friggin' awesome!

is it mr. potato head? is it optimus prime? it's both! it's optimash prime!

zombies are people too

I was at work today and the company released a revision to one of their operating procedures. apparently, as of now, donors who are deceased are to be permanently deferred from donating. apparently, we've been having problems with donors who have passed away trying to come back in to donate. do you hear that zombie donors. no more donating for you. I think it has something to do with the smell... take a shower then come back and try again.

what the futures holds for me

andrea, her mom, her sister, and I went out to dinner tonight after church. we went to a local chinese buffet. they got fortunes like "you will soon be singled out for a promotion". I kid you not. this is the fortune I got:

pics

here are a couple of pics from our honeymoon. I would've had more but my batteries ran out so I only got about fifty or so pics in total. andrea has a lot more. if you want to see more pics, you can check out my facebook page.


I just had to put this picture up. in case you're wondering, yes, that is a goat crossing the street and yes we are passing a car in the right hand lane (they drive on the left hand side because they're technically british)

just a fun scene from one of the restaurants we ate at

andrea and I at the italian restaraunt. it was one of the nicer restaraunts so we had to dress up. dress up meant long pants and a shirt with a collar for guys.

andrea and I on our tour of the island. the peak in the background is one of the pitons. there are two of them. that's what the island is best known for (the twin pitons). that and the saying "no pressure no problem". there's a volcano on the island so there's constantly steam coming up. as long as you see the steam, you know that pressure isn't building up and you need pressure for an eruption so "no pressure, no problem".

we're back!

as most of you that read this blog with any regularity already know, Andrea and I are now back in the states. we had a lot of fun in St. Lucia. I got sun-burnt and stung by what I can only assume are micro-jellyfish. but all i all it was a blast. we went scuba diving, hobie catting (sailing on a catamaran), and beach bumming. scuba was lots of fun. it'd been about two years since we'd been certified and we hadn't gone since then so we had to take a refresher course. as for hobie catting, they give you a five minute speech and give you a boat. that's the gist of it. your job is then to not crash into any boats larger than you (the smaller ones are ok to crash into though) and, here's the tough part, maneuvering your way back into the port from whence you came. it's a lot like kiteflying in that you spend a lot of time trying to catch the wind. I think we spent about thirty minutes actually sailing and the other hour and a half figuring out how to get back into port (there was almost no wind that day). the rest of the time there was spent going on tours of the island, eating, and just playing on the beach. we'll post pics later.

Dillons

I made my first foray into the dillons in olathe today. Yes, my new place is close to a dillons too. Even closer than the other place actually. I've gotta admit it feels kinda strange walking into another dillons. I don't know exactly what the feeling is but it's a feeling of knowing that it isn't your dillons. nothing's where it's supposed to be and they don't have all the produce they're supposed to have. I suppose I'll just have to get used to it. well, I'm off to cook my very first meal at the new place (rigatoni with sausage and a salad..mmmmm...food...)

thar be pirates!

one of my friends works at the movie theatre in lawrence and last night, they had an advanced screening of the new pirates of the caribbean movie and I was lucky enough to go. in short, I think that overall the movie is better than the other two. there is quite a bit more humor with several plot twists involved. that is not to say, however, that action is lacking. there are several fight sequences and explosions. there are also several cameos scattered throughout the movie. my only semi-complaint about the movie is about the soundtrack. true, it is better than the second movie but nowhere near as good as the first one. unfortunately, they brought Hans Zimmerman back for the third installment of the pirates trilogy instead of Klaus Baudelt. although Zimmerman's music is usually great, it felt like for the pirate trilogy he just did variations on Baudelt's previous score. overall, I'd give the movie a 9 1/2 stars out of ten. see it for yourself and be your own judge.

