"On January 31st, 1957, Parliament proclaimed..."A day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed...to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October."

Just thought y'all should know...

!!!...HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE...!!!

(THANK GOD INDEED...!)

!!!...HAPPY 19th BIRTHDAY CRIDELS...!!!

I know every1 is expecting me to blab on about Cridels (especially YOU dels!...hehe) and how special this sister is to me...and how much she means to me...but we have ALL already heard it time and time again =P...and now I feel supremely confident that I've repeated it over and over...and over again...that it has become uberly clear to her that it's true...

so...I'll just leave it with...thank you for everything DELS...I love you counterpart...never forget that I will always be here for you...God bless you always...!!!

these are just thoughts...can you handle it?

IT'S GOING DOWN...!!!

so yeah...me and two of my favorite people in the world (dels and stick...aka. Cridels and Vic) went on a "roadtrip" (as dels likes to refer to it =P) to Seattle this weekend...and...it was FFUUNN...the only thing that wasn't ideal was the length of our trip (we left Friday at 1500...and came back 0300 Sunday morning)...but with that taken into consideration...it's amazing how much we able to accomplish...so yeah...thank you God for an awesome getaway...

WARNING: the following is a long-winded description of our Seattle trip =P

like I said...we left around 1500 (3pm in lame man's terms)...picked up Vic first...and yeah...he kept eluding to the fact that things weren't really starting off very well (don't really remember why)...and I couldn't help but think of it as being a sign of things to come (foreshadowing if you will...)...but yeah...we picked up Cridels...and luckily our plan of leaving early to avoid traffic and allow time to hit up Bellis Fair and the Tulalip Premium Outlets worked out pretty seamlessly...the line at the border was almost nonexistent...that lead us to getting to Bellis Fair at around 1630...I wehnt in there pretty set on the fact that I was gonnah get AT LEAST a full-zip Hollister Hoodie and possibly a Hollister "winter" jacket as well...but surprisingly...I was amazingly unimpressed with Hollister's offerings...I KINDAH liked the full-zip hoodie I had planned to get...but it didn't fit well at all (however...i thought it'd be a WHOLE lot nicer (based on pictures))...ANYHOW...i ended up walking away from Bellis Fair with a plaid Military Hat...and a plaid-ish hoodie...it's an AWESOME hoodie (right dels?...right Ms. B?)...both from Pac Sun...and yeah...I'm TRYING to stick by a philosophy that EVERYONE should stick by...and that is...that if i buy new clothing...it has to ABSOLUTELY blow me away...and be my new favorite article of clothing (and also at least have at the very least...a REASONABLE amount of need for it)...and yeah...both of these purchases abided by that...i guess =P...HA...Ohhh yeah...after shopping we wehnt to the "food fair" and Dels bought ice cream (which was absolutely huge)...and me and Dels shared a Mocha Coffee Smoothie (I forget exactly what it was called...had a weird name alla Moolatte)...and it was GROSS...it tasted like liquified syrup with added sugar...!...between the three of us...we managed to finish NEARLY half of it =P...

anywho...after that we proceeded to the Tulalip Outlets...and as per Bellis Fair...I was pretty convinced that I would walk away from the outlets with AT LEAST an item or two from Nike (eg. ANOTHER compression shirt)...but yeah...SURPRISE SURPRISE...I ended up walking away from the outlets without a single item!...but yeah...it was shtill pretty cool to be there...even if Dels made me and Vic stay far too long at the Coach Outlet...it's ALL GOOD...lol...it was really random cuz' me and Vic got into a pretty in depth conversation with a couple of the workers at Zumies (God bless that store)...somehow me and one of the guy workers started talking about how he thinks he has to be in the military for 8 years in order to pay for his 8 (yeah EIGHT) year university degree...but that he think's it'll be worth it cuz' of the partying...lol...(random much?)...but yeah...it was also pretty random because Ray from Seattle (on his way to thee greatest city in the world...North Vancouver...HA) was there...but yeah...MAD PROPS to myself for walking way from the outlets empty-handed...

these are just thoughts...can you handle them?

hopefully you can...because I'm not so sure if I can...

it's funny, in an ironic way, that i'm blogging right now, because I usually don't do so, if I even do at all, without some sense of purpose...

contrary to that...I just felt like writing because I feel like I have a lot on my mind at the moment...or more accurately...I DEFINITELY have a lot on my mind at the moment....and it's awkward feeling as vulnerable as I do right now...

