Lego Indy I love you

Well its official, I'm hooked to the video game lego Indiana Jones. I can't stop playing it. I'm even dreaming about it now, Earlier this year we got a wii system. It was a cool purchase. Got some sports games with it. Didnt really want to make the time to play it between work and watching tv. We got the Indy game a few weeks ago and i'm seriously addicted. Evry free minute i get goes towards playing the game. Whats not to love about it? Its based on my favorite movie series of all time. The music in the game is right from the movie. Its awesome. I havent been this addicted to video games since the old going to the arcade days.Those were fun days. Ok time for some fresh air, no more game until Diana goes to bed.

Suns Gonna Rise Again

Wow. We might actually get to make it to a concert this year. Just found out that Sass Jordan is playing a little bar/restaurant called Hugh's Room in September. We've been there a couple times in the past and its a really cool small venue to catch a show. Not only is it probably going to be an acoustic show which is very cool but its also a cd release party. Very cool. You know its awesome news when Jay can't stop saying the word "cool." I've been a fan of her's since her first album in 1988. Yes long before she was known as that judge from Canadian Idol. Kath and i have seen her a few times. We actually got to meet her after the last show. She was really nice and thought Diana looked like me. Can't wait to go in September. I already booked a whole week off from work which is something I've never done. I had a lot of vacation days coming to me. Turns out that its Diana's first week of school as well. I get to walk her all week. The week before that is the comic book convention. Is it wrong that i wish we could just skip ahead to the end of the summer?

Hanging out with the Yamster

Wow haven't blogged in almost a week. I havent really had anything interesting to say. I still don't. Be prepared to be bored beyond relief. I have today off. Not used to having a Saturday off. I originally booked today off to walk in the relay for life with Kath. Two reasons prevented us from doing that. Kath's knee has been acting up and her work decided to book her to work on her first saturday in a million years. There was no way she was gonna work til 9 the week before, walk all night and then go back at 1 the next day. It sucks because i was looking forward to spending the day with her. Oh well. Oh and still no word on a passport so Kath and Nickle are going to the states again minus me. The good news is i think i can get a passport in July as theres 3 pay checks that month! A whoo hoo!

Work was brutal this week. I kept it together though. One ridiculous call stands out in my mind. A customer called in wanting to know the telephone number for an insurance company he saw advertised on some show he had watched a week before. He couldnt get it through his head that i would have no way of finding information on a commercial that some channel ran. I tried to tell him we don't choose the programming never mind the commercials. I think he threatened to cancel service because of this. Crazy. Man i love my job.

The days off have been good so far. Diana and i checked out the park and walked to the grocery store yesterday. She was such a good girl that i took her to macdonalds for a "pink berry" sundae. It was a nice walk and she'ds really good at looking both ways before she crosses the street. Not sure if she got that from me or from watching cartoons. Anyhow going to go enjoy some breakfast. I may be back later to post some more. Have a nice day despite the rain.

Its The Little Things that make jay happy

Wow Sunday is starting off pretty awesome! I just found out i lost 9 pounds in 3 weeks! Thats awesome for me. Just 2 more pounds and I'm down to my beginning of summer 2008 weight. I really want to lose 20 pounds in total. That is my goal. After that who knows. I just want to fit into old concert t shirts is that so wrong?


So here's another thing making me happy-and yes i know its a dumb thing to be happy about . So I'm a big fan of a Canadian singer named Kim Stockwood. In the late 90's she had a couple of solo albums and more recently she has been in a band called Shaye. She's really cool and Kath and i have been lucky to see her in concert a bunch of times-solo and with the band. Anyhow she has a music video called "you Won't Remember this." Yes its about drinking, Anyhow it came out way back in 1997. Try as i may I've never been able to see that video. I've seen clips of it on tv but thats about it. Well today while perusing you tube i finally came across it!! The search was over! Hooray! It was just as cool as i imagined it!! I think i watched it about 5 times now. Like the title of this blog suggests-its the little things that make Jay happy!

