News

Hi everyone, So there's been a lot going on in both Thomas' and my life. As for me I just got hired at Goodlife Fitness Women's club. They offered me two positions, my main one will be personal training and the second one is Member Ambassador. It's going to be very hektic in the beginning, but atleast this way (well I'm really hoping) that this will be a long term full time job. I'm pretty sure I'll enjoy myself there. They've given me a lot and have been very good to me. So far, a very good experience, I'm excited!

As for Thomas, as we speek, he is heading down to my place for the weekend. His phase 3 finished today so he will be in Borden for the month of September. Once October rolls around he will be back in Kingston to finish up his last bit of training which will end before Christmas. He will then know where he's getting posted. I'm hoping it's not too far so that I'm still able to see him once in a while. Whatever happens, happens. It's for the best. I was just thinking, all the times that Thomas has been in Borden, it REALLY SUCKS that Steph, Matt, and Hilary are all gone from there. Who knows though, maybe Thomas and I will be posted with Steph and Matt, that would be pretty awesome. So that's pretty much all for now. We will post more after the long weekend.

Ps. Thomas might play his FIRST game of golf with me hehehe. I will fill you all in on how that goes

MK & TC

Birthday Pictures

So I found the cable for my camera. It was right where I thought I had left it. These, I guess you could say are the "better" pictures of the night. I really do like ruining pictures lol.

Sasha (sister-in-law), Alyssa (niece), Diane (mom)

Me rockin Melissa's Shades

Me and Gary on our side of Holy board. You can see a string on the ground which leads to the other holy board that we're suposed to throw our washers to.

My speciality shot...it was a surprise

Thomas and Melissa

This is Me and Melissa, my good friend.

Me trying to cut the ice cream cake. It wasn't that easy. haha

Birthday Weekend

So this past weekend was my 21st Birthday. I'm getting old, I was told that it all goes down hill from here, especailly now that I'm getting married. What have I gotton myself into!?!?! Oh well I'm sure Thomas will make a great husband and also make it well worth it. hehehe. SOOOO Thomas obivously came down for the long weekend (yea my birthday is the best day....hello, long weekend) and showed off his new wheels. I had a party at my house with my closer friends and some family. Some friends weren't able to make it because they were camping, but I had a BLAST. We drank, played a game called Holy Board....I think my mom's friends made up the game but my Dad made his own board so we can play. Just to give you an IDea it's kind of like Horse shoes, but also like Pool because it can get pretty frustrating. SO My friend Melissa and her boy friend Gary played with Thomas and I. Melissa and I were on a Team and KILLED Thomas and Gary..Girl power!! Yea I took pictures but im not quite sure where my USB cable is. I will post them once I find it. LEts just say I had a rough morning/ whole day Saturday.

SATURDAY First I woke up hung over and then to find out that I had a fat lip. The lip wasn't any ordinary fat lip....I think it was an allergic reaction. It had a blister on the inner part of my upper lip. It looked it if you were to take a niddle to it all the liquid would pour out. I took an allergy pill because thats all I had with me....So i went for a nap, woke up and it was almost gone. Still swollen, but barrely noticable. By the time dinner rolled around I was feeling MUCH BETTER and my botox looking lip was mostly gone. Just felt a little weird on the inner side. Thomas was calling me Angelina Jolie :S I must say though, My lip was pretty huge. And no I didn't take pics, but I should have.

So Thomas took me to dinner at The Iron Chef...WOW it was amazing!!!!!! I recommand you guys to all try it out (if there is one near you obviously). AMAZING though. There is two sections to the restaurant one where they cook right infront of you and the other is just Dinning. We went to the Dinning because the other section opened at 10:30 and we were starving.....still amazing though. So we came home and watched movies for the rest of the night.

Sunday we went to Wonderland. I must say Thomas is a WUSS when it comes to rides. Holy moly...there were so many that I wanted to go on but he was too CHICKEN!!! He was telling me to go on the ones I wanted to go on, but there was no point. It made more sense to go on ones that we both could go on. We had nick and Lisa on our minds as we were going on top gun. I must say pretty awesome way of proposing.

Monday we chilled around in the morning and then Thomas left back for Kingston :( I'll probably see him in a few weeks once his course is done.

Oh and Thomas was trying to teach me how to drive standard in a parking lot. I kind of got the hang of it, but not really LOL. I know how to stop and go....thats it so far. I did alright I guess.

