And then there was one...

Friday we went to see the Chronicles of Narnia. Amanda liked the movie, I thought it was "ok". I couldn't help but see all the christian referencs, and it just really put me off. I might have liked it more if I didn't know about all that. But what is done is done.

Saturday we had lunch with Amanda's side of the family for her birthday. We ate at Brio's in the plaza and she got to open a lot of her gifts.

Saturday night we went to Mel and Doug's for a little Party. You can see their cat Dante loving all the fabric on the table with the white elephant gifts to the right. We had a good time except for the fact that while Amanda got the stomach flu for the first time in her life. She threw up a couple of times. I ended up with a disposable camera, a couple of Shrek super balls, and a heart shaped pillow from the white elephant gift exchange. Amanda got some candle holders as well.

Afterward we played a very LONG game of trival pursuit, as Michelle would say. Pictures of this are at my flickr site. We might have stayed longer, but during the game Amanda started to get sick. Anyway, because of this we didn't see "Little Shop of Horrors" tonight (sunday). It was a birthday gift from her parents.

Now, I have been taking care of Amanda all day and managing to keep in good health. I hope it stays that way.

Snow Day

I woke up today and Amanda told me that it was 7 degrees outside. While it was cold, it was also easier to get going this morning because of the fact that there was not any frost on my windshield, just a thin layer of snow which was easily brushed off. Getting to work was not hard, though it was very cold. I was able to submit a card I had been working on today which I am happy with. You can see it on my flickr site if you are one of my contacts.

Anyway, it has been snowing so bad that we had a pool at work to see how much we thought it would snow. No money involved, though I am sure I will lose because my guess was quite low. And since the snow kept up and conditions were worsening we left early. No now I am at home just relaxing.

Though I still have to go to Best Buy to work tonight. Oh well...

Almost there

Last night was a very productive night. I am almost done with my christmas shopping. I got Amanda's birthday present and found something Tim should (hopefully) love.

It was so nice to stay at home and not have to work at Best Buy. I got to finish "Shadow of the Colossus" and all I have to say is "wow." It was AMAZING. It really was just a interesting and different game which did so much with so little. It was surprisingly satisflying to climb over these HUGE colossi. The ending was truly great, though now I have to play Ico to understand more. Which is apparently another great game from the same team as SOTC.


Though, now I am going to turn my attention to a rather ambitious drawing I want to do. I will tell you more about that as I work on it.

Christmas tree

Didn't do to much this weekend. Amanda and I saw Aeon Flux and were pleasently surprized. I went in thinking it probably was going to suck. But it turned out pretty good. It had a deeper story than I thought it would.

Other than that we did a lot of errands, namley christmas shopping. We are almost all done, and we will be closer after today. Speaking of which, I don't have to work at Best Buy tonight, which brings me great joy. I can do some more shopping and finish Shadow of the Collossus which continues to be awesome.

We put up our christmas tree last night, the picture of it can be seen below.

Christmas tree
Originally uploaded by dark_hylian.

I am not going to get into it, but if I ever see and little blue mag flashlight rip-offs it will be too soon....

Holy Flirking Shnit!

Wednesday I went to commerce and filled out one of those "reclamation E" forms so that I can get my 500 dollars back. I should have it by monday or so, which would be nice. Later that day I got an email about my grandfather having to go to the hospital because of some gastro intestinal bleeding. He was going to be there for a few days, but was discharged on thursday. I tried to call him but I didn't get a responce. I have called him a few times but each time no one picks up. Its been awhile since I have seen, let alone talked to my other grandparents. I don't want it to stay that way.

On a happier note, the title for this post is for the game "Shadow of the Colossus," which I rented yesterday. That game is AMAZING! I really don't know how to describe it. It's just plain cool, and stunning in so many ways. I played it for a few hours while Amanda scrapbooked. Though she probably was scrapbooking because I was playing...

Basically the game boils down to find colossi, kill colossi, revive girlfriend. All I know is that if I had to do this for Amanda, I better be getting a sizeable "reward." You know what I am talking about... that's right... a quasi heartfelt "thank you."


I have had a lot of things "go wrong" as of late, but I digress. Things are going well here, just been busy with a number of "tasks" to complete. I am just happy with where I am in life right now... And who doesn't want that?