Been a long time

Oh boy, it's been quite a while since last I was able to write anything here, or at least since I last thought of it.

Liz and Dan came to visit for the long weekend which was exceedingly appreciated and lot of fun. I love having visitors, it keeps me busy and lets me see my friends. I miss everyone, it would be so nice to have you all up here with me! Anyways, we went to the Oil Sands Discovery Centre which was pretty good entertainment for six bucks. Got to sit in the drivers seat of a heavy hauler and play with bitumen. If you don't know what that is go to Syncrude's website and look it up. www.syncrude.ca





Then we took Liz to see the reclaimed land and went on a nice hike. It was awesome if only we could have gotten rid of the bug factor. Way too many mosquitoes and bees, wasps and other stripy things. It kind of ruins a nice walk when you're always avoiding or swatting at bugs. We also took her to the "giants of mining" exhibit out by syncrude which shows off the big equipment used in their old drag line operation. This shows how big the stuff was as this is only the wheel part of the bucketwheel reclaimer.



It was good fun and they both had to leave far too soon. Dan returns this weekend though so it's not all that bad, YAY! After they left I went down to Roger's video and rented the whole first season of CSI, kept me busy and wasn't too expensive since they now have old releases on 3 for $9 and it was on 3 rentals.

Last weekend I went paintballing. It was good fun. There was a good group of us, 20 people showed up, 18 guys and 2 girls. I rediscovered my cowardice in the game but still had a good time. I tend to spend a lot of time in hiding but that's ok, I only got hit once as a result of it. I made some brownies for the bbq before paintballing that went over pretty well thanks to a recipe Liz brought me. I even substituted 1/3 of the butter with unsweetened apple sauce and people still liked it. There is Liz's theory at work that you can substitute up to 3/4 of the fat with applesauce and it doesn't make much different. Made you feel better about eating a chocolaty brownie. I didn't tell the guys this until after they had demolished the plate of them though!

After that I had finished CSI so I went and rented the first season of scrubs, which I already finished yesterday. It was stupid but pretty funny considering! It keeps me busy, the only problem is that it's busy in front of the tv all the time. Oh well, at least it's something.

Michelle is out with friends so much lately it's like I have the place to myself, especially the nights she sleeps over there. It's nice to have the place to myself but at the same time it's really lonely. What can ya do.

Finally finished Pride & Prejudice yesterday. It was actually really good though I found at times it moved a little slow. So today I started on Deception Point. My goal is to finish it by the weekend. We'll have to see how that goes. Anyway, it's bedtime now so I must go. Take care everyone and keep in touch!

Love ya!