Happy New years! - Its been busy!

Hey all, sorry for the delay in the updates: Things have been busy our end.

Christmas was excellent; lots of gift exchanging and some good stuff was there for me under the tree: A new phone was a needed, some clothes and lots of games - King me, Risk 2210, five crowns and wizardology. Not sure where these came from but the only one I heard of was Risk - so I learned five crowns and played it so far; no takers on the rest.

New Years was kick back - the way I like it. nothing too exciting: went to philly to visit the family, then at 7pom, came home and put the lil guy to bed. Amy came over, watched a show, then played some WoW to new years, then she went home and called it a night. The day of new years was cold, so we stayed home, did some house stuff and I got to spend some time with Chris.

We picked the date for the baptism - January 20th, 11am. Dave and Gabrielle are the godparents since I have a feeling they are going to be good friends and family for us for a long time. I feel bad since I never got to see Dave and his family since mid-December. They got sick, then eventually got better, but we have been busy these last 2 weekends. I am hoping to get together BEFORE the event on Sunday - maybe get together for lunch.. some games, hanging out... who knows.

And so it goes: Steelers lost in the playoffs - not that I sad, but they had a good year, considering that the rothesburger got better his 3rd year, a new coach in Tomlin and Parker was the #1 rusher in the league (too bad no TDs for him). I'm all for the Packers this playoffs - not to sure of the damm pats though.. I'm not sure where the superbowl party will be this year - last year was at Dave's n Allies house - maybe we will do something at our place again -make a chili, some veggies, chips n dip... who knows.

FAMILY: Chris is getting bigger every day- he is almost 4 months old now and is a very happy baby. Easy to play with and loves grabbing things. Some more pics are up in the gallery link, so check em out. This weekend is the baptism, so that will be good :) Nicole is doing well and we seem to spend more time together not only with chris before he goes to bed, but also after he goes down too. I think the 'family thing' is the best :)

SCHOOL: Started up - I got a C in Lab 2 (whew) with one of the worst instructors there - my counselor. He was very tough to please- don't want to go there.. This quarter its the make or break- ECES 302 (Again) and Lab 4. Lab 4?? yep- they didn't offer lab 3 this quarter, so they offered lab 4. ECES 302 was a redue - I got a D last time (my first one ever) and this is the bread of EE - transforms - if I can master them the life is good.. not somehting I want to think about and struggle with later on at college. If I don't do well again, its time to reconsider my college career and direction.

GAMING: Xbox has been off for awhile- a few notes on this:
1: Nicole cannot play the same games, nor has interest in them.
2: LIVE has been suckin ASS lately.
3: I am getting tired of Search and destroy in COD4- I have more fun doing a match with friends than anything else, and since they don't get online till after 11pm, its hard for me to play on a weeknight and join them.

So, with that in mind, last month Nicole and I talked about playing Warcraft again, and we are back playing that. We have some basic rules- no playing without each other, unless its with another character (basically we play two people together all the time); No playing if there are things to do around the house; No more than a few hours a night. No massive dungeons (the big ones). Have fun and enjoy the game. After making the initial guys, we have a small group - formed a guild - Circle of Friends - and try and stick together with questing and leveling as to not outpace the rest of the group. So far, its going ok, On the server there is no PvP (players killing eachother) so leveling is good.

WE went thru Wailing Caverns, Shadowfang Keep and last night did Blackfathoms Depths. There was some good gear in them all, so that is good. We are having fun and like playing with friends after Chris goes down for the night.

OTHER STUFF:
* The Xterra is about to hit 100k miles = timing belt = $$$$$. Figure about $400 or so when its all said and done. Maybe in February or March..

*Taxes should and BETTER be nice to us this year- Nicole left her job in September and we had chris, so there is some $$$ back for us. It better be in the 4 digit range and better be something we can use to help pay off the credit cards and fix up the place...

*Told you so on Dallas - overrated. Same with Indy.. dont play good football in the last 2 weeks or the regular season and you loose it... ask the Steelers.

*The Westchester Dinner theatre was this weekend and what a show: The Phantom - excellent and better than the phantom of the opera.. similar story, but more than that.

No good sales!! I am sadden that my Christmas bucks aren't being used for something yet - maybe start saving for my camera or laptop.. hmm


OK - back to it, look for more posts this week!