Thank you, Vonage!

I had $1.15 of Vonage money left on my id card, and I am now enjoying a wonderful short Starbucks hot chocolate with whipped cream. Life is good.

I am a very lucky girl!

Now that I am recovered from being sick on Valentine's Day, I can write about how good Ron tried to be to me. In return for buying him a pot he really wanted (which is good for me because when Ron gets his cooking toys, I get yummy food), he bought me Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess for the Wii!

And flowers, and chocolates (small box bc I'm going back on weight watchers), and a Snoopy, and a balloon (that was feared by the dog and eaten by the cat) and a really nice card.

And I was too sick to enjoy any of it for a couple of days. But that is over now.

And Zelda is AWESOME.

Which leaves me to ask... If you were a princess of a kingdom and some nasty looking creeps break in to your castle and tell you to answer for your entire kingdom, "surrender or die," what would you do?

And what if you find out that surrendering will put your people in a fate worse than death?

Waiting for Wii

Yes, I finally broke down and realized that the only way to get a Wii would be to go to a store early in the morning and stand in line. So, I chose Target based on my web findings of who would have them on Sunday. Ron and I arrived about 7:15am and were about 9th in line. I hoped that the store was going to have more than two of them! As my feet grew colder, I found that the folks I stood in line with weren't derranged freaks. They were a combination of parents, college students and e-bay sellers who understood that the reality of life was that you have to stand in line to buy the Wii.

As we waited, the line got a little longer. I wondered if I would have to run past a crowd of disappointed Wii seekers in order to get my prize to the car...

At five minutes to eight, the store staff took pity on us and let us in early. (Or maybe their clocks are fast - anyway, we got in!) They seemed to have a good number in stock, so I don't think anyone in line was disappointed (I didn't exactly wait around to find out!)

And a good time was had by all!

blogging from my wii

I can`t believe that I finally have Wii and I`m blogging on it!

Another step closer....

Picked out bridesmaid dresses for the wedding!

Sean Holton, you'll be missed!

Sean Holton, someone I met in the Skyliners, passed away this morning. He was a very good man with many friends in drum corps. I'm always at a loss for what to say in these situations. :-(

Mmmm... Computer languages....

http://www.levenez.com/lang/history.html

Rubik's Cube

Wow - I'd like to try this some time...

http://www.chessandpoker.com/rubiks-cube-solution.html

Wii ownership justification for adults...

http://jims-empire.com/main/?p=255

Yes - that must be the reason I want one - exercise!

It's sort of like that old shredded wheat commercial where the adult wants it for the health benefits, but the "kid within" wants it for the sugar coated side...

Hey, Wii-der! Strike up the band!

Wii would love to play... However, Wii cannot obtain a Wii because Wii don't think that it's becoming of a 28 year old with no children to line up in front of a Circuit City before it opens to snatch one up. Wii also are quite annoyed at all the folks who buy up all the Wii's for the sole purpose of selling them at a bloated amount on Ebay + exhorbitant shipping costs.

I'm really not quite sure why I want one of these so badly besides a bizarre desire to relive my childhood on an adult income level... I guess maybe because I didn't catch the iPod bug...

I also enjoy....

The sweet sound of everything falling properly into place on a Friday evening...

Or maybe that doesn't have a sound...

Dammit - I want a Wii...

Can a person fall in love with a single note?

There's something I've been wondering ever since the first the I've heard the song "Drinking Me Lonely" by Chris Young. It's a good song, but my absolute favorite thing about it is whatever note he's singing on the "lone" part of the word "lonely."

I'm trying to figure out why it is that I like this note so much? I mean, I could be driving along, not really paying attention to what's playing on my XM Radio, and then all of a sudden, there's the note, and it's like the greatest thing in the world... (And why should a sad country song make me happy? I think I'm a strange, strange person sometimes...)

Is it the the jump in range between the word "me" and the word "lonely?" Is it the voice of the singer? Is it the key the song is being sung in? For someone who has played music for so long, I really don't know much theory... (haha - the one time I tried to take a theory class, it was unfortunately being taught by a teacher who had previously had a stroke... Took the whole semester for him to figure out why if he wrote on the marker board with a hi-lighter, it would disappear...)

Maybe some mysteries will never be solved...

Inherit the Wind

I added the proverb that provided the title for the play "Inherit the Wind" to my blog description not because I have any sort of close affinity for the Bible. I added it because I have noticed that it is very often applicable in situations where people I feel close to do things that I do not think are right. Not that I necessarily should judge them, but I feel that as my mom always says, "What goes around, comes around."

Ever wish you could just do this all day?

Was going to try to write something meaningful, but meh.

Bed came in!

The bed's in and I like it. Got over my cold (finally!)

Bowling's tonight. It's time for us to start picking up. Hopefully Dad's new ball will help.

I bought a new bed!

Or as Ron likes to remind me, we spent $2,000. But I have 13 months to pay it off before the interest payments start, so we should be able to do that. It's a sleep number 5000 queen size. We needed it because I had a cheap mattress that started to feel like I was sleeping in a giant bowl. I am hoping that the investment is worth it and that I will not have to worry about anything mattress-related for about 20 years.

Other than that, I am recovering from being sick on Christmas. I am looking forward to the start of a great new year.

Christmas Time is Here!

Got my tree and decorations up over the weekend. For the first time in a long time, it wasn't rushed or cheap. I have a nice real tree, and my house smells like a pine forest. And my pets haven't tried to knock it down, yet either. Life is good.

Congratulations Billy and Erica!

Congratulations to my brother and his new wife! Their wedding ceremony was beautiful and the reception was tons of fun! I was very honored to have been one of Erica's bridesmaids, and I hope that Billy and Erica will have a long and happy life together.

Cool thought for a blog feature...

I think it would be cool if I could edit new blog posts on the same page as my blog... As in, you click an add button, a new box opens up, I type my text, hit the publish button, and the page gets magically updated and refreshed. Probably if I cared to figure it all out, I could probably make it happen... We'll see...

Back to the Treadmill!!

I have once again started another trek to lose weight. This time it's going to be at the gym at Vonage. We shall see what comes of it.

This time, I have decided I will work out in the morning, which I have never done before. So far so good. (It's been 2 days...)

I'm just tired of being lazy.