Random.....

Well here I sit at work, day 3 of what will be 10 days straight....the light at the end of the tunnel is a week from today I will see all my kids and be packing up Bay to bring him home to Saskatoon and I can hardly wait...so with a Peewee tourney going on I'm not overly busy so I'm gonna blog about this, that and whatever I want....

Lets start with what everyone seems to be yaking about, the Olympics....first of all, Vancouver can't control the weather, and everyone on the IOC knew the weather trends there going in and in there defense with everything that has happened, had they known ahead of time they have said they would have still chosen Vancouver.....they didn't plan to make their track so fast that an inexperienced rider would crash and die, it was a sad, tragic accident....as for the Olympia machine, aka fancy Zamboni for the speed skating track, the Vanoc did not make the machine and whoever had held the Olympics this winter would have tried the machine it would have failed and the good old trusty Zamboni would have been brought in....the Olympic flame....ok so they didn't handle that great, but really it was out of safety reasons and had they left it open to whoever and someone had tried to climb it for a great pic for Facebook, and had fallen well that would have been a whole nother can of worms to open on them...people voiced their concerns, they made modifications and now can take a decent picture of it....the U.S. is running away with the medals and yet are running off at the mouth on how things are being run....there have been some great moments from many countries and more to come....as for Team Canada hockey, you know what, yes we expect gold but then again so does Russia, Czecks, USA, Sweden...and year after year we have Canadian and American coaches, coaching players from all countries and year after year after us leading by example we are being pushed to our limits, Canada wins in a shoot out and all we here is, "we need to make changes", in all reality the Russians are heavy fav's to win and they lost in a shootout last night so lets not all hit the panic button right away, we have a great team with multiple Stanley Cup champs on it, young, tough and arguably the two if not 3 top goaltenders in the league led by Marty Broeduer....who cares if the games are close....last time I checked a win is a win and great teams overcome adversity..

Well lets jump over to golf.....Tiger is back in the news...well not back in really, he's never left but today for the first time in 87 days Mr. Woods showed his face, in a very controlled environment and spoke to the public, his family, friends, fans and sponsors....cool, I for one was happy to see him, he didn't owe me any explanation or apology, really all I wanted to know was when is he going to golf again, seems he still doesn't know or at least never mentioned but did say he was coming back and I being a huge fan of the game and of Tigers, can't wait.....he'll be the same golfer and hopefully for his sake, a better, person, husband, and father....but I just want to see him rip the cover off the ball...

So, I wear a Livestrong band on my wrist, I have for 3 years...those of you who don't know, Livestrong is an organization set up by 7 time Tour de France winner, to raise funds and awareness for cancer research, he battled and won a ferocious battle against cancer and won his 7 titles after that....now I don't have cancer, nor do I have anyone close to me that has died from it but it affects so many people and having run in 3 Breast Cancer Run for the Cure's, I've gained some awareness as to how common this is and with 3 daughters, and ex wife and a beautiful girlfriend, it could hit anyone of them and I'd rather do my part sooner than later.
So my point being, my band broke the other day, snapped on me and although I always know it's there after time you always get used to wearing that ring, chain, or band....well I felt as if a part of me was missing when it broke, I bought it way back when on ebay and was back on there looking for more, the cost being about $5 Canadian with shipping....Sam and I happened to be in the mall a couple of days later and she pointed out a Livestrong table set up in the middle of the mall....I looked from a ways back and couldn't see what I wanted but didn't go up close, she did and called me over....they had a basket full of bands....I have never seen a Livestrong table set up anywhere, never mind the mall in Saskatoon...all they required was a donation for the bands so I put in $10....the total for 2 bands was $10 but this is what it would have cost me total on ebay and this all went to the Livestrong foundation so I was pretty pumped....

well that's enough rambling for now....off to end my day...

see ya when I see ya...

It's me again...

