Well yesterday was somewhat un-eventful. Took an easy day, tied up some loose ends, and chilled. Then we went out for some delicious dinner, and I was missing some home cooked meals, so I had some sheppards pie hoping it was like mom's. NO where near as good as homes. Oh well, the bread pudding dessert made up for it as it was delicious. Hit the hay early, read a bit before. Boom out go the lights.
Today was an office day, and more TOK sessions. My pin collection is looking sharp. I will post a picture of it, and the rest of my pics soon I promise. I get to go see boxing tonight, the event ive wanted to see the most this week. Its at the Forum, a famous oldschool rink here in Hali, my mind will hopefully be blown. Talk to you later.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Never again going to have a beavertail in Ottawa
Oh my oh my,
We went to Martock yesterday (one of the two ski-hills) where I saw my first medal ceremony. It was awesome. Seeing everyone who qualified to grab a medal finally get it around their neck was awesome. The smiles on their faces (minus the one who was pissed because they announced the wrong province) was a great sight to see.
It was also the first time I have seen a snowboard halfpipe in person. I thought it was massive and huge, turns out it wasn't even a full sized halfpipe. Damn.
I also received a medal so to speak, in the form of a Beavertail. I don't know about you, but Ottawa, please update your boring Beavertail Menu. After exploring the new flavours and catching the drool from my mouth, I decided not to go with "The Avalanche" which was vanilla icing or something and crushed oreos on top. Instead I chose to go with one that's name couldn't even be remembered, the amazingness of a cheesecake spread, chocolate syrup, and crushed Skor pieces. I literally, honestly, drooled on my shirt by accident. It left me speechless.
Night time saw us at Bubba Rays Pub for another mission party. It was delicious. They had a chicken wing buffet, along side shrimp, mussels, and other seafood. The chicken wings were excellent, and they had 12 sauces to choose from to throw on it. Was yummy yummy in my tummy. Then to wash it down, I had discovered that on that night they were selling $3.00 pint of Heineken. SOOOOOO GOOOOOOODDDDD. Night ended, I passed out, was very very happy.
Peace out
We went to Martock yesterday (one of the two ski-hills) where I saw my first medal ceremony. It was awesome. Seeing everyone who qualified to grab a medal finally get it around their neck was awesome. The smiles on their faces (minus the one who was pissed because they announced the wrong province) was a great sight to see.
It was also the first time I have seen a snowboard halfpipe in person. I thought it was massive and huge, turns out it wasn't even a full sized halfpipe. Damn.
I also received a medal so to speak, in the form of a Beavertail. I don't know about you, but Ottawa, please update your boring Beavertail Menu. After exploring the new flavours and catching the drool from my mouth, I decided not to go with "The Avalanche" which was vanilla icing or something and crushed oreos on top. Instead I chose to go with one that's name couldn't even be remembered, the amazingness of a cheesecake spread, chocolate syrup, and crushed Skor pieces. I literally, honestly, drooled on my shirt by accident. It left me speechless.
Night time saw us at Bubba Rays Pub for another mission party. It was delicious. They had a chicken wing buffet, along side shrimp, mussels, and other seafood. The chicken wings were excellent, and they had 12 sauces to choose from to throw on it. Was yummy yummy in my tummy. Then to wash it down, I had discovered that on that night they were selling $3.00 pint of Heineken. SOOOOOO GOOOOOOODDDDD. Night ended, I passed out, was very very happy.
Peace out
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Back at it
Ok, so I gave up on my day by day blog. I clearly don't have the energy to come home every night and blog, I would much rather go crash, as I have done the last few nights. Oh well. So what has been new and exciting with me over the last few days?
- Yesterday I spent hours upon hours unloading and loading athlete luggage and sport equipment. It was extremely intense. Let's just say for training camp next year, I am going to see if my kids can do this for a few hours. It was nuts. Some of the things were massively heavy. And seeing everyone coming through to check in for their flight was nuts also. Lululemon pants need to have laws along the lines of alcohol and cigarettes. That is you need to show ID to prove you are above 19 to wear those pants! All the lugging reminded me of my good old Freeman days with Duppa.
- After however many days here, I have finally called to get cable and internet. We had to unplug the internet to get cable, and apparently our neighbours below us (CGC coworkers) nark on our internet, so they weren't happy when I tried to watch the game!
- I got to see the last 3 songs of Great Big Sea the other night. It was a packed house. Amazing atmosphere! So cool to see a concert right in the heart of downtown.
- I got to see the bronze medal hockey game. Was a great game with a big comeback for the win. I got offered gold tickets, but I was already back in bed, so I gladly declined :P.
