Caboose's House

Never say no to Pandas

2010-11-23T15:58:00.000-08:00

They're almost extinct, so they'll be pissed they're dying for nothing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ9xM1FFSxU

It's been a while

2010-09-27T16:33:00.000-07:00

Hello, world!

I decided to check in, seeing as a lot has been going on in my life. I want to share some of the many experiences I've had in the time we've been apart.

I've been doing many things since I got back from australia. First off, we moved, which was a big event because now we live in a house! That's a first for us, so we're all excited. There's been a lot of adjusting to this lifestyle, many more responsibilities. I've had a kitten, and gotten harsh into longboarding. I've climbed a tree to cut the branches down and taken a trip to chase BC for a weekend of flips off the dock and flipping off the train. I travelled to Vernon BC in search of new, unexplored territory, and I've ventured to Plateau and Belcarra in search of new hills to bomb. I biked for a while and learn to cook steaks very well. I've hacky-sacked, learnt to play the ukulele and the harmonica better, worked on my beatboxing, and sketched a lot more. I've worked at painting houses and DJ'ing Music bingo. I've read more books and met more people than i have at any point in my life, i think, and I'm very happy for it. Some people have moved away and gone their ways, and that's the way it is. I love my life right now, and I hope all you do too! Here are some glimpses into my life!

Going home!

2009-12-13T23:26:00.000-08:00

Well, The time has come to go home. I'm happily done with Australia. I have lived in a van and toured the east coast with my friend Dan. I've done the Great Ocean Road, which WAS the Greatest ocean road I've ever done. I've worked at a potato factory and surfed in what felt like the arctic ocean. I've spent a month and a half in the desert, and been there when 4 different cars broke down. I've gotten pulled over and watched terrible Australian commercials. I've been poor and been up hours looking at the stars. I've skated wicked hills and surfed wicked surf in Prevelly. I've snorkelled at Ningaloo reef, and had search and rescue called on me. I lived on a beach for a month and a half, and eaten lots of sand. I've busked the streets of Melbourne and gotten a thousand dollars worth of parking tickets. I've bought 3 kilos of nutella in one month and been sunburnt only twice. I've had sand in many meals and flies in many corners of my ... existence. I've learnt Hebrew, French German and Finnish. To an extent. I've missed my family and made new friends. I've rocked and been to a couple house parties, and opened my eyes to the magic of saltwater. And I've had a pretty phenomenal time.

Darwin and Beyond

2009-10-15T23:43:00.000-07:00

For the past two weeks I've been in wonderful Darwin, NT. -That's Northern Territory for all you civillians out there. After Emilia's car broke down indefinitely- as in Kaput, no more, a bare husk of a car for us to sleep in- we've been spending our nights at Lake Alexander. It's a place where Vannies go to live it up. Every night there are tens of vans parked by the public toilets there. Pumping loud music, utilising the free BBQ's, -at lest that's what I've been doing. At night, you're not allowed to stay there in your van to sleep, however, if you drive 500m around a fence, there's a dirt field where EVERYONE goes. Its a mecca, so to speak. So after two weeks looking for work, living off rice and trying to find a car, Emilia and I are just about ready to leave Darwin. Now, if you'll excuse me, we have a meeting with a prospective addition to our group in ten minuites. Its because the Frenchies left for Vietnam today that I think we're having success. We just couldn't leave eachother until one of us left the country, it seems.

Northbound ho!

2009-09-06T21:35:00.000-07:00

G'day mates!

So, although Marylin dumped me in Nildottie, I hitched a ride with my good friend Emilia, a girl of Finnish descent, and we've gone with Francois and Clem to travel up through the centre. We've done 3000 kms on our way to Darwin because we keep doing wicked detours to other and better places on the way. We're right now taking a needed vacation after so much vacationing. After seeing Uluru, Kata Tjuta and Kings' Canyon we're resting in Alice springs. Soon, though, we'll be on our way again up north and then the west coast. So long, everyone back home!

Po Polsku:

Czesc wrzyscy!

To navet ze Marylin mnie zostawila w Nildottie, zalaczylem sie z kolegami I kolezankami I Jadziem teraz przes australie. Po zobaczeniu Uluru, Kata Tjuta i Kings Canyon, jestesmy bardzo zmeczoni I robimy odpoczynek w Alice springs. Przeczes zrobilismy 3000 kilometrow! Ale zaraz bedziemy na drodze jesce raz zeby surfowac jescze raz!

Still in Nildottie

2009-08-12T01:39:00.000-07:00

Hello all my distance-ed friends and family,

Just a little quick heads up from your ol' pal Gregatron. Life on the farm is pleasant. It's quiet and it's quaint. And it also has just flipped 189 degrees. Yeah, that's right. MORE than half way around. I got fired from my job at the potato factory, and my van died. In the same day. And so then i had to walk home from my ex-job. So now, I'm looking for work at the orange farm, to raise enough money so sam and I can put a new engine into the van. It's less than buying a new car, and Marylin is just worth it. Besides, with her, we have our accomodations on wheels! So, life goes on, with new twists and turns.

Po Polsku:

Tutaj wrzystko jest jak zawrze. Zycie jest chiche na wiosce. Wrzystko jest tak samo oprucz ze dostalem zwolniony z pracy, i moj samochod sie zepsol. To teraz szukam prace na farmie pomarancz, i bede oszcedzal pieniadze zeby kupic nowy silnik. Ale oprocz tego, wrzystko idzie jak gladko i jak zwykle jak normalnie.

Nildottie

2009-06-09T22:49:00.000-07:00

So, I'm in Nildottie. It's a small town about 100 kms north of Adelaide. It's got a shop, a post office, and a liquor store... all in one shop. The same lady works at the shop almost every day, and there's one mechanic. If you go about 20 kms south, you get to the bar. Getting here was an experience. About a week ago, Jarrod and I set out from Adelaide with what we thought was a bent axle. So I decided that, since the shaking wasn't too bad under 70km/h, i would just take it slow. We needed to get to work at 8am the next day, so we had to make it either way. 30kms out, we get a flat tire. THANK GOD. I was so happy that the bang i heard on the side of the road wasn't a bent axle. So we had quite an adventure at that time of night in that part of the neighborhood. Quite a ride.

Honorable mention: our tow truck driver, Bill

Po Polsku:

Jestem w miescie nazwano Nildottie. Male mjasto, ma jeden sklep. W tym sklepie sa warzywa, listy, i piwo. Pub jest 30 kilometrow na polnoc. Jest fajne miasto, i mierzkam z 3ma kolegami w tym czasie jak pracujemy na chodowni ziemniakow. Mielismy strach jak jechalismy tutaj: Opona plaska! Ale to jest okay, bo myslawem ze bylo to os przekrecona. To jest naprawde frajda!

Great ocean road

2009-05-20T22:22:00.000-07:00

First off, the Great Ocean Road IS great. So great that it's fantastic. Kaylen, Jarrod and I spent 4 days driving it, with it's windy, narrow roads. We stopped in many spots along the way, but, unfortunately, my camera ran out of batteries on the first day. So these are all the pictures i have. Fortunately, Kay is a pro photographer, so her and her wicked camera got together and took some awesome pictures. She still has to upload them, so these are all the pictures for now. I didn't write many words in this post, because the ones i need to describe the GOR don't exist. And they won't. I guarantee it. I'm a little shocked because I've seen so many amazing things, yet I've seen so little of Australia. I'm definitely going back to the great ocean road. Maybe even live in Port Fairy for a while. Defenitely.

Po Polsku!

Great Ocean Road (po polsku jest wspaniala droga nad oceanem) to jest naprawde wspaniala. Nie mam za dozo zdiec, bo moja kamera wyczerpala sie drogiego dnia! Jarrod, Kaylen i ja spedzilismy 3 dni z Marylin na tych cretych, waskich drug. Bylo naprawde wsapniale. Tak dobrze ze ja chyba wroce i zrobie jesce raz.

Melbourne

2009-04-27T21:10:00.000-07:00

About a week ago I landed in Melbourne with Dan. In between here and sydney many things happened. We got our rear window broken in Marylin, we found an amazing place for skateboarding, we drove down some paths that will stick with us forever, and we made some friends. Dan has taken Marylin for a little private journey, and I've settled here in Melbourne. It works out perfectly because I have zero money (don't tell my parents) and I need to work. Unluckily for me, theres no work in Melbourne. Luckily for me, there's great people here to keep me occupied. Unluckily for me, my iPod got stolen. Luckily for me, I got to party all weekend. And, luckily for me, I went busking for the first time with my good friend Oliver. So things are looking real good, even though my pockets are empty. Leaving dan was like leaving home again, but it's rocking again now. When he comes back, we have to drive him to the airport because he'll be all tired out from so much surfing on the Great Ocean Road, and because he's going back home. Until then, I'm going to go look for more work, and keep eating sandwiches with cheese and bread. Sometimes I get to treat myself to a tomato. But not today.

Po Polsku:

Mjedzy tutaj i Sydney duzo stalo sie! ktos nam znisczyl okno w samochodzie, poznalismy nowych kolegow, znalezlismy miesca ktore zostana z nami na zawrze, i poznalismy nowych kolegow i kolezanek. Ja mam frajde mimo tego ze jestem biedny i jem tylko kanapki. Ale jestem zdrowy i sczesciwy! Teraz bede szukal prace, i bede stale mial super czas!

The Blue Mountains

2009-04-07T22:56:00.000-07:00

I ךeft Dan a few days ago, and took Marylin on an adventure to the Blue Mountains for three days. Not forever, just a few days! First thing that I noticed was that it wasn't like mountains in Canada. They should be called the Blue Canyon. Don't get me wrong, they're gorgeous. It's just not the right name. On the first day I woke up early and got a good long hike in. I had to ask the lady at the information booth how I could extend my hike, because I didn't want to do the same thing everyone else does. I met two couples hiking along the trail, the men looking very prepared to power-walk through the forest at max speed. The women, not so much. They looked ready, they simply didn't act ready. Every two minuites they would stop, freaked out by some bug that might be looking at them funny. I got to have a meal at the bottom of this waterfall, sitting on a boulder in the middle of the river (which I fell into trying to get there). It started out beautifully, but by the end of the day the clouds had settled. One second it was fine, everything visible, and the next thing I know I'm being hugged by fog. A great hike. Oh, and also, I got bitten by a leech. He ended up being pretty big.

The next day I relaxed, hiking the backcountry after asking a local for tips. I found what I thought he directed me to, but I ended up discovering my own little trail.

The last day I spent mostly on a hike to the "ruined castle" which is a bunch of boulders on the top of a mountain. There was no view, but I climbed one of the boulders and was rewarded. I love the greenery here. There's tons of vines and ferns everywhere, and wherever you are, all you hear is birds and the rustling of the wind in the treetops. One time I thought I heard a huge animal trudging through the woods, but it ended up just being another hiker. A successful expedition into the wild, the first of many.

I teraz, jak zawrze: Po Polsku.

Zrobilem wyprawe w gory kilka dni temo. Zostawilem Dana w Sydney z kolegami, I pojechalem z Marylin do Niebieskie Gory. Pieknie bylo. Wrzedzie gdzie sie stoji morzna slyszec ptaki czwierkajace. Ale wyglada wjiecei jak Niebieski Kanyon. Porzedlem na hike w gory co dzien, I bylo pieknie. Byly tam ludzie ktorzy bardzo bojili sie Mruwek I innych robakow. Mialem snjadanie na durzym kamieniu w rzece, do kturej wpadlem raz. Bylo fantastycznje caly czas, ale pozniej taka mgla opadla na gory ze nie morzna nic bylo widac. Ale jest okaj bo ja wrzystko juz zobaczylem. Porzedlem tez ras na wyczecke na dziko, sam. To bylo fantastyczne bo czulem sie jak bym byl pierwrzy czlowiek ktory w tym mniejscu stal. Wspaniala wyprawa

Words can only try...

2009-03-29T22:34:00.000-07:00

...And describe the journey I've had so far. Marylin has been amazing to us, and we have been amazing to OZ. Just a few pictures:

Our Signature:

Narzy Opis w samochodzie:

McDonalds has 30cent Ice cream!:

Macdonalds ma lody za 30 centuw!:

Lots of Kangaroos at Crowdy Bay:

Kangoory w crowdy bay:

The view from the Crowdy Bay hike:

Widok od wyczeczki przy Crowdy Bay:

Topping up Marylin's oil:

Napelniam olei w samochodzie (Nazywa sie Marylin):

Dan getting ready to shred that barrel:

Dan preparuje sie na surfing:

Beautiful Sunset at South West Rocks:

Piekny zachud sloncia w south west rocks:

Blazing the trail:

Oto Trasa:

Searching for the wave:

Dan i ja Szukamy fale:

What we woke up to:

Co rano budzimy sie do cos takiego:

(I know, it was some random guy!)

And how we eat:

(dziwne, nie? Tam byl chlopak jakis!)

