Dear Meat, I must say so long to you, my old t-boney friend. Tomorrow I am leaving on a journey of vegetarianism. It will not be easy, in fact I foresee it being very hard, but I have to leave you. Tonight, let us have one last fling, a lusty spectacle of carnivorous rumination. I will see you at a local sushi restaurant. I will be wearing a blue shirt, I look forward to seeing you there. If I don’t see you there, I’ll assume that we are officially over. Jered Future vegetarian.

After spending Saturday out and about, Esther and I decided to focus on our home and ourselves. Saturday was not a great Weight Watchers day, we ate out a lot, most of which was not points friendly. Sunday, we decided to get back on the WW horse, that meant after brewing some coffee, we went to the Nolan Trail and did the whole 5 miles. I have always wondered why the Nolan Trail was advertised in a lot of brochures, and I have finally found out why. It is a fantastic 5 mile loop through the woods surrounding the Mariner’s Museum in Newport News. After our long walk, the conversation that ensued essentially went as follows:
Esther: “We should get our backyard in shape.”
Jered: “Yeah, wouldn’t it be great to have our friends over and not have to hide the back yard?”
Esther: “Yeah, we should get our backyard in shape.”
So that is how most of our Sunday was spent. A whole bunch of tilling and weeding and planting. You can see a diagram of our backyard below, it is shaping up very nicely.

Tonight, a good friend came over for dinner and some evening entertainment. Casey was flying solo today, almost in more that one way. He was supposed to catch a flight to Idaho this morning, but was turned away at the gate for arriving too close to the time of departure. It really wasn’t was his fault, security at ORF is horrible and the parking situation needs a major revamp. His travel plans were not for fun, he’s actually going to be late to his grandmother-in-law’s funeral. I know he wanted to be there to support his wife, who flew out there yesterday. After some great Lavish bread chips made by Esther, we all started playing Wii. It was incredibly fun! We paused half way through a bowling game to have some excellent home-enhanced pizza, and shortly after decided we are starting the Wii Sports League. When our friends get back from Idaho, we should have our controllers and I have already looked up double elimination brackets, so we are set to wii our hearts out. Honestly the more people playing, the more fun it is. Do you have any Wii game suggestions? Preferably multi-player…?

Esther recently bought some political magnetic poetry and today when I got home from work, I put my best coffee house poet forward. Here are some of the things that I came up with. The ballot is stronger than the world of the Internet. Get out of the great state between a mother and child. I discourage the influence of this modern world in your country by the military, the industrial complex and a giant sucking sound that depends on an axis of evil. Delay ought to be fear By passing an idea, you can not stop poverty. Facts can do for NAFTA what the Soviet Union did for that country. The importance of your definintion of “other priorities,” four years ago, is the only thing I’ve looked at with lust. I know that I haven’t been doing Haiku Tuesday, so I thought this might make up a little bit.

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The big news that I had to report, but barely could contain myself about last night: I have a new job. I gave my 2 weeks notice today. I wanted to give a month, but the new payroll system wouldn’t allow it. Two weeks is all I can give. I am leaving the world of print behind. I am shifting from being a graphic designer with a heavy print emphasis to a website manager, virtually no print what-so-ever. I haven’t forsaken my first master, but I am give him a little bit of a break, seeing what I can do with this new fangled Internets and getting a much needed break from the world of ink on paper. I am leaving behind Christopher Newport University after 3 great years. I have gathered a large collection of invaluable colleagues and good friends. I hesitated before accepting, thinking about how “different” it would be starting that whole process over again. The thing that I had to remember was that I’m not losing the people I know, I’m just going to be a little more removed. So begins the two week count down

I have some really big news, but I can’t talk about it until tomorrow around noon. I just wanted to let you, kind reader, that I am here and that I will be posting tomorrow.

OMG! This weekend was most excellent. Esther and I started and completed the 65 mile Tour de Cure, which turned out to be more like the 70 mile Tour de Cure. After we rocked the road, we called our friends and ended spending the evening at Busch Gardens. I really wanted to get a Turkey Legs, but Esther kept guilting me out of it. This week starts Meatfest 2007. You are probably wondering “What is this great new commemorative week?” Well, in preparation for the Benoit clan going vegetarian, we are on a tear to finish consuming the meat that we have in the freezer. For the next 8 days, it’s all meat all the time, although we had a vegetarian chili for dinner tonight. Hmm. Wii-tarded. Finally getting back to the title of the post. This morning, I was checking out the normal feeds and Gizmodo was reporting a massive influx of Wii’s today. I said to Esther “Goodness gracious. We should see if we could get one.” We got ready for the day and drove over to Circuit City. After standing in line for 30 minutes, we swiped the the credit card and walked out proud owners of a fresh Wii. So now, Esther and I are Wii-tarded. We spent a good portion of the afternoon playing Wii Sports and let me tell you: if you haven’t played with one, it is awesome! I am very happy with our investment. Now a certain boxing match is call me, so please excuse me.

I have been a bad blogger. I have been a horrible blogger. I have been very lax on posting regularly. Life has been coming very fast and furious and I have barely had a chance to clear my inboxes every night let alone blog. I was in charge of a three day photoshoot last week and then Friday was a total bust due to an off campus interview. I have been missing my Haiku Tuesdays and my other regular postings. For that I am sorry. I promise that after today, I will be back with a vengeance.

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