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September 20 3 months 1 entry... not a lesson in EconomicsI will now recount for you the events of the past three months to the best of my abilities/memory.
Went to Superman Returns on opening night with Derek, Tashia and Robert. It was a good time, the discussion after was very amusing, and with high notes including the opening credits, the amazing special effects and Kevin Spacey as an evil mo-fo. There was a company showing movies on a inflatable screen in the park so I got to see ANTZ with Kaely, except the insects, and yes I know what the movie is about, was a very cool thing. The rest of June was pretty quiet and uneventful as far as I am able to surmise from my calendar, so lets move on to July!
July started with a bang! Rachel was out for a conference and managed to spend a few days hanging out with me. Which was awesome! On Canada Day we went out for supper, got a hold of Greg and attempted to call the other two members of "The 5" but alas. Then we went to the fireworks at the Legislature grounds woot woot! I had planned to make supper one day, but the local grocery stores kept a key ingredient away from me, so Rachel prepared some fantabulous burgers! One of the most amusing moments was the second to last night she was in town, the conference went to see Pirates of the Caribbean 2 (as I write this yesterday was Speak Like a Pirate Day!) which was highly amusing. I say highly amusing because there was a trailer for the upcoming live action Transformers movie and I knew what the trailer was and there were all these "What's this movie?" kind of question going on. Then when you see the Transformer and the title all the people from the conference and myself were all cheering extremely loudly, what a blast! My buddy Derek from work had the joyful event of having his son River's birthday in July. Aaron "Dr. Dinosaur" Philips, AKA. Pilips came to visit me on the western swing of his summer excursion, that makes 2 non-family member visits to me, please not this number has as yet remained constant. As always we discussed matters of great philosophical import including: his recent 4th authorship of a Paleontological paper and the presentation of said paper, the effect of sampling fermented grain products, the potential Awesomeness of the upcoming Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies. It was a great visit, why must Regina be so far from so many of my friends? Also in July I got free passes to a Sneak Preview showing of Clerks 2, I went with Kaely it was pretty funny IMO. The big news of July was the fact that I found out that I had passed my second SOA exam! Woot for me!
August!
August was a pretty quiet month until I made my Quest for the West! Ah vacation back home for the first time in 2.5 months, so nice. I landed in Calgary and Chelsey and Ricky picked me up from the airport and whisked me off to their house so that many hours of playing cards could be had. It was great, Chelsey has become an adept at the intricacies of the game, in no small part to some wonderful teaching* by me! Haha j/k it was all Ricky. Saturday we had a decent sized tourney at Ricky's followed by the usual meal of KFC, mmm chicken. Heather showed up and we went to the arcade to waste some time before the joy that was my bus ride to Red Deer. Got home, dropped off my stuff and met Evan at Baby's house for a pre going-out sort of situation, followed by some going out! Saw 3 people that I went to high school (Dave Martel, Matt Donovan and Justin Mathieu) whom with the exception of Matt I had a great time talking to, Justin as my brother can attest was uber-pissed. Then we went for, what is apparently a Red Deer mainstay now, of Chicken and Pizza. Stayed up 'til 5 shooting the shit at, Evan's buddy, Kure's (sp?) house. Sunday was recovery until I had to go pick up Evan from basketball practice and had a few beers with Evan and Steph in a location I never thought I would. Quick aside: I slept on the comfy couch in the basement because there is still no replacement bed in my old bedroom. Monday, Bert and I went to Erin and Jeff's for some WoW but on the way we stopped to buy Slurpees, as that is the agreement that is in place. I figured I'd use the proceeds from my $10 winning 6/49 ticket and get some change, apparently it was a $198 ticket! Yes, this trip continues to get better and better! Tuesday I went to Sylvan with Rachel and Darryl and Wednesday Rachel and I went and did some shopping together, we decided the north Red Deer Walmart is the white trash Walmart. Thursday was mostly memorable for the pre tattoo hair removal and the de-evolution of my brothers facial hair (pictures to be added at some point I hope) and the rare visit from Uncle Wade. So Friday was Evan's birthday, it started with the giving of gifts and the trip to WEM and our eminent appointments. Neither one of us slept very well due to our mix of excitement and apprehension. So we were really glad to make it and get it done! I found it painful to get done to begin with but I got it