I’ve had Ego Leonard in the hopper to blog about for a while now, but it seems current news has beaten me to the punch!  Turns out, one of his extra large 8 foot tall LEGO sculptures has “washed up” on a Florida beach.  How appropriate, seeing as LEGO opened up another Legoland theme park in Orlando!  Funny thing is, by the looks of the NYPost article, they have no idea whose it is, but I do!!

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/mysterious_giant_lego_man_washes_Yjgp65IsyMtwG9pTlbTtWO#ixzz1c701z3vK

For Kallie’s spring break, we went to Christiana Mall while visiting the Pesces in Delaware, and to Disney’s citywalk in Orlando while visiting the Olivieris. Both locations conveniently have LEGO stores, where I stocked up a little I got all these “skin tone” pieces, that I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with them, I just know I didn’t have any. Since Easter was around the corner, I made an easter basket and filled it with color eggs. The little bunny face was from an Easter bunny character set I got when I was a kid. I meant to look up the original build instructions for it, but I figured my bunny was good enough.

As we reach the end of 2007, I’m going to cross that line into the cliche "here are the highlights of 2007 and here’s what I’d like to see in 2008" post.  Last year, I called it the year of "new things".  If I were to create a label for this year, I’d consider it a year of traveling.  I went to philly at least twice, crossed the atlantic for the first time to italy with my family and then to london for work, I went to vegas, I went to florida, took trips to cleveland to see rachel, took a trip or two to DC, stopped taking daily drives to work and started walking to work,  and i took a few other road trips as well.  I definitely enjoy traveling, and i definitely consider myself blessed to have the means, time, and friends that make it all possible.

So, I’m graduated with my bachelor degree in professional communicated and information systems from robert morris university…finally.  at least i finished before Keren.  Serah officially made me an uncle by giving birth on the 20th.  and I don’t really have too much to complain about at all.   But, I’ll share with you my new years resolutions and we’ll see how well I do with them.

• Call each sister at least once a month just to talk.
• put at least 100 CDs in the hands of strangers
• Pick up 1 new hobby. (haven’t decided yet…)
• READ ALL THE BOOKS I HAVE BUT HAVE NOT READ
• Compete in an urbanathon or some sort of race.

That’s all i got so far.  Should keep me busy.  I forget if the idea is to make goals specific so you know you reach them or not, or to keep them vague so that you don’t get frustrated and quit…oh well.  I’ll be off to DC this weekend to meet my niece, then back to ring in the new year.  HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I’ve been busy, alright!!?  let’s break it down….

Work – the office 2003 project is rolling well.  I don’t think i’ve messed up yet, so i think people are impressed or at least liking my work so far.  I’m also helping out on an unrelated project just for this weekend, flying to philly to help out with support.  Should be awesome exposure and fun since they only expect a few hours of work from us.  There’s also talk of another project to move 5,000 people between all the different offices, so seems like i could be busy for a while, GOOD!

School – B’s so far in the first 2 classes of the semester.  I should be able to at least maintain that for the rest of the 3 weeks.  Then 2 more classes for the second half of the semester, and then FIN!  Bout effing time.  I’m tired of people assuming i’m going for my masters.

Music – Still playing open mics when i have some free time.  I’ve been trying to post new songs to the myspace page, but i just want to get 1 finished before i announce them.  3 new ones have been up for a week, and people are listening, so i’m totally feeling pressure to finish that 1 song!  put some new videos on youtube as well.  Jordan Otto is back in town, and we talk every so often, and I’d really like to get together with him and a few others and jam around.  we’ll see if that ever materializes.

Love – Rachel and I are talking pretty much everyday in one form or another, and i think it’s great.  We went to cedar point 2 weeks ago, but the new roller coaster, the maverick, was closed!  totally dissapointed.  Rachel is coming home this weekend, and i just found out about the flight to philly, and she is totally understanding.  She’s awesome when it comes to compassion.  Sometimes too much though, i’ve told her I wanted her to make really crazy expectations of me that I can’t meet, challenge me basically, and then get really mad at me if i can’t meet them.  she said that was a terrible thing to say…which may very well be true, but i’ve said worse. 

