Adventures in Momhood

THE SAGERS ARE COMING! THE SAGERS ARE COMING!

2009-08-13T13:57:17Z

We're invading Gen Con. Be on the look out for Mike getting pushed around by an evil Sith Chick. ;)

All I have to say is YAY ADULT INTERACTION! Yes I realize I'm talking about a gaming convention...

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME!?

2009-07-03T02:51:06Z

IF YOU HAVE GONE TO SEE TRANSFORMERS...I HATE YOU FOR NOT TELLING ME ABOUT THIS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W1dhqc-JBs

Prepare...or be in deep Sith.

2009-06-02T15:07:35Z

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-09-star-wars/49937

*pulls out her lightsaber and grins*

Because it made me go "Wow!"

2009-02-13T14:23:51Z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWgW3ogaV84&feature=channel_page

Say hi to my muse!

2009-02-03T19:24:52Z

Recently I decided to get Mike a nice picture of a favorite character.
Might not be a green floating skull but I still like him!

http://kaanamoonshadow.deviantart.com/art/Nekronalus-111677160

sigh

2009-01-28T18:06:21Z

Dear Life,

Would you please stop ruining my breakfast? So far you have pissed in the cheerios, shit on the toast, and done more unmentionables to my drinks....

I'm living off gum now to handle hunger and smoke cravings, thank you.

In other news:

Mike's grandmother passed away Friday. Life just couldn't let Mike and me have a movie night for our anniversary...*grumble gripe*

Wake is tomorrow and funeral is Friday but I got no clue where it is. Helps if my husband sits still long enough to tell me things really.

I'm not combative at life...it just sucks!

2009-01-13T17:49:30Z

So yeah, Mike and I finally got our water main repaired last week. We even have a few frozen boulders in our front yard for AJ to play on now and shiny new pipes and even a new meter.

So life should be good right?

Yeah this year hates us...

Thursday of last weekend I come home from laundry day and the house is freezing. I'm thinking it's just that the pilot light went out again. Go downstairs, relight it, and go upstairs to my nice warm blankies cause I am not keen on becoming a meat popsicle.

Mike comes home about an hour later and comments that it's an ice box downstairs. I tell him I relit the pilot when I got home. He goes to make sure it's all good cause the house should have been warmer after an hour of heat.

Pilot was out again. Mike relights it and comes upstairs to bed. We're just starting to fall asleep when we hear a loud boom.

Mike goes to check the furnace again. Pilot light is out...again. This is the 3rd relighting of it in under 2 hours.

We sigh and figure we'll have to call someone in the morning to come look at it. Since we had to spend a bunch on the water problem we are trying to make our furnace limp along till summer when furnaces will be a lot cheaper.

Call the heater people in the morning. Mike takes off work to sit in the cold and wait for them while I take AJ to the in laws and finish laundry.

Heater guy tells us that we forgot to change our filters, which should be done every three months. Yeah only a small problem that can be fixed! Heater guy gets 80 bucks and departs.

1 hour later Mike hears another loud boom downstairs and goes to check what's up. Not only is the pilot out, he smells gas!

Mike calls the guy back who cringes and then tells Mike that there's nothing he can do but give it a burial. We're gonna have to get a new furnace. This is last Friday...and we all know no one works the weekends anymore.

So Mike and I spent a lovely weekend freezing our tails off in our house. Thank god we knew how to dress to stay warm, though I did feel like I was suppose to have nero make-up on. We have heat now but that's another 7000 plus bucks out the window. 14000 so far this year.

Now we have issues with Mike's family cropping up. Grandma got put on hospice and is pretty much dying, this means a heavily unhappy Mike. Add to that AJ's been sick and cranky since Monday.

Is it any wonder I've latched onto a board rp to preserve my sanity? Apparently it's a bad thing if you ask Mike. It's like him shrieking about NERO all over again!

I'm sorry if I don't wanna raid on WoW. My stress levels are high enough without having to deal with some of the idiots on there thanks. I'd much prefer to do my board rp and chat with my fellow rpers about the chaos we've got going.

SO GET THE FUCK OFF MY BACK! ARGH!

In other news: Hannah? Kelly? Someone? Girls day please!? SOS!

Thanks alot Karma you fucking bastard....

2008-12-23T23:24:51Z

Haven't updated in forever, honestly simply been to busy. Still busy but if I don't talk to someone I'm going to go on a murderous rampage in order to vent much needed frustration and fury at the universe cause playing murder everyone in video games is not helping.

Till Thursday of last week we were actually doing ok. Mike got a nice fat bonus which we were putting in the new house fund. The fund is for us to get a new house since we can hardly have another kid in this one and we do want another one. The fund was about 17000 bucks and slowly growing since Mike and I don't exactly live expensively. Even better was that we did not need to buy alot of christmas gifts this year. Just the small kids, parents, and of course Mike's siblings.

Thursday however I got up and got downstairs and was cold. Not just the freshly out of bed and it's chilly out kind of cold. I mean the what the fuck am I outside somehow kind of cold. Turns out our heater had died in the middle of the night. With how the wind was blowing AJ's room and the bathroom had turned into freezers.

Unfortunately neither Mike nor me have any idea how to fix the heater. I could tell the pilot was out but had no idea how to restart it or if that was even a good idea since the heater was old. Found out later our heater is about 30 years old...yes our heater is as old as Mike is pretty much. Any wonder we had no idea how to fix it?

So 80 bucks went out the window with the prospect of more money going cause according to the heater guy we desperately need a new one. With the one he's thinking it'll be about 7000. Ours is gobbling up gas but the heat isn't flowing enough basically. So while the expense sucks balls it'll be better in the long run.

So Mike and I are cringing cause we have to dip into the house fund. It'll only set us back a bit though so we're ok.

Now as everyone knows it's fucking ass cold outside. There is a part of our basement right under the bathroom that is not insulated AT ALL. Water pipes + freezing temperatures = yikes! So when the weather got nasty Mike and I made it a point to put a space heater in that area to ward off freezing pipes.

