Yup... I Got Sucked Back In...

Some of you are going to laugh at me here... I can't help but love this game... I am a hardcore nerd, and all these hours laying in bed trying to get over this flu bug have been driving me batty!

I have officially caught up on Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, American Idol, 90210, Gossip Girl, and Heroes... I even stooped down to the ABC family level and have been watching The Confessions of an American Teenage because I guess I just love sub par acting and seeing Molly Ringwold as a mom to two teenage daughters...

I should import the posts from my pre-married blog... That has some hilarious (or pathetic, however you want to look at it) WoW blog fodder in it... I think I will... Links will be edited into this post shortly (if anyone cares) beware, some of them are pretty angsty lol...

• "I'd Rather Level My Shaman"
• Balance?
• Meh
• Wedding Planning Sucks
  
• A Change of Heart

Needless to say, I am glad that chapter of my life is over and this new one is beginning... It still requires planning, but #1 - I've matured a bit, and #2 - I have been thinking about and planning for this baby for over a year now... Let's see if the maturity sticks when WoW is involved again lol...

I still can't get Toby back on the WoW train, he enjoys having a life... But it was close, he even went out and bought the expansion and then returned it yesterday... It won't be long, he's jonesing bad...

Looky What I Got!

Someday, maybe not anytime soon, in the future I will want sparkly jewelry more than nerdy electronics for birthday gifts... But I am just as thrilled with my shiny new Nintendo DS Lite as I would be with a pair of diamond earrings... I am such a geek...

Yesterday Toby and I went on a wild goosechase looking for a white DS, to no avail we stopped at Target, WalMart, GameStop, and ToysRUs... We called all the others in the area... While at ToysRUS, I found the cool purple and green cover that made me succumb to getting a black DS... We went back to Target for it though because I had a $40 gift card (shhh... don't tell my mother-in-law that I spent it on a Nintendo, she would flip)... Then we went back to GameStop because Target didn't have the game I wanted, Brain Age 2 :)... Plus, we got it used so it was about $5 cheaper and we got 10% off with an Edge card... I am a happy girl, but I will be more happy when my Brain Age is closer to my real age (said I was 58)!

Lazy Dayz in LA...

I tried to leave my lappy at home, but I. Just. Couldn't. Right now I am watching Toby play Mario Party with Amy (my brother's girlfriend) while her baby Bailey naps (oh, she just woke up and she is all smiles)... We have been having a blast with them (and her little boy Conner who is at his Nana's house at the moment)... They came to my Aunt and Uncle's house on Christmas and Conner hung out with Michaela (my little cousin, who is use to being the only baby around) and they got on famously! Yesterday we went to Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate Bailey's First Birthday! It was fun, I haven't been there in ages... Today we are having a lazy day (we are all in our PJ's still) eating cloud pancakes and playing Wii (WiiFit is so much fun)... We are having a blast! Hope your Christmas week is just as fun! Oh yeah, my dad fixed my camera (it is a point and shoot but WAY better than my phone for sure) so the pics are a bit better... Me and my pops are going to go pawn shopping for a nicer one (that has changeable lenses) that will make me happy, and I have a Visa gift card to buy it with, even better! (I will edit in photo's in a bit)...

Tag You're It!

Rachel Ann let me tag myself :)

1. I am an insomniac (kinda...) but I am trying to go to bed at a decent hour lately, cuz the FLYlady told me to (didn't work tonight, but now that this post is up I can)...
   
2. I have 2 kooky kitties that I named after Kingdom Hearts Characters, Riku and Kyrie, or Boy Cat and Girl Cat as Toby insists on calling them....
   
   (Sorry for the lousy pics, I've been using my camera phone, cuz my real camera's broken, and yes, that is a pumpkin behind Kyrie... From Halloween... I need to throw it away and put up my Christmas Decorations this week, in a BAD WAY)
   
3. My husband I were born on the same day of the month (the 19th) which is why I knew he was the one (if you want to know, I'll tell that little story in another post)
4. I actually ENJOY clipping coupons, most of the time...
5. I am a hardcore closet nerd (I have been known to play World of Warcraft from Sun-up to Sun-down and all the hours in between... But I am taking a break from it right now so I can actually have a life...)
   
6. I am addicted to new technology: I have my lappy (a 14" HP Pavillion that I got as an anniversary present), an iPod touch that I use more as a mini computer than a music player (that I got as a birthday present last year, & I am DYING to get a Blackberry Storm right now, but I have had at least 6 different phones in 4 years (a crappy Nokia Candy Bar, a Green Moto PEBL, a White Blackberry Pearl, a cheap Chocolate Brown Samsung Flip that my Brother in law now uses,a Titanium Blackberry Curve, and a Maroon EnV2, which I am stuck with for now) so I think I should wait a bit (can you tell what my hubbys love language is? giving geeky gifts! and I eat it up!)...
   
7. I am secretly addicted to MommyBlogs because I want to have children, REAL BAD... But so far, no dice - we have been trying for about a year now, so the doctors are almost willing to start testing...

