Hello Rochester

 About a week or so back we took a trip out to Rochester. You might know it as the former  home town of Kath and current home town of Kath's father and step mom. We hadn't been since May and we feel kind of bad about it. We used to go at least once a month. Anyhow we had a really nice visit with the fam. We also managed to catch an early evening movie with our good friend Rose. We saw wreck it Ralph which was really good. Had a nice meal afterwards and got out of there kind of late. I was considering calling in sick to work the next day but i made it. It was a really cool visit and we are talking about  doing it more often in the new year.

Elvis day 2

 Ok we had our first full day with Elvis the dog. He's getting a little more comfortable with us. He's still barking a bit. Diana and i took him for a walk at our local park and i feel like we bonded a bit. There was no barking the whole time we were out, He really is a good boy. Hopefully he'll see that we  really want him to be part of this family and we'll be nothing but kind to him. Our cats our hiding. Actually Starlight has been a bit braver. She was laying on the couch near Elvis. Diana really loves him. I think it'll all work out in the end. I still can't believe i am now a dog owner.

Calling Elvis

  So another four legged friend was added to the Stewart family today. We adopted a  7 year old half lab/half border collie. I can't believe it. Kath and i have always wanted to own a dog--since we were dating as a matter of fact.  Our daughter Diana was not a fan of dogs. Magically 2 or 3 months ago All of a sudden she was a huge fan of dogs. Kath and I decided we were going to look into getting a dog next year. We were going to do the research and find a dog that liked cats and kids. Easy task right? A few days ago our friend Trish mentioned on facebook that she was  moving to a smaller apartment and had to  get rid of her dog Elvis. Long story short Elvis lives here now. He is a nice dog and  loves Diana. He's still getting used to me and has barked at me a little bit. I know he probably misses Trish and has to get used to living somewhere new. Wish us luck.

Christmas party

   Day one of five days off in a row. Did some running around with kath. We got some comics and stuff. The highlight  of the day was Kath's work place Christmas party. It was the 4th time i have gone. By contrast i haven't gone to one of my own parties. Gonna miss my tenth paty in a row. Why bother now right? Anyhow i got to sit with our friends Kim and Nick and met a really cool girl that Kath works with named Shannon. Unfortunately as great as it was seeing  our friends,the meal that was served was horrible. The roast beef was really shiny,the vegetables were hard and the pop tasted like ass. The salad was good but its hard to mess up salad.To sum up it was disgusting. I'll go to the next one though.

Turkey Lurkey doo

Happy thanksgiving to my American friends. I'm thankful that theAmerican company i work with has given me the day off. Oh an I'm thankful i married an American wife so that i get 2 turkeys!! Life is good.

Barney is back!

  So 2 weeks ago i found out  that my hero Barney Bentall had an album coming out November 18th. I am slipping in my old age. Now it was cool that i only had to wait a week after i found out about the release but it was announced back in September. I remember in the days before the internet i knew the release date of  every album  and movie. I was up on things, Oh well. Long story short i picked up the cd and it is amazing. Its a little different then previous releases. Its very folk influenced. Lots of fiddle on it. Really no songs sounding like his older albums. Thats ok. I like when a musician can change album to album. Thats one of the things i love about Springsteen and Neil Young. I hope Barney tours again really soon. Still pissed  about the ticket mix up last summer.

Welcome to November.

 Hi and holy crap i haven't blogged in 20 days. What the h? I'm usually up on things. All i want to do after work now is relax and  eat supper. I don't hate blogging just haven't made the time for it. I know that's sad. Work has been tiresome this month. I have an extra three days off this week. Since i work for an American company they are closed on American Thanksgiving and Black Friday. Hell I'll take extra days off. The job isn't rocket science but I could use the extra rest, Sleeping rules! Gives me extra time to spend with Kath as well. Our schedules still aren't syncing up. Oh well. More to report later. Hoping to get in about 22 blogs in the next 12 days. Hope to reach that goal.