Well guess what....didn't work. Not surprising considering we found a few holes in the wall too afterwards.

Our tub had not been getting any water so we were kinda worried but we could hear it moving in the pipes. We figured the pipes just needed time to warm up and checked the tub every once in awhile.

Well one of the times I checked it I suddenly hear the worst thing possible. A loud POP and water spraying.

First reaction is looking about to see what is running then I realize water is coming out of the wall.

Thank the Maker Mike was home for a nap and heard me scream for him at the top of my lungs. We run about like chicken's with our heads cut off for a couple till we find the main to the house and turn it off. We look up a plumber to come fix things and Mike heads off back to work.

Plumber arrives and I take him downstairs where the main switch is and where most of the water came down. Minute I turn off the stairs I know something is very very wrong. Water is running from the area the main is to a drain across the basement. My brain is already going "FUCK FUCK FUCK!"

Turns our that the main in our wonderful concrete foundation has a leak. Worse the pipes are ancient galvanized pipes, meaning that the whole main pipe line needs to get replaced. Oh, and no it's not the city's problem, we already thought to check about that since this leak is before the water meter and hence not ours at all. Thanks alot assholes.

So not only are we not getting a new heater like we direly need, we get to spend our entire house fund on fixing this fucking leak in the main.
To make this even better, we can't do anything about it till the Monday after Christmas. Yep, our main water pipe is set to snap off and flood our house at any minute but no one can do a damn thing about it till next Monday.

Merry Fucking Christmas folks....

I iz the shit!

2008-11-03T15:39:44Z

Took AJ out trick or treating Friday. Fun was had and my faith in the future somewhat restored when I say an older girl taking her little sister trick or treating in a viking costume. Conversation went like this.

Me: Wow, that's an awesome costume. *thinking of nero* Where did you get it?
Girl: The Halloween Store.
Me: *scowls* I must have missed it in my hunting.
Girl: Yeah it was a little hard to find. Only thing I could get though that covered everything.
Me: *tears of joy in eyes start bowing since I'm sure she'd freak out at me hugging her* Bless you child...Bless you!

After AJ was in bed I headed off to NERO. Wi's event was small but I love smaller events. It means less insantiy and boredum. Well I shouldn't say that things still went insane. I certainly was not sitting around this weekend barely. Was awesomely fun! Now though I have to translate more runes and pray that me losing the reins of my plot to Plan B doesn't come back to anally rape me. YAY! :D

High points:

Me, Illuara (Carrie's Darkie), and Valeric walking off to check the mountains for Harry the Likable.
Me: You know Valeric...your going to have a bragging right here.
Valeric: What do you mean?
Me: Your walking off into the woods with 2 dark elf females.
Illuara: We on an oreo adventure here then?
Me: Yep and Valeric is the tasty creme center.
Valeric: Awesome.
Me: Now people will pout of course cause we could have been doubestuffed. ;)
*brains explode*

Me to Bill: I taking Illuara, Valeric, and Chamelion with me to Bywater.
Bill: K then.
Me *walk outside*: Huh?...Kobold and FancyPants...ah well 2 more isn't a big deal.
*5 minutes later while waiting by the road so folks can smoke*
*Tiny and Plan B creeping over*
Me: You guys know we're out of town and walking right?
Tiny: We know we're tracking and following you guys.
Me: *realize Tiny and co is the rest of the town* O_o Bill is going to kill me...

Bill *blinking at everyone*: Who was with Setie when she left town?
*My original group comes running over*
Bill: And the rest of you...
Tiny: We're tracking her because she gives us tons of money to stupid reasons. She needs to live!
Me: Yay I get minions via my own stupidity!

*Outside the Jolly Den after talking with Molly*
Me: Hey Tiny how does your group feel about stealing?
Tiny: What are we getting?
Me: We need to get a chest for Molly here out of a warehouse.
Valeric *sneaks up behind me*: Wait what are we doing?
Me: Valeric plug your ears.
Valeric: -_-;
Tiny: Why can't she get her own chest.
Me: Well there's the issue with the Baron...
Valeric: WHAT!? We're stealing from a Baron!?
Me: *facepalm*

Valeric: T_T Setie...stealing from a Baron?
Me: He's a bad Baron.
Valeric: Really?
Me: He oppresses the common people. And he hates trees....

*Seeing Tiny and Lacreima plotting*
Tiny: You need the information this lady has right.
Me: *worried* Yes....
Tiny: And she wants us to get this fancy chest right?
Me:...yeah?
Tiny: Well I vote we get the info then the chest.
Me: Huh? *hears Lacreima talking to people about waylaying*
Lacreima: Alright folks follow me!
Me: Wait...what? HEY! T_T I'm gonna get screwed and killed aren't I?

*A few minute of standing about in the pub I start to calm thinking nothing is going to happen when everyone blows up*
Me: Lacreima! Laceima stop! Your killing my informant!
*Lacreima gets imprisoned and I run over to the hobling still standing*
Me: Let me first aid her...Please don't slaughter me Miss Molly....

Lacreima to Molly: The phrase is: We gave you the chest and you hid it.
Me: *cringing realizing that's a horrible phrase to give a shady alchemist who's the head of a criminal organization.*

As Tiny and folks set up a wagon for FancyPants to appear a noble and get us into the warehouse.
Tiny: Alright, you are Lord FancyPants of Northmarch....
Brom: Isn't impersonating a lord illegal?
Me: And robbing a warehouse isn't?

Timik to Kalen outside the Warehouse we're robbing while "Lord" Fancypants talks: You know this probably is a bad thing to do with our tabards on and such.
Me: Why? You guys got all the forget it thingies and the only one who stands to be screwed over by this is me.
Timik: True...ok I feel better.
Me: *sarcastically* Oh yeah, highway robbery with immunity to the consequences...what more could a guy want...

