my last post can almost be disregarded.. really.. it is much easier to be thankful after this past weekend. i had an unbelieveable time, and i went to 0.5 lectures. some big news includes:

eric goud came to town. first time in three months, from hongcouver back to regina. this, in turn created the reunion of the ages. tim maxwell came down from s’toon, and almost all the other guys that i have held dear were there. it was truly an amazing feeling.. thinking about it makes me cringe with smiles…. ? with this reunion came a riveting match of hide and seek, in downtown regina. it was at like midnight until 2am, so not many people were around, just police and security guards. we played on a two block by two block area and shifted the playing area numerous times to confuse cops and security, and make it a new terrain. people were in caged parkades, on top of buildings, in dumpsters, and everywhere else, and it was great. we didn’t even get in trouble from any authority figure. not this time anyways.

thanksgiving meal with 60+ olsons and orrs can be frightening, but today it was great. that family is full of heritage and is often intimidating, but it was a gooood meal. my personal highlight may have been the turkey.. not sure though.

and the day before today, i went to the 4th Annual Butter Chicken Fest at india house here in regina. i ate so much in a span of 20 minutes, that i seriously couldn’t move for 45 minutes.. i was in a very real pain, and all because i have no self control when it comes to buffet. i’m such a loser..

and now, still 1.5 days left in this weekend, i forget that i have midterms i haven’t studied for, i forget that i have numerous assignments to do, i forget that its getting cold out, all i can think of is that feeling i have inside now.. the one that feels like you just sipped a hot chocolate and you can feel the warmth run down your ribcage.. not the time when you burn your tongue. that just sucks. but the best kind of hotchocolate, that isn’t too strong, and isn’t coffee.. thats what i am feeling right now…

yes!

it’s a very busy weekend, so i kinda thought i might do one of these before i never have time again. this weekend is lectureship, thanksgiving, montreal vs. toronto, butter chicken fest 2006, and a reunion of many, so i have much to do. on top of all that, a bit of studying and homework. but homework is for… ‘chumps’. i had a better word, but it could be considered a swear.

the gridblog, whatever that means, for this week is thankfulness, or thanksgiving or something like that, because of the holiday, thanksgiving this upcoming monday. there is too much these days to be thankful for, in my life anyways.

i’m thankful for almost being 18. eighteen years of life is quite a few, and i feel i’ve lived them pretty well. eighteen has got to be around my prime, so if i didn’t go on any further and people remembered me at this age, i’d be alright with that. i’m thankful for homework, somehow.. if i didn’t have homework i’d be doing very very little, and things would get awfully crappy. i enjoy pounding out the limits of functions, because when i finish, its a relieving and accomplishing feeling. i may have said this in like 3 other blogs, but i’m thankful that the NHL season has started up. finally, something worth watching on tv, until the OC starts up again.

and the total cliche comes, i’m thankful for my family and my friends. i’m with at least one of the people from these groups everyday, all day and thats for a reason. i would be dead without them, probably. and bored as a ‘chump’. and there are hundreds of other reasons why i’m thankful for them, but i’ll stop there. cause i’m lazy as ‘chumps’… again, i had a better word there, but i’m refraining from the curses.. its hard to come up with a decent simile these days without using offensive words.. no lies.

In elementary school surveys taken numerous years ago, I could never answer the question of ‘What is my favourite season?’
But, I just figured it out. A month of university sure helps on those doozy grade 1 questions.

Fall has got to be the greatest time of year. Sure, soon winter will be kicking our warm human cans, but the few weeks before this happens is a fantastic time. The holidays of Thanksgiving, Halloween, Yom Kippur and this October, Friday the Thirteenth are all great family celebrations and that cannot be denied. The CFL is hitting it’s regular season high of excitement, the NHL is just kicking into high gear. And of course don’t forget the sacred gathering of Lectureship. All the events and parties peak at this time of year making it the greatest season for all things social.

