Friday!

Wow, I haven't posted to my blog all week. I guess I've just been too busy at work to be able to blog much.

This week at work things have been sort of up and sort of down, but definately busy. I didn't really have a chance to do much else at work, other than work! The good news is that I've finished my mid-year self evaluation and my supervisor seems pleased. I really hate filling out evaluations, especially parts where they ask you about areas that you could improve. It's my impression that anything you put there will just work against you in the long run. The bonus is that I may have discovered something interesting chemically, which may result in me publishing a paper on it, with me as the sole author. For someone at my level, with my background, that could really be huge. Plus if I'm ever looking for another job, then it makes for a good story to talk about when I have to give my presentation.

It's now only 4 weeks and 2 days until I will finally see my wife again. It's so weird going home to an empty house every day. Well not empty because the dog is there, but it just feels so dark and lonely. Anyway, things are going much better for her now. Her foot is feeling a lot better, the author that they have now is apparently fantastic. Last week there were several times she just wanted to break down and cry and come home, but this week she's doing much better. The course is intense, apparently she is getting about 4 hours of sleep a day and is usually up writing until the wee hours of the morning. It seems that she's made some friends, so she seems to be much happier now. Hopefully, she'll come home. :)

This week I was a real uber geek when I was at home. Three of the nights at home I played Axis and Allies online. If you're not familiar with the game, basically it's a Risk like board game, that revolves around World War II. It's slightly more complicated then Risk, but much simplier than a lot of war games. Anyway in my first game on Monday, I was the allies and even though I suffered some bad luck in turn one, I turned it around and managed to crush Germany and stop Japans advance. Yay! Victory for me. On Tuesday, I was the Axis and once again suffered some bad losses on the first turn, but managed to hold on to Europe long enough for Japan to sweep through Russia, Australia, Africa and even manage to grab onto the Western United States for a turn. Victory was mine once again. On Wednesday, I was once again the Allies, but this time my bad luck played out in every important battle. My opponent was smart, slow and calculating. He didn't take any risks, and slowly but surely he was going to decimate me. The Allies lost, the world wept. It was fun, I'm such a geek. :)

Last night I had dinner with the two other couples that we usually have dinner with and I will probably go out for dinner with them again tonight. Other than that I have no other plans for the weekend, but I'm sure something will spring up. If not, I always have the dog, my computer, lots of books to read, and a blog to bitch about anything I want on. :)

Well there you have it. An update on my ever so exciting life! I bet you can't wait for the next installment, it will be super exciting. Filled with spies, sex and fast cars or possibly pies, chex and lost keys, but I guess you'll just have to tune back in to find out.

The Weekend (So far)

Well I thought I was going to be blogging a lot more this weekend, but as it turns out my dance card filled up rather quickly.

Friday night, I went out for dinner with the same two couples that the wife and I do dinner and stuff with occasionally, and one of the couples has a few guests in town so that made for a bigger party. After dinner, the group decided that they wanted to go see Batman Begins. Now, my wife had no desire to see this movie and because I'm just so easy and really had nothing better to do, I went along for the ride.

I just have to say, that it was a great movie. I really enjoyed it. Sure there were plot holes that you could drive a train through (they actually did at one point but I digress), but I mean it's a comic book movie. What comic book movie doesn't have plot holes. But, I just have to say that I enjoyed it immensely. I highly recommend that anyone go see it. It's much darker than the other movies, and it's got kind of a creepy feel to it. It was well done, what can I say.

So, I got back last night after midnight and took the dog for a walk. Only to have the police drive up next to me and ask me what building I was standing by. Turns out they were headed off to get a party shut down. Kind of lame actually. I mean it was Friday night, who cares if there is a bit a noise. Ah well I'm sure I'll become a codger some day.

So, Saturday, the dog and I hung out in the afternoon and then it was off to a barbecue with the same people from last night. Good food, good people, nice weather. It was fun, what can I say. It was nice to get out, sit outside, drink, eat and be merry.

Once again I didn't get home until after midnight and took the dog for a walk, this time no police, but I did see the same apartment having a party. I guess they are moving out this week and don't really give a rats ass. Ah to be a young punk again!

That brings us to now, where I'm writing on my blog about absolutely nothing of any relevence. I need to spice this thing up a bit.

