Odds & Ends

After a late night of partying with my ball team, I am ready for a relaxing evening. And no, not 10PM Marcia's gets silly late, more like 4AM.

It was a fantastic evening. Most of the team showed up with their potluck items in tow. We ate well on appetizers, steaks, and dessert. Our coach had some presentations to make. He did up little certificates for each of the players and MVP male and female awards. My certificate said, 'Biggest Mid-Season Acquistion." I am definitely looking forward to next season, and challenging myself. Perhaps I will even do a little pitching. As the evening wore on, people left, however the games came out. With 6 of us left, we challenged ourselves to a game of 80's Trivial Pursuit, Canadian Edition. Wow, was it ever hard. Even with most of the players being 30+. However, the coach and I managed to get all our pies to win the game. It was a great night.

I am surprisingly not as tired as I thought I would be, and managed to fit in a super-mega-awesome-cool workout this afternoon, vacuumed the house, did some laundry and cleaned up the kitchen. It has been a overly productive day.

A&K are headed over with Olive Garden take-away for supper and some movies. We all are looking forward to the low key evening.

Karma

A little something my mother sent me today. My mother is a wonderful, smart lady.

Instructions for Life

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R's:
1. Respect for self,
2. Respect for others, and
3. Responsibility for all your actions.
   
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It is the way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

Updates

My daily trip to the law courts continues to be interesting. It looks as though we may be wrapping up early, so it's back to work for me sooner rather than later. However, it is nice to know that my Thanksgiving weekend won't be ruined. I'll be back in Saskatchewan for a wedding and the family supper.

As for my social activities, my floor hockey team won't be playing this fall. It seems we registered too late even though I got a confirmation that we were registered for Thursday. Oh well, I still have volleyball on Mondays and bowling on Fridays.

I was in Calgary this past weekend with my friend Andy. We were visiting JC, as it was the last time we were going to see her before she moves far away to Dallas. It was a fantastic girls weekend, even though we ate way too much crappy food.

Heroes Season 2 starts tonight, and I am pretty excited. Although, I will have to be satisfied with only watching one episode a week.

Posting for the sake of posting

I really don't have anything interesting to say. I have lots of interesting things going on, but as you may know I am bound by the law and cannot speak of it.

I've gone and caught myself another cold. It seems fairly mild. So I am hoping that it is gone by Monday.

Bne & Siochain are up this weekend, and I am looking forward to hanging out with them for most of the weekend. We are currently preparing plans to go for breakfast, but somebody got a little drunk last night, so I am not sure how quickly things will get going this morning.

I have my slo-pitch league wind-up banquet tonight. That should be fun, and likely good food.

I started in a bowling league last night, which will run until about April. I did fairly good on my first 2 games, bowling a 152, and 181. However, like usual, my last game sucked. I am not sure I am actually skilled at the game or just lucky. Or perhaps my arm was just getting tired by the 3rd game. I really have no explanation. Nevertheless, it was a good time.

I've been selected

I think it will be an interesting few weeks. I can't believe out of 230 people, I got picked. I am never that lucky, never!

Dinner & a Movie

Last night Andrea & I went out for a girls night out. We had a late dinner at Joey Tomatoes. It was delicious. The Three Cheese Pate with red pepper jelly was amazing. Exactly how an appetizer should, not too fatty, greasy, or heavy.

It was nice to get out for drinks, supper and good conversation. Both of us were so busy over the summer, we didn't get to hang out as much as we would have liked.

After dinner, we hopped over to the City Centre Cinemas and watched Shoot 'Em Up. Fun, fun, fun!!! There is a lot of gun fire, LOTS! But it suits the movie. The action was so intense that I didn't even realize half way through the movie that the plot hadn't been fully explained. And that is usually my pet peeve in movies. I like there to be a reason behind what I am watching. Go see it, it's tons of fun.

What does today have in store for neuba? I think I am going to cook most of the day. I bought myself a huge warehouse package of ground beef, and I plan on make a big batch of homemade meat sauce that I can squirrel away for the winter. I also plan on using some for lasagna. And now that I think about it, I could probably make cenobyte's 'Once a Week' soup. Mmmmmm, so tasty.

Tomorrow I am off to the court house. I am looking forward to the whole jury selection process. Although I will be away from work for awhile if I get selected, I am secretly hoping I get picked. Not to be away from work, as work is busy and exciting right now. I just would like to be part of this whole process.

Some lyrics just fit perfectly

Coming from a small town, I was 'forced' to listen to a lot of country. I don't mind it now and again, and when I hear it, I tend to get fairly nostalgic. But every once in awhile I hear one that I like. I heard this one some months back; I liked it immediately. It definitely hit home for me.

I hope that the days come easy and the moments pass slow,
And each road leads you where you want to go,
And if you're faced with a choice, and you have to choose,
I hope you choose the one that means the most to you.
And if one door opens to another door closed,
I hope you keep on walkin' till you find the window,
If it's cold outside, show the world the warmth of your smile,

But more than anything, more than anything,
My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,
Your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small,
You never need to carry more than you can hold,
And while you're out there getting where you're getting to,
I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,
Yeah, this, is my wish.

I hope you never look back, but ya never forget,
All the ones who love you, in the place you left,
I hope you always forgive, and you never regret,
And you help somebody every chance you get,
Oh, you find God's grace, in every mistake,
And you always give more than you take.

But more than anything, yeah, and more than anything,
My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,
Your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small, You
never need to carry more than you can hold,
And while you're out there getting where you're getting to,
I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,

But more than anything, yeah, and more than anything,
My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,
Your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small,
You never need to carry more than you can hold,
And while you're out there getting where you're getting to,
I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,

This is my wish
i hope you know somebody who loves you
may all you dreams stay big

via

You can listen to it here.

Busy

So, as I predicted, my weekend wasn't as full of rest and relaxation as I would have liked. It was fairly chaotic most days with the kids around and my parents house in ruins. Yes, in ruins. It is pretty much torn up. They have gotten the main rooms painted, and they look wonderful. The french doors are in, and the new casings around the windows. It is really starting to shape up, and you can start to imagine how beautiful it is going to look when it is done.

We spent most of the weekend eating, visiting, watching movies, and playing games. We tried out a new game this weekend: Pirate's Cove. It was quite fun. Then again, it could have been who I was playing with. James does an excellent Pirate voice (as well as many others), and was getting in the spirit of the game, as all players were required to shout out in a strong pirate voice which section of the ship you were going to attack. My nephew was hilarious with his native sounding pirate voice. Tee-hee.

Unfortunately, the only nice day of the weekend was today. It was super hot. But we did manage to get to the park. The kids really shouldn't ask me to play tag, I out ran them all. Mwwahaahaha!!

I am looking forward to the fall sports I am involved with, and relaxing at home for the next month.