To start, not this just-past weekend, but the one before was loaded with gaming fun. On Friday we had met up with our play testing group and begun working on characters for that game. I had a blast meeting the new peeps.

nosslins, manicgiraffe (henceforth to be known as Broe), xinejaquette, and khinderer (henceforth to be KurtXine) came over on Saturday night for din-dins and fun. KurtXine made a casserole which was so darn tasty we all finished it right off. Then onto a round of Phase 10 and finally to finish the evening Drunken Pictionary. Much enjoyment, as always and I believe it was Manicgiraffe came up with the notion that all women need to wear see through pants, ala Jasmine from Aladdin. Honestly, I can't remember the string that got him to that sentiment as I was on the girls team, also known as Team Inebriated. Broe left the Dosialovelins at home for the evening as the three Bully breed doggies together are a handful to deal with. Although I know Shelbo missed her terribly.

This last weekend, KurtXine came over on Friday and introduced us to a new game, Ticket to Ride. Jamers seems to be as addicted to it as Kurt, and I caught him this afternoon looking it up on the interwebs with all it's various incarnations. KurtXine stayed pretty late on Friday, especially when Jamers and I get up at 5 in L morning. As they headed off Jamers asked them if they would like to go with us to Voodoo Donuts the following day.

I know some of you Portlanders know of Voodoo, I myself did not until recently. Apparently they are pretty well known among Portland for their crazy donuts. For example, the whole reason I wanted to go, was not because I'm a donut fiend, but because they have combined two of my favorite flavors, Bacon (um. . . . bacon) and maple, to make a Bacon Stripped covered Maple Bar. Must have for the Bacon lover! So, we load up in the car Saturday noonish to head down to Portland Proper to gets some donuts.

I navigated pretty well through the downtown traffics, and we found a parking place right around the corner from the shop. Perfect! Get in, get out, get eating! We round the corner and walk into the hole in the wall, donut dive, that is Voodoo Donuts. Now I don't always mind the divey places, Roxy has got some terrific greasy yummies, but sometimes it does bother me.

We walk in the door and Kelly is immediately encountered with problems.
1) I iz clawzstrofobic so after about 5 minutes I had gone beyond my comfort level, because
2) The place was fricken packed and as such
3) They didn't need to take Debit cards, cash only and their ATM was sooooo not working. As in the fracken thing was unplugged. Honestly, how many peeps carry cash nowadays? which caused us to
4) Walk down a block to the Saturday Market, hop on the Max, get off at Pioneer Square, pick up the cashes, and jump back on the Max to get the donuts. At this point, Pickle, is getting slightly irritated that we are jumping through hoops for a donut.

We get back go in and the crowd is even bigger than before. I tell Jamers to get me the bacon maple, and a variety of other weird ass donuts to try, before I go outside to stand in the rain.

After 10 or so minutes, he comes out and tells me they won't have anymore maple bacon bars for oh, maybe two hours, I said, why did you get out of line to tell me that? I told you to get a variety of weird donuts. He said, it's okay I can go back to the front. Whatever.

He walks in KurtXine walks out and informs me that pretty much all their weird donuts aren't available, and they ask why Jamers came out and went back since he has to get in teh back of the line. At this point I looses it. I open the door and tell him we are leaving this is ridiculous for donuts especially since he needs to get in line all over again. To make the story shorter, he came out later with 3 regular donuts.

We went out to real food on teh way home and ate our donuts later as we enjoyed more Ticket to Ride and Phase 10. I can say that their popularity most be solely based on the weird donuts, cause the regular ones were nothing special. It was pretty disappointing really. I'm sure the weird donuts are totally awesome, but I just don't think I'm going to put that sort of effort into trying again and more than likely failing at obtaining one of their donuts.

The rest of the weeekend was okay, more house cleaning on Sunday. The bedroom is pretty clean right now as is teh computer room, which has taken on a new flavor. I think as time goes on we'll refine our rooms' themes and eventually the house will be just as we want it.

Other than that, work is work. I have my good times and my bad times there. I think for the first time in my life I'm truly take it or leave it with my feelings at my current job. People change often in positions so everything seems disorganized and there is unfortunately a ton of "its not my job" or "that was so and so's job originally, so I have no idea". It is getting incredibly old and draining.

No baby news :( still

Honey is coming along. She has had a pretty good streak these last two days in not being terrified by everything :) She is eating with out as much proding, and she seems to be getting more social with James and I. She still has a tremendously long way to go until she is a "normal" dog, but that is okay. The weird thing, when we go out in teh backyard (when it isn't raining and cold) she acts like a normal dog. She jumps like a kangaroo, she runs, she places, she fetches, her whole face lights up and she comes to life. When she is in the house, she is quite, and timid. Very weird.

