I used to play World of Warcraft.  Quite a lot actually.  In my Horde raiding guild there was a guy I played with for about a year or so, a shaman, who eventually left the guild to go on to "bigger and better" things.  We were never particularly good friends or anything, we just happened to both be officers in said guild.  The other day I get an ( Read more... )

I finally spoke to somone at St. Bernadette with a clue.  Truong and I have an appointment to meet with her on Sunday at 11am so hopefully that means I will have an official wedding date by Monday of next week ( Read more... )

Truong and I planned to go look at Wedding Invitations/"Save the Date"s this weekend because I want to send the "Save the Date"s as soon as we have the church reserved.  We're asking nearly everyone to travel for this wedding and we want to give them as much notice as possible ( Read more... )

I haven't written in this journal for months.  Or any journal for that matter, as this is the only journal I've ever kept.  I think it's because I don't feel like I've had anything useful or interesting to say.  I know this is supposed to be my journal to write about whatever, but I can never make myself forget that I have an audience, and I always ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't know (and you should!), tonight is the big National Championship game between the #1 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide and the #2 ranked University of Texas Longhorns.  Most people I have talked to (other than the Longhorn faithful) believe that Texas doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning this football game ( Read more... )

I started an account on www.goodreads.com this year, mostly because I wanted to get an accurate count of how many books I read in a year.  In 2009 I read 24 books cover to cover.  Some of them I'd read before, but most of them were new.

I admit to being somewhat surprised at how few books are on the list.  For some reason I thought it would be a ( Read more... )

Saturday I took care of Truong's sister's new puppy.  Her name is Senna and she's a 2 1/2 month old Shih tzu/Maltese mix.  She's a cute little furball, and a lot of work.  About 30 minutes after Thuc dropped her off I realized I was in over my head ( Read more... )

I watched the season premiere of Top Chef Las Vegas and the season finale of Top Chef Masters last night.

I am happy that the chef who won Top Chef Masters was the person I was rooting for.

All I can say about Top Chef Las Vegas is that I already hope at least one guy goes down if a flaming ball of fiery flames and then explodes.  I don't usually ( Read more... )

Comment and I'll give you your own letter.

tsarina  asked me to come up with 10 things I love that start with the letter O...

1. Opals- I love the way they shimmer.  I don't care that they aren't my birthstone!

2. October- It's the beginning of fall in places that have seasons, and I love to see the leaves change.  The Red River Shootout always takes place ( Read more... )

Truong and I have been taking Zoe to obedience classes every Wednesday night for the last month.  I don't know what I was expecting, maybe that they'd turn her into a marvel of docility overnight or something, but what I'm actually getting is quite different and surprising ( Read more... )