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2005-Jun-29 The short of the long I think almost every day about posting an update. Usually I talk myself out of it knowing that Ryan is using the computer and I would have to use the old beast to do it, or I am at work and should not update, or I am just not willing to put the energy into it. Today, I won the battle. I must say, there is a lot to tell.

In the last couple of months all of the following things have transpired...
- I have gone to a lawyer twice with my Mom and Dad seeking legal advice on how to handle Maryanne's contention of grandma's will.
- It became more physically evident that my Dad has a congestive heart failure condition when he gained a lot of water weight in a short period of time. He has since returned to normal for the time being.
- The weekend we went to visit my Dad and Mom our Integra's thermostat went about a half hour out of Saskatoon. We drove it back and rented a car to go to Eston. After having the thermostat (and a few other things) fixed for around 350 dollars we found out we probably did more damage to the engine and it needs at least another grand in repairs. We parked it and plated the Toronado. After a couple of successful weeks we found that the radiator was leaking badly and took it in to get repaired. It was going to cost about 500 to fix it and we managed to get taken for about 240 just to find that out. Half-way-there, but not fixed. Ryan is in the process of trying to use some stop leak to fix one or the other...
- Our lawnmower quit working. (We joke that the only thing with a motor in it that still works is the lap top)
- Ryan's cousin who was supposed to move in as our second boarder this weekend decided not to move in - after we had moved everything out of the room she was going to stay in, including a hide-a-bed. Anyone want to come live with us?
- I rode the city bus alone for the first time (this morning).
- I have worked for hours on end on Google Maps hacks.
- We got eavestroughing put on the front of the house.

I want to talk about the good things too - but you tend to forget them in the midst of all the crap that is going on. We are playing two ultimate teams and having lots of fun. Ryan is getting good marks in school and was invited to apply for a 5000 scholarship - we should find out soon if he was nominated and then it will go to a national level.

2005-May-1 Poe'try' Do you remember grades 7 to 12? They had these classes where you got asked to express your ideas about just about everything. Perhaps they didn't explicity ask you to express ideas but instead you were given assignments and you probably griped about having to do them (I know I did). I did not like poetry. I especially did not like that every poem I wrote seemed to be dark and angry. Then one of my teachers told me that this was ok because it is easier to write about things that distress you than things that excite you or make you feel happy. For the most part, I am happy. I still get asked to express my ideas, but these days it is in the form of my work. I like that. I expecially like that where I work no idea is a bad idea. Of course, all of that introduction is because now I am going to write a dark and angry free form poem to express some feelings about something that is stressing me out. I do not want anyone to think that I am losing my mind, just remember that it is easier to write about these kinds of things.

Who are you?
I met you when I was a child.
I thought I liked you well enough.
You left them. You left them all.
But then you came back and you used them.
They loved you and yet you used them.
You were not there when they needed you.
But you took your own piece of them whenever you wanted.
I met you again when I was no longer a child.
We spent a lot of good times together and I loved you.
I met you again after they died.
And now I hate the thought of you.
Do you not know God?
Do you not cry for your family?
Do you not care for yourself?
You will die alone.
Ask God for forgiveness.
I do it for you every day.
I would face you but that can not be allowed.
I will not be used and I will not be like you.
Who are you?
Set your prisoners free.
Ask God for forgiveness.
Or you will die alone.

2005-Apr-13 Baby Mac I am here... to update and Ryan is here looking over my shoulder. What is new? I sounded awful depressed in January. I am updating on "babymac" the new iBook G4 (laptop) that we purchased. So many people have asked us why we bought a mac - especially people who don't know what a mac is. Let's put it this way - this mac has a 30 gig hard drive and when we got it there was 12 gigs of software on it. No, that is not bad! It is COOL. We DO love our Baby Mac!

My employer provides a website service for real estate agents and they have encouraged us to create our own personal sites to try out the product. I created a site for Ryan and I here. There is not much on it and I don't know when we will get to it - but it will be a good place to archive our wedding site/photos and that kind of thing.

