Wedding bells in Canada

What a fun week it’s been. The chairman has been in town which has been a drag, but due to a lot of other factors I’ve been feeling great (insert Nutrigrain advertisement here). I’m now a little over a week into my efforts to make me healthy. I’ve been running (with varying amounts of success) for about a week now, and have completely quit smoking. My asthma is bugging me quite a bit when I run, but I’m hoping as the last bits of crud get out of my lungs that will get better.

Working out every other day has made a huge difference in how I feel. I’ve had more energy, and felt better in almost every way. I’m sleeping less, feeling more alert, and eating less. I’m hoping that if I keep this up I can finally be one of the healthy, fit people and stop being overweight, out of shape, and sick all the time.

Aside from working out I’ve been keeping very busy. Every day this week I’ve been getting out of the house after work, doing things and seeing friends. I’ve met a few new people, including this really cool guy named Ken. The busyness is continuing into the weekend as my boss James is getting married to his sweetie Lynn up in Kamloops, BC. I took Friday off and drove slowly up to Kamloops taking pictures on the way. Here I sit in my hotel room after a run and some dinner relaxing and working on a few coding project that I’m getting started. Most of them will never go public, but keep your eye out to a completely new idea in blogging!

Saturday got off to a jolting start with a fire drill bright and early. I managed to stumble downstairs in my jeans, camera and laptop in hand. It was a sight to see a ton of little old ladies dressed to the tee standing around outside. It turns out that the British Columbian Women’s Institute is having their annual summit today, and I was invited in to take some pictures for them.

After that I headed down to the ranch to help James get set up for his wedding. I ended up playing audio monkey, and generally helping set up a few things. After that I headed into town to get a haircut. Anyone who knows me would have an appreciation for what a major event this is. My work wants me to cut it constantly, and I want longer hair so it’s always a fight. When my boss tells me to get my hair cut at work I pretty much ignore him because I don’t feel that my work should be able to infringe on my personal life. However when my boss asks me to cut my hair for his suit and tie wedding then I’ll do it – I feel a wedding is a sacred ceremony and deserves the utmost of respect (something our world seems to be lacking of late).

The ceremony itself was a beautiful thing. It’s always nice to see a couple that you think can really be together for the rest of their lives celebrate their love in such a special ceremony. James and Lynn had picked up a bit of a doof for a justice of the peace (he made a Lord of the Rings reference), but he did a great job. They had friends of theirs singing and reading poetry that they had written.

After the main ceremony I ended up taking some pictures and we all hung around having a grand old time. The reception was quite nice and I enjoyed hearing his mates tell us all sorts of interesting things about his past.

Come morning I headed down off the mountain to Abbotsford so that I could have some lunch with my grandparents. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen them and it was good to hang out for a while. They are getting on in years and its sad to see them age like so and getting ready to face death. They seem to be handling it with some dignity so hopefully things will work out for the best long term. We ate chicken and had some gurks, talked about the cathedrals of Europe, and they told me about their travels.

The trip back had a moment of note at the border. For some reason they were looking for someone or something and thought I was it. They pulled me over and searched my car for a good hour and a half before finally letting me through. It’s sad that the terrorists have won like this and decent American citizens are being put through hassles like this in the name of security.