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Where to begin. This weekend proved to be amazing much like the last. I will admit it did have a sketchy start though. Brittainy and her friend Melissa came out to Manor. Now, what you might not know is that Winnipeg to Manor is a 3.5 hour drive. 4 at best.... or worst I guess. Now, Friday there was a terrible storm going through our area. I'm talking rain, freezing rain, and snow, not to mention high winds. All the shit you don't wanna drive thorough. I felt like a meteorologist the entire day. Listening to people talk about the road conditions and what might be happening weather wise over the course of the next 24 hours. Long story short, I relayed all this information back to Britt and the trooper that see (and Melissa) is, she decided to come. It took them 8!!!!! hours to get here. Things were a little tense when they got here at 5AM, but everyone cooled down pretty quick. I cannot thank them enough for coming.

The weekend was great. They met the few people we know out here and got along with everyone. Good times were had by everyone. By the time Sunday hit I was pretty bummed to see her go. But that's how these things work. I never really thought a long distance relationship would be that hard. But after dealing with the funk that I was left in after they left I know now it's much harder than I had ever guessed it would be. Don't get me wrong though, i'd do anything for this girl, already I feel that way. It's like... she is the person I would change myself for, and yet all she wants me to be is myself. I saw that first hand this weekend, and there isn't anything more attractive then hearing that. I just want to be wanted. Seems like such a simple concept.

I could go on forever about how she makes me feel. But I'm sure I tell her that waaaay too often and i'm also gonna assume that the people that read this (if anyone) might not ever care. I do, but I guess I can leave some stuff to myself and the rest just for her ears.

This week is going to be a quick one. I have a bunch of work to do at my Office job. Tina is gone so i'm responsible for getting out the ad and press release I Photoshopped out to 4 different publications. Lots of phoning around and confirming sizes and dates and stuff. It should be a breeze.

This weekend I get to see her again. Thursday after work I head to Winnipeg. Friday the two of us head to Barrie to visit and celebrate a friends birthday. It should be a most stellar time! Oddly enough that Friday falls on the day that we started dating one month ago. The idea of flying somewhere with my girlfriend is pretty cool. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to it.

Bit of a follow up. That painting I did last week. I gave it away! I have never given any of my paintings away, so I thought this would be a good one to start with. She was so pumped when I showed her it, that naturally I wanted her to have it. I think deep down it was her that was my inspiration to finish it. The Marley quote and everything. It just made me think of her. So if she could hang it somewhere and have it remind her of me, I can't really argue with that.

Skate stuff. Put up a new Dungeon Sesh on FB. I'll try to get it up on all my other sites ASAP. My shoes are toast! So... no skating for me. Those Supra's did not last long at all. Kinda depressing. Maybe i'll grab some shoes this weekend in the city. Try to find some size 14's on the sale racks hahah. Time will tell. Thanks for listening. More to come.

I Forgot

Recently I've been helping out a friend by doing some pretty basic Photoshop stuff for him. He tells me what he needs, I do it up and he deposits a few bucks in my PayPal account. I like helping people and getting paid never hurt anyone. Here are a few of the things i've done for him.

Edit of a photo to promote his new single and music video.

Header for his cover letter to send out to record labels.

I'm back...

Alright. So it has been a while since my last post. Guilty? Yes. I have been a busy man. I last left off on a big skating kick. You should know that i'm still feelin' that. I've bought two 500 watt halogen lights for the basement and have been continuing to session down there. Learning a new tricks or two a week is the best feeling ever. More on that later. Speaking of the best feeling ever, let me tell you about my weekend.

Friday I left work early at 3PM and hit the highway. Destination: Winnipeg. What did I leave work early for, what did I so badly want to do in Winnipeg? Spend time with my girlfriend. And spend time with her I did. I got into the city around 7. Stopped and tried to buy her sunflowers (her fav) and had to settle for something that looked very similar only smaller. I think she loved them. Friday night was all chill. She wasn't feeling well so we took it easy. Watched Wonderland (2003) then pretty much called it a night. Knowing that Britt was pain and very uncomfortable I found it very hard to fall asleep as I was more concerned about her rather than my own self. I did everything I could to make her feel comfortable and try to fall asleep.

