You know, I always wanted to use that as a title. This would have to be the first chance I have really had to make use of it though. I know I haven’t updated in a while. Really, I have a good excuse for it! I have been super busy. I mean, normal people get busy, and super folks get really busy, but I have been SUPER busy! All of the pre Christmas stuff had me overwhelmed for a while, but that was expected. Christmas was probably the most relaxing part of this whole time, but who wants to blog or read blogs on Christmas! There is actually quite a bit to update so I will try and keep it chronological.
To continue on the “13 year olds have no brains” train, I have quite the doozy of s story that happened the other weekend. This happened one simple Friday evening. I was driving home like normal, except for the newly acquired Best Buy gift card that was burning a hole in my pocket. I had planned to come home and pick up Andrew and go shopping, that’s when I get to about 3 minutes from the apartment and I get a phone call from Andrew.
“Hello?”
“Hi Dad, can my friend come over for a bit?”
“I’m almost home, can this wait for a few min?”
“I was just wondering if he could come over for a bit.”
(kind of flustered now as I am dealing with traffic too) “Umm sure why not.”
So, no biggie, I can take both of them to best buy and we can still have fun. I get home and start taking off my jacket when there is a knock at the door. Eric, Andrews’s friend, is there with two big bags in his hands.
“So, Eric, how long you staying with us?” (said sarcastically)
“Umm just till morning” (not said sarcastically)
“Pardon?”
“Is that ok?”
“Yeah, yeah , ummm That’s fine. Andrew can I see you for a minute?”
Yeah so, that was an interesting evening. Andrew claims that he didn’t know it was an overnight stay, I have my doubts but I will give him the benefit. We still went to best buy and I was inches away from buying an XM MyFi. We all played some games until late and got up Saturday and had some breakfast. That’s when the next big event happened.
Amy got into an accident. Don’t worry, it was nothing bad. She is ok. She had borrowed my truck to go to a Dr’s appointment sat. morning and was on her way back. She rolled through an intersection and was bumped by an SUV making a left hand turn into her lane. The driver of the SUV claims that Amy ran a red light and she says the guy ran the light. The cop on the scene didn’t cite anyone and there is a big fat ZERO damage to my truck. I was quite surprised really. 
The SUV hit the left hand rear fender of my truck and I think it just brushed some grime of his vehicle because the few scratches that are there seem to wipe off. We have been dealing with the Insurance companies now and it looks like everything will turn out fine. What a pain in the but though. The guy was very obviously making an illegal left hand turn so no doubt he wanted to throw blame on Amy. She, of course, has been freaked out and scared to drive. We are taking care of that though.
Christmas it self wasn’t bad at all. Andrew and I finally got some time to get out and buy presents. We really did a whirlwind trip through the mall. Since Andrew was leaving on Saturday morning to go visit his mom for Christmas, we decided to have his official Christmas with dad on Friday evening. He made the decision for us to open up most of our stuff as well because he wanted to see our reactions to stuff. So we really had our big Christmas that night. Of course, Andrew made out like a bandit. He scored some more memory for his computer, some more magic cards, T-shirts, toys, etc etc etc. Amy got me a really cool fountain that does the cool mist effect. It has light and everything. The coolest thing about it is that it has a remote!
Lastly and most importantly is Amy’s Christmas present. Andrew and I had bets on whether or not she would cry when it was opened. I knew she would. She is still glowing. Amy and I have been dating for almost 2 full years now, so I bought her a promise ring. It wasn’t the easiest thing to find either. I wanted to get her a Claddagh ring. Mostly because I really like the style of ring, and it’s her favorite style as well. Also because one of Amy’s favorite shows is Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and in the show, Angel (Buffy’s love interest) gives Buffy a Claddagh ring.
She cried.
