The Joy of Discovery

The Joys of Discovery

I will state first, before all the rest of this gets started, that moving to Provo was likely the best decision I’ve ever made. Not because it’s Provo, but rather because it places me five minutes away from my fiancé. It’s my feeling that my relationship with her has improved beyond anything I thought was possible.

Something we’ve dedicated ourselves to doing since I moved down to Provo, is finding activities we can do together. Alicia and I have started playing Halo: Reach over XBOX Live with my little brothers. This has been one of our greatest adventures. Strictly speaking… we’re… well we aren’t good. My brothers on the other hand, are good. So we usually end up playing team games, where my little brothers are all on 1 man teams, and then Alicia and I are a twosome. The thing about this is… we still lose. Badly. We’re talking like abysmal style losses. This is in no way Alicia’s fault! We just… are bad at the game. It’s not a style of game play that either of us excel at, however it’s the experience of playing with our family members that makes it fun. We don’t mind dying, we don’t mind losing. Because we sit and laugh at the whole event. It’s a lot of fun and I’m really happy that Alicia has chosen to participate in it with me.

One of the things that we are trying to get better at, is using our Kinect. We have one for our XBOX and it has Kinect Adventures and EA Sports Active 2 on it. I think part of our issue has to do with timing. Because of our weird work schedules it’s tough to find a time that working out together works. When I get off work at night it’s usually time to make dinner and then we just want to relax. I am willing to take the blame fully on this one. We continue to look for ways to make “Kinecting” (clever that one) a feasible option. It may come down to pure motivation. Actually, let’s be honest, that’s exactly what it comes down to, is just making the time.

We’ve also been exploring television programs we can watch together. Something we learned a long time ago is that our movie taste is very different. So we have made great efforts to find middle ground when it comes to television shows. One of our big discoveries has been The Voice. We have had a lot of fun watching this show, though I think we have been less than impressed with the Battle Rounds. We did however really enjoy the blind auditions, it’s so much better than American Idol’s ridiculousness. Luckily we’ve found some serious common ground on Food Network. Alicia states that she loves Chopped, and she will watch Iron Chef America with me. We’ve really had fun watching Best in Smoke together, and we’re excited for June when Next Food Network Star premieres. I think this summer we’re going to have Netflix send us the disks for Castle, and see if we both can get into that show. And I have promised that I will give Bones a try.

Something that we’ve been spending a lot of time doing lately, which is honestly a huge surprise to me, is playing World of Warcraft. I sent Alicia a ten day free trial, and she had a great time. We got Christian, my younger brother, to come and play with us and we’ve had a lot of fun leveling toons (that’s game speak for characters) together. Alicia really likes her mage… and has created quite a few of them to try the different races. She seems to have decided she’s a big fan of her Dranei. She really likes how pretty the starting area was, and I think she likes being a tall blue woman who can hurl icy death from her hands. At least that’s my suspicion. She seems to really be enjoying it, and a lot of nights it’s either Alicia or Christian saying “are we playing tonight?” We’re going to get Alicia to try some Player vs Player combat, because that is Christian and I’s favorite haunt. We’ll see if she likes it.

We’ve been exploring various foods as well. We’ve kept our eyes out for things on sale at Sam’s Club, and in the past while Alicia has tried leg of lamb, and corned beef. She didn’t particular like either of them. At all. But she was brave enough to try.

That really sums up the majority of our explorations recently. The rest of our time is consumed with working, and with wedding plans. Tonight after work I have to go over and have adjustments made to my tux. Next Tuesday is our pre-wedding photos, and we’re praying the weather will be better than this rain it’s been lately. I’m excited to see Alicia in her wedding get-up, I’ve even been practicing pulling my jaw up off the floor. I know she’s going to be beautiful.

For now, that’s my life. I am enjoying it, and look forward to the next several weeks. As always, loyal readers, this has been another blogcast of The Rogue Signal. Until next time, goodnight, and good luck.