I tak jemy:

While we eat:

Oto my jak jemy:

What we eat (don't ask):

I oto co jemy (lepiej nie pytac):

Dangera Falls:

A rainforest road in Dorrigo national park:

Trasa przes jungle:

Dorrigo:

Dan is a licensed Chef:

Dan jest cucharz:

I am not:

Ja nie jestem:

Sam with the Norwegians Maddie And Kaddie!:

Sam razem z maddie i kaddie:

Our own private White Beach:

Narsza plarza privatna White Beach:

White Beach:

Marilyn

2009-03-16T19:21:00.000-07:00

Let me tell you all about Marilyn. She is perfect. Anything we need from her, we get. She has everything we need. In a car. Dan and I just bought a 1985 Mazda e1800 van to tour around Australia in. We figured, instead of paying for accomodations all the time, dealing with cleaning ladies, snoring women, and transportation costs, we'll buy a van, a one time purchase, and have only gas to pay for. And let me tell you all, we scored big time! This van is the perfect travel van. We paid $2500 for her, and she's got a recently rebuilt engine, all the belts are fine and the tires are like new. The manual tranny is fine except for being a little loose, and there's enough room inside her for everything we need. So starting tonight, we sleep in the van. We bought all our gear like a stove, water container, but the great thing about Marilyn is, she comes with almost everything we need! A cooler, a wicked fishing rod, pots and pans, knives, forks, and more! Even a bodyboard. So from now on, our posts might not be as continuous, but I'll defenitely try to keep updates on what Dan and I do. Time to hit the road!

Po Polsku:

Kupilem samochod! Razem z kolegiem Dan, kogo poznalem tutaj w australii, kupilismy wana kturego mozna zobacyc na tych zdieciach! Nie boj sie, tato, robilismy zdiencia przy czerwonym swietle. Teraz zachyna sie prawdziwa podroz!

Dan, Eric, Rob, Derek, and me

Dan Driving (Bob Marley is playing in the background)

Right after we bought her:

Not - so - cramped:

Adventures in Byron

2009-03-13T17:39:00.000-07:00

I'm still in Byron bay, 'cause I love it. There's something about this town, i dont' know. I love the surf, the people are awesome, and i feel fairly at home here. I've been cooking with Dan (a person, not a spice) a lot, and he's a chef, so he puts me in my place a lot. I'll cook a meal one day, and he'll cook one the next day, and the norwegian girls Maddie and Caddie will cook one day. It's a great deal. Met some guys that I hung out with in surfer's (what's up, Simon and Garfunkel!) and we had a blast. I've been surfing, reading, playing a lot of pool so I'm as good as you when I get back, Brian! It's on!

And I went to Nimbin.

Nimbin was an experience. We went on this tour to see this town, and it was fine and all, but then the real joy started. Like the drive through the most beautiful rainforest I've ever seen. And a visit to this hippie's house. He let us know what he thought about the government. I've always wanted to know what hippies think about the government. Not much.

A great trip. I've been spending nights on the beach with friends, we went cliff jumping a while back at this place called the quarry. I don't know if i mentioned it in my last post, but it was around that time. I'm posting pictures from that below.

If you look real hard, you can see me jumping off the cliff:

Dan and I:

What Up, DOG!?

The Quarry:

The biggest thing around here now is: I ate a kebab. It was fantastic. I'm also thinking of getting a car with my friend DAN THE MAN and travelling together, living out of the car and surfing around australia.

Me and Sam reppin the petrin face:

Me and Simon:

The norwegians cooked dinner for us!

I'll never let go, Jack:

Sam, Kaelyn and I:

In the canyon near nimbin:

It was gorgeous:

Looking down:

And that's all, folks!

Po Polsku Teraz!

Jestesmy jezce w Byron bay. Jest super tutaj I uwielbiam. Te zdeica sa o mojich kolegach i kolezanek z kturymi razem robimy objady. Moi dobry kolega Dan ktorego spotkalem tutaj to jest kuchaz, to mi uczy duzo. Duza frajde mam z danem I mislimy o kupna samochodu zeby zyc w nim i podruzowac do okola Australi. Uwielbiam w Australi! Pozdrawiam wrzystkich!

Byron Bay, Baby!

2009-03-04T00:28:00.001-08:00

Well, I think I've found my home away from home away from home. Byron Bay is the pandas' pancreas. It might be the fact that it's such a small town, or the laid back atmosphere, or the people who busk in the streets at about any time of day or night. Or maybe it's the beautiful beaches and gorgeous water. But it's probably the fact that I feel so comfortable here. Low down to earth, very natural and subdued. The internet cafe is playing Cat Empire (score!) instead of hard techno, which is refreshing. The other day, while writing a letter, a lady sat down at my (not really mine) picnic table and we started talking about writing, and in no time at all I discovered that she's writing a book herself, and I ended up inspiring her to go home and write! The other night I was out with my friend Dan from Israel (way cool guy) and we ended up sitting on a bench with this aboriginal guy. I just love Byron.

So, I went surfing.

Yes, and It was a blast. I went with a surf school called black dog surfing *cough* plug! *cough* which was a good choice, for sure. My instructor Dan was like, Austrian/Australian or something funky, but way cool. I didn't do too bad, actually! Take that, Judy! I liked it! I caught quite a few waves, stood up okay, and had a blast (see pictures). The only thing is they put you on these MASSIVE boards, like, 9 footers, and so it's uber different when you upgrade to a normal board. It's a challenge now that I'm borrowing my buddy Sam's board, but I got up a couple times today too. And tomorrow morning, Dan and I are going out early, like 730 to hit Tallows beach and then go to the quarry to do some cliff jumping by the waterfall. Super awesome! I'm going to stay here for a while, even though the hostel is mega expensive ($36 a night... it's the recession, i'm sure. not the fact that it's a popular tourist destination). So, I'm off now to cook up some super soft tacos. See y'all!

And now, for all the Polaks:

Po Polsku!

Znajduie sie w Byron bay! To jest super miasto w ktorym mozna chodzic caly dzien i rozmawiac z localow. To male miasto, i wrzyscy znaomi sa. Ludzie chodza i graja instrumentami wrzendzie i po kazdych godzinach. Ja z kolegiem pochodzilismy po miescie po nocy, i poznalizmy prawdziwego aboriginala! Plaze tu sa piekne, piasek super i woda przezroczysta! Ja uwielbiam tutaj! Chyba tutaj zostane, nawet ze jest bardzo drogo ($36 na noc!) ale jest pienkny hostel i mam tutaj duzo kolegow i kolezanek. I surfuje! Porzedlem na naluke i szedlo mi wspaniale! Jutro ide z kolegiem rano zeby zlapac dobre fale!

On the beach.

2009-02-22T00:15:00.000-08:00

PAUL HAS A THIRD NIPPLE!

Hello everyone. Paul doesn't actually have a third nipple, I'm just taking full advantage of Paul's gift to me. Thanks so much, paul, for your widget dedicated to me. So sweet. What a guy! Everyone give a round of applause for PAUL! Lets hear it! Now, on to business.

Today was the first day when I really noticed what it is that I'm doing. I'm a bajillion miles away from home, with only temporary friends (for now, wait till the serum kicks in... muahaha!) and dirty clothes with me. But I'm... loving it. Because I know I'll be back to see you all eventually. I know it's only been like 9 days or whatever, but it feels like 27,000. It's like that when you spend gobs of time on the beach, just reading and listening to music and laying in the sand. You know, important, business stuff. It just started raining. Hard. But that's okay, because it reminds me of vancouver. This was Surfer's earlier:
This is it now:
Cool, eh?

I've basically only been hanging around and lazing about, really. It's nice, I've got no obligations. I walk around town, talk to the people at the hostel. Eat. Sleep. Party. Read. And go back to the beach. Every day. I haven't been surfing yet, because as we can all see, I'm just so swamped with things to do. Like the amazing pasta I'm about to cook.

All the best to everyone: and now, a little smidgen of Polish to my family worldwide!

I teraz, Po Polsku!

Dzien dobry, rodzina! Rodzina wrzendzie. (oto wy, Babcia, Ciocie wrzystkie I inne polacy!) I ta regularna rodzina w kanadzie. Jezce nie bylem na desce, ale bende chyba pozniej. Czuie ze bylem tutaj juz 20 lat! I tylko teraz trafilo do mnie co ja robie. Ze jestem tak daleko od wrzystkiego na tak dlugo. Ale uwielbiam to! Bo teraz sie duzo lenie na plazy i nie duzo wiencei! Dzienkuje za wrzystkie pozdrowienia i bende pisal tak po polsku ile bende mugl. Kocham was!

Surfer's Paradise

2009-02-17T15:59:00.000-08:00

Ahoy everyone! Greg here from Surfer's Paradise! - Don't tell anyone, but it's no paradise for Surfer's. It's okay, though. Unfortunately for this post there wil be zero pictures. Zero (0) meaning none. This is 'cause I sat down at the kiosk, and pay my dollars, and stick my SD card into a mangled up slot. "It doesn't fit!" So maybe next time I'll update some pictures.

So, since my last update: I got into a different hostel, one in chinatown (I KNOW!), Brisbane. I spent the days walking around the town, because my hostel was overrun by this gang of Irish guys that did nothing but take up space. Noisily. The hostel really didn't do anything for socializing. Nobody really talked, even if talked to. Sure, there were a few people, but mabe the hair threw them off...

I spent a day going to the Koala sanctuary! Woo! It was really something. I got to hold one of the little buggers. They're real heavy! I didn't pay for the picture, 'cause it was 15 bucks, so I got to hold him for free. They must be trained to look at the camera, though, so my koala (Danny) was real confused, trying to pose. I'll have a picture at the next sanctuary I go to. I DO, however, have pictures of Kangaroos. This place actually should've been called the Lone Pine Kangaroo Sanctuary. You walk into this fenced off field, and there's tons 'em just hoppin around as if they're paid to! Actually, they're real lazy. They didn't hop around much, but you did get to feed and touch 'em. Real cool

Right now in surfer's paradise I'm chilling on the beach today. Tomorrow the plan is to go surfing for real. Yeah.

Surfer's:

My hostel:

Back in Brisbane:

My biggest fan:

My second biggest fan:

Not a fan at all:

See what I mean:

I even gave the lousy bugger food:

Edit: there are now pictures on this post.

Waitlisted

2009-02-13T16:32:00.000-08:00

So, I made it, I'm in Australia. Feels like I've been on the road for about a decade. YEAH I smell fantastic. I've had one shower and i still remember how great it was. So, In short: I got to LA after a long haul on the train, during which I got adopted by this Australian couple who kept trying to set me up with jobs, with wives, and all sorts of shenanigans. Shout out to Mikk and Pat!
LA was fantastic, Spent a day walking around Santa monica. ALMOST got mugged by this shady guy that kept following me, but I mind - tricked him. Played pool with a CRAZY assortment of dudes, and ate as much free buffet as I could. I just got off the plane about an hour ago, and am sitting in the computer mecca of a hostel, waiting to see if they've got room for me. Good thing I made a reservation. :P

Australia: 1 Greg: 0

After I get situated, The plan is to get goin, buy some grub, and party!

The last hour.

2009-02-10T02:21:00.000-08:00

I'm hungry. I want pizza. Let's hope they have pizza on the train. I really didn't want this to happen: Me getting all sentimental and appreciating everything right before I left. It always makes me feel like I should be this in awe of life all the time. But when I think about it, I am. I enjoy so many moments with the people around me, that I'm not being unappreciative. I'm doing the moment (wether it's playing video games or picking on fader's cats) justice. I'm honoring it and taking as much as I can from it. I guess these last moments just help put the rest of it all in perspective. And now My perspective shifts... To Australia!

Ho!

Little kid cities

2009-02-03T23:48:00.000-08:00

I've been around. Let's start by saying that. I've been places in our continent and out. So even though I haven't been to vegas, or New York, or Hawaii, I've been places where not many people have been, not many people have even heard about. My genetic clique (family) loves road trips. Road trips to places like Carson city, Kentucky lake, the Redwoods, Crater lake.... now I wish I'd blogged back then. Those are all places I'd love to go back to, and all places that don't compare with my home. I've always been an eagermeister to get back home when I've been on my travels. That fills me with a pang of guilt, but one I'm not entitled to. It's not like I've spent entire months on the road thinking of nothing but my comfy bed and an actual door. It's more like I've subconciously known that I'd be heading home after the trip was over, and that would keep me comfy during the trip. And once in a while, the thought would peek through it's keyhole to remind the rest of my thoughts that I have a home elsewhere. And then I'd get excited. I would never REALLY miss home, 'cause I knew I'd get there eventually. Back in my little league years, when I was a youngster, I'd hate going on vacations! I can't believe it now, and I really hope my family doesn't read this, or I'll hear the words "we told you so" or something like that. The truth is, I had TRUCKLOADS of fun on those trips, and I didn't know it, because my mouth kept spewing words like "I want to go home" or "When do I get to see my friends again". Those words make me feel like I was an ass of a kid. But don't forget, dear readers, SO WERE YOU! There. I'm comforted. Thanks. I loved that my folks took me for epic trips to ass places. Places that were real boring, but contained a small token of character that I have a special compartment for. Each place gets it's own compartment. No mixing in my house. There've been lots of places ON the WAY to boring places that I've remembered moreso than the destination. There. My post is on to it's point. I was afraid there for a minuite. "How the HELL am I going to seguay this?". I remember particularly this one "town" in Utah. It was along some long stretch of highway, about 200 miles long, that was completely straight. And one store. One. For this tiny town. I went inside. Noone. Bathroom? Kinda. So we got our bread (barely) and drove on. And I dont' know why, but that little adventure has a compartment i go back to a lot. I wonder what people think of coquitlam when they drive through on their way to some location they want to get to. I was driving through late at night, and thought to myself that it would be a cool, unique town if I was en route on a road trip. It's just that with road trips, every town has its coolness factor multiplied by about a hundred because it's new, it's fresh, and you might not see it again. So you look at everything like it's a large, scrumptious-looking piece of cake. You'll eat the cake, and it'll probably taste fantastic, so you'll want to remember what it looked like later. Just so you can remember how you felt when it filled you with satisfaction shortly after you ate it. But you'll never have it again. Sad. I was thinking that coquitlam and port moody and port coquitlam really have all the telltale signs that a lot of cities had when I drove through them for 4 minuites and thought "that's a small town". Coquitlam is developing well, and how. But it's streets have too many lanes for the amount of cars most of the time. The buildings are many that have square corners and brown bricks from the 80's. And when electric signage was out, these buildings got it! However, they haven't moved on to more modern things like led's with more than the color red. There are things like the highrises and the townhouses on Forest parkway. There's the fancy new douglas college campus, and the evergreen centre. Those all bring us ahead a few years. But I wonder which people have Coquitlam in a compartment labelled "little city".

