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I am an Avionics Systems Technician with the Canadian Forces. I love my wife, my son and my dog. As of February 5th, 2006, I'm a proud new father to my son Aidan, who is the light of my life.
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Feb. 10th, 2008 @ 10:01 pm Life in the last 10 months...
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Since I handed in my prescreening we installed new floors in the home on Jeep as well as several other repairs. We ended up selling the house shortly after we left Shearwater and arrived in Cold Lake (Oct). The sale went through without a hitch on December 13, any longer and we'd be debating what credit company to avoid calls from. With all the bills paid off we even had money left over to get some of the things we wanted. We also got a treadmill.

So, I figure I will start to write in this journal again and put in how much I ran and how long it took me. Maybe that will help me stay on track with this working out thing.

Today I got on the treadmill and ran 1.42 in 25 minutes then ran (6km/h) for another minute then walked for another 4 @ 3.3kph.

I'll have to come up with some kind of a chart to record this info but for now its just pure info.

Have fun all,

Jared
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Apr. 16th, 2007 @ 10:01 pm Posting message? What posting message?
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Apr. 14th, 2007 @ 07:24 pm Fast update so I can spend time with Heather

Heather and Aidan stayed up this afternoon but I went to bed.  I wasn't feeling very well and I didn't get enough sleep last night.  I feel much better now though.

We got some movies from the library but for the most part I'm not really interested.

Not sure what to write so I'll just stop.

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Mar. 30th, 2007 @ 08:41 am Morning...the time I get to ME
Current Music: My music on the computer
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Mar. 29th, 2007 @ 12:40 am ...and I give this movie a...
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The Xbox that I got for christmas has started to die so I called the warranty support 1-800.  After a rather boring and one sided conversation the guy tells me that..."Your Xbox is broken".  Well I was just SHOCKED.  He says that he will send out a shipping box for me to send my Xbox in.  Yippee.  That means that I'll be without my XBox for abot 2 weeks.  Boo!  Oh well, at least it'll be fixed.

Heather and I watched "The Departed" today.  It was ok.  I'd give it a 7 out of 10.  I found it mildly predictable and really didn't understand several of the scenes.  They just seemed not to fit with the whole movie.  I was also concerned about the movie with Aidan in the room.  I wouldn't watch the movie in the presence of children.  It was quite gory and LOTS of swear words.  It seems that the maker of the movie decided to use swears as filler.

Heather and I went to counselling today and I was very surprised at how well things are going for us.  It is awesome when you arrive at counselling and you can't think of anything bad.  I love the fact that Heather suggested that we get counselling a couple years back.  We were not the desperate case that you think of when you think of couples going to counselling.  In fact the counsellor was quite surprised that we attended but it was more then worth it.  I would recommend it even to couples that are not having any problems.  It has definitely strengthed our relationship.

Heather is watching "Lost".  Its a show I really couldn't get into.  I find it tedious.  They are currently burying the people who are not dead only paralyzed.  Well, they are dead now.  Sorry if I spoiled it for anyone.  Not that I think anyone is going to read this before they see the episode.

Well, I think its time that Heather and I head down to bed.  Aidan should be right prime for sleep.

Have a good night all.


ACK, tomorrow is garbage day.  I have to go takethe garbage out or it'll be two weeks before it gets taken....ARG!!

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Mar. 27th, 2007 @ 10:05 pm Playful child alert!
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Heather decided to make her awesome homemade noodles and cheese.  It rocks (MHO)  I thought it would be a great food for Aidan to practice eating by himself, no spoon feeding.  He just kept stuffing his face with it just as fast as Heather could put it in his dish.  He was grabbing fist fulls of it and jamming it into his face until his cheeks puffed out from all the cheesey noodles.  He would then try to chew it really slowing looking like someone trying to win a food eating contest on St. Patties day.  Even though he was stuffing his face he still managed to cover 90% of his body in cheese sauce.  I made a deal with Heather that if I took Aidan for a bath she would put his diaper on afterward.

