Nearly a month since my last blog post. No biggie... well... actually it kinda is since I don't seem to remember much of what I did in January. My last post was on the 7th, I left to Calgary on the 19th. So that leaves 12 days that I'm pretty sure consisted of nothing more than going to work and studying for my first aid. I remember there was a power outage one night. That's about all I remember though!

So yeah, headed to Calgary on the 19th, went to Banff on the 20th. Stayed at the RimRock which was a nice hotel, though I was expecting a bit more. The room was nice, but the bed was harder than a rock. I didn't sleep too well, I don't think Lindsey did either.

Had dinner with her dad/bro at a Mexican place then went to watch Brad's soccer game. Was a nice relaxing night full of laughs. The next day we had breakfast club so went out for brunch with a bunch of people. Went to the mall and wandered around to burn off the brunch. (I had eggs benny, she had banana fosters waffles - AMAZING). Then headed to her moms place for dinner. Was good to see her family again. I think they approve of me and it's great seeing them and talking with them.

The week, as far as I remember, we didn't get up to too much. She worked and I studied. The evenings were fairly low key. Usually just dinner then watched tv/movies.

Saturday we went to the Keg for dinner then headed over to Melrose which is like.. a bar/restaurant. Met up with a few people from twitter while there and stayed there till 1:30ish or so. Was good times, good company and good music.

Last day I was there, we drove down south since I had to go to the fire hall to drop off my personal history statement, immunization records, drivers abstract, background check, high school ged, college transcripts, first aid stuff etc. etc. Suppose to be a couple weeks before I hear back from them. Will be interesting to see what happens with that.

Flew home, and had quite a delay with Westjet so didn't get back to my house till 12:30am or so. Was up at 7am to start my level 3 first aid. It's a two week course, I'm now one week in... pretty intense. Was pretty much what I was expecting, but at the same time there are so many small things that have to be done, if you don't do them during the exam, you fail the course. Lots of pressure to do well, don't feel like spending another $850 to try again. So I have to keep my head in it and make sure I do a good job. Though packaging someone onto a spine board in 5:30 when the estimated time is 15:00 makes me a bit more comfortable with everything. But still a lot more to learn.

Will probably write a blog post once I take my practical/written and go through everything and talk about all the classes and the exams and such.

This weekend, had Matt over, his sis came by to watch the Canucks game... relaxing tonight. Tomorrow is super bowl Sunday so having some people over for the game. Well, my uncle and Matt are the only people who have been invited. Not really super interested in the teams playing so I couldn't care less about whether I have a big party or not.

On a side note, since I haven't really said anything much of it in this blog....

..I'm falling more and more in love with Lindsey as the days pass. Bought her a pretty nice ring while I was there ! :P