If you read my site by RSS you might find that this time I have not posted the entire update in the feed. You see, I manually update the feed - and I would much rather just paste in the title, than the whole update (so I don't have to escape links and stuff...).

Today after work there was a baby shower for a girl I work with and then Sabrina drove me to meet Ryan at Guy and Leanne's for a little ultimate practice. This year we are planning on playing in 3 tournaments: Regina Riot (May long weekend), Disc Odyssey (Saskatoon - July), and one in Kamloops in August. I already emailed Deb to see if they will be around - we may stay with her and Cliff if the camping is expensive... or if I just don't feel like camping. The trip to Kamloops will be in the middle of the 2 weeks holidays I have at the end of August.

For those interested, Ryan is doing well at his classes so far. He writes his first exam on Saturday, then he has a long break and writes 3 closer to the end of the month. He has the first 2 weeks in May off, at the end of which he will begin spring/summer session classes. He recently got 94% on an English essay.

I have a host of links to post - and I know that is going to sound like somewhat of a tease... but many of them are in my bookmarks at work and I haven't sent them to my gmail yet. Here is what I have for now:
A CSS related development site that I like.
Star Wars Fan Film Awards.
Interesting International Math, Reading, and Science Skills study.
This guy created the Firefox and Thunderbird icons (tres cool!).
Ryan's Website at the Uni (With his sweet 94% essay on it).
Wyatt 1 (picture)
Wyatt 2 (picture)
Wyatt 3 (picture)
Wyatt 4 (picture)
Wyatt 5 (picture)

2005-Jan-5 All that we must leave behind In 2004...

- January: the probationary period for my new job ended, we did some renovations to the house.
- February-March: Ryan decided he wanted to go back to university so we started saving...
- April-May: We learned to play Ultimate
- June-July: We played lots of Ultimate and some Slo-pitch
- August: We took holidays to work at the Exhibition. Grandma Biddy passed away, Shelby and I sang together at her funeral, and Mom played the piano for us.
- September: Ryan went back to school.
- October: I put up the Christmas lights on Halloween
- November: Ryan got a job at the Midtown Plaza parking lot as a parking attendant. My Aunt began to contest my Grandma's will with my father.
- December: Ryan worked pretty much all through the holidays while I took a week off. We were at Mom and Dad's on Christmas Day and Ryan's parents for the New Year weekend.

Just last night we heard that Ryan's Grandma Cey passed away. In my life before Ryan I grew up with my immediate family, 2 aunts, 5 first cousins, 3 grandparents and a handful of 2nd cousins. My Grandpa Card passed away when I was 7, and Grandpa Irwin when I was 17. When Ryan and I started dating in September of 1998 Ryan had 4 living grandparents. Since then, 3 have passed away. His family is large - his mom and dad both have 9 brothers and sisters. I guess in large families there are more people that come and go. Still, sometimes I feel like I was handed a bag of jewels and someone has just started stealing them from me one by one. I find that the older I get the harder death is to cope with. I do not think it is because I have a fear of any kind, but instead that I feel like I know these people better, even the ones you do not see that often.

Forgive my tone tonight, but I am utterly depressed. I have been so for the last 2 days. When we got back from Ryan's mom and dad's on Monday night, Ryan had the flu. He spent some time popping in and out of bed to 'use the washroom' that night. I think I managed to get a total of 3 hours of sleep. Last night I thought for sure I would be so tired that I would just go to sleep right away. I did not. I ended up taking a gravol and I don't think that I got a very good rest. In any case there have been a few things on my mind. You can choose to read them or not to read them, I am only writing them for my own well being.

At work on Tuesday something came to light that I did in my work in December (bad). I of course looked at it and said, oh yeah, I knew I was doing that wrong but I did not go back to it and fix it. A particular co-worker is making this very hard for me. I do not know if it is the lack of sleep that has made it so hard, or that this problem is now CAUSING the lack of sleep. Today, a comment sent me into complete inner destruction. This is not me, I am normally strong. However, I do bleed.

