Things are so busy getting ready for weddings! :) But Pamela and I are doing o.k. we have our Photographer, reception, ceremony, caterers, honeymoon all booked. We're almost done the invitations and have our registry finished. We're feeling pretty good!
Aside from that I am just going a little bit insane with school, I just finished a paper for Philosophy of Mind in which I detailed how our language pre-disposes us towards Substance Dualism theory. Interesting and I enjoyed writing the paper, but it took a lot of time. I've got an insane packaging assignment due on tuesday for my New Media class, and two midterms next week. It just never seems like it is going to stop! But then I remember there is just 8 weeks left of school, which menas 16 school days for me and I'm all done which is great.
Speaking of being all done at this point it looks like I am not going to be going back to school next year. I think that Pamela and I are going to be taking the first year of our marriage to try to work, try and get a little bit established and maybe get some money in the bank. Actually have time to work on developing our community here! But yah later~
dREW~
Friday, February 29, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Thursday, February 14, 2008
It's been a busy week, and you can pray for me if you like! Monday I worked until midnight, was up for school at 8:00 and did school until 4:20 after which I did Chiro and then Pamela came over and ended up being awake till midnight again. Then i worked a 6:00 a.m. shift on Wednesday and the rest of the day was filled with swimming and errands and stuff. Got to bed at a decent hour but still only got at most 9 hours of sleep and so haven't really 'caught up' and then another full day of school today before heading off to calgary tomorrow after a shift to do a bunch of wedding stuff.
I think this feeling is called overwhelmed and my state is burnt out. It's o.k. I know it won't be forever but I'm really looking forward to this reading week and having some time to just relax, chill, not think, not reason, not carry...
I think this feeling is called overwhelmed and my state is burnt out. It's o.k. I know it won't be forever but I'm really looking forward to this reading week and having some time to just relax, chill, not think, not reason, not carry...
Friday, February 08, 2008
I'll admit, I am a little bit surprised. Working for McDonalds isn't sucking out my soul, it's actually given me a boost.
I'm not sure if it's not having to worry about money as much, the fact that I work with some hilarious people, or that it's a job I've picked up in 3 shifts and thus feel confident and accomplished, but overall we're doin good.
I'm not sure if it's not having to worry about money as much, the fact that I work with some hilarious people, or that it's a job I've picked up in 3 shifts and thus feel confident and accomplished, but overall we're doin good.
Saturday, February 02, 2008
First Day at Mcdonalds!
Welp, it's done and official, I've got the uniform, I've asked someone if they wanted 'fries with that' and I've used my 50% discount to have a 2 dollar meal. I'm a McDonalds employee.
Here's the layout of 'what you get' if your a McDonalds Employee.
$9.50 starting wage.
$.10 raise for each night available to work until midnight.
1 McDonalds Blue hat
2 McDonalds Blue shirts
2 McDonalds Black pants
Post Secondary Tuition assistance.
$.25 for every hour worked up to a maximum of 500 dollars.
So that's about it. It's honestly not to shabby given that I have a 4 minute walk to get to work (although kinda makes my bus pas a little pointless - that was 220 bucks I didn't need to spend) I'm getting the exact shifts that I want Mon-Wed-Fri mornings. The people are pretty cool.
So that's that, maybe post some pictures if I can get past the lump of pride... Talk to you all later.
Welp, it's done and official, I've got the uniform, I've asked someone if they wanted 'fries with that' and I've used my 50% discount to have a 2 dollar meal. I'm a McDonalds employee.
Here's the layout of 'what you get' if your a McDonalds Employee.
$9.50 starting wage.
$.10 raise for each night available to work until midnight.
1 McDonalds Blue hat
2 McDonalds Blue shirts
2 McDonalds Black pants
Post Secondary Tuition assistance.
$.25 for every hour worked up to a maximum of 500 dollars.
So that's about it. It's honestly not to shabby given that I have a 4 minute walk to get to work (although kinda makes my bus pas a little pointless - that was 220 bucks I didn't need to spend) I'm getting the exact shifts that I want Mon-Wed-Fri mornings. The people are pretty cool.
So that's that, maybe post some pictures if I can get past the lump of pride... Talk to you all later.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Friday, January 25, 2008
I'll have to supersize that...
