornado which is able to pick up all the sharks in the area from the ocean. No other sea life just sharks.Then the sharks cause all sorts of trouble and killing everybody while the city floods. Its really is a terrible movie. Oh and Ian Zierring and Tara Reid are the stars of it. That should tell you a lot about it.
I went into work a week ago and i hadn't even heard of this masterpiece. Everyone at work was talking about it. I found out even celebrities were talking about it and it was trending on twitter, I went home after work and Kath had been talking about it with some of her friends as well. So we decided we would watch it and we did. I joked about it on facebook and then some of our buddies suggested we do a segment on the pod cast about it. We were able to get our friends Kate and Paul in on the fun and we recorded a pretty funny show. A week later i can't stop talking about Sharknado. Its pretty sad.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Welcome July!!
Hi folks. Remember that time i said i would keep up to date on the blog. Well you can see that didn't happen. Life has been getting in the way. Damn day job. I do have a few nice things to talk about this month. I just have to collect my thoughts. So its July. Only took me 2 weeks to get to a July blog. It's actually July 14th. I'm a day late to wish my favorite actor Harrison Ford a happy birthday, Happy belated birthday Indy. Diana is having a great summer. She plays outside everyday with her friend Meah. She's also spending a lot of time with her buddy Sarah. Wish i could spend the day outside and not talking to any idiots on the phone. Ok gang so i promise to get at least 7 blogs written this month. Do we have a deal? In that case i will talk to you all soon.
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