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Name: Shawn
Country: Canada
Metro: Calgary
Gender: Male
Interests: God, family, God, guitar, God, reading, God, God, and.... God
Expertise: I convert oxygen to carbon dioxide.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Education/Research
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Member Since:
6/1/2005
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| For those of you wondering why I am not in class the next few days, I am enjoying an impromptu vacation. So there. Reading a few of my earlier posts, I am reminded again that the more things change, the more they stay the same. And grad is fast approaching. I am not a big fan of not having plans. I have no idea what I am going to do (career-wise) once I have that little piece of paper in my hands... | | |
| So this last week or two has been particularly sucknacious. Severe cold, followed by a sinus infection, followed by a bout of my reoccurring back spasms. This last week (the one I spent on my back doped up on muscle relaxants) was also the week I had two major projects due, and a lot more reading than normal.
Plus my kids seem to need a lot more attention than normal. And when it comes to choosing between a critique of the emergent church and the world's cutest toddlers, who do you think is gonna win?
So at this point I am beginning to feel like this "final year" is going to be a total waste of time! I could use a little help around here...
(P.S. if anyone is wondering, I watched the movie "Iron Man" a few weeks ago and I have been listening to what was once my favourite song ever since...)
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| It's really hard to do any sort of Xanga stuff when Facebook is so easy to use, and I get all the information I need from there.
Plus with three kids in the house now, finding time to do anything is hard enough.
But since my last "post" was almost ten months ago, I felt I should do something with this site.
I'll let you know what that something might be when I think of it...
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| So now that I'm not trying to see what words I can come up with when given three "e's", two "i's" an "o" and a "q" (answer: not much), I have time to write my thoughts.
(pause)
Stephan Dion is a booger.
(longer pause)
Jack Layton is a bigger booger.
(sound of crickets)
So Christmas has been a lot of fun. So far, two trips. One to Lethbridge (town motto: "You bet it's windy!") and one to Sundre (town motto: "You bet it's not Lethbridge!") I like road trips. They can be so much fun. Especially packing. We have a very interesting method when it comes to packing:
- Decide two or three nights in advance that this time we are going to pack smart and start right now and get it done right. I then go to the computer to check the hockey scores and Facebook.
- The night before we remember that tomorrow we are going to wherever and the girls still need to be packed and all of their clothes are in their room where they are presently sleeping. We then begin packing our stuff only to find that all of our socks are in the laundry. Begin furious laundry marathon while I check the hockey scores online.
- The morning of the trip, quickly pack our things into the bags we planned on taking. I begin loading the car while Joyce runs around the house saying "oh i forgot to pack this..." or "the girls are going to need that...", all the while grabbing stuff and jamming it into shopping bags.
For those of you who have never travelled with toddlers, let me explain something. The average toddler requires approximately 4 times his or her body weight in baggage in order to travel any distance farther than "church". Add in extenuating factors like teething or potty training and that weight-to-baggage ratio goes up. This is why most families with small children buy mini-vans; not because they need that many seats, but they need the cargo room.
So when we travel, we pack our clothes (consisting of one change of clothes and an extra pair of underwear), our kids' things (consisting of their entire wardrobe, 17 gazillion stuffed animals, and enough blankets to block out the sun). Add to that the snacks we must pack because, as responsible parents, we can't justify buying our children junk food from the gas station. (I buy it for me, they end up eating it.), and the medications we must bring because Charissa is teething and Merribell has the sniffles and what if one of them gets scarlet fever or something. Now we have about a dozen shopping bags filled with stuff that has to be stuffed in around the baggage that is already causing the windows on the car to bulge out. We end up looking like we're coming back from a shopping trip, not leaving on vacation.
It's a good thing God didn't ask me to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt or I'd still be at the IGA finding shopping bags to put everything into.
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| 1. name someone who made you smile today
Joyce
2. what were you doing at 8:00 this morning?
Treading not so lightly in the realm between awake and asleep
3. what were you doing 30 minutes ago?
Convincing Merribell it was time to go to sleep
4. what was something that happened to you in 1992?
I graduated from high school
7. what color is your hairbrush?
Silver and black
8. what was the last thing you bought?
Gas for the car
10. have you been to china?
No
11. where do you keep your money?
What money? a jar, I suppose...
12. what was the weather like today?
Warm, but overcast.
13. where did your last hug take place?
Kitchen (woo hoo!)
14. do you like peanut butter?
Yes. I now have six jars of the stuff. My kids love it.
15. have you got a bf/gf?
Nope. Married. Does that count?
16. what song is on your i-pod/mp3 right now?
I don't know. I would have to find my ipod to find out...
18. last person you kissed?
Joyce (see kitchen comment above)
19. do you wanna cut your hair?
Yes... right after Jesus returns.
20. are you over the age of 25?
Yes. Shut up.
21. do you talk a lot?
Yes.
22. do you watch The OC?
The who now?
23. does your screen name have an "x" in it?
Nope
24. do you know anyone named kelsey?
I know a lot of people. Some of them may be named Kelsey. I tend to forget a lot of things...
25. favourite ice cream?
Yes.
26. are you ticklish?
Yes.
27. are you typically a jealous person?
Not really.
28. do you own a car?
Yes.
29. name a friend whose name starts with the letter "C"
Craig Cruickshank. Score on the double C!!!
30. who's the last person to call you?
My brother.
31. last magazine you bought?
I don't remember.
32. do you chew on your straws?
No
33. do you have curly hair?
Extreme curls
34. can you dance like a chicken?
Like one whose head has just been removed...
36. last concert?
Carried Away.
37. what is something you say a lot?
"Love you" (to my kids and my wife)
38. favourite color?
blue
39. do you know what a plectrum is for?
Playing stringed instruments like a guitar. It is Latin for "rock star"
40. do you have to work tomorrow?
No
41. who do you live with?
Joyce, Merribell, Charissa, Sylvester, and Cyress.
42. who was the last person you said "i love you" to?
Joyce
43. what should you be doing right now?
Sleeping
44. do you have a nickname?
Da Da
45. you a heavy sleeper?
I'm 220 pounds... I do everything heavily.
46. do you snore?
Yes
47. what is the best movie you've seen in the past two weeks?
Shrek 3
49. when was the last time u did the dishes?
an hour ago
50. did you cry today?
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