There's hope

So I was reading Time magazine tonight while dining on some tuna I opened up. I discovered there maybe hope for me becoming a rock star. An Australian scientist by the name of Richard Helmer has developed a shirt with sensors in it. When you move your hands as if you were air guitaring the t-shirt makes guitar noises that correspond to your air guitaring! I want one of those Christmas when they come out with the drummer version. I also discovered in my reading that people who give their vehicles a name or gender are more likely to engage in road rage. Which surprisingly kills 370 people a year in the U.S. and causes 20,000+ injuries. That's craziness. So watch out for cars with personalized license plates and people that call their vehicle a boy or girl. So better watch out for me because I call my car an old girl.

So I have this enormous desire to go flying. Maybe now that hunting is done I'll get around to that. I'm really worried that I may have forgotten how. Though I had that worry in the spring about how to fly a glider and in the end I hadn't forgotten anything.

Oh a hint for anyone buying me a Christmas gift. I was climbing the ladder today at school and I had a really cold head because my beloved SLS Sharks toque is worn out. I really like the Roughriders and I saw a really nice green Roughrider toque at Sports Check or somewhere like that. Anyways I'm going to finish off with a quote from SNL.

"In Kentucky, four people were shot by BB guns outside a Best Buy as they waited in line to purchase the new PlayStation 3, in yet another disturbing case of nerd-on-nerd violence." ~ Seth Myers

That Study Knew Me

So today I was reading the newspaper. This is one of my daily activities at school during recess. I came across this article about how men/women pick mates or significant others. What ever you wish to call the position. Very interesting article. Though very little of it surprised me. I'll give you a brief run down of the article. It was about a study done at speed dating events in England. The study found that hair color has no effect on how people pick dates. No surprise there. Also men gravitate towards thin and young women. Women like younger men that are older then them. At these speed dating events taller men were more likely to get a real date out of the deal. None of this shocked me but I thought I'd inform the world.

Today I booked my aptitude test, interview, and medical part 1 with the Canadian Forces. So for all you in Winnipeg I'll be in there on the 10th and 11th for that gig. This weekend I'll be in Winnipeg as a staff cadet but I have to stay on the base. Should be a good weekend though. I'll get to tell flying stories, hear some, and see some folks I haven't seen in awhile. Oh and my last bit of news is that I got curling shoes! They're amazing.

I Suck

So I got my math test back. The good news. I passed. The bad news I can't seem to do much more then pass my tests. Sure I cleared the dreaded 50% by 15% so if you didn't catch what I just said I got 65%. Which really isn't making me feel happy because I know I can do the stuff but I go ablank on the tests and now it's possibly screwing up my life goals/plans. So I feel like a giant idiot who sucks at stuff. To top things off I haven't seen a deer after days of hunting. It's like having salt and vinegar poured on a wound. Oh well at least I won at curling lastnight and my physics average has gone up 2% since report cards.

Bad luck

So recently I've been having some bad luck. Luckily it's not my entire life effected by this bad luck. Just hunting and math. I'll start with hunting. I just haven't had much luck in seeing anything and when I do see something the oppurtunity to shoot it just isn't there.

Math the achilles heal of my educational experience or schooling if you prefer. I can do the excercises fairly well, everything goes smoothly. However I get to the tests and I just screw up big time. Which in turn is possibly screwing up my life plans. School has always been something I've been good at but recently math has been making me feel like a giant idiot. Which I may very well be when it comes to the rest of life. But school has always been something I've been good at. At least Mr. Maynes says he knows I'm smart but just seem to have brain farts at the worst possible oppurtunities. So I'm pretty sure I've botched my last math test and yeah school is just a big drag these days. I feel like I need stress leave or something at times.

Girls JV VB Provs started today. I didn't have to do my barbecuing job because I guess the girls didn't eat as much food as expected. So I sold some raffle tickets for grad. Got bored of that so I put on the shark costume and ran around for a bit. We made a free hugs sign for the mascot. Which resulted in small children and grown men wanting hugs. Eventually the costume got to hot and I gave up wearing it. Now I'm going to go to a Flying Club meeting so see y'all later. Yeah that's right I said flying club.