Kingston Visit

Ok so here a re a few good pitures from my Kingston Visit. I one piture before, so for some reason these ended up being backwards. Im sure Ill figure it out. The three pictures are of the castle. The first had a bridge, no clue what it is but it looked cool and if you look closely you can see the Bride and Groom I was talking about (crossing the bridge). Second pic is of something that looked like it had rooms in it. It looked interesting. I don't know much about castles so I have no Idea what the First and Second pic are. Third pic is of the actual castle. You can't even see the whole thing, but it was very pretty. Thomas and I want to go for a tour sometime there. We have to go over the American Border to get to the castle. And the fourth pic is of Thomas and I while we were waiting for the 1000 Island cruise tour. We were eating some junk food due to hunger and then ate a hot dog on the boat. There are lots of pics that I took. I guess I went picture crazy, but they aren't as cool looking as these ones. Hope you enojy them :)

UPDATE

Hey everyone,

Yea it's been about a month since we updated, opppsss! So here it is, work for both Thomas and I is going alright, Thomas' seems more fun than mine, but I guess it'll do for now. I went to the cottage for and week two Fridays ago and I got home last Friday. I went to Kingston to see Thomas and it was pretty awesome. I drove there, it took about three hours or something but I really needed to see the guy :). When I got there on Friday I tried to surprise him lol. We partied on Friday and I got to meet all his friends. Saturday we went on a 1000 island cruise thing which took 2.5 hours. It was really interesting to hear some history, some of it was kinda boring, but the best part was the castle in the middle of the lake. Man, that thing was huge, when we were passing by there, there was a wedding going on. I told Thomas that would be cool to have a wedding there, but only if we were rich...oh well! Over all the cruise was pretty good. There was three different levels to the boat so we checked out each level. I have TONNES of pictures, but haven't loaded them onto my comp. Saturday we chilled around and watched some movies and ordered pizza. We also went for a walk around which one day could become our home, depends where Thomas gets posted. We both really like it there, so it might become a #1 option. Who knows though! Sunday we chilled around talked with people and then went to go see THE DARK KNIGHT!!! I recommand everyone to go see it. It's a little long, but AMAZING!

Thomas is picking up his car tonight at 6 30, so hopefully everything goes well. We're both really excited. He's getting standard, so he is going to teach me how to drive it. Hopefully this weekend if he comes down to test out his new sweet wheels. I must say, it's a really nice car. Now he can drive me all around town, since I was the taxi before.

So thats all for now, I'll update when something more interesting comes along. Hopefully I find a new job. It's not so easy trying to find something that will interest you for more than 3 months.

Wedding Date

Hi everyone, so we have our wedding date set!! It's June 6th 2009. MARK YOUR CALANDARS. YAY, Thomas and I are totally excited that things are now in motion.

So how it all began, I went to look at halls with my mom last Monday to start getting some ideas. OUr whole original plan was to use just a normal hall where you would get your own caterer because my uncle was going to cater it for us and maybe hook us up. So the first place I went to was a place my Dad does work at (electrical work) Le Treport. It's an actual banquet hall which is the opposite of our original plan. I wanted to see what they had to offer. So I ended up going to that place and that one only and ended up LOVING every bit of it because they are giving us a deal. Thanks so my Dad hehe they're hooking us up, we couldn't get that anywhere else. We would be spending more using my uncle because we would still have to rent tables, chairs and all the whole shabang. So this place was just freshly renovated and it's BEAUTIFUL. We're really happy with the whole package they gave us. The package includes A LOT and it's really decent. It's too long of a list to list everything that is included, but we're happy.

Thomas called LE Treport yesterday before I went in today (to give the deposit) and asked a few more questions that were unanswered for him, when he was asking me questions. So he liked the sound of it and today I went in to give the deposit. THomas almost cried HAHAHA. It's all good though. WE'RE SO EXCITED!

The above pic is what I took today of it all set up for a wedding today. Thats going to be our hall!

Niagara Falls.

Well I figured that Megan blogs enough for me, that it's about time that I post a little bit myself. Her and I went to Niagara falls for a few days last week. We had loads of fun, we went to two wax museums, one was good the other had all the sculptures behind glass so kinda sucked. The one museum, can't remember the name, was loads of fun cause Megan and I had a chance to goof around and take some entertaining pictures. If you were to see us you'd probably think what huge dorks we are, but that didn't matter it was worth it.