And I shall tag:

1. Dani @ Wine Laced Tales of a Teetotaler
2. Faith @ Blessed Quietness
3. Kito @ Hysteria and American Ambivalence
4. Shannon @ EightCrazy
5. Jennifer P @ Peterson's Go Public
6. Ann @ AnnOnandOn
7. Lorna @ CoconutNoodleMonkey
   

New Job, ADD (What's new?), and WoW overload...

So I ended up quitting my job at Bath and Body Works the day after I posted about my tiff with the sales lead... She and I probably could have resolved things but it was the Manager's lack of mediation that really got to me... I never started working with Grace, there was a hiring mix up and they over hired, since I forgot to follow up (surprise surprise) I missed out... I ended up with a job that Grace's dad set me up with doing "In Home Supportive Services" for a 37 year old lady named Mel with Systemic Lupus among other chronic conditions... It works well for me since the schedule is so flexible, I was only supposed to have like 10-15 hours a week and I was going to try to pick up a Respite job for one of the families at my church (I have experience working with kids with Autism and other special needs, so it is nice to be able to lend a hand where I can, but not something I can do full time anymore), but the week I started the other girl who was working for Mel dramatically quit... So now I work about 30 hours a week at all hours, which is okay, but now that school has begun I need help... The last set of classes that I was taking (when I started this blog in February) all got dropped because I got overwhelmed... I didn't transfer and got myself on Academic Probation... I had to go to a counselor and make an Ed-Plan that re-evaluated my goals... If all goes well, I will complete the 2 classes I signed up for this semester and complete 2 next semester and get my AA out of the way... I also need to get my FAFSA done in time for next year... Maybe if I figure out what I really want to do (Mike, my ADD mentor, told me I am too ADD to teach without taking meds so I have kind of lost some hope for that prospect) I will transfer next fall... At this point I am just discouraged and don't really care much about school... Maybe Mel is right, maybe I need to start taking meds again (no matter how off they make me feel) so I can get this stuff done... I don't even know what it is I want to do anymore... I really want to be a mom and a good wife... That is my ultimate goal right now and all I seem to care about... However, I can't seem to see the reality in that if I can't get my act together... At the moment I have a pile of dishes 2 WEEKS old that I am having trouble facing (they are the worse kind too - covered in nasty oily frosting from my cake decorating class that I loved but nearly gave up on as well because it was so time consuming) and clean laundry piled on the couch waiting to be put away, along with all sorts of other clutter that is keeping me from having a clean organized house... Everytime my house (which is typically a reflection of the way I feel inside at the time) gets like this, I retreat into World of Warcraft or a TV series or work and avoid it until Toby (or Mr. Loo - I have decided to give up the nicknames) freaks out and goes into ubercleaning mode till he is exauhsted and in a bad mood (have I mentioned he is on his feet 40 hours a week at work?)... Toby and I have been playing a lot (and I mean a lot) of WoW lately... And to make it worse, we play at our friend Jerrod's house, which means we are never home... We have gone straight over to Jerrod's after work/school for the last 3 or 4 days in a row, not getting home until midnight or later and all we do is play WoW... Our other newly-wed friends Josh and Kelly have been hanging out at Jer's playing WoW everynight too, but at least they chose to spend time together at home tonight (they logged in aroud 9pm though)... I feel like thing are unraveling... The house hunt is slow going (even though we are now pre-approved)... We really need to find one soon if we want to be able to rent a room to Josh and Kelly once their lease is up in October... I also feel like we are making a lot of plans without talking to God about them first... That is probably why things aren't going super well... We are going to a Family Life confrence in November (my mom said it saved her marraige before she and my dad even knew there was a problem) and I am hoping to do a short study from FamilyLife before the confrence with the 3 other newly wed couples in our church and any other married couples who would like to join us... It would help us a lot to get back in tune with our Father!

Holodeck I

So my dear nerdy hubby has gotten me into watching Star Trek: Voyager - mind you, this is something I have fought against tooth and nail since high school, it's a new low, right down there with playing the WoW TCG, even WoW itself... But since I have been assimilated into the Nerd Collective, I have begun to accept and even embrace this intricate world of Sci-Fi/Fantasy... When I was coming out of anesteseia after my appendectomy I imagined I was being held captive by the Kazon and being innterogated, but really it was just the recovery room nurses in their brown scrubs and my mother-in-law (an off duty nurse from that same ward) telling me to breathe every couple of seconds... Just now as I lay restless in bed next to my ailing hubby (migraine) I began to imagine what kinds of Holodeck programs I would enjoy if I were stuck on Voyager... I concluded that along with a great resort program (Maui maybe?) I would love to have HoloMusicals! Les Miserables, Phantom, Moulin Rouge (okay I know it's a movie, but it has music and it is my all time fav), Across the Universe, Jekyll and Hyde... My list could go on and on... I mean really, why haven't we come up with something like that, where someone could be the star of their own virtual musical or movie??? Of course there would be the issue of copywrites and such in the here and now, but in the future? Who knows? Okay nerd rant over...