The best job in the world

2009-01-25T20:56:00.000-08:00

I just finished shooting a video resume for "THE BEST JOB IN THE WORLD!" A job as a caretaker of an Australian island off the great barrier reef. The job itself entails living on an island, in a large villa, and swimming. And that's pretty much it. The winner will be required to post weekly blog videos and posts about things they've done on the island. Things such as arranged spa samples, dining out at the island's fine restaurants, and tours around the area. I'm looking for feedback, so tell me what you think, and what you'd say if this is the only insight you had into who Greg is.

It's here on paul's website

We'll post it on the website shortly after. Thanks!

Australian customs wants to know..

2009-01-13T15:33:00.000-08:00

I just applied for my Australian visa, and these are a few... amusing, albeit necessary questions the bureau of immigration just HAD to ask me.

have you ever:

been involved in the comission of war crimes or crimes against humanity or human rights?

left any country to avoid being deported

been aquitted of any criminal offence or other offence on the grounds of mental illness, insanity, or unsoundness of mind?

been involved in any activity, or been convicted of any offence, relating to the illegal movement of people to any country (including Australia)?

Of course, I feel like i have divulged too much, since i answered yes to all of them.

My trip might get put off a wee bit.

Going to Australia

2009-01-12T19:50:00.000-08:00

Dear Blog,

I know it is hard to hear from me after such a long time. I know I have changed in the time since we talked, but just sit down with me, and listen to my case for a little while. To be honest, There's been lots of time during which I could've talked to you, but I chose to take care of some things, because I felt like I wasn't ready to face you yet. Until now.

I left school, that wonderful place called studio 58. I realise it makes me seem like a quitter, that I don't try hard enough. But honestly, That place was not for me. I wasn't ready for it yet. I love it to death, and I still the memory stings that I don't have it anymore. But studio and I aren't ready to be together yet. Maybe we'll get back together sometime, if it can take me back, or if it hasn't been put off by the first impression it's gotten of me. Like you, it needs to give me a chance. That's all I can ask of you both.

I've taken some time for laziness, for sure. That I cannot deny. I've taken time fooling around, when I could've done things to forward my life. Productive things. But that is the past, and I have since then been kicked in the ass and put on the right track. I am going to Australia.

I've always wanted to go, to experience a place as wild as it always seems when its' even mentioned in a sentence. A continent that's also a country!? Who knew? So Australia beckons, and I straighten up, and strive headlong for her. I am heeding her call. The call I've heard for a long time. Because I don't want to look back my life in regret and say "what if?" I want it now! All of it! About a week ago I had a dream I was there, and since then I can't stop thinking about her. She's beautiful in my dream. I plan to go away in february, and worry not, dearest blog. I will find ways to love you and her at the same time.

The only one you could ever love like you used to,
Greg

Colorado Post #2

2008-07-24T11:55:00.000-07:00

Yo Bandits.

I'm still in Colorado, and the temp is up. The last couple days, we've been at an elevation of 12,000 feet. That's 3,600 meters! It's still pretty sparse for biking, but I've been getting by. Yesterday we went through Aspen, Colorado, and right now we've made a quick stop in Georgetown, on our way to Granby today! Hopefully I'll be able to hit up Sol Vista Ranch, the bike park. And wish number 1 is a chain guide... still.

Take care, all!

Colorado Post 1

2008-07-19T09:43:00.000-07:00

Hey Goons! I'm in Colorado right now!

Well, I miss you all terribly, BUT. I have been having fun. I love it out here, just away from everything.. and with the parents. Sigh. I've been biking a bit with my new baby, who I've christened Ashley, but there hasn't been much awesome riding to be had. I've been mostly hiking and reading... and there may or may not be a lot of eating happening. We basically take a night or two max in one spot, and transport ourselves to a new locale. I love it out here, 'cause there's not much to do, I can basically do what I want (except drink legally and skydive). The first segment of the trip, was the Dinosaur monument in Utah, really unimpressive compared to the drumheller one in Alberta, but I got to see a REAL Allosaurus skull, because I was so nice and asked the tour guide with a bat of my eyelashes. Too easy, really. Next we stopped and visited colorado national monument, and I had the best echo of my life. After that we stopped at a ski town called Telluride. It's like a micro Whistler, and It's up at 10,400 feet. Had a little bit of biking done there, but their trail was very rocky and unkempt, with only a few smooth sections. Gotta get a chain guide for my bike... I've been desparately searching for one. Then, the next awesome spot was Mesa Verde. There's ancient villages left after the Navajo people made homes there. After visiting The valley of the Gods, and Monument Valley, we're in Durango. Internet here is sparse, so I'll post when I can. I also have to fight my whole family for the one laptop. There's a little blood.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTINE!

2008-03-30T14:45:00.000-07:00

I only post about important things now. And yes, it is that time of year again.

Vader's other job

2008-02-16T19:14:00.000-08:00

Thank you, Christine. Thank. You.

HELOOOOOOOOO!

2008-02-06T20:46:00.000-08:00

Everyone, I'd like to introduce you to what happens when someone goes to Studio 58. I'm finally fed up with not sharing stuff that's happened, that I am making time to make this post. I really should be working on my acting project due tomorrow, or on my next two play projects due in 2 weeks, or on the english essay due on monday... but that's stuff is obsolete compared to the way I feel about this school. I want to hug it, and love it, and make it hot chocolate and sit with it by the fire. I'm actually excited every morning to go to school, I learn so much every day. Let's take a couple weeks back. The standard day starts at 5:30am. I wake up. At 6:45 I'm at the bus stop, and at 8:30 I start english. At 9:30, more likely than not, is acting class, then we have physical theatre, movement, voice and on wednesdays, Choir. We had crew calls, which are basically calls to help out with the play. I'm on costume crew, and we're responisble for making sure the actors aren't naked. I had to sew and stuff. On those days, I'd be at school till 9, 9:30. Here are some pics of my crew.
Today it took me two hours to get home. So even though i ended at 3:15, I got home at 6. But I am not complaining at ALL. I love this school. Okay, last week, I was really feeling pressure. The teachers are so direct with their criticism, and it is for my own benefit, and I can deal with it, but after I haven't gotten a single positive response for a while, I got kinda desparate. I finally said, whatevs', let's kick it into high gear. See, I didnt even feel like I had a chance to show my true abilities and talents in class, so I was feeling down, because I didn't feel my potential was being realised, blah blah blag. So. this week, has been amazing. I'm finally showing my true colors, and making people laugh again. I even got my teacher to say "good". I KNOW! :D But more than that was the fact that I felt satisfied with something that I did, and fear wasn't ruling me in class. Tomorrow, we've got a presentation of a precious character. And I'm presenting Darek, who, some of you may remember, is my boss. I'm completely excited about this, and can't wait to call myself dum-dum. Things are going great. Movement class requires a quite elaborate getup, but the reward is stretches that are making me a foot taller and amazing yoga for an hour and a half a day. In voice, we all trip out at these amazing things we're learning, like this video.

So, although I miss getting to see everyone, and I'm missing a special person who lives kinda far away who's hungry for gelato right now and who's name MIGHT be Christine. Throughout those things, I am having the time of my life. I honestly see myself getting through this school, although times are tough. And I realised a week ago that I'm going to do whatever it takes for this dream to be a reality. I love you all, and just to prove it, you guys are lucky enough for me to post a gorgeous picture of what I wear to movement every day.
UMOTD:
everything.

The most awesomest Stop Motion ever. Almost.

2007-12-28T01:06:00.000-08:00

Sit. Watch. Love. Slow jerk.

Thanks Kyle.

Julie, Christine, Me, Fun.

2007-12-27T23:49:00.000-08:00

Brian and Julie wake me up at 10! hoorah! I get a Ferrari Teacup set! Hoorah! We have breakfast provided by my mom! Hoorah! Trolls don't attack my house! Hoorah!

Brian's Subaru got a flat tire today. Major problems with getting the wheel off. Luckily the guy that parked beside us had a mallet AND lube. Who'da thunk it? It's like we're lucky almost. We went to the mall, hung out there for a bit, met up with Nobauer and got some grub. I played tag in future shop with Julie, and Brian got me a Ferrari Belt buckle for Christmas! He really didn't have to, but it looks real slick, so maybe he DID! We went over to the treehouse, where Julie and I watched Transformers. IN HD! everyone joined up in the end, everyone except Brian and Vanessa.
We headed down to Dewy's, and I felt great remorse for not being able to go with Nate to Janet's Federico's thing... I was told way too late. Leaving facebook apparently has some temporary reprecussions. We watched the hockey game... or rather... the first two periods were on in the background as we talked over some beer and nachos. I had an awesome burger that gave birth to ketchup. Adrienn showed up halfway through, so we all had a grand time. Back at the Romeins, she scared me to the max by jumping out of Paul's TV box. Second time today they've done that to me!

UMOTD:
Mrs. Romein got some AWESOME pears that taste absolutely delicious! There was like 8 of them in this huge box because they were packed uber carefully.

I gots me some stuff on Boxing day

2007-12-26T12:49:00.000-08:00

3 am- wake up

3:20- stop hitting the snooze button

3:23- Paul showes up. I make sandwiches, we get outta there.

3:30- We arrive at Future shop, where we're located -with nate- about 100 meters down the line. not too shabby. I learn that they've been there since 1am. Wow.

4:00- Nate and Paul retire to a romantic nap in the subaru. I finish my hot chocolate, and Brian shows up. Apparently he'd been working for 2 hours.

4:14- I have hillarious conversations with our new friends who are sharing their chairs with us, Jeff and his friend.. uh... not Jeff?

5:00- Beat the first world boss on super mario advance. Damn that was hard!

5:16 ish - Mad panic time as people start getting up, moving towards the doors, and I warn Nate and Paul to get ready. They weren't ready because they opened the doors a minute later. There were people lined up all the way to the bay! We rush in, they let us loose in waves! I gimbled with my broken toe as fast as I could after Paul and Brian, as Nate held back with me. Paul grabbed two Toshiba HD DVD players JUST in time. There was ONE left right after he picked mine and his up, and that was snatched up as we watched. SO insane in future shop! As it should've been. The DVD player we got was marked down 300 big ones! we paid $100!! AND it comes with 300 and bourne identity in th box, and you can mail in for 5 more hd dvd's! Thank you Paul for letting me know about this!

I also got myself a bluetooth headset, which I'm pretty sure I'm gonna keep. It'll help me with Pizza deliveries and I can use it with my PS3. I got Transformers on HD, which I just had to have, and I got Zelda for my DS for 20 buckaroos, as well as... actually.. that was it. We headed over to my house after Paul HAD to check out Best buy, where we got all comfy and sleepy. My mom made us the most memorable breakfast I've ever had, and Paul is beginning to understand why I chose my house for my favorite place to eat. SUCH good food this morning. Scrambled and eggs, sandwiches with 2 choices of cheese, Polish sausages, and orange slices, topped off by juice. I love my mom. Then we started watching a part of transformers, as Paul left Nate and Brian here at my house. The're still asleep. At 9 oclock, after the best boxing day ever, I clocked out.

UMOTD:
I was talking with much enthusiasm about the new Star Wars game.. and my phone rang. My ringtone is Star Wars.

Merry Christmas!

2007-12-25T21:51:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas, everyone!! We celebrate chrstmas yesterday, because we're cool and Polish... AT THE SAME TIME! I'm giving you guys pictures, some of yesterday, some of the whole season. Enjoy!

We are currently just basking in the awesomeness relaxing that is the Christmas season, me with my broken toe, and my family with our brand spanking new 42 inch Toshiba! I love it. We love it, it's all good. We've watched disc 2 of Planet Earth about 6 times already. Rogers isn't getting that back. I'm eating a lot, and walking very little. It's great to spend so much time with the family, though. My mom is making AMAZING food as usual. Yesterday we had beet soup with special perogies, salmon and rice, accompanied by my mom's awesome seasonal salad. Come to my house one day. We're opening a restaurant.

my NOT last day at work.

2007-12-22T22:09:00.000-08:00

I brokeded my toe. Sad. Paul had a party and I ran, and I mean RAN into that little stone fireplace outcropping that everyone knows which I'm talking about. Absolutely smashed it into the stone. Sheena patched it up for me pretty good, and I went to the hospital at around noon, after helping my dad carry our old TV up the stairs. Our new TV, the toshiba something or other, is super awesome! Heh.. if you look at the picture, you can see the one guy in the white sliding and trying to grab the green guy's crotch. Eeeew... that's how you know baseball is a stupid sport. ANYgay, I got it x-rayed, and the whole time i felt stupid, because I felt like i was wasting way too much time, resources and time on such a stupid little thing like a toe! But it did turn out to be broken, and I put my Jesus sandal back on, and went to work. Where I found out I didn't have to work. Hm. Oh well! Adrienn came over, and we watched some movies on the TV and relaxed with the family. goodtimes.