While we were there the Hotel(Hilton) gave us free tickets to a magician/hypnotist.... The tickets originally cost 34$ but let me tell you it wouldn't be worth more then 5$. Thank god they were free, cause I would have been bummed out if i payed anything for it.

In January, Megan and I went to the ROM, and were fascinated by the paper weight exhibit. It showed the whole process they do, along with how they blow glass. While we were walking around Niagara we came across a shop that did glass blowing. We were able to sit and watch, coolest thing ever. So much fun to watch them work. One of the guys talked with us a bit about it, and it was impressive to hear how little time it takes to make these great pieces.

We also went to the casino a bit at night. Seems
Megan has all the luck in the relationship (of course you need luck to get a great guy like me). Over the two times we went Megan was the one that won money, but in the end we didn't really win anything just lost money.

All in all it was a great time, but all that fun makes you really not wanna go back home/work. maybe I should retire.

One Day Remaining

Hi everyone, so there is one day left till I see Thomas. I'm so excited. It's less than 24 hours wooo!! Here's the run down. Thomas is leaving Sufield (sp?) tonight and going to hit up a bar with the guys in Medicine Hat (sp?). One of the dudes works there and it's Kareoke night. Also, there's something to do with chicks dancing hawian style, but I could be wrong.(and giving out booze, I'm guessing). Anyways, he will be staying over night in a hotel in Medicine Hat where the Airport is located and will be flying out at 5:00am. He lands in Calgary and then flies out ( I think its a four hour flight so i'm guessing) around 9am his time. Which would mean he lands at Pearson airport at 2:00pm my time. Yea there's a two hour difference. SO, I will hopefully be done work around 2:30, 3:00pm the LATEST! My work is fairly close to the airport so by the time I get there he will have his lugage and probably be waiting for me. So, it all works out perfectly. I'm hoping that it rains tomorrow, because they have been calling for rain tonight and all morning tomorrow. If it does rain then I don't have to go into work, which would make my life a tad easier. I won't be all stinky for Thomas hehe doing Landscaping.

So, thats pretty much it. We will take some pics and post them. I know you have been photo neglected, I obviously have no recent pics to post. No worries though, there should be some soon approaching. thats all for now folks, tata

Second Week of work

Hi Everyone, so I've started my second week doing the Landscaping job. It's pretty sweet I must say. It's easy and also a workout, I like it. I'm not going to say I love it because I don't think it's something I would take on in the future. Don't get me wrong though, I am enjoying myself. It has been a good experience (so far) and it's something different so that's what I was looking for.

So as for summer jobs right now, I have the gym which is called Mississauga Valleys Community Centre. Yes, it is with the city and is a community centre, so I get paid more than normal staff that work for a commercial gym doing floor staff. I choose to do municipal instead of commercial or corporate because I didn't want to be concentrated on doing SALES, I want to actually help people. So the gym I'm at is majority of old people, and I love it. They have got to be the funniest, nicest people. So I'm there on Mondays from 7am-11am. It's a short shift, but Atleast I have my foot in the door with the city.

Then I'm doing the landscaping company which is Tuesdays-Fridays and that company is called Clintar Landscaping, it's a franchise. Last week (being my first week) we started at 7:30 and finished around 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 3:30. I think it was a different time everyday lol. Today and tomorrow we are starting at 6:30am so we'll probably finish around 2:00, 2:30pm. It's a pretty chill job, but it can also be hard work at times. The site I was at today I was whipping around in a golf cart, it was fun.

Two other girls that I work with sometimes were at another site today and they were chased by a GOOSE. The Goose chased them a good distance. If I was there watching I would have been laughing. Those things are crazy. They have nests EVERWHERE, it's unbelieveable. AND they are CRAZY viscious when guarding the female.

As for Mr. Thomas, he's just been up to work. I know he blew things up last week or something with one of the other guys. He said it was fun. Every Tuesday he has been going to the movies with Corpral Hamilton ( I think that's his name), which is in Medicine Hat (ummm spelling?). So tonight they are going on another date hehe (Thomas is going to hate me for saying that, but I had to). I learned some military lingo today. Thomas told me that they call the wives the "Niners" . Apparently when they talk on the walkie talkie things the man in charge is called the "Niner" soooooo I guess according to men the wives "THINK" they know "EVERYTHING'' and are INCHARGE so that is why they call us the Niners. HA they're one to talk.

