Technology - 0 Brad - 1

I showed that iPod who's boss. So after hours of fiddling around, plugging cords in, then unplugging them, opening things, closing things, and every other action associated with technology I finally put music on the iPod. To top off the hit parade I also put a few pictures on there, just to see if I could. But it is late. Very late in fact and I should go to bed. I was going to write a big blurb about going to the Wheat Kings game but I'll probably just end up passing out on the keyboard. To summarize the whole thing. The Wheaties lost 3-2 after O/T and a shoot out.

I got a toaster

So Santa came! For the first time ever he wrapped the gifts. But anyways.......

I got a toaster. Yes, that's right a toaster. One of those things you place slices of bread in or toaster waffles (mmmmmmmmmm toaster waffles) and they come out toasted. I must say probably the weirdest gift I've ever received. Not sure what I'm going to do with it, well besides the obvious. I did get that snowmobile suit I asked for, and some sweet CDs (+44 and Foo Fighters), got some towels (with a note saying to save them for university), a second watch, and the usual books, food, socks, etc. Oh and I did get an airplane. Though it was only a toy.

Tomorrow or should I say later today is the skating party at Adri's. Going to be pretty sweet except I have to take Julie, so that she's kept busy. Hmmmm yeah that's about it.

Santa Is Coming!!!

Santa is Coming!!!!!

So anyhoo Santa is coming tomorrow! I just spent the last half an hour trying to make that NORAD Santa Tracker website work but my computer is retarded. Adrienne gave me a sweet watch for Christmas. It has this thing on it call a tachymeter. I had no clue what it was for so I wikipedied it and it's a speedometer type deal. It's pretty amazing. So yeah that's about all the exciting news I have. I did spend the first half of today in bed. First time in months I've slept in till noon. I can't even remember the last time I did that.

Tomorrow is the family deal at Grandma's and then I guess it moves on over to my aunt and uncle's for supper. Boxing Day is skating at Adrienne's! Anywayssssss

Who Woulda Thought?!

Ok, so I'm going to jump around a bit here. I'm going to start with today. So today I was curling as the 3rd on the high school girls team at the 60th Annual Westman High School Bonspiel or what ever it's called. I'll start with the funny part of my day. Mandy was asking me where Courtenay wanted her to throw the rock and I thought Mandy asked : "Does she want it in the behind?". Luckily I was able to hold the laughter and managed to figure out what Mandy was actually asking without being noticed. That's the funny part of the day. So our first game was against some girls from Rivers who we believed would be an easy game. Apparently not, they sent us to the "B" side. Our next game was against some young boys who didn't even look like they belonged in high school. They sent us to the "C" side, which is where we now sit. Now let's flashback to yesterday.

Pretty uneventful at school. I fell asleep in English, then we left class to fix the BBQ for the grad raffle, and then I shined the BBQ. In dodgeball my team got walked all over, which was no surprise. Obviously Jordan's lucky shorts didn't pull us through this time. Then I went home, greased up the skidoo, then proceded to skidoo two miles in circles around my house. Then I headed off to Strath for the church Christmas concert. I gotta say it was probably one of the best Christmas concerts I've been to in my 18 years. To top off my pretty much spectacular Friday I went to Adri's house. I ate a bunch of really good short bread cookies, and we hung out. Not bad at all if you ask moi!

Turn and Cough

So I haven't done this in awhile. Therefore this will probably become lengthy and boring about as fast as you can say the word fast. So I'll start with Friday! Awesome time. Can't remember what I did in school but it musta been good, then it was banquet time! Freakin awesome. It could have only been better if it would have been on an airplane. Maybe in about 20 years or so I could arrange that to. I doubt it. Anyways it was awesome. It was amazing because well I got to see Adrienne, then there was food, and when we did the gift exchange I got a Froot Loops bowl and spoon.