Ahh, so on my way home from work yesterday, a little baby deer bounded out of the bushes into the street. I slammed on my brakes as did the car coming from the other direction and the baby deer bounded back off the road back into the bushes. I'm so glad I didn't hit the baby deer, I would have felt really bad. I'm a big softie for animals. I honestly think that I'd actually have a much easier time killing a person than an animal. I think it has to do with animals basically being innocent creatures driven by instinct and the fact that humans can be malicious. But, once again I digress. Anyway, so I didn't hit the baby deer and hopefully it decided that crossing the street wasn't necessary.

Well I'm tired right now, so I should wander off to sleep before I reveal any of my deep dark secrets.

Night!

I Confess

Alright, so I didn't go to the gym last night and I'm probably not going to go tonight. Maybe, I will, but maybe I won't. Probably not.

Alright, so with my little bit of high school literature out of the way what can I dazzle y'all with today. You like my using my fake Texas accent? Well, you see, Alberta, is really just like a Northern Texas. We have Oil, Cattle and Guns. Where am I going with this? I have no idea, so let us move on.

Tonight, I have a hot date.

Okay, well, I guess if you count an evening at home alone with myself a hot date, then I guess I definately have one! Plus throw in the fact that I'm pretty sure that I can get lucky, it might make for an interesting evening. I'm such an easy little slut. :)

In all seriousness, I have no idea what I'm going to do tonight. So, maybe I should make a trip to the gym before I plant my ass on the couch. It would do me a world of good. I suppose there is the small possibility that I might get invited out, but I won't hold my breath on that one.

Wow, I'm not making a whole lot of sense today, I'm not sure why that is. Work is not going as well this week, but perhaps it's just the whole missing the wife thing. I mean we've only been together now for 3 years, only 2 of those years in marriage, but we have been living together for 3. In those past three years, we've at most been apart for two days. So, now having been apart for an entire week is definately a new record for us. It's hard to explain exactly how I feel about the whole thing. It's like I'm missing a limb.

Bah, now I'm just being a whiny little git!

Anyway, I'll probably Blog a lot this weekend. Plus I'll be on Yahoo messenger all weekend. So, if you're bored feel free to send me a message. :)

Bus Trip to Hell

Okay, so I know you didn't ask for it, but here is an exerpt from something I wrote back in high school. Oddly enough I wrote it on a field trip to the "The Royal Tyrell Dinosaur Museum" in Drumheller. It hasn't been edited, and it remains totally unfinished, but I found it the other day and I'm a little bored.

Chapter 1: Ride of a Lifetime

One ordinary day on a high school field trip, something strange happened, something that the kids on this unluxurious charter bus will never forget. The day was over and the group was on their way home. The sun had just dropped out of view and darkness was setting in.

The drive was smooth on the mountanous terrain, and the students were tired after a long weekend. The bus was silent except for the occasionall snore, which didn't seem to bother anyone.

There was a sudden change of terrain as the large, rusty bus turned onto a rocky gravel road. The sudden change only awoke one of the bus' passengers, who was trying to remember his surroundings after a very believable dream.

Jason Tyler, a small but growing boy with spiked hair and a forehead pitted with acne, finally remember that they were returning from a weekend trip in the mountains. It was a short but pleasant trip and turned out to be a great social experience. Although he knew everyone on the bus already, he got to know some people a lot better.

Jason, looked out the window to check the surroundings, but all he could see was his reflection and the reflection of the person sitting beside him. It was Terri-Ann. She was one of the reason's Jason when on this trip, she was also one of the only people Jason did not get to know better. She was short, with short blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes, her face was soft and smooth, carefully decorated with make-up. She was very attractive and the first and only person Jason noticed in his Biology class.

'The only reason she sat down beside me,' Jason thought glancing across the aisle, ' was because her friends were sitting across the aisle. Jason let out a silent sigh and sat back in his seat preparing to drift back to sleep, but couldn't because his mind was filled with visions of what he wished had happened this weekend.

About an hour later the bus pulled to a schreeching halt, interupting the thoughts of the teenage boy. Jason heard the bus door open and then heard footsteps walk down the steps of the bus outside. He could have sworn he was hearing voices coming from outside and then a few moments later the bus slowly began to roll forward.

