Personal Update Interlude

While I will for sure soon get to Part III of T&T's wedding, I thought it would be good to update other personal things...


Work has been going quite well. Was involved with a creek realignment project for most of August and part of September. I'm in the office now completing reports for other projects and will shortly be heading back out into the field in October. Busy time of the year for our office as we have a lot of small annual projects on the go soon.


I won't delve into many details and Seakrait made brief mention about a loss that we had recently. Tanya's grandmother had been sick for a while but the fighting spirit of this amazing woman kept her going for quite a while but unfortunately, she passed away about 2 weeks ago. She was 90 and was a very lively and happy woman who was surrounded by many loved ones and will for sure be missed by her family. I always think though that if a person is fortunate enough to have lived a good and happy life and is surrounded by people who love them, then we can only celebrate the life they led and cherish the happy memories they gave us.


On another note, a position with our Vancouver office came up a couple weeks ago that I decided to apply to. It was a tough decision as I do really like it in Nanaimo and the projects I am involved in are really cool and interesting, but Tanya and I realized that we want to eventually move back to Vancouver for her master's and for when we have a family and so I would kick myself if I didn't at least try for the position. My office manager was very accomodating about the whole thing and went so far as to say that the company would do whatever it could to help me transfer as I am a valuable member of the company and they would hate to see me go elsewhere. I was truly flattered and humbled by his comments and those of my other co-workers and project managers that know because it means I am doing something right!! =)

I'll update this when I know what the results of my application are so keep your fingers crossed!!


Finally, September marks 10 years since Tanya and I and all our high school friends started Grade 12. That means that in 10 short months, it'll be our 10 year reunion. How amazing is that?!?!!! We've already gotten in touch with some of our classmates and we are starting to plan a reunion. If you graduated C.E. London Secondary in 1997 and are reading this right now and you aren't Tanya, Jeremy, Gloria, Doreen, Devon, Tim, Wai Chi, Selene, Tanya, Ada, Bonnie, or anyone else I regularly keep in contact with, drop me a line so we can add you to our list of grads. Meanwhile to get regular or semi-regular updates on the reunion, check out http://london1997.spaces.live.com/

TTFN!!!