Watching the Olympics

I gotta say, one benifit of being home a lot is watching the olympics. I have caught some if not most of all of Canada's womens and mens hockey games this year.
Seeing the other sports in action has been really good as well. I feel very patriotic this winter :)

Job Update

I haven't updated on job stuff in a while so I thought I should.
I have had at least 1 interview that I haven't blogged about I think, but I didn't get the job anyway. There was a job in the paper last week that I just applied for, but other than that opportunities have been scarce.
I haven't just been looking in papers obviously, but I haven't had any leads anywhere and none of my contacts in various places have worked out either.
Recently I met with an employment agent (a service that the HRDC provides) and verified that I really was doing all I could to find employment in my field in the area, though she did give me a couple of idea that I am pursuing. One of which is self employment. The government gives you EI while you take a business development course and create a business plan. I am plan on doing this and seeing if a running a computer shop in the area is feasible. We will see if it will happen, but at the very least it will be very interesting to learn about.

Third in Fustal

So after languishing down in second-to-last place in the Saugeen Futsal League, my team managed to win our game on Monday and finish in third!
So this coming Monday the next season starts with new teams and more players. There are now 8 teams of 8, so the leugue is getting quite popular. For this next season, teams on based on countries and I am on the Netherlands team with an orange jersey (I thought maybe a green one would be more appropriate :) ). The team looks really strong too, we should have some very competitive games.
Its probably one of my favorite sports nights I have and I look forward to playing it more!

Lightening Storm?!

So its the middle of February, there is 2 feet of snow on the ground, and we get a huge lightening storm with driving rain?!? Its quite strange. There was thunder non-stop for like 3 minutes at one point.

Weird, but very cool. Sledding shoudl be awesome ones its gets cold again (says Luke's inner child) :)

Grandma

Monday morning at 3am my Grandma, my Dad's mother, passed away. It was very peaceful and expected and the family was there. Margaret Bellamy had been in a nursing home for years and been without sight for most of that time, she got pneumonia (I think) and wasn't able to recover, she was in her 90's. My Mother was sitting with her when she died and had been reading Psalms from the bible to her that evening. She seemed to be mentally alert right until the end, but had decided it was time to go.
It was been somewhat overshadowed in our house due to Anne's father's injury, but today is the visitation and tomorrow the funeral so we can concentrate on her. It will be my first experience as a pall bearer, so that will be interesting.
The last few days have been busy, that's for sure.