After finding a prepped spirit bottle in Molly's chest and it suddenly vanishing.
Me: I'm so sorry guys. I was the last one to have it so I'll take full responsibility for the theft.
Lacriema: Oh don't worry Setie we know it wasn't you.
Me: Really? You guys don't know me well at all though and I was the last one to have it. I should be the number one suspect.
Lacriema: Nah we trust you.
Me: *annoyed and confused* What the hell did I do to get the permenant good girl label here? You realize I'm a dark elf right?

Me talking to Fazrin: Seriously. I feel bad for you guys getting screwed is there any way I can make this up to you?
Faz: Nah we know you didn't do it.
Me: And how is that?
Faz: Because we've watched you and not only can you not lie for crap. Also we figured your more likely to pay through the nose to get the bottle from us then steal it.
Me: So basically you guys reason that I could not have taken the bottle cause I'd rather pay people off to do what I want or stay quiet and be walked all over then actually chance you guys rolling me into the dirt if I screwed you via theft?
Faz: Something like that yeah.
Me: T_T;

Me: I know I should be happy about it, but I am confused as to why no one thinks I stole the bottle. I mean logically I should be the number 1 suspect...
Illuara: That's easy to answer. Setie do you have the bottle?
Me: *glare and make physical offer to search me* Why would I want to turn into some disgusting undead lich?
Illuara: That's why.
Me: *sigh*

A bit after Lacreima and folks build up a fire to spawn some broken fire elementals.
Casey: 1 I spawn from the fire, 2 I spawn from the fire, 3 I spawn from the fire...*steps towards me*
Me: Shit! *trying to jump up off bench by the fire to escape.
Casey: 5 fire.
Me: Magic armor. Whoa! *trip over bench and fall backwards* Elderitch fore I build a prison!
Casey: Becky you good?
Me: I'm good, just gonna lay on the ground here with my imprison thanks.

*5 minutes later I'm still in my imprison while they are building it up again*
Tybalt: Hmmm...1 I drag you onto the fire....2 I drag you onto the fire...
Me: Imprison down! QUIT IT!

Calling for a seamstress...

2008-10-30T14:11:03Z

My robe that I use to play Setie is slowly falling apart and I seriously can not seem to find the time to make another one. *cry*

Anyone out there that can help me out? I mean the design itself is simple. All straight lines really, I just can't seem to get the time to pull out my machine and redo it. T_T

Why do I bother again?

2008-10-27T16:00:42Z

I am getting very sick of the double standard in this house.

I bend myself into a pretzel for everyone and everything in this house. I might be exhausted but I'll stay up and play with Mike so he'll relax. I don't take naps almost every day and I get up at the same time and stay up just as long.   Do people think I don't work just because I'm not making money?

Congrats you jackass. You just ruined my perfectly good weekend and shot the next one to hell.

In case folks haven't guessed. Mike forgot about the WI event this weekend...and while he has not said anything I'm willing to bet he said we'd do something once again WITHOUT FUCKING TELLING ME!

I mean yes normally I go along with things but god dammit if he's asking me at least he knows it's clear. And if it's a fucking raid and he needs a healer I'm going to beat him. I'm tired of not getting to do what I want because of raids. Frickin expansion is due out in 3 weeks people can deal with their gear being sub par.

In other news, had gaming with the family. It's turning into quite the comedy. Let's look at the cast shall we?

Chase (Pat): Ranger who keeps sticking his nose where he should not and has an itchy arrow finger.
Example: We find out odd mop guy was playing us. He runs off and tries to clobber the guy. Who then glares and punches the ranger down the hall and almost kills him.

Rorake (Jason): Barbarian who is blessed with the brains to keep his mouth shut but can't hit things to save his life. Forgets to keep track of the possessed bard like the wizard tells him to.
Example: Me: Rorake?...Where's the bard?
Rorake: Uh...I thought I had her with me...
Jim: No you put her down to bust open the door remember.
Me: *facepalm* So now we have a homicidal dog possessed bard running about to worry about...thanks Rorake.
Rorake: No problem.

Ainwen (Katie): Bard who got possessed by some wolf spirit somehow. In a game where there is no clerics or paladins and no divine magic. This is an issue.
Examples: 1.) Almost ran into a room with a ritual going on while we were healing up because dog spirit said to.
2.) Almost tore out the druid's throat because he got in the way.
3.) Almost tore out my throat when I was stuck alone with her and another wolf possessed guy.

Devon (Kyle): Fighter who can't understand why I tell him to shut up. Great at volunteering to go into the scary room first with sheild high. Not so good at questioning people without ticking them off.
Example: The local apothecary has all my spell components. She also was not surprised when we told the town their garrison got shredded by the dog things that like to possess people. Hence we need to question her.

Devon: So why weren't you shocked about the garrison huh? Sending your little doggie friends to kill us all huh?
Me: What? Devon...
Lady: What!? OMG GET OUT YOU BASTARDS!
Me: Wait what my friend meant was....
Lady: OUT!
Me: My compenents...T_T
Devon: Yeah she's guilty of something.
Me: *deathglare* I have a fireball with your name on it when I learn the spell....

Cole (Jim): Druid extradinare. Usually the voice of reason but butts heads with my character due to differing philosophies. Classic undead hater.
Example: Creeping around this old keep and come across a pair of casters after we've dealt with a room of skeletons.
Cole: OMG those casters are necromancers kill them!
Me: Wait wait why don't we...
*Group charges in and slaughters the people*
Me: ....incapacitate and question....*sigh*
Cole: We don't need to talk to dirty necromancers.
Me: You know I CAN cast necromantic spells eventually right?
Cole: *glaring* Have you already?
Me: No...but eventually I can.
Cole: Then my wolf will be having a tasty snack
Me: Excellent I've been wanting some wolf steak for awhile. Besides, there's more to necromancy then undead summoning. You will never be able to tell if I cast a necro spell unless it's animate dead.
Cole: I...you...grrr....
Me: That's why I'm the brains here.