So yeah, I've been hired at McDonalds... Not sure what job that I'm going to be doing, but as a university student who is getting married in the summer I needed to get a job thing going to get some money in that wedding fund.
Not sure how I'm feeling about working for a big terrible corporation. Feeling potentially a little dirty... will update you soon.
On the other hand, it will be interesting to see if all the things I learned about McDonalds in Sociology class. If nothing else I've always wanted to work in fast food a little bit and at a 7-11 a little bit.
So that's that, not sure how I feel! Later~
dREW~
So yeah, I've been hired at McDonalds... Not sure what job that I'm going to be doing, but as a university student who is getting married in the summer I needed to get a job thing going to get some money in that wedding fund.
Not sure how I'm feeling about working for a big terrible corporation. Feeling potentially a little dirty... will update you soon.
On the other hand, it will be interesting to see if all the things I learned about McDonalds in Sociology class. If nothing else I've always wanted to work in fast food a little bit and at a 7-11 a little bit.
So that's that, not sure how I feel! Later~
dREW~
Monday, January 21, 2008
I guess that I forgot to post on this topic. I'm actually engaged! :) It happened on January 12 at about 1:30 on a ski hill near where Pamela and I live. It maked the 2 years anniversary from the very first day that PAmela and I had ever hung out and it was the first time she had taken me snowboarding so it worked out well!
But yeah figured I'd put it out here for posterity! dREW~
But yeah figured I'd put it out here for posterity! dREW~
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
a day in the life of a dREW~
Sometimes i just think it's neat to hear exactly all the things that went on in a persons life in one day. Here's my current day.
Slept in toll about 10:00 because I don't have school on Wednesdays.
Showered and got ready to take on the world.
Worked on wedding guest list stuff, engagement announcement pdf, and figureing out how to bus down to the chiropractor.
Sent out engagement pdf.
Talked with my buddy Tobin about some stuff.
Hopped on a bus to the university.
Hopped on a bus to the city centre.
Walked to the Chiropractors office.
Chatted with a native guy d-town waiting for the Chiro to open.
Went to Leister's music and played a mini-djembe for 15 minutes.
Walked back to Chiro they were open now and got adjusted.
Walked to City Centre to hop a bus to the university.
Waiting at the university right know to catch a bus at 3:47
will go home, read like a mad man until having to leave for 7:15 reservations at Dionysius for Rodger's b-day party.
Will come home, play WOW with the boys for a while OR go to Pamela's house for a bit to cuddle and discuss wedding stuff.
Come home, write in my journal, sleep.
So yeah that's a day in the life of the Newly engaged dREW~
Slept in toll about 10:00 because I don't have school on Wednesdays.
Showered and got ready to take on the world.
Worked on wedding guest list stuff, engagement announcement pdf, and figureing out how to bus down to the chiropractor.
Sent out engagement pdf.
Talked with my buddy Tobin about some stuff.
Hopped on a bus to the university.
Hopped on a bus to the city centre.
Walked to the Chiropractors office.
Chatted with a native guy d-town waiting for the Chiro to open.
Went to Leister's music and played a mini-djembe for 15 minutes.
Walked back to Chiro they were open now and got adjusted.
Walked to City Centre to hop a bus to the university.
Waiting at the university right know to catch a bus at 3:47
will go home, read like a mad man until having to leave for 7:15 reservations at Dionysius for Rodger's b-day party.
Will come home, play WOW with the boys for a while OR go to Pamela's house for a bit to cuddle and discuss wedding stuff.
Come home, write in my journal, sleep.
So yeah that's a day in the life of the Newly engaged dREW~
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Being tired and trying to figure out the philosophy of mind is not a good idea! But basically this is what I've gleaned from Jaegwon Kim's "Philosophy of Mind" Second edition.
Theres basically two ways to look at it and most other things fall under these. Physicalism which says that all mental processes happen in the physical (Has mass, effected by gravity, exists in time) realm. Then theres this Dualism thing, which I'm getting Mr. Kim isn't a fan of, which says that mentality exists seperately from physicality.
