Detox

On Monday I started a 4 week nutritional/physical detox. It’s a mix of dietary changes and physical activity/stimulation. I can’t eat dairy, eggs, meat, wheat, or anything refined. So I’m eating a ton of veggies (lots of stuff we grew in our garden), fish, nuts and such. It is kind of cool, but I think [...]

Being a Dad

I’m ready to be a dad. Current parents like to tell me that I have no idea what I’m getting into. Other prospective parents bemoan the fact that they have no idea what they are getting into. I feel like I’m ready. The only thing that is scaring me/making me nervous is a selfish fear [...]

Disturbing

Does anyone find this image as disturbing as I do? It took me a minute to realize just what was going on. And it’s kinda creepy. I mean the circle of what they are eating… There’s something totally wrong about it. I found it on the Suicide Food blog.

Furnace confusion

So yesterday we received a second quote for a furnace replacement. And there was a HUGE difference in price. He quoted us $4100, as opposed to around $6000. Now, it’s for a Ruud furnace as opposed to a Lennox (i have do idea of the quality difference) but I can’t see it being a big [...]

Furnace Woes

So we need to get a new furnace. Well, we don’t NEED to, but ours is not the best. It was put in around 1970/80 and it has about a 65% efficiency rating, meaning for every dollar we pay for natural gas, 35 cents go up the chimney. Not to mention the electric motor that [...]

Josh and Keira

Last night I had the pleasure of chatting with my little niece and nephew in Calgary. We left Calgary a little over a year ago, a Josh was 3 and Keira was just about to turn 1. I’ve talked to Josh once since leaving and it was so cute. I couldn’t believe how much more [...]

The Amazing Preggo Wife!

My wife amazes me with her patience when it comes to things pregnancy/childbirth/parenting related. And not just the physical act of being pregnant, but all the mental abuse from others. She is constantly bombarded with parenting advice, and stories of other peoples experiences, whether we cares or not. She does an amazing job of taking [...]

School Sticker Shock!

So I got a bit of a shock yesterday when I looked into going back to school. I just want to go back part-time, 2 or 3 classes per semester, and finish my Theology degree so that I can go on to become a Pastor. Seeing as how September is quickly drawing to a close, [...]

Innate Parenting

Are we born ready to be parents? Do we have this innate knowledge, from birth, that prepares us for being good parents? Part of me thinks so. Part of me thinks we are all born with the innate knowledge of how to be parents, of how to raise a child. I think it is then [...]

My Schools

So, I’m an IT guy for a local school division. There are 8 of us for 25 schools, and we are each assigned 2-6 schools. I’m one of those with 2 schools, though one of them is the biggest school in the division by over double the size of the next closest school. My other [...]