Labour Day Weekend

Well my week has been fantastic!

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Well, I suppose I can write some about it :) Monday night I got a chance to talk to Jean-Rene on MSN, and suggested that we go for a walk, which he agreed would be a good idea. So he came over and we took a stroll for just over an hour along the riverfront path, which was really the first time we got to spend together alone (and sober) It was really nice, we had the chance to talk a bit more (and I had the chance to get more of my 500 questions out) Then we came back to my place, had a glass of water, caught and episode of The Simpsons - Then he headed home.

Tuesday evening brought my bike out to U de M with Martin, and boy did I ever find a mud puddle - I was covered from head to toe in mud (As is my bike) It was awesome, I really enjoyed it!

Wednesday night Jean-Rene and I had plans to get out for supper, the plans were not solid or formed, but we none-the-less had some plans. He popped on MSN around 530 and asked if I was still up for dinner (I love the fact that I am not doing all the planing and follow ups and chasing, its so cool) So we ended up doing supper at Cavo Des Vins, which was given a GREAT rating in the paper, however sucked huge ass! The company was great! The food and atmosphere were sub par! The evening wrapped up with us both calling it a semi early evening because he had to do rounds at 6:50 on Thursday, and I was off to Saint John at 7am. (Its really nice to meet someone who has commitments, other then when the next time he can get drunk will be!)

Thursday I was off to the John bright and early with Kristin, she asked about my date the previous night. She was somewhat disappointed that things were going so well, my story was pretty tame compared to some of the stories from Nutty Nut Bar and Nutty Nut Bar the 2nd, and some of the crazies of the past. Don't get me wrong she was really happy for me; its just my story was pretty boring (In comparison to getting dumped at 8am in bed) Thursday was a remarkably productive day at work, and I got a chance to talk to Jean-Rene briefly on MSN. He suggested that Saturday night we see each other and he'd cook me supper!

Friday, Martin and I were off to Jean-Gille's party; Matt (Martin's Ex) Wanted to join us, so Martin and I went to Mikes restaurant for supper, then off to Matt's to pick him up. Martin was worried because Matt and I had never met before, and wasn't 100% sure we would hit it off as friends (Being as thou we both have intense personalities) Within the first 30 minutes we were good pals (Well ganging up on poor little Martin, making a few cracks at him having a great time) We had a couple of drinks at Martins, then off to Sackville for JG's event, and headed back to Moncton around Midnight because Martin and I both wanted to be able to get up in the morning (I had briefly talked to Jean-Rene Friday night and mentioned I was going to go to the Market, he suggested it would be fun, so I invited him along)

Matt and crazy chick @ Party

Jean-Gilles, Martin H, Martin P & Matt

Saturday I got up, and headed off to Jean-Rene's to pick him up and head to the market, we had some breakfast there, then paroosed the booths, and headed back to his place. I hung out with him for 20 minutes then came back home (He had A LOT of reading he had to get done for next weekend) After the Market I stopped over to Serges and he, Luc and I went for a random drive around the city. Then I headed home to get ready for supper with Jean-Rene. Super was fantastic, it was curry beef with rice, which he made all himself (Well It was in a pot, he did a good job of hiding the take out containers if he did buy it) I got the opportunity to meet his roommate as well Marc-Andre (There are TOOO many hyphenated names in this blog!) His roommate was a really nice, personable guy! Jean-Rene and I had a great evening together, finished some of the wine from supper and just enjoyed each others company. I had suggested I better get home at one point, where I was told that I wasn't allowed to :) So the supper turned into us looking for a place to have breakfast on Sunday morning - That proved to be more difficult then we though, and ended in us buying eggs and bread from the shell by his place and making our own breakfast!