So for Physicality we have this:
if X has a Mental Property (which we'll call M) and if X also has P (which is a physical property) Then it stands to reason that if X has P (physical property) then P has M (which is the mental property) So all Mental properties seem to emerge from physical properties, and the closer physical properties are together the closer then the mental properties of those physical objects will be. Whew - and believe me that's the simplified version.
When it comes to the Dualism part... I can't really say that I get it quite yet, although I feel like I agree with it more than I agree with Physicalism. I think it's probably b/c of my theological background that I'd like to think theres more than just this physical realm. But I'll keep ya'll updated if I discover some truth about Dualism
Aside from that I'm just ridiculous tired right know, pretty stressed out about school, and ready for some sleep!
dREW~
Theres basically two ways to look at it and most other things fall under these. Physicalism which says that all mental processes happen in the physical (Has mass, effected by gravity, exists in time) realm. Then theres this Dualism thing, which I'm getting Mr. Kim isn't a fan of, which says that mentality exists seperately from physicality.
So for Physicality we have this:
if X has a Mental Property (which we'll call M) and if X also has P (which is a physical property) Then it stands to reason that if X has P (physical property) then P has M (which is the mental property) So all Mental properties seem to emerge from physical properties, and the closer physical properties are together the closer then the mental properties of those physical objects will be. Whew - and believe me that's the simplified version.
When it comes to the Dualism part... I can't really say that I get it quite yet, although I feel like I agree with it more than I agree with Physicalism. I think it's probably b/c of my theological background that I'd like to think theres more than just this physical realm. But I'll keep ya'll updated if I discover some truth about Dualism
Aside from that I'm just ridiculous tired right know, pretty stressed out about school, and ready for some sleep!
dREW~
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Pawn shops are such a rip off.
So I go into a few music stores in lethbridge here today, and it turns out that none of them buy brass instruments. Which is sad b/c in an effort to help clean out my parents basement of their children's things I took my old Trombone from high school and figured I'd sell it. Someone may as well be using it right? So I ask my mum about what we payed for it and she figured somewhere between 400 and 600 so I'm thinking to myself o.k. so if I get like 200 bucks I'm doing fine.
But as i said before no one seemed to be willing to buy it so I ended up at King of Trade of have their 'were sort of a music store but mostly a pawn shop' ideals and I figured I'd see what I could get for it. I get up to the counter and theres this young guy at the counter and I'm going huh... this might be a bad idea. So I present the case to the guy and watch in pain as he fails to open it on the first try, attempts to pry the horn out of the case w/o undoing the latches and can't figure out how to open the storage for the slide grease. Then he's like 'well, we don't usually buy these but I'll look it up in the book'. Let's look at that statement - we don't USUALLY do this... but we've got a book that will tell us the price... huh.
O.k. so after he manages to find the trombone section he says to me this "we need to send away all instruments for cleaning at st.johns (music store in town) and that costs $40.00 and the closes one I can find to yours we buy for about $100.00 so I can give you $60.00. I'll admit I was caught a little bit off guard, I expected something lowball like 100 or 150 but... 60 bucks? So I said to the guy "I was looking at the trombones that you are selling over there that are like mine and they are going for $300.00 so can't you give me like 100 bucks for it? You'd still be making 160 on it right?" and his reply "well no if we are going to make a profit we can't go higher than $60.00 because we have to pay for it to get cleaned, have to drive up to Calgary (no idea what that was about), pay for the utilities in this place, pay my salary, and blah blah blah" - finally I just said "that's fine, I'll just put it on kijiji - or freecycle I'd feel less ripped off" and left.
So if I were to take this lesson literally what does it mean? It means that the pawn shop business must be TERRIBLE to get ahead in. If you purchase something for 60 bucks and sell it for 300 making 240 dollars you will 'apparently' JUST barely make a profit - You know b/c of all the trips to calgary and utilities...?! But then i saw that on that street there were 6 pawn shops and thought to myself oh wait... there just a rip off and that's all there is to it.
