| Six months later... |
[Oct. 17th, 2007|08:10 am] |
Well. It's been six months since I posted. I have been told I need to post more often. And I'm going to...
To catch everyone up. In the last 6 months (actually last 2 months), I have gotten married, moved and found a new job.
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) asuka002 and I got married on August 11th. It was the most incredible ceremony and reception. I walked down the aisle to the Imperial March and asuka002 walked down to music from Neon Genesis Evangelion. All our friends and family were there. Just a perfect day...
We moved to Worcester! asuka002 got a job working for Covidien Health, so we decided to head east. We were looking closer to where she is originally from, but settled on Worcester because it is more centrally located. We love the new place. It's a 2nd floor of a 3 family. We're sandwiched between two sets of 3 college kids, so it gets loud sometimes but nothing too outlandish. We have three bedrooms and two living rooms so we have space. But we also realized we have too much stuff. We got rid of a fair amount of junk; but you couldn't tell by the amount of boxes that are still here. We'll get unpacked eventually...
And the new job. I work for LEGO! I'm an assistant manager at one of their retail stores. It's such a great job! I love it so much! I had to bring home work with me my first night. Our holiday reset is next week and I have to build this for the reset.
Well, thats it for now. But I will be posting much more frequently now... |
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[Apr. 11th, 2007|05:03 pm] |
Let me preface this with I am averaging about 4 hours of sleep a night.
So this morning I look at the calendar and see it's April 11th. My first thought was it's 4/11. This for some reason made me think of 9/11. Some people at the time (and probably still now) thought there was a correlation between the date of the attack and the US phone number for emergencies (911). So it made me think. If whoever did the 9/11 attacks had a sense of humor, they would launch an attack on the internet today. You know, the Information Superhighway. But then I realized terrorists probably don't really have senses of humor. |
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| Baby Lex Update |
[Feb. 25th, 2007|10:58 am] |
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We're home from the hospital and settling in. Sleepless nights and quiet days are the pattern thus far; but we're hoping to tweak that around in the coming weeks.
We've put together a little website for Lex. |
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| Baby Lex! |
[Feb. 21st, 2007|07:31 pm] |
Hello all!
Alexander John arrived on the planet Earth this evening at 5:46 PM EST. He was 7lbs, 11oz and 20 inches long. Mother and baby are both doing wonderfully.
Photos to follow in the coming days. |
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| Random |
[Feb. 12th, 2007|01:08 pm] |
This surprised me. I know for a fact that there is another person with my name who lives in the same town as me. I've been called once because they found his wallet at a gas station and another time when I was pulled over for a speeding ticket and didn't actually have my license on me there was some confusion because the other guy had a warrant out for his arrest. |
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| Two cool fan films |
[Feb. 12th, 2007|12:47 pm] |
Enjoying some pre-baby quiet time and surfing the internet.
Had to share these.
A spoof of American Pie and Phantom Menace. The lacrosse scenes are brillant.
Fast Times at Hero High takes the Justice League back to high school.
Enjoy! |
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| Baby News |
[Feb. 12th, 2007|12:46 pm] |
Hey all-
I know I said I was going to write more and I haven't. Things have been understandably crazy and I'm on my 20th out of 21 days of working either at B&N or Modern Myths. I had Super Bowl Sunday off and we spent most of the day doing errands and I went through a huge "nesting" phase. Made 4 trays of lazy lasagna and chicken casseroles and tons of housework. Looks like I was nesting about a week too early. While Baby Lex is still technically 20 days away, we feel he'll be here any day now. When we went to the doctor last week, they told us Kim was 3 cm dilated and on Saturday, Kim started nesting. I predicted Tuesday as the day and Kim got annoyed because the shower is next week. Yesterday, Lex "dropped" or as I put it he's locked and loaded. Kim's dreams last night were all labor and delivery centered and there've been some biological changes (all those moms out there know what I mean and everyone else doesn't really need the details).
So, it's looking like my prediction of tomorrow is looking better and better. I'll have more as this story develops. |
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| At least they named the movie 'Happy Feet' |
[Dec. 21st, 2006|11:12 am] |
So a school board in South Carolina has banned And Tango Makes Three. The book is based on a true story about two male peguins who raised a baby peguin together. Parents in South Carolina were concerned about the "presumed" gay relationship between the adult penguins. Why doesn't the South try to secede from the North again? I'm sure we'd let them go this time...
News article. |
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| Wheels |
[Dec. 21st, 2006|09:59 am] |
So, over the summer my little Sentra passed on to the junkyard in the sky. Money was (and to some extent, still is) tight, so we became a one car household. Not too radical a change. Couple of mornings a week, I had to take the bus. One night a week I would mooch a ride off a buddy up to Noho. Kim had to do a lot of extra driving to get me, but it's been livable.
