Chiper de doo da.

Yes, it has been awhile since I’ve had a blog post… Yes, it has been a long while; let’s just say a couple months. I have my reasons for leaving you all on the verge of breathless waiting to hear more about my life, I really do. One being, the best dog in the entire world past away this summer. Those who knew Chip knew that he was my number one companion. Those who didn’t know Chip, probably thought Erin Nosaluk was my number one companion… You were mistaken. 

Besides dwelling on that, I’ve also been doing quite a lot of nothing this summer, I have dubbed this summer probably the worst one I’ve had all my life. I started the summer by telling Leif Gobeil about how awesome summer usually is for me, and I was trying to be romantic by telling him “This summer will be the best summer because you’re in my life.” Because it was Leif, he didn’t understand the romanticism and forgot what I said about thirty seconds later. I’m not going to worry about hurting his feelings because he’ll read this, get mad, and then forget about it and wonder why he was so upset in the first place. Did I mention this is the man I love.

Besides it being a stressful summer, it was filled with a lot of cottage visits, pub visits and drinking a lot of new and interesting beers… As usual. Now that the summer is over, I’m attending the library and information technology course at Red River College. It’s awesome, but I don’t know how I’m going to deal with juggling two jobs and full time school. It’s just another year in the life of Cassie Page I guess.

The things I did to make me the person I am today! PT. 1

When I was younger, most of you may already know this, but I was a very competitive Wakeboarder. I started wakeboarding when I was about 12 years old, after many trials and errors with other sports (I.E. Ice Hockey, Baseball, Basketball, Ringette, figure skating, field hockey, and the list may go on to sports I don’t even recall because they weren’t important enough). I had always been a very strong skier, but it was the day I tried wakeboarding that I truly fell in love with watersports.

It was a sunny day in Betula Lake, and Downtown Neil Brown was in town.... That rhymes, I meant for it to rhyme. I got up on my first try and was crossing the wakes of the boat in no time at all. “You’re a natural” he would say... Although, I cannot recall him saying that, but he was such a nice guy that he probably did say something along those lines. That same summer I got recruited onto the Manitoba team for waterskiing. This was before Wakeboarding was considered a sport, there was no wakeboarding team. Neil Brown was the Manitoba coach; so naturally, ever waterski practice I ended up practicing wakeboarding rather than boring ol’ skiing. (Can I hear a ‘BOO SKIING’?) The following year I was the only girl recruited for the brand new Manitoba Wakeboarding team.

You see, I think I was pretty good. Some people even said I was awesome, I’ve seen my name still mentioned on wakeboarding blogs around Canada. Some people didn’t think I was so good (let’s call them boys).  In the early years of wakeboarding there wasn’t much competition for the girls. Every competition I ended up going against some of the men, and they weren’t too happy about it. BUT TO BAD! I still won.

In the year of 2003, this was a good year. I won Nationals and got asked to be part of the Canadian team. YAY ME! I got a paid for trip to Florida to compete in worlds. YAY ME! I got fifth, in my division, in the world. YAY ME! I got to go surfing and wakeboarding with some of my idols (Shaun Murray, Tara Hamilton, Darin Shapiro, Parks Bonifay, Shane Bonifay, and the list may go on to some awesome names that I do care about, but I don’t need to mention, because all you other wakeboarders will just get jealous).

Me and some of my fellow Canadian team mates at Canadian Nationals 2003 in Saskatoon.

Today, my name in wakeboarding is just a distant memory. The Vets know me; the newbies may not know me, but once upon a time... There were many medals and many weird looking glass trophies... also a lot of free merchandise. I don’t compete anymore, I wakeboard for fun behind any boat that will take me.

This post may look like I’m bragging, but I only see it as a way to highlight some of my accomplishments. These are things that I don’t normally talk about anymore. Some of you knew me at the time that I was doing all this and already know about it. Some of you did not know me, and probably had no clue that I was once a Canadian athlete. This is just a small part of who I am, and although I didn’t mention all my accomplishments in wakeboarding here, I’m sure you get the picture.

Look Ma! I'm Blogging!

For the last few minutes I've been trying to think of a good topic to start my new blog with, but the reality of the matter is, this is the internet and any topic I come up with will not be original/interesting/relevent/oranythingelseyouwanttoaddhere. So I'm just going to start typing and see what happens. I used to blog, back when no one knew what a blog was. "Are you writing your journal on the interweb?" One friend would ask. "You're famous enough to have things about you on the internet?" Another would ask, and I would answer with a simple "yes" to both those questions and all other questions that doesn't criminalize me and/or make me seem creepy.

So why start another one, now that I am older and should be doing more productive things with my life? Well, I started this blog out of pure boredom mixed with a little bit of request from a few people... and by a few people I mean myself and a friend of mine. Let's call her Jenna. 

If you choose to continue reading this blog, you will learn of my confusing life. My life changes quite frequently due to boredom of staying in one spot for too long. With the coming posts (which I hope are regular rather then sporadic) you will learn a few things about me. Let me give you a little teaser:

• I have not stayed living in one city for longer then a year since I graduated High school in 2005.
• I am terribly frightened by commitment, something that seems to be changing day by day (stay tuned)
• I'm a push over, and a lot of people owe me money... Yikes... Also I'm broke.
• lately, I haven't been to happy with my employment history. So I quit my job, and then another job after that... (yes, I am unemployed and living in my parents basement at the moment.)
• I have very random thoughts, and I will most likely try to refrain from posting them here, but I will anyways and regret it.
• Going with that last point, I never let go (or delete) anything... Including my regrets.

These are just the few things you will come to notice in my posts. I'm sure that this little adventure will be a journey of discovery for both the reader and me.

Enjoy... Or don't... I just don't really care.