Well, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen - I hope this Journal entry finds you well.  I'm home for the afternoon, after a particularly early start for a course today - had to be at work at 0700, so I've been up since just after five this morning, which isn't much fun...  :(

NEhow, on to the reason why I'm writing today.  In my past couple of Journal entries, I've made noises as to being quite busy in my real life, what with moving and all and assorted other business.  Mr Znuggles has picked up on this, and has been seemingly a tad miffed that I have not been clearer as to what has been going on in my life.  Today seems as good a chance as any to talk about it. 

Are we sitting comfortably?  (Make sure you have a nice spot picked out, as you'll wanna sit down at some point during this one, people)  Then I'll begin...

As many of you know, I have been seeing a young lady by the name of Anna for some time now.  We met back in February of this year, just after I broke up with Kate.  The timing of this was not real good, so nothing happened at that time, until a few months later, when we caught up again.  Things went well, and since then, we've been a couple.  Anna is part of the reason why I haven't been as active here in Gamespot-Land for the past couple of months.

Anna and I have spent a LOT of time together these past few months, and for a while there were bouncing from one house to the other - which got a lil' tiring after a while.  So a few weeks back, we decided it would be best if we lived in the one house, rather than trying to share our lives between two.  Since then, I've been moving bits and pieces across from my place to hers - the house I should now start calling "Home". 

I've got all the important stuff here now - clothes, my stereo system, my DVD/VCR, and my Consoles and Games.  Still moving across foodstuffs, CDs, my DVD and Video collections, and other assorted bits of furniture.  Some of my older stuff has been donated to good homes - my Dad has inherited my West Wing DVD Box sets, my Alias Box sets, and my Babylon 5 video collection (don't panic, Znuggles - I have them all on DVD now.  :))  My parents also have my old TV, and I'm sure other things will move around as I gradually move in here.

One piece of bad news about moving in with Anna - she has crappy Broadband.  I'm having to get used to a slow speed again.  At my place, my ADSL2+ kicks along at around 20 MBps, which is kinda kewl.  Anna's runs at about 256K, which is kinda snail-like by comparison.  I'm working on upgrading it, but not sure how that's gonna go.

So there WAS a good reason for me moving, and for not being as active here, wasn't there?  Not just making noises and being cryptic for the sake of it, was I?  :D

One bit of news out of the way, still one more to go.  While I've got you all sitting down, might as well drop this one on you as well...

Anna and I are engaged to be married.  :)

Yeah, I know - shoulda given you more warning on that one.  Sorry about that.  Still, it's actually some really good news, and something that makes me very happy.  We've tentatively set a date for the 1st of March 2008, but since we don't have a church nailed down just yet, that date might be a lil' fluid.  We'll see how things go...

Already gone and visited her parents - to ask for their blessing - and told my family and friends.  Got a Bridal party sorted out, and some ideas about what we wanna do on the big day, but it's still really early days at this point.  As time goes on, I will update you all (should you be interested) in how things are going, K?

NEhow, I have some stuff to move around here, and then I have Kingdom Hearts 2 waiting for me.  I'll CYA all another day, and we can all make some more noise at each other - sound fair?  In the meantime, don't forget to...

GAME ON!  :D