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You Passed the US Citizenship Test

Congratulations – you got 10 out of 10 correct!

This weekend was here and gone before I could blink 😮

Saturday, for most of the day, I was at the folks’. Christmas decorations are now up, so Christmas may now feel free to commence 😀 I don’t think they have any plans to put anything outside, so I might have to uber decorate my apartment to compensate 🙂 Ruthie got some ornaments for my tree from the Disney store which look quite smashing–my tree is now almost exclusively decorated Disney (save for the beads). I have one of those bush light nets draped over my balcony which, at this point, is the only external lighting–I might have to add some icicles on top and some garland. Alas, I haven’t yet found the kick arse lighted deer that garibaldicu had last year at his place.

Sunday was pretty smashing, as well. My dad and I went to Mass at 11:15 to root on Ruthie as she had the Rite of Acceptance in RCIA. Basically, it’s the point at which the community welcomes the candidates for worship. It was a great ceremony, and apparently a big step in the RCIA process–I haven’t really known anyone whose gone through it, so I’m learning a good bit about it along the way, too.

I can’t believe it’s already December 😮 Where the frak did this year go?

An interesting entry in the Wikipedia about the origins of Santa

So, the rest of the weekend was quite smashing. The next day was mainly chilling out. We saw a little more of Greenfield & the surrounding areas. A little bit of shopping was done. After getting a few things he needed for the winter, like “draft dodgers”, Keith’s pad was a good bit warmer. The morning we left, it was almost roasting.

I saw Goblet of Fire last night with Ruthie 🙂 It was a really, really awesome movie. I didn’t realize the movie was just about 3 hours long–I was quite tired after that. Anyhoo, it looks like the movies certainly are getting progressively darker. Maybe I’ll go back and read the books at some point, although I may get so hooked into Wheel of Time that it may take a backseat for a while 🙂

My Mage in WoW finally got to level 30. It’s about damn time 🙂 It’s going to get to the point where I level so sparsely that Ruthie’s going to overtake me in level with her Warlock 🙂

I’ve put up Christmas decorations around my place. It looks quite smashing, although my lil tree is lacking a bit in the ornaments department. I didn’t want to get those customary glass/plastic ones to start out with because, in the end, they’ll probably just break.

So, Milwaukee is a pretty kewl place. We’re finally getting a slightly more lengthy tour of it than the one day that we got when we moved Keith into his apartment. Plenty of corner pubs, something they wouldn’t dare have in AL but thrive on here in the upper midwest. His apartment is quite warm, considering the 16 degree low temperatures we’ve been having here. I think he needs a wee bit more insulation, perhaps some plastic in front of the windows.

Today we went to Lake Lawn Resort. It’s the place where my parents had their honeymoon, and have been coming on occasion since for lunch. There wasn’t much golfing–or anything outside–going on today, because of the snow. It was just starting to ramp up as we left, so no one was even building snow forts yet. D’OH!!!!!

I had a mean salad for lunch. Literally. It started burning at my stomach and continued all day long and into the evening. I think it might be indigestion, I don’t know. My stomach was kind of burning, almost like it had cramps. My brother proved his northern might tonight by braving the darkness and the snow to get some Pepto. It didn’t really help much after two doses. Then I fell asleep for an hour, and now the stomach seems to be relatively happy again. I don’t know WTF that was. Maybe I gobble too fast 😛

Anyhoo, after lunch we went to the Pabst Mansion in downtown Milwaukee. It was a kewl house. Just the big ass house of a beer aristocrat.

I miss Ruthie 🙁 Uber bunches.

And with that update, I am off (happily, this time) to sleep. I hope everyone had and continues to have an awesome holiday weekend!

I hope everyone has a happy and yummy one! And safe travels, to those who are travelling.

So, I had a dream last night that I was The Omega Man. It was a bit like the movie–everyone was a mutated freak, except for me. No one I knew was in the dream, so I guess it played out more like I was participating in a movie or play.

The main differences were that it was a nuclear instead of biological war, and the zombies weren’t disco freaks like they were in the Heston version 🙂

My dream world is a very strange playground, indeed.

I’d like to give a shout-out to garibaldicu for being old 🙂

Listening to The Truth & the Light in mp3 form on a Rio Forge sux0rs.