I am currently finishing up my 4th full year of studies at Simon Fraser University...my 2nd full year of work at Sears Canada...and my 2nd full year as Chapter Head of CFC-YFC Vancouver...

It's funny cuz' I've just started chatting on MSN, with one of the few people I legitly engage in conversations with on MSN anymore...and it's ironic because I think i'm in a state of some quasi-solemn, reflectiveness about something that this friend of mine says she has been devoting a lot of her time on lately, which is "finding herself"...((if this particular friend of mine is reading this and is uncomfortable with me sharing what I just did...i'm sorry! =P))...

I'm tempted to say "i honestly believe", but I'll more accuarately state, I hesitatingly THINK that I know who I 'truly' am...but even if I did, for some reason, it seems like i've spent a large portion of my life being a person which isn't truly who God wants me to be (lol...that just made me laugh...cause of the ridiculous obviousness of that statement)...but yeah...I just think it's weird how easy it is to give out advice to people, or words of knowledge, yet so hard to live by those very same 'principles'...

Another weird fact for me has to be how hard it is to 'simply' disregard or ignore the pressures of society and/or peer pressure, especially if coming from family or friends...

((i haven't read over what I just wrote...but i'm sure i'm sounding like what Marge refers to Apu as in episode #2 of The Simpsons this season...which is... a blabber mouth...=P))

anyways...I feel like I should leave off on some sort of positive...which might be right in line with the rest of my blog...if you're some sort of optimistic phenom...(Y)

one thing i'm definitely proud of are two brothers that i'm really close to...Anton Aldaba and Vic The Stick Tabamo...it's weird because...many people already know this, but I've always put them priority #1 since being chapter head (them along with Cridels)...I made it a strict point to always try and be there for them it whatever way they needed me, withouth trying to directly tell them, even though I'm sure I did multiple times now and again...but with that...it's a blessing to simply witness what these Men of God have become...I humbly try to take absolutely no credit for what they have become, but rather, smile at the fact that I was blessed enough to be around to see the growth in them...because of the bloodline I've been able to see Anton for a much longer period of time; however, the transformation in character in the both of them, is subtle, yet strikingly significant...

Anton...I'm proud of you homie...and I will continue to pray for you and your vocation/future...whatever God chooses to do with all the amazing talents that you possess to serve him...

without being unfair to Anton...or anyone else for that matter...I'm going to end off by 'tipping my cap' (so lame...lol) to THE STICK...viccc...since he's 'MOVING AWAY' soon...and...DEFINITELY DOESN'T GET THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF PROPS HE DESERVES...for anyone that doesn't know...Victor Tabamo is the personified definition of a 'man' (without the whole Bible Game character vibe)...I've definitely never come across a guy...or person for that matter...who is genuinely a good person...who willingly leaves himself more vulnerable to ABUSE...yet takes it all...and offers up the other cheek for good measure...seriously though...Vic...you're the kobe bryant in life...THEE most outstanding...HahHha...never again will I make that reference...so I hope you enjoyed it...lol...but honestly...for every1 that doesn't know...there is seriously no1 else that more humbly cares for the people around him...no1 that's more humble period...nobody that gives the truth no matter what the consequence...it's too bad that i'm so terrible with words because I honestly can't give the true amount of honour that you deserve Vic...and it's so awesome that you learned everything from yours truly...LOL...j/p...

jokes asidethough ...Vic...I truly honour you bro...for being probably the best example of a Man of God that I can come up with...and I sincerely hope you keep in mind that I continue to honour you even when I neglect to mention it...I know that I'll still see you quite often (hopefully?) this summer...yet...it should go without saying that you'll still really be missed bro...God bless my man...have a good one this summer...

!!!...HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY MS. B...!!!
(and everyone else too...=P...lol)
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