Jason opened up his window and peered out and saw a convertable sitting on the side of the gravel road. As the bus driver opened the passenger side door, he muttered, "class dismissed." He and the man in the drivers seat chuckled as the bus rolled down the hill.

Jason closed the window and stood up. He tried to pass by Terri-Ann without disturbing her, thinking to himself. 'Okay, don't panic, everything is going to be okay,' but for some reason he knew it was not true.

Terri-Ann awoke as his legs rubbed aginst hers. "Go back to sleep." Jason mumbled, "I'm sorry I disturbed you." She closed her eye's and started to drift back to sleep without saying a word.

Once in the aisle Jason quickly moved up the the drivers seat hoping he could stop the bus before it was too late. He presed hard on the brake, but nothing happened. He stomped on it again and again, but nothing happened.

"Oh, Shit" Jason yelled as he looked out the front window and saw that the bus would soon be rolling dow a steep hill and off the road into the trees. "Everybody wake up," Jason yelled at the top of his lungs. Knowing that there wasn't much time. He kept yelling and yelling and as he ran back to his seat, shaking people awake. Time felt like it was moving in slow motion. "We're out of control, get on the floor," his voice cracked and he tried to call out. Arriving back at his seat Jason pushed Terri-Ann to the floor and laid down on top of her, not really knowing what else to do.

The vehicle began to pick up speed as it rolled down the steep hill and the corner came upon the rusty old bus quickly. With great speed the bus, full of screaming teenagers flew off the road deep into the bushes. Down the hill the bus roared, knocking over smaller trees and barely missing larger ones until it slammed into a large pine near the bottom of the hill stopping the bus dead in it's tracks. The sudden jerk caused people and objects to be flung forward, some crashing through the windshield. Bodies were strewn throughout the bus and on the cold damp ground outside.

"Are you okay?" Jason asked Terri-Ann as he tried to stand.

"I'm fine," she whimpered as she tried to get to her feet.

Just then he noticed a trickle of warm liquid slowly running down his face. He reached up and touched the right side of his forehead. As he touched the wound he cringed in pain. When he brought his fingers back he noticed they were covered in blood. Jason used his other hand to help Terri-Ann to her feet. When she stood up she noticed the large cut on Jason's forehead, "Are you alright?" She asked, "that cut looks pretty bad."

"I'll be okay," Jason replied, as he looked around the bus. He could hear moan's and cries coming from all directions. "But, I don't know about everyone else."

The expression on Terri-Ann's face showed fear and sorrow, as she looked around the wreckage. It looked as though she was about to cry when Jason grasped her with his hands.

"Terri-Ann, you can't fall apart on me, not now, " he said forcefully. "Now, we have to help the living." He hated himself, he could sense her fear, her sadness. He just wanted to hold her and make everything okay. Then he began to doubt himself, maybe everything would have been okay if he had acted sooner.

"Terri-Ann, Terri-Ann," he shook her as he spoke. "Look at me, do you know first aid?"

She nodded slowly as a tear began to trickle down her cheek.

"What I need you to do Terri-Ann, is to start checking the people in the bus and get anyone able to help to help you." Jason said as he touched her cheek with his hand, and looked into her tear filled eyes. "Can you do that for me?"

She nodded again as another tear rolled down the other side of her face. Jason felt a slight twinge of guilt for ordering her around, but he knew that it was important for their suvival.

He ran quickly down the aisle to the front of the bus, which was now a twisted metal wreck and peered through what was left of the windshield. He could see the body of one of the teachers, Mr. Logan, with a broken branch impaled through his midsection, dripping with warm blood.

The sight was gruesome, and left Jason with a nauseating feeling in the pit of his stomach. He had watched horror movies before and laughed along with his friends, but it was nothing like being faced with the real thing. Choking back vomit, he tried to push open the crushed door, but was unsuccessful. He decided to climb out the smashed window, where the body of Mr. Logan lay just outside of. As he stared into Mr. Logan's lifeless eyes he knew that this death was probably just the first of many.



