This small blog is one of those annoying personal blogs written by egocentrics who believe someone will have a interest in what we have to say about matters of little importance. Mostly, it’s for our friends and family who live scattered across the globe (6 out of the 7 continents but we’re still hoping to get Antarctica someday).
Our interests include movies, travel, history (especially military history), emergent and ancient worship, good food, computer games, organizing stuff, and taking silly pictures of our gnome.
Just in case you don’t know us very well, here are a few useless facts about us:
• Randy, thus far, is the silent partner on this blog but he does exist. April obviously has too much time on her hands.
• Randy is from a small town in the pan handle of West Virginia, just outside of Pittsburgh. April is from Seattle. We met at a small Christian liberal arts college in northeast Tennessee but never dated. After five years of knowing each other (only five months of that actually living in the same state while in college) we decided to get married and planned the full church wedding in just over two weeks.
• We have a daughter named Francesca whom we call Kes and have cats whose names no one else can remember: Avlaon and Maximus. Our beloved Eldar is sadly no longer with us.
• Randy is currently a worship minister but had a plethora of interesting jobs in his youth: disc jockey, actor, pool waiter, guitarist for semi-professional band, foster care worker, lifeguard, and fashion model. April currently works for an engineering company but used to be an assistant to investment brokers at various firms. Her favorite job (well the funnest one anyway) was working for a movie theatre in Seattle where she got to see free movies all the time.
• Randy teaches guitar, enjoys turn-based role playing games and reads lots of history books. April likes to organize things, collect and use good expensive spices, watch movies and learn people’s stories.
• Randy has spent most of his life attached to the world of academia earning a Bachelor of Arts degree (with a double major), Master of Divinity degree and is working on his doctorate. April is trying to figure out what she wants to be when she grows up.
• Randy’s parents grew up in the same small town in West Virginia and still live in the home his dad built just before Randy was born. They somehow managed put all of their kids through college without going broke and now enjoy traveling and retired life. April’s parents emigrated from the Philippines over forty years ago and achieved the American dream, owning investment property and a successful steak house restaurant.
• Randy is the youngest of five children, the eldest being sixteen years older than he, and all of his family vacation together one week every year at the beach in Ocean City, MD. Randy and his siblings all have graduate degrees. April is the youngest of three military brats. Her sister is successful in most everything she attempts and her brother is an amazing, professional jazz musician.
• Randy has no first cousins and only a few second cousins. April has so many cousins, she can’t keep track.
• Randy has a tin ear for languages but can tell you amazing details about world history. April has some knowledge of several languages (she speaks more German than her native Tagalog/Filipino) but only recently figured out who the Axis and Allied powers were.
• According to Meier-Briggs/Keirsey personality typing, April and Randy are both ENFJs.