Boxing Day: The Preperation

So Christmas is around the corner (about 2 and a half weeks away!) any my gift shopping is almost complete, hoping to complete it this weekend. But after Christmas comes Boxing Day for us Canucks and its the time of the year where we go insane with sales at stores that we spend even more money than we spent before Christmas!

I am one of those people... well sort of... hehe.

I plan on being outside of the Best Buy near me at 3am with 4 or 5 of my friends, waiting in the nice chilly cold to go into Best Buy and buy items that are all on sale... mostly hehe.

Last year I went with only plans on buying a hard drive for my PS2 and a wireless router.

This year I've been making more plans as to what I want to look for/buy.

Originally I was planning on buying a nice 50" DLP Projection TV but after some number crunching and looking at what Best Buy had to offer (at least on their floor) I decided to wait until closer to Boxing Day to see what the price drop would be. Thus, I am now creating an alternate list of items I would like to purchase (and in about 5 minutes of writing it the cost was about $400 hehe)

If my plan falls through of buying a nice TV then my alternate list will be more than enough to make me feel giddy hehe.

Can't wait for Boxing Day!

Wee for the Wii!

Well, I was going to go for a nice nature walk this weekend... but luck was definitely on my side during Saturday.

This is how my weekend went:

After being bummed out on Friday morning running around (during work I might add) looking for a Wii that Best Buy said they had, I found out they handed out tickets at 8am... well boo for that... So I went back to work semi-upset but decided I would get the system on Boxing Day.

Friday evening had Dan, Ashley and myself playing Xbox 360 games until 10ish and I played some Final Fantasy XII until about 2am-ish and then went to sleep.

Saturday... heh... Saturday I woke up and played more Final Fantasy XII. I was talking to Dan and he asked if I was going to go with him to the airport to get his dad with him. I agreed cause he didn't really know where to go and I did. I asked if we could go to the EBGames before heading out and he say sure.
So we head to the EBGames and as I'm buying my Final Fantasy III for my DS the manager asks Dan and myself if we want Wii's. Dan and I look at eachother and say 'Yes!'. So we got two tickets to get in line for the Wii, Dan with #10 and myself at #11.
Eagerly waiting for the Wii shipment to come in (took about 10 mins) we saw the boxes roll by and the manager went to the back to get them. Out he then came carrying boxes of beautiful Wii's and announcing that they only had 11 instock. I did a victory cheer as the guy infront of Dan and I asked if I was number 11 and, gleefully, I nodded.

So after $520 later I have a Wii with The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and an extra Remote Control and Nunchuk Control in Dans back seat of his car as we are crusing to the airport to get his dad all the while talking about the Wii.

Needless to say this made my Saturday an amazing one.

After dropping of his dad and home, Dan and I went to Blockbuster to pick up Redsteel (Dan wanted to try it out) and then headed to my place to play with our Wii's.

Took about 15 - 20 minutes to set up the system but once I got it turned on I was happy like a fat kid in a candy store!

The Mii channel is one of my favourite channels. I always send my friends to that channel first to create a virtual version of themselves to play in Wiisports with.

Speaking of WiiSports, it has to be currently my favourite game just after Zelda. Playing Tennis, Bowling and Golf with 4 friends is so much fun! And Boxing is a blast when fighting a friend (as long as you make your Mii characters look like yourself, it just like beating the crap out of your friends!).

Anyways, I'll stop boring you with my Wii-mania hub-bub.

Saturday night I stayed up till 3am playing Zelda and then got up again at 6am to go to breakfast with Dan and Dave (Dave got off work at 6am, sucker :P) After breakfast we played Wii until 10pm... hehe... just a bit addicted no?

All I can say is the Wii is so far the most addicting video game console system right out of the box out of the 3 Next Gen systems due to WiiSports and the creativity of the WiiRemote and motion-sensing. I think Nintendo has done something amazing with this system and I will be playing it for sometime to come as long as the games are as interactive and entertaining like the current launch games.

Now I better get back to work... if I have any work to do... heh and since my arms are still sore from the weekend of playing Wii that typing makes them hurt hehehe.

If you're wanting a fun system for the holidays, get a Nintendo Wii!

The Past, the Present and the Future

So it's been quite some times since I last posted anything... I've been rather busy... but not that busy that I couldnt update my blog... I just kinda forgot about updating it hehe... oops!

So heres a new update finally!

The holidays are coming! Have you started your gift shopping yet? I'm about half done hehe, just need to get something for my mother and sister. Wee! hehe no shopping chaos for me... yet...

I am planning a New Years party that will be incorporating a gift exchange of sorts. It should be fun! Hoping to have a Nintendo Wii by then... so should have tried to pre-order one before they came out... damnit... hehe.

Went to Bobcaygeon this weekend past, it was really really fun and relaxing! I wish I could do that again sometime soon... who knows... hehe. Thanks for the shelter Lisa! It was a blast to go. Should do it again sometime next year!