So there you have it. What can I say, other than I think I may have found my true calling in Chemistry. :)

Bachelor Day's

Well only 5 weeks and 3 more days to go. Man you guys suck, not a single comment. I feel so lonely. :(

Anyway, I had promised myself and my wife that I would start going to the gym after she took off and I have to say it's incredibly hard to get motivated to go and punish yourself. At least when you're going with someone else they are being tortured as well. The thing is once I get off my lazy ass and do it I definately feel better about myself, it's just that whole getting my butt in gear that is the problem.

My wife left on Friday, it is now Thursday. I was planning on going to the gym on Sunday, but totally skipped out on it to do nothing more than veg around the house with the dog. I did finally go on Monday, but the whole time I kept telling myself in the back of my mind, you can go tomorrow, just wait one more day. But, I packed up my stuff, stopped listening to the voices in my head and trucked off to the gym. It was painful, very, very painful. The cardio went alright, I did my 30 minutes on the eliptical but when I started doing my leg presses, my legs started turning to jello. I was on the home stretch with a few more excercises to go for my weight routine when I had to stop, my heart was just pounding and I was starting to feel nauseous (maybe I'm pregnant).

So, I felt sore the next day and tired. It's been a while since I last worked out, but I told myself that I'm going back Wednesday and Thursday. Because tuesday I was going out for dinner with the wife of one of our friends and the other couple (her husband was out of town on business). So, dinner went well on Tuesday, but on Wednesday after work I went shopping and bought a bunch of food so I can make some meals at home, and I convinced myself to not go to the gym. I'm such a sucker for myself!

Anyway, tonight I'm already trying to come up with excuses not to go to the gym, but really. I need to get my ass in gear and just go already and get it over with. Add to the fact that I should probably also go on Friday to make up for the fact that I didn't go on Wednesday and that should be enough punishment for my body this week. But it all starts all over again on Sunday.

Anyway, I'm really missing my wife. I even miss the phone call that I usually get during the middle of the work day, where she just says hi and I say hi and then there is silence on the phone becuase neither of us have anything to say and then we hang up. Man I'm lame, totally, totally lame.

Later tonight, if I can find it, I'll post an excerpt of a story that I started to write in high school. So that all of you will know why I didn't decide to become a writer. :)

So, if you're still out there reading somewhere, I'm still looking for ideas of things I can do while the wife is away.

Lonely

Well D-day has come and gone and nobody gave me even a single idea of what I can do with my 6 weeks of bachelor hood!

I already miss my wife quite a bit and it's now only been 3 days, well 4 if you count today. It's like I'm missing a limb. It seems so quiet and empty at home without her. What am I going to do for the next six weeks?

Well this weekend was okay, on Friday I just vegged at home with the dog. I actually ended up falling asleep on the couch around 9:00 while watching a movie on T.V. only to wake up at 11:30 and unable to get back to sleep until 4:00. Needless to say, I felt very tired on Saturday.

Saturday, the dog and I hung out in the morning and then in the afternoon we went to a friends place for a BBQ. There were about 14 people in total and we hung around, ate and played games. It was actually quite enjoyable.

Sunday, the dog and I basically stayed in our air conditioned apartment for most of the day. The couple of times I took him out in the heat, by the time we got back to the apartment he was exhausted. So, around 10:00 PM I took him out for a bit longer of a walk as it's cooled off a bit by then, but it's still quite warm and humid. I hope this stuff goes away soon! During our walk we encountered no wildlife, but we did hear a couple have very vigourous and fun sex. Only another reminder that my wife is going to be away for 6 weeks. :)

Today, I have a lot of work to do, seeing that I took friday off. We got some data back on Friday, so now I have to mine through it and see where I want to head next. I'll be leaving slightly early from work today so I can go home and take the dog for a walk. I wonder how he's going to adjust to my wife not being there during the day? So, far I haven't noticed any real changes in his behavior, but it's only been a couple of days. He'll be very excited to see her in 6 weeks I'm sure. Nothing beats a dog's loyalty. :)

Well my wife did arrive at her workshop on Friday without any complications, but by the time she got there her foot was really sore. As of Sunday night, her foot was apparently very sore and swollen, I guess she's been walking around, up and down stairs far too much. Today the meat of the course begins and I'll find out how things are going tonight. :)

Well there you have it. The weekend update! So, if you have any ideas of what I can do with my bachelor hood, please feel free to post, or if there is something you want me to blog about, just let me know.