Saturday. Sleep in. Get a call from what sounded like my drunk brother and drunk friend. They are heading to the city and looking to get fucked up. We decided to meet them at the mall. We walked to breakfast at Stella's and then headed for Polo. After a essentially pointless trip to the mall we headed to my favorite Winnipeg skate shop, Green Apple. I bought a new wall board that was on sale, and two new local Winnipeg videos. Both are awesome I might add. While there Brittainy showed me this skateboard that ironically had nothing but a big sunflower on it. Upon leaving she made the smallest comment saying that she would totally hang that up at her place. I said nothing. :) Back to the condo to chill and then Joey and Jamie arrived. Soon after Melissa (Britt's friend) arrived and we were off to get some supper. The Keg downtown was fucking PACKED so we walked over to Earl's instead. The meal was great. I had a few drinks with supper and it was a good time. I should probably add that I was messed up on something prior to going to eat. For the first time in my life, I got high that day. That may make me a hypocrite but it happened. I dunno if it worked as well as it should have, but it happened. I have no complaints. Super was kinda crazy. It felt like I was eating in slow motion, haha. Wild. After supper we headed back to the condo and then randomly played some catch phrase and called a limo to take us to and from the bar. The bar we choose was Cowboys. It was pretty lame. Good company of course, but the bar was not my thing. I was drunk and high at this time. Not sure what time we all got back to the condo, but we crashed pretty hard.

Sunday. Lazy day. Slept in obviously. Joey and Jamie left early. Britt and I woke and made some food. Melissa finally came to and before long, some friends came over to watch the football game. The game was intense! After the game was over everyone left and it was just Britt and I. We watched some TV and basically just dreaded the idea of me leaving at any time. I then got on her computer and cleaned a few things up. Dazzled her with my geekiness perhaps. I then thought I would update her phone for her. The thing about Blackberry's and Mac's are that.... the softwear is shotty, really bad. So I ended up bricking her phone. I couldn't stand the thought of leaving her with no working phone and instantly felt like shit. I needed a PC to fix it. It was already after supper but I need to fix what I had done. We called her friend and drove to the South side of the city and after and hour or so I had it back and running. Minus everything she had on her phone.... still feel bad about it. (I'm sorry) By this time it was dark. I needed to leave as I had to work at 8AM the next morning. I drove Britt home and walked her up to her place and said my goodbyes. I hate goodbyes, and have never been good with them. Hugging her goodbye I discovered if I had the chance I could stare into her eyes for hours. That made leaving even harder.

8PM and I left the city. Got home at 11:30PM. Made short work of the drive. I was RIPPING! Which isn't good because something was wrong with my car. I found out Monday the front CV joints are gone. I definitely should not have drove to Winnipeg! But I don't think anything would have stopped me. $420 later I ordered new CV joints and will get them put in next week probably. Just in time to go back to Winnipeg. :)

Due to leaving so very late Sunday and not wanting to sneak away, As soon as Monday morning rolled around I called Mike from Green Apple and bought that board for Brittainy. It's being held as we speak. Sly dog I can be.

So yeah, my weekend was great! Very busy, hence not being able to update this blog.

This week i've been working lots. Skated once. Filmed. I'll have a small edit up soon.

Hit Estevan last night for a well needed Wal-Mart run. I think I have enough groceries for the next 6 months now. That is good.

Britt and Melissa are coming here Friday night. I cannot wait. As much as that means i'm going to have to say goodbye again, the hello, and time spent with her make it very much worth while. Tonight i'll be cleaning the house top to bottom. Haha.

Not much else to report. I got some photos to share. I painted last night! A concept that i've been thinking about for a long time. I got the idea from an old Element ad, but just didn't know how I wanted to go about it. I guess I had some extra inspiration last night and got shit done.

While skating this week I completely fucked my shoes, which turned into my sock then my baby toe. You'll see what I mean by the photo. And yes, that is blood on my grip. I know no pain I guess. Or when to quit. Silly me.

Waiting for some stuff in the mail. That is exciting. I'll let you know when the stuff arrives.

This could be my biggest post ever. I'm sure most people find it lame and dumb, but it's really just a compilation of my day to day, which I can see and agree with why it would be boring. I really like writing and if this is my only creative means of doing so, i'm gonna do it. So on that note, here are some photos.

The aftermath of not noticing my shoe and sock had been worn away.

The board that is soon going to be hanging in the condo of my girlfriend.

The painting I did last night.

The board that I bought at Green Apple. On sale due to being warped. I'm a sucker for Mac themed stuff.

Dungeon Footy

Dungeon Photos.... As Promised.

It's nothing much and the photos suck. All unedited. But this is what I have to work with all winter looooooong.

Last Night.

Last night. A night like any other. Got home earlier than usual. Made supper. Grilled chicken breasts on the George Foreman with some Montreal Chicken Spice. Delicious. Spent some time on the computer as usual. Talked with Britt like any other night. She is really sick and that hurts me to know that there is nothing I can do about it. All that aside after a while I had the urge to skate.

