2007

I love mashed potatoes. Not the ones in the box, real ones, you know the kind made with potatoes and milk, then mashed up using a mixer. I am planning on doing some of the cooking when we move, to take some of the load off Krissy, but if I am going to do that then I need some powerful tools. I want the Eclectrics® Mixer, because it is really powerful, and quiet. I don’t really like the loud noises other mixers make, and this one seems to be quiet.

The Hamilton Beach® Mixer isn’t ugly either, in fact I can get it in any color I want. I think I would either get it in licorice or sterling silver though, those seem to be the nicest looking. We have other things to purchase for the kitchen first, but after the other major purchases are done though, I think I am going to pick up a Hamilton Beach® Stand Mixer. I could use it for more than just mashed potatoes I’m sure, but for now that seems to be all I know how to cook with one of those, so maybe if I get one I will find other things to make with it.

I have spent the better part of the day so far looking up movie connections. Like I didn’t realize that there were props in Bride of Chucky from the Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th series. I also was looking up the Jason vs Freddy vs Ash upcoming comic book. I just wish it was going to be a movie, I thought Jason vs Freddy was good, a lot better than Jason X, so why not make a sequel to it? I mean it brought two main horror movie icons together for the first time, and neither won, so why not finish the fight in a movie?

It is 3AM and the phone rings. There was a horrible accident, your mother was just in a horrible plane crash. The engines failed and the plane plummeted to the ground in a flaming inferno. There were no survivors. Your distraught, you need consoling, why would something like this ever happen to you and your family? A million things are running through your head, could you have stopped it, what if she was on a different plane? You start to take the blame for her death, you think maybe you could have prevented it somehow. You fall asleep a few hours later only to be woken up by your nightmares.

You need to plan a funeral, but you can’t even think straight. How would you even begin to pay for the funeral that she deserves? She had money, but how much would need to be given to each child and grandchild, and how much would be left for a funeral? Then you remember that she went to Morris, Hall and Kinghorn when she was living in Arizona (also located in Nevada). They helped her with estate planning so her children would know what to do when she passed on. Thank goodness for them, you think as you walk out of the office with the instructions she left for you, she was really thinking of you when she went to them afterall.

Remember the Street Fighter games? I remember them because I used to love playing them (well number 2 anyway). I don’t remember number 3 that well, either because I wasn’t in an arcade to play it, or I just never heard about it. Well Capcom announced Street Fighter 4 recently. Now all that is released about the game is that it will possibly include Ryu and Ken (this distinction is made from the Ryu and Ken images on the website), and I believe that it will also include Chun Li. There isn’t any official documentation anywhere announcing Chun Li, I just believe that with a new movie coming out that is going to revolve around her, then they have to include her in the new game.

I have been approved for Smorty. It is a place that pays you to blog about your opinion and links back to their website. I like to get paid to blog, it is very easy and being part of Smorty just makes it easier. After you reserve an opportunity, they give you three days to write the post. So say you have to leave, but there is a post you wish to do, you can reserve it then come back later and do it. They make it really convenient for you to blog the way you want to blog. Another great feature about them is that they email you campaign notifications. Say you don’t log in for a few days and you don’t know what opportunities are up, any new ones will be mailed to you so you can login and possibly take an opportunity. You have to be quick though, they go really fast.

I’ve had my car back and it is working great. The other night we drove to Ocean City to have fun on the boardwalk and to have dinner at Denny’s and it really was a great time. I will admit that I am a tad attached to my car. Is that so wrong though? I don’t get attached to much, and my car has been with me on all my adventures to Ohio, New York, all over. I’ve only had it for three years, but it is a trust worthy car so far and it has been there for all my trips. I guess maybe I am attached to my car a bit.

Before we got this personal loan, we were also trying to get a mortgage. The thing with Mortgages is that if you don’t pay it then they take your house. I mean that is what my aunt is going through right now, but she owes so much on the mortgage that selling it wouldn’t even get her anything, it might not even pay off the mortgage. I never want to get into that situation so when the time comes I am planning to Compare mortgages and to find cheap mortgages. A chweap mortgage is the best kind, because it is paid back quick and doesn’t have a high interest rate on it.

I haven’t played Halo much the last coupel of days, and this weekend we will be in New York so I won’t be able to play it until at least Tuesday (at least I think that is when we are coming home). Well I have some layout updates to do for my job and then I am hoping to get to play some Halo, and relax. Truth is though, I don’t think I will be able to relax until we are officially moved in with everything done, it is going to be a busy couple weeks.

I have always wanted an arcade in my house. I am talking about one with some of the older games like the Simpsons Arcade game, X-Men Arcade game, a jukebox, all the classics of an arcade. I found a site that sells arcade systems, and they don’t just sell old games, they sell games that have come out not that long ago, like Golden Tee 2008. Maybe when we have the room, I will put an arcade in, I could even put in a real Skeeball game, the kind you find at the arcades by the beach. It is definitely something I will look into when I have the room and the space.

I have pictures hung up next to me. They aren’t something that you will ever find on my site, mainly because they are very special and I don’t have permission from the people in them to put them up. One is a picture of me as Santa Clause with my old friend Katina. I played Santa Clause one year where I worked and the picture means a lot to me. Another picture I have is me with the kids I taught at the daycare. The pictures were taken years ago, but I still look at them everyday and reminisce.

I am really excited to be getting a house, but Krissy seems to be more excited about getting things to put in the house. She has wishlists on four or five different sites for the things that she wants. She has everything on there we could possibly need like pots, pans, printer, new external hard drive, she even has the vacuum she wants on there. It isn’t just a run of the mill vacuum either, it is the Dyson Animal vacuum. Normally I don’t think she would want it, but she has been using it since my mother has one, so she has gotten used to the way it works and the way it feels. It does clean up a lot of stuff others don’t.

I love the series Red Vs Blue, I have since I first seen them. I have a couple seasons on DVD, and I plan on owning them all someday, maybe someday soon. The Blood Gulch Chronicles ended early in the summer, and I have been waiting patiently for new things to come out. I know they did promotional stuff for Halo 3, and they did one video on the Legendary Edition of Halo 3, but I want it back online weekly, these teasers about the new series is annoying.