The weather is unbeatable. It is warm out, but at the same time it is a bit cold out too. The leaves coat the ground. The other day walking home from school I saw a tree with leaves THIS colour.. it was amazing. I wanted to pick off the leaves and eat them. They looked like pink lemonade. The smell of chopped up poplar leaves from the lawn mower is as inviting as a warm pool filled with fun water toys and famous movie stars… And really, what is more inviting than that. Nothing, thats what.

Really, I can’t think of any other reason that any other season could top this one.. I didn’t mean to rhyme in that last sentence, I promise.

i don’t know if you are getting tired of my stories, but here is another sweet one.
tonight, kris, ben and i went to a nearby tower. i am not sure what it was for, maybe cell phones, maybe some satellite receiver of some sort. but we climbed it.. we got about 1/3 the way up, and it got windy, dark, scary and we were tired, so we headed back down. the whole adventure lasted about an hour or so. it was a lot of work climbing up the ladder, you had to hold on tight. if you didn’t, it would be a rough fall to the ground. a rough, long fall.

anyway, thought i’d blog that one too. it was super fun, and next time, i am hoping to climb even further, maybe pack a lunch, some bouncy balls.. should i take a sandwich or maybe some leftovers.

this past saturday was a good time.

kris and i headed down to weyburn for a good visit with the grandparents, and a good chance to break and enter in an abandoned building…

we both had heard lots of crazy stories about Souris Valley Mental Instiution. this place did some crazy things. lobotomys, lsd treatment, from what i’ve heard, and apparently there is a lot of things left in the building. kris had gone in before, but only with a large ladder, because the bottom three floors are all boarded up. before we left, we stopped by at Home Depot got a flashlight, some batteries and a solid set of bolt cutters. we found a door that opened an inch or two, but stopped by a chain and a lock. we managed to get the bolt cutters in the door, cut the chains and enter, fairly easily. before we went in, some kids from weyburn told us that it was alarmed and sensored, so we had a clue. we took about 5 steps in the door, and a loud siren-like alarm sounded. i saw the motion sensor, but it was too late. we sprinted out, bolt cutters and cut up lock in hand, and ran back to the getaway car. quickly, we drove away, before any sort of police or security could arrive.

we went to tim hortons, hid the bolt cutters in the trunk, ditched the broken lock i still had in my hand, and went back the scene in about 15 minutes. the cops were there, as well as a maintenance truck. the cops pulled us over, asked us why we were there, and we told them that we were visiting from regina, and told him that our great grandma lived there at one time, so we wanted to check it out.. that was a lie.

he let us go, and we went and talked to the maintenance man for a while. he gave us all the clues for the building, everything we would ever need to know about the security system and the protcol for this that just happened. he didn’t know that we were the ones that broke the chain and set off the alarm, but he was a nice guy..

all in all, i had a great time.. the northern lights on the way home were amazing, unexplainably. i figured that i should get into a little bit of trouble quick, before i am no longer a young offender.

this one is a topicless blog.

today i watched highschool football, featuring Jesse Elford. that kid is amazing. he ran for 3 touchdowns, the only three his team scored. his team, Notre Dame, won 21-14. he is a truly amazing athlete. he also wrestles steers.

i have never liked english class. it is for a couple reasons. i am not good at sharing my feelings. digging deeeeeep down and saying how i truly feel.. sure, sometimes about small issues. but that digging really sucks.. and these are about things that don’t matter. like how i feel about this short story, and how i feel about my inner true mask i wear. another reason, you can’t be right.. there is no right answer to anything… every class, you can’t learn the right way of doing anything, because it is different to every teacher…… brutal! give me a formula, give me some numbers. then i can’t be wrong.

i joined a new soccer team.. i feel bad about leaving my team of 3+ years, but it had to be done. i wasn’t even sure if CCFC would exist this season, and i needed to join another team. i am now on Pantera, no not the band, the team. i have never played on a team where i don’t know anyone.. i’ll probably get beat up every game.

ron howard was smart. when asked, “what trait do you most deplore in yourself?” he replied, ” the endless desire for the world’s approval” i paraphrased a bit because of a lack of memory, but he got it right.

i like bacon.

