Category: Personal

Over the past few days, I’ve been calling a lot of folks that I haven’t talked to in quite some time. This whole, free calls to the U.S. and Canada through Skype has allowed me to throw away a fair amount of time to catching up with friends and family south of the border. I have a lot more people that I need to catch up with, but I do have other various projects going on that I need to keep working on.

I’ve also had a few people say that I don’t blog the way that I use to. The entries are shorter or that they’ve changed. I posted that was going to change after the last overhaul to the site itself. How I write here allows me to not only do something a tad more personal, but also explore other ways to expand on topics that I find noteworthy. Plus, this is my site. Not yours. I can do what I want.

I was sick a fair portion of last week. I had some sort of chest cold that got into my lungs and took away my voice. That translated into a dry cough which eventually loosened up a bunch of crap in my throat. I still have an ever so slight cough, but I’m getting back on track with things. I did go running last Sunday, thinking I felt good enough to do that. Of course, I ran the whole Seawall and over did it. The area around my left achilles has been sore, but I’ve been busy with errands over the last few days and haven’t experienced any problems with inclines as I was.

We have a lot of interesting things going on, and I’m getting myself settled into the B.C. lifestyle more and more. I’ll post more in the next few days with some of the cool things that’s happened this week. With the weather being as outstanding as it has been these past few days and my health coming back around, it’s tough to get myself to focus on doing “work”.

Today[wiki] is a major celebration of Mexican culture and heritage. Oddly enough, being in Canada, this puts me even further away from the country that this holiday stems from. That doesn’t mean Rebecca and I won’t do something in observance. Oh yes, we have plans. And having some Mexican blood myself, you better believe we do!

This weekend shaped up to be a pretty good one. We went to V For Vendetta Friday night, and I liked it. My outlook on movies has taken such a relaxed stance since my college days. Anymore, I just like to be entertained. I like to have a movie take me away from reality, from start to end. This flick was a success.

The only complaint that I have about the whole experience was the theatre itself.

With about ten or less minutes to go, the movie just stopped. No sound, no projector, lights, nothing. Five seconds of 200+ people having a moment of silently being clueless, the lights fade up and someone eventually comes in to tell us that all will be resolved in a few minutes. Putting that out of my mind, I’m pretty sure it was a good movie, but that did phase the whole experience a little bit. The Paramount gave everyone free passes as they exited. Works for me.

After tossing around multiple ideas for our Saturday, we wound up being lazy. I forced Rebecca to watch some of the World Baseball Classic. The Cuba/Dominican Republic game was outstanding! Totally looking forward to the championship game between Japan and Cuba tomorrow night.

We did head to Davie St. for dinner at Stephos. It took about 30-40 minutes of waiting in line, but that’s no unusual. By the looks of things when we left, our wait was much shorter than the line that seemed to double in size at that point. As far as Stephos goes, it is a great place to get greek. Great prices and loads of food. I need to try the roast lamb, my usual favorite when going greek. The calamari was good, but there’s another little place we like to go to that has me more impressed. I’ll have to keep that a secret so the droves of readers that pass by here don’t overtake the place. That and I think Laura would kill me if I didn’t.

That night found us at The Roxy with some of my new extended family members. I think it’s safe to say, I over did it and spent most of today recovering. The cover band was pretty alright, but I had so many flashbacks to the numerous bars that over populate Iowa City. The Roxy is a great place, and hockey stars are known to wander in. Didn’t catch anyone last night. Then again, I’m not sure if I would have remembered. Things were a little fuzzy when my head hit the pillow last night.

Really stinks that my girl has to work on a Sunday night, but she’ll get an extra day off in a few weeks. We are planning a get away for then. Either we hit the island or venture into the interior. Right now, we’re leaning towards the later. Be it a ferry ride or an adventure through the mountains, it all sounds really good to me.

I had a lot of things in mind to do today, but for the most part, I’ve watched a lot of TV, read a lot of news on the web, TV, and thought about doing things. The best I could do was this somewhat random post that didn’t turn out to be so random after all. Still, you can amaze yourself as to what pours out once you just set out to blog something.

Looking through some of the pics from the last week or so, we have a lot of great memories. Mom and Dad kept up with the pace of the city, but they were pretty worn out by the time they got back to Iowa. It was hard for both of us to see them go.

Miss you, Mom and Dad. Hope to get back and see the rest of my family again very soon. More so, hope to see as many of you folks from back home up here soon. And I mean before 2010!

I have a ring on my finger now. It’s somewhat annoying at times, but I’m getting used to the feeling of it being there. I’ll sit there and play with it almost constantly, checking quite often to make sure that I haven’t wore a hole into my ring finger from the constant motion. Living a life with the person you love, someone you are convinced is your soulmate, and take that to a higher level of devotion is something that I am comfortable with and have done. This ring thing is really going to take some getting used to. It’s only been a matter of days, so I know I can do this.

Mom and Dad left yesterday for Iowa. My brother and his family departed on Sunday after the wedding. Don Deeley will be departing this afternoon. After that, life will slowly return to being normal again, whatever that means. We’ll be able to have our home back to ourselves, relax without any planning going on in our heads, and just be together with the comfort of knowing we will never have to part, no matter what our respective country’s governments say.

Everything about this weekend was amazing. It was crazy, hectic, filled with tears, insane, and incredible. Me being the groom, I was left out a little on the planning. I knew pretty generally what to expect, but it just got to that point where my mother-in-law took quite the charge in the whole event. I just had to show up.

The ceremony, the reception, the food, the amazing cake, wine, music, DJ (Don Deeley), family, friends… I wouldn’t have changed a thing.

I’m married now. I have a wife. That’s the one thing that has drastically changed since this weekend. Other than that, I don’t feel much different.

If anything, I just feel really, really… really tired.

My parents are now in Vancouver.  They left in the very early hours of the morning, Iowa time.  From the moment I got up till the time Rebecca was in route to pick me up to head to the airport, I was flying all around the house cleaning.  Maybe it was the cleaning fumes, but I swear I was getting the nervous feeling in my stomach.  That sense that something big is about to happen.  The simple fact that this was just my parents.

They’re just not coming for a short visit, though.  This is our wedding we’re talking about.  We had to leave them waiting just a little while at the airport, but I felt all the nervousness fade away once I saw them in the arrival area in the international terminal.  It’s just a shame that the clouds have returned and they are not able to see all of the beauty Vancouver truly has to offer.

There are all sorts of fun, neat things that I can do now, such as
posting via email. Pretty cool, eh? Now all I need is a blackberry
so I can do this from all over the place.