Heather and Aidan are now playing with a balloon that we got when we were out looking at minivans.  He is laughing up a storm.  Its hard to type and not laugh while the two of them play.  He's such a happy baby.  Of course his mother is probably having as much fun as he is with that balloon.  He's being awefully needy tonight.  He wants someone to play with him constantly but he seems undecided what he wants to play with.

Finished my prescreening for Cold Lake and got the extension I needed.  Oh, here's one for you.  The girl in charge of the screenings for people leaving Shearwater told me on Friday that my screening was going to expire this Thursday.  Thanks for the heads up.  Some people seem to be completely inept at their jobs.  Its really frustrating to hear that, after you have been working your tail off to complete something, someone else's laziness could result in all your work being wasted.  Well at least I completed my ARV for this year and next years, thanks to my birth month being April.  Its all good now though.  Work called me tonight and told me that my extension was granted out till 27 April.  that should give the file plenty of time to go to Ottawa and Cold Lake for final approval.

Well, I'm going to end here as I can't think what else to write.
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Mar. 24th, 2007 @ 09:12 pm Bored again...go figure
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Here I am on a Saturday night with nothing to do.  I am bored with the Xbox games that I have...all three of them.  It costs over $11 per rental and at that rate it means I won't be renting often.  I also don't have the funds to purchase a game.   Seems like this boat is floating and I didn't realise I boarded it.  That's life I guess.

Heather and I are starting to get on each others nerves.  She seems to be very short tempered while I know that I am being short with her.  I find that I am easily set off when things are not going my way.  I am also not getting enough sleep lately so that is definately not helping my mood.

I really wish there was something on TV to watch (new shows coming in just over a month or so).

I still can't get over how well I can type without looking at my hands or the keyboard.  It is quite cool.  My fingers seem to know where they need to be to type the word I want even before my brain has to think about it.
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Mar. 20th, 2007 @ 05:20 am I'm smart. I knew that.
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So I went on CBC'c website last night and took their test the nation test last night.  My IQ according to the results is 121.  Heather also took the IQ test and scored in the smart range.  Aidan's going to be a genius!

As for the car, the alternator and the battery both need to be replaced.  Thankfully the alternator is under warranty.  The whole thing is going to cost just over $100.  I have to take the car into Honda today to get it done but I think it'll neeed to be boosted this morning but thankfully we have the number to Honda roadside assistance.

Well, I gotta go eat breakfast and get ready for work.  Have a great day all.
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Mar. 18th, 2007 @ 11:07 am And we are going NO WHERE!
Current Mood: chipperchipper
So last night I convinced Heather that I wanted to get out of the house and she agreed to go with me.  We spend the next 20 minutes getting ready, man it takes forever with a baby, and head out the door.  Heather says to me, "my car door thingy doesn't work."  I check mine and it doesn't work either so I head over to the drivers position to check what I already know is wrong.  So I turn the ignition and NOTHING happens.  Yep, she's dead.  We head back inside and instead of heading out we re-arrange the living room.

I have to restart the computer so Heather can download music to my Xbox.  I'll write more later.
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Mar. 17th, 2007 @ 06:55 pm Saturday...Why am I so BORED????
Current Mood: boredbored
I went over to my friends yesterday and briefly played an evil campaign that I DM'd.  It went pretty good and I really enjoyed myself.  It was good to get out of the house and away from it all.  I really feel that Heather needs to get out and away from us more so she can truly relax but I could be wrong.

I finished FEAR on the Xbox 360 and even though I have yet to finish NFS most wanted I am not interested in playing it.  Its a good game but it seems that the Xbox 360 is very prone to scratching discs and the smallest scratch will cause the game to crash.  While I enoy the system this really frustrates me.  I think I`ll take NFS back to the store today as I am not really playing it anyway­.  Maybe Heather will want to head out with me *hopeful look on face*

Well, I can`t really decide what else to write about so I`ll end it here.


SO BORED!
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