Well, it is just two weeks until our PR class puts itself on the line by hosting a fundraising event for Covenant House Vancouver(CHV), the shelter for homeless street youth. Check out the links on the side bar, the CHV main page has a link to our event right at the top, so check things out! The event is called 'Mending Broken Wings, One Youth at a Time'.
If you're too lazy to follow the links...well, I can respect that, so here's the basic details. It will be a cocktail evening with a silent auction, and some guest speakers will say their two bits about all the good things that CVH does. I am the MC, so I'll get to say my two bits as well!
The last month ( and then some), our class has been working hard to put this thing together and to find sponsors. I must say, the I have a greater appreciation for the generosity of the community after going around asking business for money and silent auction items. We have a sweet grand prize for the evening; a flight for two to Toronto or Las Vegas (winner's choice) on Harmony Airlines. And there is all sorts of other good stuff to bid on as part of the silent auction; hotel stays, restaurant gift certificates, gift baskets, etc. etc.!
Really, anyone in the Lower Mainland that's reading this should come. and the rest of you, you shoudl donate to our fundraising efforts for CHV :)
okay, that's my plug :0) but seriously. Go to Covenant House BC for more info on them, and on our event.
So what else is going on? lotsa school work. The 10 and 12 hour school days are well underway now, and the assignment factory (me) is churing out the merchandise. It's fair to say that the quality has slipped form last year, but the quantity is astounding!
As part of one of my newspaper stories, I took a few photos, as you can see below this post. The story was a just a fluffy 'tourist in your own town' article, and I did the Nitobe Memorial Gardens at UBC. The pics above are some of those that I took while I was there. sorry for the quality of some of them; I haven't had a chance to photoshop out my lack of talent yet :)
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My Parents were around this past weekend--Kate and my mum wnet and did flower arrangement stuff for the wedding while dad and I went downtown to do a bit of suit shopping. Naturally, they didn't have my size in store (sometimes being a freak means waiting for clothes to be shipped into town), but I will have a really sweet suit in just a few days... or do I mean suite suit... or suite sweet... I get confused...
okay, enough of that. Enough of all of this!! see ya later!
October 25, 2005
October 12, 2005
New look for the blog, post-Thanksgiving!
Hello everyone! welcome to the new look of the blog! I updated it with a brighter colour scheme to combat the Autumn blues! You'll also notice that down the right hand side bar some links have been added, so you can go take a look at some other sites that I like to hit up! I have decided at this point to take away the 'comments' feature on the blog, 1) because most people just end up directly emailing me, and 2) I am getting spammed! SO annoying! BOOO Spammers! BOOOO!
aaaanyway, the reason the Covenant House website is listed as one of my links is becuase my graduatign Public Relations class is doing a fundraiser for them this semester. we will be holding several events over the next few weeks leading up to our big night, which will be a cocktail evening and silent auction fund raiser. Covenant House is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping street kids get off the street, through use of a program that gives continuing care instead of just a hot meal and a bed, then back out into the street.
It's pretty cool, so check out the website (and hey, if you want to buy tickets in support of our fundraiser, let me know!)
So, Thanksgiving has come and gone for another year; I hope you all had the chance to fill yourself with the turkey bird! THis year's celebrations were up in whistler, which was quite nice! there were nine of us for dinner, and we got stuffed! ...then, with the leftovers, we did it all again for lunch the next day :)
Okay, that's enough of that; I really have to get to the homework! have a great week!
aaaanyway, the reason the Covenant House website is listed as one of my links is becuase my graduatign Public Relations class is doing a fundraiser for them this semester. we will be holding several events over the next few weeks leading up to our big night, which will be a cocktail evening and silent auction fund raiser. Covenant House is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping street kids get off the street, through use of a program that gives continuing care instead of just a hot meal and a bed, then back out into the street.
It's pretty cool, so check out the website (and hey, if you want to buy tickets in support of our fundraiser, let me know!)
So, Thanksgiving has come and gone for another year; I hope you all had the chance to fill yourself with the turkey bird! THis year's celebrations were up in whistler, which was quite nice! there were nine of us for dinner, and we got stuffed! ...then, with the leftovers, we did it all again for lunch the next day :)
Okay, that's enough of that; I really have to get to the homework! have a great week!
October 3, 2005
happy birthday to meeeee... (belated!)
