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Erick's SpaceOctober 08 Best two weeks yetSo I just thought I'd put a quick post up for the last two weeks. Simply put these have been the best two weeks I have experienced since moving to the city that rhymes with fun. You see when I left you last I was getting ready for the PYAC conference on Sept 22nd. The conference was a blast, great way to not do work, great way to meet a bunch of people in the company, a great way to realize exactly how many people I have already met in the company. There was a comedian, there was a trade show, oh how Canadian Ops table was weak, and dinner and a dance. The next night was Tamara's going away party. The usual suspects were there but this girl, who shall be refered to as "The Girl" from here on out since she doesnt want her name all over the interweb, was there too! We chatted and laughed it up for a fair bit at The Tap then we all left and went to SoHo for some dancing. Some more laughing, chatting, dancing and flirting occured, I walked her home at the end of the night and spent two hours on her porch talking... She gave me her number and apparently to her suprise, I actually called her the next day. We went for a movie, Accepted, and out for some desert. Spent the rest of the week talking on msn and on the phone, yes apparently I can use a phone for longer than 10 minute conversations. Last weekend we went to the Union youth party, she invited me :) , and then we went to Jenny's for the first of many parties in celebration of her birthday month! Saturday The Girl came over and we made lasagna together, and went to yet another celebration for Jenny. Sunday was the day Tamara had to pack up a truck and head out west so we spent a few hours helping with that then just hung out the rest of the day. I was sick this past week, and apparently I got The Girl sick too, but on thurs we were feeling "better" so I brought over some food and some company and yeah. The Girl was supposed to hit up the Stones concert with her Dad on friday but didnt feel up to it so we watched some movies. Spent yesterday just lazing together until she had to leave for her trip home for Turkey weekend. Thats about it for now, just sharing my good news... Later, A happy, smiling Erick 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! June 19 Back from the brink of death...So I was deathly sick all last week, shortly after my trip to Winnipeg, coincidence? I THINK NOT! HAHA. Anyhow, I just changed the layout of the page, so I'm sure you got a little yellow * in MSN making you check this out, figured I'd let you know why!
Later
Erick June 05 Wedding weekend...Alright so back on the blog train I go...
Since last entry I made a new friend, shout out to Stephanie, here in Regina. Bought brand new rollerblades and equipment and found some great trails to go for a blade on. Andrea, and Erin were in town for a management meeting that never happened but we still got some partying on at my house and then Habanno's! GOOD TIMES! Then I wrote my FM actuary exam, which I feel pretty good about, so hopefully in a couple months it will all be good, and I can apply to have more of my school classes count for acreditation.
Then Magic Regionals happened and I scrubbed out, and I must debate going to Ottawa to try and grind into nationals and continue the dream of playing in the Louvre... or wait a year...
Alright down to the main events! DOUBLE WEDDING EXTRAVAGANZA!
So it started with the pouring rain in Regina, that continued with pouring rain in Calgary. Got to Ricky's house, we (Ben, Brad, Roy, Ryan, Richard Sr., Ricky and myself) went to X-3 then returned to play some poker and shaft til 2 in the am. Woke up the next day, played a few games of cards with Ricky then went shopping with Heather for Ricky and Chelsey's wedding presents. Very fun and enjoyable expedition. Oh, the presents... they liked them all...haha. Headed home saturday night and watched the end of the Edmonton game with Evan and Robynn, had a great discussion about all sorts of things including his new job, X-3 and various other things. Sunday hung out with Bert for a good long time. Monday I got to see Rachel's movie, its spiffy and if any of you come visit me I will show it to you. Tuesday I hung out with the boys who play cards, ah just like back in the day. Wednesday was errands and visiting with Peggy and Kelly at the theater. Then the wedding season started:
Thrusday: Writting my bestman speech, get a call from Ricky informing me that my suit is not in Calgary, we arrange to have it sent to Lethbridge so I can be dressed up for the wedding. Drive Paul to his buddy's and visited with the Road Crew. Then the decoration of the hall began, and it wasnt even close to done when Ricky sent Heather and I down to Cardston. Good drive, then we got the guy to let us use the pool. Then Chelsey and Ryan found and joined us for some volleyball-ish sport. Ricky and Brad got in around 2 and at 2:30 there was a pillow fight. Oy vey, who really needs sleep.