My aunt is putting my Dad through hell. (He only has one sister, and it was their mom that passed away in August.) She will not settle with him on the terms of the will and the land agreement in my Grandma's estate. Grandma left the balance of the land that my Dad was purchasing from her to my aunt, and split the cash assets between them. (Yes, that means my aunt is getting more) She claims that Dad got her inheritance, and she wants more - where is the lost money? - is there not more money? what about that account? and so on and so forth. I fear that the pressure this is putting on my Dad is hurting his physical well being quite a bit. He talks about it all the time. He does not even want anything from the will - but the land is part of what he farms - so he needs her to settle on an agreement and not sell the land from underneath him. Since 1991 my Dad's Mom and Dad lived on the farm (in a seperate house) with my family until 1997 when Grandpa passed away. Grandma continued to live there until just a few weeks before she passed away. My Mom and Dad put their heart and soul into making her happy and my aunt always lived comfortably at least 2 hours away. I do not know why a person thinks they are entitled to something when someone dies. As I lay awake early on Tuesday morning I thought of composing a list of what it was like to grow up with my Grandma. What we gave to her... we what we did with her... and how we loved her. But I have come to realize that what my aunt seeks she can not have anymore. All the years we spent with Grandma, that is what she gave to us, that is all that we have to give to each other. My aunt can not release her guilt for the time of neglect or gain any monetary value of my Grandma's presence by living off what is left of her, but I think that is what she is trying to do. No one needs nor deserves anything. I have the best of my grandma in my heart. I want to keep my Dad for a while longer... if my aunt takes that away from me, I will have to pray many hours for her forgiveness.

Perhaps this is a side of me many of you do not know - but as I said - this is mostly for me... I think people should consider some things - and I am writing them to remind myself what they are. We can not take along what we accumulate in this lifetime to the next one. We should respect each other, give as much and take as little as possible. I thank God for all the friends and family He has shared with me, and I hope He does the same for you.

2004-Nov-21 New Pictures I just posted new pictures. Note that the date on these pictures is of course the date I posted them and not the date that I took them.

Ryan started working at the parkade at the Midtown Plaza about 2 weeks ago. He takes tickets and money from people when they leave. I think he has been scheduled for a few too many hours lately. This weekend he is working both days. I bought him a new backpack as an early Christmas gift and gave it to him yesterday. He was using one of the free ones he got from Budget but it was falling apart and didn't really hold all his stuff anyway.

I have been fairly busy at work the last couple of weeks working on a group project. My time at home is mostly used for cleaning, cooking, or watching more TV than I should. Fiona got me partially hooked on the OC - I think she just likes it more than I like Survivor so we watch it instead. On Sundays I watch Desperate Housewives. Brutal - I am becoming a true television consumer and it is driving me crazy.

The last couple of days have been really uncomfortable for me - my Osteo is kicking up really bad and my leg is spiking with pain. I decided this morning it is time to take some of my Bextra - so I will have to see how that goes. On as somewhat related note, we had our year end staff party on Friday night and I spent the last couple of hours wondering how bad it would look if I took off because the seat I had made my back hurt really bad. However, the mock horse racing thing they had set up was pretty cool so I managed to stick through it. We both won some gift certificate cash from the horse racing thing and Ryan also won a door prize gift certificate for the Station Place restaraunt.

Our plans for the holiday season are all but solid - mostly up in the air. We know that Ryan is going to be working all around Christmas day. I have thought of going to Mom and Dad's by myself but I don't really want to spend Christmas without him, and more importantly, I don't want him to be alone on Christmas Day. We will probably spend it here - nice fire, bacon and eggs, couple of gifts, lots of coffee :).