Gridlock in a beautiful world

2007-12-20T03:14:00.000-08:00

CHRISTINE IS BACK! :D For a while, anyways. I can't control my happiness! I spent the day picking her up and hugging her torso. After changing my oil and being late, that is. I'm always late. I was sitting in gridlock on the way to her house, and I realised how everyone around had something to do. Everyone seemed unaware of eachother, that noone else was on the planet, or that everyone else was a lesser person. I kind of panicked, thinking how we, as people, go through life being shut off and afraid of other people. Sure, we can't be friends with everyone, but it hurts to think of how we are all humans, and can't all respect eachother and live in a perfect world. DAMMIT, why can't we be perfect!? "If everybody looked the same..." that song has a good message.
I keep realising that, even though my life may not be perfect, it sure is perfect for me. I'm so happy with my life, the trials and tribulations in it. I need to be reminded that life is like a slurpee. The good times gotta be cherished, or you'll be disappointed in the end. All ranting aside, I'm happy with my life. Although I may not become famous or a meaningful person in the world, I know that I have people who are extremely meaningful in my life.

So, onto the day. I had a hotdog. Then I went to pick Christine up. It's so good to have her home! ARG! :D We stayed at my house for dinner where we had some awesome soup/cheese. We watched some HILLARIOUS Jeff Dundam,
and proceeded THAT with some Gelato from Esq... from a place that Christine and I love to visit. We moseyed on to Improv at Gallagher's, a place I haven't been in months, I am ashamed to admit. It was better than I remember it. We also had some beer at the pub, which I can't remember the name of, but we sure had it, I promise! Scout's honor! After improv, was the much anticipated I am Legend, a movie I had high hopes for. Hopes that were satisfied again and again. Will Smith will adopt me and teach me how to act. That's just the way it's gonna be. The only other movies that have impacted me this much are Patch Adams, Star wars (yes, actually), and the Land before time (I was young, okay!). But this one was different. My heart sank to the floor from fear, suspense, and sadness so many times that I had to get a harpoon to keep it in it's place. It was more spontaneous than Michael Jackson if he had ADD. "Today I wanna be white. No, spam." An amazing movie. If you haven't watched it, then shame on you. Shame. Off to the Romeins, and soon, sleep. UMOTD:
Bob Marley

Making Sheila Beautiful again

2007-12-17T11:44:00.000-08:00

I love my '97 Suzuki Swift, Sheila. I really do. So today I went out to get her fixed up and prettied up a bit. When I got her, she had a rust spot on the rear panel, where the windshield wiper had shaken around, caused cracks, water had gotten in, and it got cracked out like a mofo. So I went to Unique fender Mender and got her fixed! Rob, the owner, is super cool, and he got me a great deal. I paid, for an hour and a half's work, $67!! The welder is really bright *dazed, dumbfounded look*. This is what she looked like at the before, and a few pictures during the process.
So now, as soon as we find the bold that goes on the end of the nut, we're in business, and I can have a rear windshield wiper again! YESS. vision.

Wow. Dudes, look at youtube now.

2007-12-14T04:17:00.000-08:00

Hokay, so I know I haven't posted in forever and a half, but that's 'cause I'm busy taking up all the time I have of freedom right now to hang out with my friends, and be COMPLETELY lazy as much as I can. ANYWAYS, Nikolai and I are sitting here playing wow, at 4 in the morning, NOT tired at all, and we discovered that youtube just took steroids. But without the ball shrinkage, Youtube is now improved. Just watch a video in full screen, and you'll notice the button beside the play/pause button will change!! HOLY CRAP, EH!? so click it, and don't be scared. It feels good, don't worry. Videos that relate to your current one pop up in little bubble form! What's scary, is that Nikolai and I were watching videos about an hour ago, and the option didn't exist! that means we're Pioneers of youtube awesomeness! We just crapped ourselves! it HERTZ! I'm sure PAUL doesn't even know about this!!! MUAHAHA! so seriously, go check it out. Now. Here's a video, just for kicks.

wow this is dusty.

2007-12-09T15:21:00.000-08:00

I'm busy, kay? I'm gaming!

iGame

2007-11-17T09:48:00.000-08:00

I love Assassin's Creed. It's a game that's so good... it pwns. Everything. I love it so much I invited my good gaming friends to come and bask in the love that is this awesome game. So after I finished work last night, I invited Adrian, Sean, and Brian to come over and game a bunch. Adrienn even came to game! And did we ever game. Sean brought his Xbox 360 and Mass Effect... which is glory in itself... and we brought my tv downstairs as to have both systems going at the same time. It was a chore being quiet enough not to wake my family, but in the end, we managed to do it. They apparently didn't even hear us! We played until about 6:00 this morning, and the guys are still sleeping. I just woke up and am currently converting music and videos onto my cell phone... it's a chore. I can't figure some stuff out, and it's just difficult. I will succeed, though!

UMOTD:
Eating in my kitchen with Adrienn before the guys showed up.

Lazy Maximus

2007-11-14T17:37:00.000-08:00

Woke up uber early today. Christine had class. So Paul and I joined her for school time. Ha HA... tuition. For Breakfast we had pizza. Christine's Zoology class was kinda interesting, I didn't know your body did so much. I thought you just had your heart beat and that's it. (Zoology is the study of the human anatomy *snicker*) I doodled. Then we were off to her Bio Chemistry lecture. That was interesting. I learned how a Mass Spectrometer works... I don't know what it DOES.. but maybe I'll learn here. I doodled some more. Then it was off for Christine to study. A lot. She basically just read over her notes, and we watched a lot of family guy and had the lunch that Paul boasted about. It was real good, and made better by the fact that we finished off the Empire Strikes Back. I'm SO happy that Christine likes Star Wars! We lazed around a lot, I feel like I'm max vegging out, and now Paul and I are chilling at a coffee shop while Christine writes a BioChem exam that is worth 40% of her mark. Fun. Good luck Christine!

UMOTD:
Going on a wild goose chase with Paul to find bus maps. We failed. But we found a bookstore. And Root Beer.

This is cool

2007-11-11T22:05:00.000-08:00

There has never been a remembrance day like this. It is full of awesomeness, like Paul getting into a fight with a tree, Being at a cenotaph ceremony with the ARMY (still can't believe that), driving down to Calgary, bar hopping, climbing all over a train, and chasing rabbits. Let's begin.

We woke up quite early to join Nate at a remembrance day ceremony at the local cenotaph, which was really epic. There was so many soldiers there. There was this old dude... er... "elderly" dude who had a unexpectedly commanding voice. Julie, Paul, Nate, Phil and I got into Nate's car, and drove to Calgary.

We dropped Julie off at home, and got to Christine's Dorm of awesomeness and uber greatness at around 7:30, and then the fun began. It was SO good to see Christine again after such a long time, and in all, the night will go down in time as one that I love. It just made me feel so content to be alive. I'm usually really happy with my life, and this night just emphasized that. I love these people, and I'm really glad to know them. I feel so fortunate to call them my friends.

UMOTD:
Sitting on the couch with Christine and listening to music.

I managed not to break anything today

2007-11-10T12:11:00.000-08:00

Double Berry Jam is REAL good on crumpets. We had some before we left for the science world in the afternoon. We showed up with Nate just on time, and everything worked as smooth as a good cream of mushroom soup. The set up went well, and Paul and I had everything going on time. The kids loved us, along with mostly everyone except for this one guy that was pissed off at us for being so good. We wandered around science world for some time, made some lego robots, and hung around with Julie and Sammi. We brought Julie back with us to Nate's place, and then, after some relaxation and gunfighting, went to West Edmonton Mall!! I was so stoked, 'cause it was my first time there! We had bubble tea,and threw coins at the pirate ship. This guy there had CRAZY colored hair, but he looked like he was on drugs. We all went to the SPAG and had a really good night. A great day, in conclusion. Greg out.

UMOTD:
Phil, Nate's friend, and I had a gunfight which made a bunch of guys in the hall open up their doors all at the same time. We got spooked back into Nate's room.

"The shield generator is down! Commence attack!"

2007-11-09T01:24:00.000-08:00

We woke up at 1:04pm today. I figure that's our "sleep bank". We're gonna now take from that for the next week. In which we will go crazy. Like today. I mean it's 2:26 am and I'm blogging. Mostly because I'm talking to Nate right now about how you read magna from right to left. So today we went to the Edmonton Science world, because I refuse to call it by it's "real" name I got to drive Nate's car. We met up with Alby, the lady who Paul was corresponding with about our trip. She's really cool, and a bit of a geek too, so it helps. We both felt like celebrities when we were there, because everyone knew us. There was even a picture of us up in lobby! They had something that was way cooler than anything I could've imagined. They had a giant LEGO Star Wars exhibit, where a group called the Northern Alberta Lego Users Group had, I'm sure for Paul' and my amusement only, set up scenes from star wars, recreated totally from lego! Christine, Adrienn: These won't have much significance for you, but we'll take care of those when we watch star wars. Besides... they're cool! It's lego, c'mon! Aaaaand... I managed to break one of the models. HOWEVER, with my absolute pwnage lego skills (and using the force), I was able to put the custom built satellite back together perfectly. AND I figured that It's a good thing I did so. I actually helped the rebels destroy the death star, because I knocked out the shield generator! So it was a good thing! I can't believe it, though. They invite us over here, FLY us out,even, let me go behind the fence to take pictures, and I thank them by breaking down their exhibit. Great. Anyways.. then we went into the giant thunderdome theatre where we watched Return of the Jedi!!!! On a giganticus screen! That was after eating an awesome meal at the swiss Chalet, of course. I love being with Nate again!

UMOTD:
Trying a seguay out.If they weren't a giant target for a beating, I'd get one. But you never heard me say that.

Edmonton, here we are!

2007-11-08T22:44:00.000-08:00

So it's the morning. It's almost 7 o'clock. Brian drove Paul and myself to the airport so we could leave to Edmonton, where we're requested to make an appearance and talk about our Millenium Falcon stop motion video at the Edmonton Telus world of science! We got there in due time, with some naps in between. The flight was good, with some pac-man-ing and view-viewing. We got picked up at the Airport by Paul's cousin and my good friend, JULIE! We tackled eachother at the airport and drove over to her house. A while after playing some need for speed, we took a field trip around Edmonton. We went to the local conservatory, which was located inside the pyramids at Giza! Even more amazing, Julie thought Giza was in France, and Paul thought it was in Italy! It was nice and toasty warm in there! Like a toaster! Ha HA... Food. We then were shocked and amazed by the wonder that is the Edmonton ski hills!... *crickets* Um... I say hills literally. It's basically a mound of dirt that everyone in the city loves to board on. For some reason. That I don't get. ANYways, we came back where Paul napped on Julie's AMAZINGLY comfortable bed, and her and I played tetris. Where she schooled me. It was great to get to hang with her after 11 months of just talking online. I'm eating M&M's. Dinner was amazing, with me sampling yorkshire puddings for the first time. During dinner... NATE Came by! After so long, it was like no time had passed... except he is really buff now. I'm scared. We headed over to their bowling alley, where Paul taught us how to bowl. Again. Over at Nate's "DORM" or shacks, we called it an early night 'cause Nate wants some tactical sleep.

Brian is the king of kings

2007-10-24T04:22:00.001-07:00

And In Polish:

Brian jest szeẃ wrzystkich szeẃoẃ.

Brian's Birthday today. Give him 19 solid ones, or buy him a drink. It's a day to celebrate. We played poker at Denny's, where Brian cleaned us out, and we had some good burgers.

UMOTD:
Going for a walk with the family. It was good to chill with them a while.

I want my kid to be like this

2007-10-23T20:13:00.000-07:00

This is actually footage of Adrian Yeung when he was a baby. He is a ninja. And he started training early.

Paul's got a dirty exhaust

2007-10-22T00:18:00.000-07:00

Paul failed his air care test today. He's allowed .5% hydrocarbons, and his was like 3.4something. Too much, bascially. It rained a lot today, and we went to Toy's R Us to pick Brian's present up. A large lego set, The republic Cruiser. I think another stop motion is in the works for us.

Prepare to get your brain pwned.

2007-10-19T13:18:00.000-07:00

Portal will blow your mind. Like, you will play this game, and it will actually make your grey matter ooze out of your ears in amazement, and out of your mouth as you drool at it's uber awesomeness. Playing this game is something spectacular. They even manage to make an STD joke! Your guide makes constant jokes and jests at your survival, and its presentation is simple, and straight to the point. Moreover, it's a concept that just rocks.

Number 1 in the frickin world

2007-10-17T17:24:00.000-07:00

A lot of practice yields this. The game: DiRT. The pWnage: Greg. The track: Monte Di Ii Conchi B. Try and beat me. I'm on to other tracks. If I keep this time for a week, Chris owes me 15 bucks. And don't forget it.

Brian.

2007-10-16T22:41:00.000-07:00

After watching transformers with Brian, and playing a lot of DiRT with the guys, we went to Dewy's pub for toonie burgers, and watched Harold and Kumar go to Whitecastle. Brian and I had a craving for an adventure and had the best trip I've ever had to Denny's. We went there at like midnight, and went until 3:00. We talked about everything and anything, and in short, I'm glad to call Brian a brother.

UMOTD:

Greg, your toenails are so long!

-Janet

19 years later...