Ryneth (Me!): Resident arcane person. Wizard who keeps having to save idiots from themselves and save her own butt a number of times.
Example: Right after the group slaughters the 2 casters. I haven't even walked into the room the casters died that fast.
Mike: Becky you feel a chill from behind.
Me: I turn to look at it.
Mike: You see a giant shadow reaching a hand towards you...*rolls* What's your AC?
Me: *checking to make sure mage armor is still up* 17.
Mike: Yeah it hits you. You take...6 strength damage. If that hits zero you die.
Me: *looks at my piddly 10, now 4* Screaming like the girl I am here.
Mike: Alright then. Initiative...alright...19...18...
Me: *raises hand*
Mike: What do you do with this giant shadowy scary thing that just took a chunk out of you.
Me: Light spell to it's face.
Mike: *blink blink* well yeah that would work...

Other amusing moments:

Ladic (resident wizard of the crumbling keep) after Chase's attack does nothing due to his stoneskin spell: Really...you break into my keep. Try to rob me. Kill my appretices. Slaughter my skeleton army. Now you try to hit me?   *knocks him down the hall where me and Devon were coming.*
Me after seeing Chase crash: You did something stupid again didn't you!? *seeing angry wizard* Oh crap...

Ladic: I assumed my apprentices could take you but I guess they just were to busy screwing around...how did you guys handle their shadow anyways?
Me: Light spell to the face.
Ladic: Ah...very resourceful.
Me: Thank you, I try.

When Ainwen sticks her head out the door Ladic came out of and only has a sheet wrapped around her.
Me to Ladic: Wow...like 'em young don't you?

Me to Cole as we're leaving Ladic's: I'm surprised your not screaming for that mage's blood. He animates dead you know.
Cole: In due time.
Me: Well let me know when that time is. I want to make sure he knows I'm not with you when he wipes the floor with you.

Ainwen when I mention her showing the goods to get info: Why do you keep insinuating I'm a slut?
Me: Because so far you've only proven useful in talking to people, sitting pretty, and singing.   All things the common whore does well.
Ainwen: Well I'm not a slut.
Me: You do realize your choosen profession is being a bard correct?

Group discussing findings. Note: Law decrees that there is no worshipping of gods plus divine magic blew up at one point some 300 years ago. Hence divine magic is a thing of tales.
Chase: So these dog things have unknown magic, possess people, are smart enough to evade traps, and the apothecary's son is likely hiddden in her barn as one.
Devon: That sums it up.
Ainwen: Is there a cure for this at all?
Cole: Well...there's exorcisim.
Me: *mocking laugh* Exorcisim? That wive's tale of divine being's saving mortals? *more laughing*
Cole: Artifacts exist....probably.
Me: Yeah sure. They might exist but who knows if they work or where they might be. Unless you intend to do alot of digging for the next number of years I would say find another option.

Group sees a magical storm coming that heralds the nasty dog possessed people.
Me: Ah...that would be the impending part of our impending doom.
Cole: I think it's time to get out of town.
Chase: Yep.
Devon: Agreed.
Rorake: *grunt*
Ainwen: *nervously looking about*
Me: *sigh* And exactly what do you guys intend to do about the 1,000 so farmers and their families that are living here without any garrison to defend them?
Group: *crickets*
Me: That's what I thought...Come on let's go see if we can convince the mayor to fortify and gather a militia.

Me talking to Ladic about the impending storm: That thing will have a ton of dog people possessing everyone in town! You need to help out since you live here. Unless you want an army of dog people banging down your door in a rage.
Ladic: Bah. Why should I? They won't come near this keep due to the ghosts upstairs.
Me: Oh yeah, you only care about your craft... *inspiration* But you know...those dog people had magic users too. They weren't using arcane or druidic magic though.
Ladic: *curious* Really?
Me: Yep, so it's either that legendary divine magic or a type that is completely unknown.
Ladic: Give me 2 hours.
Me: Thank you.

I sense a disturbence in the Force....

2008-10-22T15:02:26Z

As if millions of fans screamed out in delight to the point that I lost my hearing so then there was silence.

http://www.swtor.com/

In other news. The guys that did the beloved song Big Blue Dress is a more serious song about a favorite (if sad) WoW questline.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dTxcHulFBI

Hey Hannah!

2008-10-15T13:39:35Z

Saw this and thought of you guys. Let me know if the girl got it basically correct eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgjSf4t-q7A

Because it made me laugh.

2008-09-29T19:12:41Z

I'm sure my fellow WoW nuts will giggle to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ZqcW-xu5c&feature=related

Note: This guy apparently does the voice of Edward Elric from Full Metal Alchemist. Hence the last bit.

Gaming?

2008-09-22T13:42:17Z

We were hoping to game this Saturday. As far as I know there's no WI or CHI events and Joel is going to be close by, hence the hope for gaming.

Since it's a Saturday we can start and go on for a bit later more then likely.
Tell me if this is good folks.

Can I beat you now or later?

2008-09-17T16:53:05Z

The urge to kill someone here is rising steadily...

First we have the dogs. They are doing better but we still have scuffles over treats, food, and toys. Mainly cause Iroh thinks everything is his. I keep having to chase him down and pry things away to give to Toph.
I also have problems with Toph. She doesn't listen to me and I have to drag her to get her to move. Mainly I believe cause Iroh is practically humping my leg whenever I call Toph. This makes me frustrated.

Secondly, AJ is starting to get in the tantrum and talk back deal. I hear "NO!" alot more and he throws a fit when he doesn't get his way. I'm trying to be tolerant cause he's getting molars in. However he NEEDS to stop grunting for everything and use his words...this brings me to the third problem...

Mike.

I keep telling him don't give AJ anything unless he uses his words. It's not rocket science. Just listen for say "Milk" and "Please". Then you give it to him! Don't frickin jump up the minute he whines and give it to him! I don't care whatever the hell your doing on your damn computer! Maybe you should leave the games that require 100% attention till AFTER AJ GOES TO BED!

