The Move

As of June-August of this year Erin and I moved from Regina to Winnipeg. It started with a little general unhappiness with life in general living in Regina for the past few years and became a "well I guess we could move" to a "why shoudn't we move" and finally "we should move". Inspite of all the time we had spent in Regina, it just never really felt like home. We have been in Winnipeg for a few months now and it feels good, like it could be home, time will tell I guess. The move itself was not to bad, we were lucky enough to have alot of friends making trips back and forth between Regina and Winnipeg so that cut down of the cost of moving quite a bit. Erin move out here at the beginning of June while I stayed behind for a few more weeks to finish up the summer at my job. So basically for about 3-4 weeks, Erin lived in a big empty house in Winnipeg surrounded by our boxed up life and I lived in a totally empty basment in Regina with my blanket, pot and spoon. Now the gaps in my blog should be starting to make a little sense. I was completely cut off from all technology and basically just worked my ass off to pass the time. Now that we are together again and life is starting to get a little more settled I will try and update things a little more reguarly and try to talk about things more interesting then just what has been happening for the past few months.

The Job

Work work work work work!!! The move to Winnipeg and the news of a new baby on the way has greatly affected my current occupational choices. When I lived in Regina I worked hard and loved my job. I was doing what I was good at and I was having a good time doing it. A new province, a new life brings about a new job. Now I work at Lafarge, a manufactur of concrete products. Where my job used to be all bright lights, road trips and big explosions. Now it consists of forklifts, alot of walking and big slabs of concrete. Change is good, but I miss the good old days, to bad the good old days dont pay the bills. I do like my new job, it pays pretty good, it is not to hard, not to challenging and I get to work outside which is awesome (ask me to say that again in a few months when it is -50 outside!!!). I still have the opprotunity to do fireworks and pyrotechnics, I just have to go after it and get my foot back in the door. I guess right now the job I have is not really where I saw myself but is good for right now and maybe it will become something I can make a career out of. Untill then, I just keep on keeping on and count my blessings that can work and that I have a job that meets our current needs.

The Baby

I will spare you the details as to how this came about but Erin and I are now excpecting our first child!!! It is the most unreal thing that has ever happened to me yet. We are so not ready for this, but who is! Last week we started feeling the baby kick for the first time and soon we will get an ultrasound and get to see this crazy thing for real, and yes we are going to find out if it is a chick or a dude. I feel like it will be a boy and I hope it will be a girl (that way I am right either way). As I said, this is so unreal, most days I dont really think about it a whole lot, some days I totally freak out and some days I just get so excited about being a dad. Actually, I am almost always excited about it, even when I am freaking out. I doubt I will ever be ready to "be dad" but I want to give it a shot. With Erin by my side I know we can give this little Bijou a good life and hopfully teach it a few cool tricks on the way (even if we only just learned it ourselves a few days before) I have so many questions about what will be and who this child will become. All I know right now is that this one is ours we will love it and leave the rest of the unknowns to God. I would love to go on more with this, but I am sure it will come up again in many future posts and I have so many other stories to tell right now.

Danny who???

In the spirit of not letting more then six months pass with out a sound let me just say Ahhhhhhhhhh . . . follow by a more prononced AHHHHHGGGGG WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING!!! Now that you are up to speed let me fill in a few gaps. We moved from Regina to Winnipeg, I have a new job and oh yah,I am about to be a dad. Yes, it is true, Erin and I found out shortly before moving to winnipeg that we were prego. That is both exciting and frightening all at the same time (see Ahhhhh and AHHHGGG). I guess the problem here is that so much has happened in the past few months that I don't think I can or should put it all in one post so please select one or all of the following post that you are interested in hearing about and we will try and digest this together.