2007-10-10T22:55:00.000-07:00

That was an awesome Birthday. Thanks, guys, for making it super special. Like super duper special. If one of you was missing, it wouldn't have been the same, and some of you were missed, so it wasn't as awesome as it could've been (cough* cough* Esquires). I love soup, and I love you guys.

Dinner with the folks: Awesome

Improv with my friends & family: Awesome

After Improv at the pub with my friends: Awesome

Life: Awesome.

The 12 cases of beer is just Jessy and I buying beer for Pauls surprise birthday, which he was totally amazed by, by the way.

UMOTD:
My whole day ruled.

A lady bug on my shifter

2007-10-04T23:42:00.000-07:00

As some of you may know, I've been accepted into a school where actors go. An acting school, so to speak. Well, I start in January, and I've been hearing grumblings about it, about the insane schedule, the crazy hours you have to put in, and the crazy awesome actor you become at the end of it. I have been thinking of moving out for a while, so I wanted to see if it's absolutely necessary. For me, I just become lazy if I have too much work, but this is something I want to try my best at, so I want to make it easiest for me. I want to move out to be closer to school, so I needed to see if it was absolutely necessary.

I left for Langara at around 11:00. It's a beautiful day, and I actually really liked the commute. I have to try it a couple more times to see exactly how long it takes in the peak hours, but that's if i don't move out. I got there and talked with a nice lady who is involved in the school and I got a lot of info. She told me instantly that I should move out. However, she also said that it's possible to live at home for the first semester. I still don't know what I'm going to do. The schedule has something on it every day, even weekends.

9:00 - 9:00 pm Monday to Friday,
10:30 - 6:00 pm on Saturday and Sunday.

However, Saturday or Sunday will sometimes be off. Sometimes. Joy.

I also grabbed a pamflet that said more about the school. This is what it said.

more than 90 percent of Studio 58 students find professional theatre work within six months of graduating.

I am loving this school.

Went to pick up Adrienn from her class, and we had a nice long commute back home. We bought some penguin stickers and had dinner at her place! I love her mom's cooking. It's like living in a marshmallow castle. With Marshmallow furniture. Mmm... edible.

UMOTD:
Going to the Studio 58 class and sitting in on some students practicing... I really hope my auditioner didnt' make a mistake. These guys are good.

Darth Fader

2007-10-03T23:16:00.000-07:00

Flight for Edmonton trip: booked.

Paul and I went to the travel agent ('cause we wanted to) to book our tickets for our Edmonton trip. We leave on the 8th of November, and get back on the 15th in the morning. We're flying to Edmonton, then busing down to Calgary to visit Christine after a few days with Nate, then we're flying out of Calgary back to Vancouver. We went back to my house, and had Christine over for lunch again! We had some awesome sandwiches while we discussed Christine's superness at Squash. Even if she's not super compared to those around her, she's still super in our books. My foot is really asleep. We played some DiRT. Well, I played DiRT, and Paul watched. I'm fighting for the world record now, on this one track. I'm currently 5th in the world, and I KNOW I can make first. I'll try more later tomorrow.

My folks left an article about Children who are addicted to video games. I think they're trying to tell me something. This kid was in the article, and I thought he reminded me hillariously of me!

It was Chris' first day at Plateau Pizza today! It's so great to have him working there, 'cause finally I got to bring one of MY friends to the Pizza place. Before it was Chris bringing all his friends, so now I have a friend there too. Not that the other guys aren't my friends... *shifty eyes* He looked like he had a good time, he was delivering mostly. It's gonna be fun watching his first days... 'cause he'll get yelled at a lot.

UMOTD:
Darek: So, Chris. Are you like the fader guy from the black side of the force?

The Crab!!!

2007-10-02T23:08:00.000-07:00

Picked up Adrienn from school today. We had an absolutely great time! Walking at Kits beach, hanging out at my house, and then later dinner at her house. Delicious food, and we looked at a lot of pictures. All in all, a great day. I am keeping it simple.

UMOTD:
Hanging upside-down like Orangutans on the playground at Kits.

Feels like Christmas

2007-09-29T23:33:00.000-07:00

It literally felt like Christmas today. I loved it! In the morning, I cleaned up my room a bit (no easy feat!) because we had company coming over. My Mom was in the kitchen all day today, cooking up beef and MOOSE! Judy and I helped around the kitchen, and set up the table. It smelt SO good all day in the house. I My mom had all this moose meat, and these bones. Apparently she got my sister to get bones from the car. The bones were in a bag, which was in a box. Well, the box fell apart while Judy was carrying it, and all the bones fell out the bottom! Judy screamed her butt off! (apparently. I wasn't there to witness this all. Shame, really.) I went for a trip to IGA, to get bread, and had a chat with Christina. I took a side trip later on to visit Adrienn at work, because I was really interested to see what Beadworks is like! I get there, and everyone working in the store knows me! Deanne is my friend Allison's sister, and Shianne used to be in Lindgberg with me! Crazy! It's a really cool store, actually. I had a blast talking with Adrienn, and she didn't get any work done. Company started showing up at around 6 ish.

First, our family friends showed up, and a few minutes later, Adrienn showed up, right on time! We had a delicious dinner! It all tasted so good! The Moose was delicious, although we all talked so much that by the time we were winding down our meals, our food was already cold! After dinner we had a few great conversations with my family, and snuck off to Roger's video to go rent Napoleon Dynamite. We got snacks and stopped by Plateau Pizza, where we ended up eating wings! The guys talked us into it, what can I say! We busted our heads trying to figure out the puzzles in the 24 newspaper (which were really stupid), and headed back to my place. We had some AMAZING Cheesecake, and watched the movie, which was actually pretty funny. Turns out Adrienn and I are the perfect people to watch that movie. We stayed up real late after that, just talking and laughing. At 6:30, Adrienn left, and I was left with a smile on my face after such an amazing day.
UMOTD:
Dancing some wicked Jumpstyles with Adrienn in my underground parking garage. She's really good!

Jim the So - called Genius

2007-09-28T23:10:00.000-07:00

At a very early 9:00, I was up and at the Treehouse. Paul, Chris, Brian and I were up filming a little video for the BC Hydro Film contest. We did many things, from saw off a prong of a power adapter, to go to Future shop to return Chris' Xbox live membership and complain about Paul's Raincheck, to have Quizno's to drive Nagle's truck around with a bike in the back. The video is called Jim the so-called Genius, and you can see it here.

I sped off to work, apalled by Mark's disgusting spandex. Being a Friday, it was very busy. However, I had a very welcome break when Adrienn visited me at work! Around 10:00 she shows up and joins me on a few more deliveries. There were some really funny drunk people, who wanted to tip me with beer! Of all the times I wish I was walking...

Adrienn and I just hung out, sitting looking at the view for the longest time and just talking. I had such a great time, and didn't really want to go to Ian's house for his shindig. But I went anyways.

UMOTD:
Adrienn and I are sitting on the electric box, talking, and we notice a car pull up behind us. We didn't really acknowledge it, and just knew it was there. It stuck around for a while, and eventually I turn around to look at it, after about a couple minutes. It's Darek. My boss. Just being creepy.

Wow, Facebook.

2007-09-27T15:05:00.000-07:00

I'm done with facebook. For real. I've had it. Sure, it's cool in that it lets you stay in touch with as many people as you want, and it's really cool in that you get anally raped by anyone who wants to take the time and look up your shit. Oh wait, I forgot. That part isn't cool. Paul has been off facebook for quite a while, and he's been advocating for a long time to get other people off. I've always wanted to, I've just been to lazy. Well I just deactivated my account, after serious beating around the bush with it, and I got this screen.
Looks like they're really desperate to keep you hooked. If you clicked any one of those, you get another "suggestion" on why you should keep facebook. Facebook started off as cool in the beginning, when there were more mature people using it to ACTUALLY connect with others. Even this guy had an account. Now it's just another stupid social (note the irony, that you're not REALLY being social if you stay at home) site like Nexopia. I dunno, it's cool for some people, sure. I'm not saying everyone is going to think like I am, I'm just saying that I have no purpose for it. If people want to contact me, then let 'em call... or email.

Adieu

Halo 3, DiRT, and a walk

2007-09-25T22:12:00.000-07:00

Halo 3 came out. Yes, yes it did. If you've been living under a rock surrounded by walls of inpenetrable force fields on an island encircled with thousands of rampant sharks and vicious birds of prey circling around your abode - which doesn't have any sort of electronic device on it - you STILL would know that Halo 3 is out. So after work yesterday, I went over to Chris Nagle's and we played Halo 3. And boy, did we play.

Mark, Ryan, Chris, Darcy, Nagle, Ian, Brian and I played slayer for a good few hours until we hit a burger run, where we bought 21 burgers and 7 medium fries (now I'm hungry), which came to like $55. They had Baby burgers from A&W, but i still would've opted for fewer good burgers. We started the campaign, with 4-person co-op. The game is awesome. Keeps every bit of goodness from the old games, and improves on it with some uber sweet weapons, like the gravity hammer, and the very-difficult-to-use-but-greg-still-pwns-you-with-it laser. I'm personally not very good at Halo. However I still have a blast.

Something I am good at, is DiRT. It's awesome because your Personal Best time gets updated in comparison to the rest of the worlds' times right away, so you can see how you stack up against the rest of the world. Chris' time, which he tried for 5 hours to get, I managed to beat. I stand 45th in the world. Chris used to stand 145th. Here's a little video. It's bad quality, but DiRT doesn't have a "save replay video" option.

Chris' time: 3:00.37 My time: 2:57.24

After the H-core halo night, which I left at 7:40, I drove Judy to school, after which I slept. For an hour. And then got my wisdom tooth pulled out. 86 fun. I got home, and hung out for a bit until I went for a walk with Adrienn. I've just recently been talking with her a lot, and so we decided it was a good chance to hang out, since she got off school early. She's uber busy with school all the time, so it's rare that we have a chance like this. Even though I had a crazy speech impediment, we had an awesome time, with lots of laughs for a couple hours, until I went to work. It was crazy busy for a Tuesday, but we survived.

UMOTD: Adrienn and I went for a walk around the lake, and I could swear that the ducks were working for the CIA or something. I had to look over my shoulder a lot, just to make sure we were safe.

Plateau Pizza

2007-09-21T23:24:00.000-07:00

The fans are whirring already, but only quietly. The oven isn't on yet. I put down the chairs off the tables so people can sit in them to eat, as they most likely will today. The radio plays classic rock, but it's background noise now. Darek pokes his head around the corner. "Oh, Dum-dum is here!" I put on my apron, punch my timecode in, and so my day begins. I'll cut tomatoes, I'll chop mushrooms, I'll peel onions, and I'll slice ham. Once that is done, people start ordering. I'll make jokes with Darek about funny customers, stupid customers, and good customers. Drew will pull some crazy idea out of his head. Alex will panic and twist my nipples. Chris will fire me. Nicolai will do some insane-o hand/facial movements. Kyle will Jumpstyle. Kat will stand around and talk to us. Jurek will tell me some story from his week, and describe some new girl he met. Tamara will talk on her cell phone. Eva will lecture me. Pepiczek will make boxes. Darek will cry that I'm going to make him have a heart attack. This is my job. I drive around delivering pizzas, alone in my car, and making lots of money in tips. I'll meet some cool people, I'll talk with my regulars, pet their dogs, and be on my way. But in the end, I always look forward to being in the store. I can't wait to tell the guys about some crazy person who tried to molest me, or something else from the great beyond of westwood plateau. I can't wait for the guys to be making faces at me again, and to have us all laughing at our jokes. Losing the game, inventing funky pizzas, eating ingredients. It all comes down to the family I have in the restaurant. When the rush dies down, Darek and I will often be the only ones closing. We'll talk about his upgrades he wants to make with the place, about my future as an actor, and about how we're all doing. He'll probably complain during the day, but at the end of it, we always leave happy and content. It's after that rush, after the madness, when we slowly close down and have time to breathe, that it's okay to go home. I feel so fortunate to have such a great job. A second family that has to come in, has to make pizza, but that loves to be a part of it. I think, under the surface, we're all happy to be a part of something that's so close to a family.

LANfest!

2007-09-21T14:12:00.000-07:00

After work, I went out for Gelato with Kat, and they finally had white chocolate raspberry! I was so happy! We delivered some pizzas. Together. After I clocked out already.

I headed over to Kyles' place shortly after for an H-core LANfest! It was good times. Nicolai, Chris, Kyle and I hit up WOW for a bit... which I got addicted to... (crap) ... and Then we played some DiRT. Chris and I can play that game for hours, just racing the same track over and over again until we beat the fastest time, or just beat the other. At 6:00 AM, Chris and I were the only ones concious, and the sun was coming up.

The Playstation 3, Part 1

2007-09-20T01:51:00.000-07:00

Oh it's an awesome thing. I feel awesome, being inagurated into the ranks of the next-gen. I've always been behind on things like this, and now I've had a chance to be "I want this, but I have to wait for a while for this and this" Now, I have the means to an end. I have purchased my PS3. I love it. I have been debating for a while on what I should get, an XBOX 360 or a PS3 or even a brand new laptop. In the end it came down to the Sony Iteration of next-gen.
It's got all I want right now. There's the AMAZING graphics and uber processor power, which allow you to kick ass in the video game sector. Although the system doesn't really have many great games out there in comparison to the XBOX, I've spotted many great ones coming out, along with DiRT, which I just got. An UNREAL game. The graphics and the physics blow me away!
Aside from gaming, the PS3 has a built-in Wi-Fi, so I bought a wireless router. You can basically browse anywhere on the web, and it allows me to have an internet conncection in my room.