Also went to a Magic Show out in Vaughn. My friend was in it so he got us in for free. It was fun but nothing too spectacular. It was held at the Dave and Buster's so while we were waiting for the show we were walking around. Might go back there someday and play some games hehe.

Nothing much else has happened other than that really... haven't been taking many pictures since Im waiting for the snow to finally fall and stay on the ground heh...

Oh! I finally have been promoted at my work after 3 years of work on and off... hehe almost a year of full-time work now but about 2 years of part-time during college and before, but now I am officially apart of the IT department which now consists of 2 people... my friend who is now my manager and myself! Yay! hehehe. Although it's been a week and I still don't know what my salary is... or how much vacation I get... hopefully by Monday next week I'll know.

Going to an Animecon on the 3rd of December downtown. Free admission so it is going to be worth going hehe. Don't know how big it will be...

This weekend looks very promising! Temperatures in the 10+ celsius woo! Might take some walks along the trails and take some pictures... we'll see... hehe.

Off I go!

- Life is suppose to be fun! The second is becomes tedious is the second you miss out. Don't stand there staring at the door... walk on through!

A new year ahead of me...

As of Oct 1st I turned 22... getting old... hehehe. A new year ahead of me with so many choices, chances, events and enjoyment to be had.

Went to Gabs' Cabare thing... have no idea how to spell it properly and don't really care hehe.
It was rather good, Gabs did very very well as wel las Megan. the different chior groups were really good sounding and the snacks were good too hehe. Only bad part was the amount of showtunes... ugh... hehe.

Not much else has happened. Last night went to dinner with Gabs, Dan, Cabs, Pie and Ash for Gabs' birthday. Was fun to see Gabs with a viking helmet on while the staff sang happy birthday :P hehehe.

Today I'm stuck out in Mississauga until 9ish tonight... After work I'm going to a co-workers for dinner with most of work invited, heh. Should be fun, kinda sucks that my camera batteries died this morning...
Hoping to leave by 7:30 - 8 at the latest so that I can possibly get home to see Ash before I need to sleep for work again tomorrow...

Thanksgiving weekend approaches, family dining at my house with some of the family. Should be fun since I can introduce Ash to some of my family that actually come heh.
Other than the good food, I like the Thanksgiving weekend for the fact I get Monday off paid, hehe.

Not much else to talk about. Check out my new photographs on http://zeonite.deviantart.com

DeviantArt and Marriage

Small update.
Set up my own deviantArt section with some of my photographs :D http://zeonite.deviantart.com if you are interested to look at it :) Ill be posting a lot more pictures there, only specific ones will end up here to go with the postings :)

Thursday night I met a majority of Ashley's family. Fun and down to earth bunch :) Had a very fun time there :) Chatting with them all, eatting an awesome variety of food at the buffet they made and enjoying the night with Ashley and her family :)

Saturday I have my poker game and Ashley is busy at her mother's wedding... she says she will text my cell through-out the day hehehe good luck ;)

I'm hoping to win at poker that night so I can have extra money to spend on whatever I feel like :)

That is all for now, will update later on about my winnings (or losings) at poker and what I buy at the flea market on Sunday :) hehe.

What the future holds

So it is now the middle of the week, and I am anxiously awaiting this weekend :)
Last weekend was really fun, the walks Pie, Ash and I went on were really fun and I got some good pictures. I went for another walk last night with Ash along the boardwalk and got some more pictures, probably won't get around to posting them until tomorrow night... maybe.
Going out again tonight when I get home with Ash to take more pictures and then hang out with our friend Gabs.
Tomorrow I get to meet most of Ashley's family :) They are doing the wedding rehearsal and I was invite for dinner :) Ash is kinda dreading seeing some of her family but I'm sure it will be a fun time. Her step-father and her mother have already proven to be the joking types :)
Friday night will be a short night for me. Ash is required to be home early so she can be rested for her mothers wedding on Saturday.
Saturday night I'm hosting a poker game at my place. A friend of mine who used to work at my workplace and his brother are coming out, along with a few of my friends. Should be fun... if I win hehehehe :P
Later on Saturday night I'm going out to pick up Ash and Pie from the Old Mill Hotel after the wedding (Pie can't get the car so I am offering the ride home :P) and then we're going over to Ashley's house since she will have it to herself :D Should be a fun time.
Sunday Ash and I are planning on going to the Flea Market, see what stuff is there. I haven't been to the Flea Market since it moved to its new location, so it should be interesting to see what has changed, left, and been added.
Monday I'm going walking around town to post my PBTech ads and see if I can get some kind of business started up, even though word-of-mouth has been going quite well thus far.

That is my weekend. Ill be sure to take more pictures and post them before the weekend comes to an end.

A hiking we will go!

So this past weekend I went on a couple walks with my friend Pieter and my girlfriend Ashley. Brought my camera along with me :) After such a long wait before I finally got some pictures, here they are for your viewing pleasure:















Some of them aren't the greatest but they came out ok :)

Once fall fully sets in I will have really nice fall pictures to post up :)
Can't wait!

Will have another post later talking about the weekend and things to come later this week.