done, Evan says I was a little green around the gills when it was done though. I had it lucky because I got to lay down, he however had to sit on a stool leaning forward with no support except his elbows on his legs, what a trouper. After that was done we met up with Paul and shopped the mall a bit. Point of fact: HMV in WEM is KRYPTONITE for yours truly! From there we drove to Whyte Ave to eat some chow and have a celebratory pint at O'Byrne's where Davo spent some time with us, ah how I miss the days on 3 Mac. We continued on to Diamonds, which was mildly disappointing, but hey it was a birthday so it had to be done. The big event for the evening was the BBQ/fire pit in our back yard which was great, I had no idea that the back yard was a standing room only kind of affair. Bert and I headed down to Shark's to meet with Ian and Gina (Mean Gene) as well as Jeff and Erin. Oh partying with Gina how I miss it, I'll never look at Monopoly the same way again. Got to prove again how my skill at pool increases given a certain set of circumstances. From there we met the rest of the b-day party at the Club where I got to run into other former Carneys: Jen B, Rebecca's little sister whose name escapes me right now and Brad. Saturday I woke up to the sounds of cleaning, yes that part of a party no one likes to remember, so I got up and helped. Some time later Evan woke up and informed my shirtless self "You shouldn't be exposing your tattoo to the sun" to which I replied " We shouldn't have drank last night either" "Fair enuf." Ah good times. Around noon Jeff, Bert and my self hung out at Bert's, and it was gorgeous out, not a cloud to be seen, nice and warm out, perfect short weather. Yeah by the time it came to go to Chris' football game you could almost call it a perfect storm. Post game some dry clothes were retrieved for myself before going on one of the most amusing bar hops I have been on. Gotta love a bar being open for a team but "Closed" to the public. Sunday was bitter sweet as I had to return to the land of endless horizon. To make my return more bitter than sweet the people at Westjet baggage managed to destroy the head of the cookie monster garden gnome L definitely very L. The next weekend Derek and I went out for a pint at the Freehouse. Well thatwas the plan at least. 3 hours and 3 pitchers later Jenny and Tamara came and brought us to a PYAC gathering at the Broken Cue. That was a blast until I lost them and decided that I craved McDonalds. Apparently McDonalds in Regina do no serve walkthroughs in the drive through, this is the first time I have had an issue with such stupid-ness and I became bitter, fortunately Burger King was able to satisfy my fast food needs. The next week we went golfing as a department, good ole Texas scramble! I'm definitely out of practice but am still deadly from within 150 yards of the pin.
September!
My favorite month! September was mostly just a countdown until my Birthday or more accurately a countdown until the day before my birthday since partying on a Sunday isn't too fun. Rob and Simon gave me a birthday card at work on Friday, which really amused me, it had giant E on the envelope for my new nickname of "Big E." Derek and I went to Brewsters for dinner, came back to my house and played some video and card games. Nicole needed a ride so we went and picked her up then Kaely, Brandi and Kim came over for a couple rounds of Slapem. Sharyn and Mark gave me a Darth Vader birthday card which I like a lot too! Then Derek, Nicole, Sharyn and Mark and I hopped into a cab to go to the DistriktThey were having a cabaret and it was sold out so we treked on down to Habanno's. A night of fun was had by most since Derek losing his keys and phone wasn't too fun for him. Sunday I got phone calls from Mom, Evan, Aunt Dion and Pilips! I did get some MSNs too don't think I forgot about any of you. Last Thursday Jenny brought me to the Freehouse to buy me a birthday drink since she missed the PARTaY! Derek showed up and I ended up missing the premier of Survivor so the bet I have with Andrea is based on nothing but a completely uninformed hunch. I picked up Lego Star Wars II, as a birthday present to myself, it is hilarious and so much fun. This past weekend was Sharyn's birthday and her dad came out to visit. I have now met someone whose allergies are worse than MINE are! I finally heard from the nomadic Bennett's this past week, apparently they are safe and sound. I have a conference for PYAC on Friday that is being touted as quite the event so I am pumped. Then Saturday is Tamara's going away party so "PARt-Why?" is all over my calendar for the next few days.
That's it from me for now, until I can upload the pics.
Now you're in the know about me, isn't it fun?
September 12 Placeholder entrySo Aaron finaly entered the world of blogging! http://aaronsairspace.spaces.live.com/default.aspx?owner=1 check it out! I have two months of blogging to catch up on, I'll get to it, but I'm lazy and I don't feel like it at the moment! |
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