Saturday night and here we are blogging

&tIt Saturday on the east coast of Australia. 7:50pm and that's around 2:am in Victoria & Seattle, 3 am in Calgary and later and later on the other side of North America That's Well evenign on Saturday for us and early mornign saturday for the NA folks anybody else just has to email me and I'll setup another clock widget in my dashboard for your timezone.

Well I have been busy the past weeks. I have started practising my drum, my bodhran and doing my music theory books, I've been setting up my 'shave' campaign, doing preliminary things to help the production of Oklahoma, getting mentally ready and practising getting up early for school and  finding time to play with bluey and Chilli.

I've got to do a glucose tolerance test as my local GP doesn't like my sugar levels but Doc Schoozenbootz didn't seem to worry but I'm going in on tuesday to keep doc blueberry happy. Other then that I'm doing really well. 

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I dropped in the Red Cross the other day as i had business next door and on the spur of the moment went it to the brand new shiny collection centre just to say Hi and 

thanks. I told them I was an end user of their product and wanted to see where it came from. a nice Nurse named oops just about forgot.....gracious nurse showed me around to every room and nook intorduced me to all the staff and the volunteers I got to meet and cheer on a young lad giving his first bag. He was type O so I may get his blood products in two weeks so I really Thanked him! 

I did an interview with the local paper and it's in today. Its a launch of the World's greatest Shave its here at photobucket if you want to see it. 

I've made a pitch to a local Hotel to do the shave event there on Saturday the 15th and I think they are going to go for it. so My hair comes off then.  I'm putting up posters around town to encourage others to join in to shave or color or perhaps for guys to wax their legs. So far bluey is coloring along with a few friends.  Our pal Louise who runs a local beauty salon and her offsider Kirsty are shaving. We have two hairdressers on board to help out and they are even up for a package deal. Like a beauty treatment, hair cut ans dinner out for a price thats gets money into each of the sponsors and to the foundation.   I'm getting excited. we are planning on using a team name  'Close Shave"

More later

Chris

The new year

This image is just under 14 months from left to right what a year its been!

I thought of doing a Christmas/Newyear letter but my blogg has been that kind of chronical all year long ...want to know what went on?..... just dig through the archives.  To hit a few highlights....... 

look at March 17th for the report on my actual transplant on March 16th and March 30 for the report on my return from the land of the Neutrapenic. It was reall interesting reading back a bit! I had some much help through that time. I am really blessed. 

We usually take down chrisy decos on Ephiany... Jan 6th.. but I've just this minute decided that I'm going to change the Blog today.  There hows that?...Maybe a bit busy but I'm going to let it go for a bit to see if it grows on me.

I had a signing lesson yesterday! Well I got Lisa to coach me to learn a song that we want to introduce to the Acoustic nights (first sunday each month at Z-Pac. Our neighbors Doug and Christine told us about it and we went at the beginning of December and loved it so are going back this Sunday. Gene performed first visit! he's a very accomplished guitarist now.  Anyway Bluey and I are going to get more involved and she's learning the concertina.  I'm learning the bodhran and the ukelele. This song I wanted to learn is a closing song from the Calgary Folk Club and we thought this local group might like it. You can google it and learn it as well then we can all have a good sing. its Called Let Union Be.

Bluey is at work all day, sigh. Its a little quiet around here when she's away. 

Lynn & Peg Sykped us from two dog ridge this morning and gave us a video tour of the lounge room. We saw snow out the window and that just fine. We like it 12,000 miles away!

count down to Brenda coming!!!!! She gets here on Australia Day jan 26th. those of you within  driving distance should think about joining us on the hill for the 4th or 5th annual Party. its a very eclectic affair but we think we are moving it into the afternoon evening this year as everyone stays all day anyway. More details to follow. 

more later

Chris