First off, if you haven't heard the new
Duran Duran album, I highly recommend giving it a listen.
I know I say this all the time, but I really am going to try to stop being such a LiveJournal leech. Why don't I start off with a recap of last year?
For starters, 2004 contained some of the saddest moments of my life, as I lost my grandpa (mom's dad) to a battle with lung and brain cancer in July, and then my grandma (dad's mom) to a massive heart attack in December. This was especially hard for me as I had not lost a family member since my great-grandmother when I was 3 (1983), and so it was a pretty new experience for me.
2004 also had some really great moments as well. I started my first real job on January 5th. Along with this came lots of new stuff. A new car, a new HDTV, stuff like that. Shortly after that, Melissa took a job at Bed Bath & Beyond, where she was promoted only a week after starting. Things pretty much continued to go well, and then last fall, she found a job in her field, so that was pretty exciting for us.
Melissa and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary on November 29th. Yay :)
For Christmas I got tons of good stuff, including a badass laptop and Half-Life 2. If anyone who reads this has it, we should play sometime.
I'm going to be posting some cool news soon, so I promise not to take so long between posts.