2004-Oct-15 Metric WebLogic Today's title is about the two things on my mind right now. Wed night we went to Metric at the Odeon. Much like the girl on CFCR Green Eggs and Ham this morning Ryan and I referred to this as The Metric Show. The other bands were Death From Above 1979 and Billy Talent. We stayed for DFA only because they came before Metric and left immediately after Metric because we had no interest in seeing Billy Talent. This show was sponsored by Players - there were cigarette stands and cigarette girls who walked around in blue uniforms wearing white mini skirts and knee high mucklucks. WTF? These girls can not offer you cigarettes so they dress them up all slutty and give them glowing cigarette trays to make you want to buy cigarettes. I did not submit to nor feel any complelling urge to buy cigarettes. Speaking of which it has been a year since I have had a cigarette. I had been social smoking (about 1 a month) since Ryan quit but it was not fair so I quit last year around this time. Oh yeah and at the show beer was $4. What a crock - maybe beer at bars is always that expensive - still, what a crock.

WebLogic - of course that is work related. I just fixed a bug - something to do with WebLogic and adding a mime type for css. Just be proud of me - that is all I ask of you.

Just like on Romper Room - I want to say hi to all my friends out there... to Wendy, and Tanis, and Amanda, and Doug, and Ellen, and Janine, and Jaime, and Fiona, and Beth, and Chad, and Janice, and Shawn, and Shaun, and Kristen, and Marty, and Sarah, and Sara, and Brent, and Leanne, and Courtney, and Kristy, and Colin, and Dale, and Chris, and Ryan, and Ryan, and Ryan, and Ryan... and anyone else I missed :)

Get Metric

2004-Oct-01 Strange Wine I have finally started reading a book. Well, it is really a collection of short stories, but it is still a book. The book is Harlan Ellison's

Strange Wine

. I have only read the first short story - I have to say I found the introduction to the book the best part so far. I borrowed the book from Jack - he brought it for Ryan to use a quote from it for his essay on what makes the book an efficient machine for sharing ideas. If you are interested in the quote you can email me.

This weekend is the SUDS (S'toon Ultimate Frisbee) gala event. The theme is 80's so we are planning on dressing up. Hopefully my Mom will not be too offended by the fact that I will be wearing the outfit she wore to Jeff and Shawn's Graduations in 1987 and 1989. Ryan is dressing up as Slash from G'n'R because we found a top hat at Value Village and it seemed to work ok.

Along with the Gala it looks like Ryan will be working this weekend on Sunday. We also have a bank appointment at the TD to move most of our banking services (everything except for our mortgage) from RBC to TD. Speaking of banking... we paid off my student loan this week to save a little money on interest and free up the monthly payment amounts to save for school instead. This decision was based on the fact that we have enough money to do it right now and the loans were going to both be paid off within 2 years - should work out well. This, of course, makes us debt free excluding the mortgage for the house... until we can not afford tuition for Ryan anymore :)

Thanksgiving weekend we will be in town because we have to go to something at the Centennial on the night of the 9th. The next weekend I have a staff bowling night on the 16th. The weekend of the 23rd we are planning a baby shower for Bill and Kirsten. That's all folks!

A Review for Harlan Ellison's Strange Wine

2004-Aug-18 Another month of summer gone I haven't really thought about updating in the last couple of weeks because there has been too much other stuff going on.

The last weekend in July was the Saskatoon Ultimate tournament Disc Odyssey. We played in the C division - we only won a couple of games but some were close - I guess we technically lost out in the C semi-final. The weekend of Aug 7th was the Nestmann family reunion in Wilkie. The weather really sucked but we had a good time. August 10th - 15th was the Exhibition. This is where things start to get hairy. We worked 2p-12a on the 10th, 11a-12:30a on the 11th, and 10:30a - 12:30a until the 15th. Except I had to come in late on Sunday morning because on Saturday night my brother's girlfriend's water broke and I had to take her 2 and 4 year olds home to stay with me. Coincidentally, my parents were here because my grandma has some emergency surgery on Friday. So my mom took the kids on Sunday afternoon until Kirten's mom came to pick them up. She is not actually due until September. Even though her water broke, they induced her 6 times and they still had no baby so they went home from the hospital yesterday.

