 Good morning everybody. So today's my birthday and it's a very special day for someone else too. It's not my birthday. No but it's pretty special. We're gonna go make the appointment to get my learners for my class one. Got my medical stuff right here. Right here. Passed with flying colors. Yeah I studied so hard. So hard. So she's got to pass a written test now to get her learners and then we make another appointment down the road for her to come do her pre-trip, her air brake and her road test before she can get her full on class one license. I'm nervous about the the air brakes part. That's the hardest part. Yeah the air brakes and the pre-trip. The driving well for me the driving was the easiest part. I'm pretty detail oriented so I think the pre-trip won't be as hard for me as the air brake part because I don't understand that stuff but he's supposed to teach me so get on him about that people. I think I'm going to learn a few things myself. Brush up on a few things. It's terrible. Well I've been driving for a while so this will be good for me too because it'll be a refresher course for me. Let's go make your appointment. Okay. You gotta get your learners. So you can drive a big truck. Woo! Truck or brick? Truck or brick? Yep. Oh this door doesn't want to stay open. Oh geez. So we're here at MPI. This is where we uh is there a Manitoba public insurance? This is where we do everything related to driver's licenses. The only place in Manitoba you can get insurance for vehicles or get a license. They have the monopoly on this so there is no arguing insurance prices against. It's a really dumb system in my opinion but I mean others beg to differ. The government controls it all. Yay. Government. So we made an appointment for her to get her learners. One is it again? Friday at 145. Friday? You sure it's not Thursday? Friday. You made it Friday? For sure. I got a paper with the confirmation on it. Going for her learners. Only need my learners for two weeks and then I can go get my driver's test. Yeah apparently. I'll keep it a little longer than that. Things are very booked up because as of September 1st in Manitoba you have to take your course so things are really really booking up solid lately so I'm going to have to really get on that. Yeah after September 1st it means like you'll have to go through an official specific trucking school which costs about $9,000. Which is ridiculous. You'll have to. I mean I understand why they're doing it. It's good and bad but we just want to save that money. But now it's time to spend my birthday money and get some new work shoes. They're so comfy. These shoes that I have on right here these this is what they look like new. This is what they look like after a year. So they actually lasted pretty well on the bottom here too if I can not fall over. Still got some tread. A whole year. And they'll still last through spring yet. I'm not even going to use these new ones till all the mud goes away. I'm excited. Happy birthday. Happy birthday to me. Spend my birthday money on work stuff because I'm cool. Get out. Birthday haircut. You like that? Sure do. And a birthday hat. You're wrecking the birthday haircut. Okay birthday haircut. I'm conflicted. I don't know if I should show off my birthday haircut or my birthday hat. Birthday haircut. Okay. It's only going to be like that for so long? Yeah. Now she's going to drop me off at the gym for a little while while she comes back and does some grocery shopping. She picked me up. We can go home and hopefully relax. But we got some work to do at home yet. It's not just relaxing of a birthday that I wanted because I wanted but that's life. Always stuff to do. That is a bright yellow car. Why? Why would you? Is that cool? Has no license plate. There she is. See this location is nice. That whole building is snap fitness. So many other locations around that I've seen are just like this tiny little cubicle. Drop you off at the dumpster here. Oh appropriate. Thank you. I appreciate that. Your birthday chauffeur. Birthday dinner as requested by me. It's one of my favorite meals of all time. Do you make it the best? We just can't eat it all the time because we dive heart attacks at a very premature age. What's the official name for it? Chilche or Kilke. It depends which region you're from as a Mennonite. If you're straight from Paraguay it is called Kilke. If you're from Mexico though I believe or no pardon me other way around. If you're from Paraguay as far as I've been told it's called Chilche. If you're from Mexico though it's usually called Kilke. So I don't know. I'll let my mom and dad figure that out. Mom's from Mexico dad's from Paraguay so they can they can duke it out and come up with a new name for it I guess. Just meat somewhere in the middle. Egg noodles and shmoot pot or cream gravy as Canadians call it. Cream gravy? Cream gravy. I call it shmoot pot. I didn't know what cream gravy was when I first started working at the diner. They kept calling it cream gravy. I'm like what is this and they're like shmoot pot. Oh okay yeah yeah yeah I totally know that. It's deliciousness that's what it's called. I thought everybody knew that. Now if you're not a Mennonite or married to one. Well if you're not a Mennonite you're missing out on a lot of good food. A lot of good heart attacks. And a few heart attacks. None of the food is healthy but it's all so good. Like I said in my vlog a Mennonite's version of vegetables is fried onions, corn and coleslaw. That's it usually. Sometimes the odd Mennonite will make peas or beans but that's it. That's all. Those are vegetables right? Yeah but see I'm just saying that there's no other vegetables. And then I have the shmoot pot in there. And what's that made out of? Cream, butter, flour, pepper and meat drippings when you fry or boil it in water. So it's made out of fat yeah is what it's made of and pepper and pepper. A little bit of pepper in there for flavor. Pepper yeah. Oh and it tastes so good. So good. Britt, Britt makes it the best. Thanks babe. I make it just like my mom makes it and she learned from my dad's grandmother who was a Mexican Mennonite. Mexican. They all came from well northwestern Germany and then they went to Prussia for a while. Now Prussia doesn't exist anymore. So just Russia they went to Ukraine. We kept getting kicked out of every country we were in because we were weird. As far as I know though Mennonites I think originated um well they're Dutch. Where would that be? Northwestern Germany right along the border with Dutch with the Netherlands and Germany yeah. Yeah because our last name Giesbrecht is uh could be considered a Dutch name but uh it's officially considered if you ask Google it's considered a German name but our people we originally came from northwestern Germany and the Netherlands it's the borders have all changed uh they've all changed over the centuries but same with my that whole region there. My maiden name as well was originally I think Dutch but it's considered German. It was Ham. Yeah. HA double N. We had a very unique uh religious way of practicing religion and at the time we kept getting pushed out of every country going country to country to country to country trying to find a country that would allow us to protect uh practice our religion the way we wanted to and no one wanted to because there was no freedom like that back then and so eventually we made our way to Canada where they promised us freedom of religion and so far so far they're still messing with us a little bit they've gone back on a few promises since we got here but they've allowed us to have freedom of religion here and uh the US is the same thing big midnight population in southwest Kansas and a lot of them went to Chihuahua Mexico as well and a bunch went to near Chaco Paraguay I think that's the name of the city I don't know but too much talking time to eat dinner is served happy birthday