Here's to hoping I didn't waste all my creative writing skills on the facebook walls of my ex-girlfriends!

Well here's to hoping the above title doesn't come true in this latest issue of "Brad's Thoughts and Stories"! One note on the above title is that what was written on the Facebook walls of those two ex-girlfriends was 100% friendly in nature. Though the possibility of me pushing the envelope of my humour and their acceptance of it is something that has crossed my mind in the 5 minutes following the 3000 words of glory I spelt across Kaitlan and Allison's walls. I'm not here to debate it though.

Let me get through the typical post being made by most people involved in the blogging trend at this time of year. Christmas is great, I love my family, it was great to see them, I got amazing gifts, the food was too good, I'm happy I've been having the oppurtunities to see my friends, some more of that jazz, and some etc. to conclude. I think that's all that needs to be said on the topic, if those facts are appreciated. I know I appreciate all of what I said, because there is a possibility that someday I will be unable to enjoy all of that because of my career, so I enjoy it as much as I can now.

So what have I been doing with my days lately? Well some people would call my brand of fun horrible. Each to their own I guess. Stumbling around in hijacked house coats with an old buddy from high school and probably making a fool of myself isn't exactly everyone's cup of tea. I personally had fun and ensured that the house coat was returned to its rightful owner. I just hope I didn't promise to be the DD in that stupor I was in. So far only my Ma and Pa have mentioned anything regarding that and they heard it through the floorboards in the middle of the night so we can't take it for 100% certainty. We all know that the physics of the waves involved could have been heavily influenced from the floor boards which would have caused a great deal of interference.

That was the pinnacle of my 3 day expedition of fun beginning with the socializing I partook in with my adult friends. Good times were of course had with them. More fun ensued the next night when I finally stormed into SL bar (about time they opened up! I've been legal a long freaking time). Later that night I stormed into Houstons. Where I was reunited with old high school chums and proceded to make lame pickup attempts on girls I hope were cute (I'm just not big on committment, but chatting the ladies up is still on my list of fun things to do). I proceded to try and pickup using my newly acquired skills in the French language. First of all French doesn't impress Anglo girls and it sure doesn't impress the only 3 Franco sisters in the bar. I got a number, but I don't think it was the cute sister's and a follow up date is not required at all. Return to the previous paragraph for the night that followed. Let us not discuss the day that followed that night though. There was a small concern that solid food might not like me anymore.

Hopefully I have not disgusted you at all. If this blog was all about respectable pursuits such as academics and athletics, I'd have a hell of a time making that 1 in a million interesting post. It is once again late (recurring theme. Me using ( ) and me posting at the stupidest hours of the night/morning). Bonne nuit, I've got to rest before I attend the reincarnation of the annual Shoal Lake tradition of a social on Boxing Day.

My Thoughts on Home

So it's been just under a week since I made my return back to Manitoba. In that time I managed to leave the country for two days, but I also formulated some thoughts/opinions on the place I thought about returning to many a night when I was cuddled up to my rifle or later on cursing a textbook in both official languages (it's how I practice my French). So I'm not 100% where to start with this explanation of my feelings concerning my old stomping grounds back here in the Keystone province.

Let me begin with the word change. Now it is to late at night for me to pull out the dictionary and define the word change so hopefully you all know the meaning while I take you on the trip that will become a rant. When I begun packing and generally just getting excited about coming home on leave, I became concerned about how things probably changed a great deal since I left. Much to my surprise when I took my first big excursion into Shoal Lake I made a discovery. Nothing has changed, and that goes for everything. Sure some people have made some modifications to their lifestyle, but nothing major. Buildings have been built, knocked down, etc but once again nothing major. In reality nothing has changed though. Now part of that lack of change in this place is great. It means nothing bad has happened, though the downside is that nothing overly exciting has happened. The only thing that's changed in the past 6 months is myself. Now I'm not complaining about the lack of change in my old territory, but the fact that it irritates me in some unexplainable way has solidified my decisions about life and how I enjoy being somewhere with an unpredictable rate of change. The military obviously being a fountain of change and place for a great amount of growth as I've already discovered. I'm not sure if I made any sense at all with that, but I feel I have been able to relay some sort of message.

Now I'm going to answer a question a great deal of people have asked me and probably shock some people with my opinion on the matter. No I have not found a girl in Ontario. Have I been looking? Not at all. I don't have the time for it. Plus I don't need to have to worry about a girl at this stage of my life. I've got plenty of worries with school let alone the few million other things I enjoy having piled on me by my school. Sure a girlfriend would be loads of fun but all that lovey dovey crap isn't for me at this time in my life. FYI: not tons of fun, because I'm not into those sorta girls. FYI Pt 2: I'm not trying to be a downer on lovey dovey crap, but really does it get you anywhere of great importance at age 19? The morale of this story though?! I have no time for a girlfriend and unlike the past refuse to make the effort to make time for one. Mon career dans une force de aerienne est très importante pour moi! See I can even cobble together enough French to express myself!

*Editor's note: This post is by no means a series of complaints but simply an explanation of some of my recent thoughts.
**Editor's note: There is no editor!!
***Hopefully I don't have to take back any of these non-wise words anytime soon.

1 week

1 week from now I will be sitting in the living room of my basement watching TV, after having eaten my mother's cooking. It will be epic and I'm incredibly excited. I'm so excited I can't get to sleep at night. That is all.

Study Break

Well I'm taking some of my well deserved study break time to write possibly my last blurb before I hit Manitoban soil again.

Well so far this week, I've wrote my first two university exams. Now I could make some nasty references to describe how I feel about them, but that would not be befitting of me to do on this so very public medium. However I will still express my feelings on them. English was what I started my finals with. I wouldn't call it one of my finer pieces of work, but in the end what I studied was on it, so let us hope that my professor likes what I talked about otherwise I'm in doodoo. Chemistry was exam number two, and my first experience of writing in your classic university environment of a big hall, filled with row upon row of students utterly confused at the material they thought they knew from hour upon hour of studying. I don't feel grand about the exam but for some reason I came out of the exam quite calm in comparison to my comrades, who weren't. The irony of that is, that during midterms it was the other way around. It appears that I've become calm and comfortable with the fact that what ever happens, happens. All for some reason and at the end of the day something will work out. Plans might have to be adjusted but you just need to roll with it.

4 more to go! The brightside! One is open book and it has been discovered I only need 10% on the final to pass the course (so if the crap hits the fan, I'll still make it through), one is an arts course that I'm kicking ass in, and the other two are all year so if I screw up now I still have one more shot to redeem myself (or so I'm told). You know me though, I always manage to pull something off and I plan on continuing that strong tradition.

On a lighter note. Have any of you seen the Victoria Secret's Fashion Show? I haven't watched the entire thing. I'll be doing that when I get home. That's not the point however. Did anyone see the Spice Girls bit? Is it just me or have they not all aged as finally as expected. Scary Spice can actually claim to be scary now. Just my two cents on them. On the bright side though they can still perform well!

Today's fun fact: 8 days till I place my feet on the sub-arctic soil of the motherland or I guess I could call it Manitoba.

Global Warming

Well I don't have much time to ridicule this funny but true story so I'll let you form your own opinions. I know for a fact it is true, because the fridges back home that hold that beautiful brown beverage full of nutrition, fun, and the ability to make everyone look beautiful are ancient and most likely leaking harmful gases into the atmosphere causing global warming. But at least my beverages are cold!

Here's the link:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313844,00.html