Anyways that was a much longer post than anybody will ever care to read, sorry. I went back yesterday and skimmed over my first few posts on lj back in 2005. I really wanted to just delete the entries since they were all whiny about a boy, but that was the state I was in back then so I thought it better to leave them, for now. Now onto din-din, and character creations as I want to get them done and not wait until the last minute like I usually do.

I know not all of you are gamers, but I have to share last night's game. ( Star Wars done Pickle's way )

That was that. A wonderful thing indeed. Now my belly is all tied in knots since I have to fly tonight. I just hope I can eat sometime in the next couple hours. Toodles all. Have a great weekend.

Really it's just an excuse to drink, right? But who cares? I love to celebrate so I will. Jamers said he'd make a corn beef and cabbage dinner tonight since I no longer have a granny to make it for me. Last year I didn't go to granny's (Of course now I truely regret it, but I can't change the past) and we tried to go out to Rosie's for dinner. Which of course was a horrible idea. The place was packed and the wait was oodly loodly long. Plus She Who Shall Not Be Named was there and that just threw me into a pissed off rage. We ended up wandering over to 99 Bottles and had dinner. They didn't have corn beef and cabbage so I ended up with a pasta dish. Anyhoo, point is, this year I'll hopefully be having my CB&C dinner with my hunny sans my granny. That is okay. I've decided I'll do an Irish wake type thing for her this evening :)

This weekend is going to be busy. Saturday we've to to take the dresser/nightstand to Xinekurt and all the get rid of stuff to the Last Chance Merchantile. I don't even think I'll be able to go as I've got a baby shower for the girl who took my position at the school district. I'm not a big baby shower fan, but I love to see peeps from the DO so I'm going for that reason. It's at 1:30 so getting to Monterey and doing all that and then getting up to Boulder Creek by 1:30 will be a little too stressful for me. Saturday night I think Kurtxine may be coming over for movies/dinner, but I'm not sure. Sahara and Emillo who were supposed to come over last Sat but cancelled, may be coming over, I don't know. I haven't really put to much effort into getting ahold of them this week. I'm still not sure I should be spending time and getting to know a new friend when we are moving in a couple of months.

Than Sunday, Jamers is running his D&D game at the house and I'll probably be doing packing and stuff whilst socializing with the gang. T'wil be fun me thinks.

Last night's Star Wars Campaign went fairly well. I'm really getting into my character who is a marine. I have no military experience, so I'm drawing a lot of it from movies. I'm picturing her as a Michelle Rodriguez type character, but she is Asian. You know, cute but hard as nails, both body and emotion wise. Anyhow I found myself really thinking like a Military person and I was coming up with ideas that I never would've thought of before. I really enjoyed it. We ended last night's session right as battle was about to commence.

What else? Life is mostly good. I've got some major self issues I'm working on right now. All I'll say is I really need to work on my self esteem.

Ooooohh, and before I go, everyone have a safe night, k? People drive like morons anyways, but add a holiday like St. Patty's on a Friday night and the roads are going to be real dangerous.

Loves ya!

Otay so does everyone know the song "Serenity" by Godsmack? I love the song. Anyhoo the other day, Jamers had made a post about how he heard the song and couldn't get Firefly out of his head. When I got home, he had downloaded a bunch of homemade videos of Firefly to various songs. Of the half dozen or so that I watched, I think maybe 1 or 2 were good. Since I'm such a movie/video snob, I think that I could do a much better version. Unfortunately, I don't have any idea how to do it. I just know that I could put a much more coheasive and worthy video together if I had the ability to do so. Does any one have any idea how I could go about that? I would love to do it in my "spare" time, as small as it is now.

On a completely different note, Mr. Groundhog, another 6 weeks of winter? I need to start walking my butt to work again. Can we compromise and say, 6 weeks of winter, but much, much warmer?

Oh, and we start the Star Wars D20 tonight. I haven't even made my character yet, although I've settled on Jedi Guardian. I figure it is probably the easiest to play. Plus I get to use a light saber (eventually).

Toodles all!

So intrepid_glory sent me this email with Health Magazine's best city to have a baby in, and guess what? Portland, OR baby! Woot! If we hadn't already cemented moving there, this most certainly would've done it for me. I'm so happy.

( An adventure of not so epic proportions )

Only 2 hours left til we take off from work and leave for our weekend away. I'm getting excited. The fact that it is rainy out leads me to believe that we will spend the weekend inside cuddling by the fire and enjoying the big old tub in the room.

Toodles!