For Adam

Most of this post will not make any sense to a lot of you. If you didn't know, Jason and I are gamers. Not just any gamers, dungeons and dragons gamers. We have a core group of people we game with at any given time, usually one weekend every other month or so and supposedly once a week. The weekly group consists of Matt, Jason, David, Chad, sometimes Scot and me (Groups III). There are two groups of people we game with for the every other month. Jason, Matt, Pat, Blair, Kate and I (Group I) try to get together once every three months while Jason, Matt, Pat, Adam and I (Group II)try to get together every other month, or whenever our schedule permits.

This weekend was a Group II weekend. Because of a miscommunication, Adam wasn't able to attend. Don't worry, he was given a very hard time about it, but he was sorely missed. Adam roleplays his character very well, and most of the time he provides comedic relief. He comes up with very clever ideas that, when you picture it in your head, is just hilarious. And there's also the incident where he had drank a few of beers, told us all to be quiet, and announced he was a little tipsy.

So, this post is for Adam to let him know what he missed, other than us laughing at each other. (Forgive me if the name is spelled wrong!)

***The following did not actually happen, it is a recap of a game. No one was hurt, or killed or anything and nothing was stolen from anyone.***

After looting, we teleported back to Goldshire. Once we arrived, Brigget was getting "called" and disappeared, but his mechanostrider was left. (Don't worry, Ray didn't ride it!) We then teleported to Stormwind. Harrison took his time trying to unload all of our loot while Grace went looking for a new healer with Ray and Angus. We found one at the cathedral named Durgon. He's just as moody as Brigget! He wanted to raise some money for the orphanage in the Burning Steppes, and he had used all of his stipened, so he agreed to come with us for an equal share of treasure.

Grace cast a legend lore spell on the lich's sword and had a vision of a frosty wasteland and saw the lich pick it up. We proceed to take the sword to the mage's tower. They didn't want to keep it there and Ronan was indisposed.

We used the teleport circle in the cathedral to go back to Goldshire. We decided to stay at the inn and Xelf, Ray's girlfriend was there. What an emotional reunion! In the morning we head back down to the mines where we convince some goblins to leave, set free some miners, kill Mr. Smite and kill Van Cleef and his bodyguards. After Ray and Grace argue for a while (something about a fortitude save and paralysis), we teleport back to Stormwind via Goldshire.
Grace learned the spell Greater Teleport and Harrison and her went to turn in Van Cleef's head along with the red bandana's. Our rewards will be sent to our rooms, but we need to finish cleaning out the mines.

Our party deaths were Ray (NOT Grace's fault) and Angus. Although our new cleric and Harrison were pretty close a couple of times!

I also thought our gamer friends might enjoy this picture. This is Jason's and my ten foot pole that was in our backyard. It's the post we pulled out of the ground.

Rain, Rain

It's been a very dreary week here. It rained so much on Tuesday that from the time it took me to walk from the vet school to my vehicle, I was drenched. I went to my chiropractor appointment like that. And I went and worked at my second job. (I do bookkeeping for the local bowling alley. Just a few hours a week for money to save.) It was not a very fun time. It proceeded to rain all night with us getting 3/4 of an inch between midnight and 7 am. It's nice that our new sump pump worked all night. We had to replace it last year around this time because the fuse broke on our old one. I'm really praying for no repeats of last year!

Jason's Baby

No, I am not pregnant. Thanks to a very early birthday present, Jason bought a new grill. His old one needed replaced, badly. He needed to replace the burners, which he had already done at least once, and it wasn't sitting very level anymore. This new grill is stainless steel on the outside and can cook more food at a time. Hopefully that means he can grill two steaks instead of one! He cooked brats and one hot dog (the only one left in the package) and it seems to work great. He burnt one side of the hot dog, but the brats turned out really good. Tonight he's cooking chicken breasts with a Victorian rhubarb bbq sauce I made yesterday. We'll see how things turn out!

Congratulations!