The next morning we took Andrew to the airport and went about a few errands that we needed to do. That night was Christmas eve and we sat down to watch a few holiday favorites on TV. We watched Elf, Amy had never seen it, and I had wanted to watch “It’s a Wonderful Life.” This would be when I learned the unspeakable (but I will speak it anyways)
Amy had never seen “It’s a Wonderful Life”
How do you go through life and never see one of the most widely publicized Christmas movies of all time? From here it gets only worse. It’s 11pm on Christmas eve and the last showing of the movie was an hour ago. THE LAST SHOWING!!!! It won’t be playing at all on Christmas day!! HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE!! I had a new quest. I needed to find this movie so that Amy could watch it! From my old Video store days I remembered that Blockbuster is open 365 days a year so we headed out to see if we could find it. NOOOOOOO They closed early!! Wait, CVS is open, maybe they will have it. NOOOOOO they have all the crapy new cartoon movies, but no classics! I hung my head and we drove home with only the XM Christmas channel to comfort us.
Christmas day was the ultimate lazy day. I don’t even think we made it out of our PJ’s. Around mid-day I started making a special Christmas dinner for Amy. We had smoked ham, stuffing, garlic smashed potatoes, green beans, and for desert apple cheesecake. Believe it or not, it came out really well. I made way too much and we have lots left over still. In the evening we snuggled on the couch and watched a few other movies. It was a very good Christmas. Here’s hoping that yours was good as well.
That’s right, less than a week away! What did you get for your friends and family? What do you think you will be getting? I know that I have made it a pain for people to buy me gifts. My problem is that, if I want something, I usually just go out and buy it. The things I pine over and wish for are things that I really don’t need or I can’t afford. And if I can’t afford it, I really don’t expect someone else to go buy it! So I did manage to get all of my shopping done. Unless, of course I forgot something for someone. So here goes a little sample of what I got:
One thing I can let on is that today is Amy’s birthday! A year or so ago she mentioned to me that she had never worked in a place where she could actually receive a gift delivered to her office. I filed away that bit of info and saved it for a day like today. For her birthday I had a bouquet of flowers delivered to her work. On top of this, Andrew and I are taking her out to eat tonight at the Texas Roadhouse (can you say revenge?) Will post some more later this week.
This last weekend we had an interesting little incident. Saturday we spent the day out in the DC area. On the way home we stopped by the comic shop (of course) and while there, I asked Andrew if he wanted to go to the game shop. He likes to go there and play Magic cards with his friends. This gave Amy and I time to just sit and relax for a while, and Andrew got to have fun with all of his new cards. When it came time to go pick him up, Amy and I both went. 
I am not sure you have ever been to your standard game store. There aren’t many girls there. I don’t want to knock the stores or the clientele of course, but it’s true. It’s like going to a Victoria’s Secret and seeing a ton of guys. So, Amy and I walk in, and at first everything is normal. Andrew is still playing his game so I walk over to see how he is doing. Amy starts talking casually with the lady running the store. After about 10 min of me sitting and watching Andrews’s game, I glance back and see your standard geeky gamer in a vampire shirt and dirty black trench coat standing by the counter where Amy and the Shop lady are. He is laughing along in the right spots of the conversation and glancing at Amy now and then. I sit and watch them for a while before I intervene. I walk over and nicely put my arm around her and say “he’s almost done, just finishing up a game” then kiss her on the cheek and walk back to the table.
Within 1 min, gamer dude vanishes. After we left the store I let Amy know what happened. I don’t think I ever realized how bad game stores wee until I look at them from the outside. I have to wonder if I had ever got as bad as some of those people. I like to think that I never did. Isn’t it possible to recognize that gaming is just a hobby and not an obsession? Sometimes I wonder about some of the people there. I know I have hobbies. I know that they might be considered “Un-orthodox”. But I don’t obsess to the point of missing payments or time with loved ones or god forbid hygiene. I would say that some of it is just a phase that kids go through, except that I see guys there that are my age and older doing the same thing. Again, don’t get me wrong, I loved gaming, and still do, but I just don’t see getting to the point that some of these people get to.
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Apparently my Green Lantern has already sky-rocketed to internet fame. A few weeks ago I posted a picture of the mask and ring on my 
