| What are you
up to?  [Wolfie] These past few months have been pretty busy for
me! In November '98, my friend Tristin, her boyfriend Alex, and I flew on a whim to
Vancouver to visit my Canadian beau, Simon. The trip was pretty short notice and we
decided it on impulse. I was planning that Simon'd know that Tristin and Alex were coming,
but he wouldn't know I was coming also. He kept hinting how he wanted me to come so many
times weeks before the trip that one night I was just too excited to keep it secret and I
had to tell him (he was quite surprised, I must say!) Since I thought I was going to be
surprising Simon, I rented a room at the Metropolitan Hotel for the first
night so I wouldn't have to impose on his parents. I was lucky because due to the lack of
business, they bumped me into the grand suite. Talk about class! We had a real fun time
even though the weather wasn't exactly the most pleasant (it rained every day). Since we
weren't to be home with our families during Thanksgiving, Simon's mom gave us a great
turkey dinner and I was given the chance to meet Simon's brother's girlfriend. We went to
Victoria, saw a lot of downtown Vancouver, and we acted crazy (which isn't out of the normal for Tristin & I).
I had a nice Christmas at home and a couple days later Simon flew to Michigan to be with
me for a week and see in the New Year with me. We went out with Tristin and Alex, went
snowmobiling, and Simon was able to meet a few more members of my family. Then, Simon flew
to see me again during my Spring Break in February while my parents were gone to
Florida/Bahamas. Another tidbit of info is that I'm an Aunt again! Just this past month
(April 13), my sister-in-law had a little baby boy, named Matthew John. He was born five
weeks early, thus was only 3.6 lbs at birth. There have been complications with his being
born too early, but it's too early to tell how severe they are! I have a picture of him here. I've been keeping
rather busy with school. I'm finishing up my fourth year (no, I'm not done yet, sigh) but
I've been figuring out what I want to do once I graduate with a degree in Business
Management/Marketing. I eventually want to work towards receiving my MBA in Business, but
I'm not jumping at Grad school quite yet. I'll see what happens once I get out into the
workforce. Besides, life is much more fun when you don't restrict yourself to a narrow
plan. :) I'm still working as webmaster for the MTU Library and will continue to do so
during the summer because my boss (head webmaster) is pregnant and will be leaving on
maternity leave during August.
Also during the summer, Simon and I are finally putting
an end to our long distance relationship! He's planning on moving to Michigan! He and I
are planning on getting our own place closer to where I go to school. I've been planning
on moving into my own apartment this summer anyway, but he and I really want to be
together. He's currently seeking employment that will sponsor his visa, but even if he
doesn't get that right away, he can visit for up to six months and after that amount of
time we'll see what we want to do if he doesn't have a job. We're planning the move to be
in early June so I'll probably be taking another road trip across the US except I won't
have Louie to fight with me for the front seat (aw shucks ;)) 
[Simon] Not much has changed with me yet (still working at NetNation), but
this summer (hopefully in June) I expect to be moving over to be with my sweetheart!
As Wolfie said, we've managed to get together three times
recently! Back in November, '98, Tristin, Alex, and my sweetheart came over and we stayed
downtown for a night with Tristin and Alex and then Christine stayed at my house while
Tristin and Alex stayed downtown for the rest of the week (er, during the night I mean ;)
). We had a lot of fun doing a lot of shopping, going to restaurants like Planet
Hollywood, watching movies, and going to places locally and in Victoria (the Cheesecake
Cafe rules!). We had a blast!
 I also went to visit Wolfie just after Christmas and again
just recently (oy, feels like a year ago, though :( ), during Christine's Spring Break. We
really are ready to be together already -- we're both trying really hard to try to get
things to go our way so that we can be together. I know for sure that we both have a
lifetime of happiness ahead of us together. But, uhm, anybody know a place in the U.P.
where I could work? Right now we're looking at BresnanLink, a cablemodem internet access
company...I hope things work out.
I think it's really neat that there are so many
relationships that have started on #wolfden! Reine and Duane, congrats! I hope we can make
it to your wedding...that would be really cool. :)
What are your thoughts on
#wolfden and its ending? Would you ever want to see it back as it was?
[Wolfie]
When I think about all the fun we've had together, online & at the reunion, I
sometimes regret not sticking with the channel longer. I miss all of you so very much and
have such good memories of last summer when I got to meet some of you in real life. I
sometimes wish it was back as it used to be, but I know we're all very busy and even if it
were still around, we'd all be too busy to spend as much time on #wolfden as we had.
Still, I hope we'll all keep in close contact via online or email as time goes by. And
having another reunion would be really great, too. We'll have to do that again sometime!
If any of you ever want to chat, you can sometimes find me or Simon on #wolfden's original
server, blue.netnation.com, even though I'm not in #wolfden anymore. Whatever happens in
the future for all of us, I want you all to know that you all are very special to me and
I'll never forget those couple of years when I stayed up til the wee hours of night
goofing and laughing (not to mention sleeping) online with all of you!
[Simon]
I don't know if we'd be able to keep things going if it were back the way it was -- all of
our lives have changed quite a bit since it was the quite active channel it used to be.
But I'd love to have either an online and/or an in-person reunion perhaps annually or
something so that we can catch up with everybody on what's happening! That would be quite
cool. :) We had a lot of fun at the reunion, and I miss being able to talk with everybody
on the channel.
Also, a note too all of you people who
connect and then run away like you just stepped into a ghost town: Wolfie and I are
probably still there! We're just not on the channel, so feel free to /msg! :) |
