HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I wanted this up last night, but didn't get to it in the midst of our Vampire Marathon (last year it was Zombies). I'd like to spread the seasonal cheer by showing off our jack-o-lanterns for this year.

I present to you my wife's: Eric Cartman from South Park (Pic) and mine; Pyramid Head/The Red Pyramid from Silent Hill, as drawn by ~nefar007 of deviantart.com (Pic).

To see a bunch of close-ups and glamour shots; read on.

Another Month Bites The Dust.

Another month is in the bag, and there's not much to report on. Jenny has been working her poor little body to death over this job, school has been ultra frustrating lately, and an old addiction has reared its head again. Yes, that's right: The Matrix. It's back and as big as ever. I got Jenny and her sisters into it and I've been the worst of all. I've been subjecting my poor wife to long hours of behind-the-scenes extras and cast interviews and commentary tracks since my Matrix Ultimate Collection, a 10-disc extravaganza, arrived.

Aside from that, I fixed the car which was jerking violently given its every opportunity. I also replaced my first set of brake pads (yay me) and fixed a severed exhaust downpipe. I am just so damn manly. That's why I take showers in bacon juice and eat nothing but raw meat and hippies.

Working out has been going good, though I can't seem to shed any pounds. Due to a computer fiasco that nearly claimed my father-in-law's work laptop at the hands of my sister-in-law, I recently sacrificed 12 hours of my existence to prevent data loss and make an ultimately fruitless attempt to restore windows to a working order. If anyone at Microsoft is reading this: It does me no good to have a stop code of 0x00000024 and a primary parameter of 0x000c0554 when it's not documented anywhere on technet, nor does it seem to exist anywhere on the internet. So boo on you. The reason I mention this is that since Monday night I haven't exactly been living the plan, and I plan on hitting it hard again today, despite my failure that was a bowl of ice cream this morning.

In a final note: Bill Compton would totally take Edward Cullen 1v1. And Anna Paquin would claw Kristen Stewart's eyes out.

Pictures of life (lyfe yo).

It's been a very long time since we've updated. Apologies to family and friends who might actually follow us. We suck, and we know it.

So I'm going to attempt to catch everyone up on important crap that's happened since christmas :) This is Brian blogging, if you couldn't tell.

I'm just going to explain generally what's up in the following pictures. Here goes (don't forget to mouse-over for tags): It snowed like a mother here back in late January, then in Feb we went to the beach, and it was very pretty, and we stayed with Jenny's extended family. Her dad apparently really liked the sea-fresh-shrimp and went a bit loony on us, and cousin Krista om nom nom'd some waffle.

In other pics we were missing Beto's "Super Nachos" and I put together some and it was truly an epic platter of nachos. The row of chairs is from the night we spent in JFK airport because Delta Airlines are fiery dickheads and made our plane 3 hours late leaving Raleigh and another hour late sitting on the runway in New York. I hate that airport more than English can describe.

Then there's pics of the apartment out here, which many of you have wanted for a long time. The only thing to really note about these pics is that they're a few months old and Jenny has a new computer with a dual-20"-widescreen-goodness display setup, and not that pathetic ball of gay in the following pictures. Her computer is an adorable little Shuttle PC that I built her, it's approx. the size of a men's shoebox.

After all that there's pics of each of our birthdays, Jenny's awesome hairdo, and the guts of my new computer: a beastly Quad-core/8GB RAM/GeForce GTX 275/780i/10,000 RPM HDD/ with 2.5 TB of total disk space. I hope you enjoy the pics, and we'll hopefully do this update thing more often...

.... hopefully.

SUPER PICTURE POST!

Hey! I know the pictures are what these blogs are all about, so we finally got some up! Here are a few snap shots of our holidays.

First, decorating for Christmas:

(I really did help decorate, I was just the one on camera duty.)

We were pretty proud of our tree...

Also, a few pictures of us on New Year's Day on the Outer Banks. New Year's Eve we went to see Tim Reynolds (my uncle's his bassist) at this crazy bar and that was a pretty sweet adventure, but sadly we left the camera in the car. :( Anyway, enjoy the New Year's Day pics on the beach and out to lunch with my cousins!

(We were seeing how much we could fill the penny before it spilled.)

Brian being a dork at lunch.

He fell asleep at the party at my aunt's house because were out until unholy hours and then up even later talking to my uncle and cousins the night before.

Yeah, we're pretty nerdy, but we feel ok about it.

This is me and my cousin Krista.

I PRESENT TO YOU: THE ULTIMATE PICTURE POST OF THE MILLENIUM!
By Brian Dickson

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The Move
(Warning: Epic Sob Shots)

OK: Here's the thing. Our camera died the first day on the trip, so no pictures of the process of moving TO NC. Just moving in:











Now that you've born witness to the insanity, here's some fun:




This next one is racist. So we went to Hardees (obviously) after the game and I ordered a BACON CHEESE BURGER. Apparently in the south, particularly when the person assisting you weighs as much as Jupiter's moon, abbreviating the order on someone's carton means you don't negate any letters, you just arbitrarily rearrange them and then slap on some nifty T9 worthy substitutes. I give to you the BANCO CHZ BOG: