Things are going pretty good these days. Slowly getting figured out at work — my new job. It’s a pretty cool job but a steep learning curve. However, my two bosses seem pretty comfortable with giving me the responsibilities. Maybe I just need to have more faith in myself.

It does make me feel good though [...]

Hey folks,

Well, this wasn’t exactly the kind of first update I wanted to give. However, it is what it is.

First week of basic was going okay. I failed my first PT xpress test by one push-up, which sucks. We had a chance to re-do the test on the Friday but Thursday I had injured myself [...]

Had my official swearing-in ceremony today! It’s official, I’m a Private! …. well, a private with an (R) beside it meaning, recruit. When BMQ is done, that’ll be removed but - still! I’m a private!

Who woulda thunk a year ago I would ever be here? Around this time I was waiting, waiting, waiting for my [...]

Exhausted. I’ve spent the whole weekend so far working on my freelance work and now it’s begun to rain and is all dreary and blech. It’s one of those Sunday mornings where you kind of wish you could just sleep all day nestled on a warm bed or couch, watching your favourite movie or something…

Alas, [...]

Four weeks from now I will be driving down a highway passing through my old communities waving good-bye to my family along the way and heading to Quebec and finding myself at the Saint-Jean megaplex fortress where I’ll be walking through The Green Door.

The Green Door is where all new recruits to Saint-Jean pass through [...]

Tonight I had the chance to gather with some friends after an evening of band practise. Out of the ten there, three are on their way to basic training. It was awesome in that the three of us could talk about our excitement. It was exciting to have a conversation with others who share the same [...]

Today was a helter-skelter day. All over the place with regards to where I needed to be. By the end of the day, I really did NOT want to go to the gym. But I did. I didn’t go for long though, just long enough to go for a 2.4 km run on the treadmill.

Just [...]

I’m writing this entry at 1:30 in the morning and so it is technically only 69 days until I leave for basic training. That number is moving awfully fast now towards something that is scary and exciting all at once!

The past few days, I haven’t had much of “workouts” per se. This was intentional however [...]

Today it is a beautiful day outside and I’m stuck inside a library where I am trying to quickly type out my last assignment for this session. Somewhere between today and Wednesday I have to type a 10-page paper, read about 200 pages of text and somehow, study for an exam.

I realise now how little [...]

My lifeguarding exam is coming up very, very soon. I haven’t swam much in the past month and by last class I was beginning to feel it. Swimming went to the wayside as soon as school started because there’s only so many hours in the day and your “free” hours don’t always match up to [...]