Later

D-Day is almost here

So, today is the last day that I will have to spend with my wife. I'm going to check out of work a little bit earlier today to spend some quality time with her. Tomorrow, I drop her off at Philly airport and then I won't see her for 6 weeks.

I'm going to miss her. Ack!

The good news I suppose is that I'll be around much more to blog and post comments on all my loyal readers blogs.

So what would you guys like to see on my blog in the next few weeks?

• More chemistry lessons?
• Some writing I did in high school/after high school?
• More about my family?
• More about how my wife and I met?
• More about the dog?
• More about my geekly activities?

You just let me know what you want to know more about, and I shall comply. No question shall go unanswered. No stone shall go uncovered. I suspect there will be very few questions, so I should be pretty safe making that statement. Wait did I say that out loud.

So, what will I do for 6 weeks without my wife:

• I plan on working out at least 3-4 times a week
• hang out with the dog and take him for a few long walks (not on really hot days)
• play computer games
• play golf with some people at work
• possibly hang out with friends
• read
• watch t.v/movies
• eat lots of food that would make my wifes skin crawl (mmm cheesy chilli fries, I know they're bad for me, but they taste so good, I'm only going to have them once. I even told her that I was going too. She hates them with passion).

Anybody have any other ideas for me? How can I pass the time while the wife is away? I know that before she returns home I'm going to clean the entire apartment, I'm even planning on doing an extra special job of it, maybe it will even get me brownie points.

Gotta run, have a lunch meeting and need to get some work done.

A friendly conversation or is it?

See, a couple of weeks ago, we were having dinner with friends. A nice little BBQ style dinner outside in the nice weather with two other couples. Sounds nice right?

Well at one point in the conversation Home Owners Associations popped up and the two other couples were vehemently against them. The four of them are VERY liberal and seem to be vehemently against almost anything and fairly negative about almost everything. Anyway, usually I just keep quiet and listen. I'm good at listening. In a conversation, I can defend either side, adequately.

Well on that night I decided to state that Home Owners Associations aren't that bad, and listed off a lot of reasons why. Home Value stays higher, less crime, more safe, cleaner. Sure sometimes it can be surreal, but I think that's more of a case of a HOA taken to extreme. Now, of course for defending the evil of HOA's I get blasted on all sides, rudely in some cases.

A couple of the arguments against were:

Q: What if your budget is tight, and your car springs a leak, and you can't afford to fix it?
A: You know ahead of time that your moving into a HOA, it's not like it sneaks up on you. If you can't afford maintenence on your car, perhaps your living above your means, how is that the fault of the HOA?

Q: (One of the people heard of this) A family in a gated community, suffered from molestation/violence and nobody said anything because it was none of their business.
A: Umm so this doesn't happen outside of a gated community?

Q: Well I lived in one and my car was vandalized.
A: Well I didn't live in one and my car was vandalized, statistics are just that. Just because it's statistically unlikely to happen, doesn't mean it won't. But odds are probably in your favor.

So, because I was PRO HOA, several of them became very upset with me. My problem with this is that we're all mature adults or at least I thought we were. We should be able to have a conversation without the rudeness. I honestly don't care if you like them or not, at no point did I make any rude comments about them or there position. I just pointed out some of the facts about HOA's.

At one point I got up to get my wife a drink, at which point, one of the wife's made a snide comment about if he loves them so much why doesn't he just move back. WITH my wife sitting right there? I mean come on? Am I supposed to just nod and agree with everything they say, it seems that they can't have an adult discussion about anything.

There was even another time at dinner where we were discussing authors and all four of them started ranting about how Steven King is a hack and he needs to be edited, yadda, yadda, yadda. This was when I first realized that they just like to complain about anything that is popular without actually thinking about it.

This of course was one other time where I piped up and said, say what you want about him but he found a niche market, and made millions. At which point they all became very angry and insulting. Bleech, so much for nice conversation.

I mean one of them even told my wife that I was scrawny. I mean is that acceptable? Would it be acceptable to tell her husband that she's fat? (which is something I would never do in a million years no matter how true it is, it's just rude)

Ack, I'm just ranting now.