I went back to eastern Iowa this weekend for my cousin, Nate's graduation party. Congratulations, Nate! While there I got to see almost all of Dad's side of the family. I got to Mom and Dad's in time for lunch, and spent some of the afternoon talking with Mom. We then went to go see Jordan's boyfriend's new house. (Incidentally, the house he bought is across the street from the house my mom grew up in.) Jamie and Mason met up with us there. It's a very nice house with lots of flowers. I had to take some pictures so we could figure out what some of them were. Here's Mason smelling the old fashioned poppies. We then went to Nathan's party. I got to talk to my grandparents for a little bit, and my uncles. I couldn't stay for too long because I was going home that night and still had some stops to make. Mason and Jasper had a lot of fun playing on the bridge over the creek in the yard. The food was good, and I was told the cake was good too. (I don't usually eat cake.) Here's Jasper enjoying the party. After I left the party, I headed to Olin to visit Jason's family real quick. I guess Ethan was really excited that I was coming over. Jennifer said he kept saying my name and asking about me once he found out I was coming over. They have a lot of new little kitties, but none I want or need to take home. I looked at the flower garden that they are going to transplant to see if there are any plants I would like to have. Ethan also had to show off his toys. He doesn't walk anywhere, he runs. I also stopped at Grandma Rosemary's to pick up the last of our beef (hooray!) and pick up a motorcycle helmet for Jason. Yes, the whole reason Jason wasn't with me on the whirlwind adventure was because he was taking his motorcycle class at DMACC in Ankeny. He doesn't have a motorcycle, yet, but at least he'll be able to know how to ride one.
I got back to Ames around 11 that night. I unpacked the beef, took a shower, and went to bed. It was a long day, but so much fun to see everyone!

Birthday!

Today is my sister, Jamie's, birthday! I'm wishing for a very special day for her and hope she has a terrific day!

Birthday!

I just wanted to wish my brother, Marc, a very happy birthday!!!! I hope you have some fun friends to hang out with, or that your baseball game won't be rained out. We love you and hope to see you soon!

Dentist

Happy late Mother's day to all the mothers! We spent Mother's day in Des Moines. We took Joyce, Matt's mom, to HuHot for lunch, then we stopped at Grandma and Grandpa's to visit with them and Karen and Kelsey. Jayden was sleeping, but we at least got to see him.

Jason had some dental work done today. He had two teeth that needed fillings, one of which was under an existing filling. The one under the filling was worse than they thought, so he's having a dental onlay put on sometime in June, possibly sooner. Right now, he is on a semi soft food diet. And he just opened a bag of extra crunchy chips!

I've been trying not to get sick seeing as most of the chemistry staff was sick last week. Three out of seven actually showed up to work last Monday, one of which ended up sick the rest of the week. One of the people who was sick that Monday was sick all week except Friday, and was in an accident on the way to work the following Monday and is out until Thursday. She's had a lot of bad luck! But we pray for a speedy recovery for her!

And for those of you who know Jason, yes, he did see the Star Trek movie. Yes, he said it was awesome. Yes, he can't wait for the sequel.

Spring

Spring is finally here, and hopefully it won't snow again until late November. Some of our flowers have bloomed and they're so pretty! The lilacs in our backyard have started to bloom and they smell so good. I spent most of Sunday afternoon planting our garden. We're hoping to get our fence around it this week to keep the rabbits out. Until then, Jason put kitty litter around the outside of it to detract the rabbits. I hope it works. I picked some rhubarb yesterday and made a dessert with it. I'm sure I'll have plenty for Karen when she gets to Iowa later this week.

It was a busy weekend. Jason worked Saturday morning, then drove for a bachelor party for some of his college friends. He didn't get home until five in the morning. He was really tired by the time he came home. I spent most of Saturday running errands, but went to Joyce's to her bonfire late in the afternoon. Once the fire started to die and the other guests went home, we went inside and finished watching the movie "Sky High". It was really cute. I didn't get home until two. It was a long day for both of us.

Even though we were tired, we did go see the new Xmen movie "Wolverine". It was pretty good. We both stayed awake through it, so it had to of been good.