- Today I truly felt what the Canada Games was all about. I went to eat lunch at the Metro Centre and watched some hockey. I think it was Manitoba and Alberta playing or something like that. Either way I was alone in the
free beerVIP box and there was maybe 100 people in the stands, MAYBE. Either way the little lady from Manitoba scored a goal. She got to the bench after celebrating like mad, and when she looked up at the board, she noticed they were showing her on the bench! She lost her mind! The Canada Games is a high level of competition, theres no doubt. But it has the unfortunate situation of always being compared to the Olympics. For girls like this, she will likely never have the opportunity to walk in a closing ceremony, score a big goal for her province, who knows, maybe never get put on the big screen for popping in a geeeeno. The Games give those the opportunity to feel like a celebrity, for maybe their only time. - Got to see my coach-manager meeting/medical meeting/athletes village tour today. Pretty interesting stuff. Felt like the coach manager meeting could have turned into a battle royal, but unfortunately got sorted out.
- Went to a mission party with the Marketing team and a gal from Forzani (the peeps who own Sportchek). Was a great party with great people. First talked to the people from TSN including Catriona LeMay Doan, and all the other big wigs and workers with TSN. Then went downstairs to the party to eat, yes, a create your own mashed potato bar. You plop your mashed taters in the bows, and add anything from sauteed onions, mushrooms, bacon, cheese, etc... and plop some gravy on top. My god I was happy. Had some good times with the marketing crew, and Kelly who was the forzani gal, great gal.
- Right before that I watched Hey Rhianna with LJ and her amigo, interesting band, not my cup of tea. Went home and cranked some Petty.
- Bought my kids and family some souvenirs. Bit expensive for what I bought, but they better like it!
- Applied for 3 jobs! Hopefully I can snag one, end of April will come very quick sadly, and my time will unfortunately be done with CGC :(. If you see something, let me know!
- Got to cruise around in a Lancer yesterday. Sure its a Mitsubishi, but I still miss my focus.
- Heard my lads are kicking some butt in Rochester. 1-1-1, but enough to make the finals, will be thinking of ya in the morning boys!
- Did more groceries. More pickles, but some sandwich stuff this time.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Feb 15th
This was my favorite day so far out of them all. On the 14th, I made a great shift trade in my opinion. I took the 7-11am shift (I built a threshold thanks to the Knights 7am practices) in exchange for my 3-7pm shift. Why you ask? Well after my TOK session which was done at 1:30, I had the rest of the day until dinner to do what I felt!
First stop was the Wheelchair Basketball competition with LJ and her friend Steph. I must say, Wheelchair Basketball is one of the most insane sports I have ever seen in my life. It has contact, chirping, almost fights, and faceplants. It is nuts. I would die. Literally. I would fall over on a chair I am strapped to, smash nose first into the floor, and bleed to death.
After the basketball, Steph went her own way and LJ and I went off to the Metro Centre (remember my VIP story from the 14th...). Well there was a big hill in the way as you who have been to Hali know. We decided to race up the hill. I was no gentleman, LJ I whooped your butt! We then took a death walk down the ice stairs, lost all 9 lives for sure doing those, and finally got to thefree beer Metro Centre. PEI vs NB in a snoozer of a game. LJ also was quite giggly today which made it much more entertaining, I don't think I wasn't laughing for more than 2 minutes. Was a great day.
Night time I decided to try and pick up chicks at the Canadian Women in Sport event. I was one of a total of 3-4 males who attended. The other 3-4 were married. I still didn't pick up. Win some you lose some, but I lost a bunch there.
Final stop of the evening was birthday dinner for Andre at Salty's. The seafood was epic, the wine was great, and talking with Tiff, Kim, LJ, JP, and Sue not about work, and having a good time laughing away was well needed for us. It was truly one of the most enjoyable times I have had with the CGC.
I got home, heard that the Knights romped the Rams 6-1 (also forgot the shout out to the win the night before when they beat the Blues!) and began to think that I should just stay here as they are flying! Keep up the good work all of you, and those who are injured, take your time and come back 100% and ready to win a playoff championship! I slept great that night. My mind was at ease, my spirits were sky high, and 7 hours helps too!
First stop was the Wheelchair Basketball competition with LJ and her friend Steph. I must say, Wheelchair Basketball is one of the most insane sports I have ever seen in my life. It has contact, chirping, almost fights, and faceplants. It is nuts. I would die. Literally. I would fall over on a chair I am strapped to, smash nose first into the floor, and bleed to death.
