One day as a child, I believe it was in grade 4, I really wanted to watch a show on TV. However, I was doing poorly in school and my mother made it a rule that I couldn’t leave the kitchen table until I was done my homework. I would come straight home excited to be done my boring day and just wanted to indulge in being a kid. But my mother would ( Read more... )

My aunt passed away a few weeks ago. In fact, it was Easter morning. The other day I saw chocolate bunnies for sale at a discount price in a store. I was excited and wanted to buy some for my family and friends for Easter. I actually turned to my mom and asked her how many days it was until Easter. The hospital and funeral were all just a blur. A ( Read more... )

I have a friend at work named Richard. He and I are friends for a number of reasons, but the biggest being that we both love martial arts.

He's in a Kendo class (which was my nickname in university) and doing pretty well at it. One of the things the students there started saying was that all problems in life are due to "not enough Kendo." As well, ( Read more... )

 
I think I should point out that yesterday I was working for my uncle. But he was out at a site meeting the whole day. Therefore, it was just me and my aunt's brother, John in the office. But John has no idea what goes on inside a computer or really what it does. (Honestly, the man is quite incompetent. But I'll rant on that later.)  Therefore, ( Read more... )

I have begun working with/for my uncle today. With my aunt being sick, and then her passing away, my uncle has not been to work in about a month. In his small entrepreneurship, there were only 3 employees, my uncle, my aunt and my aunt’s brother. In her sickness, none were in the office. All of my uncle’s associates at work have been extremely ( Read more... )

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Monday evening we were throwing around ideas for the week. We're here in Florida with my Aunt Clare and Uncle John, and two other coupples and their kids. One of the other cuples wanted to meet up with some friends during the week. But the friend was parinoid of rain on Tuesday, so he wanted to do an outdoor event and decided to do it on Monday. ( Read more... )

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Vacation Part II    ---    Tampa Bay, Florida

We flew to Tampa Bay, Florida today. Now we're jet lagged and waiting to meet up with my Uncle and Aunt who are flying in to meet us and start their vacation, but their flight has been delayed from snow in Buffalo. Hopefully they'll get here by tonight so we can all start fresh tomorrow.

After a day of ( Read more... )

We spent the last two days driving to the Grand Canyon. Took about 5 hours or more to get there and back, but I know that if we didn't try it, we'd be regretful later. So we went. It was so weird to go up in elevation and then down again. In a matter of minutes we went from desert, to low bushes, to taller bushes, to tall bushes and low ones, to ( Read more... )