Well, October 2 has come and gone once more, which means my B-day has also come and gone. I turned 26 years old yesterday! ( Yes, journalism students, I realize this blog posting is already rife with CP style errors!) I was up in Kamloops for the occasion; the first time I have been with my family for my birthday since I don't even know when. In high school and in university, I was always away on a volleyball trip, and while living in Edmonton, I was...just... in Edmonton, which makes it a bit far to come home just for a birthday. Anyway, it was good times hanging out with the family! Kate's dad, Peter & his partner Allison, as well as Kate's brother Michael, all came to Kamloops on saturday night from Kelowna to join us for dinner, so that was nice! My sister-in-law, Dina, was also there. It's her Birthday on oct. 6, so this was a duel celebration!
Highlights of the weekend: got a new hacksaw! Got a new power sander! got some new dvd's! Got a new housecoat! some of those were presents, some of it was bought by me. either way, I got stuff. yipee!
There was plenty of wildlife to be seen / heard this weekend. Coyotes tried to make lunch out of the neighbour's dog while we were all walking in the woods (we scared them away and reeled in the dog before they could actually lay a paw on the pooch, though!), and a black bear came a-wanderin' through some of the properties out the back of our house. I tried to get his/her attention (you know, for a photo op...), but he/she paid no attention. Too busy looking for food / garbage or something like that. The / A bear as already picked the neighbourhood clean, though. My mum & dad were silly enough to leave to bags of plums on the front step of the house to keep cool. They disappeared, as did some bird seed. You only make that mistake once, then all the food gets put out of reach :)
so that's about it! we arrived back to vancouver last night, and this weekend coming up, we'll be headed up to Whistler for Thanksgiving weekend! TTFN!
to end off, my quote for the post!
"I'm not 26 years old, I'm 18 years old with eight years experience!"
Highlights of the weekend: got a new hacksaw! Got a new power sander! got some new dvd's! Got a new housecoat! some of those were presents, some of it was bought by me. either way, I got stuff. yipee!
There was plenty of wildlife to be seen / heard this weekend. Coyotes tried to make lunch out of the neighbour's dog while we were all walking in the woods (we scared them away and reeled in the dog before they could actually lay a paw on the pooch, though!), and a black bear came a-wanderin' through some of the properties out the back of our house. I tried to get his/her attention (you know, for a photo op...), but he/she paid no attention. Too busy looking for food / garbage or something like that. The / A bear as already picked the neighbourhood clean, though. My mum & dad were silly enough to leave to bags of plums on the front step of the house to keep cool. They disappeared, as did some bird seed. You only make that mistake once, then all the food gets put out of reach :)
so that's about it! we arrived back to vancouver last night, and this weekend coming up, we'll be headed up to Whistler for Thanksgiving weekend! TTFN!
to end off, my quote for the post!
"I'm not 26 years old, I'm 18 years old with eight years experience!"
September 26, 2005
killing time before class...
I have fourty minutes until my evening class starts, so I think I'll update the ol' blog!
so, did everyone get out to / donate to Terry Fox last weekend? Yes? you did? good. :0)
It's my birthday coming up next weekend! the big 26 this year. Kate and I are likely going to head up to Kamloops to hang around with the folks. My sister in-law has her Birthday on Oct. 6th, so I think we're going to do some sort of combined birthday dinner thingy, which should be good! Since I have no classes on Fridays--nor does Kate on a regular basis--we should be able to leave earlyish that day, so as to get a few quality days out of the trip. It sucks to drive for hours, then not really have the time to hang out very long at your destination. It also sucks to pay 114.9 a litre for the gas to get you there and back, so definitely the longer you can stay and enjoy, the better!
Did a bit of roofing on the weekend; just some patch work that has been ongoing. Luckily it's nice and warm out these days with no rain, so the idea is to get all the work done before our house springs a leak :0) other than painting some siding that needed replacing, we're all up to speed!
Other than roofing, there were a few social opportunities. friday night was a gathering at Dominique and Jim's house. Dom is a classmate of Kate's. I stuffed myself on all sorts of goodies and had a broad mixture of spirits which were kindly provided by the hosts. I had Pisco for the first time, a Peruvian spirit made out of grapes. Not wine, and a heck of a lot more like liquid fire, if I do say so myself.
Saturday, a fellow that Kate had gone to Oxford with was in town. He has been living aboard a boat for the last seven months as part of a Quicksilver-sponsored sort of world tour. there are a bunch of guys on board this 73-footer, and they have been cruising around in search of unsurfed territory.
Yep, that's right, it's their job.
Bob was(the tour just ended for him on sunday) the ship's scientist. Amidst surfing for seven months, he performed checks on the health of the reefs that they found. sounds like there was a lot more surfing going on than science, but whatever. The point of all of this is that Quicksilver put on a party in Vancouver this past weekend, and we went in to soak in a few free drinks and listen to see how many people at this party we could hear saying "Bro" and "dude"...
...we lost count at 40 million.