Friday: Up early to hit Lethbridge to pick up my tux, which apparently no one bothered to inform Moore's in Lethbridge about, and oh yeah it wouldnt get there til 10:30am, approximately 30min after photos should start... so mad dash back to Cardston. Borrowed Ricky's dad's extra shirt pulled on my suit, had no tie and there I was for pics. Gotta some good ones with Cookie Monster. Then another drive with Heather back to Ctown, finished "wrapping" the presents and off to the hall for pics. Worked on finishing the slideshow, did the ring ceremony, receiving line, more work on the slide show, most awkward conversation of my life, had a little cheesecake, heard speeches, gave a speech, ran the slideshow, imitated a DJ. It was all good though! Then went and watched a movie with Heather.
Saturday: Return the tux, drive to Dead Rear, get dressed go to wedding #2! Hung out with Bert, Gina, Ian, and the lovely bride Erin and the handsome groom Jeff. Good times, good music, good friends! And oh yeah I caught the GARTER! WOOT WOOT!
Sunday: Packed up like a madman, drive to gift opening... hang out with Ricky and Chels... get a few overshares - HAHAHA! Fly to Regina.
And that is it... going to add photos to the gallery... hope you enjoy... May 09 A new saying for the lexiconSo in the space/time since my last entry I have spent 1 of 3 weekends here in the gina... and 2 in Calgary/Red Deer. So I suppose there is a lot to post so I will get right to it. Dissension Pre-Release: Started this weekend in a van with 6 other guys and an 8 hour drive ahead of us. Man was I glad to get inside Ricky's house, fresh air! Spent way too many hours playing cards to get NO PRIZES cuz my opponent was a JACK @$$ without any ETIQUETTE (a recurring thing this post more than likely). But it’s all good cuz after that Chelsey, Heather, Ricky and me went to the wave pool, that i didn't know existed in Calgary, and had a blast. Even though I am apparently an awful swimmer and oy vey do I hate being IT in a game of tag. Sunday was time for some more cards, but I got one of those great situations for me where I win first then played TWO of the guys I came to the tourney with, and their decks were better than mine... oh well, then it was time for the 8 hour trip back, but i got to drive, woot!
Non-Alberta weekend: Sleep. TV. Cleaning. More Sleep. Why sleep? Cuz apparently I don't know how to do that in Calgary !
This most recent weekend: Going to consider this weekend not starting til 6pm on Saturday. Went to Becky and Mike's ring ceremony and reception, its was sweet little glimpse of what Chelsey and Ricky's could be like. Played some cards with Ricky and Brad. Gave Chelsey some helpful ideas for wedding stuff, at least i hope it was helpful. Then there was SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! My mom and brother came to Calgary and me and my bro went to the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo(http://calgaryexpo.com/)! It was 1337! Got to meet Paul Dini and Alan Burnett, the people responsible for Batman: The Animated Series. Humberto Ramos the upcoming artist for Wolverine. Scott McNeil, a stupidly popular voice actor, who did: Dinobot, Rattrap, Waspinator and Silverbolt form Beasties (Beast Wars if you are American). It was so cool, even got him to give me some quotes and I recorded it... will see if I can put it up somehow. Oh and I got to meet CHEWBACCA! Yeah that is right Peter Mayhew the man inside the wookie suit. That guy is GINORMOUS! Also have a pic with him and it will go up soon too, along with the artist sketches my bro and me got. Went to Red Deer for Monday, ever so briefly... sorry if I didn’t get to visit anyone reading this.
