Lyrics:
Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides.
Figures dance around and around
to drums that pulse out echoes of darkness;
moving to the pagan sound.

Somewhere in a hidden memory
images float before my eyes
of fragrant nights of straw and of bonfires,
dancing till the next sunrise.

I can see the lights in the distance
trembling in the dark cloak of night.
Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing
a waltz on all souls night.

Figures of cornstalks bend in the shadows
held up tall as the flames leap high.
The Green Knight holds the holly bush
to mark where the old year passes by.

Bonfires dot the rolling hillsides.
Figures dance around and around
to drums that pulse out echoes of darkness;
moving to the pagan sound.

Standing on the bridge that crosses
the river that goes out to the sea.
The wind is full of a thousand voices;
they pass by the bridge and me.

Well its been awhile since I have last posted here :)

Things are going very well. Thanks to getting a lot of taxes back we are for the most part caught up financially. Courtney got a good raise in her job at Wells Fargo and now we plan out where to go from there. Especially with Brenna's first birthday next month.

Brenna speaking of which is crawling like she is in the infant marines. To which of course I'm chasing after every step of the way.

Well first off I wish to say Happy Birthday to my wonderful Courtney! She hit the big 30 today and if you haven't done so, be sure to call her, send smoke signals or whatever to tell her she's on top of a wonderful hill :)

Well we are making it better financially. I have been working part time and Lowes at 4am to 8am to help make ends meet. Its rough but I know what I am doing it for. Courtney got a promotion at Wells Fargo that she starts in a couple weeks so I am so proud of her. :)

And as you see of the picture we finally got to see the movie Wall-E. If you haven't seen it. Go see it! Its a very nice movie on how technology can overwhelm us, both environmentally and physically as well show a nice relationship with two robots of two different technologies. *sniffles*

Today we took our daughter Brenna to the mall to have her first picture taken with Santa. She was so sweet and everyone including Santa loved seeing her. :)

Here's the picture that was taken:

Ever tire of the typical room?

Ever tire of the chat room that has those annoying bots or complete noobs that don't know what they are talking about?

If you answer yes to these then come to a room that has been revived like the Phoenix from Arizona!

Yes thats right, a couple of people have undergone a special project to revive the old WBS chat service. This site started back in the early 90's and was practically a household name at the point of 1997. Glenshadow's Tavern, a midevil rp room even got mentioned in a Time Magazine article! Sadly, the Go Network bought them out in the fall of 1999. One attempt to revive the site failed, this time will stay.

Well if you want to read more about it, here's the wikipedia about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebChat_Broadcasting_System

So do spread the word my friends and have fun! Here is the stie.

http://wbs.xtremeforce.org/

Well you are wondering why myself and Courtney have been so quiet as of late. Well we had been in such a fiscal bind. With Courtney trying to attempt to work two jobs at once, both Wells Fargo and Hornbachers it pretty much drove her to the brink of exhaustion. To which I do not blame her for. She left the second job only to have Wells Fargo but it was really putting us against the wall.

It was looking bleak. At the point then it was that Courtney's mother was proposing us to sell our house in Casselton, and move to Georgia to live with her till she passes on. I felt this would be a lot of trouble to move, especially with doing it during the winter and also during when Brenna is in the growing process (She's almost to the point of crawling!)

Well my parents played the role of heroes. What they decided to do is to pay of the credit card debt we had and also take over the lease on the Cobalt. Dad said that we were very much screwed on the deal of the lease with the Cobalt and the home loan with Wells Fargo to which has caused us to be so much set back financially. I can now see what the major banks right now are in such a crunch if they all were doing deals like this!

So now it just comes down to me getting a stay at home job where I can work it when Courtney is home taking care of Brenna and then Refinancing the home loan in December. To which Dad will be with us on that one so that we can get some decent at least.

Well just when you think its safe to say that we were set in our household. Well Tuesday afternoon we had a bit of a power outage (never fails as me and Courtney were on World of Warcraft). It was one of those Brown outages, you know where some things will semi work or lights be semidim? Well due to this, it causes our tv to burn out, we had sound but no picture!

Well we knew this would come to pass, the tv we were using was one my brother had from the early 90's back when he was in the navy. I knew it would go out on us at some point. So then a new tv was in the mists.

So we go to Best Buy and find a nice flat screen tv made by LG (To which our universal remote though won't work on since the remote was made before LG existed).  The set was very nice, it even has a usb port to play music and also a hookup for the laptop to show the laptop on the computer screen!

The set now sits prouldy on our entertainment center and as well there we got the Metal Gear Solid trilogy that I have played a bit (Man its hard!) and it just feels like these past couple weeks the newer technology gods have blessed us well!

P.S. Wish Courtney the best of Luck, she had an interview for a nice manager position at a call center for a hotel/casino.

Well this past week has been interesting for me getting new techy toys. At the start of the week Courtney told me she was getting me a little surprise for me.  Well the only thing I had really been looking for was the Metal Gear Solid trilogy (after the fourth one came out I felt I should catch up on the adventures of Solid Snake.) Well she comes home and low and behold she got me an mp3 player!  Now this little thing is a whopping 4gb of space! It can not only play mp3s but it can also play movie files, show pictures has a radio and a sound recorder! Its a nifty little gift!

The next one came by accident, in all snese of the word. Last Sunday at Wells Fargo Courtney accidently spills hot cocoa on her cell phone! Of course it could of had some hope of recovery if she didn't dip it into water thinking that washing the cocoa out would make it better, just make it worse. So we go to the Verison store and struck a nice deal as we found in the mail we became VIP members as we share cell phones with Sarah and Chrisoper as well as roaming internet. Courtney transfered her number to my old phone and I got a new phone! This bad boy not only has a touch screen interface, but it has a fold out keyboard for text messaging!

So yes...The Technology gods have been wonderful and I bow to you!

Well yesterday was Brenna's first shots. We were a month behind due to our job restructuring/finances but yesterday I took Brenna in to see the doctor.

Now unlike the last time Brenna was poked (Refer back to the blog about Mericare) I knew that the people at Innovis would do a better job. Although they said we were being too early to give her solids, (Like babies go on a fixed schedule!) they handled the three shots Brenna needed quickly! My dear little one though...of course she didn't like it and screamed in protest!

She was in pain for the eve, but the good thing was that she didn't run a fever or hasn't thus far and has slept the entire night.

Like her father, she's gonna hate needles!

Well this morning me and Courtney wanted to experiment as Brenna was seeming to grow out of drinking just formula and gave her apple juice and rice pudding. She practically ate the whole bowlful! I'm so amazed how quickly this girl is advancing. She has already had a few teeth come in and laying her in her playpen she has already started to make syllables to the tv!