For this coming weekend we had contemplated going to my mom and dad's farm to help with the lentils and peas but I think it might rain. We have also not taken any real time to do any relaxing this summer so instead we are going to turtle lake with Ryan and Wendy.

In terms of my granmother's condition (because I kind of skipped that) she is in intensive care and had been ever since the surgery which was to determine what was causing her stomach bleeding. She had a rather large ulcer. She is gesture responsive right now, however she can not speak since she's got tubes all over. I have not actually physically seen her - I get all my info from dad and auntie Maryanne.

Fiona has moved in now and all is going well. We don't see each other much. She cleans up sometimes when we are not around and she fed the cats in the afternoon while we were working at the Ex. It is nice to have an extra set of hands around in case we need help with something. Oh ya, and she even made some cookies last week!

Here are funny flash versions of some popular movies.

2004-Jul-16 Baleeted!!!! In reference to today's title: Strong Bad Email no. 50

This week has gone by relatively fast. At work I am doing Oracle type things (cool). At home... well we are only really at home to sleep. Monday ball was cancelled so we went to Boston Pizza for appies while Mom, Dad, auntie Mary, and Dennis had supper. Tuesday Ryan played ulti at the university and I played with the Groove at Forestry Farm. I bought a new SUDS frisbee for $10. Wednesday we ran a few errands and stopped by Shawn and Jan's. Last night we both played at Forest Park. Fantasticles won both their games this week, Groove lost on Tuesday, I don't know how they did last night.

After ulti last night we went to Shawn and Jan's again to visit with Mom and Dad. Dad is in for day surgery today.

This weekend we are going to try to finish the shingling job (again). It looks like it is supposed to very hot out so I guess we will have to get up early. Tonight we are going to find out where Marty is playing ball and maybe take a jog there.

This is programmer humour but if you like the Matrix you may find it funny anyway.

2004-Jul-8 Lots of Rain My Mom and Dad had their 39th Wedding Anniversary yesterday. Congrats to Mom and Dad!

Last weekend we visited the Wilkie clan. There was a lot of religious and political discussion on Friday nite and then there were some games on Saturday night. We had planned to come home early on Sunday to finish shingling. It was raining but we still came home early. We got groceries at Cosco and Superstore and later in the day I had a hair cut at the new Sunsera salon on Grey Ave. Got about 3 inches off the back and some light layers. It is so much lighter in a ponytail now, I like it.

We got a tonne of rain last night and found out that the flashing on the chimney is not *quite* good enough. Ryan was in the attic with some bowls and pails to keep the water from going through the ceiling. He didn't go to work this morning as he is trying to fix it up before we leave tonight.

Tonight we are going to Eston as Andrew's funeral is tomorrow. I also have to go to my Grandma's and pack up the dishes she wants us to take. Saturday we are going to the reception for Ashley Leinenweber's wedding near Turleford. I don't know if we are tenting in their yard or if we're going to attempt to sleep in our car. I guess it depends on what the weather is like. Mmmmm that damn rain. Great for the grass and the farmers but the craps for my roof.

Beth - you can still play my games here.

2004-Jun-29 Keeps me out of therapy Hello fellow homosapeans (I looked that up after I typed it - I think I even spelled it correctly - more than I can say for some of my other updates).

This weekend we are not going to Eston - instead we are going to Wilkie to visit the in-laws because Terry and family will be visiting there. We hope to come back and shingle the porch on Sunday with some help from Bill. (weather permitting)

We had to play make-up slo-pitch games on Sunday night. It blew, we lost bad. On the flip side - when we went to the bar after no one was there so we went to Campbells to see the twins. I know Kristin reads this site ... even if they weren't good looking kids I couldn't tell you :) But that's ok - because they are both really cute. Hailey (hope I spelled that right) has already even had a haircut! For all you Estoners out there - she's got a head of hair like Janine did when she was a baby. It was me - the blonde one - and Janine - the one with all the hair. Good thing I managed to outgrow that blonde phase (mostly).

