Let me start this off with a bit of an introduction. This is Vickie, and although I'm sure many of you have met her by now, I wanted to show her to you through my eyes. She is without a doubt the most considerate, thoughtful, beautiful, creative, sweet, witty and sexy woman I've ever met, and there's little doubt why I am hopelessly devoted to her in every way.

Okay, so it's been a long time since I've updated. Many, many things have been going on. Firstly, you should know that the plans for getting a new home have been put on hold until our credit clears up - that or until someone wants to buy us a house. We certainly don't have enough credit to pull it off ourselves.

Dammit, usually I wouldn't do something like this, but I found this list on Metal Storm (well, I didn't find it, but rather it was linked to from I site I read daily) and I had to share it with the few of you intellegent enough to get it. (That's a joke, son!)

The 101 Rules of Progressive Metal
1. Insist that your definition of prog metal is sacred and that the only progressive bands are the one you deem to be so.