Waaagh!!! WAR is live!

Alright, so since last Tuesday I have been engrossed in Warhammer: Age of Reckoning. Well not really engrossed, but entranced. The game is awesome. Better than WoW. Why? Because of RvR. It is amazing. Healers actually get rewarded for healing! Yes, it's great. I can heal, do damage, and keel people. Though, they kill me to. The RvR scenarios are great, and we're not even in real RvR yet. So if people are wondering where I've been, that's where. Well that and church...

In church I've been called as Young Women's president. So my weeks and weekends are filled with organizing and planning activities for the young women of the branch. The girls are great. They listen to the lessons I teach, and really apply themselves. We had an awesome YW president before me, but she is moving away:( Hopefully, I can do just as well!

Anyway, my archmage calls...If any of you get Warhammer, look me up on the Vortex server...order side! Oh yea, Scott is there too! :)

Hurricane Ike in CINCINNATI!

So I haven't posted in awhile. School is done for a bit. So things on that front have calmed a wee bit.

We bought a new refrigerator, new dishwasher, and a gas stove. So we bought basically a new kitchen. The refrigerator is HUGE. It's awesome and I love it. We took the island out and bought a moving island. We, at some point, need to lay our ceramic tile down, but until then we have a uh 'soft spot' in the floor where the previous owners put in the dishwasher. I have taken care of this by putting a rug over it! HAHA!

Okay, now about my title of the post. We had hurricane force winds in the tri-state today. 76 mph gusts. IT WAS AWESOME. I enjoyed it because I never felt wind blow that hard before. But most people hated it because it kind of blew alot of stuff up because Cincinnati is not meant to take winds like that! My house survived, and my roof is still attached. Unlike some other Ohioans. So go here for lots of destruction pictures of Cincinnati!

And here is a glimpse!
So yea, see the big green patch in the middle of the road. That would be a tree. COVERING THE ROAD. Now imagine this down every road you go down, along with big branches, and trash cans, and all kinds of things. CHAOS EVERYWHERE.

Back to work, back to work

Alrighty, so today was the first day back to work for Scott and I after an awesome 6 days off. It wasn't a terrible day back, it wasn't an awesome day back, it was a day.

Mat was being his typical cute self today, like always. Though he now goes 'WHY NOT?' for everything...thanks Daddy. Mat would say 'Why' over and over again, then Scott would just say 'Why not' so now Mat does it...constantly. It's so awesome. Mat is more in the question stage than ever, everything is why, how, what, who, etc. He tends to retain what you tell him though, which is pretty cool.

Mat is using his imagination all the time now. He pretends he's super Mat, or Sir Mat, or Doctor Mat, among a plethora of other things. Tonight he was pretending he had a tea party with 2 cow stuffed animals, myself and Scott. The cat, Fluffy, joined us for a bit, then left, and came back. When he came back, Mat was like, 'Oh Fluffy, have you come to join us again?' Haha! I was about to crack up, he was so polite about it, and serious, it was awesome. We are about to try him on 'big boy books' that have no pictures, since his imagination has blossomed so much. He seemed pretty excited about it. We'll start him out on James and the Giant Peach.

Other than that, we miss the Mays family, they are back in Arizona now. We enjoyed our limited time with them. Though we are holding the razor they left behind as a hostage...RETURN TO OHIO OR THE RAZOR GETS WATERBOARDED AGAIN! Mat has been asking for each member of the Mays' family since they left. He doesn't quite understand the whole distance thing yet...We'll get there!

In other news, WARHAMMER OPEN BETA IS SUNDAY. In preparation for this, I must complete my final project for my business foundations class, and the remainder of my discussions. So I have 7 discussions to complete, and the final paper and powerpoint presentation. THIS IS DOABLE, as I will be doing nothing on Sat. but this, well after I return from baking myself at the Beach for my company picnic. Speaking of the company picnic, Logan and Audra will be joining us for a fun filled day of excitement and fun at the waterpark. Good times, good times. I imagine Scott and I will trade back and forth with the kids so we can ride a few rides!

Also, Fluffers (new nick name for Fluffy, thanks Josh:P ) has caught 2 mice this past week. Only 1 died, the other one escaped...Kim and I witness this first hand...we were terrified that the mouse would attack us, so we kind of ran in circles around the living room as we were watching Stardust and the boys all slept.

I've added some additional pictures, and a video of Uncle Josh chasing Mat around the tennis court! So check them out!

I've kind of ran out of things to chatter about...so FAREWELL.

And it came to pass...

Rock Band lies defeated, cowering before Chicken Neck Gypsies (our awesome band name), begging for mercy. We, the rock gods, were not merciful.


And then the credits began to roll, but still, it was great. Jen and I have had the game for months now, but after only 4 short days with Josh and Kim here, we've all owned it, pimped out our band members AND learned that
a) Kimberly can totally spaz out on the drums
b) Josh doesn't sing and has a hard time telling the difference between "inducted" and "indicted"
c) Jonah steals Jen's attention and causes her to miss key notes and of course
d) Scott is amazing.

But in all seriousness, I had an amazing time. I feel recharged and rested and ready to go back to work. Living far apart from great friends really sucks, but it does make you enjoy the time you get to spend together, and I've had a blast.

I don't have any cool pictures uploaded yet from this visit, but I wanted to show Kim a picture that I forgot from our trip to Arizona in January of this year!

SURPRISE.