A friend (Andrew) whom I went to highschool with was recently hit by a car in Calgary. He is not doing very well and I would not normally talk about these things on my website but I only bring it up because I want you to remember him in your prayers. (That is... if you are the type that prays).

This morning I received an email from another "Melanie" who stumbled across my website while searching for something else. She decided to visit because she is also married to a Ryan. There is even a ryanandmelanie.com or a melanieandryan.com. I don't have enough ambition to purchase a domain name. And if I did... it would probably be something much cooler like ... peterlovesskittles.com. (We have 2 cats, those are their names)

Late tomorrow there will probably be more updates to the site - although I am not sure how much you will notice on the front end. I am going to practice XSLT and XPATH by splitting all the code out to XML files and spitting it back out in HTML format. I think it is best to practice things you need to learn on things you think are useful. I think this site is useful (for me anyway - keeps me out of therapy).

I hope I have properly escaped my rss feed so it works (fingers crossed).

A random link to a cool thing: Brad and Cory's strongman page.

2004-Jun-25 The Groove In reading previous updates it looks like I failed to mention that we did actually find a border to move in with us. Fiona is coming to live with us in August. In preparation for her stay we managed to turn our upstairs tub into a make-shift shower - I think we did a pretty decent job.

Last night I played with the Groove at Forestry Farm until about 7 then I headed to Brevoort park to meet Fantasticles in case they needed another girl. Turns out is was a quick death (loss) so by the time I got there they were already playing the post ulti game... games. For all your Saskatoon ultimate news visit saskatoonultimate.org. Wayne - who worked a short time at Point2 with me - maintains this site. It's cool.

After ultimate we headed to the new deck at O'Shea's downtown with Brent and Sara. Apparently the deck just opened last night - it is pretty nice. The only think that irks me is the lack of vegetarian food that they serve there. A lot of places in the city have adopted the vegetarian burger - and Ryan and I are addicted to them so we expect every place we go to serve them... Anyway, Brent and Sara are heading to Banff this weekend. Next week they move to Vermillion where Brent will start his firefighting training.

Not much else is new since... yesterday :) Ryan Shuya, Sabrina, Guy and myself are hosting and ultimate nooner at work today. Looking forward to it.

A random link to a cool thing: Teen girl squad winamp skin.

2004-Jun-24 New Shingles I can't remember as far back as May... so I will update with June information. The weekend of the 5th/6th was really nice (Saturday anyway). We played a ball tournament at Sunset Estates. That was the LAST time we played ball until Monday, the 21st because of all the rain. On the 6th it rained quite a bit and the roof leaked in a NEW place (diningroom table). This heightened the urgency to get the roof fixed so Bill came over that night and we worked out what we were going to need. We planned to do the roofing the weekend of the 12th/13th but then it rained that weekend - 4 days straight. Instead we ended up doing the roof last weekend (19th/20th). Ryan, Ryan's Dad, Brent, and Ryan Shuya did most of the work. Uncle Paul helped on Saturday morning and Bill came both days to help with the shingling and an Monday to put the ridge cap on. We still need to do the porch and we are thinking about doing the garage. When I get the pictures back I will post them.

On the 17th Point 2 unveiled a new set of company values - they threw an awesome afternoon (3:30 - 5) party in the rec room with wine, beer, pop and all sorts of food. Everyone was very impressed, I had a good time. On that very same day I played my first Saskatoon league Ultimate game with The Groove - it was fun. Of course Fantasticles then asked me if I was interested in subbing for them - which is better - because that is Ryan's team. After playing a game this week already my back is telling me I can only do one a week - but I already committed to playing with The Groove tonight. Whew, no more of that for a while.