Also happy due to the fact i only have to work 3 days this week. I have next Saturday off. It pains me that i will miss the crappy cartoon of the week next week. I think I'll get over it though. I don't even know what i was watching yesterday. It was a black and white cartoon with a fat guy in a black vest and crown. Anyhow the reason I'm off next Saturday-Kath's workplace is having a walk for cancer called the relay for life. A bunch of her co workers are going to a track to walk all night Friday night. Kath did it last year as well. So yammy and i are going out to support her and Nickle this year. Should be fun.

Man not sure what is going down in our complex today. There was an ambulance here and 2 police cars. I spotted all this while Yammy and i were headed to the park. Crazy.

Can't wait for Kath to get home tonight. Gonna have a bunch of bacon and atkins friendly pancakes.Ah the little cool things.

Just a tiny bit tired today. Stayed up late last night watching Rocky Balboa. I didnt expect to like it as much as i did. I`m glad this was the final chapter of Rocky and not that craptastic Rocky 5. You remember that one. THe plot was hey Rocky if you fiht again you will die. So what does he do. Thats right fights. Rocky Balboa was pretty good and even found myself tearing up a couple times. Oh and Peter Petrelli was in it. Good times.

Well gonna go lay on the couch with Diana and watch Iron man and Batman team up. If anything interesting happens i`ll write again later. Take care everybody.

Even in the midst of a horrible day the Yamster makes me smile

Just got back from the park with Diana. She was kicking the ball around and yelling "I'm number one at soccer! I never lose. And daddy is number 2!" She was running around like a little pro. Did a little bike riding today as well. She only wanted to try for a few minutes though. Can't say as i blame her as its pretty hot out there today. Like an oven. An oven i tell ya. The window installers got here first thing this morning. Yay for me! I love getting up early on my days off. It rules! They just finally completely finnished up. At 4:30. At least i had the kid here making me laugh today. I guess no matter how i look at it its better than being at work today. Can I get an amen.

Hey i just gotta say this Atkins diet isnt that bad. Sure i miss pizza and cake but Kath is finding all kinds of new kick ass recipes. Just enjoying an Atkins version of Sheppards pie. I think we ned to make a trip to Avondale to see if they have low carb ice cream again. That would be cool. Anyhow I`m kind of rambling now so gonna let Diana get on here and play her princess games. Hope all my friends are awesome.Rob i hope you got chicken the other night, Anyhow have an awesome day. I`m sure i`ll have more to complain about after work tomorrow. Take care.

The not as fat as he was 2 weeks ago hero of work.

Wow yesterday i was a hero at work. As mentioned earlier i got a 95 percent when the client listened in to my call. Yesterday every manager was coming up to me congragulating me, high fiving me and telling me how awesome i was. It was pretty sweet. It was like i was a rock star. It kind of made up for the rest of my shitty day. I'm still acting nice to everyone. Its kind of hard when i have senior citizens calling me an asshole as they hang up the phone. Thats right someone who may have been 100 years old said what an asshole as she was hanging up the phone. Oh and funniest porn title of the day? Three hole implosion. Man i love my job.


So this is the part where i talk about how awesome Kathy, Rachel and Nicole are. So i decided that after work yesterday i would walk to the comic book store downtown. I felt i could do it. I had an hour after work to get there. Wasnt sure when we would get there this week and a walk wouldnt hurt me as i am trying to lose some weight. SO at lunch i messaged Kath and told her of my plan. I didnt hear back so i figured she hadnt gotten the message. No problem. I actually got out of work 12 minutes early. Cool extra time to get there. I came home. Messaged Kath again. Still no response. Oh well. A walk will be cool. So i started off through the parking lot and immediately ran into Rachel who asked me if i wanted a ride. I said yes to her offer. When we got downtown she decided to wait for me, She is really nice. So i went into the store and went to pay for my books. By the way this was the first week there was a bag for Diana Stewart. I was proud. Little known fact if you try to pay with a bank card you havent used in 2 or 3 years-its not going to work and will come up as cancelled. Yeah i was a little embarrassed. Oh well. So left the books and got back into Rachels van. Oh well i would at least still beat Kathy home. So we were almost all the way home and all of a sudden Rach turns the van around. What was going on? It seems they had just passed Kath heading for downtown. I felt like an idiot. Hadnt counted on Kath getting home early and certainly didnt count on Rach following her,. We caught up to Kath and started honking. Kath didnt hear us. Finally got back to the comic book store and met Kath there. It seems she had also gotten off work early. She had actually gotten my messages and had already been to my work and home and had already been to the comic store once.Yes i felt really really bad,. Everyone was cool about what had happenned.I managed to get some books after all. When we got home Nickle was sitting here waiting for us. Yes i also felt bad for making her wait. Altough i had no idea she was coming over. Anyhow appologies to my wife and friends and sorry I'm such a dork.


