It was a cold snowy day back in 1977 when Edward McBride was born. Course back them my last name was Blazenko. I was born in Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada. From what I was told, We moved to Vernon BC, when I was in Preschool. I don’t remember Preschool, but I remember my elementry school. I can still walk the route in my mind. Very easy to navigate it.
My moms car used to break down alot and she always went to one garage, G.S Lee Motors, and thats where my step father to be, Neal worked. Neal told me a story about when he first asked my mom out for a date. He says that “she took off like a bat outa hell, and almost took down the garage door” He says he spent the rest of the day fixing it.
The main part of my childhood was spent in Yellowknife, NWT Canada. The territories unofficial moto is ‘Explore Canada’s Arctic…and Freeze yer Ass”. Its true for about 10 months out of the year its cold. The average winter temp is about -40C and the average temp in the summer time is about +20C.
As I grew up there, I got interested in the Military, and joined Army Cadets. I joined 2837 Royal Canadian Army Cadets in YK. They were affiated with The Canadian Airborne Riggers in Edmonton, Alberta. ‘Riggers’ Are the people that pack the parachouts and all the parachouts for all the supplies and everything. I joined them when I was 12 years old and “retired from them when I was 19. I attained the rank of Chief Warrant Officer, the highest rank and cadet can be. Every summer I went to a cadet camp in Whitehorse, Yukon. I had a blast, meeting new people from all over the world. I had fun and I got paid for it, it was some of the best times in my life.
Flash forward to December 2000. I met someone that in two years would be my wife. WoW, she was and still is great. But there were some problems; I lived in western Canada, and she lived on the east coast of the USA. She at the time, was looking for places to go on her vacation, in April. she was gonna go to florida (America Wang as homer calls it.), but she was waffling on that. I told if she wanted a cheap vacation, she would be more than welcome to come to Canada, and I would show her the sights. Well she came up and spent a great week with me, we totally fell for each other, and started to plan the next time we would be together. That next time was 6 months later when I made the trip to Rhode island. I landed on September 10, 2001. Yep the day before “9/11″ We woke up the next day and were flipping through the channels and hit a news channel, and Crystal said “Oh look, they are blowing up another building, wonder what they wanna put there?” It was not untill we hit CNN and found out it was World trade tower one that was hit. We watched for alittle while, and then we got up showed and drove to the beach and spent a great day togther.
I proposed to her while watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The plan at the time was I would come down for New Years, and then we could do the paper work after I got there. Well, December 26th I got stopped at the Toronto Airport and was deined entry to the states, I went home and told Crystal and my parents what happened. I found a job and we started to do the paperwork the right way and just over six months after I was diened entry, I was down there legally on a K1 visa. On the 10th of August, Crystal and I were married in a small Pagan ceremony.
And they lived Happily ever after.
