Boxing Day Bargains...

Well, I finally caved. Yesterday I bought an iPod.

So far it seem pretty good. I've downloaded all my music onto it and have only filled one third of the space. I can't wait until I get home and can start downloading videos onto it.

And this morning I had the inspiration to look for some of the artists that I liked on Rockstar: Supernova. Toby and Magni don't seem to have anything out yet, but I did find Patrice Pike's new album. I really liked her on the show and the original song that she did was great so i didn't hesitate to download the album from iTunes. Ok, I did hesitate for a moment to check if I could download it on Ares for free. Of course I couldn't. I can't wait to listen to the album this afternoon.

Cancer Blows…

I spent the other night with my mom in the Cancer Lodge in Vancouver. She is currently fighting Leukemia and has to go to the nearby hospital on a daily basis for treatment and to get blood.

The lodge itself isn’t such a bad place, sorta like a hotel room. But to stay there for 3 months like she has I’m sure feels like agony.

As I type this we are currently onboard a ferry bound for Nanaimo. Mom wasn’t feeling so well on the car ride from the lodge to the ferry so now she is laying down and resting. Of course, there is not a designated place for doing this, so we have set her up on a box that is used to store curtains that cover the windows when it is dark out such that the interior lights do not interfere with the view of the water. We have gotten a few weird looks, but what are we to do? She desperately needs to rest and this is the only place she can do so.

I hope that she will start to feel a little better in the next few days.

Probably the best Christmas present that she could get this year would be to find a bone marrow donor for her so that she can maybe stop the chemotherapy and start getting healthier. Anyone wanna donate their marrow?

I know she will not stop fighting this but it is hard to see her going through it.

I come for the service, but I stay for the leg room...

Well, I have successfully arrived in Vancouver for the holidays. The flight out here was one of the best I have ever been on.

There are some people who may tell you that there is really no difference between first class and coach class on an airplane. Those people are absolutely wrong.

By giving up the seat I had on my Toronto-Vancouver flight (which I had already switched into to let two other people sit together) to a guy so he could sit with his wife and child, I eventually got bumped up to first class. What a fabulous experience! An abundance of leg room and fully reclining chairs are only some of the perks that come with a first-class ticket. I also got some wine and a meal. And after all that, I got a warm wet towel to clean myself up with.

I will now begin scheming to come up with a way of getting into first class on the return trip on the 31st.

Nothing Yet...

Well here we are, it's Friday night and Michelle has yet to discover her christmas present. Not that this is especially surprising to me.

Of course she could have seen it and is just keeping quiet about it thinking that I still want to surprise her.

Or maybe she thinks that I think that she thinks to let it seems like a surprise.

Damn her mind games....

Just a little test...

My girlfriend Michelle claims that she checks my blog often, so this post primarily is to test my theory that she doesn't.

Because I am going home to Vancouver for Christmas, I will not be able to give her gift to her. When I originally suggested that I could mail it to her she resisted. But the last few days Michelle has gotten more insistent (and pushy) for me to send it to her.

Also, for the last month she has been bugging me to tell her what i got for her. Apparently she doesn't like my hints of 'it's smaller than the empire state building' and 'it's composed of atoms'.

So here goes: I got her a necklace from a store in the Rideau Center. The pendant has some little crystals in it that kind of look like diamonds and it is made of Rhodium (which is apparently related to platinum).

We'll see how long it takes until she finds it...

Here I am....

Yes, I am still here...

Just sitting here watching hockey, as per usual...

Hmmmm, Pittsburgh and the Rangers are going to a shootout now, should be a good one....