Dear Journal/Readers,

First off I wanted to say that I've had a bunch of really good things happen. I'll start off with my mother's visit. That's right, my mom actually came to visit me for once. My mother and my older sister and her son my nephiew Josh came up to see the new place and give me general housewarming wishes. My nephiew has gotten so big! He's almost as tall as me now, and is so handsom. He just turned 10 on the 1st of september, and he's going to get even taller, that I know for sure. I found out he too is into D&D, and that he is oh so excited about it. So I gave him my set of purple/gold (one of my favorites) dice, my matching box of D6's, my very FIRST D20 ever, and my dreaded Black D20 of death. The black D20 of death used to be flat black with gold #'s, but I scratched out the gold so it was all flat black. I was tired of people looking at my dice when I rolled so I did this so in the low light of the area I was gaming I could roll it and not have to worry about someone peaking at what I rolled. Mind you I did this more as a DM than a player! Last I gave him my copies of 1st Edition D&D books, origional print. I figured, while they are valluable and while they are a collector's item, what good are they going to do me sitting on my shelf in their dust jackets just...well...collecting dust? Josh seemed happy at his birthday presents. It'd be the first presents I'd given him in years. Without a real ability to afford anything I had to give him something. I have like a bajillion dice laying around and dice bags, and I figured the best thing i could do for an up and comming D&D fan was to give him something really nice. When I was his age, my father had just died and I was being forced to move out of my house in with my mother and change schools back to the conservative catholic school she had me attending. I was so depressed at the time. That's when my friends at the time, the Dentlers, invited me in to play D&D. In keeping with the tradition since my older sister (his mother) gave me my first set of dice and books, I gave him his first set of dice and books :)

Similarly, while he is having a bad time due to realtionship problems, my co-worker Donnie came by on sunday and hung out for Marvel rp. He took over my husband Randy's character of Chaos. I have to say that Chaos really came alive in Donnie. He was so active, so bright eyed and vibrant. I was very thrilled.

Likewise this week, I'm not having to get up at 7 in the morning every day to start work at 10. Seph has been working later in the day so now I'm able to sleep in untill 9 ish. I feel so much more rested. Granted he needs the sleep far more than I do, but I enjoy sleeping in regardless.

Getting geared up for the con! Squee! Im happy! Going to have to get my paycheck today and pre-rej. Anyway, Chat with you all later!