I've been blog lazy...
To tell you the truth I have been blog lazy but life busy and that's a good thing. I spent as much time as I could with Colette. We are so good together when we get along instead of fighting like cat and dog. It has been a nice beginning to the new year. I hope that everyone had a wonderful and safe time at whatever they were doing to bring in the new year.
So it's already January 3, 2010. May all your wishes come true and may you have the strength to fulfill all your New Years resolutions.
I more than anything wish good health and recovery for myself and anyone else who suffered injuries or disease. So if you're reading this and would like to share what you have gone through I would love hear from you and we can perhaps strengthen each other in the process. I have found that disclosure/sharing your condition with someone like a friend or relative can be therapeutic and cleansing at the same time.
I know talking about things to be a definite positive thing to do from my own experiences. I'm not a doctor merely someone who can say been there and done that, experienced that, went through that, I'm someone who is both sympathetic and apathetic without being an enabler. I believe in positive support and reinforcement which may mean that I don't necessarily support what you're doing but rather a different spin or more positive way of doing the same thing. I'm far from perfect and therefore cannot be your judge or jury but I do make a good sounding board to bounce things off of due to my open-mindedness. I hope to start the new year off and spend some of it helping people or simply listening because that's how we learn. I plan on making this the year in which I make my biggest and most influential changes. I hope to make my commitments a lifetime thing, a change in life style if you will. It's not all about you ya knuckledragger! I plan on practising what I preach, I plan on being patient, pleasant, nice, amiable a quiet and good listener, helpful, less critical. Sounds both hard and easy, kinda like life, but I plan to do it one day at a time.
Maybe you don't have or feel like talking about anything personal or medical well hey, that's cool too. But what about a resolution you care to share or a change that you plan on making in the new year, I'd love to hear about it.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
GOD BLESS
GOOD HEALTH

Well, the countdown has begun officially now...less than 12 hours before the New Year!
I wonder what tomorrow will look like. I don't know about you but I like to go out and see how different the new year looks and feels. It is different, I can't explain it but it is and it does feel different when you're out on New Years day. I suppose it's the revitalization we feel by the fact that the new year symbolizes a new start, a new beginning, or perhaps a second chance at what you did wrong the year before. But it's not even that, I find myself feeling almost alien as I take in the new feelings on the first day of the new year. It feels virginal, it feels innocent and naked. It needs you and me to fill it, it needs what we do to make it real. I love walking or sitting outside in the cold winter sun. You can feel everything around you begin anew right along with you. The crisp cold air as it crystallizes in your nose as you inhale, the spread of your breath in a cold burst of warm fog out of your mouth. The first day of the new year, the cold of winter, nature and all her splendor, a hot cup of something and the company of those we love is probably the best way to bring in the new and toss out the old! God Bless Canada, God Bless each and everyone, God Bless the soldiers and all those who walk along side them in the endless search for peace. May 2010 be a year in which we reflect all the bad that has happened and let us turn a corner and walk int the direction of peace. It is a short walk to reach but such a long time coming. Take another person's hand and show them the way, let us become leaders to all those who are lost or too weak to find the way. Ambassadors of peace and goodwill.

Wow...11:52...just over 24 hours to go until it's next year and what a year and number too...2010...looks good so lets all hope and help make it good! This year past was the shits at least for me. The high point was Rachel graduating from University, in second was buying our car Mazda6...Mmmmm what a sweet ride! The worst thing of all of course was my accident. Coming home from as I have a thousand times before and on the same roadways as always. Not a good idea or at least not a good place to be at that time.
Anyways I did want to just drop in and say how much I love my family, my wife Colette and kids Rachel and Sean, my Mom and Dad, my niece Melissa and her husband Kevin, my sister Donna and her Husband Mike and their kids Roger, Emily and Lucas, my Mother-in-law Irene, my brother-in-law Mark and his betrothed Ruthie, my brother-in-law Stephen and his wife Carol and their kids Gemma and Katie, my sister-in-law Karen and her husband Colbourn and their kids Micheal, Christopher and David, my friend for life Micheal and his Mother Trudy, my friend Jakob, my friend Marcin, and of course both my Tante Irmgart and cousin Roland and his wife and family as well as all of Colette's family both in London Ontario and Exeter as well as abroad with a specil hello and best wishes going out to Uncle Victor and of course sweet wee Millie, and if I forgot anyone I truly appologize I do love and appreciate each and everyone of you! God Bless you all a bring health, wealth and prosperity your way in the New Year!

What wonderful Christmas it has been...the gift exchange and jolly times around the fireplace dvd, great music. And for me personally it was a musical Christmas! Jakob surprised me with a pocket full of goodies, copy of Tesseraft's new cd, copy of Paul Cusick's new cd, AC/DC Fly on the wall & AC/DC For those about to rock. It was awesome to listen them all! Then Rachel gave me her annual surprise cd, Big Shiny Tunes #14. A very big improvement over the past 3 years, great line up and good songs! Then the kids blew me away by giving me a new camera! I have needed and wanted one for so long now, thanks kids! I think that Christmas this year was reasonable and sensible. You know, I'm sure we've all had those years when you sit there and go holy shit, gift after gift after gift to the point that there's really too much to appreciate all at once. Decadence at it's peak, so much thoughtless waste. Gifts are so much nicer when they can be enjoyed and appreciated from the moment they are received or opened. I guess that's why I love music or things to do with music so much, the immediate gratification to the giver and enjoyment to the receiver. You can listen to the music media when you receive it or play the instrument. But all this gift giving and receiving was followed by...
Three days of snack food, finger food, dips, dressings and cookies. Whew, thank goodness that's over. It was all delicious and I enjoyed it all but deep down I hear my stomach craving a bowl of soup or mashed potatoes and gravy, something wholesome and hearty. To all the people whose party presentations we tasted I say thank you very much. So much time and effort is put into making their houses festive and so much pride is put into the platter after platter of delicious food that came into the room every few minutes only to be replaced by another a few minutes later.
December 23 beltsize = 36"
December 25 beltsize = 38"
December 29 beltsize = what belt? I had to take the elastic out of my new XL
camouflage track pants!
I have the rest of today and 2 more days to rest up before we do it all over again at New Years...LOL
Hope everyone else had a wonderful Christmas and have a very happy and prosperous New Year!