To two things, actually: Facebook and Kingdom Hearts. (Warning, this post also contains a long discourse on the unfortunate combination of thumbs and knives. Not for the faint of heart; hidden behind a cut.)

I created a Facebook account because a friend I hadn't heard from in three years sent me an invite, and I wanted very badly to talk to her. Since then I've mostly used it incidentally; there are some people I only have contact info for through facebook, so I used it for that, visiting the site at most once a week.

This weekend I idly sifted through lists of friends of friends, plus ran a search for friends based on my email account, and came up with the profiles of many, many people I had not talked to in years and had abandoned all thought of ever coming into contact with again. All of these people are fabulous, but I've had a lot of friends and acquaintances over the last eight years, and I couldn't possibly keep track of them all.

And now I'm back in touch with quite a number of them, which feels really, really good. I am converted. Facebook is my friend.

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Also, I spent most of the weekend playing Kingdom Hearts. Drew and I are going through it together (or we were, before the unfortunate accident...more on this in a moment) and once you get past the beginning (I'm told it's common for beginnings of longer games to be slow) it's really, really fun. We've only had to use a walk-through to get unstuck one time, which is not bad. We're 13 hours into the game, or something ridiculous like that, which may not actually mean anything because I am SLOW.

( Sad Story of the Thumb and the Knife )

When my family convinced us that we needed to register, Drew and I rebelled by registering at Target so that we could get a PS2. We made a deal with each other: Bed Bath and Beyond money was for practical things; Target money was PS2 money.

So we went to Target today and bought the PS2. I was glad for the gift cards and the previously made deal, because given the way I feel about our finances there's no way I could have parted with the cash. We'd already bought everything we needed, though, and had wedding money to spare, so paying for the PS2 with gift cards isn't setting us back any. (Dang my nervousness for refusing to let me spend pre-spent money without guilt.)

So we got the PS2, and some games: Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts 2, Lego Star Wars, Lego Star Wars 2. :) I spent the evening doing annoying fetch quests in Kingdom Hearts; enough of my friends rave about this game that I assume it gets better as you get into it. Drew says that's typical of longer games. I've never played a game that's built to take more than about 10 hours, so it's new for me.

Plus, learning to use a different controller is weird, and takes me a while. I'd just gotten used to the X-box.

I haven't gotten around to posting about wedding stuff yet...mostly because I've been busy getting life together:

An update on the life stuff:

Drew's website is ready to go...so as of this week we are officially launched. Drew's selling many of the miniatures he's painted, plus he's taking commissions. See his work at www.gardenninja.com.

My revision is going beautifully. It's been fantastically easy to pull this character from the book, which to me says that he didn't belong there to begin with. I'm down to the last 20 pages of the manuscript, which means that all I have left to do is extract him from the ending. All the scenes I've rewritten to pull him out are actually better than the originals, which makes me happy.

I'm fulfilling my promise to myself to have some fun this semester, so I've been working on a conversion of the Warmachine warpwolf.  Here's the one Drew painted, which looks infinitely better than the one on the privateer press site.



Anyway, I'm adding lots and lots of poofy curls and painting him blond and blue so he looks like a groomed poodle.  This amuses me greatly, and bothers all the guys at the Keep.  Two birds, one stone.

Also, I finished playing Fable, The Lost Chapters yesterday while I was home sick (stupid to be sick on your birthday) which was a lot of fun.  The game lets you be as good or as evil as you want, which is bad, because I have no morality when it comes to electronic people.  I killed something like 800 villagers and guards.  Oh well.

The class I'm teaching is going well, I almost have my name all changed, our financial stuff is all in place, I've been working on getting my family history into Personal Ancestral File (have 136 names in there so far...and I've only made a very small dent in my files of information.  I have literally thousands of names just sitting here, waiting to be organized) and the class I'm taking is going well too.  (Even though I missed yesterday due to being sick.  I need to make comments on those pieces I missed today.)

I've been having fun roleplaying again, too.  It's nice to be able to be involved in the game again.  Last semester I was just too exhausted and distracted.

I've also been workshopping Keepers in writing group, and the response has been amazingly positive.  (I hate the book, so I just expect everyone else to hate it too.  But they don't.)  It needs some work, of course, but overall it's going well.  Now if we can just find another girl or two to add to the critique group so I don't keep getting all-male critiques on my book that's written for teenage girls...

Phew.  No wonder I haven't been posting.  Life is good, and full of fun things, but doesn't leave a lot of room around the edges.  :)