Then of course there is Mike's damn whining. It's always in roughly the same context.

1. What am I doing all day? The house is a mess. When am I gonna clean out that spare room (which he said he would help me with on a weekend) so we can start using it as a giant closet?

2. When am I gonna talk to so and so? Did I send them pictures we don't have? I need to do that. Nevermind that these are people that are HIS friends. I don't talk to them really. I'm sorry if I'm a bit busy. How about you take that time you spend at work playing video games your not suppose to be and send them a picture? I know you have some on that computer there!

3. NOTE MAY BE TMI FOR SOME. When am I gonna get laid? Nevermind that I stay up till 1 am every night making sure he get his damn back scratched. Heaven forbid he get off the fuckin computer at 11 instead of 12 so I can get 6 hours of sleep instead of 4-5. I'm exhausted! By the time 12 rolls around I've been up since 7:30 (usually) and by then I'm fucking tired! I've been chasing kids (both furry and non) all day, then cleaning, then make dinner and listen to him whine how it's never ready when he gets home. It has been medically proven that excessive stress = lack of sex. Go jump on your damn websites, the internet is for porn after all. Obviously if you need to watch said porn before snuggling up to me, I must be a real bitch. OH FUCKING WELL!

WTB escape...

If Mike hadn't been planning a day (and night I might add) out with his boys for this Saturday. I would happily tell him to go screw and watch the kids. I am however trying not to be a complete bitch since he's been planning this for over a month.

I can almost see the arguement now. He'd be like "You got to go out Tuesday night!"
I ran out to find a DRESS. I'm the maid of honor in a wedding that happens November 26th. I'm already paying out the nose for rush charges because of the short notice. I had to wait for MIKE to fucking be ok enough to watch AJ so I could go even! He did not understand this concept. 2 YEAR OLD IN A BRIDAL SHOP! Yes this is a wonderful idea while I'm trying to squeeze into dresses and get an idea of what the hell they look like on me. Have a child with who is prone to grabbing things and pulling and running off. FUCKTARD!

I'm going to fucking explode....

On a completely unrelated note. What is everyone doing next Saturday? Joel is gonna be in the area and we were thinking gaming. I almost forgot about it completely and right about now I REALLY need other people about.

You get to see the puppy if you come. ^_^

New addition to the family.

2008-09-15T14:37:14Z

No I'm not pregnant thank you. :P

We went out and got another dog this past Saturday since the local animal shelter was basically having a sale/promotion event. We got a calm little mutt who's part basset hound, part terrier, part something we're not sure of. She's got stripes and is the sweetest little thing.

We of course have named her Toph. We picked it out way before we went. We also said if we got a boy we'd name him Zuko. XD

Iroh however is a bit less then pleased with this idea. We're hoping they just need time to get use to each other cause we really don't want to give her back to the TAILS people (thought they would take her back if the dogs aren't getting along). We haven't had anything to severe but Iroh is a very jealous puppy on top of being huge. He accidentally stepped on her while sniffing which hurt her a bit and has made her scared of him. He's using this whenever she goes near me and he tries to use it on Mike too but fails.

They're getting slowly better together I think though I will certainly welcome any advice folks have on the matter. :)

Yes you read that time right....

2008-09-10T08:41:27Z

So your probably wondering why I would be up at the ungodly hour of 3:30 am. The answer is simply, my stupid dog who can't keep his nose out of the garbage. At least we think he's throwing up from the garbage. It's certainly foul smelling enough.

This time I think the dog ate 2 cat fish of Mike's that died. They would have been right on top since Mike told me "Throw them away" but failed to mention they should go in the toilet. *sigh* What part of "I have never had fish" does that man not understand?

And tomorrow I get to be up bright and early to get out the door for a bridesmaid dress...with AJ in tow. Who by the way woke up upon hearing Mommy wandering about cursing and did not go to bed till around 12 out of his own stubborness to stay up and play....

WTB day off and sleep. Will pay in souls.

Well gotta go, hear the dog hocking up again. Hope I can keep myself from vomiting from the sheer grossness. The dog is out of food in that stomach so it's straight up stomach fluid now....

Weekend of YAY!

2008-09-02T13:31:26Z

Went to NEROWI this past weekend and had a blast. Stayed up horrendously late Friday night which is a rarity for me. Normally I'm one of the first ones passed out on Friday but there was stuff going on and I was up till the sun started rising. Even a bit after since we had attempted robbers come in. God I'm having trouble remembering everything I did but I certainly wasn't sitting very long in most cases. When I was sitting it was usually Setie pulling her hair over what I call her book of insults. By the way Bill, Mike finds that idea hilarious.

Sunday was spent at the Blodgett's. They're daughter is so darn cute. Was good times all around and AJ was really cute and gave Lily 2 kisses as we left. Mike and Rob are hammering out the arrangements on the wedding now. XD

Monday was the day of rest for us. Sat around playing our games and recharging from our busy but awesome weekend!

Moments of awesomeness from the event:

Swann as we're about to go beat up some rampaging clockwork scarecrow golem things: If possible can we get one that isn't to banged up for me to study?
*10 minutes later a big nasty one comes out*
Chris as the golem: Voice radius fear!
*Everyone but me runs like hell*
Me: Resist! Call forth mystic power to sheild magic...
Chris: Magic fear! *hits me*
Me: Sheild Magic! Elderich force I build a prison! *hits chris who stops* HEY SWANN I GOT ONE FOR YOU!

Tamara walking back from above mod: Wow Setie you were a total badass back there.
Me: Why thank you. I try.

Me very very frustrated with magic book of clueness: Who's got fire?

Phoenix dancing about with a sanctuary on: Woohoo! Look at me undead, haha! You can't hurt me!
Me waiting for Phoenix to move with an arrow ready, finally get a shot and shoot.
Phoenix jumps into arrows path and losses sanctuary. Glares at me as undead starts beating him up.
Me: QUIT GETTING IN THE WAY OF THE ARCHER!

