Eric Bailey's

Yesterday was my birthday. To make it special I got to drive to Winnipeg and sit in an intense class for 3 hours and then drive back. After getting back home I sat around unable to sleep for a couple more hours. Since I am on call for work, I got called in this morning to work. I was hoping to sleep, leave early buy my books for my Tuesday night class and perhaps do some house work before I leave as well. Not going to happen. Instead I hurriedly washed some dishes this morning, took care of the dishwasher and prepared lunches. Now I am typing this because if I don't do it in the morning I won't get to it. I'm still tired. I wonder what tonight's drive will be like?

Yesterday's class was "Abuse Theory" and today's class is "Spirituality and Family Therapy". Both interesting both seem to have a lot of work to do. I'm going to have to be on my game for this semester.

I had a job interview yesterday. It sounds like the kind of job that could be a career. We will see if I get it and how it works out for me. It could work with my MFT degree that I am working towards but that may depend on how the government sees my qualifications. First I have to get the job.

Only one more week until my birthday. I will almost be old this year. I have not had either good or bad feelings about this upcoming birthday. It doesn't seem like much of anything to me. I did get a birthday present already with my trip to Vancouver and the Canucks games we attended. I guess that means I'm not getting an iphone.

My hockey team is doing great so far. If they do not let up they could be done this series in 4 games. That would be wonderful.

I've had a couple of facebook chats with an old friend that I have not seen in a long time. It is kind of cool with technology lets you connect a little.

I am working today but there is no guarantee that I have work the rest of this week.

On Wednesday I have my first class for this third term. This is Spirituality and Family Therapy. I should do well at this course. It may challenge me in how to handle people of other religions while counseling but I suspect it is a course I could also teach.

I have work again this morning. Not my regular job but instead I am back to subbing for other EAs right now. I'm not sure what is happening with my regular job but I found another job to apply for so I guess I'd better buy some ink for the printer. I printed my resume and cover letter and see that I forgot I needed ink.

I watched my Canucks win last night. Overall they were the better team. There were moments that looked scary and they never pulled away from the Blues but they did seem to own most of the game.

The kids have left for the bus and I'd better brush my teeth and take my medicine before I go to work. My skin is bothering me a lot. I wish I was getting my allergy shots but I have not found a way to make that work in town here. The person who was giving us our shots was the public health nurse and then she left. We have gone a couple years without now and our allergies are starting to catch up with us again. I need to do something, but I am not sure what.

Well we are back in Kenora. We had a wild drive back. I don't remember the whole thing but that is probably because when I wasn't driving I was sleeping. I did drive from the mountains to Regina. Then I waited and let my wife drive the next morning. We arrived in Regina at 3 am and I did not sleep until another hour or so later. I got up just a little after 9 but even I would not have been ready by 10 for going to church. Erica got up sometime after 10 and then we left by about 10:30. This gave us a good jump on that part of the trip and we arrived before dark at our house.

We had a nice visit last night and then this morning again with my in-laws. They did a number of different things around the house, including a lot of the spring cleaning things that I don't think of.

I don't start work tomorrow like I would have expected. Tomorrow I will call my boss and get the story of what is happening.

I will start classes again at the end of the month. I wish I could start doing some work now for those classes but I do not even have the text books for reading. I am going to do 3 different classes only two of them will occur in any given week (except for one week in May where all three happen. This spring might be difficult for classes and studying but from what I understand next year could be worse if I take the two classes I have already applied for. I guess that is something to worry about next year though.

Well it is early in the morning here and I am trying to get us going to hit the road back to Kenora. We had fun seeing different sights, attending events and spending time together. It is also Easter and time to get back to family.

We had a fun time at the Leela Gilday concert last night. The openner was not as polished but a very talented Cellist. When Leela got on stage it was easy to see that she was good at being on stage. She brought a certain energy and mood. I have a better appreciation for her music after hearing her live. My wife got to meet a couple of people from Yellowknife that she would not have seen in a long while. I think she had fun.

Hopefully the car ride back can be the same kind of adventure that the car ride out was. I am not looking forward to getting back to my world yet but maybe soon it will be a little less cloudy and a little less snow.

We did a lot more walking in these past three days than our feet or bodies are used to. We are now quite sore and sometimes we decide not to go places because we do not want to use stairs.

We went to our second hockey game. The Canucks won again. I have discovered that every game I attend wearing my orange jersey, they win. I would think that they would be inviting me back for the playoffs at least, if not to travel with them on the road.

It has been good to get away. Tonight we are going to Erica's friend's concert. She is a Juno award winning singing so it should be good. We are recovering from our afternoon at Stanley Park before we have to out again.

Tomorrow we leave and drive like crazy to get home and visit Erica's parents before they head back to Tbay. It was nice of them to watch the kids for us so we could get away and try to find the energy to finish this term. I have to start getting ready for classes again by the end of June and I am still working fulltime (sort of). Next year could bejust as hectic if not worse. Hopefully though Greg will be done high school and we will have one less worry to deal with that way. He will then be working and saving for school in the future. Maybe later I will record all our summer plans, but not just now. I need to rest to get ready for tonight and then leave early in the morning (BC early, it will probably be late everywhere else).

Yesterday was a down day, in between games. Not to say we did not do anything. We decided to go to Grenville Island and check out the market area there. It was a long walk but we got there. We then walked around and looked at some different things, different shops. We went out for fish and chips and enjoyed our lunch time. On the way back we did not walk but rather hopped on a bus which brought us quite close to our hotel. Neither of us wanted to walk across the big bridge again. I am not afraid of heights but I do have a natural fear of falling when I am up high.

For supper we walked around a long time until we wound up at the bar right beside our hotel. It was a good walk though and we stopped at some interesting stores. Our bodies are feeling rather sore, especially the feet right now and tonight we walk to another hockey game. Vancouver against L.A.. If we win tonight we are that much closer to taking first in the division and hosting playoff games. I think we are off to see the library and to hang around and read for a low key day.

Yesterday was a fun day. We walked around in the morning until we needed to sit and rest. We had ice tea at a little shop. Part of our morning walk took us to Gas Town but most of the shops were not open yet. We came back to the hotel to rest for a little bit. I went out later and picked up some pizza for lunch. The Apple store was near by and so I visited it. I saw some interesting things but did not buy those toys.

We then went to the hockey game last night. The goalie made some great saves and the other important factor was some good bounces (even though the referee called some questionable penalties). The Canucks killed off two 5 on 3 powerplays and scored some timely goals.

All in all we had a fun night and now we are about to head out to check out the granville market.

Blogger sent me an email sounding a little worried about whether I was still using this or not. It seemed very ... automated. I will post something later today, I think. Right now I have to finish getting ready for work (I'm an EA now).