geek-a-licious October 26, 2007

Today Josh and Lori are coming over to play Magic: The Gathering. Emille might come too. I got paid, so I get to buy a few cards - not sure yet what I’m going to buy, I have a few decks on the go.

Worldwide D&D Game Day is coming up! This sounds like it may be the awesomest thing I don’t get to do on November 3, because I live in the frigid north where there are no game or comic book stores.

D&D is one of those fallbacks for me. It brings me back to my childhood, and making the friendships that have survived since orcs and kobolds.

I will always remember my first adventure when I was but 9 years old. Talking to a tree that spoke in riddles and having my friend put on a cursed helmet that kept shrinking. We only got three questions, and he ruined the last one by asking how to get the helmet off his head. Good times.

As we got older, we always went back to D&D. I played D&D, AD&D and then D&D 3rd edition. D&D 3.5 came out shortly afterwords and I had to buy the core rulebooks for that too (which is actually still my favourite version).

I toyed with D&D Miniatures, and I’ve always had a love for misshapen blobs of lead or pewter with paint stuck to them. Some I’ve done are sad creations, and others are works of art.

Wil Wheaton popped this onto my radar today, with this appropriate remark:

“Wizards has wisely created 4th level characters for the festivities, so players won’t have to suffer the indignity of being killed by a single kobold. On the other hand, players won’t get to enjoy the rite of passage we all enjoyed the first time we were killed by a single kobold, while trying in vain to defend ourselves by casting Light.”

So, if you live somewhere you can get to one of these things, and have fond memories of D&D as I do, round someone up or go alone, and perhaps give it another go.

Maybe I’ll try to organize some kind of little event around my place for this…although knowing me, that would turn into a campaign, and then I’d have to plan and plot and DM and stuff.

Hmm…maybe I’ll stick to Magic.

No Longer the Mistress October 26, 2007

Well For all of you who don’t keep obsessive track of dates and times,  as of October 25th Jeff was officially and completely Divorced,  and I got to spend my fist day as Jeff’s girlfriend rather then The Mistress,  Yaaa!  So what does this mean for us,  The tides have changed and I can no longer rely on just sex to hold o to him as mistresses usually do.  And he can stop giving me expensive baubles all the time as that is the only way a married man holds on to his mistress…. 

Yea right!

I guess that dynamic just never worked out for us cause I don’t remember many expensive baubles,  and well,  I don’t think that sex could actually make up for all of my crazy quirks and stuff,  no matter how good it is.  So I guess time will tell how things will pan out,  (I’m hoping to see running boards in my future, lol)  but for the fist time ever we are just a normal couple,  well as normal a couple as we could ever be.

Sam

aka:  Just the girlfriend!

his uterus? October 26, 2007

From our weekly pregnancy newsletter, courtesy of walmart.com.

“If you’re having a girl, his uterus and Fallopian tubes are formed and in place. If your baby is a boy, his genitals are noticeable, though he may hide them from you during an ultrasound.”

Wow.  I’m glad that his uterus andFallopian tubes are formed.  That’s exciting news - about the best I’ve heard all week.

There is good stuff in this newsletter, I promise.  Sam made me read behind the cut (I almost never do) and there is interesting stuff there today.  Like about his Fallopian tubes.  Neato and scientifical even.

Sign Language October 26, 2007

Misty @ Live Granades writes about sign language today:

“I can’t tell you the amount of frustration his ability to sign cut down. Many times when he was tired, a sign would ease the way to compromise. We didn’t do the endless pointing and asking, “Is this what you want? No? How about this?” And it gave him some power. Even without vocalized words he could still let us know what he needed. We also got an excellent start on good manners. To this day, he will still sometimes make the sign for ‘please’ when he says it out loud. I was continually amazed at him making signs for stuff and me for understanding what he wanted.”

Sign language is something we talked about with Ivy but never followed through on.  I think this is one thing that we’ll probably change with the upcoming baby - Misty has some good book recommendations that I’ll be taking a look at.