The Playstation 3, Part 2

2007-09-20T01:11:00.000-07:00

*Due to my PS3's awesomeness, blogging and any text imput is restricted to a certain number of characters. This post continues my previous post.*

So, The PS3.. right. Aside from gaming and Internet, I was going to say, the PS3 is also is amazing in it's capability to play music, review pictures, watch films (yes, I called them films) and store all this on your hard drive! I'm a sucker for gadgets and other geeky things, so when I saw the way the PS3 does slide shows... I was blown away. The pictures appear as if they were on some table and you and your friends were just looking at them casually! It's a very slick touch. The media player is a bit tough to work with, as your music can't be played while you change settings, and, as of yet, I havent' found a quick way to get back to the media player to switch songs or stop them. I have to select a new song and stop THAT one, because that's only when the media player "dashboard" shows up. Late for the party.

PS3 much?

2007-09-19T11:58:00.000-07:00

EDMONTON HO!

2007-09-18T17:38:00.000-07:00

Paul came by today, to deliver a message to me. The message goes something like this.

The science world in Edmonton is flying us out there to talk about our Lego millennium falcon stop motion which they will have on loop as an exhibit!

They're paying for one ticket and our accomodations for somewhere around a week. Paul and I are going to split my ticket, and that's all we'll have to pay for our road trip we were supposed to have in September, only it'll be in November. I can't believe Paul and I are getting so much publicity for this! I'm so stoked! AND we're going to go see Christine and Nate, too! We've already made up an intro for the film to inform people more about it, because it'll be on loop! It's here on Paul's blog.

Regroup!

2007-09-18T01:34:00.000-07:00

Well these past days have been AWESOME.

Recap, regroup!

On Friday, Paul and I did some AWESOME Location scouting. We went to Mission (Ilostthegameandthoughtofchristine) then Cultus Lake, THEN Harrison Hot springs. You can check out the awesome video blog Paul made of it.

Saturday: Filmed at Harrison in the morning after an early start, went swimming in Hatzik Lake, with Paul, Spencer, Janet, Jason Pelley, Jason Romein, Katie, Mike Wadell, Kris Schmit, Craig, and Angela, who almost froze to death. Later on, went out for lunch, and due to some forgetfullness on someone's part, we ended up just partying at Kris's house. Oh darn.

Sunday- Chilling with the guys and Playing some Star Wars, Visiting Adrian later to get some games from him.

Monday - Changed my oil... and... GOT MY PS3!!
It's so awesome! I traded in ALL my PS2 Stuff (including 17 games), which amounted to $140. I bought DiRT and Resistance: Fall of Man, in addition to another controller and a Wireless router so I could play online.

Reasons I am called Dum Dum

2007-09-15T21:31:00.001-07:00

Today:

Walked away from the cashier without getting my stuff that I already paid for.
Thought the French flag was the Polish flag upside-down
Said "Our group is great because we can beat off eachother."*
Transfer my CD case from Jason's car to Pauls, while forgetting ALL MY STUFF.
"Oh, Right. Only your tongue has taste buds"

Note: *Meant to say (bounce [ideas] off eachother)

Location Scouting Road Trip

2007-09-14T23:59:00.000-07:00

Paul... Thank you.

2007-09-14T02:22:00.000-07:00

This is awesome, dude.

Intense Gruelling Script - time

2007-09-11T23:00:00.000-07:00

Film meeting time! What did I do today? Let's recap!

I went to the film meeting.

Well, that was fun!

I showed up at the Treehouse after I ate dinner with my mother and sister. My dad's Up until then I had just been lounging about. I was all over the place. Gaming, reading, going out to the park to chill, and eating. The meeting went great! It was all real professional, and I really felt like it was the start of something big! I can't wait till we're in full swing and we start actually filming! We read through the script, and it was awesome to finally get to work with this guy named Mike, who I've wanted to work with for a while. Then, we went and ate burgers at Dewys and I slept.

As an afterthought... I've noticed that PAUL is posting more pictures than I am... SO as a personal pact to both of us... I am now going to make sure I have more pictures posted than he does. I always take tons of pics, but never post all of them. Well, Paul.. we'll see how you handle all these pictures!!! MUAHAH!

UMOTD:
Mike, Kris and I discussing the de-evolution of communication.
"Dude, the carrier pigeon got shot down!"
"That's just called hacking"

I like golf

2007-09-09T23:45:00.000-07:00

Today, I got a call from Christine and Nate! Yeah, I know! We talked for a while because they were together, and Nate was just about to leave Christine's to go home. Apparently, Christine found the place where they filmed a scene from her favourite movie, Cool Runnings! It was in her campus' lobby or something like that! I was just thinking how COOL it would be to see a place from your favourite movie!

"OH. MY. GOD! DUDE! This is TOTALLY the inside of the whale from Pinoccio! Dude I've ALWAYS wanted to be at the location of one of my favourite... wait... crap. We're inside a giant whale. Not good."
I met up with Lissa after lunch, and took her to Esquires for the same gelato I bought everyone yesterday. She LOVED the white chocolate raspberry, but she couldn't finish her's because of their giant portions. I finally let her know which pizza place I work at, and we stopped by there for a bit. But then we went to play mini golf! It was SO much fun, as mini golf often is, and she absolutely kicked my ass! We went for a short walk around Lefarge park for a little, watched a bit of a lacrosse practice, and then I drove her home, 'cause she still had homework to do, and had school the next morning.

I stopped by the Treehouse, where Paul had laid out the Scripts for Whispers for all of us. I was fully prepared to find a way to fix 94 pages of script together, but as you can see, Paul already had that taken care of! I was blown away! I started reading it, and then headed off to Chris'.

At Chris' we played stuntman ignition on his 360 until early in the morning. I went on a not-so-wild goose chase to find that game, since it's just been released, and noticed that it cost almost $10 to rent it for 5 days! I don't remember rentals being that much... but maybe that's just 'cause I haven't rented in ... oh... FOREVER. It was a real good game, and the multiplayer was solid. Chris' cousin Darcy kept walloping us with his high scores, but thats 'cause he was always last in the cycle so he got to see the setup, and what not to do, twice.

UMOTD:
The way Lissa said "This sucks" when her gum got stuck in her hair. She just said it like a total stoner!

Poles and Pool Cues

2007-09-08T23:12:00.000-07:00

Today was such a beautiful day, that I just had to use my day off and spend it with my family. Well.. "family", minus one because my dad is off up in northern BC in beautiful Fort St. Johns, doing some bridge work, apparently training some guy. I cut my hair down pretty short in the morning, then, around noon, after some AMAZING scrambled eggs that my mom made for me (and when I say amazing, I mean FRICKIN amazing), Judy, my mom and I left for a walk up to the Plateau where this Kid's day festival was going on. There, we ate some Pizza by the slice, which is a rarity, and I bought everyone Gelato of an amazing type. Everyone got white chocolate raspberry gelato.

***If you are sitting at your computer and still haven't had white chocolate raspberry gelato, go get some now. And call me. Because I want to go and get some too.***

It's the flavor that Christine and I were raised on. EVERY time we're up there, and it's there, we get some. *snicker* They've upped their sizes, too! So now I get MORE goodness for the same price! Apparently Esquires (whosaidthat?) is going to be closed down by some loser coffee shop.... Starschmucks -or something like that... and I am very sad. A part of me will die on that day.

So we walked home after we hung around the fire truck and saw a bunch of my co-workers, and left for Polish Days!! We met up with our good family friend, Dorota, and her kids and headed off to Burnaby. In truth, I was very dissappointed by the amount of Polish going on there. There were some dancers, and food, and Polish girls, so it was awesome. But for pure Polishness, and for what the festival is supposed to be, it was quite a disappointment. I mean, there were MEXICAN dancers there, for Greg's sake! (I refuse to say Pete's sake on account of I don't know Pete)We headed back to Dorota's house, where her son, Alex and I, went to the bakery to pick up some sweets, and then played some Warcraft 3 while chatting up about Star Wars. He's 10.

On the way home, we saw a Ferrari 575M! I was happy.

I get home and get a call from Paul, which leads to us playing pool for a couple hours. We hoped for a couple very cool people to be joining us, but they were detained, so Paul and I had an absolutely awesome time (in my opinion, I am not citing Paul for this one) just talking about anything and everything as Paul trounced me in Pool.

Afterwards, we headed to Kris Schmitds house, where there was a little get together happening (key word: little). Paul and I get there, and everyone is downstairs. We can't hear them, and they can't hear us. The front door was open, so we let ourselves in, and we just chilled on his main floor! We wanted to see how long it would take for Kris to find us up there, and we sat on his couches, ate his pizza, Paul played with his balls, and we played risk while watching his Giant-inch screen TV. It took Kris a half hour to find us, and even then after someone had told him where we were! Paul and I just couldn't help ourselves. It was Paul, Kris, Britt Macduff, Jessy, Erica and her friend and I in the end. And then Britt showed up! I left and slept.

UMOTD:
Gawking at the GORGEOUS '69 Camaro SS that was parked ever-so-poorly beside my Sheila.

Yes

2007-09-07T15:21:00.000-07:00

Finally Bush finds a productive use for America's money.

Be Gone, Wisdom Teeth!

2007-09-06T11:32:00.000-07:00

Besides not shaving, and the regular look, I don't think I look that bad...

TOTALLY hopped up on the adrenaline in the 6 shots the dentist gave me! I wanna go biking right now, but the card says not to over-exert myself, and I've kinda gotta go to work soon. Bah! Whatevs. I still have one more tooth to get pulled. I'm gonna go play some star craft right now, and am totally stoked about buying my PS3! Can't wait to get it, but really don't know if I should... I should! :D I should get it ASAP so I have the most time to game before I start school! The money thing really isn't a problem, unlike when Chris bought his Xbox 360 and ended up spending $1200 on it! CRAZYY! I'm not supposed to drink juice any more, and my dentist is actually ENCOURAGING me to drink pop now! WHAT!? I know! It's like Juice apparently has worse sugar in it than pop, but the best thing for me is to just drink milk, water, black coffee or black tea. My life is going to be so boring from now on.

Chicks dig scars

2007-09-01T23:55:00.000-07:00

Whoa. Okay, so I didn't have my camera with me today, so It's all story for this post... until later. This was a crazy day. I go to work. Just like any other day. It's the day after Paul's BBQ, so i went home, showered and went right to work because my day got started so late. I arrive at work, and work for about an hour... Jurek and I are playing around with a.. um.. knife. Long story short, I get cut. So I'm bleeding pretty bad, the cut is real deep on my thumb, and we're all laughing at both Jurek and I. I go to the clinic across the block, and it's closed. So I drive to the one at the mall... full. I got reffered to the hospital by the secretary. I see this girl on my way there, and we kind of look at eachother, and keep walking, nothing special. So I hop by another clinic in Port moody, also closed, and eventually end up at the hospital. I'm in the line up for a minute or two, and i see out of the corner of my eye, the girl who was at the mall! I recognized the colors she was wearing. So of course I'm all like, "C'mon, Greg. Say something to her!" So I say, "Hey, didn't I see you at the mall!?" And it was indeed her. We start talking, it turns out the burn on her leg also needs to be looked at by the nurse, and so we sit in the waiting room for 4 and a half hours! We talk about everything and nothing, and she didn't even run away when I was the last one to be admitted in to get looked at! Her names' Lissa, and she's real easy to talk to. In the end, all my cut needed was some polysporin on a band aid, so the only reason I really went to the hospital was to meet Lissa! We then went to London Drugs to get her antibiotics, and later to Pasta Polo to eat, because we were both SO starving from sitting in that waiting room forever. UNreal.

After dinner, I stop by the pizza place to tell the guys, and run at Jurek and give him a huge hug. Who knew the ER could be so much fun!? So Paul, Nate, Britt, Amber and I play Risk, after which, Paul, Brian, Nate, Britt and I make a sign for Christine. I really wanted to say goodbye to her properly, but I settled for this instead. It was nuts, we had some infighting about ideas, then we finally collaborated after changing ideas like 89 times. We made a colorful sign saying "We Love Christine" and drove to Mission. There, Nate and Paul stealthily attach the sign... at 4 o'clock in the morning... to the inside of her gate so she'll defenitely see it when she leaves. We all felt very good after that, like we'd accomplished something big. We had. And now, Christine isn't around.. sad. Although it seems something always happens that makes me happy JUST before Christine leaves. Hmm.

UMOTD:
Talking to this guy, Angelo, who had the hospital bed beside mine. He's 15 and he's playing for Metro soccer, and he didn't really have anyone to talk to. He was playing a semi-final game and this guy headbutted him and his braces got stuck to the inside of his mouth like a hook. So I decided to cheer him up. We talked about tons of stuff. In the end, I called him Leonidas because he was SO hardcore, having so many injuries from soccer. Reminded me of Christine.

More Adrian!

2007-08-30T14:30:00.000-07:00

My past two days have gone like this: Not doing much, and then going over to Adrian's house. Again. I had to pick up John's XBOX and the cables from Chris, because Chris had accidentally taken John's power cables. Adrian and I started off the night with some Supreme commander, which lags EXTREMELY on absolutely any computer. Then, we started a hardcore Halo 2 co-op, on Heroic. We got all the way to the level where you play as arbiter, trying to get into the library to get the icon. Fascinating news, I know. Then, we were distracted by a little game called Lost Planet which Adrian... um.. legally downloaded for his computer. That game started off really plain, but it's cool level rose exponentially when the explosions started flying! Awesome game, in the end. We played games (all hooked up to his giant TV) until 8:30 AM. I slept for 3 hours, and then got called in to work, where Jurek wanted me to take his shift. I was planning on just chilling and vegging all day, but since he got into some special course, and had to go, I went in to work for him.