Anyway, last week. Were were having dinner with just one of the couples. Which to be honest is usually a good time. It's when you add the other couple that problems seem to seep out. But on this night, we were discussing movies and we started discussing a movie "Storm of the Century". My wife is a big fan of long Steven King movies, as well as cheesy horror movies. The husband was arguing that the movie was all about god, and that the people were stupid for not realizing that and making the wrong decision. At which point the three of us all disagreed with. He explained, we still disagreed. He ranted, basically called my wife and the rest of us stupid, and then threw a hissy fit and left.

Is this adult behavior? Is it acceptable? At what age should one learn proper social skills?

To be honest, I understand that people have bad days, and I know that sometimes something just rubs you the wrong way on the wrong day. I've been there, it's not a big deal, it happens.

Anyway, I'm not sure where I'm going with this, so I'll just end it here.

Blog'a'Thon Questions

Okay here goes, here are my answers to the blog'a'thon questions that I said I would do:

1 – Your "geekiness" comes through on your blog from time to time, which is generally an unpopular image to have as a pre-teen and teenager. Did your personality traits growing up cause you some discomfort in social cliques? If so, give an example of a detrimental experience which has shaped you into who you are today.2 – You're a native of Canada who has been living in the States for quite some time now. What's the biggest difference you see between these two American cultures?3 – Your wife is going away for an extended period of time soon. What three things will you miss most about her while she's gone? (Bonus points given if, after she returns, you follow up and muse about whether the things you thought you'd miss most about her really were the things you did miss most!)4 – if you were told you had six months to live and then were granted a wish by the people with the resources and inclination to do those sorts of things (or the fairy love goddess who brought us this blog-a-thon, perhaps), what one thing would you want to do before you die?5 – You've spoken about your estrangement with family members and, I believe, that you and your wife do not intend to start your own family. If God/Fate saw fit to bring you your own child, what would be your biggest concern/s upon learning of the pregnancy?

1 - I don't think that my geekiness really caused me any discomfort growing up. I wasn't an uber geek, in the sense that I studied all the time. Things just seemed to come naturally for me. I found that if I just applied myself a little (very little I should add) that I could do fairly well in school. So, I didn't get to bang the prom queen, although in Canada there is no such thing as a prom queen, but I digress. I definately had lots of friends all through my sholastic years, and I always have had 1-4 really good friends throughout my entire life. I feel you don't really need more than 1 or 2 good friends, the rest are really just there for something to do occasionally. My dating life in high school definately was not great, I think it was mainly that I had fairly low self esteem, I was very awkward and that I tended to set my sites super high. This didn't really improve until University, where I had a long term girlfriend throughout. That didn't work out in the end, and I ended up marrying someone else. Long story. So, I suppose being a geek affected me socially, but not really detrementally. I'm still learning to this day how to deal with people, I'm still a fairly shy person in unfamiliar surroundings, but once I get to know people, I'm can be a lot of fun.

2- The biggest difference between Canada and the States? I'd have to say that's a difficult question to answer. I mean they are VERY similar. Our cultures are very similar. I notice a lot of little small things that are different. I mean health care is different, but because I work for a larger company with benefits, you really don't notice the difference. Taxes are different, but becuase I live in New Jersey, I don't really notice the difference :). I can tell you the things I miss most about Canada:

• Slurpees. Slurpees in Calgary are WAY better than anything I've ever had anywhere in the states. I don't know what it is, but Canada just knows how to make slurpees. Here they seem to be very sweet and very airy. I can't really explain it, you really need to taste the difference
• Movie Theatres in Calgary are far superior to any I've been to down here. First, every movie theater has over 1 dozen automated movie ticket booths, meaning no line ups! Second, you actually have several fast food restaurants, starbucks, etc. inside the theatre in addition to regular movie fair. The Kool-Aid slurpees are to die for, trust me.
• Ketchup potatoe chips. I love Ketchup potatoe chips, they are the best. Mmmmm good. Second would be Dill Pickle, another choice not available down here.
• Chocolate bars in Canada aren't packed with wax like down here! I miss my Coffee Crisps. Very good.
• Coke is actually made with sugar, none of this High Fructose Corn Syrup bullshit and Moutnain Dew is Caffeine free.

Wow, there's a lot of food on that list, you'd think I was a fatty! That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I could care less about politics, etc. In general, we have it pretty good here in North America, so really I can't complain too much.