What do I want for Christmas?

Here's the short version of my weekend. Friday I set up for Rememberance Day, then I went to Youth Group, then I hung out with Adri, and then I went home. Saturday I woke up late after pressing the snooze button about 5 times to many, went to Rememberance Day, did my stuff, picked up Adrienne, hung out, watched movies, took Adrienne home, and fell asleep. Today I slept in, did some eating, went to Grandma & Grandpa's, hung some Christmas lights up, came home, chopped a tree down that was in front of my treestand, made sure I still knew how to fire a rifle, and am now trying to make a Christmas list for my mom.

The last thing is not going so well. I don't know what I want for Christmas. Anyone have any ideas on what I want for Christmas? I know I'm probably getting a laptop for grad so no point in asking for that. I would like an airplane but I'm pretty sure my parents don't have $30,000+ just lieing around for that.

I'll make it quick. Tuesday was awesome. First off we had an ice day so there was no school. So I talked to Adri, napped, watched tv, etc. Oh and it was also my birthday. Then my parents took Adri, and I out for supper. We had to take Julie, I mean we also brought Julie. That was pretty awesome because we went to the Keg so I was able to eat steak and drink gin. Wednesday was school again, which was a drag. Today (Thursday) was also school. Just your average day at school. Had cadets that was meh. Some parent ragged on me about the way I was doing things for groundschool. Wanted to tell him that he could do it if he had a problem. I've decided ppl who complain about people who volunteer are people I dislike. Though after that run in I got to see Adrienne. Tomorrow is the Rememberance Day Service at school, should be all right. I have to take all the instruments back to Strath. Then I have to set up for Saturday at some point, and then Youth Group.

You turn 18 and then what.............it's all down hill until 65.

So this was my first weekend with out gliding. Sorta sad except I slept in two days in a row and I enjoyed it nearly as much as Christmas. Which by the way is 49 days away!

So Friday was Youth Group. I gotta say that's some good times there. Makes me feel like I'm 10 again, which is cool. Makes me forget about all that graduating, moving away, etc stuff. After Youth Group I went to..............you guessed it Adrienne's place!

Saturday I had to put up Christmas lights. It was sorta funny when I was looking for a ladder or something in the furthest place away from the house when I started hearing all this screaming. I thought Julie had fallen off the roof but apparently she was just yelling at Dad about how she thought I was given special treatment compared to her and blah blah. I get a kick out of her outbursts. In the afternoon I had to go to town to deliver phonebooks which was a giant annoyance.

When I got home however. Since my birthday is on Tuesday, mother dearest of course figured I should have the family supper dealio. After supper my godfather and I had some business to take care of. When I was in the womb, he bet my mom a bottle of rye that I'd be born after December 1st. Let's just say he was wrong and he bought the bottle. Now my mom didn't drink this bottle. No they made an agreement that on my 18th I'd drink it with my godfather. So we drank it. It went down fairly good and it stayed down so that's all that matters. So when you turn 18 you get a lot of happy birthdays, comments, advice, etc from everyone you know. Now probably the best comment I got was from my dad's friend. He started his little speech by saying you know Brad you've turned 18 and then asked me if I knew what was next. Of course I assumed he was going to say a certain 3 letter word so that's what I said. I was wrong. He went on to tell me that after 18 there's nothing special until you hit 65. 16 is monumental because you start to drive, and 18 because of smoking, drinking, voting, etc. He finished his bit of advice by saying that 65 is monumental because you get your pension. He also threw in that sure you get married and have kids but thats nothing special, when you turn 30 and 40 nothing happens, and when you turn 50 all you do is hope you make it to 65. Now I found this all pretty amusing especially when his wife looked at him. Some would say that's pessimestic and that he's not an optimist. In fact someone pointed that out to him and he replied by saying he was a realist. Overall not a bad night considering there was no one my age there. Some people even supported The Get Brad in the Sky Again Fund and The Buy Brad a Pair of Curling Shoes Fund.

My 10 Favourite Things

Here are my 10 Favourite Things. I tried to keep them in some sort of order but some won't be in order. I also tried to cut down on the cheese factor but yeah that's hard.