My mom just called and gave me her second car! Yes, my mom has two cars. Well, to be specific, she and her boyfriend Dennis has 3 cars. A truck (which is Dennis), a Monte Carlo (Moms) and a Geo Metro (they shared). But thet realized that they both need new vehicles, so they're planning on getting rid of all three. So as of this afternoon, I'm the proud owner of a Geo Metro. Yay! Merry Christmas to me! |
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| So I've been thinking... |
[Dec. 11th, 2006|01:55 pm] |
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Back in the mid to late 90's I managed a moderately successful shared-world fantasy site for GeoCities. I had created a fantasy world called Hadelfia and at it's height we had over 20 people writing for it and we were averaging a 1000 hits a day. It was, in retrospect, I believe my creative highpoint. I would love to get something like that started again...anyone interested? |
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| My Seduction Style... |
[Dec. 2nd, 2006|11:41 am] |
Everyones doing it. Here's mine...
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| TV Crossover Website |
[Dec. 2nd, 2006|10:56 am] |
I'm so addicted to this website...
http://www.poobala.com/crossoverlist.html
The site's premise is connect TV shows to one another to try to create one cohesive "TV universe" where it wouldn't be unheard of to have Hawkeye of MASH fame show up on ER. FWIW, the site hasn't connected ER to MASH yet, but they have connected MASH to Chicago Hope. |
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| Wow...it's me! |
[Nov. 25th, 2006|09:47 pm] |
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Hello everyone!
Things have been sooooo insane and I have been in a very non-writing funk. But I hope to change that soon.
To update everyone...
- asuka002 and I are still together. In fact, we're engaged (last X-mas) and expecting a boy (Alexander in March). We are so excited and happy!
- My ex took Gigi to Wisconsin in June for "a few weeks" and never came back. After a few court hearings, one lawyer hiring and a court intervention, that is all settled. I will have Gigi summers and all school vacations (including Thanksgiving and Christmas). Not the best solution (I was suing for full custody) but not altogether too bad.
- I'm divorced (finally). It becomes official March 22, but all the court and lawyer stuff is done. I completely understand why lawyers get the bad rap they do...but if you ever need a lawyer in the Western Mass area, I would highly recommend the lawyer I had.
- Still at Barnes & Noble. Just started back at Modern Myths part-time for the holidays.
So that's the last year in a nutshell.
I've decided that I need to be serious about my writing and get my butt back in gear. So I'm thinking that a daily LJ posting is one way to get the juices flowing... |
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| Happy Holidays! |
[Dec. 23rd, 2005|01:35 pm] |
Hey all!
Who is this whoknowswhynot guy, you may be asking yourselves. Sorry I haven't been in LJ-land lately. Mayhaps for New Years, I 'll make LJ one of my resolutions.
Just wanted to take this opportunity to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season and pass on some great news.
For years, the holiday season was a time of year I did my best to ignore. I just never could get into the mood; partly because of the way my life was going and partly because of retail-life. But the last two seasons have been so different and I owe a lot of it to asuka002. She has made me sooo wonderfully happy. I actually find myself not minding (and in some cases, enjoying) Christmas music. Work has been (with the exception of one a$$hole customer) actually fun and enjoyable. I find that I actually enjoy my job.
Last weekend, I asked asuka002 to marry me and she accepted! I am so happy! |
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| Commercialism |
[Oct. 7th, 2005|12:35 pm] |
Watching the Red Sox-White Sox playoff game the other night I saw two commercials that horrified me. Both commercials totally subverted America's past time in an attempt to sell their products.
The first was a commercial for Bud Light (does anyone who has a choice actually drink this?). In grainy black and white footage we see a beer concessioner walking through the bleachers shouting "Bud Light! Get your Bud Light!" The camera switches to footage of a player we're intimated is Babe Ruth. He then proceeds to point towards the beer guy and we get the famed 'Called Shot'. Baseball historians have argued it never happened or that the Babe had actually been pointing at a heckler. It is however one of the myths that the sport has.
The second commercial distressed me even more. We're shown footage of a beer league softball team choreographed with Vin Scully's amazing color analysis of Kirk Gibson's dramatic home run in the 1988 World Series. After the beer leaguer hits the ball out of the park, the actor even mimics Gibson's rounding of the bases. One of the greatest moments in baseball that I have ever witnessed has been lampooned to sell Wheaties.
What's next? Footage of Lou Gehrig gazing at a candy bar in his hand as he starts his famous "...today I consider myself the luckiest man..." speech? Or maybe the ground-ball going through Bill Buckner's legs could be used to pimp an ADD drug? |
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| Can't wait to see the movie |
[Sep. 30th, 2005|08:45 am] |
Yes, I'm alive aqnd well...I'll post more later, but first...
You are Wash. Not only are you a great pilot, you
are also the joker of the group. Your devotion
to your wife is admirable, though you sometimes
feel insecure. Thank god you shaved off your
moustache.
Which Firefly character are you?
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| Well...not what I expected... |
[Jun. 13th, 2005|08:47 am] |
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...but then, Prometheus wasn't one of the possible results...
You are: HARLEY QUINN!
Which Batman Villain Are You?
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| For Sale... |
[Jun. 13th, 2005|08:46 am] |
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Hey all-
asuka002 and I have found a place! It's awesome and spacious (5 big rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 porches). We're moving in July 1st, and would appreciate any help in moving. Also, I have come into possession of an electric stove and refridgerator that I need to move by the end of the month. I'll let them go dirt cheap if someone is willing to pick them up. |
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