COUNT DOWN:THERE'S 9 MORE DAYS, WWOOOO!

Lil Update

So, I'm done school as of last Friday. It sure doesn't feel like it because I still have a certification to do this Thursday-Saturday. It's three days long but I will be a certified Personal Trainer along with a certified fitness assesser. I'm excited, hopefully I pass it hehe. I have been looking for a full time job for the summer. I'm looking into Landscaping. I have an interview tomorrow, we'll see how it goes.

As for Thomas he hasn't been up to much, just working. He did look after his friend's dog for the weekend, which I know once we move in we will definitely be getting a doggy. Oh and there is 24 more days till his arrival, now that is exicing. I have a little count down on my calendar :D. So he will be returning around May 21-23ish. He has to book his flight and talk with a lady. Which reminds me the lady is back from holidays today, so hopefully he is able to book his flight for Wed May 21, won't get my hopes up though. But yea, he will be coming home around that time and then we leave for Niagra Falls on the 28th-30. We're going during the week because it's so much cheaper. We're going to hit up some slots/black jack, booze and clifton hill. I'm so excited. So, thats basically it, oh and i'm sure u all have heard about all the snow Alberta got, yea Thomas has snow :P. Alright thats all for now. Oh and you guys should check out the Breast Cancer website and how well my team is doing so far, I'm so proud of everyone. Thanks for the support

Breast Cancer Walk

Hi everyone, well Thomas had a good idea to present this post to all of you threw the blogsite. I can explain what I'm doing to all of you in one shot, how great is that!?

So let me get to the point. My aunt which is my Mom's, brother's wife was diagnose with breast cancer last September. This really hit the family hard. Well, I came up with the idea to do the 60 km walk on the streets of Toronto in September 2008. This walk will take 2 days to complete. I attended an orientation last Saturday and it was totally amazing, the rush you get with all the people there supporting our every step just looked unbelieveable. I am asking for all of you to help support me to complete this walk for a great cause along with my Aunt who is still in recovery with this disease. If you could please take the time to read below it will give you a little outline of what we will be doing and asking for.

And also, before you read this just to clear a few things up. Diane Versace-Gomes is my Mom, Diane Versace (Mallon) is my aunt who has breast cancer and Michele is my Mom's sister.

THE WEEKEND TO END BREAST CANCER A VERY SPECIAL REQUEST FOR YOUR SUPPORT

Hi!! On September 5-7, 2008 we are asking you to support our journey. We have decided to join the 60 kilometre walk for The Weekend to End Breast Cancer. Our family has recently been touched by this horrible disease called Breast Cancer, to someone very close and dear to our hearts. Some of you may already know and for those who don’t Diane (Mallon) Versace. She is a mother to Rachel and Alyssa and a wife to Paul. She is also daughter, a sister to seven, a daughter-in-law, a sister-in-law, an aunt, a niece, a friend, a nurse and a teacher. Diane is very special to her family and to anyone who knows her or ever met her. Diane is fighting this disease called Breast Cancer. Diane has had surgery and radiation treatment. It was discovered early in 2007 and it makes a difference. She is doing very well and is very strong. She has had the fight of her life and so we would like to join her with our help and support her.

Megan Korn, Diane’s niece has created a team in the Weekend to End Breast Cancer called Team Versace for Diane Versace. Anyone who would like to join our team is welcomed, please contact us. We will be training and getting into shape. The steps we will be taking are nothing compared to Diane’s steps she has taken and the steps still ahead of her.

Did you know according to the National Centre approximately 20 500 Canadian women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, 5 400 women are not able to survive this horrible disease; this is why we are walking. When discovered early it can be beat.

This brings us to the reason we are sending this letter, we each have a personal goal to raise a minimum of $2000.00 each team mate for the 60 kilometre walk. Thus we pledge to raise $6000.00. Yes, this is a plea for your donation; we are asking for a dollar a kilometre or anything that you can donate. We are thanking you in advance for your donation. THANK YOU!!!!

You can make your donation on line at www.endcancer.ca, to our Team Versace and the members listed. Tax receipts are made for donations made $10 or more. You can fill out the form and mail a personal cheque to any of our team mates. We do accept cash donations and they would be divided to help the entire team. If you know anyone who would like to help support us and our Team Versace please forward our information for their donation. The more support we have the better success we will have for our team. We want Diane Versace to be proud of us. We are doing it for her and her long life ahead.

