Green again.

Well it rained all day and all night yesterday and now all the snow is gone. We were able to sleep in today. I didn't get up until 9:30 which is always nice when your on call.

I got up and was going to do some homework but discovered that the Internet wasn't working. So I read out of the textbook and Sonja started the shopping list. After I finished reading I started some laundry and then cut my hair. Then came cleaning up my hair, so I vacuumed and showered. By this time Sonja was finishing up the list so we then went for groceries.

I had to take some blood to the airport today since the plane didn't come in yesterday. I got to the hospital and found there was some bloodwork waiting for me. It was a little bit irritating because they are supposed to call me but I wasn't called. So my easy ten minute callback was stretched to be an hour.

I came home and made some lunch and started some more school. It went pretty good today. After that we just relaxed and watched some tv. I played some goldeneye before we decided to make supper. We had tropical chicken pizza again. It was again really good. After supper transformers was on so we finished watching that. While it was on, Sonja was threatening to change the channel when I was walking away. I decided it would be a good thing to kneel on the coffee table and try to stop her. In doing this I ended up kneeling on our Kobo and broke the screen. It was kinda a dumb move.

Right now the Oilers are playing. They are losing 3-2 just at the end of the second. Hopefully they can regroup and pull out the win.

Tyler

It was a Friday for sure

Friday, finally.  It took all week to get here and it took all day to come to an end.  Today wasn't my favorite day.

Let's start at the very beginning, as very good place to start.  My Kitty alarm went off too early, again around 5am.  I was able to put her on snooze with a few scratches.  She was waiting for me outside our door when I got up for my shower.

After a breakfast of tasty cake from Christmas from Mormor and Morfar.  I would try to spell it but I don't know how to, and I'm sure I don't have the required letters on this keyboard.  I noticed that it had snowed quite a bit last night but I wasn't prepared for what I walked out into.

On my way to work, I was the 2nd person out there.  That means that there was only one set of foot prints to follow.  I was disappointed because it took all week for a good path to be forged from the previous snowfall.  What a life.  Any way, the foot tracks I had to follow were clearly male because they were far apart.  Tyler just told me they were from our female neighbor who is pretty tall, so that explains the male looking tracks.  It was blowing snow on my walk to work.  By the time I got there, my shoes and socks were soaking wet.

The morning went by without many hitches.  A typical day of not doing much.  Around lunch time I had a bit of a dilemma.  I was working on getting access for the police systems.  After a few phone calls, I had everything set to go.  I went to sign in and it said the token I have been using belonged to the woman I'm replacing.  It freaked us out because we thought we were in fact using her token and had changed all the passwords.  But then it was lunch time.

I came home and as soon as I exited the detachment, I slipped about 10 times.  I stepped over a cement parking block and almost slipped over that.  And then walking down our small little hill, I kept slipping and sliding, but never fully falling over.  It just made me grumpy.  Tyler didn't see a nice side of me.

I thought ahead and packed dry socks and my new pink slippers I got from my parents for Christmas.  On the way to work, I actually did slip and got mud all on my pant leg.  It was less frustrating because it became a little funny.

The afternoon was alright.  I was learning how to use programs and do real work.  It started raining during the afternoon which made for an interesting walk home.  There was about a shoe's height on snow and a lot of water underneath.  It sucked.

I got to come home early, so I worked out and was ready for the evening when Tyler came home.  We have no food in our house, so Tyler made rice.  That's it.  We are very creative with our meals.  I'm hoping that there is food in the Band Store tomorrow or else we will be out of luck.

Tyler informs me that for the next 5 days, it will do nothing but rain outside.  I can't wait for spring and summer again.  Then we can actually go outside without getting soaked.

Our plans for the rest of the evening include watching another movie.  We just finished up with Golden Eye.  It's the movie Tyler's James Bond game is based on.

I plan on doing a ton of stitching on this quilt.  I only have a few more weeks to get it done and I'm pretty close already.

Sonja

Today was a slow day at work.  Most of the day was spent doing nothing.  I dealt with three people all day.  So it would seem that things are back to normal.  Slow most of the time.  So needless to say the day went by pretty slow.

Eventually it was over and I came home.  I made supper of  and cheese, as Sonja was sleepy, and it is really easy.  While it was baking we did the dishes.

After supper I studied my MRI.  I did that for an hour and a half.  We watched a bit of TV when I finished up.  We watched an episode of Big Bang Theory and then Wipeout.  I made some popcorn for dessert.  It was delicious.

Its exciting that tomorrow is finally Friday.  It seems like it has been a long week.  But thats what happens when your on call for 2 weeks straight.

Sorry for the short little blog.  Its supposed to snow tonight and tomorrow for a total of 1 foot overall.

Tyler

Kitty was a brat this morning.  Instead of coming in at 5 like she has been this week, it was 4am that she graced us with her cuteness.  That put me in a really bad mood.  I heard her all morning, scratching the couch, scratching her cone... it kind of drove me crazy and the morning was pretty grumpy.

Once I got to work, I was alright again.  That's strange because usually it's work that puts me in a bad mood.  But I actually had a lot of work to do in the morning.  Many statements and lots of phone calls.  It was nice to get my mind out of the grumpy haze and into a better mood.  After lunch, there was more work but nothing of note happened.

I got home from work and started to work out.  Tyler came home on time and started to make dinner.  We had spaghetti and meat sauce.  It was really good.

