I’m Back - and Something’s Fishy

So I am back from one of those vaca’s that about 1/2 way into it you realize that you aren’t really so much on vaca as providing free cheap labor to make your parent’s grandiose designs come to fruition? Meaning, I go down to their retirement cabin for 4 days of rest, relaxing, and sipping cool lemonade by the river, only to realize that I am actually down there to sand, buff, and stain their deck after first caulking all the joints in their house? I finally had to draw the line when Dad was suggesting that we tear a few shingles off the roof to go looking for a leak that he has in his bathroom. Ummmm dad, yeah, that’s a great idea, but I don’t really remember that reincarnation where I was a roofer, and there is a high probability I am going to fuck something up which is probably going to cost you more than just having somebody with the title roofer in their yellow page ad come take a looksie at it first… lol. So I won one little battle, only to hear the infamous last line of… say… think you can come back over Memorial Day weekend to finish off a few more projects we have in mind? Sure Dad, I’ll be back! I mean what are you gonna say? really?

Well not only was the vaca interesting but I am coming back to some interesting things here as well. Am I still tripping on my uncle’s secondary smoke, or am I seeing psychedelic looking snowflakes next to peoples names on the comments sidebar? Anyone… anyone…. Bueller…. Bueller…. Also, what the heck is the possibly related posts thing that pops up on the bottom of some of our posts? Yeah, I’m not thinking that Jell’s aftermath post has anything to do with Club Penguin cheats and stuff?? I mean wtf?? Honey what is going on here?

Happy Anniversary - Love you more!

Wow, so nothing quite like a candlelit slow dance, with a nice set of music playing, as one layer after another comes off for an hour or so.   I mean dinner was nice too, but nothing quite like the slow dance.   :)   So one whole year is in the books, and I don’t care if it is SL or RL the feelings are the same, just the way we execute the moves is a lil different.  You have made me extremely happy, and I look forward to being even happier over the next 25 years.   Here’s to making the 25th as memorable as the first!!   We spent a lot of the night retelling our favorite moments, events, and transitions from the last year, and then speculating about the year to come.   Let’s just keep Disney as the script writer, and make sure the Wachowski brothers don’t buy any rights to it, and we will be just fine!

Love you baby, and I am very appreciative of the wonderful person you are.

Getting to Know HawksRock Gunawan

Yeah, okay so got the thingy, and figured we ought to just blog it.

Welcome to the 2008 edition of Getting To Know Your Friends. What you are supposed to do is copy the text on this entire note and paste it onto a new note that you’ll send out. Change all the answers so they apply to you, and then send this to your friends including the person who sent it to you. The theory is that you will learn a lot of little things about your friends, if you did not know them already.

1. What time did you get up this morning?
6am

2. Diamonds or pearls?
Diamonds - cuz it is all about the BLING baby!!

3. What was the last film you saw in the theatre?
National Treasure (sucked btw! well at least the parts I stayed awake during…)

4. Favorite TV Show?
ESPN SportsCenter but I am too cheap to pay for cable… so I don’t get to see it very often. Heroes too, but I watch that online.

5. What do you usually have for breakfast?
Bagel w/ Cream Cheese and a Banananana

6. What is your middle name?
Mathew

7. What food do you dislike?
Liver, Corned Beef w/ Hash (soz Mom), Most things with slimy or paste type textures

8. What is your favorite cd at the moment?
I am pretty much a constant IPOD shuffler, I listen to hours of Music everyday. I have a rep for rocking 80’s alternative pretty hard.

9. Favorite sandwich?
Yello Sub (ie warm club from a local deli here)

10. What characteristic do you despise?
whining woe is me types

11. Favorite item of clothing?
Short skirts - errr did that mean on me?

12. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation…
Paris - is highest on my list of places I have been. New Zealand is high on my list of places I haven’t been.

13. What color is your bathroom?
White (well Jell says Eggshell whatever that means)

14. Do you make friends easily?
Yes, but only a very select few ever get the VIP all access pass.

15. Where would you retire?
French wine country

16. What was your most recent memorable birthday?
A couple of years ago (unfortunately) when my kids went all out to treat me to a day of everything they knew I liked the best.

17. Favorite sport to watch?
Kansas Basketball!!!

18. How many towns have you lived in?
More than 25, and I don’t wanna take the time to add em up… lol

19. How many people do you think will send this back?

I hereby tell every single person who reads this on our blog, that they HAVE to fill it out via blog or notecard and send it back!! (Sooo probably 2-3)

20. What is on your bedroom floor right now?
Clothes, Laundry Hamper (no the clothes are not all IN the hamper (maybe 50/50). About dare I say 6 pairs of shoes…

21. Favorite saying?
I’m very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany. - Ron Burgundy

22. When is your birthday?
June 21

23. Morning person or night person?
By preference night, by profession morning

24. What is your shoe size?
11

25. Pets?
Not atm, but I REALLY want a Lab again… soon!

26. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share?
Jell and I have our 1 year anniversary on Monday! Lining up the babysitter now!

