My finger is still severely swollen.  This past Sunday, Mom and Mike both ganged up on me at dinner and convinced me to make an appointment with an orthopedic doctor.  Called Dr. Sharkey's office per numerous referrals from most people at work, and managed to get an appointment this Thursday morning.  So, we will see how that goes.  It's nearly impossible to bend right now.  Before, I could bend it a little.  Hope it's not getting worse... Dr. Sharkey's office asked if I could get a copy of the x-rays from the clinic, so I picked those up yesterday.  Kind of neat looking o.O



Mike and I have been working on building our recent 40k purchases.  He's still got a ways to go on his army, but my three ships are almost complete.  Only have a third of one left to do.  Should get pictures of those up sometime.

For Mother's Day, I baked Mom a cheesecake from scratch.  I don't care for it, but I know she loves them.  She mentions how she misses the one Dad used to make, so I set out to make one as good as his.  Apparently, mine was delicious :)  Told her I'd make it again whenever.

I didn't get to share this picture before because I didn't want to spoil the surprise I had for Sarah.  She and I talked about making bottlecap magnets once before, so I took the initiative after she left to make some for the both of us.  I had a collection from the past several months, and separated them all out to see how many I could make.

Hung out with Mike and three of his friends one Saturday night.  We played a drinking game called power hour.  Cory put together 60 animated cartoon intros (45-55 seconds a piece), back-to-back, and you are supposed to drink a shot of beer after each one.  Doesn't sound too bad, right?  Well, I made it through 3 beers in 20 minutes, and I was super drunk (I won the race! but Cory ended up winning the marathon.)  I think I finished one more beer over the last 40 minutes of the game, while Cory and Ysh went through 4+ more.  Dent had gone out before me (woo!)

Apparently, I took this picture while Mike was driving us all back to our respective locations.  At least I got the front seat, eh?

Ayla woke me up bright and early at 7am on my day off this weekend.  Well, she must've attempted to wake me up about 20 minutes prior, I only noticed at 7.  She peed all over the bed... and apparently even onto some of the carpet.  I spent the rest of the day washing everything on the bed: 5 pillows, 2 comforters (one down), 1 blanket, and 2 sheets.  Woo.  Thanks kitten.  Probably going to need to borrow Mom's carpet wet vac cleaner to get it entirely out of the floor.

I got quite a few people with my April Fool's Day blog post.  Notable ones included James a mere 3 minutes after posting, Jennifer at work two days after posting and Facebook comments acknowledging the joke, and Sarah (@justgotspaid) a whole 5 days after posting.  I didn't get Mom with it at all, which ended up a very funny phone call.  She said she knew right away from the post title that it was fake, and said "If you got married, that'd be great.  But it sure as heck isn't happening in Scotland, and you definitely are NOT moving to DC!!"  I actually haven't gotten so many reads on a single post in such a short period of time.  I think it was 30 after 45 minutes?  Not bad!

My 40K army is completely painted!... Well they were until Mike and I ordered more miniatures online >.>  He had to start on his Necrons sometime!  Mine look badass, though!



Had the health faire at work today, where I got awesome numbers once again!  I love going to this event every year.  The first year they recommended I add more fruit to my diet, so I did.  Last year it was veggies, and I did.  This year my goal is to add more whole grains.  Time to exchange that white bread and pasta for some whole wheat and couscous :)



Speaking of healthiness, Mike and I have been doing stadiums three times a week, consistently!  We've exchanged a day or two for Kanapaha Park, and last night it was my neighborhood, but we're keeping up with working out :D

Ayla was running to greet me at the door one night when I arrived home, and I noticed a little pooch on her swinging back and forth.  I decided it was time to get both kitties a bit healthier by not free-feeding them anymore, and changing them to a better, more nutritious food.  After much research, I decided upon Simply Nourish.  I've been gradually adding it to their current food, and they love it!  They don't even eat all of their old food anymore.  Probably because they're getting the nutrition they need from the new food :)

Severely sprained my finger from a graceful fall onto my concrete porch last Monday.  I was cleaning up, and started to fall.  Held my hand out to catch myself, and my middle finger was the only one that didn't land properly.  Instead, it was squashed between my hand and the floor, and twisted to the side.  I iced the crap out of it, but it didn't seem to be getting any better, so yesterday I finally decided to go get it x-rayed.  Turned out not to be broken, and they put a splint on it to help it heal.  Hurts like a bitch :P  Not to mention it's difficult to type, and I can't play any WASD-movement games or ride my moto :(



George came over a few weekends ago and helped me put in my baseboards, finally!  They look so good :D



This past week was telecommunicator appreciation week, so breakfast and lunch were each prepared 2 days of the week.  Breakfast was Monday and today, so I missed out on one of them, but I'm kind of glad I did.  The microwaved pancakes weren't very good, and I got sick after eating :/  The catered BBQ lunches on Tuesday and Wednesday were awesome tho :D



This past Saturday was one of the most exciting Mike and I've had in awhile.  His mailbox had been run over a day or two earlier.  Looked almost deliberate by the tracks, but hopefully it mucked up that person's car.  We went to Lowes where he bought a new post and box, we got it all set up outside.  Decided to stop over at my Mom's house to see her new cat, and pick up some furniture things she didn't want anymore.  Mike had previously mentioned that he could put whatever she wanted out on his curb and people would pick it up.