We cannot thank you enough, and we thank you on behalf of Diane and her family.Have you had your mammogram!!!

Thank you for your generous donation.

Team VersaceMembers: Megan Korn (niece), Diane Versace-Gomes (sister-in-law), Michele Picariello (sister-in-law)

Please follow this link if you would like to donate

http://www.endcancer.ca/site/TR/Events/Toronto2008?px=2483666&pg=personal&fr_id=1254

If the link dosn't work then you can go to www.endcancer.ca click Toronto and then "sponsor a participant" and enter my name: Megan Korn and then once my name pops up click on my name and you are able to pick whatever amount you wish. Thank you again everyone.

Hi Family

Hi Everyone, so this is Megan, Thomas' new fiance. I told Thomas that I'm going to take over his blog since he is lazy and doesn't do it anymore. So as you can see I changed his pic and the name of his actual blog. I might change around a few other things hehe.

So anyways a little update on Thomas. He is in Alberta doing an on job training until his next phase starts in Kingston. Yes, I'm so excited for him to go to Kingston, so much closer to me, I can bug him more. He might be back in Borden by may 21, or it could be the 22 or even the 23, we just have to wait and see. Well, we're hoping that it's one of those days. So anways theres not much at all for him to do there since he is out in the middle of no where. He plays games in the evenings and watches movies/ tv shows. He also went to see his Grandparents (Susan Cain's) for Easter weekend, just to get off base since he hasn't gone really anywhere for the past month.....it was time for him to leave for a bit. He had fun, he played games, saw family he hadn't seen in awhile and just really enojyed himself. I was a good 3 hours bus ride though. So the really consisted of him catching up with everyone. I was glad to see him do something lol.

He actualy might be better with details on what he's been doing there, but this is bascailly it all in a nutshell and stuff that I understand and aren't in military terms. Hopefully one day I get as good as Stephanie with knowing everything.

So anways maybe a little on myself now since I've ranted enough about Mr. Thomas. I'll be graduating from Humber (taking Fitness and Health Promotion) in April. Fitness and Health is based on personal training and performing fitness assessments on people. I was thinking of getting involved with kids, or disability people. I think for me to get involved with people that have disabilities will make me take more schooling, which right now I just want to get the heck out haha! I've enjoyed the program a lot and it's just time for me to get out. I've been doing co-op since January which I've also learned a lot there and I got offered a job position for Monday mornings from 7am-11am. It's only 4 hours, but it's something and I can get my foot in the door. If I end up finding a fulltime position my supervisor said to just take it. So that was pretty nice of him. But basically my life, right now, is consisting of studying, work, school, co-op, and counting down the days till Thomas comes home, which is 55 days. Yea, so thats pretty much it.

It's nice to meet the ones I haven't met yet, and hope to meet soon, and the rest of you HELLO, it's been awhile lol.

Change of Command Parade.

Well last week we spent some time practicing for this parade, monday we had a dress rehearsal, and today was the actual parade. It went really well. Due to the fact that I've been bored outta my mind in Borden I volunteered to be a Division Commander. They only needed two people and I wanted to be one. Not sure when this picture was taken, but it happened sometime monday. You'll have to follow the link if you wish to see it, because some paper owns it.

http://photos.thebarrieexaminer.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?userphoto=0&image=17461961&thispage=1

Bang creation 101

Seeing how's it new years eve, dad and I figured we could set up a fire work display. This morning Megan and I went to pick out some fireworks and dad provided some more as well as the needed wire to light them all off in sequence.

We built them on two platforms which we will link up together once we get to the launching platform. We are pretty confident that the whole thing should work perfectly but if it doesn't you can just blame it on Megan(my fiance). She assured us that it should work out. Finally we tested some bottlerockets that we taped together... Dad figured it would light best with a blow torch. The sound doesn't work for some reason on my computer but hopefully it will here. If you pay attention carefully you'll notice one of them going off right by dads face... ENJOY

P.S. We did not harm any black Subaru SUV veh in the making of this video...

P.S.S. Mum I used your car to hide behind incase things went wrong.

Thomas and Megan news...

