Serenity Character Quiz

I found this quiz on a friend's myspace account (Thanks, Mirrim!)  I know I am a total dork with these geeky kind of things, but I love Serenity or Firefly as the series was called.  It was so sad that this show was canceled.  It was seriously fantastic and very well done!  If you are into this sort of thing like I am please feel free to take the quiz and see which character you are.  It's just a fun thing if you are into it.  Here are my results.
Your results:
You are Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)

Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) 85% Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) 75% Inara Serra (Companion) 65% Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) 65% Derrial Book (Shepherd) 60% Wash (Ship Pilot) 50% Alliance 50% Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) 45% River (Stowaway) 30% Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) 10% A Reaver (Cannibal) 0%

Dependable and trustworthy. You love your significant other and you are a tough cookie when in a conflict.

Click here to take the "Which Serenity character are you?" quiz...

The Tummy

Since I am 28 weeks along and just starting my 7th month.  I thought it would be a good time to show off some tummy shots.  They are always fun to see, even if not that fun to do.  I also discovered last night in the store that I can't hide the fact that I am pregnant anymore.  I ran into a woman I hadn't seen since I was in high school.  She looked directly at my belly and said "So, anything new going on with you."  Which I replied things to the effect of my job, and Dave, mom and dad, etc.  And after seeing her sweat for a bit, I finally gave in and told her "oh, and I am pregnant and due in January."  Dave thinks that was mean of me, but I am just not used to having to bring that up with people that I know, but don't really know.  She was my Youth City Council advisor.  Its not like she was someone I was incredibly close to.  She of course, congratulated me and confessed that she thought so, but didn't dare come out and ask.  Which I can understand as being taboo, because if the person isn't pregnant...  However, I think that I am looking pretty obviously pregnant these days.  You can judge that for yourselves.

UFC 90

Ultimate Fighting Championships!  I LOVE them!  This Saturday we had the chance to throw a UFC party at our house.  We had some good friends from Nevada come out.  Vexx, Nidalap and Sunflower (all amtgard friends), and my brother Blaine and Sani came.  And of course, James, Dave and I were there.  It was a good time had by all.  Not to mention incredible food.  We had dutch oven chicken wings, smoked pulled pork, artichoke dip, queso and chips, and apples and carmel dip.  It was all way yummy!  Thanks to everyone who brought something.  Anderson Silva fought versus Patrick Cote as the main event.  Anderson Silva is one of our most favorite fighters.  It was a somewhat disappointing fight.  In the third round Patrick pulled his ACL in his knee and the fight ended.  Anderson won by default, pretty much.  It was sad, and looked very painful.  The other big fight was Thiago Alves vs Josh Osh Kosh B Gosh Koscheck (as we like to call him).  Diego Sanchez was supposed to fight, but due to an injury Josh stepped in.  This fight could have gone either way.  It went to decision.  Neither could finish, so that's what happens.  There were some other good fights though and it was still fun to get together.  Jim and Marianne usually come, but were in Vegas, so weren't able to attend.  We missed them and hoped they had some fun in Vegas, even though it wasn't a trip for pleasure.  I hope they had some time to do something fun.  Our projector worked great and it was a blast.  I just can't wait until GSP fights again.  He is my all time most favorite fighter.  George St. Pierre.  Here's hoping for his next fight to be sooner, rather than later.

George St. Pierre (GSP)

The Last Nielsen

The only Nielsen to never have tied the knot is engaged.  Blaine Andrew Nielsen, my baby brother, is going to be getting married.  He proposed to the beautiful Sani Scott and she said yes.  The date is set for November 29th.  I am so excited to have a new sister!  More women in the family, yea!!  We have a lot, but you can always have more women to sympathize with.  Sani is amazing and I love her to death.  I am so excited that Blaine found someone that I love so much.  I was always worried about who he would end up with.  Being so close to him, I really wanted him to marry someone that I got along with as well.  And he surpassed my expectations.  As my sister Marianne said "If there was a girl version of Blaine, its Sani."  Welcome to the family Sani!  Dave and I are incredibly stoked!

