What's Sanata got in his bag of presents?

I am really pondering what Santa has in his bag of presents for me this year. I asked him nicely the other night if he would kindly ensure that I am dept free. I figure that is a good enough gift this year. He sorta snickered a bit when I asked, and I would believe it is because he knows my debt load. I am not sure if $300,000 + dollars can fit in his bag. I would certainly feel bad for the reindeer who had to lug that around all across the world before dropping the money down my chimney.

Oh wait, I forgot...I don't have a chimney. I figure we will buy the "fire" DVD and hopefully he can come through the TV. screen. Man that's a good idea!

Well honestly, I have no idea this year what Santa has in store for me. Most years I pretty much know and act surprised on Christmas Day. The hardest thing is I know exactly where Jamie (wait...Santa) has them stashed but I can't bring myself to look. I think it is because for once I will "truly" be surprised on Christmas Day.

P.S. Santa, if you can't give me the gift of debt free than I would really like a cordless power drill!!! That way I can hang the blind my wife would like me to buy and hang!

On a final note I would like to Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And if you don't get what you were wanting for Christmas...give Santa a big kick in the ass!

Winter Blues

Well I gotta tell you how disappointed I was with the weather conditions this weekend. Jamie and I ventured down to Estevan this weekend for a good old fashioned Cossette Christmas gathering. We left on Saturday morning bright and early as Jamie had a Wilcox Christmas staff party at our house Friday night. As we left the City of Saturday morning we couldn't see two feet in front of us as the fog was so thick, but it quickly burnt off just south of Regina. We quickly made our way down to Estevan in Auntie Rhonda's new truck hitting the odd fog patch here and there but nothing too horrible.

The weekend was GREAT. It was nice to see all of the Cossette gang again and share in a few Christmas drinks and an awesome meal. We ended the weekend off by attending church on Sunday morning and going out for a brunch (YUMMY!)

As we headed back to Regina on Sunday we discussed how nice it was to have such a warm nice weekend and how happy we were to not have to shovel snow this week. It seems like we are constantly shoveling snow from our driveway and walkway. As we got closer to Regina we started noticing all the vehicles heading south were covered with snow. Where did these come from? Did we get snow in Regina? I sure as hell hope not!!! It wasn't until we hit Milestone that the roads began to get crappy and we saw the odd vehicle stuck in the ditch. We hit the edge of Regina and it was complete mayhem. Cars stuck or spinning through the snow everywhere. Got home and saw or better yet didn't see our cars as they were covered in snow. STUPID snow. I has to shovel yet again.

So here is to hopefully not having to shovel for the entire week. Hold on I have to check the weather before I say that.......ok...the weather network looks promising!!!!

ON the up side, we have enough snow to take the snowmobiles out over the holiday season!

The communication chain sucks!

So I have to tell you, the communication chain truly and utterly SUCKS! If any of you were travelling on Ring road yesterday might have noticed the message signs say that we as motorists should slow down as there was a crew "working" on the Assiniboia Bridge, apparently inspecting it. Well the signs were great....IF....the company had not broken down and forgot to turn the signs off!!! So there we are as motorists driving down right road and see this fancy message sign flashing the works:

BRIDGE INSPECTION AHEAD

SLOW DOWN

and as we pass this sign we are finding ourselves looking around trying as hard as hell to find anyone who looks like they might be working on the bridge and.......nothing!

Flash forward to today.......I am driving back to work after having a healthy, yummy lunch at home and suddenly without much warning at all, the one lane (passing lane) that I am in has a million signs that push me into the other lane and I am stuck between two semis, one that sees the workers ahead and the one behind me that sees nothing and is driving full speed ahead. We all go flinging by a bunch of workers who look caught of guard by the sudden traffic while they are standing inches away from us!!! SO....the signs that were on yesterday while the crew was broke down and not working..warning the traffic of a ghost construction project going on, today no message sign and BAM......work is going on.

Doesn't this seem odd? All it would have taken is a phone call to the people who manage the sign and inform them that the project was delayed a day and everyone could have arranged their own ducks to go in the right dam order and provide the best possible warning to motorists. Instead no one talks, no one take action and shit hits the fan!

On another note.....if you have had a project on your desk since September and suddenly find it under a pile of crap and realize it is do NOW.....don't send it to me and demand an answer today. You will have to wait your dam turn and i'll get to it when I get to it. It is not my dam fault your behind the eight ball!!!!