Worn Out Wednesday

Hey Everybody! Happy Sunday! I hope that you are all enjoying this 2nd weekend in June..  It's been pretty much wall to wall sunshine here and I am planning to get back in it before it's gone.  So I'll try to not keep y'all too long. Banger Nation!  Before I have a chance to get sidetracked I want to make sure that I express my sincere gratitude again to each and every one of you for the love and support that you have shown me over the last 3 YEARS that we've been getting together like this.

Hey Everybody! Happy Midweek! I did not see this coming y'all.  I had no idea when I published my first blog post on June 10, 2015 just how long I would continue to write such things.  I would not have guessed at that time that I'd still be going at it this far on down the road.  Once again it just goes to show that you never can tell!  According to my math this is the 500th blog post that I have published on this website!  I feel like I've said enough in that number of posts to last me for

Hey Everybody! Happy Friday! It was a late night followed by an early morning y'all.  Monica and I were planning to get a jump on the weekend so we got up early.  My brain is still a little fuzzy and I'm finding it hard to string words together to form proper sentences. So about last night.  The Celebrity Men's Fashion Event took place as scheduled.  I am pretty sure that I had never even been to a fashion show before last night.  I am absolutely positive that I had never been in a fashion

Hey Everybody! Happy Midweek! We are halfway through this week and rollin y'all!  Hang in there and just KEEP BANGIN!  The end is in sight! In my last post Monica and I were getting ready to head off to a wedding.  The ceremony was beautiful!  The weather we had to contend with in order to get to the wedding location was horrendous!  Our area of Ontario experienced one of the worst windstorms in recent memory after I signed off on Friday afternoon.  Our apartment complex lost 4 big trees at

Hey Everybody! Happy Friday! Happy Quatro de Mayo!  The judges will also accept Cinco de Mayo Eve. Well we've made it through another week y'all!  I for one am glad about it!  Congratulations! I am always in the mood to celebrate on a Friday and just about any other day of the week for that matter!  LOL!   However today promises to be a little extra special.  It's a nice day for a dry wedding!  Pardon my liberties with your lyrics Mr. Idol.  It ain't lookin' like that's gone happen though.

Hey Everybody! Happy May Day!  AKA International Worker's Day!  Is it me or does that May Day logo below remind you of another logo with a hammer in it?  I ain't sayin'.  I'm just sayin'.  LOL! We have officially completed 1/3 of 2018 y'all!  The sun has been shining today beaming out temperatures of 26 C or 79 F!  The meteorologists over at The Weather Channel said that Ontario hasn't been this warm since last October.  Monica and I just returned home from running some errands.  While we

Hey Everybody! Happy Friday! It's the last Friday in April already!  We've managed to put another week in the books!  Congratulations! I have been a busy little beaver since my last blog post.  Tuesday I paid my last visit to Service Ontario for BeADonor month.  I ended with a whimper instead of a bang.  It was a very slow day traffic wise which gave me plenty of time to think about how the month had gone.  I engaged with the greatest number of customers on my first visit and the numbers

Hey Everybody! I will not keep you long today.  The weather's too nice outside for me to spend too much time typing on my keyboard inside.  I'll write more on another day. 2 YEARS!!!  Today marks 2 years since I had my heart transplant surgery.  2 years ago I knew going into that surgery that even if everything went exactly right that the best that I could hope for was to have a second organ transplant surgery  sooner than later.  When I woke up after my heart surgery I realized that I had

Hey Everybody! Happy Friday! I experienced a surprisingly pleasant  Heart Clinic visit yesterday.  It was my second annual check up.  Monday will be 2 years exactly since I received my heart transplant.  I saw Mighty Mike on my way out of the hospital yesterday and we each remembered different dates for my surgery.  I told Mike that the reason for the confusion was that the hospital counted my transplant date as April 23rd because that's when the surgery started and it continued for 12 hours

Hey Everybody! Happy Midweek! I wasn't kidding when I told y'all that I was going to be busy this week!  Although our big ice storm got my week off to a rocky start on Monday the last 2 days have heated things up like a microwave!  I'll tell y'all about it. The after effects of this past weekend's  winter storm caused me to cancel my TAP shift under advisement from someone who was on scene at Grand River.  NO BUENO!  I'll give it another go next week.  I was told that I would have some new

