| New Year |
[20 Jan 2009|06:05pm] |
Well, another year has started. I wish I could still write personal stuff in here, but I don't really know if I'm ready to write about it, if that makes any sense. There's a lot of stuff going on in my head and it's all just a jumble. In the past, writing in here would help me cope with certain things going on in my life, but I just don't think it'd help now.
For those of you that haven't seen these on Facebook:
Charlie-Anne is growing up faster than we can realize.
Other than that, I'm pretty impressed with the new season of 24 and I can't wait for the season premiere of Lost tomorrow night. Karine's 30th birthday was yesterday, but we celebrated it on the previous Saturday. Invited over 20 people, friends and family, to an asian restaurant, ate lots of good food. I bought her an iPod Nano (16GB), she seems to enjoy it a great deal.
My LiveJournal subscription is expiring soon, I won't be renewing it. No point in paying for a service I hardly use anymore. I renewed last year anyway, even though I still wasn't using it as much as before, but I prefer putting the money towards something else. Granted, it's not a lof of money, but I still don't feel like paying for it anymore.
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| Since it's been a while... |
[04 Oct 2008|09:23am] |
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This picture was taken on Charlie-Anne's first day at the new daycare center.
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| Three years ago, in a galaxy far, far away... |
[10 Jun 2008|09:35pm] |
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Yesterday/today marks Karine and I's 3-year anniversary.
We first met on June 9th, 2005, but our first meeting extended into the early morning of June 10th, 2005. We both decided on our 1-year anniversary that we'd use June 10th as our anniversary. I still can't believe how much things have changed in such a short period of time.
Three years ago, I had never had a girlfriend before in my entire life, never even kissed a girl. I'd just moved into an apartment, after having lived with my mom for most of my young and adult life. My "life" was almost entirely comprised of friendships with people I'd never met and centered around a website I can't really stand anymore.
Three years after, I now have a girlfriend and we're the proud parents of a beautiful little girl who has and will continue to make our lives and the lives of our parents and loved ones so much brighter. I can't really say I've made friendships with other people offline other than with some co-workers, but I don't consider any of my co-workers as friends. It's all business, as far as I'm concerned. I've lost contact with practically everyone I once knew online, apart from the occasionnal instant message there or comments elsewhere in various blogs, journals or forums.
I know I probably repeat this too often in my entries, but so much has changed...
I love you, Karine and Charlie-Anne..
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| R.I.P. Gary Gygax (1938-2008) |
[04 Mar 2008|05:30pm] |
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Generally acknowledged as the father of the role-playing game, Gary Gygax has passed away today.
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| World of Warcraft question |
[04 Sep 2007|01:42pm] |
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Hi there,
I'm sure some of you play World of Warcraft fairly regularly.
Which servers do you all play on? Name/race/class/level?
I'm curious, because I've never really played with other people I know, except for my brother-in-law and my friend Luc.
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| This is... sad. |
[01 Sep 2007|05:45pm] |
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A friend of mine recently posted in her journal about a friend of hers, Anthony (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) themightyant, a friend we had in common) about him being the victim of a hit and run back in December 2006, linking to an article.
I didn't know Anthony that well, we first met through GameFAQs (I'm sure some of you knew him, he was known as Ghodsmack and was one of the original 5,000 or so users). We had talked on MSN starting in 2003, he often offered me advice in regards to the problems we'd been having, but we lost contact for a long time, mostly due to him enrolling in the Air Force and doing two tour of duties in the Middle East. I hadn't gotten any news from him in over a year.
His last entry in his journal is titled "Not dead."
He died the day Charlie-Anne was born.
R.I.P. Anthony Todd Avery.
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| No new entry since April 2007? |
[17 Jul 2007|05:20pm] |
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My life really has changed.
In my "old life" (the name I give to the "life" I had before I met Karine on June 10th, 2005), I would write in this journal practically every day, sometimes several times a day, about stuff I look back to now and realize how utterly fake most of it was. I'd get so depressed about events that would happen in my online "life", about stuff that would happen over on GameFAQs, about things people said to me, about what some people would say behind my back, about "feelings" I'd have for people I met online, about "feelings" people had towards me, etc. Does any of that even matter now? It certainly doesn't feel that way.
I've now become a complete non-entity in regards to my online persona. I never write in here anymore, I never post on GameFAQs anymore (or any other Internet site, for that matter), I'm never on instant messenging programs anymore, etc. The only e-mails I receive are from family members and those are few and far between. In my "old life", if people I knew online had stopped wanting to know about where I'd been, what I'd been doing, how I'd been feeling, I would have become depressed about it and written some entry in my journal whining about how people were ignoring me and taking me for granted, blah blah blah.
But I'm living my new life now, my life with the woman I intend to marry one day (I don't think Karine reads this journal anymore and I've never actually talked to her about my intentions, but if she still does read, well, I guess she'll know now...) and our beautiful little girl, Charlie-Anne. Whining about such matters is truly trivial now.
I realize that online friendships are pretty hard to maintain, even in the best of circumstances. Do I even still have online friends? Sometimes, I really wonder. In the past, I've often heard things such as "Well, I haven't tried to reach you, but you haven't either..." and "It takes two people to maintain a friendship", but I've gradually realized that it's no use trying to figure out why friendships fade, it's a part of life. When I was younger, I had friends I thought would stick around for a very long time, only to eventually realize that they've moved on.
At that time, I just never figured that the person moving on would eventually be me.
In closing, for those interested, here are some new pictures of Charlie-Anne:
She's sitting in a swinging chair that I used to sit in when I was her age...
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| To change things around a little... |
[07 Mar 2007|09:00pm] |
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... here is a picture of something that isn't Charlie-Anne:
My main character, Gorstag (Zul'jin realm), waiting on the docks of Theramore Isle for the ship to Menethil Harbor, sun setting in the distance. I can't believe how beautiful this game can be, sometimes. He's Level 41 right now. Still as addicted to the game as ever, although I don't play as often and as long as before.
I don't remember if I asked this already, but does anyone reading this play the game regularly? If so, which realm?
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