Sheds Update

So this past weekend on Saturday the 18th of October we finally got around to taking care of the sheds so that they can withstand the winter.  We had one dilapidated shed that we took down and used the spare parts to fix up the remaining shed.  It was quite the feat to get them on our property to begin with, so now we had to get them fixed up, which was a different kind of feat.  Luckily we had a lot of great friends come and help us out.  Since we will be storing a large majority of Amtgard supplies in the shed and crafting will commence in the shed as well, we asked our Amtgard family to come help us.  We fed them hot dogs and chili and worked and painted and had a good time despite the working.  Here is the dilapidated shed that sat lopsided on my property before the big day.

Here are a few photos of what is left of this shed.

Here is the good shed that needed some repairs.  Here you can see that this side is a big hole with a damaged frame

And here is the shed after they fixed the side and added a door.

And here it is painted up real nice.

I can't even believe its the same shed.  Our friends were great and worked really hard.  Here they are painting.

One of the amazing things was how carefully they took apart the one shed to use the parts to fix up the other one.  I don't feel so white trashish now with the nicely painted shed on my property instead of two old crappy looking sheds.  Here is a picture of some of those who came.  By the time we thought to do a group photo we were missing a few peeps.

Left to Right: Lireal (Angie), Fitz (Lance), Sable (Matt), Tess (Laurie), Ceowulf (Dave), Rolgrim (Nick), Ausway (Jim), Cindy, Loptr (Evan), and Chour (Thomas) Not pictured: Sindari (Michelle), Pancakes (Cullin), Roisin (Gala), and Westerric (Mark)

Thank you all so much!  We couldn't have done it without you!

Momentous Event

I can't hardly believe it, but the ticker is under 100.  99 days to go until my due date.  Now I know that doesn't mean exactly of course,  I could have the baby early, or perhaps late.  Who knows when this little guy will want to join us, but hey, its all good.  And I am excited that I am into the 2 digit numbers.  The last 5 months have gone by fast actually.  Here's hoping for an enjoyable last trimester. : )

My First Shower

On the 4th of October, my work was throwing a shower for Kelly (a girl I work with) who is due on Halloween, so they decided to make it a combined shower for both her and I.  It was a lot of fun!  And you can't beat getting an early shower.  It took place at work, which was kind of weird to go into work on Saturday, but not too weird that I couldn't handle going and eating and getting presents, of course.  It was potluck as well.  Kelly is having a girl and I am having a boy, so they decorated in both colors.  It was very cute, very well received and great food.  Thanks, everyone!  A few fun photos: 

Here are the three stages of pregnancy.  Kelly (in the brown) is due on Halloween, I am due in January and Tory (in the blue) is barely pregnant, she is 8 weeks along.  So we thought that would be fun to get a photo of.  Kelly and I were having the combined shower.  It was pretty fun.  We played a trivia game in which you had to guess which question was Kelly, which was Angie or which was both.  You would be surprised by how much Kelly and I have in common.  Just to name a few:

We both have the middle name Marie, we were both married in November 1999, both of us dressed up as Sally from Nightmare before Christmas for Halloween, and we both dressed as Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty for Halloween (different years on both and before we knew each other), we both had our weddings at the Ivy Gardens, and the weird part was one day apart from each other.  Weirder, huh?  

Here Vicki decided I needed to eat some cake, but I didn't want any cake.  I was already full on all the good food.  Funeral Potatoes, Chips and Dip, Fruit Pizza, Cookies, yum, yum, yum!  But that didn't stop Vicki.  I had wedding reception flash backs.

Here are some of the guests:

Rachael

Liz

Melissa and Baby Zoey

Chelby and Baby Connor

Vicki

It was a great time and I was very grateful for all the stuff I got.  I got tons of cuter clothes, binky's, bottles, bathing stuff, diapers, and even Xander's first piggy bank.  All way cute!  Thank you again everyone!  You make the work place a great place!