Sunday afternoon I went over to Riverview and spent some time with Phil and Shelley prepping their new floor in the kitchen to be layed, then decided we would go grab a chai latte (Jean-Rene told me to try one and advised me I would love it; I was skeptical), before I headed out for the latte Jean-Rene messaged me and invited me to go play some Texas Hold `Em with some of the guys he works with (Before I could fully thought process that, I said SURE - Then realized I had no sweet clue how to play!) Phil, Shel and I went to get our Lattes at Starbucks and I went and found "Texas Hold `Em for Dummies" fully admitting to myself that the $10 buy in was LONG gone before I even went to play! After the lattes, I was off to Serges for a BBQ, home to shower, then off to meet Jean-Rene to go play poker (At Jean-Phillippes house, oh yes, another hyphen!) The guys were all really nice, however I admittedly got a little lost in the conversations a few times. 7 french guys, 1 french girl and me. 6 of the 7 guys work at the hospital with Jean-Rene so the conversation steered into the medical chat a bit, mixed with the french (I was in over my head) It was great, I lost my 10 bucks, Jean-Rene came in third, then back to his place. Where I mentioned I was going to head home, and was told once again that I should stay (How awesome of a weekend was this so far!)

Monday morning, brought us to the breakfast dilemma yet again, which we solved with at Steve's Diner - Then I took him back home so he could finish more of his reading! I was back to Phil and Shels to finish the floor install. Then supper with them, and off to Martin's for some tea, wine and HUGE catching up since we hadn't seen each other since Friday night.

I am so handy!


Which brings me to now - 11PM (An hour of blog writing, mixed with chatting) Jean-Rene and I have no solid plans when we're going to see each other again, but it will be sometime this week, as anal as I am with my planning, I am SO relaxed and comfortable with things its not even funny!!

The 91% finished floor!

Superfantastic Weekend!

I am beginning to really enjoy the whole positive thing, and not expending any effort looking for someone.


Friday was rainy and someone depressing of a day, Kristin had asked me to go for drinks after work. Which I totally didn't feel like so I decided to go home after work and have a nap. Mid way through my nap my cell phone woke me up. My buddy Serge had called and asked if I wanted to do something after supper... So I said sure, and went back to my nap. About 20 minutes after that he phoned back and we decided we'd go to supper. So we headed up to Mikes on Mountain and had some supper, and a beer to start the weekend off right. After dinner we weighed our options of what to do, we decided that a movie rental was in order, and a movie that didn't require any thinking. Norbit it was!


On the way to rent the movie, Serge got a phone call from his buddy Albert, asking what he was up to. Serge said he and I were going to catch the movie and to come on over, so Albert came over to Serge's to watch the movie, and brought along his friend Jean-Rene (Both whom I have never met) The movie provided a few good laughs and lots of chatting and conversations afterwards. We decided that a Saturday night event sh0uld be planed!


My initial thoughts of the guys were they were extremely nice, mellow sensible people, and Jean-Rene was exceptionally cute ;) !!


Around 12:30 we all parted ways and went home.... Now! We all know how much of a facebook junkie I am. When I got home I went onto Serge's facebook, found Albert, added him, then found Jean-Rene and tossed him on my facebook. To my suprise both were facebook junkies as well, it wasn't 10 minutes and they accepted the add! So we added each other on to all the MSN lists. Very random conversations ended with Jean-Rene mentioning he hoped he got to see me on Sat night at Serge's :) ..... Excellent!


Saturday, I was up around 730, headed to the market and got a few errands done. Then chatted on MSN a while with Jean-Rene and Albert, as well as Martin. Martin said if I was interested I should ask Jean-Rene on a date sooner then later before someone else snatched him up. My intention was to do so after the party at Serge's, but I decided to take Martins advice and ask him sooner then later............


So I suggested he and I go for dinner or coffee, and he thought that was a great idea! :D Then we started tossing around when we could go.... His weekdays are pretty hard to gauge, as he is on call with his job currently pretty much all day through the week (After 8 he doesn't HAVE to answer the call thou) So we decided we'd do super that night, provided he wasn't able to go sky driving (It was a big cloudy) I was off to the movies and lunch with a buddy of mine so I said I'd touch base with him after that.