Well Christmas vacation was loads of fun. I spent until dec 27th in Mississauga with Megan and her family. They really spoiled me big time this year.. I got a really nice TV from Megan and a great surround sound system from her parents. Along with some gift certificates and movies from others. I sure scored big time. But I'm not the only one. Megan got spoiled with a new stupid leafs jersey, and some perfume "Lamb by Gwen Stefani". On dec 27th we left Toronto to come to Kenora. this being my 44flight and megans 1st it made for an exciting trip.

When she went to go to the washroom I prepared my suprise, and got a lil nervous.... When she came back she didn't notice me acting funny but then I just asked her. "MARRY ME"..... She was distracted by the great view. Not sure if that means me or the cool clouds. Needless to say she was crazy enough to say yes... So here she is....

Welcome home...

Well I'm finally away from the evil Gagetown land. This past weekend I enjoyed a relaxing time with Megan and her family. We went and did alot of xmas shopping. I finally got my birthday presents from her, they were great even if it was a lil late. Also she made me a great ice cream cake. On saturday I went and booked my new tattoo appointment. I'm getting a dragon. It will cover my right forarm and tricep, up to the shoulder and on finish on my chest plate.. Its gonna look sweet once its complete.

For everyone that didn't get to try the cake... Here Megan is showing you how great it looks.

9 Days in the field complete.

Alright well the last nine days I've been in the field and boy what a trip its been. I'll try to tell you all that happened, its pretty crazy. So we went out on thursday, during the day we got out introduction to trenchs, were we would spend alot of time at first. We had a meeting later that night and reheasals with the major for a Company attack. This was pretty cool seeing how 50 feet above us there was live fire being shot. You could see the tracers. Really gave an impression that you were involved in a battle. The attack took place early friday morning. We woke up at 3 am and started to prepare, the attack was initiated at 7. All went well I didn't get killed but after the attack hell began. It started to rain... HEAVY RAIN. And it didn't stop for about 8 hours. So now my cloths are soaked, luckly the 250$ rain gear I bought held up to the task(its more then just rain gear). So after sitting in the rain all day, we got the privaledge to man the trenches all day. At 8pm we were told that we could now go down to 50%, which means half of us can sleep at a time. So 4 hour shifts in the trench, and the best part is that we have wet cloths on, and it dropped to about -10.

That night was not fun. I'll not lie, me and bradshaw were huddled up close, trying to stay warm. We took turns on the C9 so that one of us could duck down out of the wind. Finally we had a great idea to start a fire in an ammo can that we had. Great idea except the only dry stuff we has was garbage.. So we burnt it and the smoke that it created destroyed us. We were coughing and having trouble to breath. That night I thought what the hell am i doing here more then once. It was a low point thats for sure. One point I had trouble breathing and stopping from shaking, but luckly bradshaw took care of me. I'll tell you thats not something I wand to experience again.

Sat and Sunday we stayed in the trenches at day then at night we were allowed to sleep in the tents. But all day we just stood around doing nothing just looking out into the open, then out of the blue enemy forces would come attack us. Such a boring time that was.. It felt like the excersice would last forever.

Sunday night we finally started doing out recce patrols. That went really well, we went on a 8 hour patrol then returned and some of us got some rest. The other 4 guys in my group were lazy so I ended up only taking 1 hour sleep every 16 hours. I was able to keep my spirits high knowing that I was taking care of the other guys by allowing them to sleep. Troops come first thats what we are always taught. So I was able to keep my energy level at an all time high which confused alot of people knowing how lil rest I took. I went out of my way to help as many people with there patrols, and stuff, not only to keep warm, and busy, but it gave me a purpose. A reason to run my ass off, and not let sleep take the best of me. Finally it came for me to go on my patrol and sure enought my group (troops), took care of me now.. They made me my dinner and told me I HAD to go for a nap. 1.5 hours rest which I wished i didn't take, because it messed with my system. Too much sleep. So this all lasted until wed night.

Wed night we moved to the urban ops base, where we set up our tents and got some sleep. Me again I got only 2 hours cause I went out on a patrol for someones retest. But I had lots of fun on the patrol. Thursday it rained all day, and it was freezing cold. We did urban ops stuff all day then at 4 we had the night off. We were all cold, tired, and upset that our tent was all muddy and had alot of water. So what did I do. I recruited Bradshaw to join me and we collected pine bows for over and hour. We lined the tent bottom with them which kept the warmth in and helped keeping the water from getting us wet.

So all in all, I had a great time. It was hard mentally and physically, but I've learned that when things get tough I'm able to forget about my needs and look out for whats best for the group. Which is more then others can say lol. Some people really shut-er-down.

