I’ve had a pretty weird week…and this week is gearing up to be just as surreal. But, for the sake of unweirdity, I’ll just talk about the weekend.

We didn’t do a lot with the house. Actually, we didn’t do anything with it at all. The only thing we did do was find the perfect sized chest of drawers to use in the bathroom as the vanity. It was a steal at a hundred bucks. We’ll need to do a couple of things to it to make it bathroom sink ready:

1- Rip off the back

2- Horse-shoe cut the top two drawers

3- Cut holes in the top of it for the sink and faucet

4- Polyurethane (or whatever) the surface.

The chest is already white and has character, so we won’t need to do anything cosmetic to it, which is awesome.

We bought it at the Occoquan Arts and Craft show which runs once in the autumn and once in the spring. My Mom and I have been going to both for years. We picked up some Christmas gifts for the kids and some cool bowls for the house. I bought Izzy some Christmas gifts and finished her birthday shopping off. We also got some really cool ideas for the house and picked up some stuff for it (the chest of drawers and these cool rustic metal brackets we’re thinking of hanging in the doorway between the kitchen and the living room).

After the show, Izzy went off for Libra night, and I was a horrible guest and fell asleep while watching Escape from New York. What I was awake for was pretty cool. I did, finally, get to see Big Trouble in Little China, which was awesome and I laughed a lot.

Sunday, we celebrated my Mom’s birthday with pizzas on the grill. They were delicious and everyone had a ton of fun. Izzy finished off the Dick and Jane throw quilt for my mom, which my mom adores. She doesn’t know it yet, but she’ll be getting some matching throw pillows for Christmas. Izzy and I finished the weekend off with the latest episode of True Blood.
 

I watched it last night and enjoyed it.  There was a lot of camp in the film, but Izzy and I did laugh a lot.  The story within a story was good, although I wanted some more closure between several of the relationships outside of the game.  In the end, it was a lot of fun to finally see it and gamer stereotypes played out on the screen; I'll be watching it again.  I can definitely look at my gaming group and draw parallels to the one in the movie.

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As promised, here are some of the Aeris Faerie pictures.  Both Aeris and David were roughly the same age (within a month) at the time these were taken, David is just heavier than Aeris was at that age.



Click the picture to go to the album.  There are cuter pictures of Aeris, but I don't seem to have them on this computer.  I'll add them later, after I get to a compy that has the rest of them.  As an aside, I won an amateur photo contest with this picture.  I'm certain it had less to do with my skill and more to do with my beautiful subject.

Yup, it kind of just fell into our laps Wednesday night, so we wrote a contract and it got accepted yesterday evening.

Yup, WE FINALLY GOT A HOUSE!!!!!!!  We didn't bring the camera and so there are no pics of the inside or backyard, but here it is from the front.


The picture is from the listing page online, so it isn't the best quality, but it has 4 bedrooms, a HUGE utility room, a den, a living room, 2 full baths, a kitchen, a dining room, some closets, a deck, an expansive back yard, and a little cottage-esque shed in the very back end of the yard in a little copse of trees.
The house is in Woodbridge in a well-kept neighborhood in the "K" streets off of Dale.  I like everything about it except for the front door (which Izzy loves), 'cause a door with a big window in the middle of it isn't a door; it's another window that is human-sized.

But, yeah.  WOOHOO!

I found this sweet online game called Star Pirates.  It has been a lot of fun and an easy way to blow some downtime.  The best part is that I can leave the game and still collect XP and money without being logged in.  Give it a go:
http://www.starpirates.net/register.php?referer=9297

Also, DexCon was rockin'.  We had an awesome time.

Against my better judgement, and tossing all rationality aside, I stayed up to almost 4am playing Airsoft with my brother and his friend.  I'm not tired, infact, I feel rather abundant with energy.

Anyway, two things of note about last evening:
1- Jon looks effing scary at night.
2- We encountered 3 stoners out for a stroll at about 3 AM.  They proceeded to: a. act paranoid, b. comment on how totally cool our guns were, and c. ask me what school I go to.  I haven't gone to school in several years, so it was pretty amusing to me.

Going to go see Hell Boy 2 with the wifey tonight, so that should fun.



On another note, Mojitos are deceptively good.  Especially when you skip out on the sugar and seltzer and use your favorite lemon-lime carbonated beverage instead!

Emeril Legasse is a zombie...and so is most of the production crew, body guards, and personal assistants.  Also, my office building is full of them.  I tried going down the stairs, but they were jam-packed full.  I dread trying the elevator.

The ground below seems pretty clear of them and my car's not too far.  I'm going to pack up and smash the window and do the elevator trick on one of the trees.  I've done it before, when I was a kid, so here's hoping it works this time.  I've got a 2 and a half section of pipe I'm going to use to try and brain them if it comes to that.

Also, be on the lookout for safehouses full of strange: http://beguine.livejournal.com/.  I'm all for finding a safe spot to hole up with friends, but I'm not about to become livestock.


Phr3d, you seem to know what's going on, I'm packing up the family and heading to your place once I get home.  I know you've got some kind of plan!