27. What did you want to be when you were little?
Race car driver.

28. Which talent would you most like to have?
Play the gee-tar

29. Which words or phrases do you overuse?
lol, Jell’s lingo which I pick up too easily, ;), What a bunch of crap!

30. What is your favorite flower?
Pink Roses

31. What is the day on the calendar you are looking forward to?
May 5th

32. What color are your eyes?
hazel

33. What was your favorite toy as a child?
Big wheel

34. Summer or winter?
summer

35. Hugs or kisses?
Hugs, unless I am in the mood… which is quite often.

36. Chocolate or vanilla?
I actually love Swirl - where you get the best of both, but just one I would have to say Chocolate

37. Do you want your friends to send this back to you?
Sure

38. What is under your bed?
Nothing, unless she hid something under there I don’t know about

39. When was the last time you cried?
around a week ago

40. Who is the friend you have had the longest in SL?
Jell

41. What did you do last night?
Played LOTR, ate a masterful meal, played LOTR some more, and went to bed.

42. Favorite smell?
Scented candles, post rain freshness

43. What are you afraid of?
failure

44. Plain, sweet, or salted popcorn?
salted movie butter

45. How many keys on your keyring?
10

46. How many years at your current job?
1 year

47. Do you have any scars?
yep, and lots of good stories ranging from flipping ATV’s to campground brawls

48. Favorite day of the week?
Saturday

49. What is your worst habit?
Procrastination

50. How old were you when you got your first crush on someone?
Age 5 Heather Gentry - she would chase me, tackle me, then kiss me. What a woman she must have turned out to be.

51. How old were you when you lost your virginity? where did you lose it?
Well it depends on what the definition of IS is?? Full monty would have been age 17 in a tent.

52. Ever been arrested?
Yup

53. What is the most embarrassing celebrity/band/whatever that you’ll admit to liking?

Wow, probably a lot… lol. I actually like Britney’s latest album… lol.

54. If you could travel back in time, when would you visit?
Probably would be fun to go to the medieval times… I mean the Renaissance festival is pretty cool. lol

55. How many people are you sending this to?
All 3 of you that read the blog… enjoy!

Our Story - Part 2: Something more than friends

So as promised, here is the second installment in the how we met and fell in love story as told by the principal players.

HawksRock Gunawan: alrighty then…. let’s commence in 5
HawksRock Gunawan: 4
HawksRock Gunawan: 3
HawksRock Gunawan: 2
HawksRock Gunawan: 1
HawksRock Gunawan: hahaha, I should soooo be a tringo host ya know
JellyBean Madison: omg! you’re a natural!
HawksRock Gunawan: anywho… so is there anything else from the pre-item phase that you want to cover before we move on down the road?
JellyBean Madison: oh we should talk about how no matter which twin you were with, or who I was with - we had almost weekly dance sessions where we’d vent/discuss/bounce stuff of eachother

HawksRock Gunawan: WHAT?!?! is this some sort of revisionist history?
JellyBean Madison: What? we did! Until I got with Truth. He was always kinda bleh about such things
HawksRock Gunawan: I remember us starting with the class verses grunge challenges, which are coming up next, and we did talk constantly, but I don’t remember weekly dancing until we started dating each other.
JellyBean Madison: Well it wasn’t set weekly, but it kinda did happen that way. Think about it
JellyBean Madison: noooooooo
JellyBean Madison: I remmy that I thought I was finding a loophole. Remmy I didn’t fit *your* criteria
HawksRock Gunawan: correct, because you were married in RL at that time. and I wasn’t comfy with it
JellyBean Madison: and you were with the twins when we danced, and you talked about that stupid value system
HawksRock Gunawan: yes, but now we are getting ahead of ourselves just a bit, let’s back up and talk about the origin of the challenges first
JellyBean Madison: Oh okay. My bad, soz!
HawksRock Gunawan: The way I remmy it was that I asked you once if you had ever been to Phat Cats to dance (back when Phat cats was still a cool hole in the wall club rather than the entire sim it is today!) and you were like, newp. And then I invited you in for our first dance as friends.
JellyBean Madison: Right… and I think that was the first time you saw me formal’d up, wasn’t it? I had to hover on the outside of the sim until I could get in ’cause it was full.
HawksRock Gunawan: yup, cept you weren’t totally formalled up, it was more of a racy slit up the side tango number I believe… but yes you did have to wait outside. And then when you arrived, we danced, and you described how in all your time in SL you had never gotten a chance to see the “romantic hotspots” only the grunge or club scenes.
JellyBean Madison: right I never went “out” dancing anywhere except clubs, but not romantic and/or nice spots.
HawksRock Gunawan: so we talked about that a while, and then you got a better offer to go tringo with Eva and you poofed on me
JellyBean Madison: well, it was tringo AND we were only friends
HawksRock Gunawan: very true… haha
HawksRock Gunawan: but that led to us having discussions about how we both played SL totally different, and then…. drumroll please…. we came up with the idea of the Class/Romance verses Grunge challenges, but didn’t you have a cool name for those?
JellyBean Madison: Shit! Way to put me on the spot, I cannot even look it up since dirty monkey is offline. Just leave it at Grunge vs Class challenge
JellyBean Madison: lmao
HawksRock Gunawan: kk will do… lol
HawksRock Gunawan: in a nutshell, I would take you to all the romantic spots of SL that you had never seen, and you would introduce me to the underground scene.