OH yeah finally one last story. One night for dinner we were told that two flares would be shot up in the air and then 50% of us must RUN hard and fast to get out dinner. So we get there and we get a plastic bag with three meat skewers(the sticks kept making holes in the bag and didn't help), rice, corn and gravy if we wanted... I chose no to have the gravy. Some people even put there cheese cake in there. So one you have your bag of food, you put it in your pocked and RUN your ass off back to the trenchs so that the next guy can go get his food.

So thats it for now... :D

Survived 5 Days

Well I'm back from the field now. The 5 days that we spent there weren't that bad, other then constantly being cold. The mornings I would wake up and my gear would all be frozen and frost over everything. I would wear between 3 - 5 layers of clothing each day. The mornings were the worst part of my days. One night it rained all night, made for one miserable night. The days were fun, we'd do roughly 5 - 6 attacks each day. The terrain was miserable imagine a field full of heavy thick bushes, and more tanks track ruts then one could imagine. Running over this terrain was fun. Sure enought my ankles and knees are rather hurting right now. But whatever doesn't kill me will only make me stronger.

I came back last night and spent most of the day today cleaning all the mud off of it. 5 loads of laundry and crubbing alot of things and most of it is finally done. Well the best part is on thur we get to go to the field to get all dirty again. This time going for 9 days, should be alright.

Well thats all for now.. I'll catch up more later.

Section Attack week.. Time to be a killer again.

Well Gagetown still sucks. Looking forward to leaving and counting down the days.. well I'm not but Megan Keeps me well informed of how many I have left. Lately things have been a lil crazy around the shacks all cause one guy went out drinking when he shouldn't have and he showed up for work drunk still. Not sure if you remember me telling you about a guy that did this during basic but yup its the same guy. Luckily after a day of getting yelled at and getting "jacked" Megan has been there to cheer me up. Its amazing how supportive she is ... who would think that I would find a girl that would put up with me lol.

So I'm sure that once I am outta gagetown life will get about a million times better. Looking forward to xmas finally bought my tickets so its official, Megan and I are flying into Winnipeg on Dec 27 and leave Jan 7th.

As for other news we are going to the field this week, Its section attack week.. So time to hunt down the enemy and impose our will on them by shooting blanks at him. We had practice today and I was the 2IC, people were a lil suprised how loud I can be. Also I'm rather good at controlling the fire that is being sent towards the ass hole shooting blanks at us lol. My favorite line is "Bradshaw (my best friends and fire team partner) open up that C9 and blow that ass hole away". It was loads of fun and really looking forward to this week. 5 days of hell cold hell but should be good. Also yesterday we got to build a level 3 trench, it was kinda fun to make, and I'm sure that next week me and Bradshaw will have fun making one that we will live in for 9 days.

Well just to end this post of with a lil fun. On Oct 30th our SGT told us we had something new to add to our morning inspection. Each section had to carve a pumpkin and have it ready... I didn't really carve at all cause I figured it was a waste of time. But it was still pretty funny seing the other courses being yelled at, while we carve away. Oh and just a side note.. that man in the left of this picture that's my fire team partner Bradshaw, and that old man on the right... Yup he's is old.. 55 years old and still kicking enemy ass. Just goes to show you're never too old to do something that you want to do.

Update from Gagetown.

Well as you all should know by now I'm no longer in Borden. I moved to Gagetown for a 10 week course which I was suppost to start on Sept 17. Once I arrived I was then told that I'm not starting until Oct 1st. So the great news is now I'm stuck here until Dec 7 :(, but once I"m done here I then go back to Borden to spend Xmas with Megan and her family. I'll then be coming to Kenora to visite dad and Susan. Should be exciting.

Gagetown is pretty boring these days. Theres not much to do and every day we have PT and inspections. The PT is pretty crazy, today I did a combination of 75 pullups/chinups, 150 push ups, 225 squats, and around 2 Km in running between all this. Was quite difficult but managed to complete it all in 27 mins. Hoping that by the end of the course I'll be able to do it in under 22 mins. Shouldn't be that hard to improve it with the rate that were doing our PT. Lately the staff has run out of things for us to do after inspections so were told to just go label our kit, or do our personal admin. So here I am in a coffee shop paying bills, bloggin and other stuff that I call my personal admin :D.

Well that should be all for now.