It is slowly beginning. The National Hockey League Regular Season 2006 – 2007. Koivu is back in action, after a missed-call high stick jabbed him in the left eye in the third game of last season’s playoffs. Guy Carbonneau is ready for his new head coaching duties. I read a newspaper article today that said through a season simulation, Montreal and Calgary were the only Canadian teams to make the playoffs. Remember this.. remember. October 6th, here we come.

i am here, in a frustrated rage-like state. this is probably a bad idea, but a good way to release my anger, i guess. i am not going to say why i’m in a blind rage, but you could say it is because primeau hung up the skates. what a pussy.

as my days of being a minor pass, and i almost become an adult, i notice my teenage life. i’m going to go ahead and say that my teenage years (yes i have a few left) were different than the vast majority of most people’s teenage years. i dont know what did this, it could be solid parenting (thats my guess), it could be that when i was around the age of doing stupid teenage crap, my brothers were just getting out of it, and telling me that it was not worth it, or it could be that i am wired in a way that does things totally different than all other people. i’m not going to make a list of the things i haven’t done that other teenagers do, that would be miles long, but if i did it would basically comprise of chain letters, nice hair cuts and beef on a bun.

i like things as simple as possible. and when people do things to complicate any sort of situation, i am not a big fan. but really, it seems like all people ever do, is irresponsible things to complicate life, and make every situation harder.

its probably difficult to understand anything i just wrote, but man, it felt good.. teenagers suck, i’m glad i’m not a very good one.

a list of good things in my life….

1. a solid home. a solid home, not as in ‘a solid house’. sure the house is solid, but you know.. it is true.

2. the breakfast club. it has been good to me, and i already regret missing it this upcoming saturday. as often as possible, a real hearty breakfast is cooked at tim ashworth’s house on saturday morning, often featuring many cool people and great food. there are pictures of both on my picture site.

3. endless amounts of chocolate bars, chips and pop. no lies. my mom gets the leftover candy from the camp canteen. i get to eat it all. at 17, i am lazy and often don’t care about my health. this leads to chocolate bars for every meal, washed down with a can or two of coke. yes!

4. we sold the cavalier. the legend that is jeremy’s car, now belongs to kurtis ashby. i really hated that car most of my days, but the last couple months, it grew on me. literally, it probably actually did grow on me, seeing how it hasn’t been cleaned in 10 years.

5. ho’s in different area codes. this may be a touch crude, but its true. i have good people, in many far away lands.. and no, not all of them are female. few of them are. but they are all ho’s.
for sho.

and today, i skipped my first class of university. not even for a good reason. just because i was hungry. psychology isn’t important anyways. it felt so good, i’m skipping all day tomorrow too.
i may be the most rebellious thing the U of R has ever seen. ever.

when i was once in high school, and people i knew were in university, they complained all the time. they said things like, ‘university is so hard. so much work. so tiring. you have to study every night.’ i didn’t believe them one bit.. until today. i have loads of homework, and a large portion of it is due on monday. the sweetest part of this is, that i won’t be here all weekend long. i’ll be in winnpeg, for means and every new day. the only good reason to go to winnipeg.

last night, four young adults and i travelled to the city of lights, saskatoon. this was also for a good reason. the same reason i am going to winnipeg. it was a good trip. we left around 6pm and got home around 3:30am. it was a long night, and a super long day of school today. it was like i was in a marathon, and 6pm was the finish line. at parts of the day, i cramped up and slowed down. at other parts of the day, i stopped and thought, i flippin’ hate marathons. what a waste of time.. but i got through it. like a true marathon-ist.

now its time to pump the iron (Fe) that is chem, and other assorted funs.