We packed up her car, dropped the stuff off at Mike's (which was all gone almost instantaneously) and headed up to my house to get some things I didn't want anymore.  As we were leaving my street, someone rear-ended me.  The driver got out of her car, and I realized it was Jackie from highschool.  Random meeting!  Almost an hour later, insurance companies had been called and everything was getting settled, so we headed back to Mike's.  The few additional things placed on the curb were gone in minutes, and we drove back over to my Mom's.  Thankfully, she wasn't too upset about her car, it was mostly just cosmetic damage (and totally not my fault!)  Packed up a couple more things for Mike's curb, dropped them off (also gone momentarily), ate dinner with my parents, and headed to my house.

We played some Gears of War (we're going through all three on insane since neither of us have before), and at 11pm we were just about to put the game down when Topher called Mike.  He said deputies were at the house, the fence was busted, and that he needed to get down there.  We drove on over, and really had almost no part in what was going on whatsoever.  However, we were able to piece together what happened over the next two and a half hours.

Apparently, a couple were driving back from a party down Mike's street.  They had an argument, the woman got out to walk, and instead of driving away, the man decided to hit her with her own car into Mike's fence.  The best part?  This is the second time this man has done this to this woman.  What a pair of idiots, eh?  She bloodily stumbled around Mike's lawn, but no one was home.  Headed to the next-door neighbor who didn't want to let her in, but called the authorities.

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20130416/ARTICLES/130419684



Those little yellow things all scattered around are pieces of crime tape marking off blood splatters.  At least we stopped to get smoothies after :)

I've been listening to the series A Song of Ice and Fire on audio book for awhile now.  I just finished book two, and was moving onto book three (or what I thought was book three), when I really didn't understand a single thing that was going on.  Events that had never happened were mentioned, certain people had been killed or injured, which was all crazy talk from my standpoint.  Turned out I had been listening to the first several hours of the fourth book, rather than the third -_-;;  Oh well.  At least it was sort of a relief to find out that I didn't just miss a whole bunch of stuff, rather just picked up the wrong book.

Mike and I dyed Easter eggs together :D



We also went out to dinner with a bunch of his friends, and saw Blue Thunder's twin!  Apparently, one of his friends owns it, too!



My phone is getting progressively worse.  I have the extended battery on it, and that originally increased its life to more than 48 hours.  Now, it'll last between 36 and 48 hours.  Upgrades have never existed for the OS, so all the apps that are being created and upgraded to perform better on the new version of Android just make them run more poorly on mine.  For awhile, Ingress wouldn't even work, but somehow that managed to start working again (although Mike and I haven't really been playing.)  I can't use nearly any new apps that come out.  Phone calls and text messages are iffy at best.  Mass texting is barely an option anymore.

Have my eye on the Samsung Galaxy S4 (http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxys4/).  The prospective release date for Verizon is May 30th, which is a whole month after AT&T, so hopefully that'll be enough time to get some good reviews out for it.  I don't want my plan to change, so I will most likely buy the phone outright.  Hoping that will not incur an over $500 cost… will probably just continue to deal with my current phone if it does.  Wait for a Christmas sale/deal with them.  I definitely plan on buying the smallest-sized model (16GB, I believe), since that's what I currently have, and a 16GB SD card on top of that, and I'm no where near filling the phone up.

My Network+ certification studying is going really well!  I should be taking (and passing!) the test before summer :D

Hanging out with @justgotspaid while she gets ready for the next big chapter in her life.  Woo!  Going to miss her :(

Mike and I spent this weekend out in Columbia, SC with his brother and fiance at their wedding shower party thing.  There was cake, so I can definitely call it a party!  Three cakes even :D  There were probably 50-60 people all gathered together, none of which I knew!  Neither did Mike much either, so we just hung out together for the most part :)  It was nice to spend time with Greg and Alyssa, since I've only met them once or twice in passing (and then Gator Nationals.)  Spending time with either of Mike's brothers really exemplifies some of his traits, and it's cute what they all have in common :D

They had a cute kitten that looked like an ocelot :)

Cutting cake practice!

Everyone seemed to be sports fans...

It rained quite a bit on Saturday, but it was nice and relaxing if you ask me :)

On our way to SC, we stopped in Darien, GA for a little Ingressing.  The town had multiple unclaimed portals, and we were excited to capture them for ourselves... however, when we stepped out of the vehicle we were attacked by swarms of aggressive gnats!  It was horrendously annoying :P  Still stuck around to take them all, and make fields :d

Just picked up Organ Trail, Half Minute Hero, and The Binding of Issac on Steam this weekend, all for $8!  Played some of Organ Trail thus far, and it's hilarious.  If its intention is to be like Oregon Trail, but with zombies, it's exceeding expectations :)