I did NOT fall for Jade's prank. I am a little smarter than that. It was a good effort though. I will give him a C for creative. I am posting this picture to show everyone my new bangs...what do you think?

Office Pranks

There have been a number of office pranks of late in the office. Most of them have had nothing to do with me (who is the usual culprit), but I have been blamed for all of them! The other day somebody removed the wheels from somebodys computer chair. A few days later, somebody else switched all the computer keys around on Scott's keyboard. However, I thought this did not compare to what I did today. You can use the 'print screen' command, which copies whatever is on the screen at any time. I did this for a neighbors desktop background (after hiding the toolbar). I then put the 'print screen' as the background on the computer. I then moved all of the desktop items in one folder that wasn't on the desktop. The result is a wallpaper that looks exactly like the old one, but you can't click on any of the icons because they are just included in the background picture and are not real. I did it to this poor guy who has had a number of IT issues lately, he was getting very frustrated. I just did it my my home computer, we will see how Shannon reacts tomorrow morning (I predict a call to my work first thing in the morning complaining how the computer won't work).

Another nice warm day in Calgary, and a firey sunset to to end it all. Sure is a treat that sunset timenow is around 5:30 PM , rather than somewhere before 5 in December.

Connor is 6!!!
Favorite song: Called to Serve
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite activity: Playing Wii
Best Friend: Dallas his dog or his brother Jaxson
Favorite Food: Tacos
Favorite Sport: Hockey
Favorite team: The Dallas Stars
Favorite Game: anyone that he can win. He doesn't like to lose
Biggest accomplishment this year: Starting kindergarten and starting addition and subtraction. He is very advanced when it comes to numbers but is struggling with letters and sounds.
When he grows up he wants to be: A hockey player but not an old one
He still calls his dad Jade Barrett

Hmmm, sounds like me

CAPRICORN - The Go-Getter (Dec 22 - Jan 19) Patient and wise. Practical and rigid. Ambitious. Tends to be Good-looking. Humorous and funny. Can be a bit shy and reserved. Often pessimistic. Capricorns tend to act before they think and can be Unfriendly at times. Hold grudges. Like competition. Get what they want.

Thanks Jane. Unfortunately, this sounds like me both good and bad. Hmmm, except the competitive part. I don't know if I am competitive. I like to finish but I don't care if I am first just as long as I finish......

Stan's Jan6th news

Well the kidney stone is out and Pat is due to come home today. It was 5 mm in size, almost 1/4 inch, which I think is pretty impressive for a kidney stone. Pat got to stay over night in the hospital because his oxygen level was low. Not Pat's choose to spend the night - he says there is too much snoring going on to get any decent nights sleep. Which reminds of of my room mate at the Rockeyview last year. I had to order ear plugs from the nursing station - good thing my neighbor only stayed a couple of nights.
Chris and her friend Claire went on a shopping run to Homesence. I had to throw Chris a lifeline ( lent her my Mastercard)

Relaxing at Kannannaskis Lodge

Stan's day - jan5th

The news about Pat will certainly be more exciting than my news. Pat landed in emergency at Rockeyview hospital at something like 2:30 AM. Possible kidney stone attack! The last news was that he was going to go into surgery to get checked out.
I went for a cross country ski run on the golf course this morning. Perfect snow conditions, perfect weather, and the ski wax made the skis go pretty fast.
Chris and I went to South Centre, however she appears to have misplaced her Master Card, so she couldn't do much serious shopping today

How to do

To post go to sign in and enter the sign in name I gave you in the email with the password. You will be directed to a page where you will see a blue button that says New Post. Click that and you will be directed to the page to blog. If you want to add pictures to your post, do the directions I gave you previously and when you are on the page to type your blog, look at the tool bar and click on the little picture. (I believe it is a picture of a moutain with blue sky.)

I created this blog so we can keep in touch as a family. Since we are all spread out, I thought it would be fun to create a blog where we can post holiday pictures and updates so we can keep in touch with one another. Being so far away from one another, we miss out on important milestones. Feel free to post pictures, stories, or just daily updates. Since this is a family blog, feel free to change anything on the layout that you want.

Jade and Shannon