We went to see "Superbad" it was good - I would recommend it, some crude sexual high school humor, but some good laughs!


After the movie, I gave Jean-Rene a call, but there was no answer, so I assumed he was able to jump - So I proceeded to make other plans for my dinner. Phoned up Martin, Phil & Shelley and decide the 4 of us would go for dinner (After checking out P&S's new kitchen - WOW is all I have to say what an AWESOME kitchen they have now!!!!) So the 4 of us went to Calactus and then Mar and I headed to Serge's for the night of debauchery! LOL


7 of us hung out at Serge's with some beers, and out on the patio. Serge lives downtown as well near some sketchy hooker infested areas. As the 7 of us were hanging out on the balcony a hooker was on the street and kept flashing her hoots at us (The poor thing, I think she expected some hoops and hollers out of us.... We all just kinda looked then went back to our conversations - Wrong audience sweetie!!)


The evening proceeded and we decided to head down to Navigators for a few beer there, which turned into us getting a round of "Upper Cuts" what a great shot that was!

Martin, Albert, Me, Serge, Jean-Rene with our "Upper Cuts"

The waitress at Nav's was a royal bitch so we decided to move our gathering down to Doc's (Where the waitress was awesome - She's on my facebook now! Yay Ashley!) They had a special on $1 shots, so Ashley brought us a tray of 35.......



We had some "I can't Believe its not Baileys", "Windex", "Pinesol", and "Mr. Clean" They were a buck for a reason - But fun none the less!

Martin, Howie, Albert, Serge, Jean-Rene, Me & Luc with The cheep ass shots.

Martin, Howie, Albert, Serge, Jean-Rene, Me & Luc with The cheep ass shots.

Jean-Rene, Myself, Luc & Martin - We had 35 to finish!

Jean-Rene, Me, Luc, Martin - Knock em back!

I think I was naming the shots here - They came with no name, I got creative!

The evening continued down to Pizza girls so Luc and Jean-Rene could get some eats. To where the evening ended, and began the following morning at the Colonial Inn for breakfast. Serve, Jean-Rene, Martin and myself were the only ones who made it there for Breaky.


Sunday continued with Serge, Howie, Albert and myself taking a road trip to Fredericton on the back back back roads, had some supper at the Diplomat, and hopped the highway home. I was sore from laughing when I got home, from Howie holding up the "Nice Rack" and "Next Exit" signs at cars, to the burping contest, and the sing alongs - Great times!


Got back into Moncton around 8:30 from the roadtrip - Headed to Martins to catch some of the Sunday night line up and chat about the weekend, and back home around 9:30, to shower, decompress from my weekend and get ready for another Monday Chez Vous. Pour Vous!


The pics in the blog today are from Jean-Rene's camera - Mine are at home and I was too lazy to upload them (I'll get some up on Facebook tonight!)


Positive is the way to go!!!


Oh... Serge and I rode the deer at City hall too :o

Today is Officially Positive Day!

Who cares about my weekend!

It was fun, I spent time with great friends, had tones of laughs, smiles and good times.

SO, why is today positive day? Martin and I talk a lot when we're together about our lives, where we are career wise, relationship wise and such. We both have these huge goals and desires of where we want our lives to be. The only issue is we want all those things NOW! That starts the focus on what we don't have, and the negatives.

So I had a realization this morning in a reply to an Email, I am 26 years old, healthy, life long incredible friends, stable job, and I can continue! There are so many things in my life to be positive about. The things which are negative in my day to day life are minor compared to what could be.

So I have decided that today, for the entire 24 hour period I am going to focus on everything positive. It has already paid off - Kristin and I were chatting on MSN and she was in a bad mood. So the conversation turned to me being positive and so on. The conversation ended with the following lines..


Ward, Kyle [9:45 AM]:
Today is officially Positive day!


Killen, Kristin [9:45 AM]:
wooohoo

Killen, Kristin [9:45 AM]:
I'm now positive too!!