1. Adrienne
2. The fact that I live in freedom in the greatest country in the world.
3. Flying because it is the ultimate freedom and high.
4. Grilled cheese.
5. Cows because they are responsible for steak, cheeseburgers, milk, ice cream, etc.
6. Snowmobiling because it's the 2nd best mode of transportation behind flying and because it's Canadian.
7. Eyes because they allow me to see a lot of amazing things like beautiful eyes, the sky, nice planes, nice cars, etc.
8. My awesome friends and family and all over their awesomeness.
9. Being able to give back to society for example when I take kids flying for the first time in their lives. That's me giving back to the program that gave me my wings.
10. Being reminded that I'm not as old as I feel sometimes and that I'm really just a kid who's life is just beginning.

I went skidooing!!!

I went skidooing!!!! Here's the proof!

Scaring kids, hanging out, and dodging snow showers over southern Manitoba

Ok let's start with Friday. Now I can't remember what exactly I did with the majority of my Friday. Obviously it wasn't to exciting. I do remember what I did Friday night. Friday night I worked at the haunted house, which was enjoyable. I know I could have been other places but at least the haunted house wasn't the worst place I could have been. I scared a few kids and the odd parent.

Saturday was my do home work and other stuff day. Once my home work and other stuff was done I headed over to Adrienne's. That was pretty awesome. We hung out, watched some movies, and such. Then I left for home home, which would normally mean I go to sleep however when I arrived at my house it was locked. However that isn't the story I was wanting to tell. For some reason I was hungry when I got home. But here's the catch. All the food is upstairs. That presented two problems. Stairs and the fact that everyone except me lives upstairs and I didn't wanna wake anyone up. So I just went to the freezer looking for a fudgicle or something because someone ate all the crackers and stuff downstairs. There was no fudgicles. There was ice cream but I had no spoon. So I dug around looking for a spoon in this box of plastic cutlery I found downstairs. All I found was forks. So I scooped ice cream with two forks into a plastic cup and ate ice cream. Then I went to bed. That's my lame story for the day.

Today or as I like to call it Sunday I woke up bright and early. After starting my day with a bowl of Froot Loops I hit the snowy road on my way to Brandon. I figured we wouldn't fly because I was driving through a blizzard. By the time I got to Hamiota there was no sign of snow and by the time I got to Rapid City it was a blizzard again. When I got to Brandon there was no snow. Once we realized the kids we were supposed to take flying weren't showing up we prepped to go to Gimli. So we took off for Gimli and the first thing that happened was that it started snowing. We made it through that but by the time we hit Portage there was snow and clouds so we spent some time diving and climbing in and around a million different clouds. Then suddenly Gimli appeared, the sun came out, and the wind disappeared. Then obviously I made my way home from Gimli. The end. Now I'm going to bed before I pass out on the keyboard.

Math test, grad meeting, and all those other good times I have.

Had a math test today. I nearly conquered it. 76% will have to do. Math sure isn't what it used to be. Back in the day a 76% = bad. Now 76% = good. The times sure have changed.

The grad meeting was actually quite pleasant. Grad meetings haven't become the torture I envisioned them to be. Oh well we still have lots of time for that to happen. We finally decided on a caterer and a picture taker and hoodies. Now I have to decide on who I want in my pictures!?

Tomorrow is cadets and ground school. Ground school should be good. I've got a decent group of wannabe pilots showing up. Friday I'm working the haunted house so that the grad class can get a nice little donation. I can see that being fun. Supposedly all I have to do is be scary. Shouldn't be hard. Saturday is my prep day for the glider cross country on Sunday. So that consists of getting rested, doing my home work so I can go see Adrienne, and then seeing Adrienne. Sunday is the cross-country to Gimli from Brandon. Should be two hours of freezing fun. It'll be a good experience though and maybe I'll get to do one in the summer next year.

