Gotta love those weekend updates...

My friend Shel, who has known me since I was fourteen, invited me to play in her werewolf game that she runs every other Thursday. I was looking forward to it because it's an excellent chance for me to see her aside from our Wednesday lunches. However, now that Anne's game has been indefinitely (likely permanently) canceled, I look forward to it for the additional reason of the fact that I still get to play werewolf. It's a large game, seven players, but Shel is doing a good job of keeping everything under control. I just hope the size of the game doesn't wear on her - I know running larger games is difficult.

Excuse me while I geek out here.... ^_~

Regardless, Thursday evening I had fun role-playing my little Shadow Lord Lupus cub. The group dynamic is interesting: myself (Shadow Lord Lupus Ragabash), a Shadow Lord Metis Theurge, a Silent Strider Lupus Ahroun, a Silent Strider Homid Galliard, an Uktena Homid Ahroun, a Black Fury Homid Ragabash, and a Black Fury Homid Philodox.

I chose to play a lupus primarily because I wanted to play a Shadow Lord but couldn't see that a homid Shadow Lord would necessarily follow a lupus as alpha. Oh, and the player of the Silent Strider Ahroun is an alpha-type personality in real life, which often carries over into games. So anyway, I'm having a fun time with the little lupus. She's very shifty, heh.

Friday night, Matt and I went on a double date to Fogo de Chao. Mmmmm. Meat. I do have to say, that's the best $100 we didn't have to spend. Gogo Gadget Gift Certificate! I love that restaurant. Mmmmm. Meat.

Saturday morning Matt went flying so I got to fiddle around on World of Warcraft. My druid is level 18 now (I know, I'm geeking out again!). She still solos really well but I still prefer to group. If I'm playing a MMOG, I like to actually interact with my fellow MMOGers. ^_^ That evening, we headed out to Justin to play some D&D with friends. Matt DMed and I do believe a good time was had by all.

Ok, back to normal, non-geeky stuff....

Sunday afternoon I drove out to my parents to visit with Rob, Sioux and Kyr. My sis annawick was there, and she's looking very cute, hehe, even though "the alien" keeps kicking the crap out of her.

Finally, yesterday after work, the family (less annawick and my bro-in-law) had dinner at Logans. Even Chris and Aaron showed up, and I discovered that they play CoH on Pinnacle, although Chris has a level 20 something on Virtue where I play. I think I may have them convinced to play World of Warcraft when it comes out... I also had a good chance after dinner to really visit with Ian (my brother) and Nikki (his wife). I often forget how lucky I am to have such a cool family.

I've also possibly picked up a new hobby.

Scrapbooking.

Yeah, I know, that sounds just so....suburban.

Whatever. :P

I need to make four photo albums so far: one for my time in Italy, one for Ian with all the pictures he sent me from Micronesia, one for Matt's mom of all the pictures I can find of her and Matt's father, and the last of Matt's childhood. I even have some color schemes in mind.

Mine is set. Black with silver and red tones throughout. Very simple design. I'm certainly not ambitious. I'm about halfway through with the photo journaling. When that's finished, I'll be ready for set up.

For Ian's I was thinking turquoise and, well, sand. The kind of sand that surrounded him while he was in Micronesia, so that really beautiful white sand color.

For my mother-in-law, I was thinking gold and white with orange tones. In Buddhism, gold is representative of wealth but also sacred things, and white, though the thought is somewhat morbid, is their color of death. Orange, of course, is also a sacred color. I think since Matt's father has passed away, that it would be appropriate. I ran the idea by Matt and he agreed.

As for Matt's childhood album, I haven't really given that one much thought. However, after I've finished the other three, maybe I'll have some kind of clue. ^_~