Me going on big bad ass meat grinder mod last mod of the night for me: My hope is to simply be useful during all this.
Whisper: Your useful.
Me: Really? People keep going on about how celestial is useless and I should have learned earth.
Whisper: Er...I was meaning cause your an archer, those are always handy.
Me: *anime tears*

Me: I just don't understand why this miserable bastard has walked back into my life now... (referring to Zai)
Innkeeper who's read the note: Well he sounds like a nice enough guy...
Clara reading the note: Yeah. Sounds to me like he has a crush on you.
Me as head explodes from Clara's train of thought: HELLLL NO! Are you stupid? I insulted the crap out of this guy and he probably wants to remove my head more then anything. He wants me around for a reason and a booty call is not one of them! Just...just...NO!

Valeric after rezzing Tamara the first time: Tamara what happened??
Tamara: I'm in trouble...Dominion doesn't like me anymore.
Me: This is news? I've been waiting for you to piss him off since you told me you talked to him.
Tamara: He said I wasn't any more use to him.
Me: Vith (fuck in drow)...hope that doesn't mean he's gonna come after me with the job opportunity of a lifetime here...
Tamara: Oh yeah I forgot that he likes you.
Me: Can't imagine why....

Mid level person on the front line during nasty meat grinder: Shouldn't we follow Mend?
Me looking at the 10 some undead bottle necked in front of the 5-6 of us and thinking of a good number of Plan B, Valeric, and Mendalev behind us taking on a Death Knight. Brain picturing the massive death if we let the smaller undead though. Drill Sergent voice on as I flip my bow and start blocking: NO! Hold this line! Shoulder to shoulder! DO NOT LET THESE UNDEAD THOUGH! Keep them here! Go defensive and stop them! *starts blasting and binding*

Crunchies come in the tavern door. I'm in the back corner talking with Valeric and Tamara on the couch. I pick up the bow and aim thinking of trying to hit one from way back here.
Tiny in front of me: NOOO! You'll shoot me in the back of the head again!
Me: I only do that to Lacrima cause he's a bad dancer.

Me trying to line up a shot with a lowbie in front who won't duck down: Goose...GOOSE! Grr...*smack lowbie on the head with the bow* DOWN!
Lowbie: No need to be snippy.
Me: Would you prefer I shoot you in the head??

Tamara: Setie you should join my Tavern Wenching guild!
Me: O_o Uh...I don't think I would be very good at that...
Tamara: Don't worry, I show you all the ropes. How to serve ale. How to show off boobs. How to accept money down the boobs....
Me: Uh, Tamara the way I dress does not allow for such things.
Tamara: You just need a good corset...
Me: Tamara...I suggest you give up on this line of thinking before I am forced to silence you....

Mend: How the hell are we getting read of this thing!
Me unable to see in the dark: What thing?
Mend: The descrated undead in front of me!
Me spotting what he means next to me: Oh that's easy, like this. *shoots arrow into the undead at point blank and it is tooled down by the fighters*
Mend: I love you darkie.
Me: Yes yes, everyone here loves me...now if you would all stop calling me darkie!

Hey Hannah!

2008-08-21T13:59:55Z

Mike and I agree that if you don't have the energy for pasta salad and banana bread that we'll just take the bread and figure out the rest. :)

We'll be having chicken, something, and something for dinner on Sunday. Still trying to figure out exactly what. :/

Please note that Mike and I have been trying to cut our caffiene intake so more then likely there isn't going to be alot of pop here for folks to drink. We'll have plenty of water though and I'm thinking I'll make lemonade. :D

Hmm...I have a feeling I'm forgetting something but can't think of it...

Gaming update

2008-08-19T22:43:54Z

Sunday is good if Tim and Hannah can make it. Joel sadly can't but Mike said we can get started without him.
So provided Tim and Hannah are good to go...YAY GAMING!

Gaming question.

2008-08-19T13:16:10Z

So who would possibly be free for this weekend if we gamed?

Vegas baby!

2008-08-11T15:54:17Z

Vegas was great! It certainly is better when your not 6 months pregnant. XD
I'm breaking it down into days since that will be easiest on me. :P

Thrusday: Get to airport at an obscenely early hour. Traffic was decent and then when I got there I found that I had packed light enough that I didn't need to check my bag, plus I had my boarding pass already. Just had to go through security which had a pretty short line at the time. Wound up actually 2 hours early for my plane so sat and chatted with the rest of the Devnet wives. Came to the conclusion that I am an utter geek. All of them started talking about what famous people they'd love to pounce, I kinda blinked and went "Uh...Thrall?" in my brain. Yep, the geek here goes for fictional characters over actual stars. T_T
Anyways, Mike and Joe were the ones coming to pick us up. That way there would be plenty of room in the van for all 5 of the wives and baggage.
Instead all the Devnet guys were there and every single one had a rose for his sweetie. Was so cute. Specially when Anna decided she wasn't going to wait another second and ran off and tackled Joe. XD
Wanted to do that to but my bag prevented that. Oh well Mike was just happy to see me and missed me. :)

Now Mike knows I've been exhausted from fighting AJ the last few nights. AJ's discovered he can sneak out of bed and play with toys even after he's been put to bed, so yeah I was up late making him stay in bed and then I had things to do after he went to bed, plus insomnia. Becky was mildly sleep deprived by the time I got there. So Mike tucked me into bed for a good nap. Personally I would happily pay out the nose for one of the beds from the Bellagio. They kinda suck you in and your out cold before 5 minutes has past cause they're so soft. So I crashed really hard. Like Post Nero event hard.

After about 3 hours Mike pokes me up and we start walking. We were due at a restaurant in Mandalay Bay around 7ish for dinner with the rest of the Devnet crew. On the way we visited all the hotels on the way, just to see what they were like inside. Luxor was really cool and Mandalay Bay was really cool too. Excaliber and Monte Carlo were rather blah. They need work, seriously if they are going to be demanding so much money.

