The last night alone!

Well, this is it!


My adventure in Edmundston, Grand Falls & Saint-Leonard is almost over! Tonight is the last night that I spend by myself for ever! We have decided that we are never going to do this again! Althought it has brough Allison & I closer together, with a baby on the way, this is not a life to live!

It was really weird giving back my gear to the FD & stuff like that. I think that being part of a 100% volunteer force & having experience from "big city" FD has given me a new appreciation of this job. The volunteers really take care of everything for themselves.

Anyways, back to the subject at hand! ALONE NO MORE!

It's so exciting - in 35hrs, we are going to be home owners again! That's unreal! I can't wait! Well, everything except the stupid payments! LOL

It's going to be fun to be able to make something my own again. To be able to paint a nursery and to be able to make my office the way that I really want it. The only thing that I don't like is the moving! That part I could do without. I always said that the next time that I was moving, the bank was going to do it for me! I guess not.... Should have known better!

Oh well. This is an opportunity to be with my wife & to be a father-to-be! Allison said that I'm not going to recognize her when I see her. Apparently, she has really "popped". I can't wait! I hope that our pregnancy goes without a hitch & that we have a very smooth birth! I'm sure that everything will be perfect; however, living through what Eric & Sylvie have gone through, I guess that it just puts everything into perspective!

Living in this community has certainly given me a ton of new friends. I'm really happy that I am going to continue to be in the Northern NB Market & be able to see everyone at the Area Celebration in October. I hope that they have something fun planned again. Last year it was Academy Awards & the year before that it was Countries of the World. Wait & see I guess.

Well, it's now 2am and I should really be getting to bed! I'm sure that I'm going to have a crazy busy day tomorrow - considering that I will be having supper in Grand Falls & then heading down to Moncton to be with my wife!

I will talk to everyone soon enough!

Bye for now and 'til next time!

What a fucking night!

I can't believe it!

I get home and watch a little tv. Well, I decide to go to bed & walk into the washroom & the floor is wet! I look up & the whole ceiling is starting to collapse.

I'm now super pissed because of the fact that it flooded the washroom - but it get worse.

I walk into the office & I have one missing ceiling tile & it's all over my printer and other stuff. I was beside myself. I didn't even know what to do..... but I knew that I wasn't going to do this by myself so, I called the landlord. Now, just to give you an idea, it's just past 1 am & he doesn't answer the first time, but I leave him a message.

I didnt' want to wait for a call back, so I hit redial and this time he answers. He sort of tried to brush it off & tell me that he's coming down in the morning and that he'd drop by then to see what's going on. I told him that from the looks of it, it seems like it's all coming down. He tells me that he's coming down.

I could tell that he didn't know what to do because he decided to wipe off all of the crap off of my printer, shredder & my whole tool box. I didn't get it, but I guess I appreaciated the help.

Now, it's 4am, I'm wide awake - sort of & I have no office or even client files right now.... I'm looking at another day lost of work because of the clean up. This is not going to be fun! I hope that this shit cleans up easily! Oh well, mop & bucket it is....

I'm not sure what I'm going to do! I'm sure that I'll figure it out! Like always!

Well, I'll post something when I'm all done & let you know what happened.

'til next time!

The best Concert

I'm a bit slow - I know! LOL


Anyways, Allison & I went to the INXS concert on Monday night. Man was it awesome! I've got some pics that you'll see below - wasn't supposed to have a camera in the concert - the guy a row up was told to get put it away. But I was able to sneak a couple of pics......









I know that we are far away, but I originally thought that these seats where pretty good, but we where next to a doorway! That part sucked!

Well - that's it for now!

The word is out!!!

Well, it's official - We are expecting a new addition to our family!

A BABY!!!

Isn't that crazy! My mom thought so! LOL She said words that she doesn't remember saying.... bad words... She also said that she's going to have to change her vocabulary! That's kinda funny!

The other great news is that we bought a house! We are really happy about that one too! I can't wait to move back to Dieppe. I'm planning on joining the Dieppe Fire Department again & i also found out on monday that the Moncton Fire Department is hiring. I'm kinda hoping that I get in, but then the money situation will be really really really tight. If memory serves me right, the starting salary will on probation is only $30k or so.... Kinda scary, but hey! It's what i want to do!



Talking about Moncton Fire Department and the Dieppe Fire Department, we recently (last year) lost 2 members of the Fire Department.
Pierre Hache passed away last year. He was a devoted Firefighter. I really enjoyed learning from him. He was always helpful & always willing to teach anyone who listenend. He had gone around the province taking pictures of the different fire halls & things like that. He even purchased Dieppe's old Ladder truck for his personal collection.

Another Dieppe Firefighter that passed away was Rene Gauvin. He & his wife had been involved with the FD for a very very long time.

They will both be missed!

So, back to a more positive talk.... We are pregnant! LOL

I am very very excited! I hope that we have a girl! I want a girl. But apparently it's the male comozone that controls that, but i'll keep my fingers crossed....

Well, i think that's all that I have to share right now! I'll keep you posted on our progress. BTW - we have 8 weeks almost completed!

'til next time!

Joel