After the basketball, Steph went her own way and LJ and I went off to the Metro Centre (remember my VIP story from the 14th...). Well there was a big hill in the way as you who have been to Hali know. We decided to race up the hill. I was no gentleman, LJ I whooped your butt! We then took a death walk down the ice stairs, lost all 9 lives for sure doing those, and finally got to the
Night time I decided to try and pick up chicks at the Canadian Women in Sport event. I was one of a total of 3-4 males who attended. The other 3-4 were married. I still didn't pick up. Win some you lose some, but I lost a bunch there.
Final stop of the evening was birthday dinner for Andre at Salty's. The seafood was epic, the wine was great, and talking with Tiff, Kim, LJ, JP, and Sue not about work, and having a good time laughing away was well needed for us. It was truly one of the most enjoyable times I have had with the CGC.
I got home, heard that the Knights romped the Rams 6-1 (also forgot the shout out to the win the night before when they beat the Blues!) and began to think that I should just stay here as they are flying! Keep up the good work all of you, and those who are injured, take your time and come back 100% and ready to win a playoff championship! I slept great that night. My mind was at ease, my spirits were sky high, and 7 hours helps too!
Back track to Feb 14th
My God, it is two nights after the peppers, and the gas they have given me would battle anyone and win. ANYONE. I think I woke up my neighbours at one point. I def woke up myself.
Observer program was in full swing today.Taped two sessions, and man is the discussion good stuff. Was really nice to see everyone so focused and they are asking questions like crazy. No politician answers either.
For those of you who don't know, the Observer Program is a bunch of sessions and activities at the Canada Games put together for other groups to come and learn. We have Sherbrooke 2013, Prince George 2015, the 2015 Pan Am Games, the Aboriginal Games, The Western Canada Games, and some other groups all here to learn and talk to the people that know EVERYTHING. It is amazing
So after the second session of the day (had some crappy salad and chowder in between for lunch, but oh well. I continue to back up my theory of anyone who says they have the best, is usually the worst) I had an office shift, and that flew by. Me, Aaron and Isi then went to catch the Hockey Game at the Metro Centre. It was Ontario vs whoever they beat. BC maybe. Either way, Greig you can attest to this, they have an Ottawa boy on the team who I have reffed many times. Looks pretty good. They also have one kid, whats his name, oh Subban, younger brother of PK, he's tearing it up.
But the best surprise of the evening was when we actually got to the rink and made our way up to the VIP box (which we have access to because we go where we want, when we want!) I felt my tongue a little dry and decided to wet my whistle. I ask for a Keith's and as I pull out my wallet, she gives me a strange look. Oh God No. Life changed, work no longer a thought of mine. Free beer at the VIP box in the Metro Centre. Good night Halifax!
Made it home at some hour, thought about typing these blogs up, decided to have another beer and wham, out cold. GOOD DAY!
Observer program was in full swing today.Taped two sessions, and man is the discussion good stuff. Was really nice to see everyone so focused and they are asking questions like crazy. No politician answers either.
For those of you who don't know, the Observer Program is a bunch of sessions and activities at the Canada Games put together for other groups to come and learn. We have Sherbrooke 2013, Prince George 2015, the 2015 Pan Am Games, the Aboriginal Games, The Western Canada Games, and some other groups all here to learn and talk to the people that know EVERYTHING. It is amazing
So after the second session of the day (had some crappy salad and chowder in between for lunch, but oh well. I continue to back up my theory of anyone who says they have the best, is usually the worst) I had an office shift, and that flew by. Me, Aaron and Isi then went to catch the Hockey Game at the Metro Centre. It was Ontario vs whoever they beat. BC maybe. Either way, Greig you can attest to this, they have an Ottawa boy on the team who I have reffed many times. Looks pretty good. They also have one kid, whats his name, oh Subban, younger brother of PK, he's tearing it up.
But the best surprise of the evening was when we actually got to the rink and made our way up to the VIP box (which we have access to because we go where we want, when we want!) I felt my tongue a little dry and decided to wet my whistle. I ask for a Keith's and as I pull out my wallet, she gives me a strange look. Oh God No. Life changed, work no longer a thought of mine. Free beer at the VIP box in the Metro Centre. Good night Halifax!
Made it home at some hour, thought about typing these blogs up, decided to have another beer and wham, out cold. GOOD DAY!
Back track to Feb 13th
So we left off with me sleeping 4 hours, and having a stomach full of hot peppers. Not just any normal hot, but like death hot. People were crying on difficulty 2 of 5, some quit half way through, but me an 8 others succeeded.
Either way, I was driving around various delegates to 6 venues and despite how tired I was, wow it was impressive seeing all these places.
