winter wonderland

hellooooo from winnipeg!! Glad to have you along today! i've been "home" (for the record, i have multiple homes...when i'm in BC, i say "i'm going home to wpg" and when in wpg i say "i'm going home to BC") for 5 days now, and i think it has been snowing slowly but surely the whole time. Lets just say that the City of Winnipeg seems to have decided that since there is still snow in the forecast, that negates the necessity to plow the streets at this point. Much snow= bad driving conditions. booo on the City for their stupidity!!

I don't get to shovel snow in BC, so i gladly do it here. i think i'm doing the driveway about 2x/day on average thus far..heck, it gets me fresh air and a little bit of exercise in my otherwise LAZY lifestyle, so it's all good! Ok well i am trying to upload an "action shot" of me shoveling, but for some reason it's not working; i don't know why and it's really pissing me off.

so i'm going to end this post here because without pics, it's just really not too fun. alrighty, take it easy...

wow slacker

to my many fans who have been waiting with baited breath for my next posting...i am truly sorry for such a delay. This clearly means one of two things: either i am too busy to be posting, or I lead such a boring life that there is nothing to blog about...well if we're being honest (which we usually are) i would say i actually fall inbetween those two statements. It's not like i'm running around with my head cut off, but I am also not partaking in many a memorable experience as of late. I am also quite lazy, which leads to my lack of productivity in just about every area....

but let me tell you about a little place called Beachwood. Nestled deep in the woods just over the Can/US border on the coastal shores of Washington there is a campground catering to the RV crowd as well as a few small cabins for nightly rental. My friend Pam's family has been camping there for years and happened to have a few "rent this cabin for free " nights to use up by the end of '05 (which we all know is quickly approaching...). Conveniently, Pam has Wednesdays off, and I do absolutely nothing with each and every day, so both this week and the week before we headed down to Beachwood for a "vacation". Now, let me explain something to you. When you are as poor as I am, free nights in a little cabin not even an hour away is actually quite nice. And i guess when you work hard at your job every day like Pam does, and just need to escape for a night, Beachwood does the trick for those kids too. (/by the way, if you have not done so already, please refer to the photo above. As you can see, the cabin is really really tiny - by the way, that's not our truck, i stole this pic off the website).

So what do you do at Beachwood? Well, i'm sure if you wanted to take advantage of all the great amenities on the property, you could (i'm actually being serious). But really, I'll tell you what we did, and then you be the judge on what sounds more fun. We ate, played Monopoly, watched Friends on DVD on my computer, and drank. That's about it. I really enjoy validated lazyness!

There you have it. My latest adventure.

I will write again soon, this time from the snowy midwestern prairies....until then....

(for those interested in their own Beachwood experience, please visit http://www.mybeachwoodresort.com/overview.htm)