So - Smile, put your chin up, focus on the positive, the good and realize how lucky you really are to even be here!

Happy B-Day Jen!

So this post is a little heavy on the pictures, I have been busy on my Vacation so far!


Monday brought my Birthday, as well as Kristins. Kristin and I spent the afternoon together just bumming around, went to lunch at Cafe Mosiaque (Highly recommend it) Then it was off to dinner at Sasha's. It was a great time, lots of laughs and photos, the waitress was a little stunned but we survived.

So I had a drink before anyone got there, is that a bad thing?

So the button says "Its my Birthday, and I'm and incredibly smart, exciting, good looking person!" I think it hits the nail on the head don't you?

The nice lady at the table beside us offered to shoot a pic of the table :) Thanks Nice lady!

Beth and I had a "Model" pose picture from ages ago at an xwave Christmas party, so we figured we'd revive the pose.

Aren't they cuties?

Kristin had a few of these to knock back, surprised the eyes are open in this shot!

Jen and Matt, Jen is old TODAY! See the story below :)

Scott threatened me, that I best not post bad pictures, I think he caught a few awful ones of me on his phone.

Surprisingly enough, this isn't a half bad picture of me! Oh Dawn looks nice too.

After the birthday dinners, Martin and I headed to Starbucks to grab a coffee, in transit I got a call from Dawn, and Roger was stopping over to her place so she wanted me to come over and visit, finally I got to meet the infamous Roger, whom I whole heatedly approve of :) (Martin approved too!)

Yesterday I pretty much just hung out around the house, relaxing then headed off for a massage around 12:45. On the way to my massage I was sitting at a stop light on Main street, and I somewhat felt that I was being stared at, then this truck turns in front of me and the guy driving just about fell out the window staring at me. I was flattered, yet somewhat creeped out. Then I realized who it was, HA! Damn!

It was an ex of Martin's from before he and I became friends, we know who each other is but never have actually layed eyes on each other. Somewhat amusing, but at least it could have been someone that I had a chance with who would bother to check me out! :P

Tuesday night brought me to spend some quality time with Beth and catch up a little, we headed to Mosiaque to have a coffee/hot chocolate and chat, then we took a drive to see the lot where her and Dom are going to build their house.

After I got home I was chatting with Martin, and decided I wanted to go up to the most beautiful lots in Moncton to take a picture of the city at night.

Could you imagine having your home on these lots, what a view! We were up there for about a half hour trying to pick out landmarks, I am able to accomplish that task quite well during the day, at night it was a bit more difficult. As we stood there looking over the city playing with my camera we got bored and decided to play with my settings. Below are two shots of Martin and I with a slow shutter speed and the headlights of his car, I've edited the photos to Black and White, I like em - He doesn't but he said maybe that's cause I am a photo guy that I like them :P

This morning brings me relaxing again, and I stopped into work to have some cake for Jen's Birthday! (What a lot of August birthdays, lots of Christmas Holiday sex went on in the 70s and 80s apparently!!)

Happy Birthday Jennifer!

The rest of my afternoon entails a date with Drew at 3 for my hair, which is in desperate need of a change, we have been negotiating on MSN over the morning what I want and what I am allowed to do - Martin has already overruled one of my choices I made :( Because the guy in the picture was "Blond and in his 20s" apparently I can't pull it off :( THEN Drew had the balls to agree with him :(

Tonight Mar and I are going to head off to see "I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry" I have two free movie passes, so why not!

Vacation thus far - AWESOME, Relaxing, getting lots done & Enjoying myself!

Sorry the drama has slowed down; who knows what my weekend will bring! :P

Happy Birthday To ME... And Kristin...

An avid reader got to meet me in Person!

Ok.. So its just Krista, and she was drinking

The weekends have proven to be my highlights of this blog, and avid readers. I will not let you down from this weekend!

Well lets see, Mat and I decided to give things a try, yet again! My options for the weekend were to head to Halifax to catch some of the Buskers since I still have a free Friday night at a Delta. or I could go toFrederiction and spend the weekend with Mat. I choose to head west and vist with Mat.