3- My wife is going away on Friday, and I'm really going to miss her. I'd like to say that the thing I will miss most is Sex, but I already miss that, so I'll think of something else. What I'm really going to miss is just having someone there to talk to when I get home, just someone to sit with, or go for a walk with. I will miss just her presence. Plus, I will definately miss having her sleeping beside me, even though I sleep pretty soundly through the night, it's nice to wake up beside someone. She also is the one that gets me up in the morning, usually by kicking my ass out of bed, but I forsee a few late days to work because of me not getting up on time. I'll get to talk to her on the phone I'm sure, but it just won't be the same as having her there. But what three things, hmmm that's tough:

• Waking me up in the morning
• Cleaning (she likes a clean place and I hate cleaning, I help out as much as I can, but I'm not ambitious enough to keep it as clean as she likes)
• Just hanging out on weekends, going for a drive, visiting friends. That kind of thing.

I'm really going to miss her, but I'm very happy for her at the same time. It's a good opportunity for her, and who am I to stop her from that?

4- This question is incredibly difficult. Well I'd definately have to choose between

• Sex with Sarah Michelle Gellar
• Or a trip into space

Perhaps they would let me combine the two for something really exciting. I mean the video alone would sell for millions right? I can dream!

5- Yes, I definately have an estrangement from my family and if my wife were to become suddenly pregnant, that I would most definately become a HUGE believer in GOD, because she'd be carrying around Jesus II. As it stands now, we are unable to have children, so if she became pregnant it would be one hell of a miracle. I don't usually tell people that, I usually just say that we don't want to have kids. Which is true, but the greater truth is that we can't have kids. However, if at some later point in our lives, we wish to have children, there is always adoption or surrogates. If it could happen and it did, I don't think I'd be overly concerned. I think we could do okay as parents. I don't see us in the foreseeable future, trying to adopt or go via another route, but you never know right?

Well there you have it, the answers to the 5 questions. I don't think that I did them all justice, but it's done! If you have any further questions or want more information don't be afraid to ask!

Woah, I've been negletful

Wow,

Sorry it's taken me so long to post, I just can't seem to find a minute at work to write here, which is a good thing and a bad thing.

Good in that things are going well at work, which is making me busier, bad in that I don't get to update the blog. :(

Anyway, things are moving right along, my wife leaves on Friday morning for her workshop, which means soon the dog and I will be a couple of bachelors on the prowl. Which really means that we'll both be eating bad and getting fat. :) Actually I plan on going to the gym a lot while she's away. I've been neglecting going to the gym after her injury because I don't want to leave her home all day when I go to work and then leave her at home again at night. So, I'll get a good six weeks of hard working out while she's gone. Perhaps, I'll be able to bounce a quarter off my ass?

Her foot is getting better, but it's a slow process and it's definately not 100 % yet. There are days that are better than others, but she should be good to go in the next few months. Both of us definately miss working out, it was part of our routine and it's something that you can do that makes you feel better about yourself.

Yesterday we went for a drive up to the Pocono's just for fun, we didn't spend much time there, and we definately didn't take the shortest route up there as we traveled between many small towns in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. But it was a nice drive (thanks to air conditioning).

Work is going well, things are really moving along in our project, we've made some significant leaps and were almost to a point where the real problems are about to start. :) I'm doing well at work and hopefully that continues. I hope I can continue to impress my supervisors!

We had to take the dog to the vet because he had some sort of bit on his right foot and then proceeded to lick, and lick and lick and cause an infection. We were planning on taking him anyway to get his nails clipped, so we just had to make our appointment a little earlier. Let's just say that while we were getting his nails clipped, he carried on like we were cutting off his fingers very slowly. We ended up getting an anti-fungal cream for his foot along with a bad tasting cream. Needless to say he threw up again that night and since we haven't seen him licking his foot, so he's doing much better.

I'm not sure how the dog is going to take my wife being gone for so long. Becuase now he's going to be trapped at home alone during the day. Poor guy. I'll have to find him some bitches!

Let's see, other than a blow up by one of our friends, very little else happened in the past few weeks. I'll try to continue to write more often, I'm sure I will have loads of time once the wife is away. I still have to answer that questionare, so I'll try to get to that today.

I'll be back!