Living in bed

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in your bed for a week. Just taking a week off and living in your bed with no worries. First of all you'd never be tired because you'd be in bed. Second of all you really wouldn't have to worry about eating much because you wouldn't do anything to burn the energy needed to get an appetite. The only problem I can really see is that you'd have no way of going to the bathroom unless you left the bed. If you needed food or water you could just get someone to bring it. Also what would you do if you spent a week living in your bed. First of all I'd sleep a lot. I'd also read and listen to music. I'd probably get one of them portable DVD players and watch movies to. I think you'd also find out who your true friends were to. Your true friends would be over trying to get you out of bed or they'd at least visit. Anyways that's about all I could think of when I was trying to do my math home work. It didn't make sense and I just wanted to go to sleep. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go to sleep and catch up on sleeping. Something I seem to get less and less of as the year goes on.

Whoa! Flying is so cool! Ya I know kid I can see my breath and it's making it hard for me to fly!

So that was me being saucy with a young cadet after they told me how cool they thought flying was. Normally I'd agree with them. I love flying. However I'm also human and I enjoy being warm and flying this weekend meant being cold. At one point I was wearing snow boots in the glider and on Saturday night I had to go buy more clothes. So that was my Saturday and Sunday in a nutshell.

Now here's the most important happening of the last week. At least for me! I asked Adrienne out! She said yes and the rest is awesome. That was Thursday night at the school. Later that night cadets was finished I went to Adrienne's and we hung out. The next day I rolled around in bed in a semi-conscious state for a few hours, got up, filled out some forms, made some phone calls, did some home work, and called it an afternoon at home. Then it was progessive suppering time. I sure wish I would have known about this deal along time ago. It was awesome! So overall from Thursday on this week has been incredible. Except for the freezing and odd nasty look at certain times. But hey it's all good!

18 in 22. What would Danko, Hawkeye, or Franny do?

So I'm 18 in 22 days.

The what would all those ppl do has to do with this dilema I'm currently having. I don't know about you folks but I usually like to think about what someone else would do in a situation. So far that scheme isn't getting me very far. It's not really a great dilema to be in though I'm sure I'm making it harder then it needs to be. I just hope everyone comes out happy in the end.

Tomorrow is a university dealy in Strathclair. Should be good because it means I only have English class. It also means I may be able to ask some questions about some university stuff. I also have band but I don't consider good times like those to be class.

Bringing y'all up to speed

So this is more for you folks who aren't around me much and don't know what I've done lately. So yeah we'll flash back to Friday. Friday was the mini-summit in Strath. Good times because it meant no class. Plus Philly-D had a very good message about being yourself and to not stop trying. So when I got home I had to work which meant I had to decline a supper invite. So I finished up my work around 8 which was half an hour longer then I had hoped. I then proceded to have probably the fastest shower of my life excluding the two minute timed shower after my solo bush excercise on Survival Instructor. After this I then headed over to Lennox's for Youth Group. I was surprised how much fun I had play mission impossible. It's been so long since I've gotten in touch with my youth. Lately life has been focused on becoming an adult and all that associated stuff. So it was nice to be a kid again. So after Youth Group was done I stayed around. I attempted to start a fire but I was sorta cold so I didn't put much effort into that. Luckily someone decided we'd be better off watching a movie. Then the movie was done and we ended up talking till 2 about everything from romance to Student Council business.

Now lets move on to Saturday. Techically we already moved on to it but anyhoo. I woke up and worked the kitchen at the hall for 2 or so hours. Then I waited for an hour to attempt to buy a moped at the auction sale but had to give up when I realized I had to be at the rink to play for jazz band. So we played for the Royal Bank folks and then a small group of us (Jodi, Alle, and Ethan) went to my place where we ate some pizza and watched some movies. I'm now officially calling it a night and going to my bed. Hopefully I wake up in the same spot I went to sleep in unlike this morning when I woke up on the opposite side of the bed. Who knows what that's all about.

I need a holiday

So I've decided a holiday would be great. Not that I'm over worked or anything. It's just that I dunno. Lately I've been feeling like an idiot at school. I get all the material but when it comes to test time I screw up. Plus my life feels incredibly busy. There always seems to be something going on. Which is nice. I enjoy being busy. However I would really like a holiday. Just a chance to sit around and do nothing. Have all my work caught up which it almost is except for that correspondance course which I've barely even opened. Well actually if I had this said holiday I think I'd do more then sit around and do nothing. Maybe I'd go for a walk, or go quadding or something. I dunno. Oh and all this university stuff. That stuff is just piling up. I've got a million applications to fill out for scholarships and different universities. Anyway that's really all I have to say. Hopefully it made sense.

