August: So Far, So Good

Hey Fellow Readers and Friends,

It has been a while since I typed up a new posting on this blog. Sorry for the wait, but I never stopped in the past few weeks with Work, Denica and Chad's Wedding Weekend, My Parents Visit, and other stuff in between. I really don't know where to start, so I am going to start off with the highlights of August and go from there:

August 3rd brought 6 months of soberness to my life. I am sure some of you guys may read this and be like, “who cares”. However, I really feel it is a big accomplishment for me knowing it is getting easier and easier as time goes by. I am not saying I will never drink again, but I won’t be for a long time, until I know how to control it at a reasonable way. I think that is fare for my friends and my loved ones who care about my safety. In addition, knowing I can get people to their homes safely, it is an extra bonus. I did find it hard at times being around the stuff, but I enjoy going out having a great time and one of the best times I had during the summer was at Denica and Chad’s wedding.

Denica and Chad’s wedding was on August 12th and Tiffany and I left on Friday morning with a friend from work and from Tiffany’s high school graduation class, Janelle. It was a good drive down and we stopped in Marystown where Janelle met up with her mother and Tiffany and I went to Golden Sands. We only enjoyed the beach for an hour or so because it was too wind, but we had a game of mini-golf there. That course might as well be made for PGA players because it is super hard, but I still won, hehehe… After Golden Sands, we went down the road and went to Winterland’s Ecomuseum and that was very nice. Then we were off to Tiffany’s hometown for Sharon’s clubhouse sandwiches and cheesecake. We did take a detour through Frenchman’s Cove because I wanted to take pictures on the way. I can easily sum up the rest of the night by saying, after we got to Tiffany’s Nan’s place, I basically passed out at 7pm or so. I was super tired from the night before where Tiffany and I only got a few hours sleep. Saturday was the day of the wedding and it started off shitty by raining, but by the end of the day, you couldn’t ask for it to be any better. Denica and Chad’s wedding was short, but very nice, the way I like it. After that, Lacey, Jason, Janelle, and I went back to Sharon’s for more cheesecake. There is a trend there for the weekend and to be honest with you, anytime I have been to Grand Bank with Tiffany, I can’t miss out on the greatness. After that, Tiffany and I went back to her Nan’s and relaxed a bit before the reception. The reception was done up really nice and the speeches were really good. After that, came a gathering at one of Tiffany’s friends place and the dance. I am not really going to comment on the dance because the music was a little outdated. However, hanging out with her friends was a lot of fun, they are all good people. The next day, we visited Tiffany’s Aunts and went out with lunch with them and that was fun and I picked up my Triple Chocolate Cheesecake from Sharon’s (see, I told you there was a trend) and then picked up Stephanie and her baby and Janelle. It was full car on the way back to Goobies, but lots of fun and the baby is so cute. I have to say this though, I never met a more mature, young mother like Stephanie, and she is really good with her daughter. Congrats to the bride and groom!!!

August 15th was a great day and there are two reasons for that. I called this day the “Golden Month-A-Versary” because it was on the 15th of August and it was Tiffany’s and mine 15th months of being together. Everyone already knows how much I love this girl and to spend the past 15 months with her was simply amazing. All of her friends comments on how we never stop from all the pictures we take. I guess we try and keep track of all the memorable memories we had together and we get to show them to our friends and rub it in a bit. You all have to remember though; we do this in between both of our hectic schedules, more being Tiffany’s though with school. I promised her a great summer and I really hope I kept my promise while the summer is coming to an end. August 15th also the date my parents showed up and I am glad to spend the next three whole days with them. Wednesday, we didn’t do too much, but go from store to store and do some window-shopping because we didn’t really buy much. That night, I got to meet the newest member of my family, Emily Smith. Logan now has a baby sister and she is the cutest, but how can you expect any less with out genes, hehehe… Thursday, Tiffany met up with us downtown and we drove around this area, from Ocean Sciences Center to Pouch Cove. It was a really nice day and got lots of nice pictures. Later that night we had Boston Pizza and it was a great feed. Friday, was the best part of my parents visit and I am sure Tiffany would agree with me as well because we got to go camping again and it was a trip back to LaManche. About a year ago, there was a posting on LaManche and I think this trip was even better because we got to do hikes, one to LaManche Falls and the other to LaManche Village. We also took a drive to Ferryland and seen the Colony of the Avalon. A lot more was done this year, than last year. The barbeque we had that night was one of the best I ever had, it was great and I could not stop eating. It goes the same for the breakfast we had the next morning as well. Saturday and Sunday, I had to work, but I got to see my parents before they left on Sunday and I am lucky to have great parents like them.

Today I got to spend some time with my great friend from Acadia, Jill and her boyfriend Dave and we went out and played some mini-golf first and I won’t comment on the scores because it was an embarrassment, hahaha… Not for me though. After that, I went to the Fluvarium and got to see some fish swimming around underground, through some glass. It was cool. Hoping for more great times with them, while they are here in Newfoundland.

So that was pretty much all the good times of August. Work is the same and I am still on this CAP (Correction Action Plan) till mid-October. Atleast now I am allowed to do offline work now for being a good boy for 3 weeks. Thanks to Mel, I am still there, but a new challenge comes with a new Team Leader, but I am sure I will be fine. I really like helping out on the floor though.

At “home”, notice I did that in quotations? More like I place I am concealed to my room because of a note of rules that was laid on my bed about two weeks ago and Tammy and I haven’t talked since. I am not going into detail about the note because its foolishness. I got nothing against the girl, but a 27-year-old woman cannot be my second mother. I am not going to go on and on and bash her because there isn’t much bad I can say about her. She is a good person, but got to loosen up a bit, or she is going to loose a close friend. It’s funny though; it was only a month ago she had a dream about us getting into a big fight and me moving out. I am not moving out anytime soon, but if I took advice from my friends and family, I would have been gone by now. Oh well, I still have time.

So that’s about it for now and hope it wasn’t too long to read. If you really think about it, it takes me longer to type it up, than to read it. My fingers are getting sore, so I am ending this now. I am going to pray for good weather for Labor Day Weekend because our friends are planning on going on a weekend camping trip and it is my forced weekend off, so cross your fingers. I am the luckiest guy in the world in having such a great girlfriend in Tiffany and never quit Babes, even if sometimes you are faced with a Bitch!!!!! Next time, take her outside, hehehe…

Peace Out!!!