Now, Tyler is working on his schooling.  It's nice to see him working so hard at this.  It must be hard though, because he doesn't fully understand what he's trying to learn.  But he is getting it.  With the internet  and his brains, he will get it.

This morning I learned that the cops shot and killed a wolf last night.  The wolves are getting pretty brave and are no longer scared of people.  It's sad, but they have to remain afraid of us.

Tyler needs the computer now for school, so I'm off to go stitching some more.  I have goals that I have to meet if I want to get this done by the end of this month.

Sonja

School

Well yesterday I started my MRI courses.  So far they are not fun.  I have to start with a physics course.  Unfortunately for me I never took physics in high school.  Doubly unfortunate is that so far it is math that I took in high school, but was never able to fully understand then.  So now I am having to re-teach myself, something I wasn't very good at 5 years ago.  So I am looking for help with Trig functions.  If any one knows how to or can help me find an easier way to go about learning this I am all ears.

Work today was a little bit slower than yesterday.  But it was still busier than it has been around here.  But since it wasn't as busy, I was able to come home at 5 and not need to stay late.  Thats always nice especially now that I have school that needs to be done.  I came home and supper was already finished.  Sonja had just made some meat, and we also had popcorn to top off the meal.  After supper I relaxed for a bit before starting my studying for the night.

Sonja worked on her quilt tonight while I became frustrated at trying to teach myself how to do trig.  Fortunately I have two courses to do.  So I took a break from one and started on the other one.  I can tell the other one is going to be better to do.  It is pretty similar so far to some of the x-ray courses I took.

The weather today was snowy.  We have gotten an inch in the last 24 hours.  Not as much as back home, but its a lot for here.  We are supposed to get another 3 or 4 inches yet by the end of the week until the rain washes it away.  With all the tough weather out here the wolves on the island are starting to form packs and are getting pretty brave.  They have been coming into town and harassing the dogs and aren't scared of people anymore.  There were also two cougars sighted yesterday, one in the morning and one at night.  Both of those were right in town.  I want to get a trail camera out and see what kind of animals are actually on the island, catch some of these critters in the act.

Not much on the plan for the rest of the night.  I'm done studying for today, and will regroup after printing off a bunch of stuff for my courses.

Tyler

9 Months together

So, if any one is counting, today is Tyler and my 9 month anniversary.  Pretty awesome.

Any way, it's monday today.  I was actually slightly looking forward to today because there was promise of work and learning for me.  Last week, it was decided that I finally get access to the police system that BC uses.  I thought it would come today.  It never did.  So my morning was amazingly boring.  I had 2 tapes to transcribe but they weren't loaded properly on to the computer, so they didn't actually play for me.  It's frustrating knowing that there is work for me to do and not being able to get it done.  I asked for help and soon one of the cops helped me out and fixed it.

And so my afternoon was spent typing.  I had a 45 minute tape to do, and it took over 2 hours to type out.  It made the day go by pretty fast, but I have to admit, I'm a little worried about getting carpal tunnel with all this typing.  It just kind of crosses my mind every once in a while.

After work finally ended I came home and worked out.  It's nice to move around after a full day of just sitting around.  I also was thawing out chicken for dinner.  We were going to have skillet chicken with gravy, only today I didn't make gravy or potatoes, but instead we had it with rice.  And most of the coating fell off in the pan.  I use to always make this when we first moved out here but kind of forgot about the recipe until Tyler requested it this week.  I finished my work out and got into the kitchen.  Tyler was late coming home from work so it was okay that I hadn't started din din yet.

He came home and started to wash the mountain of dishes that once again collected by our sink.  It always amazes us how quickly that seems to happen.  And then we leave it for a few days and every time I go into that kitchen, I curse and wish we had just done them.  We ate and finished the dishes.

Tyler started his MRI program today.  So after dinner, he started on his work and I started on my stitching.  He was having a bit of trouble but I know he will learn fast, because he is a smarty pants.

We are now actually relaxing for the first time this evening.  Tyler played a bit of Bond and I'm just typing this out.  I'm excited about this quilt I'm making.  I believe I'll be done it sooner then I thought.

That's about it from me.
Sonja

Also, just a side note, we put our names in for the World Juniors for next year in Edmonton and we were informed tonight that we didn't get it.  Oh well, looks like we will be spending time with family instead.

Sunny Skies

Today was a relaxing day.  We were able to sleep in, which is always nice.  My phone hasn't rung all weekend which is kinda weird.  I got up first and grabbed a banana to eat.  I started to play Goldeneye.  I played it pretty much all day.  It was fun for me.  Sonja stitched and kept herself busy with that.

We eventually decided that it was time to go to the store and pick up milk for the week.  We also got yogurt and some buns.  It was sunny and clear, but cool because the wind was coming off of the ocean.  We came back and had some lunch.  It was leftover pizza from last night.  It was so good, even the second time around.  I have a new favorite pizza maker/pizza.

The rest of the afternoon was relaxing and we watched TV or I played some more Bond.  Eventually it was time to make supper.  Sonja made a spaghetti, chicken, and alfredo sauce concoction and I had chicken burgers.  They were good once again.

After supper we watched Mythbusters and now the Simpsons is on.

I start my MRI courses tomorrow.  Hopefully I can get home at a reasonable time and not be to tired to get a good start on it.

Tyler