Saturday was sorta meh for the first bit. I hooked some tv stuff up, did some cleaning, changed my oil, etc. This is when it gets good. It was Grandma's birthday and I brought Adri. Not the coolest date but what ever. It was a fairly good time. There was food and cake.

Sunday I headed into Winnipeg. After finally finding Kaitlan's dorm after a lot of phone calls and a lot of driving around the U of M, we went Christmas shopping. I tell y'all, without Kaitlan's help I'd still be at St. Vital picking out gifts. After that I went to the U of W for a Jazz Concert. Never been to one of them before but I must say it was a good show. I ended up doing a lot of driving around the city because my navigation skills didn't take into consideration that you can't turn left off main onto portage and that one way streets seem to be the only streets that exist in the city.

Today was my aptitude test, interview, and medical for the CF. I made $150 because of travel and eating expenses to. That all went quite splendid. The interview was a piece of cake and was probably what I did best on. Well I guess I did good on the medical to but that's sorta something not under my control. Doctor pretty much told me what I already know. I'm a healthy teenage male. Though he did surprise me when he said that I had good hearing. That was a surprise and a half. Unfortunately the medical isn't complete. I have to go for blood tests, eye tests, and some other tests. Anyways I'm exhausted. Oh and luckily I didn't have to turn and cough. I guess they cut that part out lol!

Basketball

So tonight was my first basketball practice since Grade 8. I thought I might have lost what little talent I once had. Turns out I still have a small portion of it! I don't think I've done that much physical activity in a long time. Maybe for soccer but besides that I don't know when I've worked that much.

Tomorrow is cadets YAY! Friday is the Youth Group banquet. Sounds like it should be a pretty swanky event. Saturday is my scheduled day of relaxation, which actually equals out to changing oil in my car, doing homework, and prepping for my interview on Monday. Sunday I'm heading into Winnipeg. Do some Christmas shopping, and maybe hit up the U of W Jazz Concert. Monday is my aptitude testing, interview, and part of my medical. Then next week should be the usual until the weekend when I'm supposed to curl in a mixed bonspiel in Brandon. Anyways.......

Oh for everyone who doesn't know what swanky means here's the meaning:

swank·y /ˈswæŋki/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[swang-kee] Pronunciation Key -
–adjective, swank·i·er, swank·i·est.
elegant or ostentatious; swank.
Related forms
swank·i·ly, adverb
swank·i·ness, noun
—Synonyms stylish, chic, smart, fashionable.

So anyways this past weekend was spent at 17 Wing Winnipeg. I got picked to be a staff cadet for Excercise Future Eagles. Which was all right. It sorta lacked the excitement I was looking for but we did have some excitement on two instances when we couldn't find some cadets. Actually it was more annoying then exciting. So my job was pretty much that of a glorified babysitter for people only a year or two younger then me. Though I did get to see some people I never get to see and it was nice to give back to the program. I did learn some stuff over the weekend but it came from watching TV, while we were marking exams. A cockroach can live a week without its head and ancient Romans used (I'm not even going to say) for mouth wash. We left the base an hour and a half earlier then scheduled on Sunday, which was awesome because it gave me a bit more time to visit Adri.

So anyways once I got back to Strathclair, I hopped in my car, which was extremely cold and headed to Adrienne's. When I got there no one was home, which was only a partial surprise so I just hung out with the dog and cat and did homework until Adrienne got back to the house. Hung out for a bit (a bit not being long enough) then I went to curling practice. I never thought curling practice could get very intense but it was quite the cardio workout when we did our sweeping drills (yes sweeping drills because we're intense). By the time I made it home I was ready to sleep for the next year but I never got around to that. Hopefully tonight. Oh and some good news I think I've made some headway in my Christmas shopping. Haven't actually bought anything but I've got some ideas, which is something I don't seem to get until about 30 seconds before I take something off the shelf at the store.

Well I'm gonna finish off with a quote I stole off the whiteboard at school:

"Small minds discuss people, moderate minds discuss events, and great minds discuss ideas."