HawksRock Gunawan: So as a test of your memory what was the first thing you invited me too?

JellyBean Madison: like… the Wastelands

JellyBean Madison: Wait that wasn’t first was it? I think we went to the Block
HawksRock Gunawan: I was thinking the first thing you invited me too was to play tank wars with your 132654687 friends that were playing at your place.
HawksRock Gunawan: remmy when you put me on skype with the whole crew for my first time using skype?
JellyBean Madison: Oh yah - but I thought you meant the first *us* time. I tote remmy my sim & the tank wars, skype & the bubble
JellyBean Madison: in fact, I have machinima of that bubble ride.
HawksRock Gunawan: yup, haha, that was something else… crazy times I would venture to say… but yes shortly after that we did do the Block next I think, and then the Wastelands, and Midian City, etc…
HawksRock Gunawan: I remember thinking I had to come up with something really special to match up with your adventures, which is when I decided to take you to Avilion for the first time. I sort of think on that as our “first date” type experience, even though we were still in the friend mode.
JellyBean Madison: Right… but you dressed me!
HawksRock Gunawan: I got the wild idea to buy you a formal dress, and spent like a week straight shopping for the woman who has everything to find something that I thought you would like that wouldn’t clash with your hair… lol.
JellyBean Madison: lmao yep!
HawksRock Gunawan: And I think I even gave you a diamond necklace to go with it if I remember.

JellyBean Madison: You did and a purse
HawksRock Gunawan: yes, I remember when you had to go home to dress with Aka, before I could come “pick you up”… lol
JellyBean Madison: lmao yes! And she was all “awwww *gag*”
HawksRock Gunawan: haha, of course. But then when you arrived, and I was like *mouth dropping to the floor* at how beautiful you looked, and of course Avilion just has a special magic to it anyways, but it was the first time we had a really long uninterrupted convo without any distractions.
HawksRock Gunawan: I think that night was a major turning point from friends to more…
JellyBean Madison: You’re right. We danced & IM’d
HawksRock Gunawan: Wasn’t that also the first time we slow danced verses just tango (which was our specialty dance forever and ever?)
JellyBean Madison: Omg! Yah! We always tango’d but I don’t think we ever tango’d at Avilion
HawksRock Gunawan: so basically I would describe this phase as the starting to fall hard for each other, but still not unattached phase… is that correct? lol
JellyBean Madison: yup! Well, wait - I think it took you longer than it took me :p
HawksRock Gunawan: yeah, well after you broke it off with Truth you went through your short lived gonna be single phase, and then moved into the oddball clingers on phase
HawksRock Gunawan: I was going through my trying to figure out if I could actually love someone who would sleep with more than one man phase… and it took me figuring out the answer was no, to be ready to move on.
JellyBean Madison: Right, well I think that was crazy anyways lol
HawksRock Gunawan: Yes, but that is the oversimplified version… of course
HawksRock Gunawan: So this is probably a good place to break off this installment right before the hammock talk, eh?
JellyBean Madison: oh yes! lol
JellyBean Madison: cause that may be one part all by itself

May it RIP… Amen

So Jell’s puter has been having issues lately from making loud grinding noises (”Wow, that can’t be good.”) to locking up and freezing on her. Yesterday, it officially crapped out completely. We took it in to the shop today, but they said the turn around time would be 7 to 10 days. This means that Jell is not going to have access to her email, bloglines, SL, etc… for that period of time. Odds are she will come over and use mine some here and there, but our schedules are running opposite atm, and without her car it is hard for her to get over here on her own. We’ll keep you posted, and I am sure she will have a few blogs stored up in her head which will come piling out once she returns… :p