new house

Well another milestone down. Finally we are getting settled into life in our new house. I will post some pictures soon!

New House

Well it is almost official. We are just over a week away from signing on the dotted line for a new house. On August the 27th, we will be the proud new owners of a three bed/two bath house on Mary Anne Circle.

This move has been a long time coming. Another sign of becoming older, got to let go of things from my past and move forward. My current house was bought pretty much right out of college and has been home ever since. I came back here after my wedding/honeymoon and brought Lily here after her birth. It will be strange to leave this place behind but we are definitely looking forward to the upgrade.

The new house will feature many creature comforts that this house just cannot provide, at least not without remodeling. The new house will have a remote master suite, which means another bathroom, woo hoo. The house is also about thirty years newer than my current place so it will have better insulation, a fireplace as well as a nice open floor plan.

I am not sure how I will haunt my new house but I am making some plans and hopefully can put something together for this year even if it is small. I am sure it will scare the neighbors.

While I am leaving the the old house, it will not be leaving me as my brother will be the new owner. We have agreed in principle to sell to him at a bit of a discount so he can move out again and start moving forward with his life. I just hope this house is a good to him as it was to us.

I will update the house status with pictures and everything soon.

Barricade

Ok, I know, I know, I am such a post tease. I post and claim that I will post again and then I leave you high and dry. Guess that is better than low and wet, eww! I digress, finally, I am going to share one of the last M&M wrappers from this summer's blockbuster, Transformers, Revenge of the Fallen.

I bring you the last in the series of regular M&M's with Peanut M&M wrapper number 6 in the series. The sixth different bag along with Red, in his Delect-o-Con attire bring us Barricade.



While I remember Barricade being one of the first transformers in the first movie and played a huge roll in recovery of the glasses from Ladiesman24/7, I do not remember him in the second movie. Maybe I missed him, maybe not but for some reason he is predominately featured here on wrapper number 6.

Of all of the decepticons in the first movie, this was one of my favorites, mostly because he was a car. But Barricade was not just any car, he was a Salen edition Mustang cop car. I really like his side pannel that read "To Punish and Enslave", so try of their mindset. Anyway, enough rambling.

I have one more bag to present as well as an interesting flavor. Details soon...I hope.

Sometimes it is the little things...

that make me happy!

Today I was in the downtown Blanchard, you know, at the Blanchard mall, aka Dollar General. I was looking for some sweet treats after dinner and low and behold, I ran into something that made me happy. Sometimes it does not take much and this time was no exception.


I found these, Fright Bites! I know Halloween is still three months away but there they were, right in the middle of the shelf. Of course, I love Halloween, so I had to pick up a bag. I thought I would share with you, so here they are.

The bag only held about 12 candies, not nearly enough for the little beggars on the big night, but at a buck a bag, I guess you could buy quite a few bags.

Well Fright Bites are chocolate with a fudge bite, yeah sure. More like generic chocolate with generic chocolate inside. Outside of the plain old chocolate taste the do come brightly wrapped in a Dracula themed foil wrapper. Each individual bite is about the size a silver dollar.


I know it is not Halloween yet, or even close but I pulled one out of the bites out, nibbled on it while watching Halloween III, Season of the Witch. Halloween will be here before we know it!

Coming soon

Coming soon, the wrap up articles for the Transformer/M&M's promotion for revenge of the fallen and possiblly some entries detailing some of my toy purchases associated with this latest movie. Don't hold me to it though!

Starscream

Starscream...you disappoint me! Classic line from the transformers series.

Megatron utters this often to Starscream both in the original cartoons and the most recent movies. This being said, have no fear, this bag does not disappoint. How could peanut M&M's disappoint anyone? Bag #5 in the Revenge of the Fallen/M&M team up features the power hungry Starscream teamed up with Yellow from the Delectocon team. Really if you think about it, this is an odd pairing. Starscream is all diabolical and Yellow is so laid back and unassuming, maybe that is why they were put together. Starscream wanted to be in charge. Hmm...regardless this was a tasty bag and the revamping of Starscream in the movies was awesome!

Megatron

Well I am back by popular demand, well my one fan requested that I do something here. He was even kind enough to send me the link to my own blog in case I had forgotten it's location.

So without further ado, I bring you M&M bag #4, Megatron. Megatron, leader of the Decepticons teams up with the Blue delectocon for this delicious bag of peanut treats. I love the peanut M&M's, I mean who doesn't, but add Megatron and you do not have to twist my arm to hard to drop sixty five cents on this bag.

Going back a bit, my memories of Megatron were bittersweet. I liked the guy, I mean he was bad and all but his transformed mode was a gun, how cool was that. Boys love guns and I was no exception back in the day. I loved guns, nerf, water, etc. but Megatron was a Transformer gun. Only issue with that was he was HARD to find. The few time I did run across him, I was cash poor and never able to coax my mother into dropping the necessary green on yet another toy. Oh well, maybe ebay will somehow come to my rescue one day.

Ironhide

The weapons specialist, Ironhide graces the third and final plain M&M’s bag. Bag number 3 features the most recent and I would say, the best version of Ironhide in the entire series. Ironhide is portrayed as a GMC topkick pickup. To call him a pickup is a bit of a misnomer as this truck is more like a small semi than a Silverado.

The orginal G1 Ironhide was some Japanese van, red in color and not very strong looking. Not the case now, Ironhide has the “transformed mode” to match his attitude, tough and ready to battle.

These round out the first three in the series of seven packages, up next, the peanut M&M packages.

Wrapper #2, Bumblebee

Package number two in my line up of M&M’s wrappers features the humble bumblebee. Once a yellow Volkswagen in the original, Bay has given him a makeover as a stunning 2009 Chevy camero. If I had a camero like that, it would be yellow with the black racing stripes and I am sure I would put the autobot logo somewhere on the car. Sorry, that is the kid in me talking!

Shown here in his bumblebee gear is Yellow together with Bumblebee striking a pose. And yes this is a “tear and share” package and I did share. My daughter Lily loves M&M’s and had to have a few.

VIctory for LSU

Congratulation to the 2009 LSU Baseball team on the sixth college series championship. Watched the game start to finish and it was awesome.

I felt a little bit of sympathy for Texas but hey, they still have a good team and can try again next year.

GEAUX TIGERS!!!