This brings us to today. I'm enjoying day one of time off from the job. I woke up a bit early becasue I am still expecting some workers over to replace our windows. They probably wont get here until tomorrow morning. Rach says it takes them a little over an hour to do the job. Thats alright i guess. So stepped on the scale and I'm down anothr pound and a half on my diet. So that makes 7 and a half pounds lost in 2 weks. Not bad. That leaves about another 14 pounds until my goal. Kath is doing pretty good on her diet as well. She actually does the wii exercise everynight. I'm so proud of her.

Just waiting on the laundry to be done. I have no clean pants. I want to take Yammy to the park but can't go without pants. Well i could but probably just the one time.

Well the window guys have been next door for over 2 hours. Yay. I'm stuck here until they get here and do the job. If they arent here today then they will probably be here at 8:30 tomorrow morning. What a waste of a couple days off. I actually watched a whole movie while sitting here waiting. A gem of a 1984 movie called Buckaroo Banzai: adventures across the 8th dimension. Good stuff. Nothing like a rock star/brain surgeon who fights aliens with Jeff Goldblum. Anyhow I'm gonna go back to waiting. Hope everyone is having an awesome Thursday. Friggin window installers. Talk to you soon.

Adventures of a drunken karaokee sensation

Well today at work another drunken night came to mind. Prepare yourself for the tale of Jay's Karaokee contest adventure.

This story i think took place in the winter of 1997. So there was a huge Karaokee contest. There was about 10 bars involved. For four weeks at each bar 3 winners were picked and would advance to a city wide contest. The catch was you had to sing country music. Ugh. Some country is ok but nothing i wanted to be singing in a contest.Anyhow on the final night of the pre competion at a bar in Thorold south-i can't remember the name of the bar i actually sang 2 country songs. One was a Dwight yoakum song which borderline rocked. The secong was a tune that Billy Joel had originally done called Shameless. It was later done by Garth Brooks. I knew the song by heart and didnt even need to look at the words on the screen. I pretty much copied all of Billy Joel's moves from the video. I had never even heard the Garth Brooks version. At one point i fell down on my knees in front of a female friend. Much like Mr Joel did. So long story short at the end of the night i placed! I made it to the big city wide contest. I got myself a nifty fake medal. It was very olympic like. What made the victory even better was i beat out my ex girlfriend who thought she was hot shit. She was pissed and if i recall correctly she even threw a chair.

So a couple of weeks go by until the big contest. I showed up with a bunch of kfc work friends. We get there and there must have been a billion contestants or so. Guess who was last in the order? Yup thats right. Me! I was so nervous because everyone there was awesome and even liked country music. So back in those days what did i do when i was nervous? Thats right drink heavily. By the time i got up to do my first song i was half in the bag. By the time i got to do my second song? Lets just say I'm told i almost fell off the stage. I must have passed out because i came to,i was lying on a table and the lights were on. What was the first thing out of my mouth?
"so did i win or what?"

Needless to say i did not.

On a side note apparently being drunk in a karaokee contest makes me more attractive to women. One of my co workers who i was there with told me she thought i was attractive and that we should hook up--no strings attached. Here's the thing, although i would have thought that would be cool,we both never talked about it again or brought it up. Also a girl i went to high school with was there as well. She said to me. "oooh you're hot....now." This implied that she thought i was a little unattractive nerd in high school but was really really good looking now. At the time i had an awesome mullet so i guess she was right.

I'm not sure where i was going with this story. As with most tales of my past it just popped into my head while trying to grin and bear the red necks at work. Oh young Jay with the mullet you were such a drunken scamp.