Without Dark You Cannot Have Light

Sooo Ivy ran kara the other night and picked up a neck piece and new pants, yay! I also sweet talked the chest piece in Magister's to drop.. so she's down to just blue belt, trinkets, and melee weapon.. a nice plus. I'm PVPing for her belt, the honor belt is amazing. That's where we stand though!

The VEATs are waiting for an ITF run, some weeks there's 12 a day and some weeks none :( Unfortunately this has been a none week and it sucks major ass. Did roll a new hero last night though.. ice/rad controller... I've always wanted to play a controller so....

Gustav.. dear Lord.. I hope they leave the coast.. Gustav is already a 3 and expected to rise.. those poor people in New Orleans and throughout the coast.... I'm praying for them.

Test results didn't come in Friday, will find out Tuesday hopefully.

Oh my parents are coming over for dinner tonight... Biscuits and gravy, cream of wheat, bacon egg and cheese biscuits... and later ice cream and raspberries for something sweet.... Mom is bringing the food and we're cooking here lol. We'll all probably play some monopoly or something.

OH! We're finally unpacked.... we finally have a living room... all this time we've been mostly unpacked with like 3 boxes in bedroom and a ton of shit shoved in the unsused living room... Well its now unpacked and all the pictures/posters are on the wall.... very nice. The office is like always our "game/collections/obsessions" place lol. The walls are covered in happy bunny, tinkerbell, star wars, U.S Navy, fighter planes, and misc other things we love lol. We try to keep all our crazy stuff in the office, decorate the rest of the house the way we like but keep our posters and junk and whatnot in the office. We also hung up our wedding pictures and wedding stuff in the living room yay!

I got your email Ryan! I'll reply, I promise!!

Paulie, Are you safe where you are? I'm worried give me a call if you can't reach me here for some reason.

So I know I haven't posted but.... its because I've A) been lazy B) been tired C) been busy and D) been so annoyed at other people's posts in their LJs that I just didn't trust myself to be friendly. Anyhoo....

Our rift tank is coming along very nicely. As a refresher when we were moving my long time much loved demon fish (My mated pair of Oscars) stressed out on the long drive and we stopped at the local fish store and with my sitting in the car sobbing, Taj ran them in and begged them to just save our fish no matter what. The pet store did and after much debate and much "I don't want more fish" Taj and my mom talked me into starting an African Rift tank. For those of you (Paulie) who probably don't know off hand what an African Rift tank is... the cichlid fish that come from the African lakes (Lake Malawi specifically for us) are as close to saltwater as you can get without being saltwater. People who don't know cichlids would swear these guys are saltwater due to their brilliant colors. These guys come in neon blues, greens, yellows, oranges... pretty much every color imaginable. They also do well with "living" rock and sand specifically aimed at African Cichlids... and require a much higher PH than tropical fish as well.. very similar to salt water without the fuss of a marine tank.

Anyway lol. The point is our tank is coming along very well. The Africans require LOTS of rockwork they are territorial cave dwellers and need a tank filled with large rocks set up to form tons of caves. We checked into holey limestone, slate and a zillion rocks we don't even know the names of. THEN we stumbled on lava rock which is gorgeous in various shades of red and brown from very light to almost black... and the best part? ALL of these decorative rocks are sold by the pound and lava rock is many times lighter than the other rock types. We bought 14 pounds of lava rock (14 bucks) and it filled the back of the tank and is probably 50 pounds or more worth of any other type of rock its amazing. The water clarity is perfect, the PH is holding perfect, the first 6 fish we got are doing great.. we'll be getting the remaining 4-5 tomorrow... its gorgeous and I'll post pics when it is fully stocked.. I won't say finished because I doubt it will ever be finished but.. stocked works lol.

So yea... more to come... going to play some CoH and get my VEAT to 24 so I can be a crab.. aptly named Time-Bandit (As in the F/v Time Bandit) hahaha