It was wall to wall surfers and boarders. All totally pissed, all hugging each other saying "I love you Bro!" etc, etc.
anywho, that is the bulk of any news that's fit to print, and it's round about time to go to class. blah.
peace out! I love all you bro's out there. and dudes too. and dudettes. and... awww, shut it, stoo.
so, did everyone get out to / donate to Terry Fox last weekend? Yes? you did? good. :0)
It's my birthday coming up next weekend! the big 26 this year. Kate and I are likely going to head up to Kamloops to hang around with the folks. My sister in-law has her Birthday on Oct. 6th, so I think we're going to do some sort of combined birthday dinner thingy, which should be good! Since I have no classes on Fridays--nor does Kate on a regular basis--we should be able to leave earlyish that day, so as to get a few quality days out of the trip. It sucks to drive for hours, then not really have the time to hang out very long at your destination. It also sucks to pay 114.9 a litre for the gas to get you there and back, so definitely the longer you can stay and enjoy, the better!
Did a bit of roofing on the weekend; just some patch work that has been ongoing. Luckily it's nice and warm out these days with no rain, so the idea is to get all the work done before our house springs a leak :0) other than painting some siding that needed replacing, we're all up to speed!
Other than roofing, there were a few social opportunities. friday night was a gathering at Dominique and Jim's house. Dom is a classmate of Kate's. I stuffed myself on all sorts of goodies and had a broad mixture of spirits which were kindly provided by the hosts. I had Pisco for the first time, a Peruvian spirit made out of grapes. Not wine, and a heck of a lot more like liquid fire, if I do say so myself.
Saturday, a fellow that Kate had gone to Oxford with was in town. He has been living aboard a boat for the last seven months as part of a Quicksilver-sponsored sort of world tour. there are a bunch of guys on board this 73-footer, and they have been cruising around in search of unsurfed territory.
Yep, that's right, it's their job.
Bob was(the tour just ended for him on sunday) the ship's scientist. Amidst surfing for seven months, he performed checks on the health of the reefs that they found. sounds like there was a lot more surfing going on than science, but whatever. The point of all of this is that Quicksilver put on a party in Vancouver this past weekend, and we went in to soak in a few free drinks and listen to see how many people at this party we could hear saying "Bro" and "dude"...
...we lost count at 40 million.
It was wall to wall surfers and boarders. All totally pissed, all hugging each other saying "I love you Bro!" etc, etc.
anywho, that is the bulk of any news that's fit to print, and it's round about time to go to class. blah.
peace out! I love all you bro's out there. and dudes too. and dudettes. and... awww, shut it, stoo.
September 15, 2005
Terry Fox, Engagements, school!
TERRY FOX!! this year marks the 25th anniversary of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope, and I think it's totally important that on sunday, September 18th, people find a way to show their support! either get out there and run, or donate some cash to the cause. Cancer is something that has an effect on us all, and it's so great that something like the Terry Fox run has continuosly been able to give so much money to so much different research.
Do you know that the type of cancer Terry had was osteogenic sarcoma(bone cancer)? When Terry was diagnosed, patients only had a 20% chance of survival. Nowadays, thanks to research, an osteogenic sarcoma patient has an 80% chance of survival. Pretty amazing! So get out your piggy banks!
I am particularly inspired to donate this year and do something about raising money for cancer research as my dad has had to take on fighting cancer himself, and lord knows that if I can do something to help other people's dads not have to go through what our family is just starting to go through, then it's totally worth it to just ask. Terry wanted all Canadians to donate just one dollar each to cancer research during his marathon of Hope. Maybe this year, you can do the same, and maybe more!
Go to https://www.terryfoxrun.org/english/donations/donate/default.asp?s=1 to do a donation using a credit card. It's easy, and it's worth it. I already did in honour of my dad, and for everyone else out there dealing with that nasty cancer bug!
"I'm not a dreamer, and I'm not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to.” --Terry Fox
And now, ON to lighter things!!!
It's been a few weeks since I wrote anything on this website, and as pretty much everyone in the free world is now aware, I got engaged to Kate during that time frame! I'm not sure that many people know how I proposed, but there have been requests to know, so here are "the deets"...
Kate was up at Whistler for the last week of August, and on Thursday aug 31st, I headed up after my work shift, as I had the next day off. Now, the standard practice while at Whistler is to get up in the morning at a comfortable hour ( 8,9,10, 11 am... whatever it may be for the day), and pile into Kate's mum's room to have morning tea, everyone piled on to the bed. Or as many as will fit comfortably.
