Dermot O'Reilly

Rest In Peace

For all the lives you have touched I thank you!

My First Moose

Well I got my first moose license this year and after a few trip out in the woods I got my first moose. It is a 6 point bull not overly large but for my first moose hunt I'm very pleased.
He weighed in at the butchers at 327 pounds.

Wouldn’t this make you sick?

To get my education it took me 5 years in three different colleges. I am working in my field and have a good paying job. I have been paying my student loans for the past 8 years and have 12 years to go before they are paid off. My two nephews did not finish high school they have moved to Alberta and both have jobs on the oilfields. Both their individual yearly salaries are almost double mine and they have no student loan dept.
I’m happy for them but it really pisses me off!

I can’t help but wonder was it worth it going to school? Would I have been better off not going?

Ahhhh the great what if!!!

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Your Birthdate:

You are resilient, and no doubt your resilience has already been tested. You've had some difficult experiences in your life, but you are wise from them. Having had to grow up quickly, you tend to discount the advice of others. You tend to be a loner, having learned that the only person you can depend on is yourself. Your strength: Well developed stability and confidence Your weakness: Suspicion of others Your power color: Eggplant Your power symbol: Spade Your power month: October

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Ever feel like just throwing in the towel and saying I give up you win?

Life has its ways of making me feel like that and this is one of those occasions. I don’t know what it is but for some reason I am not meant to get ahead in life.
I have spent the last 7 years working my ass off to get my credit report clean so that I could increase my credit score which would give me the opportunity to make my families’ financial life a little easier. Then Life comes knocking at my door. And bang I’m knocked back down again. Not that I had very far to fall that is. But it’s typical of how things go for me. I was just starting to see the light at the end of what has been a very long deep and dark tunnel but now the light is gone and once again only darkness remains. I know I’m not the only one this happens to but just this once couldn’t something good happen to help my family and I move ahead instead of always one step forward and two steps back? Is it to much to ask to have a plus instead of a negative every once in awhile?

Have you ever stopped taken a step back and just observed people?

I attended a wake this weekend and was observing the people coming and going it is quite interesting to see how different people deal with situations such as grief and how some people think they are helping. I watched as people consoled a grieving widow and as some tried but didn’t have a clue what they were doing and actually made things worse without ever knowing it. I observed as one woman took the widow aside to introduce herself as they had never met before she then spent 15 minutes explaining to her how her and her husband were much better off now and she explained her philosophy of life death and the afterlife to the widow. I watched as the widow held her composure and her tong as the woman who had taken her aside obviously didn’t have a clue about what she was going through or life in general or even tact for that matter. As an observer I just wanted to go up to this woman take her by the arm lead her from the room and say honey you are speaking out of your ass! Come back when you have a realistic understanding of life! But I couldn’t no mater how bad I wanted to! Isn’t it interesting that we as people are the way we are?

Happy Canada Day Eh!