But now I am back in Regina, have to study for my exam and get pumped for Ricky's wedding... ok maintain my level of pumpedness... But I am out for now except the great quotes from this weekend: "Are you fisting me?" - Evan Holstein "Nerds know stuff. Geeks are passionate about stuff. Dorks try and make stuff competitive. Don't go to the dork side." - Jedi (security guard) Knight at the Expo in response to a girl saying about "Sane fangirls" being an oxymoron. April 18 Another trip out of Regina means another blog entry!So last week was the shortest workweek I have had here in Regina so far. Monday and Tuesday Andrea (Derek and my supervisor) and Cara (Robert’s supervisor) were in to interview some people for another Actuarial Student position and to give us some heads up about up coming projects. Tuesday and Wednesday were Access training it was pretty boring but hey, 2 half-hour coffees a day and hour lunch, I’m not complaining. Then the long weekend started! Yes my long weekend started Wednesday, the same day all of my new furniture showed up! Aunt Eunice and Uncle Mike brought all the stuff from Grandma’s in a trailer, and we got it into the house and set up in an hour and a half! So now, IF any of you decide to come visit me in this land of flat I have beds for y’all to sleep on! Then Thursday we all got up and started the long drive to Calgary. There was a little snafu when I forgot my cell in their car after they dropped me off at the Bus Station otherwise it was some good visiting with the Aunt and Uncle. The bus trip to Red Deer however wasn’t quite so good. It was late leaving, it was overfull and instead of a pretty girl sitting beside me I had a guy who was unaware that cologne can be overpowering when overused! Red Deer: Went out for desert with Rachel and Kyra on Thursday night after getting in. It was fun, mostly because I was pestering Rachel about her new boy-who-isn’t-her-boy. Spent most of Friday hanging out with Evan, catching up on comics and helping him procrastinate from finishing an assignment. Then got to hang out with Bert, Jeff and Erin as we watched a couple films. Got my invitation their (Jeff & Erin’s) wedding, which negates the possibility of me being considered a Wedding Crasher I guess, haha. Saturday I hung out a Bookworm’s Den and visited Dave for a bit. Then I found out that Ricky and Chelsey were heading back to Calgary from Chelsey’s family farm near Rimbey. Which meant I wouldn’t have to ride the ‘hound back to Calgary, I could take the Bennett express! They showed up and I got my invite for their wedding, woot! Calgary: Friday night was FUN! Got to meet Chelsey’s Maid of Honor: Heather, who shall be referred to with any of the following adjectives preceding her name: COOL, FUN, GOOD, or PRETTY. We all went to Value Village to pick out some clothing for each other to wear for the evening… Ricky and I were inspired in our selections for the girls to wear (puffy shirt, blue leopard print shirt and the awful skirts), the girls made us wear pink shirts and purple ties, in my opinion we got off easy. Then we went to my new favorite place in Calgary, Lloyd’s. For those who’ve never been, you get to go rollerskating/rollerblading to good music for hours on end, it is too much fun. We went for 3 hours; there was much soreness in our group of people who haven’t gone skating in forever. Then we were off to Peter’s Drive in for food and then Pirates of the Caribbean at Ricky’s house. Sunday involved some cards, hanging out with Ricky for any extended amount of time always ends up with some card playing. Then there was supper at Chelsey’s Aunt’s house. Got to meet some people on her side of the family and discuss some things about the wedding with her dad. Then I got to fly home, its still weird writing that about this place, on Air Canada, which is something that will never happen again. Notes: Placement of Photos on the Blog: You may notice the Photos on the main page have been moved and are smaller, this is due to JASON BLORE complaining because he only has dialup. He still isn’t finished his 3+ years of updating /fixing /creating his web site www.blore.ca and since it only took me a week to get this done I’m challenging him to get his done ASAP! NDSF: Well apparently no one else wants to go to the North Dakota State Fair, but I’m still going to go. Should be fun, so why not? Magic: I’m insane, driving back to Calgary for this upcoming weekend for a prerelease tournament, mind you 6 other yahoos are coming along. I finally know when regionals are! Too bad they are May long, the weekend before my Actuarial exam
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