Mike de Ruiter.ca

well here it is, only about 3 weeks later and i’m finally following through.  i’d like to say it’s b/c i’ve been so busy that i haven’t been posting, but that’s not it.  i’m just a lazy bastard.  working 40 hour weeks has done that to me i guess.
anyways, it’s -49 degrees celsius outside right [...]

so it’s been a long ass time since i wrote anything substantial, so here goes.  i guess.
well, my parents were out here for a week in the middle of september.  they stayed at our place (our first guests!).  it was a good time.  since they didn’t have plans the whole time, and since bj was [...]

well, have had possession of the house for the last couple weeks.  got lots of pictures of what it looked like before, but haven’t put them online yet b/c i’ve been busy with renos.  painting’s almost all done, basement’s all stripped out and we’re going to start framing it all this week.  hopefully have drywall [...]

well, bj and i finally bought a house last week. we’d been looking at this place for a few weeks now, tossing in a bid every weekend just to see what would happen, and last week thursday we finally agreed on a price and signed the ol’ contract. we’re getting a house inspection [...]