The Christmas Bears...
Two things on my mind this morning. Christmas (not that far away) and this past weekend. I'll start with Christmas.
CHRISTMAS
This year I'm staying home for the holidays and I'm super excited. Going to go on the Christmas Eve sleigh ride around Nanton, eat lots of food, play lots of hockey, snowboard with cousins...and open presents.
So...speaking of presents I guess it's time for my "List to Santa". I've heard complaints that guys are tough to buy for. Trust me, we're not. We don't read much as far as hidden meanings into gifts and don't worry about us dropping subtle hints about what we want. If it's not obvious then we didn't mean it. Girls...well some of you are just hopeless. :)
Mike's List 2006
- new jacket (for work)
- snowboard
- iPod stereo system
- Spanish lessons (for computer...why not)
- DVDs (The Benchwarmers, LOST, James Bond, Over The Hedge, Thank You For Smoking)
- might add a few later
NOTE: I'm not actually expecting all or any of this. It's mostly a list of things that are high in my want list and would make for a better winter. Therefore, most might end up as presents to myself.
LONG WEEKEND
First off, I love long weekends. So much that I didn't even mind working Friday...if you call it work. I drove up to Edmonton Thursday night with Luke (who has a fantastic new Nissan XTrail) and discussed the good things about being an engineer with Noel over beers at RATT. I still slept in a bit on Friday but picked up Brendan, coffee, and donuts and made it to the Halliburton Research center in Nisku around 10:00. Matt Skinner and Jacob Schurmann have found great jobs working on Halliburton's new downhole tools. They gave me a tour of the test facility as well as answering my questions about their new vertical and directional drilling tools. They make some pretty neat stuff there.
What else was good about the weekend? The Bears (and Pandas) kicked some serious ass. Watched the Bears hockey team slaughter the Regina Cougars on Friday with Mom, Dad, Noel, and Petey (who's collar bone is recovery nicely). Saturday (after a bit of squash and shopping) I switched sports and watched the Bears and Pandas volleyball teams roll over Winnepeg. Also snuck in to watch a bit of the Bears second hockey game. Much closer than the night before, they tied 3-3, overtime solved nothing, so the shoot out started. The Bears first two shooters scored and that was enough for the win. I need to practice my deaks some more.
Great long weekend, can't wait for my next one!
Mr. Positivity
posted by Mike @ 10:13 a.m.
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Ahhh! It seems WAY too soon to be thinking about Christmas...
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Mike, I apologize but I am not leaving any negative comments. It is not nearly so fun when I have to think about something mean. If it isn't flowing it isn't flowing today it just wasn'. I hope you and real mom can forgive me. Sometimes I am just such a genuine ass that things can flow out of my mouth and it is so real and easy but today isn't one of those days. It could have been becuase of the trecherous drive to Fort Mac or just becuase you have kind of made this something that I should be doing. I mean I enjoyed doing it but then when you start criticizing and real mom starts telling me to cut hard I want to always do better then the one before and my last one was great. I think I need to take a bit of time away from this and just let you feel unburdened from my never ending hate. I was a little dissapointed I didn't get to see you this weekend. I had it all worked out so that you could end up with a girl if you wanted. Trust me their were plenty and plenty of good ones to go around. Oh well, maybe next time. peace out A-town!!
Rockstar
I deleted a couple comments because they were links to webpages I didn't recognize. Seemed like an automatic virus type thing so I hope I didn't take out a link to someone's legitimate home page.
Rocky...life is too short for negativity. I hope our relationship can grow through love and good will. *cough*loser*cough*
Guess we better get Mother Teresa looking into the Hay ride!
HAY RIDE?! Super Fun!
Are you looking for a "friend" for the holidays to take home to meet the family/community? I'm sure we could work something out, eh? I'm sure Nevin wouldn't mind ;)
... ok... maybe not...
I am jealous though. It sounds like the holidays at the Tenove's is a good time. The hay ride was just one step closer to being as good as PV... but we've still got the fair which beats everything in any season.
I am coming for the hay ride don't worry I am looking forwards to my first tenove christmas. It seems much better then my families is so I hope you dont mind. All we do is work and stuff and I would much rather have a hay ride. not only that I have seen some pictures and word on the street is that real mom is quite the looker so I think this would be a great oppurtunity for me to come out. If this poses any potential problems let me know and I will arrange to have them fixed. thanks.
Rocky
P.S. Our love will continue to grow mike don't worry i think by you coughing out the words loser you will forever have the loser out of your system so now we can be cool together.
Hey Rocky,
Cool Dad says he is looking forward to meeting you too. Remember this is Mr. Positivity talking about Christmas and that he would be around too. Kyla bring Nevin.
Just thought that I would just write a comment on here, since I'm too lazy to maintain my own site.
So you all know the milk commercial about the new contest where if your milk "moo's" at you, then you win, well.... this morning at breakfast with Nevin. My milk moo-ed at me. The odds of winning instantly like that are 1 in 1950. Must mean that I won something good right..... NAY. I won a skin for either my ipod or cell phone, which is pretty much a sticker. 1 in 1950 for a sticker. I was less than impressed. Anyways, thats my big rant, please go back to talking about christmas.
Luke
Luke i love your comment!!! You made my effin day. Wow. that is awesome. I haven't stopped laughing since I read it becuase I can just imagine the disappointment across face once you found out.
Rocky
Luke does that make your glass of milk half empty or half full? Last time a cow mooed at me she proceeded to kick over the milk bucket. Sorry Mike, we are off topic. What did you want for Christmas again?
I'd say the glass is still half full. After all, besides the skin, it did come with a free milk coupon, so I could get an actual beverage, so that brought me positive. I was actually thinking of designing a skin to fit Mike's blackberry and making it pretty funny looking, or bright pink, either or.
Luke
Naw, just get the standard 'Naked Men' design for the gayberry. Or you could even make a new design from the naked men pictures I found on mikes computer.
Anybody want to go to Whistler with me this winter?
Jeff
jeff were the naked men pictures from good sites though or were they from the ones that give your computer stuff. I was just curious, maybe nevin would know something about it. ha ha ha.
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