October Starts my favorite month

Here is my favorite month of the year- October. Not only is it my birthday this month, but also the NFL is going, NHL starts up and the MLB is in thier playoffs. With the NFL comes the fantasy league we play in- the Ironman Football League. To date, i have one win under my belt.. meanwhile, doug and my father-in-law are 4-0. Go figure.

Nicole and I are about to hit our 3yr mark as husband and wife on the 10th!! YEA!! I got her this coach bag in the silver/black/white combo for $150 when I was up in Maine; she loves it, which is kudo points for me :P She told me today that mine is in the mail, so we will see :D

Anyways, onto events..

Birthday: Woop! Im older now!! First off, Alot of people came over and called - and so for that THANK YOU!!! I am blessed with the amount of family and friends that we have that went out of thier way to make it a special day. This past sunday, we had a good amount of food and people, so we decided to BBQ- too bad I forgot to fill the propane tank up (lol). I cooked burgers and dogs on the griddle, and watch football and played some cards (quick game). One of these days I gotta get a gameday going. Also, I think that I'm too old as noone was able to find anything that I wanted- granted Dave tried to find GUN but Joebuy was out (I got it later this week Dave ;) thank you :) ) Most everyone gave me cash money, which is fine. So far, I purchaced replacement Detents for the Ion, a new board game - Caylus, a new card game called BANG!, and possibly more system memory for the computer. Im gonna wait for the prices to drop down a tad first. Currently 2-512MB paired sticks go for over $110 right now. Oh well... now its Eric's Bday today and we got him Puerto Rico for his Bday - BIG SURPRISE :P Something that we were talking about was using real coins for the gamecoins- a problem that they had recently was that the money is the same look and type as the victory point counters. Someone on boardgamegeek found a silver looking penny for the silver pieces and a gold nickel for the gold piece.

DAD- Is still selling his house, but now it is to another person. The closing date is soon, but none the less he has packed his stuff and is getting ready to go. He sent me my old eagle scout stuff and my navy awards (Crossing the line..) so eventually we will get something on the walls at the house. Also, he is shipping me the Colt ACE, which will eventually get here.

SCHOOL- Started COM 310 and PHL 315; both classes are writing and both seem kinda ok. COM310 is the worse of the two, as the instructor is kinda blunt and not too personnel. Also, his assignments are on colored paper, which I dont like.. PHL 315 will be fun, as he wants discussion groups and class involvment a high priority.

HOME STUFF- fixed the floor boards; I'l get a pic up soon. Also, we almost had a desk out this weekend but Nicoles aunt forgot about it- and now its a big deal to try and get it over there.. whatever. We offered it up to a few people, but if its still around by sunday, its a gonner (unless someone wants us to hold it..)

I do have Exciting news, but cannot reveal my G14 top secret news until this weekend, as someone might catch wind of it :P - Lets just say that there will be alot of Surprises at my moms 60th birthday party this Saturday.

Next update- i will have some more pics of brthday stuff, My moms birthday party and some exciting action pics of boardgame :P

J