First stop was Citadel High School, a new highschool which is hosting Wheelchair Basketball. Lucky kids who go there as it is a hell of a facility. They have a nice theater where the NAP program will be showcased. I sat down and almost passed out...
Second stop was the Long Track Oval and what hospitality (at all venues) as we got some nice homemade cookies. mmm. What a venue it was. So amazing.
Third stop was the Mayflower curling club, and I bumped into some people I had recently met and talked a tad. Another beauty facility, and had plenty of female curlers in lulu pants, so I couldn't tell you who was winning.
Fourth stop was the Canada Games Centre, and if you haven't seen this venue yet, please, PLEASE, google it. Absolutely unbelievable. Just stunning. Check my photos I will post later. Gymnastics was going on and Barbs, I am sure you would drool at everything they had set up here for the athletes. My funny of the day lands here. Around the top of the gym area is an amazing running track. At the end of the track they have a sand pit for long jumpers. Off in the distance they have a weight room being set up, and me being a snoopy sam, was walking towards it and not watching my feet. Sure enough sand pit + gravity = man down.
Fifth stop was Cole Harbour Place, the rink where the legendary, Stanley Cup Winning, home town hero, Joe Dipenta played. There was some other chump who played there too, can't remember his name, hope he doesn't cry about it. Ringette is drawing incredible crowds, and as we saw, the venue is booming. Apparently for the first Nova Scotia ringette game, 150 people were turned away, and the venue sits about 1000. BOOM.
Last stop was hockey at the Metro Centre, sexy building.
It was now 4:00pm, I went back to my room, did laundry, ate a Banana, ate another banana, decided not to follow the song (one banana, two banana, three banana, four) as that would end in death. Then I had the best nap life has ever witnessed. Woke up at 6:00pm, worked 7-11pm, then went back to bed. Day done, no pink socks or shirts, not much food. Oh well! Stomach still shifty, poop is green, damn peppers.
Either way, I was driving around various delegates to 6 venues and despite how tired I was, wow it was impressive seeing all these places.
First stop was Citadel High School, a new highschool which is hosting Wheelchair Basketball. Lucky kids who go there as it is a hell of a facility. They have a nice theater where the NAP program will be showcased. I sat down and almost passed out...
Second stop was the Long Track Oval and what hospitality (at all venues) as we got some nice homemade cookies. mmm. What a venue it was. So amazing.
Third stop was the Mayflower curling club, and I bumped into some people I had recently met and talked a tad. Another beauty facility, and had plenty of female curlers in lulu pants, so I couldn't tell you who was winning.
Fourth stop was the Canada Games Centre, and if you haven't seen this venue yet, please, PLEASE, google it. Absolutely unbelievable. Just stunning. Check my photos I will post later. Gymnastics was going on and Barbs, I am sure you would drool at everything they had set up here for the athletes. My funny of the day lands here. Around the top of the gym area is an amazing running track. At the end of the track they have a sand pit for long jumpers. Off in the distance they have a weight room being set up, and me being a snoopy sam, was walking towards it and not watching my feet. Sure enough sand pit + gravity = man down.
Fifth stop was Cole Harbour Place, the rink where the legendary, Stanley Cup Winning, home town hero, Joe Dipenta played. There was some other chump who played there too, can't remember his name, hope he doesn't cry about it. Ringette is drawing incredible crowds, and as we saw, the venue is booming. Apparently for the first Nova Scotia ringette game, 150 people were turned away, and the venue sits about 1000. BOOM.
Last stop was hockey at the Metro Centre, sexy building.
It was now 4:00pm, I went back to my room, did laundry, ate a Banana, ate another banana, decided not to follow the song (one banana, two banana, three banana, four) as that would end in death. Then I had the best nap life has ever witnessed. Woke up at 6:00pm, worked 7-11pm, then went back to bed. Day done, no pink socks or shirts, not much food. Oh well! Stomach still shifty, poop is green, damn peppers.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Back Track to Feb 12th!
So this was the first day of the interesting last few. I apologize for leaving you all guessing about if I was alive or not, but sadly for you I am still kicking, but barely.
The 12th was one interesting, amazing, crazy day. First off, I had a brutal sleep the night before. Only got about 4 hours of sleep. Opening the office wasn't fun to say the least! This was also a big day for me. We had our first Transfer of Knowledge(TOK) session in the program I co-organized, and we had the party I booked. Oh lordy, this was going to be rough.
First TOK session came and went without a hitch. There was a huge group and they loved the session. A lot of big names were there, and it was fun to see so much interest from the group.
I then decided to cover Tiffany's first bit of her shift, and she covered some of my 7am shift, which turned out to be a huge help as you will find out soon.