7.50

what can you get for $7.50? the answer is Mirrormask. if you don't own a copy of it yet, you can get one at Best Buy. you can also get a little over two gallons of gas at the local gas-o-mart. so how much did it cost me to fill my tank? a little over five mirrormasks worth. yup. $39.50 for a full tank of gas. that's ridiculous! well, enough of my gas rant. off to relax.

beds are soooo much softer than floors

I've been sleeping in the new house for the past couple of nights and we hadn't gotten our new bed in yet so the obvious alternative is the floor which would be fine if, like most newer homes, the living room was carpeted. our house, was built in the 1920s. everything is hardwood. well in any case, we finally got the bed in and I finally purchased the frame tonight and put everything together. it is soooo much nicer than hardwood floor. it's probably even nicer than my full-sized bed. well, off I go to enjoy the bed.

hooked up

it's official! I now have cable and cable internet in the new house. yea!

update

what've I been up to? well, we closed on the house on thursday and we finally got access to our house on saturday so basically I've been busy cleaning. we haven't gotten very far in the process yet. as of saturday and sunday we've only been able to clean about three of the fifteen or so storm windows, changed one set of locks on the door, painted one door, and puttied all the holes in the wall. we're gonna try to paint the living room sometime later this week.

yea! I'm back!

well, for the past two weeks, I've been trying to get back onto blogger. as many of you bloggerites know, they recently merged with google which means that you now must bow down to the google gods to use your blogger accounts. well, I being the weak and lowly mortal that I am, did such bowing and in said process was required to enter a new user name and password. well, long story short, I was cleaning out the computer registry and cleaned out the cookies that had the password and user id stored in it and couldn't for the life of me figure out what they were. well, just today (not two minutes ago), after much trial and tribulation, I was finally able to deduce my user id (go me). and much like a lowly mortal begging at his god's feet for a boon, I had to send a request to have my password reset. all this to say I'm back! and, like Kratos, google gods I say to you, beware! for your reign of tyranny is over!

clearance granted

great news! you have been granted security clearance to get a rare glimpse of the war room. you may notice holes in the ceiling but don't mistake this as a weakness in the impenetrable fortress that is my war room. it is simply a defensive tactic used to lure enemy nations into thinking that we have a weakness.

the creative process

sometimes I'm just in awe of the creative process. I was bored this evening and thought I'd try a little doodling (which I hadn't done in a while). this mishapened mutant is what I came up with:

after much more doodling and many revisions, I came up with this semi-decent drawing:

cowabunga dude!

for those of you not in the know, nintendo releases new virutal console games for the wii on mondays. I just checked today's list of games and on it was TMNT the original game! I so totally downloaded it and will be spending the next couple of hours blissfully reliving my childhood. totally gnarly!

we have a house!

well, after countering the seller's offer, we have a house! we just got the news tonight that they accepted it so that's good. we're paying full asking price but they'r paying $2500 in closing cost. I have to sign paperwork tomorrow and set up a home inspection so still lots of work but I should not be homeless when my lease runs out.

newgen hut

andrea and I went out looking at houses again today. it's our second trip in as many weeks and I think we found one that we both really like. it cost a little bit more than I was prequalified for but upon calling the bank, I found out that it was actually in our price range. we actually could've gone up a little higher if we had to. well, in any case, we're probably gonna put in an offer on it in a couple of days. it's a pretty nice starter home. 2 bed, 1 bath, with an optional bed room in the attic. 2 car garage with an unfinished basement (finally, a place to put my air hockey table...). its about a five minute walk from downtown olathe and is close to her family and about half an hour east of lawrence so not too bad. it also has a pretty large covered front porch which will be really nice when it rains outside. it needs a little bit of work but other than that, it's pretty much ready to be moved in to. well, that's it for now. we'll see if they accept the offer.

thar be pirates!

but not yet. the trailer doesn't come out till March 19th.

a blast from the past

I was cleaning out the file cabinet tonight to make some more room and came across something some of you may remember:

Boyabus kissabus pretti galorum
Girlabus likabus, wanta somorum!
Poppabus hearabus bigga smakorum,
Kickabus boyabus outta backdorum.
Boyabus limpabus alway homorum.
Swearibus kissabus girli nomorum!

:)

weekend plans

I've got the next three days off and andrea's out of town so what am I gonna do? clean, clean, clean, clean, paint, wii/ what a wonderful life for me.