And skate I did. I headed downstairs to the basement. Started the sesh with just simple flat stuff. Back and forth. Ollie, BS 180, FS 180, fakie ollie, fakie BS 180, fakie FS 180, pop shuv, fakie shuv, kickflip, tre flip, variel flip, fakie big spin.... so on an so forth. Most of my tricks that I feel comfortable enough doing in the tight quarters. Then I set up my rail and tried doing some of those tricks over it. Ollie, BS 180, FS 180, kickflip and after a while a huge BS flip. Tried pop shuving it but could not stop hitting it right before I pop, more work is needed on that one. Took a break for some water. By this time I had already removed my long sleeve, ripped my right lace in more than 3 spots and completely tore the entire left leg of my PJ pants open. A good sesh, no less. Grabbed some water, and had a break, was starting to stiffen up so I headed back down, as I had some unfinished business. This time I popped a few tricks to loosen up and set the rail up to be used as it was mean't to be. Right off the bat I did 5 tricks in a row no stopping. FS 50, FS 5-0, BS board, BS board to fakie and BS noseslide. I then began to try tricks that I didn't have down pat. I ended up getting a bs noseslide to fakie, FS tailslide, FS tailslide to fakie, FS 50 180 out, 5-0 to tailslide, BS crook, and a smith grind. Then it was on to trying tricks I had never really done before. I fucking nailed FS salads. I have done them on a box before but on this flat bar felt so awesome! I'm a huge FS guy if you didn't already know. BS kinda scares me. So I decided I wanted to learn BS 50's on the bar. Took me a while to get my weight right when landing on the rail but it payed off and I rolled one out. After all the back 50 attempts and landing my smith very easily, I was determined to get a BS feeble. It didn't even take me 10 tries and I tweaked one out. Overall it was a great skate. I wish I was summer and I could take all this to the streets, but I should be happy with what I have. I'll take some pictures of the 'Dungeon' and post them later tonight. I'd really like to build some mini quarter pipes for down there.... we'll see.

Anyways. It's been a while since I had a good skate related post. Skating goes hand in hand with my happiness and I can assure you it's at an all time high these days. Speaking of skate stuff. Check out the new Don't Fear The Sweeper Tour Video Part One on the NikeSB site. Great stuff!

So until next time... Which should be later tonight when I post some pics. Later.

75th Post.

Today started like any other day in the last month. I woke up thinking of her. For no specific reason. Didn't dream about her, just woke up and there she was. On my mind. I rather enjoy waking with a smile on my face. It's been happening consecutively now for a while.

I've been working lots since i've been back. Overtime everyday durning the week and working on weekends as well. If only for a few hours it's still work. Guess i'm just thinking of the money and paying off my VISA that I kinda went crazy with in London.... damn camera lenses. I think I have an addiction to spending money. Fuck, it's only money and you only live once. Actually, I think I may have a few other addictions come to think of it. Would all addictions be considered terrible? I would like to think not. Who really knows though.

Speaking of addictions. I've mentioned two thus far. Her! And well my desire to spend money and surround myself with awesome things. Things that I seem to find awesome at least. A few others that could be mentioned are skateboarding and my desire to create through a variety of what I consider to be artistic mediums.

I sit here at working just wanting to be doing something more creative. I can't help but think of ideas for paintings and photographs. I really want to buy a new video camera for this spring, something HD! Maybe i'm getting ahead of myself though. I want to skate so bad! The basement just doesn't cut it. I mean it ties me over, but it's not as free as skating should be. There should be no limitations to something I enjoy so much. That goes for anything.

This summer is going to be interesting. Who knows where I'll be and what I'll be doing. Skating will definitely be happening where ever I am though. It kinda bums me out to think that i know nobody out here who skates. Zero. The nearest skate park is an hour away. Spots.... well don't exist from what I can see. Maybe that will all change when the snow melts. Who knows. I'm hoping to get back to Fort for maybe a week or something to hang and skate. I miss the crew and the atmosphere there. So laid back and just chill. Considering the shitty summer I had with everything that went down and breaking my wrist, I always knew the park was a place good times were to be had. I've never looked back.

Aside from dealing with a shitty cold this past week, I feel great. I feel so lucky about where I'm at right now. Things seem to be going really well for me. On the same note, same with the guys I live with. My brother has an amazing job and it literally set for life. He's trying to hook Jamie up with a better job as we speak. I think if we stick to things the three of us can really do good out here.

This weekend I watched Zombieland and The Invention of Lying. Both were pretty awesome in their own ways. Zombieland was badass and I couldn't help but love the editing and the effects. Something as simple as the rules of Zombieland constantly being thrown into the scenes really made me like it that much more. The Invention of Lying was hilarious and a very original concept I thought. It wound down to a very typical guy gets girl ending, but it was worth the watch. I enjoyed them both.