Anyways, went to a place called The Red Square for dinner. The theme is amusing. What better way to make fun of Communism then to make a bar out of it. XD All the food (which was really good by the way) was Russian themed. The bar even had an ice top! At the end of the night we all went into the vodka freezer. When you go in there you are put into fur coats because it's that frackin cold. Then you pick a bottle of vodka and you have to drink it till it's gone, via shots off Lenin's head. Thankfully there was a bunch of us so we made short work of the bottle, after the girl told us the proper way to drink hard liquor. Yes there is a proper way which doesn't cause you to cough up a lung or the like. ;)

After that it was really late, well for us all anyways. It's was only like 10 for Vegas but that's like 12 for us and I was still exhausted. Hence bed and me reducing Mike to drool monster. ;)

Friday: Was spent gambling and taking in the sights. When off with Sue and Anna for "shopping". Apparently they wanted their boys to get them blue boxes. I felt silly cause I had no idea what they meant until someone finally said "Tiffany's". Went in with them but didn't really see anything I liked even to pout at Mike for. We did look at other stuff and shake our heads at the stupid amounts of money people ask for things along with the ugly things people would buy for said horrible amount.
Now until after dinner Mike had done all the gambling. I pretty much stayed away cause my luck is horrendous normally.
Apparently though I have decent luck in gambling. Mike gave me 5 bucks to gamble with, I figured giving me small amounts was a good idea since I was bound to lose it all.
I took that 5 bucks and somehow managed to turn it into 60 on penny slots. I am of course thinking it's just beginner's luck.

Saturday: Got up and Mike dragged me off for dim sung. Hope I spelled that right. Anyways, him and the boys had been going on about it and confused me to no end. Turns out dim sung is basically a buffet style asian food deal where you don't have to get up. They come around on carts and you take what you want for your table. I myself LOVED the sweet rolls. It was all very tasty and I hear there are places in the area that do this so I'm hoping I can repeat the experience soon. :D

Then it was off to the spa for me. I seriously walked in and thought they might punt me out again for not being pretty enough for the surroundings. Yes there are places in Vegas that will deny you on grounds of your appearance, we're usually good about avoiding said places that suck anyways. So got a really good massage from a lady named Wanda then soak in the jacuzzi...butt naked. It's actually really nice and I highly recommend it to folks

Anyways, then I went to get my hair done. The girl was thankfully very patient with my irritating hair and did it wonderfully to go with my dress. I swear I saw her get the most evil smile when I mentioned the dress made me think Marylin Monroe.

So hair gets done and I go back to the room to finish getting ready, it's early but we were planning on wandering about for a bit before dinner anyways.

Minute I walk in the door I know something is up. At first I'm thinking our house burned down or something. The day before our smoke alarms kept going off for no obvious reason. Jim finally had to just pull them off the ceilings since they were wired to the house and couldn't be turned off.

Nope. Turns out Mike's sister Katie went to the hospital. They found cysts in some nasty spots. So Mike is upset for obvious reasons and slow to get moving. He just wants to escape into his book pretty much. I ask if he just wants to cancel tonight and go home. I would hate to do it but I would understand. Mike says no but he just wants to read a bit to get his mind off it.
I tell him ok but I'm going to get dressed so I know everything works and then I'd go back downstairs and gamble some more. Mike's fine with that.

So I go get dressed, made up, etc. Get done and I'm sitting there cursing the lack of a full size mirror, before I realize there's a mirrored wall right next to the bed. So I go to check myself and make sure nothing is showing that shouldn't be. All I hear from behind me (where Mike should be busy with his book) is "Wow..."
Someone got dressed in a hurry then. ;)
So on the way to the Venetian (where our dinner reservations and the show was) we ran into 2 of the Devnet crew. Neither recognized me and both times the eyes went big like "Holy cow".
I believe Kelly said it best. I clean up good. XD

Only bad thing was that Mike somehow misplaced his wallet. We wound up spending the time we were going to use walking about and looking at things looking for his wallet instead. We were running mildly late then. Mike was slightly fretting over it when we got a cab and I told him not to panic we still had time. After all our reservations were for 6:30 and it was 6, though we did need to pick up our tickets for Phantom still.

Apparently our cabbie overheard me even though he'd been talking into his mic to other cabbies.   We're sitting in snail pace traffic for whatever reason and the cab goes into the turn lane. Now I don't know Vegas so I assumed he's taking a back way or something. Even though he skips a couple perfectly good times to turn and doesn't have a turn signal on. Then the light went green and he guns it.   Getting us back into the correct lane and out of the evil traffic. Mike was grinning like he wanted to laugh but was worried about my reaction and went "Nicely done sir." The cab guy was like "Thanks. They really need to fix that area, it's always that bad but for no reason other then the Harrah's right there." Mike gave the guy a 10 buck tip for effort as he put it.

Anyways, dinner was awesome. We ate at a place called Aquanaunts.   It's one of the few places in Vegas that we saw that did seafood that wasn't sushi. Nothing wrong with sushi mind you but it's not the only fish in the sea of seafood you know? We both had the surf and turf, which was steak and lobster. Oh my god it was soooooo tasty. They also made a really really good chocolate martini, which is the only kind of martini I'll drink pretty much. You could just barely taste the kick of the alcohol so it made me borrow the phrase "Quik with a kick". Our server was really nice too and recommended a number of other places to try out for the next time we're out. He was also nice enough to stop in the middle of the rush even though he was horrendously busy and give me a quick lesson on taking apart lobster, since I was failing for fear of making my dress a mess. He also got a fat tip from Mike.

