New year happenings

A new post finally! I know I've been a slack arse.

It was an eventful year end for 2005 and an equally eventful beginning to 2006. The work was again to blame for my long absence. I'm very proud to say that no matter what crap I have to deal with at work, I haven't been down with an illness all year. In fact since I started my new job in Sep 2004 I have not had a sickie since I quit teaching! That was even with all the smokes which I chugged and all the nasty food which I inhaled and not even counting the alcohol I've indulged in. So life has been good in many ways.

But the work, oh the work! It has really been too much and having to deal with some real nasty cases and people has not been very pleasant. But enough about the nasty work! The important thing is that everything went off without problems and all our kids had a fair go. So after that was all done, I was able to rush off to Canada for over 2 weeks! The weather in Vancouver, B.C. was not the greatest as the state was about to break a record for the most number of consecutive days of rain, but we didn't mind because it was pouring, just a constant drizzle. We spent two days in Vancouver before rushing down to meet a friend in Seattle. Hoping that the weather would be better, but no luck either in USA because Seattle was similarly also about to break their record of consecutive days of rain. Still it was a great little trip there because it was snowing in the mountains and any opportunity to be able to snowboard is great news. But the trip to Seattle ended as quickly as it had begun as the wife and I made our trip back up to Vancouver for the rest of our vacation. Thankfully the wife had the good sense to arrange a weekend stay on one of the Gulf Islands and the weather really came through for us then. Bright sunny skies and such mild weather, it didn't feel like winter at all. But the weekend came and went and we were back on Vancouver Island before we knew it. We took in some tourist sights but ended up doing more house hunting then we expected.

yawn really don't feel much like writing. So I'll just draft a list of things I liked and did since Jan 2006.
1. Love Vancouver!
2. Beautiful city and so easy to drive around in
3. Yumcha is soooo good
4. Japanese food is soooo good and cheap!
5. I can afford a townhouse there or even a house in the outer suburbs
6. I can get to the ski slopes in just about an hour from downtown Vancouver
7. UBC is huge
8. I love the weather
9. Shopping is so affordable
10. I quit the smokes since I've been back!