Grizzly

We went to the Grizzly Grill for dinner with my parents. It was pretty busy maybe due to the Santa parade but nice.
My mother and I both forgot our cameras so there are no pictures of the occasion!
My eyes are very tired now so I must go to bed.
I hope they have a good trip home tomorrow. Maybe they will pass I an going the opposite way. He's supposed to have made it to Sudbury tonight.(traveling from Calgary to Moncton)

Aloe leaf

This is my new 'aloe leaf' green sweater. Photos by James.

James has an exciting few days lined up:
-tomorrow fronts game playing in the intermission
-saturday my parents are coming up for James' game (12 noon Ambassador rink at the invista center)
-Sunday Myrons brother Ian is supposed to drop in as he is driving his truck from Alberta back to Moncton.

I have a lot of marking but hopefully will enjoy a bit!

Fronts game on Friday

James' hockey team will be playing during the intermission of the Fronts game on Friday. They are telling them tonight at practice. He is going to be so excited!!!

He also won a pen today for being the best behaved child in the class. Way to go James!

Cry

Today Al was talking from 1 Samuel about Hannah who cried her heart out to God asking for a child. Al said that it can be good to cry and a baby in the audience agreed and started to cry.

This evening I went with James to the Church down the road in the evening. The speaker I believe was called Ralph and he is one of their candidates to be the new pastor of that Church. He spoke on spiritual growth. Interestingly, one of the things he mentioned on the path of spiritual growth was also about crying!

I found this interesting as I can't recall anyone ever speaking of this in relation to spiritual growth before and then today I heard it twice!

Online ordering

I placed a couple of online orders last night.
One was with sears as they had a 15% off sale if you ordered after 9pm. But the 15% only worked with a coupon code that they gave you on the start screen. (Why they couldn't just automatically calculate it, I don't know). I went through and did my order and entered the code and they said it was invalid.
So I called the phone # they listed on the screen and said I was having trouble with an internet order. 'Kenny' told me that they only did catalogue orders and gave me another number for internet orders. I called the number he suggested but they were not open.
So I called back the original number and got "Kim-yo" and told him the the 15% off code was invalid. He went and asked at the helpdesk and they checked and sure enough the number that was posted online was off by one digit. He gave me the correct number and fixed it online. And I placed my order.
But with all the problems getting this in, for some reason my order switched from a pickup order to a delivery order. Now I don't mind this much as long as Myron answers the door. If I have to go and pickup the delivery I won't be very impressed! Sears has a new order system and I think it has a few bugs!

My next order was for Christmas cards. I tried to order at SDM as they had a very cool frame card for the picture I had. So I went through and was almost completed the order but on the last step I had to hit 'continue' and it would just refresh the page I had. There was no phone # to call. I have had problems with SDM processing my cards before so I gave up and ordered them at Loblaws instead. The frame around the picture is not as nice, but their ordering system works better!

Rustle tidbit
Because these things happen.
When Al finished his sermon, Robert leaned over to Madeline and said that she was cold because she didn't have enough blubber on her bones.
Gloria on over hearing this, turned around and said to Robert "You're impossible!"
I found the exchange rather amusing. Rustle is never boring.

James is currently waiting for AJ to arrive and they'll play for a couple of hours. Then we'll have dinner- chicken and mashed potatoes. James wants to go to the Church down the road this evening. We went last week and it was their 20th anniversary so that was a fun evening. I had some interesting talks with James today that I'll write down if I get the time!

My surname splits have published online!

Vote

would any of these colours suit me?

I found a sweater I like but it only comes in these colours. If you know my colouring, let me know if you thinks any of these colours would work with me. Bob, ask Sarah or Carolyn, don't answer yourself!

I got most of my course coordinating work caught up, but have some marking to do this evening. Yay for hockey night in canada.

Kassandra the bird has been pretty clingy with me today. She normally won't come near the computer room but today she had been all snuggled up with me. UNTIL NOW when she started biting my hair.

James is currently still enjoying the x-wing fighter.

uneventful

Today James got up at 6am, so the day started early!
I was at Stirling at 8am to deal with some problems we were having with a TA.
Then I had a day fixing, fixing, fixing the exam schedule. We finally had it ready at 3:07 but we missed the server pickup at 3pm so the rooms aren't showing now but probably will be after 3pm tomorrow. Hopefully, it went ok!

Then I came home and made pizza (our favorite meal!). Maybe I'll make something tomorrow if I have any time. I am very backlogged in my 100 work.

AJ came over this evening.

My grandmother from Holland left a message on my answering machine. And I talked to my mother and Kim on the phone. Kim's mom is still doing very well. She goes for radiation treatment on Tuesday.

Secret

Well, the rooms didn't get published today. There were mistakes in the import to the database (the fault of using 2 different databases that don't talk to each other perfectly) I had to do some data recreation. I hope I have the file all done in Excel to be imported into Access. Then we have to make an XTT file and post it to the web. Tomorrow. Still have some minor fixes to do.

Coral was doing the in-bond proctor scheduling today and they seem pretty short of people. Melissa you'll get lots of work! I think I'm supposed to do what Coral is doing but I'm too new!

Tomorrow I'm not sure what to tell the girls in the office about my birthday. Another girl - Tracy- has her birthday tomorrow too. So they have been planning a cake and munchies. But I'm not sure I know them well enough to tell them yet.

I have been so busy with my job that everyone with October and November birthdays (including myself) has not got much attention. Sorry everyone born in this sixth of the year!