I didn't bring a cup of tea in to the bedroom, but rather Kate's laptop, on which I had saved a powerpoint slideshow that I had been chipping away at for weeks. It was a whole 'the story of stu and kate' sort of thing, ever since we met as teenagers. At the end of it, it asked her to marry me (all set to music for that extra dramatic effect...). when it was over, I cracked out the ring--a band of white gold, with a tension-set amethyst, with one wee diamond on either side of the stone. I had been getting it made by a jeweller on granville island for a few weeks prior. And Kate likes it, thank goodness! (sorry, there are no photos of the ring yet, but maybe sometime!). If yu really want to see the slideshow, I can maybe email it. It's a big file though, and you won't get the music!)
so that's basically that! we're going to have the ceremony and partay on December 30th here in Vancouver!
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school is back in session, and I am now into the final year of my journalism degree, minoring in PR. there was some initial worry that I wouldn't be able to pick up some of the course until fall 2006 / spring 2007, but I did enough begging and yelling to get that sorted out, so this will be my final year!! hurray! Some of the classes seem like snoozers--take 'Advanced Editing', for example. Gah? does this seem like an exciting topic to ANYONE? oh well, it must be done... thankfully, I have Friday's off as well as much of thursday, so it's a relatively short week. It's also a relatively shrot semester for many course I am in, as a work term occupies the better part of November, and a week of December. I have credit for the work I did this sumer though, so I just get five weeks off of class! Giddyup!!!! the PR will still have to be done, as well as the english course I am taking, but that's it. Suh-weet, I say!
Do you know that the type of cancer Terry had was osteogenic sarcoma(bone cancer)? When Terry was diagnosed, patients only had a 20% chance of survival. Nowadays, thanks to research, an osteogenic sarcoma patient has an 80% chance of survival. Pretty amazing! So get out your piggy banks!
I am particularly inspired to donate this year and do something about raising money for cancer research as my dad has had to take on fighting cancer himself, and lord knows that if I can do something to help other people's dads not have to go through what our family is just starting to go through, then it's totally worth it to just ask. Terry wanted all Canadians to donate just one dollar each to cancer research during his marathon of Hope. Maybe this year, you can do the same, and maybe more!
Go to https://www.terryfoxrun.org/english/donations/donate/default.asp?s=1 to do a donation using a credit card. It's easy, and it's worth it. I already did in honour of my dad, and for everyone else out there dealing with that nasty cancer bug!
"I'm not a dreamer, and I'm not saying this will initiate any kind of definitive answer or cure to cancer, but I believe in miracles. I have to.” --Terry Fox
And now, ON to lighter things!!!
It's been a few weeks since I wrote anything on this website, and as pretty much everyone in the free world is now aware, I got engaged to Kate during that time frame! I'm not sure that many people know how I proposed, but there have been requests to know, so here are "the deets"...
Kate was up at Whistler for the last week of August, and on Thursday aug 31st, I headed up after my work shift, as I had the next day off. Now, the standard practice while at Whistler is to get up in the morning at a comfortable hour ( 8,9,10, 11 am... whatever it may be for the day), and pile into Kate's mum's room to have morning tea, everyone piled on to the bed. Or as many as will fit comfortably.
I didn't bring a cup of tea in to the bedroom, but rather Kate's laptop, on which I had saved a powerpoint slideshow that I had been chipping away at for weeks. It was a whole 'the story of stu and kate' sort of thing, ever since we met as teenagers. At the end of it, it asked her to marry me (all set to music for that extra dramatic effect...). when it was over, I cracked out the ring--a band of white gold, with a tension-set amethyst, with one wee diamond on either side of the stone. I had been getting it made by a jeweller on granville island for a few weeks prior. And Kate likes it, thank goodness! (sorry, there are no photos of the ring yet, but maybe sometime!). If yu really want to see the slideshow, I can maybe email it. It's a big file though, and you won't get the music!)
so that's basically that! we're going to have the ceremony and partay on December 30th here in Vancouver!
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school is back in session, and I am now into the final year of my journalism degree, minoring in PR. there was some initial worry that I wouldn't be able to pick up some of the course until fall 2006 / spring 2007, but I did enough begging and yelling to get that sorted out, so this will be my final year!! hurray! Some of the classes seem like snoozers--take 'Advanced Editing', for example. Gah? does this seem like an exciting topic to ANYONE? oh well, it must be done... thankfully, I have Friday's off as well as much of thursday, so it's a relatively short week. It's also a relatively shrot semester for many course I am in, as a work term occupies the better part of November, and a week of December. I have credit for the work I did this sumer though, so I just get five weeks off of class! Giddyup!!!! the PR will still have to be done, as well as the english course I am taking, but that's it. Suh-weet, I say!
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