But as i said before no one seemed to be willing to buy it so I ended up at King of Trade of have their 'were sort of a music store but mostly a pawn shop' ideals and I figured I'd see what I could get for it. I get up to the counter and theres this young guy at the counter and I'm going huh... this might be a bad idea. So I present the case to the guy and watch in pain as he fails to open it on the first try, attempts to pry the horn out of the case w/o undoing the latches and can't figure out how to open the storage for the slide grease. Then he's like 'well, we don't usually buy these but I'll look it up in the book'. Let's look at that statement - we don't USUALLY do this... but we've got a book that will tell us the price... huh.
O.k. so after he manages to find the trombone section he says to me this "we need to send away all instruments for cleaning at st.johns (music store in town) and that costs $40.00 and the closes one I can find to yours we buy for about $100.00 so I can give you $60.00. I'll admit I was caught a little bit off guard, I expected something lowball like 100 or 150 but... 60 bucks? So I said to the guy "I was looking at the trombones that you are selling over there that are like mine and they are going for $300.00 so can't you give me like 100 bucks for it? You'd still be making 160 on it right?" and his reply "well no if we are going to make a profit we can't go higher than $60.00 because we have to pay for it to get cleaned, have to drive up to Calgary (no idea what that was about), pay for the utilities in this place, pay my salary, and blah blah blah" - finally I just said "that's fine, I'll just put it on kijiji - or freecycle I'd feel less ripped off" and left.
So if I were to take this lesson literally what does it mean? It means that the pawn shop business must be TERRIBLE to get ahead in. If you purchase something for 60 bucks and sell it for 300 making 240 dollars you will 'apparently' JUST barely make a profit - You know b/c of all the trips to calgary and utilities...?! But then i saw that on that street there were 6 pawn shops and thought to myself oh wait... there just a rip off and that's all there is to it.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Little x-mas something.
So not the tightest video I've ever made but something fun to send out to people. Should be one of Pamela and My trip to Fernie soon!
dREW~
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Classes are done!
Welp, that is the final test done and I'm now good to go! Anyway this holiday season is shaping up to be pretty awesome. I've got 4 snowboarding days planned so far between now and x-mas, and from there things are shaping up to be good.
So far looks like next semester will be tues and thurs classes only which is great, and aside from that having to find a job to support myself!
Anyway I'm going to do some relaxing now so we will talk to you all LATER!
dREW~
So far looks like next semester will be tues and thurs classes only which is great, and aside from that having to find a job to support myself!
Anyway I'm going to do some relaxing now so we will talk to you all LATER!
dREW~
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Been a while.
Well I figured that I'd just write a little thing on the end of the semester which is coming up. I'm doing well in most of my classes and am pretty sure that I'll be pulling of a B+ or A- average at least.
I'd have to say that I've enjoyed this first semester of university quite a bit. I've made some good friends, and really gotten a bit of a feel for what this whole University thing is really about. Now that being said am I sure that I'm going to do 8 years of school? Nope. There are a few things that I am seeing though.
I should not be at the U of L if I want to take clinical psychology (the psych that deals with people rather than just their brains) because the programs here are very limited in that respect. This means that If I'm going to want to go the direction of being a counsellor that I'm going to have to either transfer somewhere else - or I'm going to have to look into a Psych-Ed thing that I don't know much about at this point. -- of course this all presupposes that i'm still wanting to go towards the whole psych thing still. I'm really enjoying my Philosophy classes and finding that they are the most interesting, and the ones that are seeming to have a more profound impact on my life than any of the other ones. Most of my other classes. (psych and sociology) I'm finding interesting but not neccesarily passion inducing. Sociology is good but then again it's a lot about doing surveys, and hanging out with people, and then writing a paper that you hope people will read that will effect the way that a culture, subgroup, or deviance is defined. Do I want to dedicate my life to doing that... I'm not sure.
So at this point I'm going allright... well I'll take one more semester to try out a few more things and to get a better idea of what is going on with this Uni thing. See if anything else really peaks my interest. I'm looking at the car dealership as more of a viable option now given that it seems to be about as fulfilling as some of the things that i'm learning to do here at the university... if considered a little less "classy". Having Pamela around would make that job a lot more exciting as well.
So yeah nothing to life shaking. Loving being in lethbridge hooked up with a church that I like, with a girl that I love, and I'm getting by. (although a job is definitely not optional for next semeseter.) But I'm feeling good overall and enjoying the life that I'm living so what more can I really ask for right?