Last night I stated watching Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. I didn't get very far but I think this movie is going to be amazing! I don't know how I let it slip through my fingers considering it came out in 2004. I liked how the intro was very long and kinda leaves you guessing. So far it reminds me how amazing of an actor Jim Carey is. Kinda shocking to see Kate Winslet with blue hair and all. She can pull it off though. I look forward to finishing this film. I will let you all know what I think when I do.

This is my 75th post. So much for the everyday thing like I had intended. I guess that means I moved outta Fort Frances and might actually have other things to do aside from sit here and write about working at Wal-Mart. Not so terrible after all. :)

This makes me feel cool.

But what makes me feel cooler is helping my girlfriend install Adobe Photoshop CS3. Actually... her alone makes me feel cool, among many other great great things.

Phhhhhhones.

Phones. Such a tease. Just like the computer and everything else modern. I just want to be with her face to face. Words cannot describe what I would do to make that happen right now. I'm feeling very artistic today. I wish I was at home painting, not at work.... all sick. Least I have her to talk to for most of my day. :)

Below are some photos I've taken this morning. Self portraits, hardly edited at all, I have so many flaws, but I don't mind. Also some phones. I just love the detail in them. I want a Macro lens.... and a fisheye. Someday.....

Massive Update.

So here I sit back in Manor, SK.

The holidays are over and life is back to normal. Well somewhat. I sit here happier than I was before my second last post. I say this because I have a girlfriend now. An amazing one at that. I'd be lying if I said I didn't see this coming. Me... confident? Perhaps cocky? Meh... But yes. Brittainy. Where to start? We just came together. Couldn't stop talking to one another for over two weeks. It was an addiction, and it went from there. I ended up giving her a Christmas Card and in it I wrote a little something special with the question asking her out at the bottom. Followed by two boxes, one labeled 'Yes' the other

labeled 'No'. I was happy to see her face light up and run to find a pen. Shortly after she returned and showed me 'Yes' was circled. More than once. :) We hung out all break and had an amazing time. New Years we chilled with her family in Rainy River of all places. The most mellow New Years of my life, but by far the best. Bringing in the New Year on such a chill note and with someone i've really grown to care about in a short time was amazing. I cannot say enough about her. How she makes me feel and how much I look forward to spending more time with her. The thing is, we live 3 hours away from each other... this is different for the both of us. I will do whatever I can to see her as much as possible. I wouldn't have got myself into this if I didn't think it would work out. For the first time in 6 months. I am happy.

Christmas. Busy.

Went home for a night. Slept. Went to Winnipeg the next day. Slept. Caught an early flight to Toronto. Spent 4 days in Stratford. Hit up Boxing Days in London and bought these!

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-EF-50mm-f-1.8-II-Lens-Review.aspx

http://www.sigmaphoto.com/lenses/lenses_all_details.asp?navigator=6

http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-430EX-II-Speedlite-Flash-Review.aspx

Spent waaaay too much. But some of it was Christmas m

oney sooo...

Headed to Toronto at 4AM on the 29th. Caught a plane back to Winnipeg, drove straight home. Party at my place. Got drunk. Asked Britt out. *she said yes :)* Shut er down sometime around 4AM.... long day, but so worth it. Tyler Briggs was in attendance. I think he dug the OG Emo crew. Good times were had.

Chilled in Fort, mainly with Britt. Visited with as many people as I could. Most notables. Sydney and TK. Found out I suck at snowskating in Emo.... so hard!

New Years in Rainy with my gal and her family. Wooped her 6 year old sister in Mario Kart on the Wii. But then her 13 year old brother taught me a ser

ious lesson in Baseball and Tennis on WiiPlay. I suck.

Spent the last few days just trying to spend as much time with Brittainy and the my friends and family as possible.

Saying goodbyes always suck, but on the morning of the 3rd that's exactly what I was doing. I ended up forgetting my wallet. Luckily Jamie and I were only in Manitou when I realized and my parents came to Emo to drop it off for me. 9 hours later we arrived in Saskatchewan. Long and shitty drive. Both of our phones died with like 4 hours left in the trip. Not texting made it extra shitty. I ended up sleeping for most of the trip after Winnipeg, I felt bad, but nothing I could do...

Back to work today. Work is good. Lots to be done like always. I'm looking forward to taking more photos with me new gear and obviously getting to see Brittainy as soon as possible.

Tonight I had a pretty good little skate sesh in the basement. Bout 30 minutes of flat and then another 30-45 minutes of flat bar. I miss skating... but not

as much as I miss Britt.

Another day another dollar.

I took this photo in Stratford. This is my little cousin Gracie. She is so cute. She would not leave me alone. I'm a sucker for cute kids.

Until next time.

Back To The Freezing Plains.

Just got home tonight. Lots of unpacking and chatting was done.

I have some pretty serious, awesome happy news to be shared.

I think I will leave that for tomorrow. Big post tomorrow. I hope.