Spent most of the afternoon while not in the office visiting the amazing outdoor long track course, grabbing some delicious pizza, and watching some hockey day in Canada. Was a good use of my time. On that note, let's start the eat count. Breakfast + half a large pizza.
I did the shift, and had to wait a tad longer as Tiff lost her accreditation (and Kel lost her wallet, bad day apparently). She finally got a new one printed and joined us in the office so I could bolt. Me/Aaron/Lindsay went to watch a grand 10 minutes of the QUE/BC hockey game, where in that span of time we got un-invited to the board dinner, and then re-invited.
Board dinner was delicious. Their first mistake was offering me an all you can eat mussel/salad bar with our meal. 3 plates of mussels and 2 plates of salad later, I was ready for my meal. I had some delicious blackened haddock with a interesting spicy sausage mix, and some rice. Mmmm soo good. Then we had some amazinggggg cheese cake.
To put the total now it is: breakfast+half pizza+3 plates of mussels+2 plates of salad+blackened haddock/sausage mix/rice+cheesecake. Boom
I left dinner at 8:30. I was at our private secret party by 9:00. Lets just say I had joined this secret club by 10:00pm, and the only way to join was by eating 6 deathly hot peppers. Mmm.
Many beers and many shots later I found myself in the emergency room.
Yes I skipped a bunch there. After the bar ended which was around 1, I went back to my room and took a sit on my bed, when my phone went off. I was hoping it was co-workers wanting more beers (as I had stocked up that day), but on the line was Aaron and Isi telling me my roommate was in the emergency room after falling, dislocating his elbow, and passing out. So I decided to wake up Kim with my 1 am phone call, and after hanging up on me the first time, I finally got her to stay awake and come to the hospital with me.
We arrive around 1:45, my roomie gets a few more x-rays, has er popped back into place, and 4:00 am we find ourselves back in bed finally. Oh, thank, god, I, got, Tiff, to, take, my, 7, am, shift! Well I still had to be there for 9!
Will write about the 13th later tonight, oh belly it was interesting.
The 12th was one interesting, amazing, crazy day. First off, I had a brutal sleep the night before. Only got about 4 hours of sleep. Opening the office wasn't fun to say the least! This was also a big day for me. We had our first Transfer of Knowledge(TOK) session in the program I co-organized, and we had the party I booked. Oh lordy, this was going to be rough.
First TOK session came and went without a hitch. There was a huge group and they loved the session. A lot of big names were there, and it was fun to see so much interest from the group.
I then decided to cover Tiffany's first bit of her shift, and she covered some of my 7am shift, which turned out to be a huge help as you will find out soon.
Spent most of the afternoon while not in the office visiting the amazing outdoor long track course, grabbing some delicious pizza, and watching some hockey day in Canada. Was a good use of my time. On that note, let's start the eat count. Breakfast + half a large pizza.
I did the shift, and had to wait a tad longer as Tiff lost her accreditation (and Kel lost her wallet, bad day apparently). She finally got a new one printed and joined us in the office so I could bolt. Me/Aaron/Lindsay went to watch a grand 10 minutes of the QUE/BC hockey game, where in that span of time we got un-invited to the board dinner, and then re-invited.
Board dinner was delicious. Their first mistake was offering me an all you can eat mussel/salad bar with our meal. 3 plates of mussels and 2 plates of salad later, I was ready for my meal. I had some delicious blackened haddock with a interesting spicy sausage mix, and some rice. Mmmm soo good. Then we had some amazinggggg cheese cake.
To put the total now it is: breakfast+half pizza+3 plates of mussels+2 plates of salad+blackened haddock/sausage mix/rice+cheesecake. Boom
I left dinner at 8:30. I was at our private secret party by 9:00. Lets just say I had joined this secret club by 10:00pm, and the only way to join was by eating 6 deathly hot peppers. Mmm.
Many beers and many shots later I found myself in the emergency room.
Yes I skipped a bunch there. After the bar ended which was around 1, I went back to my room and took a sit on my bed, when my phone went off. I was hoping it was co-workers wanting more beers (as I had stocked up that day), but on the line was Aaron and Isi telling me my roommate was in the emergency room after falling, dislocating his elbow, and passing out. So I decided to wake up Kim with my 1 am phone call, and after hanging up on me the first time, I finally got her to stay awake and come to the hospital with me.
We arrive around 1:45, my roomie gets a few more x-rays, has er popped back into place, and 4:00 am we find ourselves back in bed finally. Oh, thank, god, I, got, Tiff, to, take, my, 7, am, shift! Well I still had to be there for 9!
Will write about the 13th later tonight, oh belly it was interesting.
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