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Happy Anniversary, Michelle!  Two years and many more to come!

Took the Revo out for some fun yesterday.  It had rained which made it even more fun…  mud + revo = win.

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I am soon to be the proud owner of an Align T-REX 450 V2 SE…

I’ve been reading the Helifreak.com forums a lot lately and been wanting to learn to fly R/C helis for a while now.  So… yesterday I made an offer on a helicopter and the seller and I were able to come up with a pretty good deal.    My new heli should be in the mail Friday.  I’m very excited.  I got a my brand new Spektrum DX7 transmitter a couple of days back and my copy of Phoenix R/C Simulator arrived yesterday.  I crashed thousands of dollars worth of helicopters and airplanes last night. 

In other news- Michelle and I signed on our new home yesterday!  I’m super excited about moving in closer to my new work.  It’s going to be much nicer driving 20-30 minutes to work instead of 50-60 minutes every day.  We officially get the place on the 21st, but Michelle has like three tests that week so most likely we won’t be moving in until the following weekend.  Anyone feel like lifting boxes?! 

Our new home!!  My new heli!!  Check it out:

I’m living in Austin!

Alright… there.  Is that enough of an update for you, Michelle? 

Just kidding… just kidding.  Michelle has been nagging me about something I really needed to do a long time ago.  So- here’s the scoop.  I’ve moved to Austin.  I’m living with my amazing girlfriend in Bastop, Tx.  This is a temporary living situation.  We’ve already got plans to move into a home in South Austin by the end of the month.

Michelle and I will soon be renting a cute little house together.  The house was built in 2005 and has three bedrooms and 2 bath.  It’s got a two car garage and is in the perfect location for Michelle and me, right near the intersection of highway 173 and 71.  She’ll be 30-40 minutes from her school/work and I’ll be about 30 minutes to my work– much better than the hour drive I’ve been doing every day to my new job!

Ahh… a new job?  Yep!  I’m now officially working in Austin.  I don’t want to get into the same issues that I did by talking about my previous employer on the blog so I won’t talk much more about it, but I’m enjoying the change.  I’m still a “Software Engineer” and so far everything is going great with the transition.  I think everything will be even better once the move into Austin is over and Michelle and I can start exploring the big city together.

Alright.  I’ll update again soon.  It’s been way too long since my last update…  I know I’m a slacker. 

Well, well, well…  It’s already December.  I’m surprisingly ahead of the game this year with nearly 85% of my Christmas shopping done!  That’s a very good thing because I’m often not one to be so prepared.  Most of the time I’m more of a last minute shopper and worry so much about making sure I get everyone the perfect gift that I end up not getting anyone anything they will like.    This Christmas, I’m confident will be a good one.

The first sign of a better Christmas came to my inbox just today:

Now, that’s a sign of a good Christmas when you’ve got everything paid for and you’ve already done 85% of your shopping!  Now- to find something perfect for Michelle…     Why are the people you know best always the hardest to shop for?

And I’ll be huggin’ my girl in El Paso!!! 

Michelle showed “Evening Lucky.”  Here’s how he usually dresses.

He woke me up at 6am this morning cause he was hungry and I couldn’t get back to sleep.  Damned cat!

Alright, it’s been a while since I last wrote.  I know I’m guilty of laziness sometimes, but I blame my office chair.  Yes.  I slouch a lot.  I slouch so much in fact that my chair at work has started to lean back so far that it’s not comfortable to type when I’m leaning back that far.  I blame any lack of productivity on my chair- bad chair.

So!  Last night I went and lost $10 poker.  We were playing over in Baylor Plaza 2 with Jeremy, Burke, and a bunch of other guys that I didn’t really know.  Anyways, it was fun all in all…  I just didn’t play a few hands very well and got unlucky on a couple of hands.

MORE IMPORTANTLY – - I’ve got a plane ticket to El Paso for the 25 of July.  I’m going to fly out there and help Michelle drive back to CenTex.  I’m really looking forward to seeing her.  We will have been apart for just over a month- way too long.  I love this girl and it’s not been fun to be so far apart this summer.  Hopefully we won’t have to go through this kind of distance again for a long time.

In the meantime, I’ve got Nightcrawler back living with me.  I love that cat.  He woke me up this morning just a few minutes before my alarm clock went off and was purring and meowing and rubbing his head up against my leg.  Crazy cat…  it’s been good to have him around.  The apartment is really empty without Mbagnick (room mate) around and he’s not coming back till the end of the month.

Alright– I better end this here.