Hey Everybody! Happy Friday! Happier Friday the 13th! I've had a good week so far y'all!  It's ending on a good note too!  I'm coming to you live from my chair in the waiting room at Waterloo Honda.  My Beautiful is seated in the chair next to me.  We are taking part in that risky rite of Canadian springtime.  We are getting our winter tires swapped out for our summer tires.  Only time will tell if we got the timing right this year.  How much more snow are we really going to get?  I mean it

Hey Everybody! It's getting late and I don't plan on getting too far with this post tonight but I thought that I'd at least get it started.  I have had a very busy and productive 2 days so far this week.  I am feeling more than tired at the moment but it's a good tired.  The kind of fatigue that I like.  I feel like I'm tired because I've actually done something over the last 2 days.  I think that's a good thing. Yesterday I had my first solo TAP shift. Oh yeah!  My official TAP email account

Hey Everybody! Happy Friday! Another week has come to a close.  YAY!!!  Congratulations on seeing it through to the end!  My week ended with a bang! Today has been a wild one from start to finish.  The cover image for this post shows the sight that greeted me in the parking lot this morning.  So much for the light flurries that they were calling for.  LOL!  Ontario's wintry spring continues!  After I uncovered my van I hit the road headed for the first flag raising of the day in Guelph. It

Hey Everybody! Happy April! I hope that you all had a good Easter.  Today it was time to get back to it.   BeADonor Month has barely arrived but it's already in full swing! I went to LifeLabs first thing this morning.  I wanted to get there early because I figured that there would be a crowd due to the fact that  yesterday was a holiday.  I figured wrong.  I was pleasantly surprised to find that there were only 4 people ahead of me when I checked in at the reception desk.  I found out later

Hey Everybody! Happy Thursday! It's already time for the weekend.  YAY!!!  It has been one cold gray soggy energy sapping day.  The best part is that I am back home for the duration of the evening. It is 6:30 pm with both hands pointing straight down on the clock.  I am coming to you live from my favorite chair with Jake as my wing man.  See what I did there?  Jake is a male bird with feathers and wings.  You'll appreciate the humor more as the weekend rolls on and your ham intake increases.

Hey Everybody! It's a short week up here as we prepare for Good Friday.  That makes it a great Friday in my book.  2 days down and 2 days to go!  I have been a busy and somewhat productive little beaver lately. Let's start with yesterday.  They say that a picture is worth a thousand words.  Check out the one below. That's me back at home after my first TAP shift!  YAY!!!  It seems like I've been waiting a long time just to be able to write that last sentence.  I happen to be standing in the

Hey Everybody! Happy Friday! To quote Mr. Fred Rogers "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood."  I'm looking out of the window as I type and all that I can see is sunshine blue skies and a few puffy white clouds.  Looks can be deceiving though.  As the Bare Naked Ladies warned us "It's colder than it looks outside."  I know that because I just left outside to come inside to start this post and it was cold out there y'all! Mr. Rogers always asked his viewers if they would each be his

Hey Everybody! Happy Spring! That's what the calendar says anyway but the weather doesn't seem to be paying too much attention to anything that the old calendar has to say these days!  It's almost like they were an old married couple or something!  I have learned over the years that all springtime in southwestern Ontario really means is that we are simply nearing the time of year that springlike weather may occur.  I wished several people a Happy Spring today!  Then we took turns guessing how

Don't sweat the small stuff.  Don't forget to celebrate the small stuff. Hey Everybody! Happy Friday! Happy St. Paddy's Day Eve! Banger Nation!  I am feeling good in that high on life kinda way this morning!  Life is good!  I have had plenty of reasons to celebrate this week.  I'll share a few with you. First off according to the calendar we have made it through the last full week of winter y'all!  I am more than glad about that!  Congratulations!  Spring is just around the corner.  DST is

Hey Everybody! Happy Daylight Savings Time! I hope that the longer days are treating you all well thus far.  So far so good for me.  Happy March Break here in Ontario!  Today is the second day of the week and I have had 2 corresponding rounds of blood work. Yesterday I had my health review as the latest step in quest to volunteer at Grand River.  During the review I underwent the first part of a TB skin test.  I also left a blood sample to be tested for my current immunization status.  It's