Still not dead
I'm so thrilled it's October. It's still sunny but getting progressively chiller; every once in awhile, we'll get this half-rain-half-slushy-snow sprinkling the ground. The trees are bright yellow and red everywhere, the fireplace is back in use, fall decorations are up, and my morning coffee has taken on that extra edge of perfection. I just love it SO MUCH.
We had three separate visits from relatives in September: Luke's mom, dad, and older sister came at the beginning of the month, then my brother Chris came out mid-month, then Luke's other sister came with her husband and 6-month-old daughter (my first niece!). We've become pros at giving guests the grand Denver-Boulder-Golden tour. It's been fun, fulfilling, and humbling (if a bit exhausting) to have so much family out at once. Seriously, we never expected people would actually want to visit us en masse! Our Xbox has collected a slew of new avatars. This is what happens when you visit the Miller abode: we make you an Xbox profile and challenge you to Kinect bowling throughout your stay. Be forewarned.
I also found time last month to hop on a plane and visit krisology in Salt Lake City, which was glorious fun (but much too short). I love being such a brief plane ride away from her now. This needs to happen way more often.
But holy frijole. I won't lie: getting a chance to kick back and isolate myself from the world again has been a relief. As much as I love my peoples, I think I'm still an incurable hermit at heart.
Case in point: I finally got access to the early Uncharted 3 multiplayer (thank you Subway), so that's what I've been doing for the past few nights while I impatiently await the full game's release in THREE SHORT WEEKS. If you have a PS3, I encourage you to buy one of those obnoxiously large soda cups at Subway, download the game, and join me. Come, let us throw treasure idols and grenades at willing victims. It is a strangely satisfying sport.
Oh yeah, I should probably mention that I haunt Tumblr a lot these days, just for the simplicity of it (and the pretty fannish stuff everywhere). Let me know if you have a presence there, too. (To clarify: I use my main equustel account as a more srs bsns reflective/spiritual blog, while noiseforyoureyes is for fun things: fandom and anything else that strikes my fancy.)
We had three separate visits from relatives in September: Luke's mom, dad, and older sister came at the beginning of the month, then my brother Chris came out mid-month, then Luke's other sister came with her husband and 6-month-old daughter (my first niece!). We've become pros at giving guests the grand Denver-Boulder-Golden tour. It's been fun, fulfilling, and humbling (if a bit exhausting) to have so much family out at once. Seriously, we never expected people would actually want to visit us en masse! Our Xbox has collected a slew of new avatars. This is what happens when you visit the Miller abode: we make you an Xbox profile and challenge you to Kinect bowling throughout your stay. Be forewarned.
I also found time last month to hop on a plane and visit krisology in Salt Lake City, which was glorious fun (but much too short). I love being such a brief plane ride away from her now. This needs to happen way more often.
But holy frijole. I won't lie: getting a chance to kick back and isolate myself from the world again has been a relief. As much as I love my peoples, I think I'm still an incurable hermit at heart.
Case in point: I finally got access to the early Uncharted 3 multiplayer (thank you Subway), so that's what I've been doing for the past few nights while I impatiently await the full game's release in THREE SHORT WEEKS. If you have a PS3, I encourage you to buy one of those obnoxiously large soda cups at Subway, download the game, and join me. Come, let us throw treasure idols and grenades at willing victims. It is a strangely satisfying sport.
Oh yeah, I should probably mention that I haunt Tumblr a lot these days, just for the simplicity of it (and the pretty fannish stuff everywhere). Let me know if you have a presence there, too. (To clarify: I use my main equustel account as a more srs bsns reflective/spiritual blog, while noiseforyoureyes is for fun things: fandom and anything else that strikes my fancy.)