sweet

this is Pascale... he is handsome .

tribute to Stewart, because 22 mins shouldn't have all the fun

imagine the disappointment on my face and in my heart...

Friday, I rode my bike in the sunlight,
rays of silver flashing from my classy streamers....
chain rattling in the cool air.
like the rattle I heard when the cows broke thru the fence that one year, and they came after me and my friends.
Wind messing my hair,
but giving me that fantastic rosey glow that I can't seem to find in any bottle......
where was I?
That day I rode my bike to the Bean to meet with some Sheffs for coffee...
and I decided that the sunshine was so great, and my need for vitamin D so strong.. that I was to go directly to the skatepark after work saturday- with my blades.
It's something I've been thinking about for awhile... one of those things that I'm sure I will be able to do, I've willed it into my mind that I am capable of doing fancy things on those ramps. jumps without falling, turns and skids.
I willed into my mind that I could blow smoke rings... and with my first cigar, on my first puff, it became reality.

I've just yet to try this on something bigger. I think maybe those ramps will be the proof.
Like when you practice a piece of music till it's killing you and you've killed it ... flogged it... and you go "sleep on it"... and can play it perfectly the next day... yeah.. I've been training my mind for the skatepark.

so again... imagine my disappointment when Saturday morn' I opened my door to head to work, and found the front steps to be the home of a snowdrift so high, I couldn't just jump over it, I had to take the shovel to it... and my further disappointment when I realized, that wasn't just because of a few blowing and drifting flakes... because somewhere in the blizzard that was stabbing me in the eyes. lay my car. and the street. and the rest of the neighborhood... which had become invisible in the storm.

Bean

Today is Thursday....
making tomorrow Friday.

Nathan Caswell is playing at the Bean on Friday night, and I like his music... you should come with me.

ALRIGHT already....

k... I get the point.. Here's the answers.

4 jobs I've had (really)
1) Chicken Sexer
2) Pig Inseminator
3) Rodeo Clown
4) Choir Conductor

4 movies I could watch again and again (this one's hard)
1) My best friend's wedding
2) Fight Club
3) Man from Snowy River
4) The last unicorn

4 places I've lived
1) Cavan, Ontario
2) Pickering, Ontario
3) Kampala, Uganda
4) Kara, N. Togo

4 TV shows I watch (occasionally)
1) Sapranos
2) Canadian Idol
3) 24
4) Anything on Discovery Channel

4 places I've been on vacation
1) Murchison Falls, Uganda
2) Bon Echo Park, Lake Mazinaw, Ontario
3) Goodness Knows where, Conner's cottage, Ontario
4) Cuba... twice.

40 Websites I visit daily
1) cuteness...
2) Charlie
3) MANY BLOGS (see sidebar)
4) eavesdropper
5) NEWS
and soooo many more... it's a wonder I ever get anything accomplished.

4 Fav foods
1) eggs
2) cheese
3) chocolate
4) meat
any food containing any of these ingredients are good.

4 charities I'd give bucketloads of money to (probably the hardest question)
1) Watoto
2) YFC
3) Wycliffe
4) AHHHHK! I can't decided. Cancer society, MS Foundation, Asia Span/Outreach,Evergreen, Maple Creek, ahhhhhhck!

Norty.. you're tagged... get to answering.

and the dialogue went a little something like this

the original peanut gallery was in attendance at KCC this morning. Needless to say Scott had to deal with silliness, though I did earn myself a chocolate bar out of the whole ordeal. Note:: we are a very "back and forth" "conversational style" gathering... it's good.. I learn way more.

it all started with this... (members of our sketch today will include Pony: P, Pastor Scott: S, Ziggy: Z (not work related) guy sitting behind us:G, and me: M)

S:: for those of you who are married, and would like to stay this way.....
Z:: HA!
S:: we've got a marriage retreat coming up
Z:: HA!

(fast forward, we're talking about living "wholly" this week- the whole day wasn't about marriage, but more about BEING whole, so love was a large portion... Want more? Go to the Dock next Saturday night... Aaron's doing his version there)

S:: what do we need to grow?
G:: FOOD!
S:: what else?
P:: FOOD!
Z::HA!
S:: what else?
Z:: (insert some profound statement here)
M:: Chocolate

(fast forward)

S:: Does anyone here own a vineyard? No? Ok, so no one's going to correct me later?

S:: What does a vine need to grow?
M:: Chocolate?
S:: Chocolate? Who feeds their plants chocolate?
P:: no no, you BUY the chocolate for the plant... Then when it refuses to eat it... You eat it so it doesn't go to waste.
S:: ok

(fast forward)

S:: Is it wrong to ask God? Is it Wrong to ask God for a marriage that has this attribute ? Or to ask God for a relationship that has this attribute? Is it wrong to ask God for a marriage .. That... (trails off for next point)
M (to P):: is it wrong to ask God for a marriage?
P:: any old marriage?
M:: yeah... Um, I'll just take him to that marriage retreat.
G:: HA!
P:: NO! You need a booth.
M:: a what?
P:: a booth... Outside the marriage thing... With a sign..
M:: a what?
P:: a sign that says "if the retreat didn't work for you"

I nearly pee'd myself

While we were packing up, Scott hands me part of a chocolate bar... "You made me hungry".


I've got some crazy thing happening in my neck behind my ear, an infection? Pray it doesn't move into my ear... I don't want that messed up again.

the end is near

I think I can go ahead and die now.. the funniest web site EVER has been found... and it's all thanks to Stew again!

snippets

Note:: I don't know if they planned to keep it a secret, but I refuse to because I'm a loudmouth.

VanDan and Jonny will be serenadeing us at the bean tonight. THAT will be good fun.


Also today...
I was driving in to work (yes, I know I should be walking but have you LOOKED outside?) this morning when this crazy cloud flew past me... I couldn't quite understand what I was seeing (it was early, I stayed up too late) picture this with me if you will.... It is Friday morning in Downtown Cobourg, Recycle and garbage collection day for this fine part of the town... It is also gusting up to 70kmph. The recycle bags have been blown onto the street and two trucks have just HIT several of them.... the result? A cloud of recyclable trash outrunning the traffic down University St.

Fast forward...
(I've got the song "things that make you go hmmmm" stuck in my head- not that the song has anything to do with what I've seen today... it's just there)

Again, picture with me as you will...
A dark cloud has dropped over the town, billions and billions of tiny stinging type snowflakes are being lashed about in the wind.. near whiteout conditions... When suddenly, the cloud parts and the sun steams down into the snow .. Creating a brilliant wall of blindness for each driver... Cars stop and people stare at what's unfolded... "Beautiful" does it no justice.

Fast forward again...
there's me... Sitting in the office doing income taxes for the guys at work.

what a day what a day.

update

to those of you who've been doing your part....

Norty Does Christmas has moved to a 58% winning
Norty P the real deal has moved to 56%

and Ross Bun down to 51%

thank you....

St. Valentine

I had the most lovely valentine's evening one could ask for...
Photo evidence is forthcoming.

Men... the bar has been raised.

Percentage of cute

I really like cuteoverload.com, and they've got this great competition where they match two cute pictures against eachother and you have to vote for the cutest....
Ross Bun is winning 67% of his battles...
and Norty P is only at 50%...... Could you please go there and rectify the situation?