Now it was time for the show. I'm doing my best not to be a giddy school girl and be all adult dignity and such. Yeah I failed in epic proportions.
Now I have never seen anything on Phantom of the Opera. No idea the plot or the like. Heard a couple tunes from the score but that's really it. So Mike and I are being seated and I'm kinda blinking up at 3 chandeliers in confusion. They're all sitting cockeyed and in odd spots on the ceiling. Mike of course notices my attention and asks what's wrong.
I'm sitting here staring at the the chandelier that's right over our heads. By right over our heads I mean I could stand on my seat and grab it, it was that close. I ask Mike about it cause I'm thinking these people are nuts to stick folks under a broken chandelier. Now I know why Mike is good at poker. He managed to just go "Oh it's nothing big I'm sure hon." without cracking.

Anyways, on with the show eh?   Now for whatever reason my brain failed to process the 'accident' part of the conversation and I was busy going "Oh pretty lights" as they put the 3 chandeliers together into one big chandelier...that's right over Mike and me. They even had the guy who played Phantom dangling from it over our heads, close enough that I could take a guess at his shoe size and I'm pretty sure he's got brown eyes.

The highlight of course had to be the actual 'accident'. I had totally forgotten about it till the actors said something about the chandelier and I look up just in time to see it coming down on my head. I of course shriek "OH SHIT!" and duck and cover. So much for adult dignity, in fact I'm pretty sure the entire theater heard me. Sadly the night had to end after that since we had an early flight home the next day. Stupid early flights....

All in all was a great night. Great weekend actually, had tons of fun and didn't go into parent mode to much, though we did miss AJ lots and we were happy to be home. Best part of coming home was AJ running to us going "Mama! Daddy!"
Side note: Katie is doing fine. She had surgery and is recovering now. :)

Who put a glass slipper on me? Mike get that crown off your head!

2008-08-04T20:17:25Z

So Saturday we were planning on going to Ren Faire. Mike however backed out at the last minute as usual and I was not a happy camper. I kept my mouth shut though and did my best to be understanding, saved my complaints to be vented while Bill and Kelly were here. Bill ruled and watched the minion while Kelly and I went shopping for a little black dress, which Mike told me I'd be needing in Vegas.

We found one. Kelly says I look good but I fret cause it's not my usual style...then again my usual style is jeans or yoga pants and a t-shirt. Hence me taking Kelly at her word and getting it. Went out and bought a bra today that will go with the dress. :)

Anyways, on the way home Mike called and he had called earlier sounding upset. He refused to tell me why though but he muttered something about our room. Now we're staying in the Bellagio (spelling?) and their regular rooms are expensive. My brain is thinking that they ran out of rooms or something and Mike and co had to get rooms in a motel or something. I ask Mike if everything is ok a bit worried. He asked if I wanted to know about my surprises. I was confused a bit, he had told me he was plotting things for while we were in Vegas but I didn't connect the dots.

Apparently he'd been upset earlier cause my surprises were not all in a row and he was royally pissed at the thought of letting me down again. I know with the room they had him in a regular when he'd paid for more, it got fixed as did the rest.

So when I get to Vegas I'm staying with Mike in a Suite. A frickin suite in the Bellagio people! According to Mike it's as big as the middle floor of our house with a giant tv in the bathroom! Yes I am easily amused. :P
The second part of the surprise was that Mike got tickets for us to go see Phantom of the Opera. A show I had wanted to actually see performed since I heard that was the best way but had written off ever seeing. Mainly cause it required us to dress up and go into the city in a crowded building. All things that make Mike cringe.

But wait! There's more to this!

Today on the way home from bra shopping Mike tells me he upgraded our seats. We're like in the fifth row in the middle roughly. Basically we'll be able to see everything. Short of an actual box these are prime seats at any performance I believe.
He also has reservations for us at a really nice seafood place. Now his definition of nice and mine are drastically different. Nice and Seafood to my mind pops up Red Lobster.
Mike told me ahead of time not to worry about the cost of food (which I always do) because the place's cheapest meal is $50. I'm pretty sure my brain started smoking around then cause I'm going "Christ they better have really frackin good food there to charge that much!" I'm crossing my fingers myself.

Anyways, my brain is processing all this and I go "Well frack I'm actually gonna have to do my hair and make up aren't I? Guess I'll spend the next couple nights practicing."
Now my hair is notoriously impossible. In order for anything to be done with it I usually have to go to a professional in order to get it to look pretty. Already I'm thinking of just pulling it up into a bun because it's going to be hopeless. Same with my face really, I'm just not skilled in the department of cosmetics.

Mike: Oh didn't I tell you about your spa?
Me: Yes dear I know I'm getting a nice rub down while there since I couldn't get it last time due to pregnancy. You spoil me. ^_^
Mike: Actually hon. I got you a full package. Spa and Salon treatment.
Me: O_O *brain explodes* You spoil me rotten...
Mike: Yep.

So my plan now is to finish my laundry as fast as I can on Weds. in order to go shopping for something for Mike.
I'm thinking red, lacy, and barely covering me. Mwuahahaha!

Weekends

2008-07-29T18:35:27Z

Weekend ruled. Went to the 1 day for WI and took my brother. He had fun and wants to go again if the stepmom will let him. Spent Sunday relaxing with Mike while the rest were off at Ren Faire.

No idea what's going on next weekend really. I know there's a Chicago event but Mike leaves for Vegas on Sunday at 6 am so obviously I wouldn't be getting time with him if I went. I could technically go Friday night but with him and me needing to run about for things on Saturday I'd have to leave pretty much as soon as it starts. I'm thinking if I can get all the stuff we'd have to do Saturday done on Friday we can do something as a family Saturday.

I personally am plotting on using AJ to browbeat Mike into Ren Faire. We go pretty much every other year which means we should this year. Plus AJ formed an interest in a foam sword Robbie had. He had such fun chasing mommy and daddy down with it. Mind you this thing was about the size of a long sword phys rep. That's about the size of a lance for AJ. It was really cute when Mike played horsey for him.

Ah my adorable little knight and his stallion. Hehe.

Now if only my camera hadn't been dead at the time. Phooey.
I'm hoping to get AJ a sword at Ren Faire so we can redo it and I can get a pic. :D