I am a Grey Warden!!

Christmas has come and gone. It's always over so fast when I start to enjoy it. I guess that is just the way it is. Santa was very generous this year. He brought Brandi and I a lot of cool stuff. As you can tell by the title I received Dragon Age, which is an amazing game. Reminds me of playing Baldur's Gate back in the day. ^_^ good times. I also got a RC helicopter. Always fun to play with that and torture the cat. Then I got the Half Blood Prince. Great movie! The present I was most excited about wasn't even mine. Brandi opened up a present and what was inside? None other than Monopoly City! Loads of fun! I think I like the present more than she does.

So, I've been off work since the 18th. It's been nice. I haven't really have a vacation all year. I'm loving sitting around in my underwear until I feel like getting dressed and move about. Going to be sad to see it go when I have to return to work on Jan. 4th. But I know I'll be ready to go back when the time comes.

Stephen is now playing FFXI with all of us. Oh remembering what it was like to start new and not know what was going on. The game can see overwhelming at first. I can't say that I envy him. But I hope he is having fun because that is all that matters. I signed up for FF XIV Beta. I hope I am selected... I want to get in on this before it comes out! I'm basically wanting a headstart. I'm sure they will wipe out beta characters before the games actual release.

Humbug!

The best way to describe my marriage is that Ebenezer Scrooge married one of the women of Whoville. Yes Brandi has been playing Christmas music since September... The house was fully decorated for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving and she thinks she has to buy everyone in Jackson county a present. FML... Don't get me wrong I enjoy this time of year, but Brandi's over zealous approach to Christmas makes me hate it. However, I'm done buying presents. I finally got Brandi finished and she just has a few left to buy that I don't approve of but she never does anything I tell her to do anyway. So, I'll be ringing in the new year broke! Gotta love a wife that blows all your hard earned money!

Two of my younger cousins stayed with Brandi and I this past weekend. That was fun. Nothing better than playing video games with a couple of 12 year olds! Taught them how to play risk. That ended about as well as every game of risk ever played; a lot of tears. No the enjoyed playing, however, they did not enjoy losing horribly to my Blitzkrieg tactics.

Started reading the Wheel of Time again. It's time I finish.

This week's Netflix:

G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra: Enjoyed it a lot more than originally thought I was. What saved it was just the complete non stop action. As far as keeping true to Joe lore I have no clue. It's been far to many years since I watched the cartoon and quite frankly I don't care if they put in a character name Wheelbase. The movie was good.

Winter Sucks!!

It is freaking 29 degrees outside. I'm sorry but that is just absolutely unacceptable. This is why I could never live in any of the northern states. Cold air is just not my friend. I need to pick which blog I want to use livejournal or blogger? I like bloggers options a lot more, but people actually read my journal and comment on it at LJ... Doesn't really matter either way.

So, I've always wanted to get into road biking but never can get started. One reason being the good bikes are expensive, plus the seats on a road bike compare to that of sitting on a butt plug in a jeep going down a gravel road. However, I discovered recumbent bicycles and they look like a lot of fun. I want to try one out so bad, but unfortunately I live in small town USA where that sort thing is probably unheard of. I highly doubt the bike shop in Jonesboro has one. Still it doesn't hurt to look. All of the bikes I have looked at online are way out of my price range. I want to just build one but I lack to tools or the resources to do so. Sometimes I wish my dad still had his welding shop. I can see it now him and I could have went into the recumbent manufacturing business. Would have been cool. A man can dream.