This coming weekend we are hoping to clean up what is left of the shingles in the yard (A LOT). We also want to spray our weeds and spray the grass for ants. Our garden is coming up nicely, not suer how much corn we are going to get but the peas, beans, spinach, carrotts, and potatoes look like they may survive. The basil I planted in a pot may have gotten too much rain so I don't think it will make it.

Ryan is still planning on returning to school this fall. There is a chance he may get direct entry into education so we are waiting to hear about that. July 1st weekend we will either be doing yard work, go to Eston, or go to Wilkie. Maybe it's time we hit Eston for gopher days - good times :)

Today I created an RSS feed.

2004-May-6 May the fourth be with you I wanted to update on my birthday - and post the above title - but was unable to get at the server. In case you haven't noticed, the whole rblords community has been torn apart in shreds for over a week now... cudos to Clay who saved the server and brought it back online in a timely manner. (Considering it WAS in Regina when it went down)

So now I am 24 years of age. I don't feel older (except my back hurts), don't look older (except my hair is turning gray), and I certainly don't act older (although I try not to swear at slo-pitch because a new female player has a young daughter she brings out). So maybe I am wrong and things have changed a little bit.

I heard from lots of people on my birthday - parents, in-laws, and friends - thanks for calling. Ryan and I went to the restaraunt in the Saskatoon Inn. (Botanica I think) The food was great and you get the entree free on your birthday. Their website sux a lot though - so bad that I refuse to link to it because half the links on it are broken.

This week Ryan is on holidays and I think it's depressing me at work. I think I don't want to be here because he is at home.

Blood Music is "disbanding" (har har) and playing their final show at Amigo's on Friday, May 14th. I want to see all you suckers there!

2004-Apr-15 Up and down the CSS Ryan's birthday turned out to be a pretty good night. We had some friends over after work then some of us went to the Keg for supper. After that we headed to Shuya's to play foose... after stopping at the liquor store. We stayed until 4am. That's a little late... or ... early for me.

Last weekend was Easter weekend at the Ceys. We got to see the whole family, played cards, ate food, had a family photo, etc. Ryan and I tossed the disc around on Saturday as there are some people who are suggesting I should try ultimate. I am not bad at the throwing part - I can even do it left handed (a little). But every time I throw I have to twist a little and that hurts the back. No ultimate for me - I'll just let Ryan be the start.

So the diet update is I am still at a net loss of 28 lbs. I haven't weighed (officially) for a week and a half - next one will be on Sunday. I have started running now - and I think it is time I went for a massage to see if I can't get that freaky muscle in my lower back to loosen up a bit. Oh and we went to the Gap last night so I could buy some pants with my gift certificate - finally got some pants that fit!

Our ball team is having a steak night on the 26th of April - that's a Monday - at Athena's lounge. Tickets are $12 and we are each supposed to sell at least 5 - that means 10 for me and Ryan - so help us out and sign up to go!

I am slowly recovering from my last visit to the dentist just in time for another one. Well, not really, it is a month away and it's just a cleaning and a molding for my new nightguard.

It's April fools and it's past noon - so I have nothing shocking or annoying to bother anyone with.

Tomorrow is Ryan's 26th birthday. We are going to the Keg for supper around 8pm I think. Before that we're going to have appies and cake. Thinking of things that sound like appies... I made applesauce last night to make more applesauce muffins... mmm...

I am just taking a break - which brings me to the title - that's the song I am listening to :) Here's a few notes - we're looking for a room mate- or rather a border I guess - preferably someone that we know. Ryan is taking holidays the first week of May. I am pissed that the provincial budget removed the farmer's gas rebate because that affects my parents. There are other types of people, whom I will not mention directly, that do not have to pay as much for gas... and many other things... mmmm not going any further down that road at the risk of sounding like Pankiw. I'll just leave it with - there are other things that could be changed to increase government revenues.