Been awhile since I've been on here again, life's been up and down actually since I last blogged....so things are falling into place for moving in to our place and we're so excited about that, I can't wait, it also means I'm close to bringing Bailey home and man I can not wait to have my little man back with me everyday, I miss him more than words can explain...having some issues with Jen though, seems she doesn't want to move here now, and feels that at 14 she's a big girl and can make big girl decisions, she want's to live at her grandparents full time in Altona.
I'm so not ok with this....I really want her here, but if not I want her to at least live with her mom....one of her parents should be raising her....it's nothing againt her grandparents...they are great, have always been great, but they're done raising kids and no reason they should raise mine just because of a move, everyone moves, it happens, and she's now choosing friends over family, Bailey will be alone and that bugs me too, he's always had Jen, it affects so many people...now I'm getting alot of pressure from alot of people who never supported this move to allow Jen to make this decision and in the end I will BUT I will not support the decision, approve of it but make no mistake, I will support Jennifer, always will....and whenever she needs me I'm here....

The other thing that gets me is it was brought up that people don't like that I'm a friend to my kids....one day I play the parent card and yet try to be a friend....unreal how under the microscope I still am, I've never done anything wrong to my kids and I'm the exact same dad I was when I was still married to their mom...I was always the dad in the backyard, in the street, playing hockey, or ball or hide and seek....yet now that I"m a single dad that's wrong? serious? And when I was married and Jen and her mom didn't get along or fought, I was asked to talk/give Jen heck cause she'd listen to me but now that's all wrong in people's eyes.....bite me...I know that's not very mature but geeez, just let me raise my kids, I"m doing a pretty good job with what I"ve had and it's only getting better. Sam and I are growing in our relationship everyday, learning all the little things as we now live together and she continues to grow in my heart, she's an amazing girl and I'm very lucky to have her.
Work has been good, had some fantastic feedback from customers about how my shop looks and about my quality of skate sharpening. I had guy walk in yesterday thanking me for sharpening his skates last week. He said they were fantastic and the first time all year someone got it right....I was smiling pretty big as I said thank you lol, feels great to hear that....

Well, should get ready for work as I have meetings today, hoping to get more house stuff arranged this weekend...have a great week.

see ya when I see ya...

Home Sweet Home

Ok so here is our new place....we are the middle one....there are more pics on my facebook page of the inside etc.. we signed the lease today and we move in later this month...we are so pumped and so excited...now I need to share something with you about our landlord Jason.....we had never met before we started dealing on this place....none of our friends knew him, we had zero connections to him....we checked out the place and really liked what we saw, we talked with Jason a bit and basically laid it all out on the table, money was tight, kids were moving, times were tough but getting better. He said that all they wanted were good renters, they just really wanted good people in their townhouse...we talked about the damage deposit and how it would be tough to come up with it all for March 1st and he said to us many times that they were flexible and just wanted the right people....so we took a couple days to talk and budget and decided that this was the place to start the next chapter in our lives....I emailed him back and said if they were willing to hold it, empty, for a month that we'd take it.....he said they were waiting to hear from us before they let anyone else know if it was available, so they took a chance on us and I can't believe that they'd do that for total strangers...there are some great people in this world, everywhere, even Altona, I know I needed to get out but there are some great people there that I've met, are my friends and I wouldn't change it for the world but when you move away from a comfort zone were people know you, which is good and bad, you're pretty much out on your own and in walks some awesome people in your life willing to take a chance...pretty pumped, pretty blessed, my life is far from ordinary or perfect but it's my life, I'll take the good with the bad, I'll make good and bad decisions but live with them all.....it's not always easy, but sometimes, you find that needle in a haystack....

hmmmm was trying to add another pic but it's being a butt.....we had the Redbull Crashed Ice Sask qualifier at our rink today, basically they come out and you have a bit of an obsticale course and out of the 50 plus guys we had out they take the top 4 times....winning time was 12.5 seconds and the programs director at our rink was 29th with a 13.2..so overall not too bad, kinda cool to see them out on the ice, they had a DJ out there crankin some tunes, they also had a ladies division and some of them could kick my butt, they was even some girls wearing cooperalls..man I haven't seen those since Dalmeny High days lol......

So I think I have a full day off from the rink tomorrow....thinking a movie and dinner with my girl as we will soon have no time or money for ourselves....have a great weekend everyone

see ya when I see ya.....