Joshing

So I was thinking. You know when you're joking around with someone and you say "I'm just joshing ya". Do you say that if you're joking around with someone who has the name Josh. Because I'm pretty sure if anyone is doing the Joshing it would be a person named Josh and not you or I. Seriously. Think about it. If anyone knows about Joshing it would be someone who is a Josh. Also why do we say Joshing? Why not Bradding, or Kaitlaning, Johning, etc?

Oh so today at school I had to do two presidential duties. One of them which was sorta blah. That being having to cancel the school dance to prevent utter failure. The fun one being giving the principal a haircut because the school raised enough money in the Terry Fox Run. Considering I've must have had my head shaved well over the 100 times I know very little about actually cutting the hair. Oh and before we brought out the electric clippers we used a hedge clipper to cut the hair. Very amusing.

Merry Thanksgiving!

So anyways Happy Thanksgiving y'all. I spent today writing an essay and doing farm work. I probably should have focused more on math but oh well. I'd really prefer not to go to school tomorrow but I guess that isn't an option.

So I have one thing I'd like to bring up. It's about anonymous commenters. Call me crazy but I've noticed that a fair portion of their comments involve a Lennox sister and me. First was do you like Adri comment, then the are you asking Jodi to be your escort, and finally the stop trying to get into Alle's pants comment. Can I ask why you anonymous commenters comment on this? Feel free to comment anonymously again on this topic.

So I figured I'd start this blog off with Friday's comics. I must say Friday was a good day for the comics. Dilbert was just plain amusing and Beetle Bailey had some really deep thoughts.

Now on to Friday night! Friday night I went over to Katey's. It was a pretty fun night. We did the usual hanging out, watching movies, and such gig. The only downside was that I didn't get much sleep Friday night but that's the price I'm willing to pay to have fun both on Friday nights and Saturdays. So obviously I had this lack of sleep because I woke up to go gliding. Now what a day that was. There was 6 staff showed up. The maintenance folks had left the master switch on in the towplane. (The master is the switch that turns all the electrical stuff on). So with the master on that meant a dead battery. No big deal airplanes can be started by hand. We got the plane started and found out that the battery would not recharge on it's own so we had to shut the plane down and recharge the battery. While all of this was happening 30 cadets showed up for glider rides and the weather kept progressing towards total badness. Eventually we got the towplane back into running order and we started the flying. Luckily the winds weren't bad. The clouds on the other hand were another story. That made getting towed exciting. Had to get towed around clouds, had to descend while on tow to go under clouds, and had to get towed through rain. Eventually the clouds and rain made us stop flying the gliders and we just gave the rest of the kids towplane rides.

Sunday the weather was to bad from the start so we didn't glide. I came home and cleaned the basement. Then we had Thanksgiving festivities with the family and here we are at 11:02PM on a Sunday night. I think I'm going to bed now or very soon.

The Great Barbecue Disaster of October 4th, 2006

There really wasn't a disaster but I thought that would be a funny title. There was a small dispute over the purchase of a barbecue for the grad raffle. One person out of fourteen decided to suddenly care on where the aforementioned barbecue was purchased. Unfortunately this caring streak came through after it was purchased causing many to think we should return it and causing upset between a few people. I found it all amusing how people reacted over such a petty little thing. Why must people be so petty? I don't know and I'm not sure I want to know. Though I have to say I'm surprised that everyone for the most part kept their composure. I'm still waiting for an earth shattering dispute to flare up about something involving graduation.

For all of you who ask or wonder about who I'm choosing for my grad escort. I have no idea who I'm choosing. I've sorta got it narrowed down but since grad is 8 months or so away I'll be taking my time to narrow it down to one lucky or unlucky individual lady. By narrowed down I mean down to about 5-10 ladies.

So that's all for today folks. I almost wish I had problems or something to seriously blog about. I don't so instead I talk about my boring days in secondary education.