Anyway blessings and peace as we come up to the X-mas season on all of you!
dREW~
I'd have to say that I've enjoyed this first semester of university quite a bit. I've made some good friends, and really gotten a bit of a feel for what this whole University thing is really about. Now that being said am I sure that I'm going to do 8 years of school? Nope. There are a few things that I am seeing though.
I should not be at the U of L if I want to take clinical psychology (the psych that deals with people rather than just their brains) because the programs here are very limited in that respect. This means that If I'm going to want to go the direction of being a counsellor that I'm going to have to either transfer somewhere else - or I'm going to have to look into a Psych-Ed thing that I don't know much about at this point. -- of course this all presupposes that i'm still wanting to go towards the whole psych thing still. I'm really enjoying my Philosophy classes and finding that they are the most interesting, and the ones that are seeming to have a more profound impact on my life than any of the other ones. Most of my other classes. (psych and sociology) I'm finding interesting but not neccesarily passion inducing. Sociology is good but then again it's a lot about doing surveys, and hanging out with people, and then writing a paper that you hope people will read that will effect the way that a culture, subgroup, or deviance is defined. Do I want to dedicate my life to doing that... I'm not sure.
So at this point I'm going allright... well I'll take one more semester to try out a few more things and to get a better idea of what is going on with this Uni thing. See if anything else really peaks my interest. I'm looking at the car dealership as more of a viable option now given that it seems to be about as fulfilling as some of the things that i'm learning to do here at the university... if considered a little less "classy". Having Pamela around would make that job a lot more exciting as well.
So yeah nothing to life shaking. Loving being in lethbridge hooked up with a church that I like, with a girl that I love, and I'm getting by. (although a job is definitely not optional for next semeseter.) But I'm feeling good overall and enjoying the life that I'm living so what more can I really ask for right?
Anyway blessings and peace as we come up to the X-mas season on all of you!
dREW~
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
The natural lull in intensity???
Well, I've been a university student coming up on 2 months now. It's been a good time so far! Although it's funny b/c I was pretty stressed out about tests the first time around, but this time around with my second set of exams coming up it's not nearly as big a thing... I'm not sure if it's just because I felt a little more solid about what went on in this second section, or if I'm sstarting to relax and be a little more content with good if not great marks.
But overall I'm sitting at a really quite decent mark, and maybe having established that I can do it i'm not worried. I dunno. Really I am just feelingl ike it's been a while since I've blogged and so figuedI should do something on here.
On a really exciting note my girlfriend of6 monthshas moved to the city where I lived. That's been fantastic getting to see her everyday, helping her move in. She's really quite wonderful!!!
Overall pretty much life is dang fantastic! - although I still need to win that lottery otherwise I will have to show up on friday for the midnight shift I've got... Oh well...
dREW Out@
But overall I'm sitting at a really quite decent mark, and maybe having established that I can do it i'm not worried. I dunno. Really I am just feelingl ike it's been a while since I've blogged and so figuedI should do something on here.
On a really exciting note my girlfriend of6 monthshas moved to the city where I lived. That's been fantastic getting to see her everyday, helping her move in. She's really quite wonderful!!!
Overall pretty much life is dang fantastic! - although I still need to win that lottery otherwise I will have to show up on friday for the midnight shift I've got... Oh well...
dREW Out@
Friday, October 26, 2007
I found this absolutely stunning!
Pornography is a rampant form of mass media in our society today. For something that is not brought up in public because it is shameful it is probably responsible for 90% or more of the 'sexual education' that most people receive. It is considered to be a 'normal' part of many marriages, and an addiction for men of all ages.
Shelley Lubben used to be a porn star, you could probably still find her on the internet somewhere. Well she's out of the businesss now, and faith aside her story is amazing because it's a real behind the scene look at what exactly is going on when the camera isn't turned on.
http://www.shelleylubben.com/index.php?truth=home
Shelley Lubben used to be a porn star, you could probably still find her on the internet somewhere. Well she's out of the businesss now, and faith aside her story is amazing because it's a real behind the scene look at what exactly is going on when the camera isn't turned on.
http://www.shelleylubben.com/index.php?truth=home
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