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About Me

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I grew up here in WA State but lived on the east coast for about ten years. We just moved back last summer, and I'm still trying to get used to being here-a lot has changed. The pizza sucks but the coffee is okay, so things could be worse. It's nice to be in touch with old friends, and I never get tired of seeing the mountains and water.
I am now back in school, so I'm officially a college student, lol. I'm working on my associates in Information Technology and Networking, and my goal is to continue on from there for my bachelor's. Looking to work my ass off and have it all done in about 36 months, which is a tall order to fill, but I'm motivated.
We have an 8 year old son who is truly the both of us crammed into one little person which is kind of a trip, heh. He's really the most incredible thing that I've ever encountered in my entire life, and we're lucky to have him. I'd give my right arm and maybe even my left just to have one more.
There's not really much else to say. I LOVE to knit, I'm a constant daydreamer, I'm a video game junkie, but mostly I enjoy .. games, like Dark Age of Camelot, City of Heroes and Guildwars. I like coffee, I love animals. HATE spiders. I mean, I really HATE them. I'm a night owl, I hate mornings, and I love tarantula margaritas with my Mexican food.Create or get your
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My Interests

Spending time with my family, knitting, daydreaming .. gaming, Nintendo Wii, knitting, music, Dark Age of Camelot, movies, knitting omg!! and my blog at www.lorrix.blogspot.com:)

I'd like to meet:

Would love to hear from old friends from school to see what you've been up to :) Shoot me a message, let's get caught up!

I would also love to meet other knitters/yarn addicts, people who enjoy blogging, .. gamers, video game junkies, and if you have a Nintendo Wii, then message me and we can exchange our Wii ID's

Music:

I like a lot of the short-lived bands from the 80's. (go go Time Life Hits of the 80's collection!!) I mourned the loss of the real Headbanger's Ball. I have a lot of classical music crammed into my Ipod along with a lot of obscure crap that no one has likely heard of, including stuff my hubby picked up when he was at music college in Boston that he introduced to me. Currently, I've been listening to My Chemical Romance a lot, as well as Under the Influence of Giants, who my son also has on his own ipod.

Movies:

Well, I guess this falls into the same category as my music stash. Bueller??? Bueller?? If it was in the 80's, we own it. Only my husband has stashed it waaaaay in the back of the shelves so no one else sees it. /hangs head in shame.

Television:

I'm totally into "Heroes!" Then I am a Thursday night addict...I love "Scrubs", "My name is Earl", "The Office" and "ER". I guess that's about it...I'm not really into watching TV any other nights.

Books:

I really enjoy reading anything knitting related. I enjoy a good mystery too, as long as it's not one of those books that have a predictable ending. I like to read most everything, but I just never seem to have the time to get into books these days. I guess if I got off the computer once in a while.....nah. :)

Heroes:

*Anyone who wants something, goes after it, and gets it.
*People who are scared of things or of change, but do it anyway.
**Cancer survivors.
*People who give up their lives to do good for those who aren't as fortunate, or to fight for their country or for someone else's.
*Anyone who has never taken advantage of my trust in some form or another.

My Blog

School shootings and video games...a rant.

When there is a shooting like what took place this week at Virginia Tech, it's really hard to absorb or process the significance or even the devastation of it when you're on the outside or thousands o...
Posted by Nikki on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:49:00 PST

Bleh. Just Bleh.

Hope everyone had a nice Easter weekend!Some flu bug descended upon my house and kicked my ass on Saturday, and today-5 days later, is the first day I've been able to eat a piece of toast and keep it ...
Posted by Nikki on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:05:00 PST

An FYI for pet owners...

http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/30/news/companies/bc.petfood.me lamine/?postversion=2007033018Be aware that the pet food recall that pertained only to specific wet foods last week and the week before, has...
Posted by Nikki on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:26:00 PST

Spring break. I wanna cancel it!!

So, my son walked in the door from school about 45 minutes ago, officially starting his spring break. Already, I'm contemplating running away from home, because it feels like he's done nothing b...
Posted by Nikki on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:12:00 PST

So far, so good!

So I've survived my first week of classes. I had a lot of concerns going into this. First of all, it had been a long time since I've attended any sort of class, and it's been ages since I'...
Posted by Nikki on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:22:00 PST

Take that, bitch!!

When it comes to divorce and division of property, this guy doesn't mess around!! I WANT HALF!!!...
Posted by Nikki on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:31:00 PST

Okay. I'm good to go. I think.

So tomorrow is my orientation for school. It should be a piece of cake, really...especially since I've already been through the website and I've already managed to print up a syllabus and calend...
Posted by Nikki on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:22:00 PST

Oh noes!!!!! A blast from the past!!

Anyone else remember the Commodore 64?Okay. I know it was 25 years ago. Some of you weren't even born yet. So humor me.When I think of the progress of gaming machines and even comput...
Posted by Nikki on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:44:00 PST

Wooot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's 70 degrees here, today.I've been outside on the deck hanging out, and I've spent most of the day outside washing windows.I'm sure tomorrow it will rain, but as for today, I'm really enjoying havi...
Posted by Nikki on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:06:00 PST

It doesn't pay to rumble, folks!!

Settlement for the Sony Rumble packSo, Sony settled with Immersion corp for that nifty rumble technology that is found in many of their controllers... to the tune of $150.3 Million dollars.Say i...
Posted by Nikki on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:35:00 PST