Home – Deirdre’s moved in, Alex is moved in, and the dish washer is running constantly!  those two use a lot of dishes.  Also tore up the front yard this past weekend.  I’ll try to get some photos up here soon.

Play  – Wow, booked a flight to vegas from november 14th – 17th and florida from dec 18th-20th.  Originally, J’aime was going to vegas with dan for a dental conference and i was going to hang out with her, but now that she has the baby, she isn’t going, so it’s just me and dan, and just me when he’s in his conference.  Not sure about why i’m doing that, especially over my birthday, but whatever.  I’m getting too old to care.  25?!?!  WTF.  Florida will be using the time share that Mrs. Marsh (step-grandmother) let me use down in bonita springs.  Rachel and I are going to go down.  Those are the only big vacations planned, but i’d like to go DC at least once more this year, definitely go out to see rachel a couple times, and whever else the road takes me.

so, i have been slacking on this majorly.  pretty much on everything.  I got GTA San Andreas the day after it came out, so i had been playing that a lot.  over 40 hours logged in the game, and only 50% done.  the game is huge.  huge doesnt even begin to describe this game.  so that is where most of my wasted time has gone that have kept me from my pc.

other than that, work ofcourse.  going well, kevin is working here now, makes it easier to get up in the morning with someone to be accountable to since he picks me up.  I’ve always known that i will do nothing for myself, but everything for someone else.  I don’t know if that is laziness or just low self esteem.

I turned 22 on the 16th.  spent most of the day at kennedy space center.  yes, florida.  I had some vacation days i had to use before the end of the year, and i have never been to universal, and had been planning on going the past 2 summers, but job-loss got in the way both times.  so i figured it was a good time to go.  And it was.  i was down there from the 12-16th.  went to universal, epcot, islands of adventure, and the space center.  i’ll post pics soon.

Dragon game is starting to show it signs on no developement.  wish i had some programmers.  I think i scare people away by saying “coders” or “programmers.”  not sure why else no one really is stepping up to the plate in a major way.  I even offer up to $20 for a decent addition, and no nibbles.  I just don’t know how to get people involved.  thoughts?

working on setting up the old space game i used to have up.  that was a fun game.  hopefully others will think so too.  i’d be happy if it was half as successful as the dragon game.  I am also in the hosting business now.  email me at sixf00t4@hotmail.com if you are interested in something.  i’ll beat any advertised rate.  Just looking to get some customers.  so if you need a website or hosting, let me know.

other than that, just plain old overwhelmed like usual.  sleep, trying to lose weight and get in shape, thinking about how bad i am going to do in the spring when i start classes back up, and other crap.  keep your stick on the ice.

I just took a sleep test online, here are the results.

Your Sleep Test Results
You show symptoms of insomnia, which is defined
as a persistent inability to fall asleep or stay asleep.

You show symptoms of narcolepsy, a life-long
disorder characterized by uncontrollable sleep
attacks during normal waking hours.

What the crap. I am just a freak of nature and a marvel of modern science.[shrug]

I am going to try and write some more over break. I haven’t written anything in a while. And since my guitar is broke, all the more reason, i need some sort of outlet for my creative juices. I have some old stuff i never finished, and would like to get some new stuff out there. be sure to check the download section every once in a while. More than likely though, i will be starving for web content (and attention) and will post some sort of announcement.

So i am working pretty much every weekday over break. from 4-midnight. Did i say that already sometime? i dunno. Anyway, i could use the extra money with retreats for cornerstone, and saving up to go to Florida this summer. And for school, and for bills, and for Christmas, and for emergency funds, and for a new computer…you get the idea. on that note, i added a “donation” block for unregistered users:) just cuz i am lame like that. not like i expect anything, just saw it and wanted one. If you register and are logged in though, you won’t see it. Registering is enough for me:) I seem to be getting a lot of traffic from google, maybe even more than traffic from people i know. It’s kinda weird seeing all this hits from turkey and stuff like that.