This has been the most beautiful Easter weekend I’ve experienced in a long time. Holy Thursday was a very nice Mass. Good Friday was very spectacular, with the Veneration of the Cross. And yesterday was the best of all. I went to Confession, something I don’t do nearly enough–the Catholic Church thinks you should go at least once a year, but I think that more would definitely be quite helpful to my soul. Ruthie was welcomed into the Church, was Confirmed, and had her First Communion all in one night–an amazing whirlwind, and a very awesome event to be there and be a part of. I’m so happy for her 🙂

Today will be a very kewl day of relaxing with the parents. It looks like it’ll be a fairly nice day–no tornadoes to speak of 🙂 Just a good bit windy, me thinks.

I finally got my taxes sent off yesterday–I had done them back in February, but procrastinated sending them off until yesterday. It’s good to have that off my chest. I’m glad that electronic filing is out there 🙂 It lets the procrastinators be procrastinators.

I got a 2GB SD card the other day, great deal off eBay. It seems way too large to use in my camera. I can’t imagine organizing 1500+ pictures all at one time. I prefer a smaller card (128MB) for all of that, unless I know I’m going to be away from the laptop for a good time, or I’m too lazy or organize them. With a 4MP camera, that’s 96 pictures. That’s quite enough, when I’m usually a stickler for going in and renaming them. I’ll probably pop the card in my Pocket PC or something.

Boy, they’re off to a suspiciously good start 🙂 And against those stoopid Cardinals, no less 😛

Duck and Cover

So, yea, last night we were ravaged by a bunch of storms. I thought March was supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb 😛 I spent the night at the folks, since I was in their neighborhood while watching Doctor Who at friends. I also brought Penny, since I didn’t wanna keep her in a 2nd floor apartment during the shenanigans, who I have kept in the same room as me and I have heard her shuffling around all night. I think she was rummaging through my old stuff. lol.

This week was fairly uneventful. I don’t think I’ve mentioned the accident I got in last week; A “Handi-Ride” Huntsville bus hit the rear end of my Ion. It’s a short bus that I believe is used to transport the sick and elderly. It was around the hospital in the downtown-type area. It was their fault, obviously, and I just now got around to getting an estimate. I’m glad I’m not paying for it!

Ruthie has been in Louisville all week, and will get home in about 2 short hours–probably less because I got a voicemail from her saying that she’s in Nashville. w00 h00! I have definitely missed her big time.

Today…who knows? We’ll see. I will be babysitting my parents’ dog because they’re going to get the carpets steamed.

Cubs are 2-1 after a pretty big rout of the Cards yesterday. w00t!

16-7. How about that? At least they can say they were in 1st this year 😀

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I had quite the awesome weekend. Friday night, Ruthie and I went to a Noodle place called, ironically, “Nothing But Noodles”. They had a very wonderful bow tie pasta with a very excuisite marinara sauce.

The best part of the weekend, though, was probably the end. I really love Sunday. I have certainly been loving it of-late. The first half of it is usually quite relaxing. I had some time with Ruthie. It was very mellow and serene. We had some lunch together–wings, of course, and she was the cook.

Eventually, after suffering through some girly-type television (I will not say what), we went to RCIA. I am so glad that I am going with her to these. At first, I was a good bit hesitant; almost to the point where I was when I was little and didn’t want to go to Sunday school–but perhaps not that bad 🙂 As I’ve been going with her, though, I’ve been discovering what a joyous occasion it truly is. She’s becoming Catholic, and it’s such a beautiful and exciting journey. I’m so very glad that she wants me to be there by her side, along with her sponsor. I’m learning so much about myself, and also about my Faith that I have forgotten over the years–and relearning things that were misconceived in my younger years.

I made Level 52 this morning. I’m still questing in Un’Goro Crater and have a few more to go, still. I’ll be 60 before I know it 🙂

I started playing Oblivion. It is truly an amazing game; it’s everything Morrowind was and then some. The graphics are absolutely stunning. The physics are amazing; they’re rendered via the havok engine–the same used in Half-Life 2. The way the grass sways with the trees is just astoundingly beautiful. The quests have been a good bit like the ones from Morrowind, though I’m on mostly Mages quests right now. I also bought a horse, which is pretty awesome. No longer do players have to walk or take a pretend Silt Strider. Also, the quick travel via the map helps out a lot.

Anyhoo, hope everyone had a great weekend and don’t dread too much the week ahead.

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This has been quite the most awesome and relaxful weekend. It’s gray and drab outside, but it hasn’t gotten me blah at all. I feel quite well-rested and ready to go.

I finally started Eye of the World for the first time. This’ll be a really long literary journey, for sure. From everything I’ve heard from everyone who’s read it, it’s certainly a sojurn well-worth the effort. 11 books are currently out there, so this is a mere fraction of what is to come. I can’t wait to dive deeper into it. There’s an entire track at D*C for the Wheel of Time series. It’ll be nice if I can go into it having read at least the first book 🙂

Tonight, I will go to Mass and play Simpsons Clue for the first time in a while, and only the second time ever. The first time I played it was the first time I had played Clue at all, with Matt and Missy. It’s a good change of pace from all of those computer games.

Yesterday was a LAN party, but there weren’t many present–physically, that is. A few LAN cohorts were playing over the interweb. It wasn’t quite the same, but TeamSpeak certainly helped when we weren’t playing a game that had voice chat. Most of the time was spent whooping the snot out of bots. The AI of Counter-Strike: Source is actually quite impressive.

And now, for my next trick. A nap. Nothing up the sleeve. Presto! *zzzzzzzzzzz*