I took off Friday after work, got to see his new place. He told me he was very excited that I was able to come up and he was glad to see me, as was I. We went to the Blue Door for supper, it was a great meal. I offered to pick up the tab (We have a habit of bouncing the tab back and forth, so I was okay with it) The rest of the options for the night were to go out and dance a little or just hang out at home. We decided to go to the liquor store and pick up a few things. In the log run we decided to relax at his place and have a bit of wine we were both tired and he mentioned we could go out on Sat night.

Saturday morning, I awoke to Mat with a pensive look in his eyes... Saying "Kyle, so, I've been thinking...." To which my reply was "Yes..... about...."

Where he decides to tell me, "I don't think this is really what I am looking for" and he had thought obout it for a few days... BUT let me drive to Frederiction... and pay for dinner.. OH OH... It gets good.... "So, do you want to go for Breakfast anyway?!" My CHRIST... When I realize or have the idea someone is a nutbar I should stick with my initial thoughts!

So I headed home Sat AM. Made a few phone calls, some of the girls I went to High School with were going to be in town so I made some plans to catch up with them, and Martin came along as well :)

The night was grand lots of laughs, Mar didn't have such a good night. So I devoted my Sunday to cheering him up.. We drove aimlessly around, ended up at Jost, talked a lot, picked up some food in Amherst to bring homeand cook, watched Shooter, and a bit of Family guy and came home and crashed out!

Now, I am posting this, going to toss a few images here and up on Facebook and Kristin and I are giong to have a Birthday afternoon! She's 29 today and I'm 26! Woo

Vacation starts today - So hopefully I keep busy and have a few more things to update ya'll with!

Misunderstandings?

Tuesday, bloody Tuesday....


Lesley, a girl I used to work with AGES ago, likely around 7 when we were still MITI was in town (We still keep in touch) so her and I went out to dinner last evening at Kramers (Bad idea, it did wonders on my system!) We caught up on the goings on in our lives and ended the evening with a Starbucks drink :)



Today was a relatively busy day at work. I am assigned some of my time to Kristin's current project she's PMing and its keeping me busy busy the last few days, but busy is good :) Mid way through the day I logged into my hotmail and saw I had an Email from Mat...... At the time I was talking with Kristin on internal MSN.... I was nervous to open the message... After her coaxing and her desire to know what was in the message I clicked on it.



The message was generic, written in french. Giving me his new work Email address, his new home phone (Which is Rogers I might add.... He loses points for that!) and his street address in Fredericton. So I replied to his Email and said I'd give him a ring tonight to chat.



We spoke on the phone for about 20 minutes, it was a pretty generic conversation, and I wanted to broach the subject about what happened on Sunday - But didn't. After the call ended I sent him a text message off, asking if he would be interested to go to Halifax to see the Buskers this weekend - 30 seconds later my phone rang. He wasn't too sure about going to the Buskers because he intended on staying in Fred for the weekend, but did invite me there. So I thought it was a good opportunity to braze the subject about Sunday's events.



We both seriously misunderstood each other, he took the fact of me going to the bar as throwing in the towel and not being interested (Which we all know wasn't the case) and I took him being possessive over me where really he was assuming I was throwing the towel in and he was a little hurt.



We both exchanged some very honest and open conversation about things, and got a clearer picture of things.



My food arrived and Mat was getting hungry, so we decided to put the conversation on hold and I am going to call him back in a few hours and we'll pick things up..... Looking positive again :)

Help is on the way...

So, apparently my life is hard to follow at times. I talk about a lot of people in my blog, and I confuse my avid readers.

So I have devised a viso diagram of the interconnections at the suggestion of a reader.

Green Boxes - Dates/Relationships

Orange Boxes - Fictional Characters

Red Connections - How I met that person

As I introduce new people into my blog, I will be sure to post an updated version of "The 6 degrees of Kyle" You should be able to click here to view the full scale image.