First off, I had a great birthday. I have aquired from a wonderful individual, GTA: Vice City, and season three of Family Guy. Who would have thought an elementary school teacher could be so subversive? The party I threw for myself on the 20th of September was also a nice relaxing bit of fun. Justin made an appearance, as well as Patrick and his girlfriend Sara – and of course, Jen.

Man am I lazy. Anime Iowa was back in August and I just wrote the writeup for it yesterday. But I did it. I found a house and made an offer. It’s a two story with no basement and a garage in the first floor, has a huge double and a half lot with trees around the whole back yard. The second story has a balcony and deck that overlooks the nice forested back yard, and it looks great.

No, literally… That huge lump-thing on my back that I noticed two years ago is apparently Dermatofibroma which is completely benign. But I had it removed anyway just out of spite. ^_^ So of course, now I have a inch long set of stitches down part of my back while it heals. Ouch. I haven’t gotten much sleep lately since it’s on the side I usually sleep on. I guess I never think these things through very well.

Well, I think I’ve finally lost it. In the interests of saving a whole chunk of change in taxes, and to ride out the economy, I’m going to be buying a house in the QC area. Yeah, I hate the Quad Cities, but this is about saving money, my friend. Since Becky is moving out to go to seminary soon, I realized my rent would shoot up to $575 a month.

Well, three torrid days of reading later, and I can say that the latest Harry Potter book has been quickly consumed. Now I just have to wait three years until the next one comes out. Hahaha. On the DDR front, I’m going to have to stop for a couple weeks. It appears I’ve irritated a tendon in my right foot, and it hurts to walk now. I think what I’ll have to do when it heals, is build a metal DDR pad so I can wear shoes and play - so my feet don’t take so much direct impact.