However, I still made it for Table 23 Customer appreciation day, just like I was planning! It was awesome, and the cafe was packed all the way to the street! All the guys were there, and they did skits reenacting people's lives' in the audience. They picked Ange, Conor, Paul, Betty, and a guy named Jessy, Oh and me! They think I run Plateau Pizza by myself because I can do everything, so Graham was me delivering pizza to Scarlett Johansson, played by a gorgeous Russ a la wig. Then, Jeff was Ange at EB, with a geeky customer (me, played by Graham again) asking to make out with her. The best one was the one about Paul, or rather, The Romeins. Hi-larious. Jonothan was Paul, directing everyone around the movie set. Russ was Jason, wanting more responsibility and freedom. Best of all, Jeff was Brian. Jeff played Brian off to a T. Always eager and enthusiastic about any job you give him.

"I want to be grip!" "You are grip" "Sweet!"

All in all, it was a hillarious night, with plenty of laughs and stickers had by all.

Paul, Jessy, Ange, Britt and I moseyed over to The Treehouse where we played a VERY quick game of settlers, which was lucky, because I was falling asleep. Then, Paul and I decided to changed things up by chilling at MY house! *GASP* We marvelled at my new mouse, Paul did the first revision of the script for Whispers, and I played Half - Life 2. I made Paul a sandwich.UMOTD:
Beating the boss-lady with Adrian. It was a victorious moment.

100 Dollars Smarter Than Staples

2007-08-28T20:35:00.001-07:00

So, I am officially smarter than staples. I rule.

...Okay, so Adrian is the one smarter than staples, and I'm just using his strategy. I just bought the worlds' sexiest mouse, and saved $100. How do I do this, you ask? Here's how. Adrian showed me this website where they've got insane deals. It's called Red flag deals. Yesterday, I followed the directions. I shopped around for the mouse I wanted, and grabbed a flyer from Future shop. They've got it for $69.99, as usually it's $130.00. BUT I went instead to Staples, because I know that they do price-matching. The Coquitlam staples didn't have any in stock, so I went all teh way to the maple ridge staples. There, I met my friends Jazmine and Laura, who I hadn't seen in forever! (just a little side note) They didn't have any either! BUT Jazmine helped me order one in from another store. NOW... Staples had it going for $103.00, still a savings of 27 bucks. In ADDITON to their savings, they also have a rebate for $40.00, bringing their price down to $73.00. However, I first threw down my price match, bringing my price down to $73 already, and THEN, after the rebate, I will have paid 33 big ones for my mouse. That's a total of $70 saved off the original staples price, and $100 off the regular price. Am. A. Genius. Which mouse is it? It's the Logitech MX Revolution, and it actually says, on the box, "World's Sexiest Mouse". It's so BA. It has so many cool functions, like a hyper - fast, frictonless scroll wheel, and the ability to change songs if you move the scroll wheel to the left or right! AND there's buttons for "back" and "next" just like in your browser, except now you don't have to move your mouse all the way to the top left of your screen! AND theres ANOTHER scroll wheel at your thumb, which is a document flipper, just like hitting "ALT - TAB". I KNOW!!! AND, AND... it's Uber sexy. You can tell by the length of this post that I love this mouse, and that you should buy one. Now. Thanks, Adrian!

UMOTD:
Getting my mouse.

6:02 AM

2007-08-27T06:29:00.000-07:00

6:02 AM is the time I got home today. I'm still not tired. Let's go for a trip through time at my day, shall we? Wake up, groggy, wait for folks to get back home. Progress on to Adrian's house, where we proceed to hook up his awesome speaker system to his laptop, and then that whole set up to his GIANT 52 - billion inch TV. Love. Play counter-strike until I have to leave for:

Auditions for Raised By Monkeys' upcoming blockbuster, Whispers. Jason Pelley was leading the casting, with Paul and Mark there, as Director and Director of Photography, respectively. We started off the day by playing some improv games, ... lots of improv games, actually, and Sean was OWNING at conversations. I personally didn't think I had anything really good to offer today, but everyone had fun. I really enjoyed myself. The auditions went smoothly, and after reading for some other characters, I headed over to The Treehouse (aka. The Romein's House), to play some Star Wars D&D. Woot! I know I'm superbad, why thank you very mucho. Chris, Jay and I did kind of a pre-game character prologue, and I must say... I had an awesome time, and I will use the force in some way, Jay. Be warned. After ordering some crap... er... dominos pizza, I left to go back to Adrians'. There, we played some Supreme Commander and Mideval 2: Total War, and Watched The Borne Identity, followed by The Borne Supremacy. GREAT movies, especially on such a screen. Oh Mamo. We had a great time talking, and laughing about replacing Matt Damon with a friend of ours, and it was just overall, a great night. By the time I left, it was well after 5:30, and the sun was coming up. Now, I have my second wind and am going to pester my dad until he goes to work.

Flying Friut

2007-08-25T23:20:00.000-07:00

Oh how I love Pasta Polo. Today, Adrian, Lyle, Kaitlyn, Mateo, Marcela and I all went for a pseudo welcome back Greg brunch. And it was at Pasta Polo. I had this amazing Chicken Mushroom Alfredo Heaven Sublime pasta (actual name) and I loved it! What's eerie is that Paul was just over at Pasta Polo the day before, for his Mom's work anniversary! Random fact, I know! We moseyed over to the mall after, where we got suffocated at the new H&M store, and played PS3 at Future Shop, subsequently getting schooled by this little 4-year old asian kid. I didn't take pictures because I didn't want to get arrested. Sat around, talked, and basically just got caught up. It was great to see everyone! I even saw a Ferrari and hung up on Kaitlyn!

I went in to work for my second time since I'm back, where we started throwing foodstuffs around, and this happened. And it was the most H-core thing that's ever happened to me in my life. Listen. Drew is standing around the corner, and I'm coming around it 'cause I got a particularly solid piece of tomato I want to chuck at him. Without prepping or aiming at all, Drew jumps out form behind the corner, spins around, throws the piece of pineapple, and successfully lodges it in my ear! I couldn't believe it! I HAD to shake his hand after that. I mean, without ANY aiming! DAMN! That was the highlight of my day. And the fact that I made an uber amount of tips. After work, I drove to get candy with Alex, like we always do, and I went straight to Eric Boyer's birthday party. I haven't seen him since last winter! I even saw Jenna Jorgenson and Thomas Roy! It was unreal to see them again after such a long time! We kicked it around and I went home.

UMOTD:
Watching Eric display his electronic prowess by solar-powering his speaker system before my eyes. ...that and my air-hockey game with Thomas. Which I lost.

Unicycle Bear-escaping

2007-08-24T00:40:00.000-07:00

So I know it's been a while since I've posted, but soon I'll go back in time and update you all on my world for the past couple of days.

Today, I started off by paying a cordial visit to my dentist. Woot. I hate the dentist, but I love my dentist. Funny combination! But he's Awesome! His name's Doctor Sak!.. or it's Doctor Sack... wow.. I've just realised what a funny name he has. Today. ANYways, he kindly informs me that I have like 5 bajillion cavities, and that he's going to rip all my teeth out. And that my wisdom tooth needs to be removed. Joy. I gotta start using toothpaste for sensitive teeth, because my teeth are sensitive. He asked me how many times a day I put things in my mouth, and I said "A lot". I also am not allowed to drink Juice anymore! I know! How frickin insane is that!? But... what he doesn't know, won't hurt him. *sly smile*

Headed over to the Romeins after, 'cause it was so close. Jay was up, so I played some BioShock... *drool* and then drove Jay to work in Paul's car. Paul wanted me to check his car out, because he's been talking constantly about this shake he's having, and I didn't know what the Eff he was talking about all this time. Now I know. It's as if he has a misfire, and I'm not particularly sure, but I'm pretty sure it's a faulty distributor. And in addition to that, his front axle is damaged. Fun times, I think.

Played Bioshock for a long time after that, Then I decided, since it was such a beautfiul day, I'd go and learn to ride a unicycle! So I did. I can now ride like 20 feet. (Paul says 15, but he's a dirty liar) ... okay, so it's probably more like 15 feet. But I was learning in flip-flops, and I broke them. We saw Sean Hagen as he was working for some electrical company, and he stopped by to talk for a while, it was sure coolio to see him again. Paul and I ate some meatballs that were really tasty. I then drove home so I could get my bike, 'cause I wanted to get shoes so I could continue my unicycle training. We timed it, and I got 18km/h, over 21 minutes. And I really gunned it! Next time, I gotta improve on it. We played risk with Britt, Christina (who I had met both at time), Sean, Ryan, and Me and Paul. I rode home after I was the first one knocked out.. and... apparently, I brushed pretty close to a really cool experience! Namely, getting mauled by a bear! Check out how close I cut it! It's here on Paul's Blog. Now, I sleep. SO tired from all the unicycling and stuff.

UMOTD
The ride home from the Romeins. I was uber tired, the sky was beautiful, and I got to ride my bike.

Christine's Chauffeur, Greg.

2007-08-22T23:47:00.000-07:00

I woke up to Christine playing Guitar Hero 2 in Paul's Rec Room, even though we had to leave in like 20 seconds. I was nominated by myself to drive Christine to Mission so she could get her tests done. She's got some weird disease where she can't say the words exam or peculiar correctly. We're trying to get her fixed.... not like that, though. 'Cause that would just suck. We stopped for Breakfast at Subway, and found out that she had to be back to finish her tests after 2 days even though she was leaving for hunting the next day! (eep!) Oh well. We continue on back home, where we find AMAZING gas prices! For the first time in like 6.439 months, I've had more liters in my tank than dollars spent! We're driving home, when Aaron, Christine's friend calls. Christine and I were gonna just hang out and chill, veg out, but we couldn't resist Aarons' giddyness upon hearing that Christine was in the same city as he was, so we went to meet him on commercial. We had Gelato, which I managed to spill on my shirt and give myself pig nipples. Thanks, Christine! After a walk in Jeans that I shouldn't have worn that day beacause it was too hot... Christine left. Then it was Improv. Which was unreal.

UMOTD:
There was this creepy guy, and Christine, Aaron and I could SWEAR he was stealing two children off the playground. But we were all too lazy to do something about it. Plus, I don't think the children would've gone so willingly with someone like that if they didn't know him. I hope.

Grass Fight!

2007-08-21T23:25:00.000-07:00

I'm posting about this later, after it happened.. so I'm not gonna lie... I can't remember everything. I think it was a tuesday... Yes, it was. Christine and I went for sushi! At the unbelievable Sushi Turn House in Port moody... *drools* But I didn't have any sushi. We waltzed around the mall, poking fun at people and buying Christine a camera, thanks to Jason! We came back to my place and watched 300, because Christine hadn't experienced it's greatness. I turned up the volume really loud. *grins wickedly* We then sat on the grass. For a long time, actually. I really enjoyed my time with Christine, because we wanted a day to chill before she left. (It's okay, you're far away now. The only one they can hurt now for that deceit is me! :D ) I like soup. But the only problem is, We didn't go to Esquires!!! ... alright, cut it out, whoever said that.
Christine and I pissed ourselves scared by a cougar that was far away. I've never seen her that scared in my life! We then progressed to Paul's house to... party.

UMOTD:
Sitting with Christine on our Future Shop couch.

Guitar hero for the one-armed

2007-08-20T15:28:00.000-07:00

What a day! The second day back, and I'm not tired at all! I met with Paul to talk movies, and film, and toilets. I gave the Romeins their souveniers, and just enjoyed being back. Brian and I discovered that in 10 minutes, Superbad was going to be playing at Silver City, so Brian and I jetted off and only missed like a minute of the film! I think I MIGHT'VE picked up some Polish driving habits. Might've. Brian used his free passes to get us in without paying, and I really enjoyed the movie! I thought it was hillarious! I came back to the Romeins, where Paul and I lazed around, doing God knows what, and he updated me on the film now titled, "Whispers". We decided we were so hungry we were going to eat the walls of Paul's house, so we went off to Plateau Pizza to get our favourite pizza, the Chicken Special! Get it. It will save your life. We talked stop - motion, and discussed what our next project is going to be after the success of our Lego Millenium Falcon Stop motion. Paul and I played some Guitar hero, in which he decided to try and play Free Bird on easy ... with one hand! The crazy thing is... it worked! Check out the picture! He strums with his elbow! Go Paul, Go! I left the Romeins, and met up with Dan. We lounged around Future Shop, stealing their oxygen, and sitting on their extremely comfortable couch. We migrated over to Red Robins, where we spent a couple hours just talking about life, acting and other things. We felt bad that we were taking up the waiter's table, so we ordered drinks. He was so bored, and since we were one of the two tables in his section that were used, he just kept refilling our drinks... over and over and over again. It was real great to see Dan, and we had a blast! As always. Bo yeah.

UMOTD:
Not recognizing Kevin or Ryan, but recognizing Ryan's girlfriend, Tanya, as they walked into the Red Robin's before us.

Now Available in Canada

2007-08-19T15:00:00.000-07:00

I'm Back! Wow, what a trip! Quite amazing being back in Poland after 15 years. I had no clue we knew so many people in Poland! And that I have so much family. Poland really is a beautiful country, with beautiful food and beautiful women. I would defenitely love to go back, except this time, take my friends and show them what an amazing country it is!

We arrived at YVR on time, except, our luggage didn't seem to. ... hmm. We waited at the carousel as the people dwindled away, with the rest of the people who had transferred from Poland, and of course we thought our baggage was lost. However, it was just accidentally put on the wrong carousel! I expected only Paul and Christine to be there, because only they had expressed interest, but I was really surprised to see Chris and Ray there, also! We packed all our luggage into Paul's Subaru, as to save my folks space in the cab, and headed off. We actually barely beat my parents there! We pulled up beside them at lougheed hwy!

First, we went to the sushi turn house, where the BEST sushi is made, and I was too tired to take pictures there. However, Chris had his first taste of sushi EVER there! And I was there to witness it! Anyways, we all bought way too much sushi than we could eat, so we packed them up to go. Christine rode with me to pick up my car, and gas it up. It was SO good to drive Sheila again! It felt like she missed me. And the funny thing is, she smelt like she did the first time I ever drove her! We went to Paul's house after dropping Ray off, and there we played some guitar hero 2, which I'm terrible at, but everyone's been playing while I was gone, so I have to catch up! I can't be left in the dust like that! I played Risk with Chris, Paul, Christine, Jessy and... me! It was SO unbelievably great to see everyone again! I was sooo happy! Although, after a couple hours of risk, I stopped caring, and just let them kill me. I was so tired after being awake for 29 hours, I went to bed.

UMOTD:
Chris breaking my sunglasses. ... I knew it was gonna happen. At least he managed not to spill anything.

Homecoming Tour

2007-08-18T11:21:00.000-07:00

Well well well...

So the time has come to return to this land where Canadians (and many other nationalities. many) fill the streets, where hockey is on the TV instead of sailing and rally racing, where they drink pop instead of fresh friut jiuce/soup/milk/thing, where the people drive very responsibly instead of like formula 1 drivers, where you don't pay for bathrooms, where the voltage is 160 instead of 200, where I lose the game, and, most importantly, where my friends are.

I hadn't posted in so long because I was not anywhere remotely near a computer, and, frankly, because I was busy! I was busy:

-taking family portraits in our reflection

-working on a farm, driving a tractor

-giving my sister a briuse

-eating food off a MEAT TREE

-having a bubble - blowing competition with Polish gum

-visiting old churches

-un-clogging a toaster with a fork

-visiting a Polish castle (and taking spy photos)

-visiting a salt mine

-Taking silly pictures of silly people

-laughing at the logic Poles use for road signs

-being in a cave

-eating so many perogies that I got sick

-hiking in Polish mountains

-chilling with my dad

-sitting on a harley

-taking cool pictures

-living up the Polish nightlife

-saying goodbye to family

-walking the streets of old towns

-and...
GETTING VIP PASSES TO A SPECIAL FORMULA 1 EVENT! I present to you, the BMW Sauber Formula 1 team Pit Lane Park!

And soon... I return *Dum Dum DUMMMM! *

Hard-to-pronounce words

2007-07-31T06:49:00.000-07:00

So since I last posted, I've continued to be in Poland. I been in towns called Tczew, Malbork Jastrzebia Gora (I'm missing a few accents there, and it doesn't sound anything like that), Gdansk, Koronowo, and a bunch of others. I'm starting to miss everyone back home, but am still enjoying myself out here. I realise that it's a trip I'm only going to be on once in my life, and I have to appreciate it for all that it is. And I'm having an AWESOME time! Want to see Pictrues? NO! I won't give you pictures of:

Judy and I chilling by the "Wisła" river
Pulled a prank on my sister (note the water on her shirt) *snicker*
Been to a Beach.
Passed a Horse - carriage by on the street (yup, that's Poland)
Me losing the game
Gdansk
The Polish translation of "Warning: Dog!"

Awesome Uncles, Being Full, and Air Rifles

2007-07-22T23:40:00.000-07:00

Considering I'm going to be out of range of a computer very soon for a few days, I thought It'd be a good time to post. Since I last archived words in the great abyss that is the information super highway, I've done such things as (but not limited to):
- visit the second largest bascilica in the world
- Shoot an air rifle
- discover that my mother is an extremely good shot with an air rifle
- be scared of my mother
- visit my very boisterous, bumbly awesome uncle
- ate more than I ever have in my life
- Check out a giant coal mine with my cousins
- Visit an old Polish village complete with windmill and interesting smells
- Get caught in a freak thunderstorm
- Sang "If I were a rich man" in a Jewish man's house as per request
- Visit my aunt who used to give me peaches when I was three, and gave her peaches
- Eat a sandwich
Now, we're heading for the coast, so I'll be out of contact for a while. My ipod charger died viciously, and I'm sad.

A hello from a Hot Pole.. snicker

2007-07-17T05:37:00.001-07:00

For real, though. I'm hot. I'm so hot. I'm so hot that I'm makin' everyone sweat. I make elephants sweat. I'm so damn frickin hot that even the weather's hot. The sun came out just to see how hot I can be. Real hot.

So I finally sat down at a computer long enough to post pictures, as you might be able to see. Only funny-looking people can see the pictures, so I'm sorry if you're attractive, 'cause you won't see the pictures. *snicker*.. I just called you funny-looking! BAHhahahahha!
I really miss everyone back home! Even though I'm having an amazing time here in Poland, eating until I fall asleep, lying in the sun, eating more, being Polish.. it's fun. Weve visited my Grandma's friut- garden. There's a tiny little hut there, and when I stepped in it (after hitting my head on the ceiling), I could actually remember it! like, "I felt really familiar with it" too (thanks, Paul). But I felt a link to the place even though the last time I was there was when I was 3. But for serious, the weather is phenomenal, like the 40 degrees kind of phenomenal. We spent the whole day at my Grandma's "cottage" and i chilled for a while with some Polish girls that were next door. Although they were kind of quiet, so it didn't help my rusty Polish at al. Although, when I went to get my hair cut today, the hairdresser, who was a very kind Polish lady, said my Polish is very good! I'm working on it, and am not allowed to speak a word of english, or they will cut off my toes. Anyways, I'm out. Don't know when I'll be back!

Strawberries. Oh the strwaberries.

2007-07-15T11:45:00.000-07:00

Oh. My. God.

I just had the best strawberries I've ever had in my LIFE! And they came right out of my Grandma's garden! I'm so happy to be here at my grandma's house. I feel so familiar with it. We walked around Bydgoszc, in about 37 degrees of sweat. I love it. It's like we brought Vancouver's weather here with us!

I have to say one thing. The girls in Poland are some of the most beautiful I've ever seen in my life.
Fin.

Touchdown!

2007-07-12T05:01:00.000-07:00

Poland is ours! We've arrived in Poland just now. My dad's old friend, Jacek, picked us up from the airport, at about 1:00PM. I only slept a little bit, and the flight was amazing. Poland is so different! I am starting to remember everything from when I was a kid! I love it! I'm keeping a log of each day, and will update that after I get home, but I'll blog and post pictures when I can.

To POLAND!

2007-07-11T07:37:00.000-07:00

hi....as you can tell (or rather not tell) I am not Greg. (handicapped, i think so....something tells me there are gonna be a lot of bracket6yfr in this post_g <-- Greg_JN ). He is sitting beside halfo/ 'drugged with juice. As you can see it is penetrating his posterior lobe. (cough) jun not june greg, its july. as you can probably tell letting two ppl write one blog is like watching a picnic bench and a waste basket go at it. nj iri not pleasant for both parties...and no real purpose.j muv\ Bakk in August Ciao!

A sleepy transformer

2007-07-08T23:33:00.000-07:00

Wake up. 3 hours of sleep.

Get up. Can't sleep for odd reason.

Walk out in frustration at inability to sleep.

Get call from little sister Judy.

She wants to go see transformers.

It's approximately 11:00 by now. Sleepy.

Wake up, collect things, go home.

Wash Sheila.

Sheila smells beautiful.

Go see Transformers with Judy. 2nd time.

Go home. Get check from work. Say goodbye to everyone at Plateau Pizza.

Eat dinner. Get a call from Daniel Borzillo.

Go to Red Robins with him to keep him company.

End up talking for a few hours about life, love and acting.

End up having a wicked time with him.

Go to see Transformers. Again.

Play an awesome game of Time Crisis 4 with Sean Hagen.

Almost fall asleep during the film. Have an awesome time with Sean Hagen, Paul Romein, Nate Blackmore, Brian Romein, Chris Fader, and Jason Romein.

Go home. Sleep.

UMOTD:
Seeing Dominic Bernardo at the theatre.

White Chocolate Raspberry Gelato of a Day.

2007-07-07T23:19:00.000-07:00

It didn't take us long to get accustomed to civilization again. We started off the day by all meeting at Sui Sha Ya Sushi.. Sha Shui Ya Sushi? Shi Shi Sushi?... at Sushi where we all-you-can-ate. Nate was feeling down about spraying soy sauce all over his shirt, so he wanted to buy some clothes, which turned into me helping him pick something out for 89 hours as he bought a full new outfit. I didn't mind because I hadn't seen him forever, and I was glad to spend some time with him. We ended up at Best Buy for a long time, just looking at stuff and fooling around, playing all their video games until our thumbs were sore as Nate worked out stuff with his car. A crack had developed in his windshield as his alarm and stuff were installed, and he was really cheesed about it. I don't blame him, I would be too. Christine and I sat on the home theatre couch, where we had once watched all of the movie Superman. We ended up getting fed up with spending such a beautiful day inside, so we snuck off with Brian to Esquires (... wait... I think someone said it again!) for some orgasmic White-Chocolate Raspberry Gelato. AND since their freezer doesn't work effectively, they put everything in a cup as well as the cone, so we ended up getting way more! I will never get tired of that gelato. We dropped my car off at Best buy, and headed off to Nate's house. from there, we went to play mini golf at eagle quest! I just thought it would be a great way to spend Christines (probably) last-day-free-from-work-before-I-go-to-Poland, and use the beautiful day outside. It was wicked! Christine found and lost a ball, Paul kicked our butts, and I enjoyed the pretty fountain. Nate pulled a wicked drift through a corner, and we truly had an uber time mini-golfing. We headed off to Silvercity where we watched Robin Williams' new movie, License to wed. I don't know how the movie was, because I was busy just loving Robin in his role. I love that man. After that, It was Paul's house, and the rest was history. Until 5:30 AM.

UMOTD:
We made a joke that each stroke I did at this one hole, my hooker got another STD. Yes, it's a family show, people!

We're Back!

2007-07-06T10:13:00.000-07:00

Well, Christine, Nate, Paul and I returned from our awesome 3-day hike yesterday. We were planning to be gone for 4 days, but we just rock too damn much! We had bugs, craps in the woods, blisters, snow sleds, and tracking. We had an amazing time, with some amazing views on that trip! I acquired a love for oatmeal, and everyone acquired a love for Power Bars. We reached an elevation of 2272 meters above sea level, and weren't even able to radio home! The most wildlife we saw on the trip was a toad, and Paul's hair. We were all very tired by the end of the trip, but we had some amazing moments. Thanks all for an amazing trip!

Onward to Manning Park!

2007-07-03T06:35:00.001-07:00

We've awoken, after 5 hours of sleep, to a slightly cloudy morning. Some of us still need to pack *cough*nate*cough* Poor bugger's only had like 3 minutes of sleep since he's come home on Sunday. We're to stop by a Canadian Tire the minute it opens to aquire a second tent, and then we're off for Manning Park! Hopefully breakfast is in there somewhere, because I just might eat Paul if there isn't. I can't wait to go on this trip with these folks! Christine, Nate and Paul went with Colin a year ago, and I was supposed to go, if it wasn't for work. Now, with Darek letting me get a million days off for vacation-ing, I can partake in this uber trip!

4 Days.
4 people.
1 Park.
Batteries not included.

Hopefully I'm up to these guys' mettle.

DS Blogging...officially

2007-07-02T11:47:00.000-07:00

Sweet! It works! l`m sitting at the Romeins right now, blogging! THIS time, I've checked if there' s a "publish post" button... smart, eh? It's a bit slow, but using internet on my DS... FRICKIN AWESOME! I'm now going to utilise paul's wireless to have fun... inmypants PS. Nate's here!!

Blogging via DS!

2007-06-29T12:37:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I HAD a post going, but I lost connection. ...actually, the reason is more embarassing than that. So I bought an internet browser for my DS, because I thought it'd be really wicked if I could browse teh internets from practically anywhere, using only my small DS when I'm in Poland! It'd be so cool to be able to still have connection with all my friends and the non-Polish world. All I have to do is steal wireless internet when I'm there. So I took a little trip in Sheila to try it out. I was venturing everywhere to see how this wireless works, and thought it'd be real cool to make a post from somewhere OTHER than a computer. I consulted Paul's map for hints, and in the end, only Blenz worked. I had a post going, all excited and stuff... the only thing that was wrong, was that it didn't have a "publish post" button. yeeeah.... I figured that out later, after I'd strained myself to write out everything by tapping the stylus on the touchscreen. I'mmmmm dumb. I shall investigate with Paul's help sometime soon on using my internet better good.

My Shoes Believe In Me.

2007-06-28T14:14:00.000-07:00

Live Free or Die Hard

2007-06-28T01:20:00.000-07:00

This movie? It pwnz. Like, Really, really pwnz.